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Phonics (Word Sounding) Flash Cards
Boxed set of 50 phonics flash cards from the "Learn with Parent Teacher Aids" series. Name written on one flash card. In a worn cardboard box that has tears and tape. The cards are 3"w x 6" long and are illustrated with black and white line drawings.
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Boyd, A.W.
Country Parish, A: Great Budworth in the County of Chester
Book shows light wear to covers, foxing to page ends only. Binding is solid and square, covers have two lightly bumped corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for inscription from previous owner on front endpaper. Chapters include: Description of the parish, and a note on its weather; Man's influence on the flora and fauna; History; Local government and social conditions in the 18th century, Architecture, Farming, past and present, Salt, The village joiner eighty years ago, Speech, Folk-lore, Customs, Place and field names, Sport and pastimes, Mammals, Water-birds, Birds of field, woodland and garden, Butterflies and moths, Flora, List of birds, etc. 34 color photos, 48 b&w. 278 pages.
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Betjeman, John, Christopher Sykes, Angus Maude, Jenifer Wayne, Gordon Rattray Taylor, John Herbert, Lionel Hale, Elizabeth Bowen et al.
Flower of Cities: a Book of London; Studies and Sketches By Twenty-two Authors
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners except for one bump, exterior shows fading to edges of baby blue covers with gilt print but no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows edge wear, now wrapped in clear protective cover. Color map endpapers, about 30 plates in color and b&w. Contents include: the Law in London, Fleet Street, Mayfair, South Kensington, Bloomsbury, Soho, Chelsea, East End, Galleries, the B.B.C., English Ballet, etc.
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Byrne, Andrew
London's Georgian houses
Book has a pretty good bump to lower front corner, but it does not unduly affect the pages or cover. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 208 pages heavily illustrated with b&w photos throughout, line drawings, architectural detail, elevations, floorplans, etc. Sections include: Berkieley square, Artillery lane, St. James's square, Bedford square, Guilford St. Kennington Rd. Wapping pier head, Grove lane, Georgian roofs, floors, doors, etc. architectural detail, elevations, floorplans, etc. 11 1/2 inches, 208 pages, 217 photos and illus.,bibliography, index,
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Young, Elizabeth, Wayland Young
London's Churches
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. 214 pages with map, b&w photos throughout of exteriors, interiors, a garden or two. Contents include St. George's, St. Giles, St James, St. John's St. Annes, Holy Trinity, Brompton, All Saints, St. Dunstans, and more than 90 individual churches.
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Mansell, George, (ed.) J.M. Hirsh
Living Heritage of Westminster, the: European Architectural Heritage Year 1975
Book is in excellent condition with lightly bumped corners and spine, some minor shelf wear. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 108 pages with large b&w photos throughout of buildings in the 16th, 17th, 18th & 19th centuries, in residential, shopping, fine architecture, examples of the region with preservation, restoration and replica section at back. Large, detailed map at front.
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Scott, W.S.
Bygone Pleasures of London
Book is in excellent condition with very light edge wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind and is in impressively fine condition with tipped-in color plates and b&w prints, map endpapers showing the locations of the text. Dust jacket is price clipped and is extensively repaired at edges with scotch tape. Contents include The pleasure gardens, White conduit house, Marylebone gardens, Jenny's whim, Bagnigge wells, Islington spa, Sadler's wells, Highbury barn, Bermondsey spa, The English grotto, Finch's grotto gardens, Florida gardens, The Yorkshire stingo, etc.
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Ventura, Piero
Houses: Structures, Methods, and Ways of Living
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.
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Newton, Douglas
Catholic London
Book shows light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is tattered with numerous small tears. 348 pages with b&w illustrations throughout. Contents include: Cornhill churches, Manson House, London stone, Dick Whittington's parish, Waterside, Old St. Paul's, Newgate, Greyfriars, Cheapside, Bishopsgate, Holborn gallows, Southwark, etc.
