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Country Life Magazine 1964 Jun 25
Name to upper rear edge. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slight foxing to covers and no bumping to corners. 1632-1695pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Snowdonia by WA Poucher, grass in the orchard, abandoned railway lines, rowing at the Henley Schools, Royal Ascot, British forestry, Yotes Court - Kent, small boat cruising among the Mediterranean Islands, green-glaze earthenware, Edward Lear and Elizabeth Gould - an ornithological book collaboration, garden furniture design, golf fashion and a Victorian steamer in Central Africa'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. Tucked in are a series of Irish newspaper cuttings from June 1964 of a dog seen driving a car. 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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Country Life Magazine 1963 Jul 25
Name to upper rear edge. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slight foxing to covers and no bumping to corners. 191-245pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Civic Trust - for better towns, the nightjar, Laurence Whistler - landscapes on glass, safety in offshore cruising, Victorian masterpiece by Sir Luke Fildes - The Doctor, British Grand Prix at Silverstone winner Jim Clark, French Open Golf Championship at St Cloud, Wilton House Gardens - Wiltshire, experimental farms, new furniture design and 18th century furniture at the Vyne near Basingstoke'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. 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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Country Life Magazine 1964 Dec 31
Name to upper rear edge. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with foxing to covers and no bumping to corners. 1790-1833pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'small boat on the Kentish Stour, moles, world of dogs in 1964, graphic art and Hogarth, golden year of British athletics by Harold Abrahams, an injured siskin, Casewick - Lincolnshire, defying rotation in farming and fuel cells for cars'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. 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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Country Life Magazine 1960 Sep 1
No marks or inscriptions. A little creasing to rear spine margin. A very clean very tight copy with rusty staples, cover loose on one staple and no bumping to corners. 418-468pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'the hidden dangers in planning, nightjars, Edward Lhuyd (Lloyd) a pioneer British botanist, sermons in terracotta - George Tinworth, deep-water cruising, Drumlarig Castle - Dumfriesshire, partridge and pheasant shooting, the peacock butterfly, the welsh spoon-carver and West Amesbury House - Wiltshire, '. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. 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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Country Life Magazine 1960 Jun 30 : Royal Show and Agriculture Number
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slight foxing to covers and no bumping to corners. 1480-1541pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'trends in livestock breeding, the arts of the Sung Dynasty, fen farming, the art of Poussin, modern marketing for farm produce, the young Lord Burlington, hunters at Shrewsbury Show, the Manor House at Hale Lancashire, golf Open at Prestwick, raising productivity on a Suffolk farm, keeping the character of village life, tower follies of the south, modern farm machinery and the Jaguar XK 150S'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. 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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Country Life Magazine 1960 Jun 23
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with no bumping to corners. 1426-1477pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Malmesbury Wiltshire, when rabbits were a crop, transatlantic single-handed racing, Carlo Labruzzi - 18th century painter, Brabazon Golf Trophy, Ascot racing, Church Langton - Leicestershire, young wild ceatures, wall-plants, Dunmow Flitch and motorway speed'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. 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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Country Life Magazine 1960 Jul 7
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with no bumping to corners. 2-56pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'plant-hunting on Cader Idris, a buzzard on the common, St Mary's Church - Mundon Essex, better crops and fewer pests, a three-antlered buck, Royal Norfolk Show, Wimbledon 1960, Henley Regatta 1960, Dunsland House - Devon, Bisley - rifles since muzzle-loading days, Pittville Pump Room - Cheltenham, Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II, Canada Cup - golf, art that kindled Jacobite hopes, the new Provost's Lodgings at Queen's Oxford and Wimbledon fashion'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. 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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Country Life Magazine 1962 Nov 15
Name to upper rear edge. No other marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease to lower corner of front cover. A very clean very tight copy with minor bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. 1197-1259pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Dulwich village, by chariot and six to Drury Lane, animals in bronze, Exmoor's pioneer farmers, 12 North Audley Street London, a labour-saving greenhouse, the Fitzgeorge heirlooms - the last Hanoverians, the vanishing beauty of the Sussex coast, Gloucestershire's Olympic Games, the price of a London town house, birds of the Royal Parks and horse tramways of the Isle of Man'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. 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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Country Life Magazine 1962 Dec 13
