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4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations and maps in the text; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
192p. + Frontis and full page photographs. Mildly foxed. Inked inscription. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding. Hardbound. TRAVEL/7
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 49 plates (one double-page) on 29, and 10 illustrations and a full-page plan in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper lightly rubbed at extremities.
in-8 étroit, 323 pp., broche, couv. ill.- 9782742751402 Tres bel exemplaire. [P-42] Michelet, Stevenson, Schwob, London, etc.
pp. xix, 553, (1) [publisher's catalogue]. slightly damp stained and age stained. 12mo. original full green buckram binding, gold lettered spine. extremities slightly bumped. third edition. JUDAICA BOX 4
Colorful children's map of london. No date shown, circa 1980's. Museum of London price sticker on cover.
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, text in black letter; original navy blue buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean tight copy with unmarked blue cloth boards, dusty upper page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to lower edge. 252pp. Great cities and their golden ages are explored in this book of panoramic sweep encompassing almost four thousand years. Each city is brought to life through its people, their work and pleasures, customs and society and the dramas and excitements that caused their rise and fall.
EDITORI RIUNITI 1990 TRADUZIONE DI PINA SERGI, 411 PP. FONDO DI MAGAZZINO: PERFETTO, COME NUOVO INTONSO, MAI SFOGLIATO. "Se Engels fosse vissuto a Birmingham anziché a Manchester forse la sua idea di "classe" e le sue teorie sul ruolo della classe nella storia sarebbero state diverse".
152 pages. Features: Meeting personality collector John Burgess, alias Mister Panache; The Many Faces of Penang; Noted Canadian artist in Paris, Joseph Plaskett, shares his personal treasures and paintings; Silversmith Linsday Squire hammers metal sheets into heirloom artifacts; A tour of four fund-raising showcase homes in Oakville, Hamilton, Toronto and London; John D. Klymson and Wayne Mann mix bronze and pewter, lacquers and ideas; Architect Alan Brown transforms his staid city house; Creator of retail and commercial interiors Robert Meiklehohn reveals the 'soul' of the space; Pierre Berton's Kleinburg gardens; and much more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this wonderful issue. Magazine
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly rubbed rear and no bumping to corners. 95pp. Sixty-six locations in London where the world's greatest musicians lodged, lived and performed.
Popular edition. VG in green pictorial cloth. Page edges and endpapers browning. By the author of "A London girl" and "The rainy day". (The evergreen novels) (Tales from the great city). 15658. eng
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 48pp. The history of the Cloth Fair and Cloth Fair Chambers built on the former site of the priory of St Bartholomew the Great and one of London's oldest buildings. The first known record of Cloth Fair dates from the charter of 1133. Illustrated. Very scarce.
pp. (1) [Publisher's ad for "History of Signboards"], xiv, 544 + Frontis and full page drawings of London clubs. XLib number on title page. Some signatures loose. Penciled margin notations. 12mo. 185mm. Virtually disbound. This perhaps should best be considered a candidate for rebinding. When John Timbs (1801-1875), English antiquary, was in his sixteenth year, he was apprenticed to a druggist and printer at Dorking. He had early shown literary capacity, and when nineteen began to write for the Monthly Magazine. A year later he became secretary to Sir Richard Phillips, its proprietor, and permanently adopted literature as a profession. He was successively editor of the Mirror of Literature, the Harlequin, the Literary World, and sub-editor of the Illustrated London News. He was also founder and first editor of Year-Book of Science and Art. His published works amounted to more than one hundred and fifty volumes. In 1834 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. VERIA BX 2
