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Price: £20.00
Publisher: Glasgow, Strickland: 1947
Edition: Third
Seller ID: 26597
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 View more info
By: Brisbane, Cameron, Rick Rogers & Judith Stone
Price: £150.00
Publisher: London, Hammersmith and Fulham Amenity Trust: 1985
Edition: First
Seller ID: 29750
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 View more info
By: Day, G. W. L
Price: £6.00
Publisher: London, Figurehead: 1935
Seller ID: 21986
Condition: Very Good-
Red card wrappers; a trifle marked; light wear to head and tail of spine, spine slightly creased, but binding intact. Light crease in rear wrapper. Stamp of Social Credit Party on front endpaper. Interesting little volume on social credit.; 8vo (5" x 7 1/2"); 97 pages View more info
By: Hannington, Wal
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Lawrence and Wishart: 1936
Seller ID: 27465
Condition: Good+
Illustrated monochrome , thin card wrappers; a trifle marked; light creasing to lower corners; light wear to base of spine, with minuscule losses, but binding very intact. B/w frontispiece + illustrations. ; 8vo (5 1/2" x 8 1/2"); 328 pages View more info
By: Haw, George
Price: £70.00
Publisher: London, Wells Gardner, Darton: 1900
Edition: Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
Seller ID: 24914
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 View more info
By: HMSO (His Majesty's Stationery Office)
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, HMSO (His Majesty's Stationery Office): 1905
Seller ID: 24361
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 View more info
By: Howarth, Edward G. & Mona Wilson
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & Sons: 1907
Edition: First
Seller ID: 25855
Condition: Good+
Ex-library copy, so usual marks. Plain blk boards, a little marked and worn; binding intact, but a rather weak. Fold-out map of West Ham. View more info
By: McCall, Cicely
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, William Collins: 1943
Edition: First
Seller ID: 29749
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 View more info
By: Reynolds, Bertha & Chris Reynolds
Price: £55.00
Publisher: Tring, Herts, CODIL Language Systems: 1995
Seller ID: 26318
ISBN: 0952655209
Condition: Very Good+
Illustrated pale yellow card wrappers; spine uncreased; b/w illustrations. Fascinating accounts of life in what was then a small market town to the north of London as it overnight became a garrison town during the First World War. ; 8vo (6" x 8"); 280 pages View more info
By: Salt, Henry S.
Price: £125.00
Publisher: London, Humaniotarian League / George Allen & Unwin: 1916
Edition: First
Seller ID: 26056
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 View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co: 1919
Seller ID: 25034
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 View more info
Price: £60.00
Publisher: London, T. Allman: 1847
Seller ID: 29745
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 S... View more info
By: The National Council of Social Service
Price: £8.00
Publisher: London, The National Council of Social Service: 1945
Edition: Fifth
Seller ID: 26465
Condition: Very Good-
Pale brown boards; somewhat marked; binding intact, but light wear to base of spine. B/w illustrations + 5 large fold-out plans at rear. ; 8vo (5" x 8"); 85 + ads pages View more info
