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Wuckel, Dieter; Cassiday, Bruce
The Illustrated History of Science Fiction
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. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with repair to upper front corner and rubbing to upper edge. 251pp. Very detailed story of the history and development of the literary genre of science fiction, from the time of the Greeks to Spielberg's E.T. Well illustrated with the authors, magazine covers, posters and some film stills. 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
Yuri Gagarin : First Pilot Cosmonaut
This is a folded illustrated leaflet produced by official Soviet Union media. No marks or inscriptions. A little very faint creasing to upper/lower edges . A very clean bright unmarked leaflet and no bumping to corners. pp. An 11 x 8 inch leaflet opens up to 11 x 41 inches double sided. It is a celebration propaganda leaflet clearly from Soviet Union media (published unidentified). Describes the Soviet success in acheiving space flight with Sputnik and with particluar reference to the first manned space flight which was carried out by Yuri Gagarin. To quote 'It is not by chance that the Soviet Union - the first country of socialism - was first in the world to launch artificial satellites and the first to accomplish a manned flight in outer space.' A fascinating document for anyone interested in early space flight. Very scarce. 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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Bridge, Maureen; Pegg, John
Call to Arms: A History of Military Communications from the Crimea War to the Present Day
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with creasing to lower corners. 208pp. From the flare of torches and sunlight on shields through Morse Code and Enigma to today's computers, this is the story of military communications across the ages.
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Acheson, R. M.
An Introduction to the Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds
Name inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked maroon cloth boards, indistinct lettering to spine and no bumping to corners. 342pp. A concise account of the more important properties and chemical reactions of the basic heterocyclic systems of organic chemisrty.
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Schonfeld, Roger C.
Jstor: A History
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. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 412pp. The story of the development of one of the first, and most successful digital resources for storing the content of academic data, hardcopy books and journals.
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Hadfield, Charles
Introducing Inland Waterways
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked blue cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with slight rubbing to upper edge and nick to upper rear corner. 106pp. The author describes the appeal of canals, what they offer over their 2,000 miles of cruising, from Bristol to Burnley, London to Ripon and King's Lynn to Llangollen.
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The Editor
Baxendale's Pocket Catalogue : List No 5212
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. Soft flexible spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, rounded corners and no bumping to corners. 387pp. Catalogue of plumbing and sanitary trades goods from Baxendales of Manchester including pictures of all items and prices. Attached fold-out colour paint chart in excellent condition. Undated but ca 1935. Very scarce especially in this condition.
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Yale, W. D.
Stockport and District Water Board : Annual Report of the Engineer and Manager 1963
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. Very clean very tight pages with slightly dusty foxed boards withsmall stain to rear. Very large fold-out map of the supply area and resouces in wallet at rear in excellent condition. 23pp. Details of water resources supplying Stockport, treatment and connections to the Borough for 1962/63. Very scarce.
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The Editor
House of Commons First Report from the Select Committee on Energy, Session 1980-81 : The Government's Statement on the New Nuclear Power Programme : Volume I Report and Minutes of Proceedings : HC 114-I
Name to corner of front cover and ink note to one page. No other 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. 124pp. British Government statement on Nuclear Power.
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Park, J.
A Practical Introduction to Yarn Dyeing
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 120pp. A monograph from a leading expert in the field on how the process of yarn dyeing is carried out, illustrated, with much scientific information on the subject.
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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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Egli, Paul H.
Thermoelectricity
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, front end paper missing, foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small tape repairs to spine ends and upper front corner and with rubbing to edges. 407pp. A comprehensive study from a wide range of expert authors including the basics of thermoelectricity, materials subjected to high temperatures and the proceedings of the Conference on Thermoelectricity sponsored by the Naval Research Laboratory in 1958.
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Campbell, I. E. & Sherwood, E. M. (editors)
High-Temperature Materials and Technology
Stamp of B.A.E.L. R&D Dept and tape marks inside front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. Very clean very tight pages with bright unmarked boards, very dusty top of page edges, slight rubbing to spine ends and minor bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped with dusty rear, tape marks and tape reinforcing to corners and spine ends. 1022pp. Covers the major investigative techniques used in high temperature work, a background of high temperature material, methods and measurements and a general survey of information useful in this field. Scarce in the UK.
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Barron, S. L.
Cardiographic Technique
Name/address and small mark to front end papers. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean tight pages with slightly marked black cloth boards with dusty page edges, rubbed spine ends and corners. 156pp. A manual for cardiological technicians. Illustrated.
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Larcombe, Peter (editor)
Journal of Coated Fabrics : Volume 15 October 1985
Name to front cover. No other marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright covers, scuff to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 67-144pp. Articles on polyurethane and polypropylene, breathable fabrics, industrial uses, polymers for the nonwovens industry.
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The Editor
Index to Textile Anciliaries
Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Creasing and tear to upper edge of rear cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 253pp. Alphabetic list of 1000s of materials used in textile processing with definitions of and uses of each one. Very scarce.