Two volumes in one. A complete run of 24 parts covering July 1830 to July 1832, as issued (apparently no part was issued in March 1832. pp. [ii], 292; 288. Bound without the sectional title to volume 2 as usual. 12 mo. 195 mm. Bottom edge untrimmed. Original cloth backed paper boards; spine repaired. Hardbound. Very good. Manuscript ownership of William B. Young (?). William Cobbett (1763-1835) was an English pamphleteer, farmer, activist and journalist. Among his causes were: Reformation of Parliament and abolishing the rotten boroughs (which he hoped to end the poverty of farm labourers); he attacked the borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters" relentlessly; he opposed attempts in the House of Commons to bring in Bills against boxing and bull-baiting he was against the Corn Laws (a tax on imported grain); although not a Catholic, he became a fiery advocate of Catholic Emancipation in Britain; etc. Early in his career, he was a loyalist supporter of King and Country: but later he joined and successfully publicised the radical movement, which led to the Reform Bill of 1832, and to his winning the parliamentary seat of Oldham. Following the passage of the Power of Imprisonment Bill in 1817, and fearing arrest for his arguably seditious writings, he fled to the United States (returning to England two years later). Cobbett's earlier newspaper, the Political Register (1812-1817)had been denounced as 'two-penny trash' - a name he gladly adopted for this later work. Through the seeming contradictions in Cobbett's life, two things stayed constant: an opposition to authority, and a suspicion of novelty. He wrote many polemics, on subjects from political reform to religion. "Cobbett is considered to have begun as an inherently conservative journalist who, angered by the corrupt British political establishment, became increasingly radical and sympathetic to anti-government and democratic ideals. He provides an alternative view of rural England in the age of an Industrial Revolution with which he was not in sympathy. Cobbett wished England would return to the rural England of the 1760s to which he was born. Unlike fellow radical Thomas Paine, Cobbett was not an internationalist cosmopolitan and did not support a republican Britain. He boasted that he was not a "citizen of world" saying it is quite enough for me to think about what is best for England, Scotland and Ireland." - Wiki. His style of agitation and general opinions have long been admired in America. Goldsmiths 37363 (one part only); Kress C.2481. Complete runs of Cobbett's 'Two-Penny Trash' are very scarce in today's marketplace. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGLAND 6
Songs, lyrics and plays by Coward. Not dated. Circa 1943 from inscription of that date on half-title page. 44th thousand. Dust jacket worn around edges, generally soiled, stained on back and with small loses on top/tail of spine; not price clipped. Book has very light foxing on half-title page, pastedowns and page edges.
Volumi(21) che compongono la collezione-The poetical works of S.T. Coleridge totale di 3 Voll. 1836-Church and state 1 Vol. 1839-Inquiring spirit anno 1 Vol.1840-Aids to reflection 2 Voll 1840-The friend 3 Voll. 1840-Biographia literaria 2 Voll. più 1 Tomo. 184-Shakespeare 2 Voll. 1849-Essays on his time 3 Voll. 1850-Notes on enghlish divines 2 Voll. 1853-Notes theological 1 Vol. 1853 Volumi rilegati in marocchino cm 17x11,5, dorsi con 5 nervature e due tasselli. Fregi sul dorso e sui piatti. All'interno risguardi con fregi ed ogni volume contiene l'Ex Libris di George Faudel Phillips. Al frontespizio William Pickering ALDI DISCIPL. ANGLUS.
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70 pages. Articles: Scandals in Veterans' Housing (part 1 of 2); The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 6) - Roosevelt's Greatest Dilemma; Six Artists and a Model - Edith Franklin's posing is a steppingstone to her stage career; Good-Time Street - the most raucous and colorful block in New York; Truman's recent troubles hurt his chance of election; The Hot-Potato Olympics - what price international amity at this year's Games in London; How to Catch a Husband - Mr. Lamb's job is to bringem' back when they stray. Fiction: Cupid with Celluloid Wings; Guirls Like Me; Squaw Medicine; The Bramble Bush (part 4 of 5); Sweet revenge; Errors of Judgment. Ads include: Old Thompson Whiskey; Pepsodent - with photo of Mary Louise Shine; Western Electric; Schlitz; beer; the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE); Ford cars (2 pages); Macmillan Oil - featuring Douglas Moone of San Antonio, TX; Samsonite Luggage; Pontiac cars; Milky Way chocolate bars (back cover). Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Cartolina lettera postale non viaggiata, senza data - Con sei vedute a colori. Unused and undated letter card with 6 coloured views. In fine condition, 140 x 92 mm - Worldwide delivery.
