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THE TOWER OF LONDON
Written by Arthur Poyser.
Illustrated by John Fulleylove.
Stock no. 2137123
Published by A. & C. Black.
Circa
1908.
Almost very good condition.
A & C Black Colour Book 7s 6d Series. Red cloth, gilt titles and vignette to spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. 20 tissue-guarded colour plates. Folding plan of the Tower. Booklist to rear (shiny). Possible variant first/early edition, as booklist to rear lists books published 1908. Spine is browned with couple of splits to top. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some page margins. A few grubby margin marks. All plates present.
THE HOMES OF TENNYSON
Written by Arthur Paterson.
Illustrated by Helen Allingham.
Stock no. 2137119
Published by Adam & Charles Black.
Circa
1906.
Good condition.
Green cloth with gilt titles and gilt, pink and green decorations. Top edge gilt. 20 tissue-guarded colour plates. 7/6 series. Black's Beautiful Books booklist to rear (4 sides). Some books to booklist were published 1906. Spine is faded. Some marks to covers. Bumping. Fraying to cloth at base of spine. Name in ink to front endpaper. Front joint is a bit cracked. Page browning and heavy foxing. Newspaper clipping stuck opposite page 53. Tissue guard is torn to plate page opposite page 56.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- A AND C BLACK COLOUR BOOK
- A AND C BLACK 7s 6d SERIES
THE DROVERS' ROADS OF WALES II PEMBROKESHIRE AND THE SOUTH
Written by Shirley Toulson.
Stock no. 2137101
Published by Whittet Books.
1st
1992.
Very good condition.
Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos by Caroline Forbes. ISBN: 0905483987. Some light cover corner creasing.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- PEMBROKESHIRE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- ROADS
WINCHESTER
Written by Telford Varley.
Illustrated by Wilfrid Ball.
Stock no. 2137056
Published by Adam & Charles Black.
1st
1910.
Good condition.
24 tissue-guarded colour plates. 2000 copies printed. Top edge gilt. Blue cloth, gilt titles and coat of arms to front cover. A & C Black Colour Book 7s 6d Series. Covers are heavily marked and faded. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some pages internally. Some plate pages are starting to become detached. A reading copy.
POMPEII
Written by W.M. Mackenzie.
Illustrated by Alberto Pisa.
Stock no. 2137054
Published by A. & C. Black.
Circa
1913.
Almost very good condition.
Blue cloth with gilt title to spine and dark yellow title to front cover. 20 colour plates with tissue guards plus a few b/w plates. 179 pages plus fold-out map and publication list to rear. A & C Black 7/6 Series. Reprint. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Browning to spine. Marks to covers. Top corner tips are creased (where book bumped). Hinge cracked at page 129. Sketch plan a bit foxed. Light foxing in other places.
MEDIEVAL SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Written by David Hey.
Stock no. 2136879
Published by Landmark Publishing.
1ST
2003.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Landmark Collector's Library Series. Larger format. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1843060809. Light edge-creasing to wrapper.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- NORTH EAST UK
- YORKSHIRE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
BRITISH BATTLES AND MEDALS
Written by L.L. Gordon; Edward C. Joslin.
Stock no. 2136874
Published by Spink & Son Ltd..
5th
1979.
Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
5th edition, revised by Joslin. Foreword by Spink. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Bumping to spine; some fading along cover edges. Small splits/nicks to top and tail of spine. Name to front endpaper. Foxing and marks to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is browned with some edge-tears and chips; a few nicks of loss.
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- MEDALS AND BADGES
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
SKYSCRAPER: THE SEARCH FOR AN AMERICAN STYLE 1891-1941
Written by Roger Shepherd.
Stock no. 2136791
Published by McGraw-Hill.
1st USA
2003.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. Annotated extracts from the first 50 years of 'Architectural Record'. ISBN: 0071369708.
- Categorised in:
- ARCHITECTURE
- BUILDINGS
- AMERICA
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
CATHAYS, MAINDY, GABALFA AND MYNACHDY: THE SECOND SELECTION
Written by Brian Lee.
Stock no. 2136757
Published by Tempus.
1ST
2000.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Images of Wales series. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0752418890.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- HISTORY
- GLAMORGAN
- CARDIFF
- IMAGES OF WALES
THE WHITE PASS AND YUKON ROUTE RAILWAY
Written by Graham Wilson.
Stock no. 2136726
Published by Wolf Creek Books Inc.
3rd
2001.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Card wraps. 3rd edition. B/w photos. Ride the "Railway Built of Gold" and step back in time to the days of the Klondike Gold Rush. ISBN: 0968195520.
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- RAILWAYS
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- HISTORY (AMERICAN)
- CANADA
FLINT MINES IN NEOLITHIC BRITAIN
Written by Miles Russell.
Stock no. 1823516
Published by Tempus.
1st
2000.
Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Bringing the Neolithic flint mines of Britain centre stage, the author addresses a number of important questions: What were the mine sites? What did they mean to the people who created them? How did they relate to other monuments being built at the same time? Where were they originally dug? What form did they take? And many more... Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos & illustrations, a few colour photos. ISBN: 075241481X. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- NEOLITHIC
- MINING
- ARCHAEOLOGY
LONDON SURVEY'D: THE WORK OF THE SURVEY OF LONDON 1894-1994
Written by Hermione Hobhouse.
Stock no. 1823499
Published by Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England.
1st
1994.
Slightly better than very good condition.
The survey of London traces its origins to the campaigning zeal of the 1890s when C R Ashbee and a group of like-minded conservationists set up the Watch Committee to campaign against the demolition of historic buildings. Out of this grew 'the great enterprise' of creating an inventory of all London's historic buildings as an aid to their protection and is still ongoing. Red pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 1873592191. Base of spine bumped. Contents clean.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- LONDON
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- BUILDINGS
- ARCHITECTURE