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Sheen, Joanna & Alexander, Caroline
Dried Flower Gardening
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. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 128pp. A complete guide to growing, drying and arranging flowers with a compendium of over a hundred plants suitable for drying.
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Sheerin, Connie
Mosaics in an Afternoon : Quick and Easy Techniques for Creating Mixed Media Mosaics
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 112pp. How to make attractive art pieces, very quickly, from tiles or glass and your own or a suggested design.
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Shenkman, J.J.
Cabinet-Making in Easy Stages
No marks or inscriptions. Very light creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean tight copy with unmarked boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 143pp. The aim of this book is to advise the keen D.I.Y. woodworker how to become a cabinet-maker whilst making useful pieces of furniture suitable for the family home.
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Shep. Robert L.
Cleaning and Caring for Books
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 103pp. A practical manual of how to clean dull, shabby books, remove spots and marks, carry out minor repairs and maintain in good condition a book collection or small library.
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Spielman, Patrick
Working Green Wood with PEG
120 pages including index. A simple, inexpensive, new process for seasoning wood. Numerous black and white illustrations. Prior owner's name atop half-title page else unmarked. Average wear. Good working copy. Book
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Stearns, Ann
The Batsford Book of Crochet
Previous owner's name/address to title and half-title pages. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked blue cloth boards and tiny bump to lower rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with traces of handling and rubbing of surface skin to lower rear corner. 160pp.
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Stockstill, Edie
Making Decorative Lawn Ornaments and Patio Containers
144 pages. "With 46 projects, ranging from the simple to the complex and arranged by season, you can add interest to your lawn all year long!" - from back cover. Colour photography throughout. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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STöHR, F
Alt-Strassburger Treppenkunst. Baugewerbliche Bilder dekorativer Treppen, Treppenhäuser und Geländer des 18. Jahrhunderts. Freiburg.
1927. Gr.-8vo. 32 S., 50 Taf. m. 53 Abb. OLwd (angestaubt, teilw. leicht braunfl.).
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1035420
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Sue Hubbard; Peter Murray
Sophie Ryder: Yorkshire Sculpture Park
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 52pp. The work of sculptor Sophie Ryder as shown at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
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Sue Millard
The Complete Book of Candlewick Embroidery
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 96pp. Starting with the basics, this book teaches candlewick embroidery and its associated quilting and then moves on to more complex work and projects. Also includes thirty full-page designs for you to try..
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The Editor
Byelorussian Folk Art
Note in unidentified language on title page. No other marks or inscriptions to contents and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked front board, very faint stain to rear and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated. 48pp. Coloured and black & white photographs of lovely art works with artist credits covering painting, trinkets, basketwork, pottery, glasswork, woodwork, sculpture and embroidery. Text in English and Russian. Extremely scarce. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works. 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
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The Editor
Fine Woodworking on Things to Make : 35 Articles
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Very minor creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with faint marking to rear board and rubbing but no bumping to corners. 106pp. A collection of 35 articles from Fine Woodworking magazine of things to make. From simple toys to elegant furniture in varying degrees of challenge. Plans, drawings and photographs to help. With measurements and instructions.
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The Editor
Four Lake District Leaflets
Four leaflets. No marks or inscriptions and un-creased. Very clean leaflets with bright unmarked covers and no bumping to corners. Total of 32pp. Leaflets numbers 2, 13, 15 and 16 on Hill Farming, Stone Walls and Appendages, Farming for Food and Mines and Mining in the Lake District National Park.
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The Editor
Hornby Railways 1825-1975 Stephenson Edition, 150 years of Railways
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Crease to rear cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, small label removal mark to front, minor traces of foxing and no bumping to corners. 48pp. Hornby Railway catalogue celerating 150 years of railways in the UK.
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The Editor
Modern Needlework in 600 Pictures
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to stiff card covers or to textile spine. A clean very tight copy with slightly rubbed very slightly dusty unmarked boards, rubbed board edges and no bumping to corners. 224pp. A wealth of practical knowledge and instruction on sewing and tailoring with clear visual advice.
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The Editor
New Dimensions in Weaving
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 142pp. In five sections - 3D, Only Natural, Colour, Texture and Design, with black & white illustrations throughout. Designed as loose pages held with plastic spine binder.
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The Editor
On the Farm : Post Card Painting Book
No marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease to lower corner of front cover. Contents very clean and very tight copy with very dusty unmarked boards, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. None of the uncoloured cards have been marked. 17pp. With sixteen postcards perforated for removal. Eight of the cards show a farm scene in colour and the other eight (facing) are to colour in as shown in the scene opposite. Extremely scarce.
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The Editor
Patons 202 : Introducing Machine Knitting
Advice on one garment in easily removable pencil. No other marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers. A clean tight copy with bright lightly rubbed/indented unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 39pp. Advice and techniques on starting to use a knitting machine, the tools used and a wealth of examples. Also patterns and how to make five jumpers, cardigans and sweaters for women, men and children. Scarce.
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The Editor
Practical Householder : July 1965
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Faint creasing to covers. A clean tight copy with very slightly marked boards and small piece missing from top of spine. 625-736pp. A wealth of articles on house repairs, renovation, construction etc.
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The Editor
Router Projects for the Woodworker
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. 175pp. Twenty timber projects using the router for making furniture and other wooden creations.
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The Editor
The Complete Drawing and Watercolour Book
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. 120pp. A step-by-step course covering materials, techniques, composition, figures and portraits, plants and animals, landscapes and buildings plus tips and hints.
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The Editor
The Complete Handyman
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, slight creasing to soft spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon boards, slightly dusty page edges, end papers slightly foxed and no bumping to corners. 575pp. DIY from the 1940s.
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The Editor
The Handy Man and Home Mechanic
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked very slightly rubbed faux leather boards and no bumping to corners. 671pp. How to make so many things. Crafts, skills, with timber, electrics, decorating, a rabbit hutch, repairing a lawn mower and so much more. Undated ca 1950s.
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The Editor
The Model Engineer : 1942 : 4 Copies
Four copies No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing, tanning to pages and slightly dusty. 481-575pp. Volume 86 Nos 2141-2144 (May 21 1942, May 28 1942, June 4 1942, June 11 1942) The magazines with articles on making model planes, model cars, model boats, model locomotives and their components, iron founding, lathes, traction engines, metal heat treatment, soldering and more.
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The Editor
The Model Engineer : 1942 : 4 Copies
Four copies No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing, tanning to pages and slightly dusty. 577-624 and 1-48pp. Volume 86 Nos 2145-2146 and Volume 87 Nos 2147-2148 (June 18 1942, June 25 1942, July 2 1942, July 9 1942) The magazines with articles on making model planes, model cars, model locomotives, model boats and their components, iron founding, lathes, traction engines, metal heat treatment, soldering and more.
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The Editor
Woodworking Plans & Projects
No marks or inscriptions. Slight creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 128pp. With full details of thirty well set-out projects to make furniture, toys etc.
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The Editors
'000' 'T.T' '00' and '0' Gauge Model Equipment by W.& H.(Model)LTD.and Associate Company Romford Models Ltd
No marks or inscriptions. Very light creasing to covers. A very clean very tight booklet. 64pp. Undated but reference made to a number of 1959 references.
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The Editors
347 Woodworking Patterns: A Bound Set of Popular Woodworking Patterns
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. 160pp. A wealth of patterns laid out on squared paper for easy scaling up or down. With patterns to please men, women and children of all ages.
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The Editors
Instruction Book for MOD.SR-150 Chunky Ribber
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to corner of rear cover. A clean well-used copy with very lightly marked covers. Stapled outer covers spilt to bottom three inches of spine. 52pp. Chunky Knitter/Ribber machine instructions.
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The Editors
Patons Autumn Breezes (crochet designs)
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 33pp. Crochet designs to make with full instructions and photographs for jumpers, cardigans, scarf, bags, shawl etc.
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The Editors
The ERG Catalogue of 00 Model Railway Supplies : For All That's Best in 00 Railway Modelling
No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 47pp. Comprehensive list of parts for sale and prices to build your model railway. Undated ca mid-1950s.
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The Editors
The Woodworker : Volume LIX : 1955
Pages well browned. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean tight copy with dull lightly marked boards, sunned spine and slight bumping/rubbing to corners. 272pp.
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The Editors
The Woodworker : Volume LVII + LVIII (part) + LXII (part) : 1953, 1954, 1958
Pages slightly browned. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean tight copy with dull lightly marked boards, sunned and rubbedspine and slight rubbing to corners. 240 + 140 + 20pp. January to December 1953, January to July 1954, August 1958.
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The Editors
Woodworker Annual Volume 66
No inscriptions or marks. A clean tight copy with unmarked boards, slight browning to page edges, small tear to one page (no loss) and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with tears to lower edge, slight loss from top of spine and chips and rubs to edges. . 288pp. This volume contains the complete 12 Wordworker Magazines from 1962. Absolutely packed with features for the woodworker with numerous projects, techniques, articles and features plus tools and machinery finishing etc. B&W photos and b&w illus on every page are found throughout the book
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The Editress
Needlewoman and Needlecraft No 55. July 1953
No marks or inscriptions. Slight creasing to covers. A very clean very tight magazine with bright unmarked boards and creasing to some page corners. Complete with transfer pattern for issue no 55. 30pp. Embroidery, knitting etc.
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Timms, Chris
Childhood Days in Cross Stitch
No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with signs of storage and handling. 128pp. Inspired by memories of childhood, this collection of easy-to-follow, full-colour stitch charts presents a wide range of imaginative projects, many illustrating traditional nursery rhymes and enchanting childhood poems.
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Tombor, Ilona R.
Old Hungarian Painted Woodwork.
unp. illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Towers, E.Lucy
Techniques of Dressmaking and Soft Tailoring
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight rubbing to rear and no bumping to corners. 208pp. With step-by step diagrams which illustrate fibres and finishes, cutting out, making up and pressing plus finishing hems, seams, pleats and pockets in different materials, various methods of inserting zips and a section on handling fabrics such as velvet, chiffon and lace.
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UPMARK, G
Möbler i afdelningen för de högre standen. Uitgifna genom nordiska museet.
Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt, (1912). 4to. 110 S. m. 166 Textabbildungen, 2 Bl., 100 Tafeln m. 213 Abbildungen, davon 16 Farbtafeln. (Fran gamla svenska hem föremal i nordiska museet). OLwdbd m. Rücken- u. Außentitel in Goldprägung (Kapitale u. Ecken etwas beschabt, vorderer Innengelenk gelockert, Stempel a. d. Vorsatz durchgestrichen, leichte Gebrauchsspuren, 1 Farbtafel an den Rändern eingerissen, größerer Einriß unterlegt).
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1314694
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Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Woodwork
The Panelled Rooms Vol I II and V
London: Victoria And Albert Museum under His Majesty's Stationery Office 1920-1922. Hardback. Very Good. 9.5" by 7.5". Not Stated . A three-volume set of 'The Panelled Rooms' series by Victoria and Albert Museum heavily illustrated with black and white photographs and architectural plans. Volumes I II and V of 'The Panelled Rooms' series by the Department of Woodwork at Victoria and Albert Museum.This set contains: Vol I 'The Bromley Room' on the architecture and interior design of the 'Old Palace' at Bromley-by-Bow. The second edition 1922 revised with measured drawings of sections of the panel mouldings and a ground-floor plan of the room added.Vol II 'The Clifford's Inn' on the panelling and design of a 17th-century lawyer's chamber. The second edition 1922.Vol V 'The Hatton Garden Room' on a 17th-century house in Hatton Garden London most likely from the 1730s. The first edition 1920.All volumes are heavily illustrated with black and white photographs and the occasional ground-floor plan and architectural blueprint. In the publisher's original paper-covered boards. Externally generally smart with marginal age toning and discolouration to boards. The odd mark to the boards. Shelf wear and creasing to the extremities. Bumping to spine head and tails. Loss of paper to corners of front and rear boards of II and V volumes. Mottling and spotting to V. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright if slightly age toned. Very Good Victoria And Albert Museum under His Majesty's Stationery Office hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 989R23
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Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Woodwork
The Panelled Rooms. II. The Clifford's Inn Room.
London: HMSO 1914. Part 2 only; small quarto 16 pp. frontis. 12 plates; ex library original boards chipped at spine. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. London: HMSO, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : ZB583215
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Vincenc Gilbert, Josep Lopez and Jordi Ordonez
Marquetry Woodworking Class
Barron's Educational Series 2000. Hardcover. very good/No DJ as issued. Hardcover very good condition no DJ Barron's Educational Series hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 160806008 ISBN : 0764152440 9780764152443
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Wade, N. Victoria
The Basic Stitches of Embroidery
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to upper corners. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards. 26pp. Explanations and instructions for all the principle stitches in embroidery.
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Wakefield, Sam
Cotton Doubling and Twisting : Sections III : Flyer and Ring Twisting & Section IV : Twiner Twisting (in one volume)
Prize plate inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean very tight pages with very lightly marked boards, dusty page edges, well rubbed top of spine and rubbing to corners. 112 + 122pp. Two volumes in one edition. Very detailed account of the processes in cotton production, illustrated. Undated, prize plate dated 1922.
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Walker, Michele
The Complete Book of Quiltmaking
No marks or inscriptions. Tiny amount of creasing to front top edge of cover. No creasing to spine. Clean bright boards with no bumps to corners. A clean crisp tight copy. 192pp. With 155 colour photos and 200 black & white diagrams and drawings, the book describes how to re-create traditional patterns and how to design new abstract ones. As well as giving instructions on the traditional (often) natural-based designs, there are many excellent examples of coloured abstract patterns and designs to make plus an appendix of block patterns and templates.
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Walton, Perry
The Story of Textiles
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, minor rubbing to spine ends, dusty untrimmed page edges and no bumping to corners. 274pp. 'A birds-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed.' Illustrated.
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Waterkeyn, Sarah
The Creative Book Of Dried Flowers: Featuring Over 85 Attractive Arrangements, From Garland To Pot-Pourri
Appears unread. Book and jacket in as new condition. 128pp. Step-by-step instructions on how to create a wide range of imaginative designs.
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Westgate, Alice
The Home Colour Directory
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. 192pp. A guide to finding the right paint for interior decoration. Includes 14 pages of 225 small tear-out colour swatches to make matching easier. Colours are from the Dulux range.
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Whiteaker, Stafford
English Countryside Embroidery
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with signs of storage. 128pp. A treasury of over 50 original needlepoint designs.
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Williams. Archibald (editor)
Home Mechanics : The Hobby Books
No marks or inscriptions. A clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped but torn and repaired and very dusty. 301pp. How to make a fascinating range of small engineering appliances in the home workshop. It even explains how to make and use a simple X-Ray apparatus. With 214 sketches and diagrams. Undated ca 1920. Scarce.
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