THE TUNNEL
No author listed.
Stock no. 2123649
Almost very good condition.

A tunnel book. NO text. Not a book, but rather a 'box' that pulls up and out to show concertina style peep through 'view' of Tunnel under the Thames. 5 'pieces'. Dimensions are approx - Closed as a box: 7.5" across, 5.75" high, 1.75" deep; Open concertina: 20" long as a concertina, 5.5" high, 7" at widest point opened. 'Box' has become a bit crushed - one side is broken, but still attached on one side. Creasing to fold-out pieces and foxing and browning, but still pieces are remarkable bright. Box is worn and grubby. This book is sold with all faults.

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AN EXPLANATION OF THE TUNNEL UNDER THE THAMES
No author listed.
Stock no. 2123644
Good condition.

Thin card covers. Blue cloth spine. One text page, with 4 'fold-out' pages, in concertina style. Unusual item. Some creasing. Foxing and browning, with grubby marks. Small inscription in ink down margin of text page. A little surface paper damage to very bottom of text page, with small amount of loss to text.

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A WESTMINSTER CHILDHOOD
Written by John Raynor. Illustrated by Dennis Flanders.
Stock no. 2122454
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1973. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

When John Raynor, composer of nearly 700 song settings, died so tragically in a road accident in 1970, he left behind not only his lifetime's musical work, but the manuscript of this enchanting account of the years of his childhood. ISBN: 0304291838. A few marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with a little edge-creasing.

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FROM AN ACORN, THE TREE
Written by Harry Lewis.
Stock no. 1608341
c. 1949. Very good condition.

Card wraps. Bound with cord through spine. 44 pages. B/w photos. A history of the Wandsworth Gas Company. Special supplement to The Wandgas Magazine. Covers a little scuffed and darkened. Cover edges creased. Grubby mark to page 37.

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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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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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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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