Samuel Smiles Ed (41 results)

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Hardback in Decorated Boards. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket, as issued. 456pp. Moderate wear to extremities else very good condition. Light foxing throughout. Book is as described - all defects and marks are noted. Binding is sound. B&W Illustrations (illustrator).

Tidy Ex Library, Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. pp.xvi+304 +32ads. c.18.5cm. Wood engraved frontispiece and 11 illustrations and maps; some extending over two pages. Lacks free front end paper and half title. Much 'dog-earing' of page corners and some soiling and marks. Hard cover. The original green cloth with bevelled boards gilt titling and black decorations. Light wear to the edges and corners. A complete, but for the half title, and a fair to good copy The first 20 chapters, to page 220, are devoted to the journey out from Gravesend to Australia (12 chapters on Victoria), New Zealand and 'up the Pacific' to Oahu. The final 7 on North America. [549g].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The M.I.T. Press, MA. The book covers the engineering accomplishments of the 'Father of English Canals', the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the builder of London's Waterloo and New London Bridges. A reprint of the 1861 original book. Very good copy of the hard cover book in a good dust jacket. The dust jacket has a 1.5 inch tear along the back spine fold and a 1 inch tear along the back cover fold. 447 pages.…

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Octavo hardcover (G+) prelims detached but present; 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.…

Sm octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, frontispiece, xx + 450pp, illus, VG (sl bruising to extrems, light to moderate fading & sioling to spine, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to some gutters).

octavo hardcover, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decorative rule and motif stamped on front board, decorative rule tooling to read board, frontispiece, postcard stuck to front and rear pastedown, xviii + 456pp., VG- (heavy scuffing and brusing to board and spine extrems, moderate scuffing to boards, moderate creasing to hinges, heavy tanning to page edges, moderate splitting to gutters, moderate tanning to page interiors). …

IN SLIPCASE, imperial octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt & black illus to front board, illus eps & title page, xviii + 380pp, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, VG+ (minor bruising & chafing/soiling).

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. VG black leather spines ribbed gilt Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices by Anthony Trollope. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. In original, stout burgundy cloth boards with gilt-blocked illustration of a press. Loss of brightness to gilt titling on the spine, which is rather faded and worn at head and foot. The front hinge is cracked with the front endpapers and portrait of Nasmyth with tissue protection forming a loose entity - as is the Nasmyth engraving titlted 'The antiquarian'. Otherwise the binding is sound. The text is unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1883, 1st thus. Thick Octavo. xviii, 456pp plus adverts. Illustrated. Original green cloth, gilt titles and decoration. Some rubbing to extremities. Binding a bit shaken with gutter weak internally in a few places. Sporadic foxing and spotting. Heraldic bookplate to end paper. Overall a 'Good' copy only.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. pp.290 (last blank) +2 +6 (ads). c.19cm. Wood engraved frontispiece, with tissue guard. 15 small wood engraved sketch maps and illustrations in the text. Index. Hard covers. The original cloth with gilt title lettering and rules to the spine and the upper cover. Slight wear to head and foot of spine and corners of the boards. A good clean copy The journeyings over two years of Samuel Smiles' son, commencing when 16 years old. He arrived in Melbourne in 1869 and 12 chapters are devoted to Australia; then he moves on to New Zealand and across the Pacific to North America. Much detail and observation. [506g].…

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Condition: New. The autobiography of one of the last pioneers of the machine tool industry, James Nasmyth (1808-1890). Editor(s): Smiles, Samuel. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology. Num Pages: 500 pages, 11 b/w illus. BIC Classification: WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 31. Weight in Grams: 658. . 2010. Paperback. . . . . …

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition antique book and an ex-library rebind into maroon hardcover boards with contemporary stickers on the front cover and general, all-over scuffing. Some dust darkening and toning to the textblock edges and margins. The binding is reliable and the print is perfectly legible.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. G+ black leather spines ribbed gilt. Loose 9 page section. In the Hunting Field & A Walk in a Wood by Anthony Trollope. Book.

Condition: New. The autobiography of one of the last pioneers of the machine tool industry, James Nasmyth (1808-1890). Editor(s): Smiles, Samuel. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology. Num Pages: 500 pages, 11 b/w illus. BIC Classification: WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 31. Weight in Grams: 658. . 2010. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Bien. Idioma español. Ejemplar en buen estado. Encuadernación en tapa dura, de la editorial. Dimensiones: 18x12 - 377 pp.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). First. Illustrated. Large 12mo, original green cloth, lettered in gilt and with black-stamped decorations. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1872]. First American edition. Spine ends are just a bit worn and there is an 1879 inscription on verso of frontispiece, still a very good(+) copy of this uncommon title. Author was the sixteen year old son of Samuel Smiles who edited this book.…

Hard Cover Gold Blocked. Condition: Very Goodfor Age. Fine Early Edition. 450 pp clean & bright, unmarked. a few pages towards end are uncut, fine case with gold blocking, see illus. Size: Crown. Frontis Porttait + Many Others (illustrator). Autobiography.

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