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3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, illustrations and maps throughout; original decorative blue cloth, upper boards and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, covers mildly age-marked and scuffed at extremities, a very good, bright, clean copy.
3 vols., roy. 8vo., with numerous illustrations and large folding map; blue cloth, gilt backs, silk markers, a near fine set in publisher's card slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 150 SETS. Much-needed facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1912.
français Sans date (circa 1890). In-8 de 14 vues dépliantes ; album cartonné toilé rouge de l'éditeur (original cloth).
pp. x, [11]-466 + Four plates. 12 mo. 190 mm. Scattered damp stain. Original full cloth binding, boards embossed in a handsome leaf spray pattern. Spine almost perished, but still mostly present. Text sewing loose and almost detached. Autograph ownership of G.N. Reynolds (Lancaster, PA?). Small printed yellow plate for "Leary, Bookseller, 5th & Walnut, Phila." Scarce American edition of this illustrated classic. S&S/AI 40235. AI Box 4
pp. 38 (2)[Publisher's advertisement]. 8vo. Lightly age stained. Disbound. Founded in 1687, this Charity School was situated in one of the poorest parts of London. Andrew Kippis (1725-1795) was a nonconformist divine and writer; and his association with many charitable institutions in London and Westminster enabled him to effectively promote the nonconformist cause. "His editorial connection with the `Biographia Britannica' constitutes his chief claim to remembrance. He was employed by the booksellers to prepare the second edition of that work, `with corrections, enlargements, and the addition of new lives.' When he had been engaged for some time on this task he found it too vast for him to execute alone, and Dr. Towers was appointed as his associate. Johnson told Boswell in 1777 that he had been asked to undertake the new edition of the `Biographia Britannica,' but had declined it, `which,' says Boswell, `he afterwards said to me he regretted.' Although Boswell admitted that Kippis had discharged the task judiciously, and with more impartiality than might have been expected from a separatist, he complained that the work was `too crowded with obscure dissenting teachers.'" - DNB. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SmallBx9
16 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: The Russo-Japanese War; J.P. Planta, well known Nanaimo Public Man, Passes Away; C.P.R. Harbour Improvements - removal of Sehl's Point; W.W. B. McInnes likely to be next governor of the Yukon; The Mullally Sisters; Britannia Mines, Howe Sound, B.C. - History, Geology, Characteristics of Ore Bodies, Development; Chumbi the Key to Thibet (Tibet); Hardships of Russian Workmen; The Centenary of Shrapnel - Its Inventor and his history; Japan's Military System; London Society's Love of Tattoing; Lord Brampton's Reminiscences; Report on the White Pass and Yukon Railway; and much more. Wonderful illustrations of Victorian Women's attire adorn back page. Dozens of advertisements including "Farm For Sale - Lake District - 72.47 acres - A Bargain at $1,500.00." Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Fatigue crack through central portion of each page. Book
Approximately 1,000 pages. Very large volume measures over 18" high by over 12" wide and approximately 1.5" thick. Extensive coverage of the final weeks of World War I, its conclusion, and aftermath, plus other news of the day and contemporary advertisements. Each page very densely packed with small type-faced print and occasional maps. Contents appear to be bound original issues rather than reprints. Includes an 8 page illustrated section devoted to "London's Great Peace Celebration Procession" in July, 1919. Small vintage bookseller's sticker inside front board at bottom. Binding sound. Moderate external wear and soiling. Partially rubbed gilt lettering upon front board and backstrip. Contents yellowing at edges. Please note: the April 11, 1919 issue, and possibly others, are not included. A sound copy of this most enthralling, comprehensive and unique reference. Book
272p., illus. Hardcover Good condition, front flyleaf removed, lightly foxed.
Excellent condition with no marking of any kind to text/interior. Spine is sun-faded, otherwise Near Fine. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Graphs, chats, tables, b&w photos.
Features: A picnic with Daddy; Silly Billy; Bedtime Story; A visit to London Airport; The Coach Driver; Edward and the Jumblies; Nurse Susan and Doctor David. Few markings to contents. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
108 pages. Includes signed presentation letter from the private secretary to Mr. J.M. Laing. Colour illustrated endpapers. Excellent black and white engineering photography throughout. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy of this handsome work. Book
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece after Eckstein, engraved and printed titles (the former by Heath) and a folding plate containing twenty-two humorous depictions of London's 'tavern clubs', frontispiece, engraved title and folding plate very lightly damp-marked; mid-nineteenth century half morocco, marbled boards, gilt back, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, covers a little age-marked, corners lightly bruised, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down and original endpapers preserved, a very good, tight copy of a very scarce work. The frontispiece portrays Christopher Brown, Secretary to the 'Free & Easy Counsellors under the Cauliflower' who were predominantly (and most appropriately) booksellers. The folding plate affords us such delights as 'The Belle Sauvage', 'The Tanner of Joppa' and 'George and the Dragon'. Even then, it seems, the tavern was a haven of tranquillity for the hard-pressed professional male. SCARCE. We can trace no other edition, though a popular work with the title 'Tavern Anecdotes and Sayings' was compiled for Charles Hindley and issued in several editions during the 70s and 80s.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with traces of storage. 223pp. Biography of Paralympic Champion and London Marathon wheelchair winner Tanni Grey Thompson.
Two small brief notes in ink about the house. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 28pp. History, architecture, furnishings about a seat belonging to the Duke of Northumberland in West London.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title in red and black, and 66 illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original grey decorative cloth, upper board blocked with floral arabesque in gilt enclosing title lettered in gilt, back decorative gilt, uncut, black endpapers, joints very lightly rubbed else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. One of the scarcer modern histories, well-illustrated and with great detail of personalities and residences.
Undated. Circa 1980? Unpaginated. Gift inscription upon title page. Pages have yellowed. Front board shows three children and two dogs eating a picnic. Sticker patch to right of title on front board. Damage to top, bottom and middle of spine. Book
pp. xxiv, 388, (4) [Publisher's catalogue] + Frontis Engraved by R. Cooper. Text foxed. Uncut and unopened. Edges fragile. 185mm. Virtually disbound. This is a good a candidate for rebinding. This original 1824 First Edition is quite scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! CRIME BX 1
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and maps throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
151pp., 21cm., softcover, text in German, Doctoral Dissertation (Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Philosophie der Philosophischen Fakultät der Freien Universität Berlin), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, G110597
Book is in excellent condition with foxing to endpapers as the only blemish. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket has edge wear, small tears. Basis of book is "Jay," who works in London's Piccadilly as a prostitute, and reports on the tricks, hustlers, money, Don Juans, Galahads, prigs, hypocrites, perverts, sadists, dirty basement clubs, squalid lodgings, ponce, homosexual offences, and other details of the trade.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boardsslightly dusty top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little foxing to dust flaps. 143pp. The French novelist, 'exiled' as Consul in a small Italian port in 1832 moved on to memoirs of his love affairs, a visit to London, his opinions of the bourgeois and the Boubon kings. First English Edition.
395 pages. Public Acts dealing with: agricultural societies; Mischievous Animals, Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Bush Fires, Cattle Ranges, Incorporation of Companies, Constitution, County Courts, Assignment for benefit of creditors, Registration of Voters, Firearms, Game Protection, Homestead, Juvenile Reformatory, Crown Lands, Land Grants for Charitable and other purposes, Land Registry, Legal Professions, Licenses, Mechanics Lien, Magistrates, Medicine and Surgery, Minerals (other than coal), Mines (coal prospecting), Mines (coal regulation), Municipalities, New Westminster Incorporation, persons dying intestate, Provincial Royal Jubilee Hospital, Quieting titles to real estate, Railways, Railways - Columbia and Kootenay land grant, Railways - Shuswap and Okanagan land grant, Rivers and Streams - clearing of, Royal Columbian Hospital, Sheriffs, Supply, Timber - marking, University of British Columbia. Private Acts relate to: Ashcroft and Cariboo Railway Co, British Columbia Electric Company, British Columbia Jockey Club, British Columbia Mills, Timber and Trading Company, Columbia and Carbonate Mountain Railway Company, Columbia and Kootenay Railway and Navigation Company, Coquitlam Water Works, Crow's Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway, Hill's Bar Gold Mining Company, London and Canadian Fire Insurance Company, Nanaimo Telephone Company, National Electric Tramway and Lighting Company, News-Advertiser Company, New Westminster Electric Light Company, Okanagan and Kootenay Railway Company, Pacific Coast Fire Insurance Company, Westmister Street Railway Company, Westminster and Vancouver Tramway Company, Vancouver Incorporation, Vancouver Street Railways Company, Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company. Binding intact. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. Features: Colour photo ad for the 1965 Pontiac Parisienne Custom Sport Coupe; Harry Peteran - Shoemaker at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children; Jacqueline (Jackie) Kennedy's Fight to Live Her Own Life; Photo of Daliah Lavi; Moonshine & Cookies (fiction); Climbing Through British Columbia - article with great colour photos; How to fill your freezer and live off the fat of the land; The Case of the Disappearing TV - locating televisions in 'hidden' places in homes; Free Shopping Spree - Ruth Buckerfield loads her shopping cart for 6 minutes at an IGA grocery store in North York; Young London Goes Ladylike - great colour and black and white fashion photos of designs by Emmanuelle Khahn, David Bond, Bates, John, Kiki Byrne and Roger Nelson; The Rites of Spring - watching pickerel spawn at Gamebridge, Ontario - article with photos; What Ails Dr. Ben Casey? - a visit with TV's Vince Edwards; Rural Route comic strip by Walter Ball; Montmorency comic. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Ex-library book with interior stamps and markings. No library markings on cover or spine. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 94 pages. Many b&w photos.
Stable Money Association gift bookplate inside front board is signed by Irving Fisher, James Rand, Jr., and Frederic A. Delano. Delano [1863-1953] was uncle to FDR, President of the Stable Money Association and was appointed to serve on the first Board of the Federal Reserve by Woodrow Wilson. James Rand Jr. [1886-1968] was Chairman of the Committee For the Nation and a prominent American businessman. This copy inscribed to Ethan Bates Stanley who was President of the American Laundry Machinery Company. pp. [vi], vii-xxiii, 484. Selected bibliography. Index. Extensive footnotes. "The present book is intended to be not so much a history of [monetary] catastrophes, due to unstable money and endured by unsuspecting millions subject to the money illusion, but rather a history of the efforts of a few to remedy or prevent such catastrophies." - xxi. Pages 443-484 constitute a lengthy list of Stable Money Pioneers, individuals who supported the movement. Corporate affiliations are included for most of these names, thus the list reads like a corporate Who's Who of America. Dust jacket not included. Average wear to publisher's pebbled navy cloth. Binding sound. Bookseller ink stamp inside front board. 21 x 14.5cm. Rist p.379, Cohen p.186, Fisher M-2058, Book