Peel Mrs Cs (158 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. pp. 104.

Condition: New. pp. 104.

Condition: New. pp. 104.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Printing. Reflections on a century's progress in ordinary persons' lives, rather thn an account of kings and wars; topics include transportation, communication, education, royalty, the wealthy, the middle classes, servants, the poor. Second printing, in the year of original publication. Stout hardcover, full green cloth, gilt titling. Shows some wear, corners rubbed, minor scuffing to rear cover; big shop rubberstamp inside front cover and page 115, part of jacket pasted to free endsheet, light foxing. Text clean; xxii, [2], 258 pages + 6 pages ads; index, brief bibliography, 48 b/w plates as called for. Size: Thick Octavo.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The North American Review Vol. 211 No. 2 February 1920. Various (illustrator).

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content age-toned, some loose plates, 258pp. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Pp. 48. Illustrated. Staples rusted. Light wear to covers. Else good.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 5th or later Edition. Sixth Edition, 212pp + adverts, harcover, bound in green pictorial cloth, lacks green cloth on spine but binding holding, fair condition, Associated Newspapers Ltd, London, 1922.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards have some wear, some fading and soiling. No end paper. Content has light toning. No DJ.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback. Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: acceptable. revised. VERY GOOD chipped dj.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Fair. 1902. No edition remarks. 238 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and moderate foxing throughout, heavy to endpapers. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Boards have notable edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has notable crushing and tearing to ends. Book has backward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Large water stains to boards.…

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xx,265pp, illustrated, somebrowning and foxing throughout, flyleaf removed and inner hinges cracked, purple cloth, worn, torn at top of spine, Fair condition / no dustwrapper.

Sm. octavo hardcover (VG-) split to spine and front board joints and hinge - front board delicate but still attached; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

1st Ed. 8vo. xix + 265pp. 83 b/w ills. from contemporary sources, foxing. Original boards, slightly faded spine. Purple cloth with gold text. US$10.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1926 1st Edition John Lane The Bodley Head Hard Back Book. Good+ Condition Book. Bumping / Rubbing to the corners of the boards, some bumping / rubbing to head / tail of the spine, small blemish to the front board (see image). Binding is solid, pages clean and bright, occasional signs of separation, pages are all secure. One Hundred Wonderful Years: A Social & Domestic Life of a Century, 1820-1920 is a social history book by Mrs Charles S. Peel, first published in 1926. Rather than focusing on politics or wars, it looks at how everyday life changed during the hundred years from 1820 to 1920. The book covers topics such as: Home life and housekeeping Food, cooking, and household management Travel and transport Fashion and dress Social customs and etiquette Education and recreation Changes brought by industrialisation and new inventions Its aim is to show how dramatically ordinary British life changed across the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century, tracing the move from a largely pre-industrial society to the modern age. The subtitle itself describes it as"A Social & Domestic Life of a Century, 1820-1920.".…

Cloth. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. 1915. 1st ed. 206pp. plus ad lls. Age toned but clean in publishers' cloth. Darkened and slightly ragged otherwise good. Images available on request.