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OUR HOME RAILWAYS: HOW THEY BEGAN AND HOW THEY ARE WORKED
Written by W.J. Gordon.
Illustrated by W.J. Stokoe.
Stock no. 2134043
Published by Bracken Books.
1989.
Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.
This is the Combined volume (includes Volumes 1 & 2). Black cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1851703144. A few light marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is faded to spine.
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- TRANSPORT
- RAILWAYS
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
CHURCHILL AND THE KING: THE WARTIME ALLIANCE OF WINSTON CHURCHILL AND GEORGE VI
Written by Kenneth Weisbrode.
Stock no. 2134019
Published by Viking.
1st USA
2013.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Black spine with gilt title, grey/blue boards. American edition. ISBN: 9780670025763. Page edge browning.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- WORLD WAR II
- POLITICS
READING THE RUINS: MODERNISM, BOMBSITES AND BRITISH CULTURE
Written by Leo Mellor.
Stock no. 2134010
Published by Cambridge University Press.
1st
2011.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Black boards with gilt title to spine. From fires to ghosts, and from flowers to surrealist apparitions - the bombsites of London were both unsettling and inspiring terrains. Yet throughout the years prior to World War II, British culture was already filled with ruins and fragments. ISBN: 9781107009295.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- LONDON
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
LONDON AND THE CIVIL WAR
Written by Stephen Porter; et al.
Stock no. 2134008
Published by Macmillan Press Ltd.
1st
1996.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Black boards, with gilt title to spine. A collection of essays from different authors about London and the Civil War. ISBN: 0333622790. Page edge browning.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- LONDON
- CIVIL WAR
- CIVIL WAR (ENGLISH)
- ESSAYS
THE INVASION OF 1910 WITH A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF LONDON
Written by William Le Queux.
Stock no. 2134006
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd..
1906.
Fair condition.
Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w maps and plans. Ex-lib. with many markings. Covers are heavily worn and marked. Library labels stuck to front endpaper and pastedown; edge/corner of endpaper is torn off. Page edge browning. Text is still in good, reading condition.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- LONDON
- MILITARY
- NAVY
HOSPITABLE ENGLAND IN THE SEVENTIES: THE DIARY OF A YOUNG AMERICAN 1875-1876
Written by Richard Henry Dana.
Stock no. 2133991
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
1921.
Almost very good condition.
Blue cloth with gilt titles. Spine is browned. Splash and other marks to covers. Corners are bumped. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Some page corners creases. Foxing to outer page edges.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- DIARY
MEMORIALS OF OLD CHELSEA
Written by Alfred Beaver.
Illustrated by Alfred Beaver.
Stock no. 1820342
Published by S.R. Publishers Ltd..
1st thus
1971.
Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Originally published in 1892, this edition is republished. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations by the author. ISBN: 0854097104. Text block a little dusty, contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is unevenly faded and is scuffed to rear panel.
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- LONDON
- CHELSEA
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
INNS AND TAVERNS OF CHEPSTOW AND THE LOWER WYE VALLEY PART 4
Written by Ivor Waters.
Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 1319535
Published by The Chepstow Society.
1976.
Nearly fine condition.
Card wrap blue booklet. 500 printed. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0900278323. Staples are rusty.
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- MONMOUTHSHIRE
- WYE VALLEY
- INNS
- LIMITED EDITION
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
CHEPSTOW THEATRES
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1319528
Published by The Chepstow Society.
1st
1975.
Very good condition.
Pink card wrap booklet. B/w photos. ISBN: 0900278293. Staples rusty. Contents fine.
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- MONMOUTHSHIRE
- THEATRE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
WITH DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES: LONDON DISASTERS 1830-1917
Written by Wendy Neal.
Stock no. 2133920
Published by Hisarlik Press.
1st
1992.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1874312001. Some edge-creasing to wrapper.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- LONDON
A MONTH IN LONDON
Written by Jeffrey Tayler.
Stock no. 2133865
Published by Harvey And Darton.
1st
1832.
Good condition.
The American Mr. Hazelford voyages across the Atlantic to "inform himself of the real progress of England in the grand improvements of the age". Author is Jeffrey Taylor although no author named. Small format. Dark green cloth, gilt title and decoration to spine. Frontis and illustrated title page plus 4 other b/w plates. 182 pages plus booklist. Rebacked with original spine covering laid down. New endpapers. Corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly marked. Foxing to frontis and title page. Some foxing to contents, mainly to margins. Pages lightly browned. A few corner tips creased.
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- LONDON
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- ANTIQUARIAN
WOMEN AND THE LAW (OXFORD MONOGRAPHS ON LABOUR LAW)
Written by Sandra Fredman.
Stock no. 1820283
Published by Clarendon Press.
2001.
Good condition.
Sixth title in the series. Black pictorial glazed boards. ISBN: 0198763220. Book has been dropped on spine, as a result, front joint is broken and the spine is cocked. Pale foxing to text block. Contents themselves complete, clean and tight.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- LAW