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London, Philip Allan & Co. 1924, 173pp.with 16 ills., 1st ed., linen cover, bit used
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, wrappers lightly chafed edges else a good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements throughout.
Spine a bit sunned. Slight browning to endpapers; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 347 pages
8vo., on laid paper, with frontispiece and 16 plates; original wrappers, sewed as issued, embossed in gilt, backstrip a trifle worn else a remarkably clean copy. SCARCE.
This is a very good hardcover copy in blue marbled paper-covered boards and brown leather ruled in gilt. Spine with fine gilt title and decorations. Very clean inside and out. This is volume 2 only of this two volume set. No date but ca. 1870's. This volume is about St.James Park and the Green Park. With several hand-colored plates and many black & white figures in the text. 8" high X 5" wide, 272 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and very numerous illustrations and facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; handsomely bound in blue full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled and in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments ruled and tooled in gilt, original wrappers (soiled) preserved, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. SCARCE
Sm. 8vo., cloth, a very good copy.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and coloured reproductions throughout; navy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. LTS Publication No. 181.
16"x12.5" when folded in half. Features: Fascinating photos and text present harsh life behind bars for Netherlands black market criminals; Beautiful large photo of Penny Edwards - discovered for movies because of her 'lovely legs'; Colour ad for Chase & Sanborn coffee; Armadillos on Texas Farm turned into lampshades by Mr. Apelt; King of Lumberjacks - Benoit Turcotte averages 3.5 cords a day - fantastic photos and text *Will be of considerable interest to anyone who has marvelled at William Kurelek's book "Lumberjack"; Icebreaker - opening of Stl Lawrence ship channel marks the first coming of spring - with photos of icebreaker the N.B. McLean at work in the St. Lawrence; Experiment in Socialism - A.J. Cummings reviews Labor's 20 months of office in London; Bulls and Banderilleros - Mexico ads new color to the traditional Spanish sport of bullfighting - photo and article; NHL Hockey Playoffs Are Here Again - Article and photos of (much smaller) Stanley Cup; Experts predict world mineral supplies will not last another war - major article by C. Fred Bodsworth; Big Business Comes to Ste. Marie - story by Eric Morris; Roy Thomson and Jack Kent Cooke - They Built a warehouse of radios into a gangling Canadian business empire - photo and article; Leave it to the Ladies - fiction by Gregory Clark; The Peer and the Pit-Lamp - fiction by Peter Carter-Page; A Lady to Dinner - fiction by Marsden Starkey; 20 page colour comics section; Prescription for Murder - fiction by Jane Layhew; Amazing photo of a "Snow Egg" on Plateau Mountain in northern B.C.; Pint-Size Pottery - Mrs. Trasey Bond lives near New Westminster, B.C. - photos and article; Isaac Kert creates crossword puzzles - photo and article; New Diamond Industry beginning in Montreal - Julius Gutwurcel and Hermann Good and their diamon cutting operation in the CNR's Bonaventure station - photos and article; Richard Pifer - leader of northwestern Ontario's Secession Movement - photo and article; Electronic Piano - Don L. Hings is in charge of the Vancouver Electronic Laboratories - great article and photos; Net Factory - The manufacture of fishing nets at Drummondville, Quebec - interesting article and photos; Photo of Canadian WREN Frances Conley - Canada's newest screen starlet; Randi Andersen - flew to northern Manitoba on a picture-taking assignment and stayed to become the region's most beautiful prospector - story with photo; Geophysics Expert Dr. John Tuzo Wilson; U.S. company General Analine and Film Corp. received secret patents from Hitler's scientific plotters; Fishwife Extraordinary - Margaret Chambers of Toronto manages four highly-successful fish shops; Streamline Your Bathroom - design article with illustrations; Dorothy Henzel Willis Paints Her Dreams - photo with article; Hope for the Blind - Canadian government seeks to help Canada's 14,000 blind persons; Sports News; Story and photo of "Knucker" Burns of Halifax - the Boston Bruins' number one long-distance fan; Roger Whynott of Mahone Bay, NS - Middleweight Champ - photo and article; First Canadian surgery to insert esophagus into baby at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children - illustration and story; Flying Fairies - Arthur Kirby Trains Aerial Ballets for England's Theatre Pantomimes - wonderful photos with brief write-up; Water Polo Revial in Montreal under the coaching of Jimmy Rose - write-up and photos; Barmen's School - Stan Owen and Pat Morell train 200 bartending students after 31 arid years in Toronto; Great colour ad for Horlicks Malted Milk on back page; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Unmarked. A great vintage copy of this feature-oriented weekly which in later years became the Weekend Magazine. Newspaper