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Uncle Albert
Uncle Albert's Manual of Practical Photography and Guide to the Reproductive Processes
Book shows light wear to covers. Binding is loose but still intact, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is tattered with large open tears. Decorated endpapers, heavily illustrated with b&w and color photos and illustrations throughout. This is a book of humor using the format of a photographic guide as a means to make visual and verbal jokes around the subject. 100 pages in large format, contents include Rude postcards, Miscellaneous trickery, Exposure, Indoor photography, etc. No pub. date, looks like 50's English.
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Fillmer, H. Thomson; Ann Lefcourt; Nell C. Thompson; Geore E. Coon; Barbara B. Cramer
Patterns of Language Level E
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 8 3/8"w x 9 1/2"h. 320 pages. Elementary school English textbook with super seventies brightly-colored graphics.
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Lawrence, D.H.
Women in Love
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small format: 4 7/8"w x 7 1/4"h. Attractive Modern Library edition with red cloth cover. Small faded spots on cover. Ink mark on spine. Endpapers designed by Rockwell Kent.
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Dorment, Richard
Alfred Gilbert
Book shows 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. 350 pages with a great many b&w photos, many full-page. Contents include: Perseus arming, Icarus, Behind the rider sits dark care, Tomb of the Duke of Clarence, etc.
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Michael Pilkington
Gurney, Ireland, Quilter and Warlock: English Solo Song Guides to the Repertoire
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. Book is a guide to the four above composers of English solo songs that can be used by a singer in building a repertoire. Each song discription includes its tonality, range, meter, and duration as well as the difficulty of both the voice and the accompaniment, as well as much other information.
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Norton, Mary
The Borrowers Afield
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full green cloth boards show some faded spots/discoloration. Stated First Edition. 215 pages.
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Norton, Mary
The Borrowers Aloft
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full light red cloth boards with a bit of discoloration. Stated First American Edition. 215 pages.
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Greene, Graham
The Human Factor
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Wear and small tears to dust jacket. 244 pages. Book Club Edition.
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Dorment, Richard
Alfred Gilbert
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 350 pages. Many b&w photographs.
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Norton, Mary
The Borrowers
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full light blue boards with a bit of discoloration and small spots. 180 pages.
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William Hogarth: Nationalism, Mass Media and the Artist
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Wear to cover. Staple-bound. 58 pages. 12"w x 11 1/8"h. Exhibition catalogue for an event at the Vancouver Art Gallery, 29 November 1980 - 4 January 1981. Essay by Ilaria Bignamini.
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The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: Complete Text Reproduced Micrographically (2 Volumes in a Slipcase, with Magnifying Glass)
Two volume set in slipcase. Includes Bausch & Lomb magnifying glass. Full blue cloth boards; gilt lettering on spine. The books themselves are in Very Good condition, with sharp edges and bright white pages. Slipcase shows some wear, spots,, bumps and small tears. Broken and missing plastic pull tabs inside case that are there to help pull the books out of slipcase. This extremely heavy set will require extra postage for priority or international shipping. This is the compact edition of the original 20 volume bound set of the Oxford English Dictionary, published by the Oxford University Press. The O.E.D. is the world's ultimate authority on English vocabulary, diction, usage, and etymology and includes about three-quarters of a million words.
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Koues, Helen
How to Beautify Your Home
Book shows light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 224 pages, heavily illustrated with b&w line drawings and photos. Contents include Principles of decoration, Colonial Living rooms, English Living room , Spanish - Italian, Dining rooms, Modern bedrooms, Colorful, Comfortable nurseries, Draperies, New and smart slip ccovers, How to make, etc.
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Lear, Edward
There Was an Old Man...: A Gallery of Nonsense Rhymes
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 7 1/4"w x 7 1/4"h. Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Michele Lemieux.
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James, Henry; R.P. Blackmur (intro)
The Wings of the Dove
A clean, unmarked book. 512 pages. Age-toned paper. Dover art by Seymour Chwast. More than fifty years old, the glued binding is likely fragile.
