Ian Norrie Editor (8 results)

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Cloth, G+. xiv+208pp, decorated endpapers, 15 b/w illustrations, 10pp b/w plates, index, cloth a little rubbed & worn. A collection of 22 essays about the history, architecture & people of the City of Westminster in London. 650 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover; fading, light soiling, and staining to cover; bump to bottom of spine; bottom of cover exposed to moisture at some point, causing a slight warp at bottom; otherwise in good condition with clean text, tight binding.

Hardciover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 237pp. Photos by Edwin Smith, drawings by ronald Saxby. Dust jacket has repaired tear using archival tape, slight tip wear. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Calligraphy by George Simpson, Architectural Photography by Keith Wynn. 101 Comments, from Samuel Johnson and Charles Dickens to Kingsley Amis and Alan Coren. Illustrated with portraits of the authors and phots of their house. Architectural comment by Nicolaus Pevsner. Purple cloth cover with Gilt lettering to spine. 192 Pages, 990g, 1 1/4" Tall. Nice presentation label on back of half title page, dated 1988. Very slight edge wear at top & bottom of jacket, Clipped. Weighs just over 1 Kilo packed so Shipping outside UK will be a little extra. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Xii, 237, [I]. Blue Cloth , Gilt, Map Endpapers. First Printing. Lightly Used, Gilt Brilliant, Fading Right Along Bottom Edge Of Covers. Dust Jacket Price Clipped, Light Wear, , Tears At Top Edge Of Spine Panel. Newly Commissioned Essays Detailing How A Single City Exploited The World For Its Benefit, Like Great Cities Everywhere But Much More Successfully, Now Focused On Finance Using Other People's Money To Further Enrich The Rich.…

8vo. x, 180pp, plates and text illustrations, double-sided photo plates. Original red cloth gilt, pictorial eps, chipped d/w. Light staining to cloth. Editor's letter to Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth loosely enclosed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. This copy is in fine, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The price clipped dust wrapper is in fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This volume of newly commissioned essays is designed to evoke the flavour and atmosphere of the City of London. It is not intended to be a comprehensive history or guide book but a souvenir for those who have spent their working lives in the Square Mile, and would not wish to have spent them elsewhere, and a stimulus to those who have so far not troubled overmuch to become intimately acquainted with their daytime environment. This is the ideal volume for the guest rooms and libraries of all those houses, scattered over London and the Home Counties, inhabited by people who are 'Something in the City'. Ref NNN 5. Ronald Saxby & Edwin Smith (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 255 x 160 mm approx. Top edge stained blue, maps to end papers, x + 180 pp + 2 of publisher's adverts. 15 line drawings by Ronald Saxby + 20 pp of monochrome photographs all as called for. First Edition 1962. An anthology/ Miscellany chosen and edited by Ian Norrie. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Very Good (Book- no notable shelf wear to cloth, previous owner name and date to half title in ink felt tip. Dust Jacket- mild rubbing to extremities, some soiling and fading to spine with tanning to white titles, non price clipped - cover 30s. No other notable defects to book or jacket). Please state when placing order if you would wish that a removable proprietary protective sleeve be fitted. RONALD SAXBY (illustrator).…