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Price: £85.00
Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall, Limited.: 1886
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: M009965
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
A very good hardback book in a dark green based decorated cloth with gilt titling to the spine. One small hole in the cloth near the top of the spine - almost invisible. No dustjacket. Overall very clean and tight, with all hinges sound inside and out, but with some light edge/corner rubbing and bumping to the covers. Page fore-edges lightly dusty but clean with no foxing or similar. Internally, a light stain to the bottom inner edge of the pale lemon endpapers, o/w overall Excellent. A former owner has written their name on the front pastedown - "T. Wood Gwernyfed". I'm pretty sure th... View more info
Price: £3.00
Publisher: London, Bantam Press: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 48689
ISBN: 0593034007
Condition: Good in Good+ dust jacket
Black boards with No titling to the spine. - A Library rebinding to preserve the book. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. Ex -Library with usual library markings. Protected in the usual clear plastic library jacket, which is falling apart. (ix) + 181 pp. A collection of fourteen essays and one extended interview, ranging from the autobiographical to the purely scientific. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall View more info
Price: £85.00
Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom, Boydell Press: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 109753
ISBN: 0851156029
Condition: As New in Near Fine dust jacket
FINE Blue boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's illustrated dustjacket. The dustjacket has a little 'creasing/crumpling' to the top edge of the front cover o/w is As New. The dustjacket is NOT price clipped and has now been protected in a clear book plastic cover. No Inscriptions or Marks. (xiii) + 261 pp. Colour Frontispiece of the 'Hereford Mappa Mundi'. Illustrated in b/w throughout the book. Bibliography and Index. An Excellent Very Clean, Tight and Bright Near 'As New' copy. "Filled with information and lore, Mappae mundi presents an encyclopaedic p... View more info
By: Ley, Willy & Von Braun, Wernher
Price: £99.00
Publisher: London, John Spencer & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. Badger Books: 1961
Edition: 1st UK Paperback; First Printing
Seller ID: 114533
Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket
In the original publisher's pictorial card covers. Some light edge wear, with some small chips with surface loss to the head/tail of the spine. Some light age discolouration/spotting, and a light corner crease to the covers, but overall the book is in Good Plus to near VG condition. Internally the paper is uniformly tanned as usual with this type of 'pulp' publication, but the book looks unread and is VERY tight, clean and unmarked. NO Inscriptions. Originally written as 'The Mars Project' ( 'Das Marsprojekt' ) by rocket physicist, astronautics engineer and space architect, Wernher von Braun..... View more info
By: Reid, Hugo
Price: £45.00
Publisher: Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd: 1851
Edition: Second Edition Enlarged and Improved
Seller ID: 004050
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Blind stamped cloth covered boards. Covers slightly worn but sound, bright gilt titling to front board with the original price in - 2s.6d. - lettered in gilt as well. A few ink spots to boards. Extremities lightly rubbed, corners and head/tail of spine bumped, scraped at the tips. Internally the endpapers are Adverts for Oliver and Boyd's 'Works on Arithmetic & Book-Keeping'. The endpapers look as if they have been re-glued at some point back in time and are discoloured/grubby. The reverse of the front free endpaper has a former owner's name and date written in faint pencil. There is a circula... View more info
By: Saggs H. W. F.
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 2003
Edition: Seventh Printing
Seller ID: 108735
Condition: Fine with no dust jacket
Original pictorial gilt Russian green cloth, NO slipcase. (xxxvi) + 444 pp. Illustrated with b/w and coloured plates, plus endpaper maps. Introduction by T. G. H. James. A fine copy in virtually "as new" condition. One of the Folio society's most attractive Binding designs, b/w title-page friezes and ornaments by Simon Noyes. Bound in gilt blocked buckram by Cambridge University Press. Stunning Gilt embossed spine and front board. Map designs to end papers by Reginald Piggott. Former owners name and date (Joanna Greenlaw - the well known local writer on horology and the sea, etc) on th... View more info
By: Tresidder, Jack
Price: £8.00
Publisher: London, Duncan Baird Publishers: 2000
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 111455
ISBN: 1900131986
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing with the Correct Printers Key - 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Blue boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's decorated dustjacket, which is not price-clipped. The boards have very slight rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine and there are slight smudge/'rubbing' marks to the dustjacket covers. There are No Inscriptions or other Marks. 184 pp. Ilustrated throughout with colour plates. Further Reading; Index; Picture Credits. Overall, apart from the minor 'faults', as detailed above, this is an Excellent, Very Clean, Tight and Bright 'Fi... View more info
