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8vo., First Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 11 illustrations and facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; original plum pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt edges, chocolate endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, crisp copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplates on front endpapers and small neat stamp on front free endpaper verso. Scarce, especially in this condition.
4to., Third Impression, with 8 coloured plates and 30 monochrome illustrations in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Carney 62 (recording the first edition).
4to., Second Impression, with 8 coloured plates and 30 monochrome illustrations in the text; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at backstrip and with one small loss on front panel. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Published a month after the first edition. Carney 62.
8vo., First Edition, with 14 plates on 12, a folding facsimile and a large folding map; original maroon buckram, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut and largely unopened, covers lightly damp-marked (not affecting text), else a very good, bright, clean copy. The definitive study, published under the auspices of the Cymmrodorian Society. VERY SCARCE.
8vo., Second Edition, with 27 plates and maps (one double-page) on 16, and several maps and plans in the text; original photographic wrappers, a very good, clean copy. First published in 1970.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 9 plates and a plan in the text, endpapers lightly browned; maroon buckram, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, and partially unopened, a near fine copy. THE FOUR ADDITIONAL PLATES (ON 2) BY DR. D.L. THOMAS, NOT CALLED FOR IN THE LIST OF PLATES, ARE PRESENT WITH THIS COPY. VERY SCARCE.
Octavo in a sky blue DJ ; xxvi, 326 p ; 22 cm Great Britain -- Social policy -- Capitalism -- Essays -- History
Probably unread. Book is as new condition. 155pp. The story of the Royal Navy dockyard at Pembroke in Wales where nearly 300 ships were built during its 112 year history from the beginning of the 19th century.
Spine a bit slanted. Minor chips to top and bottom DJ spine; Color Photographs; 8vo; 360 pages
Quarto in a red DJ ; 304 p. : color illus, color maps ; 27 cm Great Britian -- Military History -- Battles -- History
Ex-library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps. The contents are very good (+). No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean tight copy with tape-free black cloth boards with tiny marks to lower front edge and no bumping to corners. Half-title page missing. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with lioght creasing and traces of handling. 122pp. The fascinating array of wildlife and scenery through the changing seasons is captured in Michael Leach's outstanding colour photographs, and his text is an impassioned plea for the preservation of Snowdonia.
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous charts and tables (many full-page) in the text, and 2 folding maps on japon in pocket at end of second volume, wanting 3 (of 5) maps; original green cloth, gilt backs, uncut, covers mildly age-stained, a firm, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers browned at backstrips, moderately age-soiled and chipped with minor loss at heads and tails of backstrips. Sold from an institution with its inscription on front panels of dustwrappers and stamps on front free endpapers. The set comprises Vol. 1: Industries; Vol. 2: Facilities; Vol. 3: Development. Volume one wants both maps; volume two wants one map (of 3). The maps are often missing. An exhaustive and detailed assessment of South Wales and its industrial potential immediately prior to the outbreak of WWII. Complete sets are scarce.
Part three of a trilogy set in the Wesh Marches in the reign of King John. Book
8vo (190 x 140 mm), [4], 76pp., illustrated with 7 photographs by Bedford, Sedgfield and Ambrose, including one small oval one which in inset in the front cover, orig. brick red pebbled cloth, upper cover blocked in gilt, lacks front free-endpaper otherwise and very nice copy. List of photographs: [1] Photograph of Conway Castle and Bridge. [On cover.] [2] Denbigh Castle. [3] Rhuddlan Castle. [4] Conway Castle. [5] Harlech Castle. [6] Beaumaris Castle. [7] Carnarvon Castle. "This is a separate re-publication in a smaller format of part of 'Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain', 1862."?Gernsheim, 232.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one closed tear.
8vo., with photographs and full-page map in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. First published in 1947.
8vo, 240 pages, illustrated. Inscription of a previous owner on the front endpaper. eng
Edge wear to cover and tear at top of spine. Gilt decoration and pasted down illustration on cover. 7"w x 9 3/8"h. 286 pages. Minimal library markings. Color illustrations.
Quarto, 34 pages, including 15 pages of wedding photographs. eng
8vo., Second and Best Edition, with 2 plates on 1 as frontispiece, 27 plates on 18 and 78 illustrations, dfiagrams and tables (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed at extremities. Published for the National Museum of Wales, this standard work was first published in 1939 as 'Guide to the Collection illustrating the Prehistory of Wales'. The aim of the present edition is to bring up to date the record and to provide a consolidated catalogue.
Small 4to, 24.5cm. Pp. x,461, 104 figs. and maps (some fold.), refs., subject index. Orig. boards in dust-jacket. Light wear to jacket, very good otherwise.
Book is in excellent condition in red paper hardback boards. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, gilt print to spine, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is price clipped, shows chipping, edgewear, 2" tear at back, scuffing. Prnted in G.B. 242 illustrations in gilt and black. Illustrations are photographically reduced from original rubbings and turned into positives with art ehn printed on to a solid gilt base, giving an authentic reproduction of the original design as conceived by the medieval craftsman. Detail to block-making. Book is heavily illustrated with large, often full page illustrations bathed in gilt.
Book is in excellent condition with red paper hardback boards. Binding is solid and square, exterior shows no other blemishes, gilt print to spine, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is price clipped, shows chipping, edgewear, no tears, scuffing. Prnted in G.B. 242 illustrations in gilt and black. Illustrations are photographically reduced from original rubbings and turned into positives with art ehn printed on to a solid gilt base, giving an authentic reproduction of the original design as conceived by the medieval craftsman. Detail to block-making. Book is heavily illustrated with large, often full page illustrations bathed in gilt.
Dark illustrated tan octavo in a navy blue slipcase ; 208 p. : 1 geneal. table, 1 map ; 21 cm Handsome historical English illustrations to front cover and detailed map to front and rear inside covers // Paston family -- England -- Biography -- History
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, titles in red and black, title-vignettes, and numerous plates and illustrations in the text, free endpapers mildly browned; original pictorial ribbed blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in black, uncut, a very good, bright, fresh copy. With the trade ticket of Hugh Rees of Pall Mall on front paste-downs. The set comprises Vol. I: London to Gloucester; Vol. II: Gloucester to Milford Haven. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.