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1st Magnum edition. VG pbk. ISBN 0417034504. Cover illustration by Gino D'Achille. Romantic Suspense. 17789. eng
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 16 plates; some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, upper joint bumped near headband else a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with one neat marginal repair on rear panel.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, top lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Collects six of the most important nineteenth century accounts of the Cornish mining economy.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 24pp. The story of Geevor Tin Mine in Cornwall. Glossary of mining terms at rear. Illustrated. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
Pages 757 - 792. Features: Cover photo of Princess Elizabeth unveiling panels added to the Royal Artillery Memorial to commemorate gunners killed in the war 1939-1945; Page of photos illustrates the revival of an ancient English craft neglected since the middle ages - mead-making in Cornwall; Photo of Miss Anne Crawford naming "The Capitals Limited" train; The Gen. Assembly of the Church of Scotland - The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester in Edinburgh; Photos of South Africans playing Jukskei; Review of "Burma's Icy Mountains" by F. Kingdon-Ward; Royal scenes of Ulster welcoming the Princess and the Duke of Edinburgh; Photos of captured Russian train in Berlin; Personalities of the week include Sir Cyril Radcliffe, Lord Greene, Mr. John McCloy, Lord Hazlerigg, Gen. J Lawton Collins, Mr. David Bruce, the Earl of Strathmore, Gen. S.H. Van Spoor, Gen. Shanker Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana, Mr. S.M. McCready, Queen Mary, Miss Frances Stevens, Michael Wilding, Anna Neagle, Herbert Wilcox, Lord Leverhulme, Miss Jane Wyman, and Sir Lawrence Olivier; Greece and the Russian Plan - article by Cyril Falls; Photos of bandits being hunted in the mountains of Sicily; Photos of Royal occasions in London and Venice; Photos of the Chelsea Garden Show; One-page photo illustrates sailing race in King's Reach taking place in the heart of London for the first time in more than 100 years; Two pages of photos illustrate life in the little-known mountain kingdom of Afghanistan, including photo of the reigning King, H. M. Mohammed Zahir Shah; Photo of Field Marshal von Rundstedt who was released from military custody at Hamburg on May 26; Photo of Gerhard Eisler going free - the German born communist leaves Bow Street Police Station after the US application for his extradition failed; Photo of the West German Republic being signed into being; Photo of "unbeatable" machine which plays X's and O's; Article on the oldest skull yet found in France - a discovery which revises theories of human evolution; How Prof. Dorothy Garrod found the Fontechevade skull; Lovely one-page colour ad for Robinson's Lemon Barley Water; Nice colour ad for Imperial Leather Cologne on back cover. Complete and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Portrait of Lieut.-General Sir Robert Haining; Photos of Chinese people in bomb protection caves - Chunking air defence HQ photo; Photos of Chunking, China's devastated capital; Four illustrations of a mock panzer attack thrusting toward London; Review of book on F.W. Woolworth, with photos of his earliest stores; The Battle of Keren - two photos; The Army in Training - article by Cyril Falls with five photos; Augsburg to Glasgow - Rudolph Hess's Sensational Flight from Germany - with eight photos - "Hitler's Deputy and "Dearest Friend" escapes to Britain; The first tank battle in history - a graphic description by a German Tank Officer who took part in the fight between France and Germany; Centerfold illustration of tank battle exercises in East Anglia; Before and after photos of the devastation of England's House of Commons; Photo of damaged Big Ben; Full-page photo of Churchill amongst the ruins of the House of Commons; Photos of destruction to Westminster Abbey, Hall and School; 10 photos of war events and personalities of the week; Great photo of the forward guns of the battleship "Gneisenau"; The War at Sea - photos of the recapture of Berbera and R.A.F. pigeons, plus the first corvette built in Canada for the Royal Navy and manned by Canadians; Wonderful photo of the H.M.S. "Cornwall"; Great photo ad for The British Power Boat Company; Similar photo ad for Thornycroft patrol vessels. Average wear. Faint Ink stamp to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