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to lower corner of rear cover. A very clean very tight copy with minor bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. 1531-1580pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Loch Lomond Nature Reserve, a flying lemur, Amiens Cathedral, Royal Smithfield Show, Newmarket sales, Godington Park - Kent, public clocks - a history, rough shooting by Ian Niall, Mansby Cottage on Coates Common - Sussex, the Vauxhall Velux and London shopping'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. 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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Country Life Magazine 1960 Sep 29
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to lower corner of front cover. A very clean very tight copy with rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 660-711pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Knightshayes Court Garden - Devon by Lanning Roper, new British Chancery in Washington, eagle owls in Sweden, screens or vistas in cathedrals, up the River Dovey (Dyfi) in Wales, Hinwick House - Bedfordshire, more milk from grass-land, crafts of Orkney and Shetland and Allen's Wall - Lindfield Sussex'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. 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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Country Life Magazine 1960 May 5
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 970-1030pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'the Shah's Gardens in Tehran, the working spaniel, Royal Academy exhibits, flower warmth attracts bees, golfer of great promise - DN Sewell, Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, wild geese fly home, Tiepolo as a draughtsman, schools' rifle shooting competition, syndicates for farm prosperity and four centuries peal from Holy Trinity Church - Hatton Warwickshire'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. 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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Country Life Magazine 1960 Sep 22
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with foxing to covers, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 602-657pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'landscape of the new towns, a Swaledale tale, Georgian sedan chairs, new master golfer - J Hitchcock, country craftsmen furniture, Hinwick House - Bedfordshire, equipping a farm workshop, can an angler beat drag, threat to Teneriffe's wild life, Sir Francis Chantrey - Jordanthoorpe Farm at Norton and Robert Davies - a fine smith'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. 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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Country Life Magazine 1960 Sep 8
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with foxing to covers, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 472-533pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'driving in Skye by WA Poucher, Church of St Luke - Old Street London, Sussex sheep farming, late owner's dog's devotion, Whistler's art, Drumlarig Castle - Dumfriesshire, butterfly decline, high prices at Newmarket, results of the experimental 50 mph speed limit and Hester Bateman - 18th century woman silversmith'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. 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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Mark Tungate
Fashion Brands: Branding Style from Armani to Zara
Book and jacket in mint unread condition. 264pp. A wide-ranging study of fashion including marketing, objects of desire, logos, advertising, store design, psychology and the media, Full of first-hand interviews with key players, this work analyses every aspect of fashion from a marketing perspective.
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Renata Molho
Being Armani: A Biography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked glossy black boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 236pp. Biography of fashion icon Giorgio Armani from his beginning as a shy young Italian to his fashion design industry.
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Stephanie Pedersen
Shoes: What Every Woman Should Know
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. 128pp. The fascinating history of women's shoes from the earliest times to date. More pictures of shoes than words.
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MacThomais, Ruaraidh (editor)
Gairm : An Raitheachan Gaidhlig : Winter 1964 - No 49
Faint spotting to front cover No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, slight damp effect to lower corner of some pages and no bumping to corners. 96pp. Gaelic magazine from a series which have features on literature, history, fashion, nature, music, politics, transport and travel etc. Most of text in Scottish Gaelic.
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MacThomais, Ruaraidh (editor)
Gairm : Winter 1956 - No 18
Name and '18' on front cover. No other marks or inscriptions and very minor creasing to cover adjacent to spine. Clean tight pages with very slightly dusty boards and no bumping to corners. 96pp. Gaelic magazine from a series which have features on literature, history, fashion, nature, music, politics, transport and travel etc. Most of text in Scottish Gaelic.
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Alexander Schulman
Vogue (UK) July 2007 - Front cover Marie Helvin, Lily Cole, Erin O'Connor, Cecilia Chancellor, Yasmin Le Bon, Lizzy Jagger, Jacquetta Wheeler
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. pp. With feature inside on Charlotte Rampling, Jane Birkin and others.
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Anna Wintour
Vogue (American) October 2007 - Front cover Charlize Theron
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 440pp. With features inside on Charlize Theron, Eddie Redmayne, Sean Penn, Maggie McGuane, James Rosenquist and more. Scarce.