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Alan Ingham (editor)
Sea Surveying (Two volumes)
Volumes 1 & 2. Name to front end paper of Vol 2. No other marks or inscriptions. Two very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards, foxing to top of page edges of Vol 2 and no bumping to corners. Dust jackets not price clipped or marked. Both jackets a little sunned with very slight rubbing to edges. Small tears to lower front and rear edges of Vol 1 and slightly larger tear to upper front edge of Vol 1. Total of 539pp. Volume 1 describes the environment of the sea, positions and sea surveying operations. Volume 2 contains the illustrations referred to in the first volume.
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Harrison, J. A. C.
The Story of the Atom
Ex library book with usual marks and stamps. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, missing front end paper and extremely minor bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with rubbing to edges and corners. 114pp. A very positive book on the atom and radioactivity explaining how atomic power will be so good for us and ending with the holy grail of fusion. 'Reality' as it was envisaged in 1959 when the book was written. Very well illustrated with over 100 images including a wealth of black & white photographs.
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Dickson, Gordon R. (editor)
Nebula Award Stories Twelve (12)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, sunning to upper margins of both boards, very slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked with nicks, small tears and light creasing to upper edge. 242pp. Science fiction short stories from Isaac Asimov, Charles L Grant, John Varley and others. Very scarce in the UK.
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The Editor
The Development of Small Tool & Tooling Equipment Manufacture
All pages very dusty. The booklet has been stored folded. Rusty staples only just holding. 12pp. The works and method of the B.S.A. Tools Ltd Sparkbrook. Fascinating piece of engineering history. Reprinted from 'Machinery' June 10th 1920..
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Professor R. E. Peierls and John Enogat
Science News 2 : Atomic Energy Number
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to slightly sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly dusty unmarked boards and bump to upper corner of most of book. 168pp. The whole of this issue was devoted to the spectacularly new chemistry and physics of atomic science.
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Barbara Ward; Rene Dubos
Only One Earth: The Care And Maintenance of a Small Planet (Pelican books)
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Faint crease to front cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, name to front and no bumping to corners. 304pp. One of the important early books of the environmental movement, itself focusing on the UN Conference on the Human Environment in 1972.
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Ian Breach
Windscale Fallout: A Primer For the Age of Nuclear Controversy (A Penguin special)
No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 192pp. The author assesses the Government's decision following the Windscale Inquiry, traces the birth of opposition to official nuclear power and suggests what the future holds for the protagonists.
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Anthony Tucker
The Toxic Metals
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to front cover and to spine. A clean very tight copy with very faintly marked boards, well tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 237pp. The author discusses the short and long-term effects of some of the least understood materials released into the environment in waste streams or as a result of accidents - the toxic heavy metals, mercury, lead, cadmium, selenium, chromium and others In the case of lead the releases even came from all car exhausts back in the 1970s and beyond.
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Sarton, George
Six Wings : Men of Science in the Renaissance
Tape marks inside boards and to spine. (NB not a library book) No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to some page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with nicks to edges and light creasing and rubbing. 318pp. The founders of modern science come alive in this book - Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Paracelsus, Leonardo and many more.
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Norman Beale
Joseph Priestley in Calne
Book appears in unread fine condition. 90pp. A biographical account of the pioneer chemist Joseph Priestley who spent seven years of his life in the Wiltshire town of Calne. The book gives a full appreciation of an important 18th century figure in science, religion and politics who turns out to be as fickle and fallible as the rest of us.
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Hall, MPM, Barclay, LW and Hewitt, MT (editors)
Propagation of Radiowaves
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight rub to lower edge of front board and no bumping to corners. 446pp. Detailed studt of radiowaves in the light of the growing need for wider bandwidths in the field of mobile communications.
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Clarke, J. Erskine
Chatterbox Annual 1927
Presentation plate to reverse of frontispiece. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, soft spine. Very clean very tight pages with slightly scratched unmarked front board, lower corner of front laminate missing, dusty page edges and some rubbing to corners. 316pp. Galleon on front cover. With articles on nature, engineering, history, poetry, stories etc. Running throughout is the story 'Dim Red Dawn' by Mrs Hobart Hampden. Undated but presentation plate for 1927.
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Sian Best
A Whim Set in Concrete: The Campaign to Stop the Cardiff Bay Barrage
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. 268pp. A record of what happens when unregulated development meets the opposition of 'ordinary people'.
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Williamson, Jack
Bright New Universe
Name stamp inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease to upper corner of front cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight;y tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 158pp. The truth about other worlds, other races, signals from space. Adam Cave cut himself off from family and society to discover it.
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Lee Anne Nicholson (Editor)
Star Trek: 30 Years : Official Collector's Edition
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rub to rear and minor indent to front and no bumping to corners. 168pp. with over 400 episode and film descriptions of all the Star Trek series. Very well illustrated.
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Colin A. Russell
Cross Currents : Interactions Between Science & Faith
An unread book with a trace of foxing to top of page edges. 272pp. A study which examines the strange and manifold ways in which science has developed over the last four centuries, and in particular, its interaction with the Christian faith.
