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paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Illustrated by COVER CAMEO SHADOW ART (illustratore). PAPERBACK. VERY GOOD CONDITION PAPERBACK, clean, solid,bright; WHITE TITLES ON GLOSSY PAPER COVERS.HORRIFIED MAN & WOMAN COVER DESIGN. ; 373pg pages; With spine-tingling stories from the likes of Sapper, Graham Greene, D.H. Lawrence, and Arthur Conan Doyle, and a comic fantasy by H.G. Wells, as well as two tales from the children's writer E. Nesbit, Strange Tales from the Strand provides a rich collection for all lovers of the macabre.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Front cover slightly bent foward otherwise Good Plus. NOT A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Published for the Federation of Sewage Works Associations, covering Volumes 1 - 20 - Authors, Subjects, and Geographical. 138 pages. Minor cloth fading. Ex-Library.

Paperback. Condizione: Poor. Obviously a well-used copy, pages marked and oil-stained, many have dog-eared corners, staples rusting; front cover has quite a large area of loss, cover is worn and very grubby and oily. Still a sound, complete working copy. Undated, but 1930s.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 8 pages, with UK list of books. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; All Under £15; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 9 pages, with UK list of books. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Peter Crosby (illustratore). 1st Edition. *** BOOK in good clean tight and unmarked condition. Green clotth boars with fading along the edges. Gilt title on spine. 102 pages, 38 line drawings, some of which could be rather terrifying to a modern driver, Previous owner's name on ffep. This book was published with the collaboration of the British School of Motoring, *** DUST JACKET in fair condition, missinga strip at the bottom of the front cover. *** CONTENTS; This book was written at a time when the advent of quality mass produced cars resulted in a massive boom in motoring; when drivers used hand signals and policemen directed traffic at intersections.

VG. green hardcovers with clean gilt titling. no dj. internally, a good clean copy. Hardcover. ex libris copy which could carry some or all of . stamps, pastedowns, labels or stickers. SIGNED AND DEDICATED BY DR NEWEY.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Heavy, extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. Internally, light foxing. Otherwise clean. Tightly bound.r*23/10/2024. [ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Reprint, 8vo, 320pp, photo illustrations, fold-out map, previous owner's neat name upper corner of fr pastedown, dusty o/w G Copy, no DJ Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Book Club.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 288 p. illus., facsimiles., ports. 29 cm. ; LCCN: 66-26186 ; OCLC: 264475 ; LC: HV6233; Dewey: 364.9 ; Symons published over thirty crime novels and story collections between 1945 and 1994. ; grey cloth in photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Up to 1900 -- In the beginning was organisation -- Does criminal man exist? -- 20th Century first half -- Into the fingerprint -- Murder, scandal and corruption -- The gangs and FBI -- Great cases of t he period -- In our time -- The march of science -- Modern police methods -- The march of crime -- Punishment or therapy? -- The mafia and labour rackets -- Sex criminals and kidnappers -- Great modern cases: The Rosenbergs, The Black Widow and Ronald Chesney, The case of William Coffin, An Australian mystery, The Great Train Robbery, etc ; 750 illustrations ; VG/VG. Book.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. A collection of 12 pamphlets, c1855, VG, bound into green embossed boards, corners rubbed. Spine, gilt titles, half removed paper label at spine. Internally: [1] St. David's the Cathedral by Mackenzie EC Walcott, [3], 4-18. Llandaff. [2] The Cathedral by Mackenzie EC Walcott [3], 4-15, [1]. [3] The Book of Aberpergw, Improperly called the Chronicle of Caradoc, [1], 2-20. [4] History of Cymmer Abbey, by Rev H. Longueville Jones, 1851, [3], 4-18, numerous illustrations within text. [5] Some Account of Morlais Castle, [1], 2-18. [6] Observations on The Stone of St Cadfan, at Towyn. By JO Westwood and the Rev J Williams, London, W Pickering, 1850, frontis, [3], 4-16. [7] The Science and Scientific Men of Wales. Lewis Weston Dillwyn. By Soranus, Tenby, R Mason 1855, [3], 4-23, [1]. [8] On the Tenby Bone-Caves by a Pembrokeshire Rector, [3], 4-16. [9] A Glossary of Terms used for Articles of British Dress and Amour by Rev John Williams, London W Pickering 1851, [3], (iv-vii), [1], [1], 2-68. [10] Milford, Past, Present, and Future by Jelinger Symons, Tenby & London, 1857, [3], 4-33, [1]. [11] The Story of Conn-Eda; or, the Golden Apples of Loch Erne by Nicholas O'Kearney, London, Tenby, 1855, [3], 4-17, [1]. [12] Ab Ithel by James Kenward, Tenby & London, 1871, [5], (vi) only, [2], errata slip tipped in, [1], 2-232 pp. Bookplate to fpd (Swansea Training College, ink ms title list tipped to fep. (8vo, 140*217 mm). Fascinating. 0.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. * CONDITION : Used - Good * OTHER: The red boards have some marks and stains as well as wear to the edges and corners. The spine is faded and bumped top and bottom. The binding is reasonably firm with some cracking. The pages have some tanning. The last illustrated page opposite page 280 has come away from the binding but is present. This book has 286 pages. All in all a nice example of this book.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: Very Good. First edition by The Brendin Publishing Company in original blue and yellow designed card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 5''. New short stories and articles by: Howard Clewes 'The Day Sergeant Perry Died'; Kate Roberts 'Between Two Pices of Toffee'; H. E. Bates 'Country Parliament'; Mulk Raj Anand 'Lullaby'; Julian Symons 'Poem About My Father'. Contains [vi], 193-282 printed pages of text. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATES, H. E. (1906-1974).

