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1873ref. 123759London: George C Leighton 1873. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. original half leather hardcover plates include Vienna International Exhibition Buildings Large Multi-Folding Loss of the Northfleet folding plus many many others binding rough sold as a collection of clean plates.We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Room B. George C Leighton hardcover
1911ref. 031220London: Blackie & Son 1911. Book. Illus. by Charles Robinson. Very Good. Hardcover. Presumed First Edition. 4to. No date but Copac gives 1911 and the gift inscription to the front end paper is dated Christmas 1913. Sixteen colour plates of which several are side by side making double plates; numerous b/w illustrations all by Charles Robinson. Title page printed in black and red. Original glazed pictorial boards with green cloth spine good with a little general wear and rubbing to edges and corners. Contents good original endpapers the front with two gift inscriptions internal hinges good and strong possibly repaired a little reading wear and a few nicks to edges. Overall a very good copy with charming illustrations by Charles Robinson. Blackie & Son Hardcover
1928ref. 169880Anglo-Continental & International Offices 1928. Paperback No Dust Wrapper. Good. Condition Notes: Heavily faded at the spine and onto the margins of the wrappers. Pages lightly age-tanned. A pleasant copy of an uncommon travel guide; Paperback; Measures 6½ x 4½ 0.3 kg; pp 198; Full title reads: The Traveller's Pocket Reference to the XXth Century Health and Pleasure Resorts of Europe: Containing Hints to Travellers Schematic Maps Condensed Information Regarding Continental Resorts Golf Bathing Mountaineering Tennis Winter Sports Etc. and Up-To-Date List of Continental Hotels Pensions Schools and Medical Establishments. The book is on the shelf ready to be appropriately packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John Bath by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #169880 Anglo-Continental & International Offices paperback
1923ref. 031323London: The Whitefriars Press 1923 Copy in blue cloth on boards with gilt armourial on cover and gilt title on spine. Spine lightly sunned. Spine work=n at head/foot. Spine split across at base and upper side has become detached from gatherings. Upper cover lightly tanned. Lower corner of folio edges have black ink stain. Previous owners inscription on FFE. A few light internal cracks. Tanning to half title page and rear end paper. Clean text. This is a heavy book and may require additional postage. The Whitefriars Press hardcover
1989ref. 200041Chicago: Database Project on Palestinian Rights 1989. Paperback No Dust Wrapper. Good. Condition Notes: Wrappers slightly curled from storage and just a touch grubby. Scattered highlighting occasional pen marginalia throughout the text but mostly to the latter part. A reference copy; Paperback; Measures 11 x 8½ 1.8 kg; pp 462; Includes: Tables; The book is on the shelf ready to be appropriately packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John Bath by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #200041 Chicago: Database Project on Palestinian Rights paperback
1816ref. C105101Paris: Chez Saintin 1816. Revised Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Revised Edition. The Art de Juger 96 pp is from 1816 a new enlarged / 'augmentee' edition. 16mo. 13 by 10 cms 78 pages plus 24 pages of illustrations mainly examples of handwriting and an attractive hand coloured pictorial frontispiece showing a curious man writing at a desk. This Lavater 96 pp is a 'Cinquieme edition' from 1816 with 30 plates 28 of which are coloured. Rebound in dark cloth lettered gilt at the spine slight handling wear o/w very good indeed with all plates very clean. Small bookplate / book label at prelims with arts and crafts style lettering reading 'From the Library of Janet Ashbee and C. R. Ashbee.' Pasted to rear pastedown is a small cutting from an auction catalogue 1920s with this and other Lavater books listed in one lot. Chez Saintin, hardcover
1820ref. C105191London: Published By Printed By Barnard And Farley; And Sold By Sherwood Neely And Jones 1820. First Edition. Hardback. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp vi 7- 320. 220 by 135mm. Half brown leather 5 raised bands lettered gilt at the spine marbled boards covers and corners gilt lined at edges. Handsome binding probably contemporary with the book. Slight rubbing very good indeed with clean text. The appendix about the population of Britain has numerical charts. A curious work it seems to mix facts and information about London with some fiction elements and occasional dialogue satire and discursive essays. The book is dedicated in print to the Earl of Stamford and Warrington for his patronage. Published By Printed By Barnard And Farley; And Sold By Sherwood, Neely, And Jones hardcover
1958ref. 3554907255041958. Hard Cover. Nairobi: East African Standard 1958. This is the twelfth edition from 1958 originally published as a first edition in 1929. Not issued with a dustwrapper. Publisher's original cobalt blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to the front and back boards and to the spine. The blue boards are bright clean and unfaded. The gold-stamped gilt lettering is crisp highly legible with no fading whatsoever. Pages have aged gracefully to a light cream/off-white. There is no "foxing". The hinges are starting to weaken but are still holding firm. "The Kenya Settlers Cookery Book and Household Guide" published by the East African Standard in Nairobi for the St. Andrews Church Womans Guild isnt just a recipe book it is a historical window into the domestic life of 1950s Kenya. A classic colonial-era Kenyan domestic manual covering cookery household management food preservation Swahili dishes and practical advice for life in East Africa. These editions were produced in relatively small runs and are increasingly difficult to source outside the region. NB: Highly collectible regional African cookbooks continue to rise in demand due to their historical and culinary significance. Excellent for collectors of African history colonial-era cookery or rare international recipe books. Further photographs available upon demand. hardcover