Pages 81-102 plus 18 outer pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Cover photo of scene at Cairo's Kasr-en-Nil Bridge; B.S.A. Motor Bicycles ad shows mechanic and sidecar model; First page illustration of great flying display by Australian airmen over London; Photo of Italians protesting outside the Italian Embassy in London; Three photos of stray and abandoned dogs at the Battersea Dogs' Home; Excellent photo and map-illustrated article "With Our Forces in Northern Russia - The Difficulties of Life in a Frozen Zone; Shakespeare at the Peace Conference of 1604 (article); Photos of men in the news include: R.A. Gregory, J.E. H. Williams, Sir John D. Rees, Reginald Blomfield, Sir R.T. Hermon-Hodge, Dr. Adolf Muller, Dr. Eduard David, M. Warburg, Prof. W. Schucking, Count Rantzau, Frank Brangwyn, Ernest Newton, George Harcourt, Adrian Stokes, and W.R. Colton; One-page illustration of Italian peasants praying at wayside shrine; After Caporetto - fascinating photo-illustrated article about who fought and who won on the Piave; Two-page illustration "The Dread Days of the Lenin Experiment in Russia" depicts a most depressing scene in front of Petrograd's winter palace, under the Bolshevik regime; Interesting article about smoking by A.A. Milne; The Unrest in Egypt - two photos including one of celebration over General Allenby's Proclamation in Cairo, and another of a large crowd in Opera Square, Cairo; One-page illustration of Aerial aviator; Centerfold reproduction of Montague Dawson painting "Alone", an impression of Transatlantic Flight (free of staples but present); Page of illustrated text about lady's fashion; Nice back cover color-illustrated ad for Army Club cigarettes shows fashionable young couple fishing. Bit of writing on advertorial front cover. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
Pages 237-276. Topics include: Remembrance Day in London; Fox Hunting; Moscow Anniversary; Terror in Cyprus; The Unification of Western Europe; Hong Kong Development; South of Nasser; African Women Demonstrate; Coronation of the Pope; Guided Missiles in East Anglia; Return of Bulwark; Ambitious Projects; Vespa Scooters; Oil Driling; Unmarked. Average wear with two inch opening at top of cover crease. Binding intact. Book
Photos: Pictures from the Korsun area of the Russian front during the encirclement operations; Destroying the Lutfwaffe's aircraft factories - the biggest day raid of the war, carried out by 2,000 American planes; The return of the blitz to London; Photos from inside the Warsaw ghetto; equipment pours into Britain; American action againt the Japanese; Anzio Fighting; Photos from Finland; The German Battleship Gneisenau out of action - photos; and more. Front cover loose but present. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book
Photos: The town of Stettin illuminated by R.A.F. flares; The Battle for Ortona; After the fall of Leros in the Aegean; General Montgomery in London; Pictures from Germany and the occupied countries; Action in the Bay of Biscay; Bomber onslaught on France; Street fighting in Ortona; Mountain warfare on the road to Rome; Scenes from the Southwest Pacific incl. Tarawe (Tarawa); and more. Nice Daimler advert. on back cover. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Photos: Aerial photo of destruction in Berlin; 2 photos from Cassino; Multiple photos of massive destruction in Berlin; The Andartes of Greece; The use of the tank in Italy; Behind the scenes in Germany today; Cassino laid flat in four hours; Photos from the war in the Pacific; the fighting in Burma; scenes from recent night raids in London; and more. Covers worn at fold otherwise a sound copy. Book
8vo., Nineteenth Edition; navy cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Birght, crisp copy of the author's second book, first published in 1926. Effectively a companion volume to 'The Heart of London', it collects fifty-one essays first printed in the Daily Express newspaper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Fields & Devenish 2 (recording the first edition).
213 p. Hardcover Very good condition
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and coloured and monochrome plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy.
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 200pp. A detailed study of the development of one of the most successful theatres of the last fifty years.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette and 24 plates; boards gilt, cloth back gilt, a near fine copy. Good historical overview, with illustrations of the more notable artefacts and appendices on incunabula, early printed books, prints and drawings.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The author is archivist to Sir John Soane's Museum.
8vo., First Edition, text in English and French, with coloured facsimiles and monochrome illustrations; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. LTS Publication No. 175.
56 leaves. Paper browned and very brittle. Top edge gilt. Though once ribon tied into boards, this is now disbound and fragile. This is likely part of the edition of only five hundred and twenty copies printed for England and America combined. This example apparently lacks the preliminaries, including the introduction. Still, it is interesting as an illustration of the look of early English printing. SW5 Lower Left
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sutcliffe, p.197.
198 pages including index and bibliography. "Here are the simple facts of the great betrayal. Wilson and House knew that they were doing something momentous. One cannot fathom men's motive's and this pair probably believed in what they were up to. What they did not believe in was representative government. They believed in government by an uncontrolled oligarchy whose acts would only become apparent after an interval so long that the electorate would be forever incapable of doing anything efficient to remedy depredations." - Ezra Pound, from Introduction. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Good+ Paperback. Pages are browned slightly, otherwise clean copy. xiv. + 130p.
