david charles newton abbot uk (163 Ergebnisse)

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. Quarto, red cloth with gold lettering, 160 pp., b/w and color photos throughout, appendixes: organization and working methods, areas of art on the watch movement, watch decorators - some names recovered, watch pillars - a progression of styles. a catalogue of watch cock imagery, summarised bibliography, index.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 7 1/2 x 10 in. 224 pages. B&W illus. Condition is VERY GOOD ; minor edge wear, covers very clean. Binding tight and text unmarked. . Nautical. STK.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 112pp, various in-text black and white photographs. Brown cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Slightly rubbed spine ends. Text block edges just starting to tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. 128pp. I11.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Volume five only. Facsimile reprint of the original 1818 edition. Jacket is marked and edge-worn. Boards, page block, pastedowns and endpapers are foxed. Hardcover spine foot is lightly bumped. Pages are clean and contents are clear throughout. HCW. Used.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Volume four only. Facsimile reprint of the original 1818 edition. Jacket is marked and edge-worn, with one or two minor nicks. Boards and page block are foxed. Hardcover spine head is lightly bumped. One or two pages are creased. Pages are clean and contents are clear throughout. HCW. Used.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Volume one only. Facsimile reprint of the original 1818 edition. Jacket is marked and edge-worn. Jacket spine head and front lower edge are nicked. Boards and page block are foxed. Hardcover spine head is lightly bumped. Pages are clean and contents are clear throughout. HCW. Used.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Volume three only. Facsimile reprint of the original 1818 edition. Jacket is marked and edge-worn. Jacket spine head and rear upper edge are nicked. Boards and page block are foxed. Hardcover spine head is lightly bumped. Pages are clean and contents are clear throughout. HCW. Used.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Volume four only. Facsimile reprint of the original 1818 edition. Jacket is marked and edge-worn, with one or two minor nicks. Boards and page block are foxed. Hardcover spine head is lightly bumped. Pages are clean and contents are clear throughout. HCW. Used.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 210pp, various black and white photographic plates. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly rubbed spine heel. Top text block edge starting to fox, all edges starting to tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket just starting to tan, not price clipped.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 2nd Edition. xvi, 352pp, twenty-one black and white photographic plates. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine head and corners. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage. 8vo. The first book to trace this famous theatre's history from its seventeenth-century beginnings, onto the old City of London, and to its present-day location.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. 208pp; some maps, black and white photographs. Laminated printed light card covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Examines one of the most scenically attractive areas of Britain.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 176pp, black and white photographs. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine heel. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, light chipping to top edge. 8vo. Follows on from the author's 'Victorian Popular Music' and 'Edwardian Popular Music' to the first time the public was beginning to be given what it wanted, not what it was thought it should have.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. 192pp; black and white photographic plates and in-text illustrations. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Boards faded at exposed edges. Lightly bumped spine ends. Endpapers tanning. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun faded, has some shelf wear, light chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. Examines the social history of gambling from card games, to horses, pigeons to casino games and also looks at the careers of some of the most famous professional and amateur gamblers of all time including Casanova, Gordon Selfridge and the Aga Khan.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition, with good jacket. Reprints edited for the British Agricultural History Society. Price-clipped jacket is marked, sunned and edge-worn. Jacket leading corners and spine head are nicked. One to three centimetre tears on creased rear upper edge. Hardcover spine ends are lightly bumped and worn. Page block is lightly marked and tanned. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW. Used.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 208pp, some black and white in-text illustrations. Maroon cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Text block edges just starting to tan and fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun-faded, light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, unclipped.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 2nd edition. 200pp, plus numerous black and white photographic plate illustrations, further illustrations in text. In green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Cloth very slightly rounded at spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original bright and crisp dust jacket, just a little rubbed at spine ends. A history of the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 96pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Small 4to. Lightly bumped spine heel. Text block edges tanning, affecting page margins. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has light shelf wear and chipping to top edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. Evaluates the many detail variations and experiments carries out on individual engines to make the performance of basically good economic types even better.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 314pp, plus 45 plate illustrations and further line drawings in text. Browny-orange cloth-covered boards. 8vo. Covers sharp and clean barring minor rounding at spine tips. Internally neat, clean and tight barring a small library stamp on the title page and the remnants of a reference library bookplate on front paste down. Some mild spotting on text block edge. In its original, lightly edge worn and slightly faded, dust jacket. Perhaps the clearest and most authoritative guide to English Clocks of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries without having to delve into specialist treatise and academic papers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 192pp, 16pp black and white photographic plates. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket in Brodart type sleeve. 8vo. Recalls the railway heyday in the southern part of the Principality, with the valley lines well to the fore.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 140pp, with a few black and white plate illustrations and figures in text. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. 8vo. Cloth a little pushed at spine ends else neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, lightly shelf worn, dust wrapper, a little bumped on edges and hint of toning in margins on interior. This copy from the library of the late George R P Gush. Gush was head of history at West Kent College but is perhaps better remembered as a key contributor to the development of early wargaming, and as an active wargamer especially in Renaissance wargames. His Renaissance Armies (1975) has become a classic work on the topic. He founded the Tunbridge Wells Wargames Society in the late 1960s, remaining its chairman until 2007. A regular contributor to various wargaming and modelling magazines, he authored with Andrew Finch A Guide to Wargaming (1980) and the well-regarded Wargames Rules for Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. - (illustrator). 1st Edition. VG/VG; top edge of dw worn. Grey cloth, 110 pp, 32 photo plates, large fold-out map. With extra material by Robert Millar. - Jacket is in archival quality clear protector, and we ship all books in cardboard protection.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. 168 pages, well illustrated with colour photographs and diagrams. A unique approach to container planting, achieving delightfully uncontrived plantings redolent of the countryside.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. No dust jacket. Hardcover. A David & Charles Reprint. Edited by Neil Cossons. 'A selection from the Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature'. Ex-library, with library labelling on spine foot, front pastedown, front endpaper and at one or two further points. Boards and spine are a little grubby. Front board and spine have a few areas of patchy fading. Spine ends and leading corners are a little worn and bumped. Minor age-fading on endpapers. Binding is sound, pages are tight and contents are clean and clear throughout. AF. Ex-Library.

26.0 x 19.0cms 192; b/w line drawings & colour photos; very good paperback & cover The chapters are: is it a fake?; joints & drawer construction; polishes; veneers; styles & groups; tables; special purpose tables; chairs; upholstered chairs; Windsor chairs; benches; bookcases; case furniture; chests; dressers; designers; glossary.

23.0 x 14.0cms 222pp b/w illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper This book traces the Melanesians Polynesians & Micronesians'' resistance to the 19th century slave traders their resistance to the japanes in World War II and their late 20th century subsisatance farming.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Alice Caddy (illustrator). 1st Edition. Jacket not price clipped with some marks and a little wear on the top and lower edges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. A century of the British Army being stationed in India. Includes 23*b/w illustrations, 6*maps and 14*tables. 216pp. Ex-library with stamps and labels to lower DJ spine, pastedowns, endpapers and copyright page. DJ laminated. DJ a little discoloured.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Folding one-inch map of Brecon, in paper wallet. 8vo (when folded). A little gentle wear at edges of paper wallet, else neat, clean and bright throughout. A reprint of the first edition of the Ordnance Survey one-inch map of Brecon (sheet 58).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Illustrated with black and white photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. Firmly bound and clean. Jacket has minimal creasing to the top edge, not price clipped.