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Dean, David
English Shopfronts: From Contemporary Source Books 1792-1840
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. Top corner of dust jacket torn and crinkled. English Shop Fronts from Contemporary Sources 1792 - 1840 ( Designs for ---1792; A Series of Designs for --- 1828; Designs for --- 1831; Shop Fronts and Exterior Doors; On the Construction and Decoration of the Shop Fronts of London 1840). Black and white plates illustrating shop front designs printed on single-sided creamy, heavy paper.
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Redi, Carlo Alberto; Zuccotti, Maurizio; Garagna, Silvia
Imago Animalium
Inscribed by Carlo Alberto Redi on front free endpaper to entomologist Professor John Edwards. 176 pages. Text in English and Italian. Color plates of zoological drawings from 1879 to 1890.
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Pomerleau, Rene
Flore Des Champignons Au Quebec et Regions Limitrophes
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 652 pages. Spine cracking (shows mesh of binding) between pages 544 and 545, but still tight. Photos of table of contents available. In French with some English. Color photos; black and white drawings. This large, heavy book may require additional funds for international or priority transport.
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Lorentzen, Ida
Ida Lorentzen: The Story of Seven Paintings = Ida Lorentzen Historien Om Syv Bilder
Previous owner's inscription. Light wear to dust jacket. Full beige cloth boards with red lettering. Text in English and Norwegian. Many color paintings are reproduced.
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Smith, K.; Awde, Nicholas
Arabic Practical Dictionary: Arabic-English English-Arabic
Clean and unmarked; tight binding. 440 pages. Slight crease on spine.
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Burt, Anthony M.;Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain);Thames Water Authority
Thames Groundwater Scheme: Proceedings of the Conference Held at Reading University on 12-13 April 1978
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.
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Baskanligi, T.C. Genelkurmay
Ataturk and the War Of Independence Museum/Ataturk Ve Kurtulus Savas Muzesi
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. In Turkish and English. Many color photos. 144 pages.
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Josephson, David S.
John Taverner: Tudor Composer
Ex-library edition with the usual stamps and markings. 283 pages. No interior markings of any sort.
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Gaetz, Lynne
Open Book: English Skills, with Companion 3 CD Set
Ex-library book with the usual stamps stickers, etc. Oversize paperback book with three CDs that go with the book, (Longman product #10817). Book is clean, not marked in any way and CD's are in excellent condition. Book has access code for companion website.
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Mufwene, Salikoko S. ; Richford, John R. ; Bailey, Guy; Baugh, John; (eds.)
African-American English: Structure, History and Use
Covers show light wear only. Covers and spine are uncreased, binding is solid and page block is straight and clean with sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind excepf for three pages. 20 years in business, we provide excellent customer service and ship with packing material appropriate to insure your purchase arrives undamaged.
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Arts Council Staff
English Romanesque Art, 1066-1200
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Very heavy book on glossy paper, a huge number of b&w photos, drawings, prints with a small section of color prints. Encyclopedic in scope. 416 pages. Book is from the reference section and shows very little wear.
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Yes
Yesterdays
47 pages, 8 songs, easy piano/vocal with guitar fretboard symbols and chords. Psychedelic cover art, normal signs of age. Clean and unmarked interior.
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Longfellow, H.W.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadia
Small format: 4 1/4"w x 6". No date given, circa 1900. Previous owners' names. Wear to edges.
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Monnier, Michel
For a Better English: Resoudre Les Difficultes De La Grammaire Anglaise
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 126 pages. Previous owner's inscription.
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Visual Education
English Vocabulary Cards
Boxed set of 1000 cards, 1 1/2" x 3 1/2" printed on both sides. Box shows some edge wear. I have not counted the cards, so cannot guarantee the exact number. No date shown - circa 1970s.
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James, Henry
The Spoils of Poynton
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 323 pages. 4 3/4"w x 7 1/8"h. Orange cloth boards. Tears and edge wear to worn dust jacket.
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Deschamps, L.D.
The 100 Most Common Grammar Mistakes Made by ESL Writers
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 255 pages.
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West, Mike
Toyah
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 80 pages. Many photos in b&w and color. 7"w x 10"h.
