Gamble Sidney Gompertz (6 results)

Condition: Good. 1941. Third Edition. 543 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are bright with visible thumb-marking. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild sunning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Large water stains to boards.

Super octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 544pp + 1pp advert, illus, VG- (staining to boards, dampstaining to rear board & last few pages, bruising to spine extrems & board corners, sellotape residue stains & soiling to eps, tanning to page edges).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. A Practical Treatise on Outbreaks of Fire: Being a Systematic Study of Their Causes and Means of Prevention - Sidney Gompertz Gamble. Published by Charles Griffin and Company, Limited, Hardback (no dust jacket), 1942. third edition; second impression. Illustrated. The author, Sidney Gompertz-Gamble, served all his 26 years as the deputy chief of the London Fire Brigade. He remains the longest served deputy Chief Officer in the history of the Brigade.This book is a comprehensive work on fire, its causes, consequences, materials, fire prevention and more.Condition: The pages are clean and tightly bound. Outside, around the page edges, there.

Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Original blind stamped burgundy cloth, gilt lettered spine, illustrated with b/w photographs, figures/tables, ads, 8vo.

Hardcover. 8vo. Pp xi, 543. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 1 page of book advertisements before frontispiece and 7 pages of advertisements for fire-fighting equipment at the rear. Very good minusminus. In publisher's red cloth with their insignia blind stamped on the front board. The front board is slightly faded at the top left hand corner. The spine is rubbed at the head and foot and the corners of the book are bumped and rubbed. The endpapers are tanned and the page edges are spotted. Gift inscription to ffep.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 582. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1926 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 582.