Pages 381-428.. Features: Guinness ad inside front cover features Jane Welsh Carlyle; Nice one-page Benson & Hedges ad features ritzy scene aboard trainr; One-page ad for the David Brown companies features welder at work; Nice half-page ad for Westland helicopters; One-page ad for Cossor shows auto assembly line at Morris Motors; One-page Fairey Aviation Company ad honours the H.M. S. Illustrious; Two pages of photos of Princess Margaret being welcomed in St. Kitts, Jamaica and the Bahamas; Turkey and Iraq sign mutual defence treaty; King Hussein of Jordan engaged to Princess Dina Abd-El-Hamid Aoun; Passing of M. Paul Claudel and Huseyin Ragip Baydur; Farewell photos of the Shaw of Iran and his wife as they leave London; Czech skater Miss Miroslava NNachodska seeks asylum in the U.S.; Amazing photos of the underground thermal power of Wairakei, New Zealand - which will supply heavy water for Britain's atomic power stations; M. Edgar Faure; Page of photos of the Royal Navy's most formidable fighting unit - H.M.S. Ark Royal and its commissioning; Photo of snow in Riviera town; Missing Belgian airliner found after eight days on Mt. Terminillo; One-page colour-photo portrait of Princess Margaret; Six colour photos describe the "Powder Keg of Asia" - Chinese Nationalist troops on Formosa; Excavating an important site inthe Malayan jungles at Gua Cha, in Kelantan; One page photo portrait of Dame Edith Evans; Two pages of photos of/in the first American hotel ever built in London - the Wesbury is the West End's first new hotel for over twenty years; Damage from fire at Shell refinery at Shell Haven, Essex - the three men who kep the fire from spreading - R.A. Jackson, T. Brookbank and H. Dobson; Storm and Explosion in Genoa Harbour - the Nordanland was carrying calcium carbide; Snow scenes in the Pennines and Cornwall; Launching of new British submarine "Excalibur" which uses hydrogen peroxide fuel; Huge wool fire dockside in New Zealand; Voting on the SAAR and Paris agreements; Photos of the amazing Ibex in the Alps;Toronto landmark destroyed by fire - Anglican Church of the Martyr;Nuclear device exploded at Yucca Flat; Nice colour photo ad for Dow-Mac (Products) Ltd.; Back cover colour ad for Johnnie Walker with billiards theme; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. Beautiful color illustrations. Bright orange cloth boards with blue illustration. 7 1/2"w x 10 1/8"h.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. HK33, better known as PINGUIN, was the most successful of the German raiders until she waas caught by HMS CORNWALL in the Indian Ocean. An early Kimber. SCARCE. Enser, p.188; Law 1692.
2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, with engraved title-vignettes and numerous engraved illustrations and plans in the text, neat uniform signature on front free endpapers, neat contemporary signature on titles; original brown cloth, bevelled boards, upper boards framed in black and blocked in gilt (repeating title-vignettes), primrose endpapers, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Bray's classic account was first published as three volumes in 1836. Urged by Southey to report 'everything about a parish that can be made interesting; all of its history, traditions and manners that can be saved from oblivion', she produced a classic and important work combining natural history, topography and folklore in a series of delightful letters. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Brockett, 6260.
78 pages. Features: Patterns of Power - The symbols of Great Lakes Indian Art; Mason's Ironstone - 'improvements in the manufacture of English porcelain'; Bermuda's Government House; Seeing Double - The 19th century's Stereoscope; South China Sea Find - Ming-filled wreck provides earlier dating documentation; Wilno Furniture - Made in the first Polish settlement in Canada; Nineteenth Century Pottery and Porcelain for Canadian Collectors; Cornwall Pewter Plate Mystery. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present), engraved title vignette, 10 engraved plates and very numerous woodcut illustrations in the text; original green cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip gilt laid down, brown endpapers, uncut, a most attractive, bright, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Scarce, especially in this condition.
8vo., Second Edition, with very numerous woodcut illustrations (by the author) in the text, title very lightly spotted; cloth, boards with multiple frame border in blind enclosing title lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut, black endpapers, a very good, clean copy. First published in 1865, collecting a series of essays written for the Gentleman's Magazine between 1862 and 1864.
56 pages. Features: Canadian Scenes on 19th Century English Earthenware - Collard ROM Lecture; Confiscated Tiffany Collection sets new price records at Sotheby's in New York; Bernard Palissy - Creator of Rustic Pottery; Antique Beads - interview with Carol Wallingford; Refinishing and Restoring Wood Furniture - part 1 - stripping and basic repairs; Cornwall, Ontario - A Bicentennial History; Grand Opening of Tea Olive Company and Toys for Big Boys; Wick Support Lighting - informative photo-illustrated article; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Book in mint unread condition. 51pp. Concise histories about a number of tram networks based on towns and cities in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Well illustrated with maps.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter a little chafed at extremities. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series.
Inscription of a previous owner on the front endpaper. Inside covers browning. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall eng
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Booklet in mint condition. 48pp. Undated. ca 1960s. Price 3/6d.
255 p. Hardcover Good condition First published 1899
8vo., First Edition, with plates; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
