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London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Blue cloth with gilt logo centre front and gilt sp.lettering. End=papers ill. with route map. col. f/piece of company coat of arms + x + 289, 18 further plates ex-pagination, 16 col. ills of ships and 2 portraits, pp.250-259 are silhouettesof 'past and Presnt P.& O. Vessels' (these small and arranged in rows & columns); as a bonus there is a slipped in col. P. & O. House Flag bookmark with red silk (?) string (which seems to imply it way acquired by a passenger on board) plus a rather tanned 1947 Sunday Times press cutting on 'Why liners are scarce' ill. with silhouettes showing pre and post war numbers available. Top edge blue tinted but this faint at sp. end. Unclipped jacket in protective sleeve seems faultless. A remarkably good copy. 19 cm x 24 cm
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A HUNDRED YEAR HISTORY OF THE P. & O. Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company 1837-1937
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RADIUM TREATMENT OF CANCER
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London: J.& A. Churchill, 1929. 1st ed. . Dark Cloth. VG+/No Jacket (none Issued?). 16 Cms x 25.5 Cms. x+158+16 (Oct.1928 pub.list), 13 col.plates, 48 text figs; a near fine copy being internally clean, tight & unmarked in clean bright gilt-lettered covers with only the slightest of bumps to top outer corners.
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PORT ROYAL EDUCATION Saint Cyran, Arnauld, Lacelot, Nicole, De Saci, Guyot, Coustel, Fontaine, Jacqueline Pascal . Extracts with an Introduction
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London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1898. 1st Eng.ed. . Red Cloth. VG/No Jacket (assume none issued). 13.5 Cm x 19.5 Cm. iv+260; browning to outer sides of endpapers otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked; covers clean and minimally worn, suggestion of slight rubbing to spine ends, two faded patches on back outer edge of no significance, top edge a tad dusty. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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ILLUSTRATED GAMES OF PATIENCE
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London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG for age/No Jacket. Bound in bevelled edge blue cloth with 3 col.playing cards in each front corner and central monogram, black spine lettering and borders, spine ends a little rubbed, generally clean and attractive; viii+72, numerous un-numbered ex-pagination coloured plates throughout illustrating game lay-outs, all text-block edges red; bottom outer corner tips of first 2 leaves blackened, offset somehow from black end-papers, hint of edge tanning throughout. 19 cm x 24 cm 'Authoress' explains that most of the games are German in origin.
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VISUAL PERCEPTION. Theory and Practice
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Oxford etc.: Pergamon Press, 1981. 1st Edition . 'Flexicover' card. Fine. 17 Cms x 25 Cms. x+197, num.text figs numbered by chapter. Clean, tight, unmarked, bright & unworn.
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THE SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION OF COMTE
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Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1893. 2nd Ed.. (1st-1885) . Black Cloth. VG (/No Jacket (assume none issued). 14.5 Cm x 21 Cm. xix+210+(1, author list)+24 pub.catalogue.; internally clean, tight & unmarked, covers generally clean, corners bumped but no cloth damage, trace only of spine end rubbing. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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AUSTIN ROBINSON The Life of an Economic Adviser
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London and New York: Macmillan. St. Martin's Press, 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Pristine black cloth with gilt sp.lettering. viii+198; author's 1994-dated gift inscription to Hans Singer top fr. end-paper, otherwise pristine bar light page-edge tanning throughout which I can only assume is common to most copies. Faultless unclipped jacket (but a faint hint of sp. fading), will add protective sleeve when ordered. 14 cm x 22 cm.
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MINERALS OF SOUTH AFRICA
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Johannesburg: The Geological Society of South Africa, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Dark blue cloth with light blue lettering to fr. and sp. Col. f/piece + xix + 290 + (6, 'List of Collectors to "Minerals of South Africa" ' and list of 'Corporate Subscribers', unfolding col. map facing p. xvi, col. end-papers, col title and logo to t.p., lavishly illustrated in colour throughout with numerous text figs as well as photos, pagination is slightly odd as only actually appears from p. xvii and p.2 is to verso of p. xix. A pristine copy. Unclipped ill. jacket in protective sleeve as acquired also pristine, though buyer may want to change protective sleeve which fits a little awkwardly. Published to celebrate the centenary of the Geological Society of South Africa.Weighs over 1.8 kg unpacked so allow for additional postage, esp. outside UK. if packed weight may exceeds 2 kg. this may be substantial. 23,5 cm x 30.5 cm
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A TEACHERS' MANUAL OF ELEMENTARY LAUNDRY WORK
by CALDER, Fanny L. & MANN, E.E.
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London etc.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. 5th ed (2nd-1892) . Illustrated red-brown cloth. VG. 11 Cms x 17 Cms. f/piece (photo of girls watching ironing instructor)+vii+82, 3 further full page photoplates ex-pagination; clean tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers with image of woman ironing centre fr. An intersting document for women's history, history of domestic service and domestic technology covering all aspects of washing and ironing with reference to a variety of materials, types of clothing and cleaning materials. Learn how to use flat, box, gas, polishing and goffering irons, 'Whatever day is to be Washing Day, let an hour or two be devoted to making preparation.' This includes 5 piles of white linen for starters: Table, Body and bed, Handkerchiefs, Bedroom towels, Muslins and Laces, Kitchen and pantry towels, dusters etc. On drying 'Hang everything wrong side out.' Also recipes for e.g. cold-water starch, bran water and gum water. An ideal, but surely risky, present for someone.
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THE RELATIONS OF MIND AND BRAIN
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London: Macmillan, 1879. 1st ed. . Hardcover. VG. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. xvi+455+(1, author list), 43 text figs; label ghost top outer corner fr.pastedown, sl.creasing across top outer corner half-title fading out on 3rd leaf, otherwise internally excellent being clean, tight, unmarked & good end-gutters. Stippled orange covers clean & minimally worn but sp. moderately darkened. Although written from a pious perspective this references most contemporary scientific developments and provides a useful picture of the issue as understood by late 1870s.
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EDUCATION OF TEACHERS FOR IMPROVING MAJORITY-MINORITY RELATIONSHIPS Course Offerings for Teachers To Learn About Racial and National Minority Groups
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Washington (D.C.): U.S. Office of Education, 1944. 1st ed. . Paperback. VG(+) for age and genre. 14.5 Cm x 23 Cm. Issued as Federal Security Agency U.S.Office of Education Bulletin 1944, No.2. iv+64, list of 'selected publications' of the Office of Education 'relating to negroes' inside back cover , 3 photos (I make it) in text; clean, tight, unmarked copy, bottom outer corner tip aa little rubbed and creased on covers, covers also clean and unworn bar a few faint marks to back, inevtably as it is white. Apparently scarce war-time official publication promoting race and ethnic relations by the great African-American educational pioneer (1894-1962). Apparently very scarce. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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NERVES AND COMMON SENSE
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 14 Cms x 21 Cms. 198 pp.; generally quite sound but numerous minor flaws -end gutters cracked (though secure), browning to endpapers, further brown flecking to half-title, slightly to t.p. and occ. elsewhere, early name and short line top front endpaper; covers generally clean but a few minor spots, spine ends very slightly rubbed. Apparently quite scarce and sought after psychological self-help/advice work aimed primarily at women, especially wives. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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POWER THROUGH REPOSE
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London: Gay and Hancock, 1911. Reprint of 1900 2nd ed. (1st-1891) . Green Cloth. VG-/No Jacket. 11.5 Cms x 17.5 Cms. 201 pp. (prelims in Roman), top edge gilt; only serious fault is excision of 5cm x 8 cm of top outer corner of half-title (presumably to remove a name), otherwise, aside from some very faint endpaper broownign it is internally clean, tight and unmarked in clean unworn, quite bright, covers (trivial rippling along centre front joint, a binding error I think. A very popular U.S. self-improvement or empowerment work from its first publication, now however quite scarce especially in U.K. and in this U.K. edition. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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RACISM, REVOLUTION, REACTION 1861-1877. The Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction
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New York etc.: Pathfinder, 1994. 3rd printing (1st-1976) . p/back. Fine. 13.5 Cm x 21 Cm. f/piece++269+(6, pub.notices); virtually as new. Scarce, especially in UK apparently, despite reprintings. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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THE NERVOUS CHILD
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London etc.: Geoffrey Cumberledge/ Oxford University Press, 1946. 5th ed. (1st-1919) . Red Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 13 Cm X 18.5 Cm. viii+252, 8 photo plates ex-pagination illustrating various physical syndromes;sm.sig.front pastedown, 1947 dated sig. & address fr.endpaper, browning to endpapers and intermeittent light browning throughout probably due to war-time paper quality, nick and crease top rear endpaper, otherwise clean, tight & unmakred internally, frotn cover a tad grubby, spine lettering faded, otherwise fairly clean and minimally worn - though I spot 3 very tiny pin-holes along front joint. This late edition of Cameron's classic medically oriented popular guide, with some slightly wry comments about the rise of child psychiatry since his first edition. Apparently very scarce. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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MORAL PROBLEMS OF MENTAL DEFECT A thesis offered in part fulfilment of the requirements for a Doctorate in the Theological Faculty, Heythrop College, Oxon.