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Huntley, Michael
History of Furniture: Ancient to 19th C.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Book shows very little use and is very clean. 224 pages filled with color photos and detailed descriptions
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A Guide to English and French Furniture of the Eighteenth Century: A New and Unusual Treatise Regarding the Use, Manufacture and Care of Choice Reproductions, etc.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 48 pages. 7 1/4"w x 10 5/8"h. Many black and white photos.
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Fabric of the Hills: The Interwoven Story of Textiles and the Landscape of the South Pennines
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Unpaginated, about 80 pages, each with a b&w photo and text. Contents include In the beginning: geological origins and rural traditions of the Pennines; Domestic calm before industrial storm: the domestic textile industry; Early mills and improveed machines; from weavers cottage to powered mill; The great industrial revolution : muck and brass; Twenteith century changes: one more chapter in teh Pennine saga. Map at back is intact and unused.
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Bond, Michael
More About Paddington
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full blue cloth boards show a bit of edge wear. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. 128 pages. 5 3/8"w x 8 1/4"h.
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Morris, Sarah
Sarah Morris, Capital
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Text in German and English. This book was published on the occasionof the exhibition "Correspondence" at the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum f?r Gegenwart - Berlin, May 31 - July 15, 2001. Full blue cloth boards. 9 1/4"w x 10 3/8"h.
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Gibbon-Williams, Andrew
William Roberts: An English Cubist
Brand new book in excellent condition in every respect. 152 pages in large format, filled with large full color prints with text covering the career of Mr. Roberts.
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Pepys, Samuel
Samuel Pepys Diary
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full brown cloth boards. Edge wear and small tears to dust jacket. Attractive small format: 4 3/4"w x 7 1/2"h. Rockwell Kent torch bearer design on endpapers and embossed on cover. No date shown; circa 1930.
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Lawrence, D.H.
Sons and Lovers
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 492 pages. Creases to side page edges. Previous owner's name inside. Full green cloth boards. Attractive small format: 4 3/4"w x 7 1/2"h. Rockwell Kent torch bearer design on endpapers and embossed on cover.
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Irving, Edward Burroughs
Rereading Beowulf (Middle Ages Series)
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full gray cloth boards. 186 pages.
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Brockett, Oscar T.
History of the Theatre
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 741 pages with b&w illustraitons. Chapters include Origins of the theatre: Ritual drama in Egypt and the Near East; Theatre and drama in ancient Greece; Roman Theatre and drama; Theatre and drama in the middle ages,; The Italian renaissance.... continuing through English theatre, Spanish from 1500 to 1700, French, English, Italian through same period, of the Orient, Modern theatre 1875 - 1915 up to chapter 19: Theatre since the second world war. Big tome. Top corners are bumped, but otherwise looks new in red cloth, gilt letting and border.
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Hall, Radclyffe
The Unlit Lamp
A clean, unmarked book wtih a tight binding. 320 pages.
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Scragg, D. G.
A History of English Spelling
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight wear to cover. 130 pages.
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Kaufman, Carol
Reading, Writing, and Spelling With Picture Stamps in Full Color
Little Golden Book #A24. 6 1/2"w x 8"h. This book has been used by a child - all picture stamps neatly placed and the spelling words written down in neat cursive pencil. Wonderful color illustations.
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Deanna Valente Bernar
Sisley
Book is in excellent condition in black cloth covers, gilt print on spine. 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 shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 44 full color, full page prints of the artist's work with accompanying descriptions in a separate section. Unpaginated, about 70 pages.
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Oz, Amos; Fania Oz-Salzberger
Jews and Words
Brand new book is in excellent condition in every respect. 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 is Fine. 232 pages.
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Loeffler, Peter
Five Sketches on Gordon Craig
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full dark gray cloth boards. Dust jacket folds are a bit askew. 5 3/4"w x 7 3/8"h. 80 pages. Five sketches on English actor and stage designer Gordon Craig accompanying five unpublished works (drawings) by Craig. No date shown; circa 1980's.
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Abiakam, J.
49 Wise Sayings, 72 Idioms, 33 Riddles and Jokes, 44 Questions and Answers [African Market Literature]
Staple-bound pamphlet. 56 pages. No publication date shown; circa 1970. A how-to pamphlet from Nigeria originally sold in West African market stalls, including the Onitsha Market (largest open-air market in Africa) in the sixties and seventies. Yellowing paper. "Do not trust a liar so that he may not disappoint you and you become like a man who cut his new coat to patch his old knicker."