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The Editor
Country Life Magazine 1963 January 10
Faint pencil name to front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked slightly dusty covers, staples not rusty and no bumping to corners. 46-87pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'ringing wild swans in Iceland, successful season of schools rugby, pea-flowered trees and shrubs, antiquities in Yorkshire gardens, a profilist of Georgian Bath (Charles Rosenberg), old Will the fireman, Heath House - Tean - Staffordshire, new life for ancient woodlands - Forest of Dean and an English Carcassone - Chester'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
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Country Life Magazine 1964 March 5
Name to front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with very slightly marked front cover, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 487-549pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'London's lost gardens, when a book ruled Wales, style in Victorian furniture, a morning to remember - salmon fishing on the Spey, shrubs that herald the spring, the arts of Thailand, Glin Castle - Co Limerick, the need for local nature reserves, the beach and cereal varieties for spring sowing'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
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Country Life Magazine 1963 December 19
Name to rear cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slightly foxed unmarked front cover, slightly dusty rear, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 1670-1717pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Music rooms of the 18th century, gardening at 11,000 feet, railways of the Isle of Man, Christmas doles (charities) of the West Riding, famous theatres of London's past, one of England's oldest hunts (Hampshire), Russborough - Co Wicklow, and a change from Neo-Georgian (Witley Park)'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
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Country Life Magazine 1964 January 23
Name to both covers. Crossword done and creossword notes to two other advert pages. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked covers, slightly dusty rear, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 158-203pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Ruined castles of Skye, sporting terrier from Ireland, rugby football - England v Wales, A resurrection of Ruskin, Okeover Hall Staffordshire, sea eagles in Sweden and aliens in British woodlands'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
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Country Life Magazine 1964 May 21
Name to rear cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with very slightly marked front cover, slightly dusty rear, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 1242-1311pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'A Zuider Zee for Lancashire - Morecambe Bay, making a shepherd's crook, poet of English rural life - John Clare, when Drake became a landsman, May morning at the source of the Seine, Bellamont Forest - Co Cavan, pageant of the peony, wild days of border castle raids, porcelain from a short-lived factory - Longton Hall, a naturalist in Tunisia, new murals in an old Kent church - Challock and the rise and fall of the clay pipe'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
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Country Life Magazine 1964 October 1
Name to rear cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked covers, general traces of storage, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 818-892pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'British links with Harvard and Yale, A better year for butterflies, Fascination of the carrion-flower, Sargent on parade (painter), Fen Ditton Hall - Cambridgeshire, Arcadia of the new world - Charlottetown and Prince Edward Island, golden eagles of the Hebrides, A watery grave on Lundy's rocks'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
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The Editor
Country Life Magazine 1965 April 15
Name to rear cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked covers, slightly dusty rear cover, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 861-925pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Reclaiming land from The Wash, Can Bath sacrifice New Bond Street, True blues for the rock-garden, Elegance in ironwork - Leamington Spa, The Old Palace - Croydon, Relics of the whaling trade, Elegant wines from difficult sites, In search of cup and ring - Northumbria & Sweden, A squirrel that lived in the bath, Fresh winds on the common - Parliament and Snuff boxes made by watchmakers'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
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Country Life Magazine 1964 March 12
Name to rear cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked covers, slight damp effect to lower fore-edges, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 552-625pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'A mature garden in eight years - Crittenden House Kent, An organ that recalls a rivalry - Little Bardfield, 'Unting fills my thoughts - Surtees, Perennials that start the year, The mystic twig - divining, The delicacy of Ramsay's art - Allan Ramsay, Okeover Hall - Staffordshire, When Scottish gardeners came south, Fruit and vegetables in ceramic art, New ideas in grass-cutting machines, Where past and present co-exist - Israel and modern methods of rearing pheasants'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
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Country Life Magazine 1964 March 26
Name to rear cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked covers, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 695-755pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Making music in country houses, Shortcomings of the Deer Acts, Village of a parson poet - Morwenstow - Robert Hawker, plants with green flowers, Prospects for the Boat Race, Cornish hedges made of stone, Winchester College's building warden, Ten days in Normandy in 1860, Glass pyramids on the dessert table, Breckland's meres in varied moods and Georgian splendour in South India - Madras'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
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Country Life Magazine 1964 April 4
Name to front cover. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. Small crease to upper corner of front cover. Very clean very tight pages with lightly rubbed rear cover and with label removal mark and cup ring to front and staples not rusty. 701-759pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'A garden of fine trees - Stonelands Dawlish, The trials of moving by farm wagon, Two Scottish Milords in Rome, One of England's shortest rivers- the Yorkshire Bain, Forde Abbey - Dorset, Controlling vermin on a shoot, Monuments of the cast-iron age - Ironbridge - Pontcysylltau, New lease of life for Welshpool and Llanfair Railway and How birds deter their rivals'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
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Country Life Magazine 1963 May 2 : Royal Wedding Number
Name to rear cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slightly dusty unmarked covers, staples not rusty and no bumping to corners. 952-1023pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Spring climbs in Wester Ross, Fruit spraying after a hard winter, A Victorian family's inventive genius - Bentalls of Maldon Essex, Hidden treasure of medieval faces - Bourg in Burgundy, New light on old commons, Modern methods of storing grain, Encounter with a giant owl, A cave village by the Loir - Troo, A canal with a future - Brecon & Abergavenny, square bottles for sundry uses plus a 16 page supplement on the wedding of Princess Alexandra and Angus Ogilvy'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
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Country Life Magazine 1965 July 22
Name to rear cover. No other added marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with rubbing near lower corner of very slightly foxed front cover and no bumping to corners. 210-263pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Seabirds of the Shetlands, planting for bee-pasture, Wivenhoe New Park - Essex, A look at the South Africans, Irish town at its best - Birr Co Offaly, The diversity of Francis Wheatley, Hedges to screen seaside gardens, One man's fish - salmon or tarpon, A stepping stone from Europe to Asia - Skyros, Scrolls and arms on lead cisterns and Man beneath the skin - Giacometti'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts.