1841ref. 36907Whittaker & Co. 1841. 2nd edition. Good/No Jacket. Navy cloth gilt title Spines beginning to separate along outside hinges front hinge weak. A somewhat journalistic account with gruesome details of the aftermath of colliery accidents. Whittaker & Co. hardcover
1991ref. 33108Hellenic Industrial Development Bank Athens 1991. 1st edition. Fine/Fine. Hard covers dust jacket Scarcely used. Hellenic Industrial Development Bank, Athens hardcover
ref. 93299London. Duckworth and Co. 1916 2nd imp. 7.5 x 5.5 inches. In brown hard card covers with dark blue lettering to white cloth spine. Black lettering to front board with colour pictures pasted on. Publisher’s logo in black to back board. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened. Small marks to boards. Corners slightly bumped. Browning to endpapers. Old pencil inscription to front endpaper. A couple of small marks inside. Else a clean and tight copy. 123 pp. A collection of light hearted but slightly disparaging comments about Women in general. First edition second impression from 1916. London. Duckworth and Co. 1916 2nd imp. hardcover
1881ref. C104888Grant & Co. 1881. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. From Grant & Co's Xmas Number London: 1881 Presumed first edition. 104pp plus 4 tinted plates with advertisements on the backs. Each chapter is referred to as a 'shock.' Interesting grotesque decorative title-piece to first page. Contents very clean. Octavo 8.25"" x 5.25"" in recent brown buckram binding with gilt spine title. The title refers to a death machine which runs on electricity and seems to be a German invention which is deadly if you press the wrong switch so horror elements possibly even fantasy elements electric current are mentioned. One of the illustrations shows the small rectangular machine on a table by a window being worked by the character Mary in a smart bonnet "".Mary began to turn what he and she now knew to be the screw of death!"" Rare. Only one copy found at WorldCat OCLC the worldÕs largest library catalogue- at UCLA who reveal the author as Francillon. Very good indeed. Grant & Co., hardcover
1811ref. C3683Edinburgh: Printed By George Ramsay For John Murray And Archibald Constable 1811. First Edition. Hardback. Hardcover Hardcover. Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp vi 246 45pp addenda. John Taylor poet and miscellaneous writer wrote innumerable addresses prologues and epilogues for the stage and was familiar according to Jerdan with 'all the quidnuncs playgoers performers artists and literati in the moving ranks of everyday society.' According to his own account he made suggestions to Boswell who met him on the eve of publication of his 'Life of Johnson.' Wordsworth sent him his poems. Presentation from the author at head of very slightly cropped title page 'To John North Esquire with sincere respects from the author.' 5 corrections in the same hand to words in text. Full brown leather dec gilt at spine with spine labe missing and front board with weak hinge. Wear at hinges and spine ends but internally very clean and apart from loose front board near VG. Printed By George Ramsay For John Murray And Archibald Constable, hardcover
ref. 0723001243.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 0394444078.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1986ref. Q-0899301010Praeger 1986-03-26. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Praeger hardcover
1998ref. SKU-0613AO01105196Prospect Books 1998. 1. Softcover. Good. Good; Softcover; Very light wear to the covers but with sun-fading to the spine and spine edges; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and text pages are all clean and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format 8.5" - 9.75" tall; 0.6 lbs; Yellow covers with title in white lettering; 1998 Prospect Books; 129 pages; "The Vivendier" by Terence Scully et al. Prospect Books paperback
1830ref. 11099Bloomsbury: W.S. Fortey 1830. Printed in two columns with a hand-colored woodcut portrait of a 'lad' at the top on one column. Amusing poetry. Excellent condition. W.S. Fortey unknown
1830ref. 11099Bloomsbury: W.S. Fortey 1830. Printed in two columns with a hand-colored woodcut portrait of a 'lad' at the top on one column. Amusing poetry. Excellent condition. W.S. Fortey unknown books
2004ref. B2E0103826World Teachers Press 2004-01-01. Paperback. Like New. A very nice copy. Text in clean/unmarked condition. Owners name on flyleaf. Cover has minor wear. Binding is tight. World Teachers Press paperback
1847ref. C4I0033669yLewis Colby & Co. New York 1847-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. A nice copy. Owners name on flyleaf. Text in clean/unmarked condition. Pages discolored. 2 inches of the spine missing and the rest is peeling. Cover has minor wear with bumped/curling corners. Binding is tight. Lewis Colby & Co., New York hardcover
1984ref. 1658887846VICTORINOX 1984. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Binding has light chipping and scuffing. Binding is sound. Text and images are clean and unmarked. This could have light cosmetic flaws but remains in good condition. No dust jacket included with this book. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. VICTORINOX hardcover
1996ref. Q-1856279472Grange Books Ltd 1996-07-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Grange Books Ltd hardcover
1984ref. Q-0863072135Marshall Cavendish 1984. hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Marshall Cavendish hardcover
1931ref. mon0000017288Karl Robert Langewiesche 1931. Softcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Two previous owner address labels on front free page: Heinz W. Bruck and Alfred B. Bruck same address in Riga. B&W photos some by well known photographer Paul Wolff. Book itself is in very good condition. There is a cardboard scuffed DJ on the book that is in good condition with shelf wear nicks and tears. Karl Robert Langewiesche paperback