rev jqa henry (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. Undated. c.1905?186p + adverts. May overstate the case a little bit - One of the chief causes of insanity" and see the plate of the smokers pulse. Plates and illustrations - double sided plates on p 92/93 and 168/169 apparently not bound in. Endpapers browned and fep held by bottom half only - with the stamp of Carr's Mendip Hydro, Shipham, Winscombe, Somerset. Binding tight but has been well read; boards faded with some marks. A rare book in any condition. See scans and email for a few more.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. 186 pages illustrations, portraits (complete, none missing) illus by Miss Caroline Manning and major general Baden Powell and others. Original publishers grey brown illustrated cloth some rubbing slight staining otherwise sound near very good with clean text. Interesting inscription on front end paper from 1974 where someone possibly an uncle offers one Graham £1000 and a Hamble star to stop smoking for 12 months. Very anti-smoking particularly juvenile smoking which he regards as the sting of death, the cigarette devil 'lunatics or cigarette fiends'. The lengthy index has stars against the names of cigarette victims. 10 pages of advert at rear. The publisher appears to have been mostly involved with temperance abstinence and health.