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MacThomais, Ruaraidh (editor)
Gairm : Winter 1954 - No 10
Number '1' on front cover and translation notes on one pages of Gaelic language course. Small crease to lower corners of covers. Clean tight pages with clean boards and slight tanning to page edges. 96pp. Gaelic magazine from a series which have features on literature, history, fashion, nature, music, politics, transport and travel etc. Most of text in Scottish Gaelic.
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MacThomais, Ruaraidh (editor)
Gairm : Winter 1955 - No 14
Number 14 on front cover and translation notes on one pages of Gaelic language course. No creasing to covers. Clean tight pages with well foxed front board and front end paper, slight tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 96pp. Gaelic magazine from a series which have features on literature, history, fashion, nature, music, politics, transport and travel etc. Most of text in Scottish Gaelic.
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Cox, Caroline
Lingerie: A Lexicon of Style
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with tiny enclosed tear near top of rear edge and slight creasing to upper front edge. 192pp. A very well illustrated alluring study of female lingerie - bras, corsets, knickers and stockings with most images being modern
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Jarvis, Anthea
Liverpool Fashion : Its Makers and Wearers : The Dressmaking Trade in Liverpool 1830 - 1940
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with bright covers and no bumping to corners. 48pp. Very well illustrated account of dressmaking in Liverpool from 1830 to 1940 as worn by the wealthy including a number of wedding dresses.
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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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Arch, Nigel; Marschner, Joanna
The Royal Wedding Dresses
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and with slight bumping to most corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight rubbing to upper corners and some creasing to lower front and upper rear edges. 144pp. Very well illustrated study of royal wedding dresses, with all the fashion details and the associated account of social change, fashion history and the influence of royalty.
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Boase, Tessa
Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather
Book and jacket in as new condition. 320pp. The intriguing story behind the purple feather that Mrs Pankhurst wore on her hat when she stormed the House of Commons with her crack squad of militant suffragettes in 1908 - and the clash between two radical women, both fighting for change.
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MacThomais, Ruaraidh (editor)
Gairm : An Raitheachan Gaidhlig : Winter 1969 - No 69
No added marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, faint mark to front cover. foxing to a few pages, faint watermark to fore-edge of first few pages and no bumping to corners. 96pp. Gaelic magazine from a series which have features on literature, history, fashion, nature, music, politics, transport and travel etc. Most of text in Scottish Gaelic.
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Harris, Jennifer ; Hyde, Sarah & Smith, Greg
1966 and All That - Design and the Consumer in Great Britain 1960 - 1969
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Catalogue of exhibits plus 160pp. From the Whitworth Art Gallery in 1986, this illustrated account describes the trendy new aspects of Britain in 1966 from the mini skirt and mini car to Centre Point, the cleaning of Manchester Town Hall and the Kenwood Chef.
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Danziger, James (editor)
Beaton
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, very minor foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked with a few small repaired tears to edges. 256pp. Biography of Sir Cecil Beaton, photographer of the stars who began at the age of eleven, through his days in Hollywood and his war experiences and fashion photography. This is the most extensive collection of Beaton's work.
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Cescinsky, Herbert & Gribble, Ernest R.
Early English Furniture & Woodwork : Two Volumes in One
Volumes 1 & 2 in one book. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges, clear gilt lettering to spine and no bumping to corners. 382 + 385pp. A lavish work covering the history of English furniture from the 15th century and woodwork from the fourteenth century up to the end of the 17th century. The woodwork covers such as stairways, doors and church decoration. and much more. The furniture includes domestic clocks. Very well illustrated. A heavy book.
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Edwards, Ralph
The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture : From the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian Period
Minor traces of foxing. No other 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. 684pp. A comprehensive well illustrated listing of furniture from England from the 13th century to the early 19th century. A heavy book.
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MacThomais, Ruaraidh (editor)
Gairm : An Raitheachan Gaidhlig : Spring 1972 - No 78
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight trace of sunning and no bumping to corners. 96pp. Gaelic magazine from a series which have features on literature, history, fashion, nature, music, politics, transport and travel etc. Most of text in Scottish Gaelic.
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Wilson, Elizabeth & Taylor, Lou
Through the Looking Glass : A History of Dress from 1860 to the Present Day
No marks or inscriptions. Two tiny creases to front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 240pp. The history of fashion, mainly women's, from Victorian 1860s to late in the 20th century. Very well illustrated.
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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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FIT TO BE TIED VINTAGE TIES OF FORTIES & EARLY FITIES
OTTIMO STATO
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S.KENNEDY
PUCCI A RENAISSANCE IN FASCHION
OTTIMO STATO
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VALENTINO 30 ANNI DI MAGIA
OTTIMO STATO
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