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Sm. 8vo., Eleventh Edition, with coloured map as frontispiece, plates, and maps and plans (a number folding); original series binding of red cloth, covers and backstrip printed in black, radial corners, a near fine copy. With front and rear endpaper trade advertisements. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Sm. 8vo., Fourth Edition, with coloured map as frontispiece, plates, and maps and plans (a number folding); original series binding of red cloth, covers and backstrip printed in black, radial corners, backstrip lightly sunned else a near fine copy. With front and rear endpaper trade advertisements. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, with coloured map as frontispiece, plates, and maps and plans (a number folding), neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of red cloth, covers and backstrip printed in black, radial corners, backstrip lightly sunned else a near fine copy. With front and rear endpaper trade advertisements. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 20 coloured plates; original series binding of pictorial boards, a very good, clean copy. King Penguin 43.
8vo., Second Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Revised version of the first edition of 1988. Ottley, 17542 (recording the first edition).
8vo., original cloth, gilt back, a fine copy.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. No dust jacket. 127pp. This book traces the history of narrow gauge and miniature railways, past and present, in text and photographs. It includes other countries including Southern and East Africa and Switzerland.
The acclaimed foreign correspondent set out on on a journey through Britain for the BBC (for the series "Forgotten Britain") although born in London he has never lived there until recently, having spent years covering the world's conflicts. In his travels in 1999 he discovered a world of poverty, exclusion and alienation. A shocking but sometimes uplifting work, he reports on the courage and lack of self pity of those he encountered and considers the changing ways of life and notes that in August 1999 a Scottish shipyard with 1,200 workers was sold for 2.4 million pounds which was the price for a large house in Islington, spiritual home of New Labour. 218p. Book
pp. vi, (1), 455, (10) [Index, Proposals and Advertisement] + Twenty-seven engraved plates, many folding. Engraved and decorated title page. Some offsetting from plates. Foxed. All edges decorated red. 4to. Rebound in three quarters leather over marbled boards. Spine paper label. Hardbound. Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) was probably the foremost 18th century Welsh intellectual. A naturalist, zoologist, and antiquary, he is best known for this 'A Tour in Wales'. In his famous autobiography The Literary Life (1793) he states that he sometimes marvelled at his own industry. His first book was the 1766 folio, British Zoology. This made a financial loss as it had been printed on paper that was too large. Thereafter all his major works appeared in smaller formats, either octavos or quartos. The current view of his contribution to natural history is that its importance lies in the fact that he popularized and promoted its study. His tours and topographic works also display his insistence on detailed research. Among the accounts of tours he published are those of two separate visits to Scotland, a tour from Chester to London, and an account of London itself. His A Tour in Wales (1778-1783) is regarded as being quite outstanding and easily the finest work in a considerable corpus of Welsh tour literature published from ca. 1770 onwards. Pennant also became a collector more as a scholar than as a connoisseur. As a patron he tended to purchase pictures which were directly commissioned from the artist. First Edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/7
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with 48 plate-reproductions (a number double-page) of Moll's maps, endpapers and fore-edges lightly spotted; marbled boards, cloth backs gilt, gilt tops, uncut, white cloth backs mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES. The first complete reissue since 1778 of a work of enormous importance to the scholar of eighteenth century England. In it Defoe writes of the social habits of the people, and the products, industry, trade and commerce of the various parts of the country, as well as describing the various places of historic or other importance.
pp. xiii, 359 + Plus Frontis, Color Map and Aquatint engravings sketched by the author. Lacks one plate. Offsetting from plates. Inked ownership of Helen Tagart and S. Jones, Green Noll May, 1803. Inked manuscript "on the tour of South Wales May 7th returned, July 4th 1803, 660 miles. Mr. & Mrs Loyd and Son & Mr. Jones to Baytey, 1803." Marbled endpapers. 8vo. Disbound. SWAF. SDCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGLAND BOX 1
138 p. Profusely illustrated with photographs. 220mm. Original color pictorial binding. Reprint of the 1975 edition. SE 3 / 1
Vg/Vg (dj lightly creased at edges with one small tear and reverse side tarnished, neat gift inscription front free endpaper else contents clean) octavo 176pp. First edition. Gwyn Thomas writes about the people, the places, the prejudices and the passions which have formed him as a individual and which make Wales whatever it is today. Illustrated with John Dd. Evans' strong and evocative drawings.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations; green tweed cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 268pp. A record of what happens when unregulated development meets the opposition of 'ordinary people'.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Maps plus 224pp.
28 pages, illustrated, colour map. eng
8vo., First Edition, original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly browned at edges else a very good, clean copy. SCARCE.
VG (pictorial card covers, no significant faults) Small octavo 80pp illustrated no date - but judging from the bathing suits of th lady models - would suspect 1950s vintage, or maybe earlier!
pp. viii, 50. Tall 8vo. Original printed wraps. Fascinating study of Gypsy caravans and housing. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GYPSY 1
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers, single crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright very slightly marked boards, tiny ink mark at foot of vertical page edges and no bumping to corners. Scarce. 78pp. The story of Bardsey Island in Cardigan Bay, Wales.
8vo., First Edition, with map as frontispiece and numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., with mounted photographic print as frontispiece and 2 mounted photographic prints BUT WANTING MAP; original terracotta diced cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and blind, gilt back, primrose endpapers, long tear at lower joint (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean working copy. With several trade advertisements at rear. Bright working copy of a very scarce guide. Not in Anderson.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 4 plates, several illustrations and maps (a number full-page) in the text and a folding map; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. Includes a bibliography of Rees' works and list of subscribers.