London, 1939. 318 pp. B./w. ills. Hardcover, d./j. - Edges discol. Dustjacket repaired.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Not Stated (illustratore). First edition. A scarce first edition copy of this illustrated work on the annual Monte Carlo Rally, by H.E. Symons. The scarce first edition.In the publisher's original red cloth binding.Illustrated with a map to endpapers, a frontispiece, and eleven plates. Collated, complete.A work by H.E Symons, on the Monte Carlo Rally, arallyingevent organized each year by theAutomobile Club de Monaco.Including sections such as 'A Winter Rally', 'John O'Groats', 'The Frozen Trail', 'Umea', 'Southward Bound', 'Coupe Des Dames', and more. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light fading to spine, with slight bumping tot he head and tail, and faint rubbing to joints. Small mark to front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Excellent title on prewar rallying, Sunbeam, Wolseley interest. sadly the author was killed at Dunkirk in 1940. Illustrated with 12 plates and map front endpaper. 286 pages. Damage to corner of one page . The protected dustwrapper has small areas of loss, see scan.

9" x 6 3/4" tan printed wrappers. 135 numbered pages, contents, map illustrations, map of Columbia River from the boundary to the Snake River (25 sheets at end of report. The sheets are numbered consecutively from the boundary to Snake River and can be joined together into one sheet which shows the river continuously.) Fold-out 16 1/4" x 13" skeleton map of the Upper Columbia from Department map, showing location of river sheets and ancient Lake Lewis attached to rear wrapper. In Examining the Upper Columbia River, Symons states, "I examined the river at the Little Dalles, Kettle Falls, and Grand Rapids, and traversed the river in a small boat from the last-named rapids, near the mouth of the Colville River, to the mouth of the Snake River, making as careful a survey as possible." "The report embraces a description of the portion of the river examined and the lands in its vicinity, and also of the other portions of the Upper Columbia and the country drained by it and its tributaries." "I have sought to show the economical relations of the Columbia to the surrounding country, and the importance of making that portion of it lying within the territory of the United States navigable as far as practicable, and have suggested a plan for doing so." Report discusses the Upper Columbia River above Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids to the Spokane River, Columbia River from the Spokane River to Lake Chelan, and Lake Chelan to Snake River. Chapter on the navigation of the Columbia River to include portions that are presently navigable, consideration for future improvements along with costs. Table of distances on the Columbia River. History and general description of the Columbia and its tributaries, geological history of the Cascade Mountains and the Columbia River, geographical nomenclature of the Columbia River region, etc. Wrappers soiled and with wear to the extremities along with chip missing from rear wrapper. Wrappers loose from chipped spine but still attached. Good. Maps clean and in very good plus condition.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. Pearse, Alfred; Hardy, Norman H.; Symons, W.C.; Staniland, C.J.; Kerr, Charles (illustratore). First Edition. An early issue of this popular and long-lived publication. Pages 226-336. Features: The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont - part V; The Votaries of Eternal Silence - the Monastery of La Trappe; E.G. Henham is Saved by a Horse - an 1891 adventure in North-West Canada; A River of Red Lava - photo-illustrated Hawaiian story by Overend G. Rose; Abandoned - Morgan Andrews was left on a desolate island in Lake Winnipeg for 8 days; (Fantastic) Klondike Pictures supplemented by text; The Voyages of the "Mole Hill"; Curious Birds' Beaks; Pirate Hunting in China - Admiral J. Morseby describes the chasing of pirate junks, the queer incidents that happened, and the extraordinary method by which the pirates were smashed (includes photo of Moresby and illustration of the H.M.S. "Snake"); The Indian Child and His Toys - Ute child Capitano and photos of him, his complete outfit of toys, implements and dolls; Christmas in an African Desert - illustrated article by big-game hunter F.C. Selous; How the "Maid of the Mist" Shot the Niagara Rapids (with illustration of Joel R. Robinson); Parachuting adventure of Captain Bidmead (with photos); and more. Front cover loose but present. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy.