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1991No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. No dust jacket. 186pp. Includes functional furniture and toy projects among the 36 in the book. In general simple construction methods are used without the need for complex or expensive tools. However there are several which will challenge even the most advanced woodworker's skill.
198496p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
1941238 pages. Index. Extensively illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams. Charts and tables. A wartime text "especially written for carpenters and other woodworkers who desire to engage in boat or ship building, and as a textbook for schools." - subtitle. Amazingly, a prior owner has neatly handwritten over twenty pages of pertinent notes on and near front and back endpaper! Some additional markings to contents. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
20098vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations and diagrams throughout; original laminated boards, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE
1973251pp. 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1978Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). [xvi], 248 p., 22 folding schema. B/w ills.
2013ref. H-775-244Education Promotion Research Ass 2013. Paperback. Good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. Education Promotion Research Ass paperback
1951Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous plates, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, mild age-stain at head (not affecting text), a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with mild age-stain (just affecting boards) at head of backstrip.
1953Pages slightly browned. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean tight copy with dull lightly marked boards, sunned and rubbedspine and slight rubbing to corners. 240 + 140 + 20pp. January to December 1953, January to July 1954, August 1958.
1955Pages well browned. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean tight copy with dull lightly marked boards, sunned spine and slight bumping/rubbing to corners. 272pp.
2007No inscriptions or marks. Very minor creasing to covers, none to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 240pp. This book takes the reader through a complete project - from the initial planning stages to the final staining and varnishing. Each stage is explained and illustrated clearly, so during your progress through the stages you will learn all the techniques you need to design, create and enjoy future projects.
1937A clean, unmarked book with a tight bindin. Full brown cloth boards. 146 pages. Black and white photographs. "The reminiscences recorded in this book are nearly all those of our old carpentry business prior to my grandfather's death in the year 1893."
1989History of the Sanders family from 17thC Essex to 20thC Bethnal Green. Illustrated. 230 pages. Index. Illustrated. Dedication from author on half-title page.
Fourth edition, revised and corrected by the author, 4to, [20]pp., signatures: [A]-K4, each leaf of letterpress has its own signature and many of the rectos are blank, 83 engraved plates, text and plates age toned, title page creased, fore-edge a little frayed and repaired with archival paper, some light water staining and foxing throughout, recent half calf in a period style, marbled boards, five raised bands, spine decorated in blind and gilt, red morocco title label. Bound in at the back is a folio sheet: A Catalogue of Modern Books on Architecture, &c. Theoretical, practical, and ornamental; which, with the best Ancient Authors, are constantly on sale at I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library, no. 56, High Holborn, London. [London, s.n., 1788?]. folio, [2]pp., 57 items listed, inner margin repaired with archival paper with the loss of several words, ESTC no. T121354. Archer, 240.4; Harris, 643; ESTC returns a single copy located at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin for this fourth revised edition.
First edition, 4to (270 x 215 mm), 5, [11]pp., with the final advert leaf, [20]pp., 83 engraved plates (the contents of which are well represented in the title), some light foxing throughout, some minor worming to upper blank margin of first few leaves, recent calf calf, red morocco label to spine. Archer, 240.1; Harris, 640.
19483 vols., roy. 8vo., with many hundreds of illustrations and diagrams throughout; green cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, gilt backs, a near fine set.
1952No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very minor bumping to lower corners. Clear bright gilt lettering to spines and no browning or foxing to pages or to slightly dusty page edges. 323pp. Volume III only.
1952No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Clear bright gilt lettering to spines and no browning or foxing to pages or to slightly dusty page edges. 329pp. Volume I only.
1950No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked very slightly rubbed faux leather boards and no bumping to corners. 671pp. How to make so many things. Crafts, skills, with timber, electrics, decorating, a rabbit hutch, repairing a lawn mower and so much more. Undated ca 1950s.
1975A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 261 pages. B&w photos. Front endpaper torn out.
1880Folio, Best Edition, with 100 engraved plates and many hundreds of wood-engraved illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; attractively bound in black half calf, brown cloth sides, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment with red leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, red sprinkled edges, backstrip lightly scuffed at edges else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. Lovely copy of the best edition of this immensely detailed manual, first published in 1857. In this edition several of the plates have been improved by the introduction of new figures, and several new plates added. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
197595 p., illus. Paperback Very good condition
1979256pp. 29 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1997ref. 2091502135409609Not Available 1997. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Not Available paperback
1989ref. 2083002115708031Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum 1989. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 69p Size: 26cm Number of books: 1 Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum paperback