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Foley, John Miles
Singer of Tales in Performance, The
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. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Contents include: Oral formulaic theory and the ethnography of speaking, Serbian tradition of magical charms, Homeric hymn to demter, Old English Andreas, Native American traditions, South Slavic traditions into texts, Anglo-Saxon texts, Register, Stategies for reading: traditional rules, metonymy, word-power, etc.
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Isaac, Peter (editor) & Barry McKay (editor)
The Moving Market: Continuity and Change in the Book Trade
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name or label inside. 202 pages. Black and white illustrations. From the Print Networks series which publishes papers given at the annual Seminars on the British Book Trade.
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Winsten, Stephen
Quintessence of G.B.S. ,The: The Wit and Wisdom of Bernard Shaw
Book shows light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 404 pages. Contents include: English customs, On being merry, A world-betterer, Theatre, Books, War, Foreigners, Imprisonment, Extermination, Growing old, etc.
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Staff
Table and Chair: a Study in Form and Style, The
Exhibition catalog is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 31 pages, no illustrations, descriptions of the exhibits only, including: kang table, large painting table, Chinese, stool, chinese, 17th century, lute table, Chinese, 18th century, sitting stick, African, woman's stool, African leopard stood, royal throne, African, Joined stool, English, 17th century, dumbwaiter, English, c.1760, game table, English, c. 1750, pembroke table, English 1800, worktable, American, c.1800, Hitchcok chairs, American c. 1840, etc.
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Purcell, William M.
Ars Poetriae: Rhetorical and Grammatical Invention at the Margin of Literacy (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)
Book is in excellent condition, as new. 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 as new also, now wrapped in a clear protective cover. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book.
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Cowley, Malcolm
And I Worked at the Writer's Trade
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, with red cloth spine/white print; 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. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book.
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Cowley, Malcolm
Flower and the Leaf, The: a Contemporary Record of American Writing Since 1941
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, with black cloth spine/white print; 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 / edge wear only, no tears. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book.
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Greene, Graham
The Last Word, and Other Stories
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owners name or label inside. Slight edge wear. 150 pages.
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An Operator,
Selections from The Fancy; or, True Sportsman's Guide
Book is in excellent condition, with small mark at spine, also upper leather portion of front cover. 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. Book is protected in clear plastic jacket . #1613 of 1950 copies printed for the Imprint Society, signed by the illustrator. Selections from a 2-vol. work originally published in 1826; authorship attributed to Jonathan Badcock or to Pierce Egan. Foreword by George Plimpton. Signed by Randy Jones (the illustrator) on the page following p. 136. Hardcover, 7 x 10.25 inches, in half-bound in brown leather over light brown paper-covered board with dark brown decorative stripe pattern. Speckled page ends. An etching by the illustrator is laid in. Black and white illustrations. 136 pages. Contents include: Cursory remarks on the origin, rise and progress of pugilism in england, Memoirs of the life of Thomas Cribb with additional anecdotes of female pugilism, Life of Thomas Hickman (An altercation between two ladies, the brutality of the American mode of fighting, Memoirs of Tom shelton (cruel amusements of the Westminster Pit, bull baiting,) Memoirs of Jack Slack (badger baiting, animal combat,) Memoirs of Joshua Hudson, etc.
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Mosconi, Willie
Willie Mosconi on Pocket Billiards
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Ok, let's just ignore the fact the author is named Willie and the title is Pocket Billiards. Contents include: Selection of cue, Proper grip, Stroke and follow-through, Kiss shots, Use of English, Speed of stroke, The satisfaction of developing a skill, etc. With vivid instructions. Author holds many pocket billards records.
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Agnon, S.Y.
Two Tales By S.Y. Agnon: Betrothed & Edo and Enam
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards. Edge wear and fading to dust jacket. 240 pages.
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Walker, John
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Bound in brown leather. 9"w x 12 1/4"h. 128 pages. Ribbon bookmark and gilt edges. 46 pages of text with b & w illustrations, followed by full-page color plates faced on opposite page with description of each painting.
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Bartlett, Vernon
Past of Pastimes, The
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 160 pages, contents include: Delight of dice, Lawn and table tennis, Pall mall to the cricket pitch, Gof, Gouffe, Gowff or Goff, Cock fighting to football, Card games and origins, Mainly bowls and billiards, Games in English pubs, Antiquity of board games etc.
