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At Grips With War - Third Edition

By: Aldred, Guy Alfred

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Glasgow, Strickland: 1947

Seller ID: 26597

Binding: paperback

Condition: Poor in Fair dust jacket

Pale brown d/jkt, a little grubby; pale brown card wrappers. Stapling intact, but a little oxidized, and has bled slightly; wrappers partially detached from text block, but still quite intact. ; 8vo (6" x 8 1/2"); 92 pages
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The Murals Book

By: Brisbane, Cameron, Rick Rogers & Judith Stone

Price: £95.00

Publisher: London, Hammersmith and Fulham Amenity Trust: 1985

Seller ID: 29750

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Stapled booklet - stapling clean and intact. Illustrated b/w card wrappers; b/w illustrations. "A step-by-step guide for community groups and artists who want to work together to improve their surroundings - in a logical, constructive and creative way".; 8vo (6" x 8 1/2"); 41 pages
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The Victorian City, Images and Realities. 2 Vols

By: Dyos, H. J. & Michael Wolff

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1973

Seller ID: 40090

ISBN: 0710073844

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Please note that this is a very heavy item and will require extra postage.; Both Vols: Ex-reference library, so usual marks, incl. withdrawn stamp. Grey cloth boards; remains of clear tape, otherwise quite clean. Binding tight. B/w illustrations. In-depth study of the rapid urban expansion of Victorian Britain. ; 4to (8" x 10"); 957 pages
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No Room to Live. The plaint of Overcrowded London ... With an introduction by Sir Walter Besant

By: Haw, George

Price: £70.00

Publisher: London, Wells Gardner, Darton: 1900

Seller ID: 24914

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Very Good-

Illustrated pale brown, buckram boards; lightly marked; gilt titling still quite bright. Occasional faint pencil ticks and annotations in margin. ; 8vo (5" x 8"); 178 pages
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Image for Minutes of Evidence taken before the Inter-Departmental Committee on Phyical Deterioration. Vol II - List of Witnesses and Minutes of Evidence

Minutes of Evidence taken before the Inter-Departmental Committee on Phyical Deterioration. Vol II - List of Witnesses and Minutes of Evidence

By: HMSO (His Majesty's Stationery Office)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, HMSO (His Majesty's Stationery Office): 1905

Seller ID: 24361

Binding: paperback

Condition: Poor

A reading copy, only - binding largely disintegrated; front wrapper missing; though all pp seem to be present. In the wake of poor showing by British soldiers in the recent Boer War, mainly due to deficient diet, upbringing and education among the poor, the Inter-Departmental Committee on Phyical Deterioration was established, and presented its report to Parliament in 1904. Not quite an early stirring of the Welfare State, but certainly an early pointer to it. ; 4to (8 1/2" x 13"); 504 pages
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German Prisoner-of-War Exhibition May12th -- May 17th, 1947

By: International Student Service World Student Relief

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, International Student Service World Student Relief: 1947

Seller ID: 39937

Binding: paperback

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Stapled book -- very frail. Plain buff paper wrappers; light offsetting. Guide to the exhibiton. A fascinating sidelight on an overlooked aspect of the peace. ; 8vo (5 1/2" x 8 1/2"); 8 pages
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Women's Institutes

By: McCall, Cicely

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, William Collins: 1943

Seller ID: 29749

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Very Good- in Good dust jacket

Illustrated, pale green + white d/jkt, unclipped; intact, but frail - backstrip very worn, d/jkt held in place by front and rear flaps. Illustrated boards (same design as d/jkt); light wear to edges; binding tight. B/w + colour illustrations. Interesting snapshot of - among much else - English women on the Home Front coping with evascuees and wartime conditions. ; 8vo (7" x 9"); 47 pages
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The Flogging Craze - A Statement of the Case against Corporal Punishment

By: Salt, Henry S.

Price: £125.00

Publisher: London, Humaniotarian League / George Allen & Unwin: 1916

Seller ID: 26056

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Plain red boards (no d/jkt); lightly marked; binding tight. B/w frontispiece. A condemnation of the then practice of judicial flogging, not finally abolished until 1948. ; 8vo (5" x 8"); 159 pages
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Low's Handbook to the Charities of London, Giving the Object and Office of over 1200 Charitable Institutions

By: Sampson Low, Marston & Co

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co: 1919

Seller ID: 25034

Binding: paperback

Condition: Good+

Faded red wrappers; light wear to head of spine, but binding unaffected. The interesting preface is about Bart's Hospital, in London, which gives a fascinating glimpse into how things were managed in those far-off, pre-NHS days; plus many contemporary, revealing ads for charities and charitable causes.; 8vo (5" x 7"); 94+xlviii pages
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The Vauxhall Comic Song Book. Second Series

By: Sharp, John W. (ed)

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, T. Allman: 1847

Seller ID: 29745

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Embossed and illustrated red boards (no d/jkt); a little marked; light wear to head and tail of backstrip, but binding not affected - binding tight. Corners lightly bumped. Gilt titling and decoration a little rubbed, but still very visible. Gilt edges. B/w frontis, with tissue guard; engraved half-title page. Owner's name on fep, in beautiful copperplate, dd 1848. The editor was "The Musical Director of Vauxhall Gardens". By this stage, the Gardens themselves were long past their best, having gone through bankruptcy and several changes of ownership in the preceding few years; in his Sketches ...
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