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Clare, John; Anne Tibble; J.W. Tibble
The Letters of John Clare
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full plum colored cloth boards. Price-clipped dust jacket.
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Wells, H.G.
The Desert Diary
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Full black cloth boards. Facsimile of H.G. Wells's earliest surviving narrative of any length when Wells was 12 years old.
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Lear, Edward
Teapots and Quails: And Other New Nonsenses
Full brown cloth boards show edge wear, an ink mark, and some spots. 64 pages. 6 1/2"w x 9 3/4"h.
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Corporate Flashcards
A boxed set of 60 cards with vocabulary for the unemployed or over-employed.
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Tunis, Edwin
Shaw's Fortune: The Picture Story of a Colonial Plantation
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's inscription inside. Full red cloth boarrds. Edge wear and stains to price-clipped dust jacket. 11 1/8"w x 8 1/2"h. 64 pages. Black and white illustrations.
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Beckett, Samuel
Waiting for Godot / En Attendant: A Bilingual Edition: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 358 pages. In French and English.
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Browning, Robert; Donald Smalley (editor)
Poems of Robert Browning (Riverside Editions)
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 544 pages.
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Van Woenzel, Stefan
Oil Traders' Words: A Dictionary of Trading Jargon
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 555 pages.
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Andrew C. Fix
The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Rise of Nations: Parts 2 & 4 Only
Two sets of CD's and booklets in plastic cases. Each set contains six CD's, 12 lectures, 30 minutes/ lecture, for a total of 12 CD's and 24 lectures.
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Summerson, John
Georgian London
Book show very light wear only in light blue cloth with gilt embossed print at spine and cover, sunned spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 315 pages with glossy page section of b&w photos, maps, architectural drawings, floor plans, elevations and includes sections on: Whig and Tory landowners, Public buildings under George II, Architects of the Golden Age: 1763 - 1793 Building during the French wars, Great estates, John Nash, Theatres, Greater Georgian London, etc.
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Tomlinson, H. M.
London River
Book is in excellent condition with a little shelf wear only, light sunning to spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for former owner's name inside cover and on title page. 251 pages, contents include: The foreshore, Midnight voyage, A shipping parish, The ship-runners, An Old Lloyd's register.
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Galinou, Mireille; Strong, Sir Roy, Vanessa Harding, Hazel Forxyth, Rosemary Weinstein, John Harris, Tessa Murcoch, Brent Elliott, et al.
London's Pride: A History of London's Gardens
Book is in excellent condition. 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 shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 224 pages with articles by a group of authors with b&w images, photos, maps, drawings throughout, a few in color. Chapters include: The middle ages: the medieval garden, Medicinal and kitchen gardening, London's market gardens in the early modern period, London gardens and the decorative arts, Victorian parks, etc.
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Lambert, Margaret, Enid Marx
English Popular and Traditional Art (Britain in Pictures series)
Book is in excellent condition with very light wear to covers, 48 pages, age-toned paper. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind with 8 plate in clor, 30 B&w illustrations. Dust jacket shows considerable wear at edges, no large tears, now wrapped in clear archival cover. "Book shows the aesthetic qualities of English popular art and also the sort of people for whom it was, and in some cases still is, produced."
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Mole, Rich
Season's Greetings from British Columbia's Past: Christmas as Celebrated in British Columbia from the 1880's to the 1930's (sound Heritage Series #29
Book is in excellent condition with light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 76 pages with b&w photos, ads, illustrations throughout. Chapters include: Genuine English people, Stumps and mud, Christmas is for kids, Christmas in the country, Yuletides in uniform, Candles on the Christmas tree, "Lady, could I put my wood in?" et al.
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St. Charles, Glenn; St. Charles, Glenn A.
Billets to Bow: Sights, Sounds & Smells of Archery
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 195 pages with b&w photos & illustrations. Sections include: Harvesting the yew, Longbows, Making a bowstring, Horn tips, English longbow, Leather accessories, Moving targets, Arrows, , Bow & arrow hunting, etc. Signed under author photo.
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