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HIGH BUILDINGS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
No author listed.
Stock no. 2120676
Published by Sanders, Phillips & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1954. Very good condition.

Large format. Maroon boards with gilt titles. An Investigation of the Principal Components of Structures and Services With Particular Reference to High Paddington. Many fold-out pages with diagrams. A few marks to covers. Slight scuffing to spine. Uneven fading to rear cover. A few marks to endpapers. A couple of fold-out pages have mis-folds to them.

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METRO MEMORIES
Written by Dennis F. Edwards; Ron Pigram.
Stock no. 2116316
Published by Bloomsbury Books. 1st thus 1988. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An armchair odyssey through the countryside served by the Metropolitan railway. Large format. B/w photos. ISBN: 1870630955. Wrapper is edge-creased.

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STEAMERS OF THE THAMES AND MEDWAY
Written by Frank Burtt.
Stock no. 2115494
Published by Richard Tilling. 1949. Very good condition.

Red cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Uneven fading to covers. A few marks. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Some page browning.

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THE NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON
Written by J. Ewing Ritchie.
Stock no. 1712933
Published by Tinsley Brothers. 1869. Very good condition.

Gilt title to spine, vignette and border to front cover. Covers scuffed. A little foxing.

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THE CROWN & ANCHOR A CHELSEA QUARTO
Written by Reginald Blunt.
Stock no. 1606227
Published by The Chelsea Publishing Company; The Cayme Press. 1st 1925. Good condition.

Large format. Blue card wraps, with decorative title onlay to front. B/w illustrations. Covers are grubby and edge chipped with some loss. Lower half of covers coming away from spine where glue has dried out. Scattered foxing. Some hinges pulled.

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LAST STOP
Written by Ralf Obergfell.
Stock no. 1711480
1st 2008. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

A photographic history of the final days of the Routemasters Buses. Colour photos. ISBN: 978185983610.

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WHEN LONDON BURNED
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by J. Finnemore.
Stock no. 1312972
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1895. Very good condition.

Blue and gilt pictorial cloth. Grey endpapers. 12 b/w plates. 388 pages plus 32 page booklist. A Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire. Spine and corners bumped and covers edge rubbed. Some light scuff marks to rear cover. Foxing to prelims and catalogue pages. Some hinges pulled but binding still tight.

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CAPITAL STEAM
Written by Hugh Ramsey.
Stock no. 1710519
Published by Oxford Publishing Co. 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Red boards, silver title to spine. B/w and colour photos. ISBN: 0860934128. Reprint in same year as first.

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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE VOLUME XVI 1841
Written by Sylvanus Urban.
Stock no. 1710405
Published by William Pickering; John Bowyer Nichols And Son. 1841. Very good condition.

Library Binding. July to December 1841. iv 700 pages, b/w illustrations. Includes: The Broadway Chapel, Westminster; Fire at Astley's Theatre; Timber Houses; Loss of life when a boat being launched at Rotherham overturned with 150 people on board; Landslip at Sidmouth; new Lighthouse on the Godwin sands; Restoration of Chepstow Church; Trial of the performance of propeller driven versus paddle driven steamer; proposed new suspension bridge from Hungerford market to Lambeth; notes on Ross's expedition to the South pole with ships Erebus and Terror (note later lost in the search for the North west passage); Abbatial Grange near Yeovil; Triangular Lodge at Rushton, Northamptonshire; Population Britain 26,856,028; Huge fire at South Molton in Devon destroyed 107 houses; Derby town hall destroyed by fire; fire in the Tower of London; Prices of Hay, Straw, Coal, Candles, Corn, Hops etc; numerous other historical events, obituaries, births, marriages and deaths; Index to names at rear. Ex-library (reference) with minimal stamps and new endpapers.

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A DICTIONARY OF ARTISTS WHO HAVE EXHIBITED WORKS IN THE PRINCIPAL LONDON EXHIBITIONS FROM 1760 TO 1893
Written by Algernon Graves.
Stock no. 1808495
Published by Kingsmead Reprints. 1973. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A facsimile of the 1901 3rd edition. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xiv and 314 pages. Price-cut wrapper is unevenly faded and edge-worn.

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A DICTIONARY OF ARTISTS WHO HAVE EXHIBITED WORKS IN THE PRINCIPAL LONDON EXHIBITIONS FROM 1760 TO 1893
Written by Algernon Graves.
Stock no. 1808489
Published by Kingsmead Reprints. 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A facsimile of the 1901 3rd edition. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xiv and 314 pages. Top corner bumped and subsequently the contents have a slight corner crease to top corners. Minor foxing to text block. Contents clean. Wrapper is a little edge-worn.

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THE PARISH OF BEDDINGTON IN THE YEAR 1837
Written by Ronald Michell.
Stock no. 1605575
Published by Beddington, Carshalton & Wallington Archaeological Society. 1991. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. Revised edition. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0950148156. SIGNED by author (with dedication) on title page.

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