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Paul J. Steinhardt; Neil Turok
Endless Universe: Beyond The Big Bang
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, very minor creasing to lower corner of about ten adjacent pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to edges and a couple of nicks to lower edge. 284pp.
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New Zealand Technical Correspondence Institute
Plumbing in New Zealand
A little marking to a small number of pages. No creasing to covers or to spine. Mainly clean very tight pages with slight rubbed boards, corners and spine ends. 281pp. An official manual of techniques and working practice for the plumbing trades in New Zealand.
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Joseph Boughey; Charles Hadfield
Charles Hadfield: Canal Man and More
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 with half-inch nick to upper rear edge and slight creasing/rubbing. 223pp. Biography of the canal historian, born in South Africa who helped to keep many of Britain's historic waterways open.
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Erni, Paul
The Basel Marriage : History of the Ciba-Geigy Merger
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to upper corner of rear cover, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight creasing to lower edge of last few pages and no bumping to corners. 416pp. The story of the chemical firms Ciba and Geigy and how they merged in the 1970s. Translated from the German by Stanley Hubbard.
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Birgit Krols
Accidental Inventions: That Changed Our Lives
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. 168pp. How the concept of serendipity has brought us a wealth of useful and entertaining discoveries entirely by accicent.
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William K. Pratt
Digital Image Processing
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon cloth boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked with sunned spine and with nicks and rubbing to edges. 750pp. This study gathers technological concepts from a variety of mathematical and conceptual sources and describes them as both a text and reference.
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Barnard, Henry
Military Schools and Courses of Instruction in the Science and Art of War : Part I - France and Prussia
Academy name inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. Very clean very tight lightly foxed lightly tanned pages. Embossed boards still attached to text block but with tape used for extra security. Spine strip missing and board edges very well rubbed. 399pp. An account of the Military and Naval Schools of France and Prussia with reference to the special training of officers and men for war, in particular use for the American Civil War which was ongoing at the time of publication. Very scarce.
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Frauke Behrendt and Trond Lossius (editors)
Sonic Interaction Design
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 51pp. Catalogue from the exhibition exhibiting the final outcome of the research project COST ICO601 Action on Sonic Interaction Design (SID) which project took place in Norway from 2007 to 2011. The exhibits showcase the use of SID within arts, music and design.
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Jim Lewis
London's Lea Valley: Britain's Best Kept Secret (Signed By Author)
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. 124pp. The Lea Valley is a small area with a big history. Here was the birthplace of the post-industrial - the technological- revoluion with its world significance as a centre of invention and innovation over the past two centuries. Well illustrated.
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Fred Hoyle
Home is Where the Wind Blows: Chapters from a Cosmologist's Life
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight bumping to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with single small nick to top of spine. 443pp. Fascinating autobiography of one of the most significant scientists and cosmologists of the 20th century full of humourous anecdotes. Sir Fred Hoyle was the scientist who coined the phrase 'Big Bang' for the start of the universe.
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James Daglish (editor)
Atom : July 1982 No 309
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 16 pages adverts + 143-165pp. The monthly information bulletin of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Features on The Case for Sizewell B, Engineering a Safe PWR, European Nuclear Conference plus reviews and parliamentary report.
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James Daglish (editor)
Atom : August 1982 No 310
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 11 pages adverts + 167-186pp. The monthly information bulletin of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Features on Living with Nuclear Energy, RWMAC Annual Report plus reviews and parliamentary report.
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James Daglish (editor)
Atom : September 1982 No 311
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 26 pages adverts + 187-208pp. The monthly information bulletin of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Features on Energy : Boon or Birthright, Radioactive Waste Management plus reviews and parliamentary report.
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David Green
Insulation and Energy Advice
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. Very clean very tight pages with bright slightly marked boards and no bumping to corners. 54pp. A booklet of proposals on how to encourage, set up and manage home insulation schemes and advice with a description of the situation in the mid-1970s. Extremely scarce.
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Bruce Sterling
Heavy Weather
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. 280pp. Science fiction novel set in 2031, in a decaying world.
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The Editor
The Story of the Hoover Dam
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. 144pp. The construction of the engineering wonder of the American Southwest in 1931-1935 - the 726 foot high Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. The material is taken from five booklets which Compressed Air Magazine published over the construction period to give its readers a progressive account of the work. Also includes details of the railroad system, the gravel-treating and concrete-mixing plants, the cofferdams, the aerial cableways, the penstocks and how the concrete was poured and cooled. Very well illustrated.
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Sue Davidson Lowe
Stieglitz: A Memoir / Biography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, very minor dustiness to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with light rubbing to upper and lower page edges and minor traces of storage. 456pp. A biography of the founding father of modern photography and gregarious entrepreneur, Alfred Stieglitz. Illustrated.
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Stevenson, Robert and Stevenson, D. Alan (editor)
English Lighthouse Tours : 1801, 1813, 1818
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Very dusty rubbed dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small tears to upper edge and one enclosed tear to rear. 70pp. Robert Stevenson, grandfather of R.L.S., was a serious builder of lighthouses. In this work, we hear from his diaries as he makes his way around the English coast studying them in the early 19th century.
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