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THE BOOK OF DECORATIVE FURNITURE ITS FORM, COLOUR, & HISTORY (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Edwin Foley.
Illustrated by Edwin Foley; et al..
Stock no. 2126391
Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd..
Almost very good condition.
Large format. Brown cloth with gilt titles to spines; blind titles and decorations to front covers. With One Hundred Reproductions in Full-Colour Facsimile of Drawings by the Author, and One Thousand Text Illustrations; Correlated Charts of British Woodwork Styles and Contemporaries; Decorative Furnishing Accessories; Principle Trees; &c. Bumping and wear to spines, corners and cover edges. Tear to top of spine on Volume II. Other smaller nicks and chips, with some fraying to cloth. What looks like damp marks to bottom of front cover of Volume II. Spotting to covers. All plates present. Foxing, mostly to endpapers and outer page edges.
- Categorised in:
- ART
- FURNITURE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- WOODWORK
MONARCHS OF MERRIE ENGLAND VOL II (EDWARD I TO RICHARD III)
Written by Roland Carse.
Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 2126369
Published by Alf Cooke Ltd..
Almost very good condition.
Large format. Green cardwraps. 2 colour plates, b/w text illustrations. Chipping and wear to spine and cover edges. Some uneven fading and browning. Creasing. Some foxing.
- Categorised in:
- POETRY
- HUMOUR
- ILLUSTRATED
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
MONARCHS OF MERRIE ENGLAND VOL IV (JAMES 1 TO GEORGE V)
Written by Roland Carse.
Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 2126367
Published by Alf Cooke Ltd..
Almost very good condition.
Humourous Rhymes of Historical Times. Two superb colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. Pictorial card wraps. Staples to spine have rusted. Some chipping and wear to spine and cover edges. Foxing and browning to cover and some internal pages. Rear cover has vertical crease.
- Categorised in:
- POETRY
- HUMOUR
- ILLUSTRATED
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
AS MAD AS A HATTER!
Written by David E. Evans.
Stock no. 1816357
Published by Alan Sutton.
1st
1982.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A History of Nonconformism in Dursley. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0904387909. Name in ink to front endpaper and a grubby mark. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased and lightly scuffed.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SOUTH WEST UK
- GLOUCESTERSHIRE
- CHRISTIANITY
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
HELPING OUT: CHILDREN'S LABOR IN ETHNIC BUSINESSES
Written by Miri Song.
Stock no. 1816343
Published by Temple University Press.
1st
1999.
Very good condition.
What jobs do children perform in ethnic businesses and on behalf of their parents? How do they understand and experience their labor? This book addresses the centrality of children's labor participation in various family-based ethnic enterprises, especially the case of Chinese families running take-out food businesses in Britain. Cardwraps. ISBN: 156639709X. Covers a little creased, text block a little grubby. A few pencil highlights.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- BUSINESS
- SOCIOLOGY
LEATHER AND OAK BARK AT CHEPSTOW
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 2126228
Published by The Chepstow Society.
1980.
Slightly better than very good condition.
200 copies of this edition printed. Card wrap booklet. 33 pages. B/w illustrations. Revised edition. ISBN: 0906134102. Staples to spine are starting to rust slightly. Some foxing to rear cover. Contents are fine!
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- WYE VALLEY
- MONMOUTHSHIRE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- LIMITED EDITION
DUNGEON, FIRE AND SWORD
Written by John J. Robinson.
Stock no. 2126203
Published by Michael O'Mara books Limited.
1st thus
1994.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
The Knights Templar in the Crusades. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 1854799568. Some marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
- CRUSADES
THE CIVIL WARS A MILITARY HISTORY OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND 1638-1660
Written by John Kenyon; Jane Ohlmeyer.
Stock no. 2126201
Published by Oxford University Press.
1st
1998.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 019866222X. A few marks to cover edges. Wrapper is edge-creased.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- CIVIL WAR
- CIVIL WAR (ENGLISH)
CUSTER'S LUCK
Written by Edgar I. Stewart.
Stock no. 2126197
Published by University of Oklahoma Press.
1957.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Olive green cloth with maroon/gilt title box to spine. Bumping along cover edges. Foxing and marks to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with tears and chips; some small amounts of loss; faded to spine.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- HISTORY (AMERICAN)
- CIVIL WAR (AMERICAN)
- NATIVE AMERICAN
THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS
Written by Fred Druce.
Stock no. 2126187
Published by A. Druce.
1st
1984.
Very good condition.
Country Life around Ross-on-Wye 1870-1940. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0950922404. Spine is creased. Couple of corners are creased.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WEST MIDLANDS
- HEREFORDSHIRE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
SIDELIGHTS ON THE THIRTY YEARS WARM (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Hubert G.R. Reade.
Stock no. 2126071
Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd..
1924.
Good condition.
Very dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. Marks to covers. Bumping to corners. Possible ex-lib. with some bookplates etc. partially removed from endpapers. Chipping to tops and tails of spines. Some underlining and annotation. A reading copy.
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER
Written by Fred Dustin.
Stock no. 2125985
Published by Westerners Publications Ltd..
1st
2000.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Large format. Card wraps. Custer's Trial: The Aftermath The Review by Judge Advocate General Holt and Final Action by General Grant. Limited to 100 copies. Volume 1 in the British Custeriana Series. This is Copy No. 064.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (AMERICAN)
- CIVIL WAR
- CIVIL WAR (AMERICAN)
- LIMITED EDITION