Oxford Now and Then
NY: St. Martin’s Press (1970). 1st edition; hardcover; 8vo., cloth covered boards; cloth; b&w illustrations; very good in very good dust jacket. More about Oxford Now and Then
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London Echoing
NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., no date. Lg. 8vo. cloth covered boards, hardcover, 173 pages., b&w pictures by Muirhead Bone. very good in dust jacket with chipped spine ends and one closed tear. More about London Echoing
The British Eccentric.
NY: Clarkson N. Potter NY (1976). small 4to., 159pp., stated 1st American edition, very good in very good dust jacket. More about The British Eccentric
The Green Bag Travellers Britain’s First Tourists
London: andre Deutssch (1978). 8vo., cloth, 152pp. very good in very good dust jacket. More about The Green Bag Travellers Britain’s First Tourists
The English Channel
NY: Viking (1986). 1st edition; 8vo.; vii, 373pages; cloth backed boards; b&w photographic illustrations; from the dust jacket ‘A Fascinating Voyage that Explores the History, the Political Intrigue, the Scientific and Nautical Lore of the World's most Celebrated Waters;’ review slip laid in; very good in very good dust jacket..... More about The English Channel
Anthropological Report on a London Suburb
London: Grayson 1935. 1st edition; 8vo., pages; black cloth; subject matter includes : suspicion of art and culture and birth, marriage and death, important financial events; a very good, clean, tight copy. More about Anthropological Report on a London Suburb
Literary Landscapes of the British Isles: A Narrative Atlas
NY & London: Paddington Press (1979). 1st edition; 8vo, cloth; 287 pages; b&w illustrations and maps plus a 46 page atlas and gazetteer at the back of the book; very good in a very good dustjacket. More about Literary Landscapes of the British Isles: A Narrative Atlas
Mystery Reader's Walking Guide: London
Lincolnwood, IL: Passport Books, (1987). First edition. 8vo., 294 pages; maps by John Babcock; from the dust jacket ‘11 fascinating walks that follow the paths of the most widely read mystery writers, their sleuths and characters;’ very good in a lightly edgeworn dustjacket. More about Mystery Reader's Walking Guide: London
Looking For Class: Seeking Wisdom And Romance At Oxford And Cambridge
NY: Random House (1993). Stated 1st edition; small 4to.; cloth covered boards; hardcover; publisher’s photo of author laid in; very good in very good dust jacket. More about Looking For Class: Seeking Wisdom And Romance At Oxford And Cambridge
The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Volume 1: Prehistoric, Roman and Early Medieval
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. small 4to. stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; xi, 289 pages; a very good clean tight copy. More about The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Volume 1: Prehistoric, Roman and Early Medieval
Playhouse Tales.
NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan (1974). Stated First American Edition; 8vo. boards, 168pp., b&w illustrations by author. very good copy in very good dust jacket. More about Playhouse Tales
Irish Cottages
Wicklow: Real Ireland (1985). 1st edition; 12mo oblong pictorial boards; very good/o. More about Irish Cottages
London and Back A Book of Personal Drawings
Ann Arbor: M.N. & E.L. Kemnitz (1977). small 4to., pictorial grey and white cloth covered boards; black and white drawings of London and Dublin by Kemnitz; no text; signed by Kemnitz; very good. More about London and Back A Book of Personal Drawings
Bizarre Britain A Calendar Of Eccentricity
Oxford; Basil Blackwell Ltd. (1985). Small 4to.; cloth covered boards; b/w photographic illustrations; very good in very good dust jacket. More about Bizarre Britain A Calendar Of Eccentricity
Prehistoric Scotland
NY: New Amsterdam (1989). 4to; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine; hardcover; 208 pages; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws in a very good price clipped pictorial dust jacket with one chipped corner. More about Prehistoric Scotland
Seaside England
London: Batsford (1951) 1st edition. 8vo. clolth, viii,151pp. color frontis and b&w illustrations. very good in slightly soiled and rubbed dust jacketwith one closed tear. More about Seaside England
The Emergent Years Independent Ireland 1922-62
Dublin: Gill and MacMillan; (1984). Large 4to.,184pages; b&w photographic illustrations; very good in very good dust jacket. More about The Emergent Years Independent Ireland 1922-62
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin February 1962
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1962. small 4to., stiff pictorial wraps; featuring Rowlandson’s England and ‘Antiquity Smith’; very good. More about The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin February 1962
The ‘standard’ of Sutton Hoo--a torchholder?
Oxford, England: Vivian Ridler, printer to the University, no date. wide 8vo., stiff graywraps, softcover; three pages; one black & white illlustration; this is an reprinted from The Antiquaries Journal, 1970 Volume L. Part II; slight edgewear else very good. More about The ‘standard’ of Sutton Hoo--a torchholder?
Honest Thieves. The Violent Heyday of English Smuggling
London: William Heinemann Ltd. (1973). 8vo. cloth covered boards, hardcover; 226 pages; map endpapers black & white illustrations; a very good tight and clean copy with no apparent flaws in a soiled and taped dustjacket which looks better than it sounds. More about Honest Thieves. The Violent Heyday of English Smuggling
England's Climbing -Boys: A History of the Long Struggle to Abolish Child Labor in Chimney Sweeping.
Cambridge: Harvard University (1949). small 4to., stiff wraps, 61pages; bibliography; very good/o. More about England's Climbing -Boys: A History of the Long Struggle to Abolish Child Labor in Chimney Sweeping
London's Underworld: Selections from Those That Will Not Work, the 4th vol. of London Labour and The London Poor by Henry Mayhew.
London: Spring, no date. Reprint of an 1862 title. 8vo., cloth, 427pp., dusty edges else very good in very good dust jacket. More about London's Underworld: Selections from Those That Will Not Work, the 4th vol. of London Labour and...
And So to Bath.
NY: Macmillan Company, 1940. Std. 1st printing. 8vo. decorative cloth, 380pp. very good in slightly soiled and chipped dust jacket. More about And So to Bath
Taverns In Town.
St. Ives: Balfour (1973). Stated 1st edition. A Balfour/Travellers Rest Publication. 8vo. cloth,hardcover 96 pages. color illustrations by Alan Roulstone; very good in chipped dust jacket. More about Taverns In Town
The Other End of the Bridge
NY: E.P. Dutton & Co. (1961). Stated 1st edition. 12mo., "A rollicking Irish novel" very good in very good dust jacket. More about The Other End of the Bridge
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