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London: Burns Oates and Washbourne, 1938. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. VG+/No Jacket. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. xi+200; brown spotting to top and outer edges of textblock, only internal fault is short tear bottom p.1 now sealed with transparent tear-repair tape; covers generally clean and bright, slight bump lower front edge, merest hint of spine end rubbing. Undated but Imprimatur dated 1st October 1938. Much discussion of Goddard etc. and focuses on the concepts of moral imbecility/defect, also discusses Tredgold, also legal aspects of the terms. An interesting contemporary take on the topic from a highly informed Catholic angle, citing several Catholic psychologists. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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THE CITY OF THE SUN A poetic dialogue, in which there is outlined the idea for a reform of the Christian state, between a Knight Hospitaller and a Genoese mariner, a helmsman of Columbus
by CAMPANELLA, Brother Thomas trans. by A.M. Elliott and R. Milner, Introduction by Andrew Morton
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London & West Nyack NY: The Journeyman Press, 1981. 1st thus, originally pub. 1623 . Paperback in jacket. VG/Fine. 12.5 Cm x 19 .5 Cm. 64 pp.; clean and tight but intermittent thin underlining+ 1 marginalium, nevertheless remains VG in my judgment, jacket clean, bright and unworn. Issued as Journeyman Chapbook 7. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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IMPRESSIONS OF TANGAREVA (Penrhyn Island) 1816-1901
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Printed in Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 1984. 1st ed. . Ill. white glossy p/b. VG-. 21.5 Cms x 30 Cms. iv+148, maps to pp.1/2, about 12 unnumbered text ills (mostly photos); a compilation of 48 extracts from original sources in various sized typescript fonts. Frequently used authors include William Wyatt Gill (a missionary), James Chalmers and James Harris Cullen (all missionaries). Internally fine butlarge glossy cover has slight outer corner bumping and another bump bottom back spine, also a few minor light surface marks plus specks and small patches of loss of sirface sheen to back, only visible at an angle. Apparently scarce.
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HENRY PURCELL Glory of His Age
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London: Hutchinson, 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Black cloth with gilt sp. lettering, pristine. xvi + 295, 24 ills in 8 pp. plate block ex-pagination; no obvious faults. Unclipped jacket clean and virtually unworn, will add protective sleeve when ordered. . Touch and go whether this is Fine or As New. 16 cm x 24 cm
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HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 'THE NEW AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR' AND 'THE AMERICAN COAST PILOT'
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Salem, Mass.: Peabody Museum, 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine-/No Jacket. dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to fr. and sp., near pristine but small touch of rubbing to bottom sp. and hint of bumping to outer corners. f/piece + xvi + 134+ colophon stating 1,000 copies werew printed, 14 further ills. plates in 5 block ex-pagination; no obvious internal faults bar some apparent tanning spots to one outer margin, Interesting 3 line pencil inscrip. to fr. end-paper explaining this was a preview copy from library of Derek Howse Head of Navigation and Astronomy Dept. at Greenwich Maritime Museum. Sipped in is a 3 pp. carbon copy of a review by Howse (not specified for which publication) stapled at top l.h. corner plus 3 pp. of scribbled notes by him (presumably) held by paper-cllip. Includes brief biographies of those involved in authoring and revising the two works i.e.: James Hamilton Moroe, 3 members of the Blunt Family, 2 Bowdicth's and Lawrence Furlong and William Hooker. The first title was…
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