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Large and elaborate coloured engraved plan measuring approx. 1270mm x 1010mm (50.0 ins x 39.75 ins), folding in 20 panels to approx. 320mm x 210mm (12.5 ins x 8.0 ins); housed in original printed cartridge envelope with self-sealing flap (short tear in flap), A REMARKABLY CLEAN, NEAR FINE COPY. This is an engraved and coloured plan of the Crystal Palace prepared for the intended sale at auction of the buildings and grounds in 1911 (see below). The retaining envelope is printed 'PLAN OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE 1851-1911. Solicitors: Messrs Janson Cobb, Pearson & Company, 22 College Hill, E.C.; Receiver and Manager: Mr. Ernest I Husey (Messrs Jackson, Pixley & Co., Chartered Accountants, 58 Coleman Street, E.C; Auctioneers: Mr. Howard Frank (Messrs Knight, Frank & Rutley), 20 Hanover Sq, London W; and Mr. John Roy Lancaster (Messrs Horne & Co), 85 Gresham Street, E.C.' The plan in well executed and colour-coded to indicate the various leases and tenancies involved. It shows the scale and local context of the magnificent building, together with its world-famous gardens and grounds, including the tiered sculptural terraces, the patios, and the renowned lakes and fountains. Key features such as the Flying Machine, the Maze, Brunel's Polygonal Water Towers, the Lower Lake area housing Waterhouse Hawkins' recreations of dinosaurs (still present today) and the Sports Grounds are clearly highlighted. HISTORICAL CONTEXT. After the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace was re-erected in a considerably enlarged form in 1854 at Sydenham in South London. During the next half century it continued as a major metropolitan tourist attraction attracting visitors from all over the world to marvel at the building, its contents and gardens, and to witness a wide variety of entertainment including music, acrobatics, circuses and fireworks. By the turn of the century, however, the novelty was wearing thin and the number of visitors declined to the point where in 1911 the Palace was declared bankrupt and placed in the hands of a receiver. 'On 28 November it was to be sold by auction, to be offered in one lot as a going concern. This was a fateful period in its history. There was grave danger that it would pass into the hands of the developers. Every jerry builder within striking distance was eager for the moment when he might be in a position to swoop down on the beautiful grounds and reduce them to terms of bricks and mortar. But that ultimate indignity was not to be. The Earl of Plymouth produced £230,000 to buy the Palace as a going concern; at the same time the Lord Mayor of London opened a fund to purchase the Crystal Palace for the nation, and to reimburse Lord Plymouth. This was completed in 1913 and the Crystal Palace was saved.' [A.R. Warwick: The Phoenix Suburb (1972)]. During the Great War the revitalised Palace served as a Royal Naval base (HMS VICTORY VI). At the end of hostilities it became for a short time the home of the Imperial War Museum and then reverted to tourism with exhibitions of early flying, pioneer television, dirt-track racing, music festivals, dog and cat shows, dancing and fireworks. In this way it continued until completely destroyed by the tragic fire of 30 November 1936 - the end of a great era. IT IS UNCERTAIN HOW MANY OF THESE ELABORATE PLANS WERE PRODUCED, BUT THE NUMBER CANNOT HAVE BEEN GREAT. GIVEN THAT £230,000 (VERY APPROXIMATELY £7M BY TODAY'S STANDARDS) WAS REQUIRED TO OBVIATE THE NEED FOR SALE, THE NUMBER OF INTENDING BIDDERS MUST HAVE BEEN FEW INDEED. IN ANY CASE IT IS UNLIKELY THAT MANY COPIES SURVIVE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS VIRTUALLY UNOPENED STATE COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL ENVELOPE. A DOCUMENT OF CONSIDERABLE SIGNIFICANCE IN THE HISTORY OF SOUTH LONDON, AND A VIVID REMINDER OF ONE OF LONDON'S GREATEST HISTORIC ATTRACTIONS.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Final volume of the author's remarkable autobiographical trilogy, following 'Growing up in a London Village' and 'A Green Girl'. Already scarce, especially in this condition.
8vo., First Edition; attractively bound in modern half calf, marbled sides, gilt back, uncut, laid endpapers, a bright, crisp, clean copy. An important and definitive history. SCARCE. Anderson p.190 (recording the third edition of 1869)
32 pages. Undated but appears to be circa 1955. Wonderful black and white photos throughout. Features: British Columbia's Centennial Celebrations; Canada's Boy's Town in Malaya; Colombo Plan Steel Technicians in Britain; Ghana's Goodwill and Trade Mission; Designs of the Year - annual U.K. awards; Ceylon's Buddhists in London; H.M. the Queen Mother's World Tour; Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition; Child Welfare in Pakistan; Modern New Airport in Nairobi, Kenya; New Zealand's expanding forests; The Craft of the Nigerian Potter; Spare-Time Studies in Britain; Uganda's New Agrucultural School. Bonus: includes 8-page Canadian supplement which bears a lovely colour portrait of H.R.H. the Princess Margaret. Second Bonus: 13" x 9" photographic portrait of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, suitable for framing. Covers detached from textblock but present. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