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Summerson, John
Sir Christopher Wren
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. Faded spine. 160 pages. Contents: The Boy Philosopher. The Professor of Astronomy. The Surveyor of Works. The Architects of St. Paul's. Wren and English Architecture. Chronological Table. Sources and Acknowledgements. Second impression.
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Thometz, Kurt (editor)
Life Turns Man Up and Down: High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 356 pages.
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Watkin, David
Rise of Architectural History, The
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. 204 pages, Contents include: English Antiquarians, Gothic Revival, Blomfield, Edwardians, Colvin, Classicism, the country house, etc.
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Lear, Edward
The Nonsense Poems of Edward Lear
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Very slight edge wear to dust jacket. 7 3/4"w x 10 1/4"h. 128 pages. Illustrated by Leslie Brooke.
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Lawrence, D.H.
Women in Love
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small format: 4 7/8"w x 7 1/4"h. Attractive Modern Library edition with maroon cloth cover. Endpapers designed by Rockwell Kent. Dust jacket shows original $1.95 price. Edge wear and small tears on sightly scuffed dust jacket. Modern Library #68.
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Cuito, Aurora
Tadao Ando
Book is in excellent condition, Fine, as new. 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 also. 79 pages with a great many color photos, architectural drawings, floorplans elevations etc. for projects such as: Forest of Tombs museum, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum & Annex, Gallery for Japanese Screens, Chikatsu-Asuka historical Museum, Suntory Museum, Museum of Wood, Nariwa Museum, Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Sayamaike historical Museum, Pulitzer Foundatio for the Arts, etc. Text is in English, German, French and Spanish.
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Rothenstein, John; Martin Butlin; Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner
Book is in excellent condition with one bumped corner as the only flaw. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners otherwise, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket suffers edge wear with multiple small tears, one large open tear top back cover. Green cloth HB covers, 214 illustrations, 128 B&W large, full page reproductions; 24 tipped-in color plates. Feartures Turner's oils and watercolors with much attnetion is given toTurner's later canvases. 9?" w x 12" h. Rothenstein is a director of the Tate Gallery, which posesses the largest collection of the painter's works. Biographical notes, annotated bibliography and multiple indexes.
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Oresko, Robert (ed.); James Adam; Robert Adam
The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam
Book is in excellent condition with gilt-stamped pale green paper over boards, no flaws. 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 light scuffing, edge and corner wear, 1" tear at lower back. 184 pages, with heavy paper, extensively illustrated in black and white with photographs, architectural drawings, interiors, elevations, floorplans, lots of detail: scrollwork, lamps, columns, floors designs, etc. Reprinted from 1778 & '79, features English country houses in the style of conquecento, and French rococo, Neo-classicism. 154 illustrations.
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Keats, John; Harold Edgar Briggs (editor)
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Keats
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full green cloth boards. Previous owner's name stamp inside. 516 pages.
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Wodehouse, P.G.
Summer Lightning
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 256 pages. Yellowing paper. Clarence, 9th Earl of Emsworth, is preoccupied with his prizewinning pig, the Empress of Blandings, and the upcoming Agricultural show, while the news that his brother, Galahad Threepwood is writing his memoirs, has many aging aristrocrats worried.
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Fowler, David, C.
Bible in Early English Literature, The
Book is in excellent condition with very light wear to cover's edges. Covers in deep green cloth HB covers with gilt print at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners,, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows corner wear with chipping and some small tears, edge wear, now wrapped in clear protective cover. Contents include: Medieval exegesis: gregory's morals, Old English translations and paraphrases, Middle English translations: the Wyclif bible, The metrical bible: Curson Mundi, The Polychronicon, etc.
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Muthesius, Stefan
The English Terraced House
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 278 pages. Many photos and illustrations.
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Herrick, Robert
Songs and Lyrics
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. In Very Good slipcase with light wear and fading. 110 pages.
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