Walter G Bell (39 results)

Condition: Good. 1935. First Edition. 158 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout, notable in places. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Notable sunning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Mild water stains and droplets to boards.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Good Jacket. . Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 160 pages. Shelf wear; pages yellowed; a cigarette odor inside; a solid book. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Inventory No: 228434.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Reprint. Minor wear to the dust jacket. A neat dedication on the flyleaf. Otherwise a clear, bright copy within.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 2nd Edition. xiii 361pp hardback, green cloth gilt in wrapper wrapper with edge tears, frontispiece and bw plates some folding.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. The dustwrapper is in two halves, tanned, has some wear to the edges and corners, with some rips and chips to the edges. The green boards are clean with minimal wear to the edges, with clear black lettering to the spine and front, small marks to inside covers otherwise in good condition. The binding is firm. The pages appear clean and crease free. This book has 240 pages. All in all a nice example of this book.…

Condition: Good. 1951. 1926 Reprint. 334 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have slight shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are notably crushed with considerable tanning. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 160 pages. 9.69x6.61x0.39 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd impression, Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, Surface of covers a little grubby, Corners a little worn, Top and bottom of spine bumped and worn, Internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12 preliminary pages, 374 pages, 10 pages of publisher's advertisements, black and white plates (including 5 folding plates), very good condition in cloth binding, top and bottom of spine bumped and slightly rubbed, some spotting throughout, heaviest on the preliminary pages, no dust-wrapper.…

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.…

256pp. 8vo. Original cloth in slipcase. Colour and b/w illustrations, a fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition of 1000 copies. 10.25 x 7.25 inches. vii, 145 pp. Yellow cloth lettered in black at spine. Fine. In lightly chipped and creased glassine dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1929 very good hardback, foxing and browning to page edges and endpapers, in a good dust wrapper, corners and edges rubbed, spine browned, top and bottom of spine rubbed, small closed tear, small piece missing top right corner of rear cover. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. 296 pages with index. Illustrations. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hard back binding in publisher's original crimson cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 386 pp with 3 folding plates, 41 monochrome illustrations including plans and drawings and archive photographs. Folding plates in As New conditionLight sun fading to red of the spine, slight splitting between page sections at page 275, binding still good, foxing to closed fore edges and in Good condition. DJ is complete but has several tears and chips, small missing areas, unclipped (25s net). Tipped in colour print of an image of the great fire attached to rear FEP. …

Revised Ed. 8vo. xiii + 361pp. B/w ills. and fold out graphs. Original boards with d/w, price-clipped and slight loss to top corners. US$22.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Covers have heavy wear, rubbing and loss of cloth dye. Corners and ends of spine bumped and rounded. Binding tight. No writing. x + 124 pages including index + fold out map and transmittal letter and book mark laid in. Record of the London Wall built by the Romans and then current efforts to map and preserve it. Black and white illustrations. Size: 5.5 x 8.75.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Backstrip torn. Bookplate on front pastedown. From the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library, an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., with the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period in Britain and Europe. With bookplate and deaccession stamp on rear pastedown. No other library markings unless noted. (London, England, Architecture, History).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 755 grams. The front hinge is broken.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A touch of foxing to end leaves, NEAR FINE bright copy in publishers red bevel edged cloth with titles and cover decoration in gilt; errata sheet tipped in at contents page. With 46 illustrations. A pleasing collectors copy.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. 1 vol. 14x22 cm, 386 p. ; Relié, pleine toile et sa jaquette. Jaq. un peu défraichie et dos insolé. 16D1.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 43 pages. Catalogue for the exhibition Watercolour Painting in Saskatchewan 1905-1980 at the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, December 4, 1980 to January 4, 1981. Printed upon glossy stock. Includes artist biographies, exhibition checklist and numerous black and white reproductions of paintings. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Inglis Sheldon-Williams ; Augustus Kenderdine ; Walter Loos; William G. Griffiths Jean Bell (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A thorough history of Westminster"s Burgess Court from 1585 to 1901, tracing the workings of a vanished civic system on the eve of modern London government, illustrated with plates. In the publisher's original navy cloth binding.First edition.Illustrated with 36 monochrome plates and facsimiles including a frontispiece and one fold-out plate. Collated, complete.A detailed historical narrative charting the governance of Westminster under the Burgess Court from the late 16th century until its dissolution and replacement by the modern borough structure in 1901, examining the Court"s powers, customs, civic offices, administrative practices and role in the daily regulation of Westminster life. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities and boards. Very slight spotting to upper extremities of rear board. Small newspaper clipping neatly taped to rear paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Hinges slightly strained in places, but firm. Pages bright and clean with the odd light spot, heavier to first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed. None Stated (illustrator). book.…

Condition: Good. London: John Lane, The Bordley Head, 1907. 4to. xii,117pp. Illus. Limited edition, #20. Initialled by artist on limitation page. Good book. Spine ends worn. Boards shelfworn, lower corners bent and frayed. Signatures B, C, F, L-Q cracked, others stressed. Inquire if you need further information.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A lovely copy of the first edition, limited to 310 copies, of this scarce topographical work on the London Thames in the publisher's original cloth binding with thirty-one lithographic plates by Thomas R. Way. The first edition, limited to 310 copies, of this scarce topographical work on the London Thames in the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt decoration.With thirty-one plates, including a colour frontispiece and two further coloured tipped-in plates (xxix and xxx) and twenty-eight monochrome lithographic plates. All under captioned tissue guards. Collated, complete.Drawn in lithography by Thomas R. Way and descriptive text by Walter G. Bell.Contains two pages of original publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work. In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt decoration. Externally, smart with slight bumping to extremities and spine head and tail. Internally, mostly firmly bound. Plate xix slightly loose with binding strained. Pages clean and bright with marginal age toning and the odd spot, heavier to the first and last few pages. Contains two pages of original publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work. Very Good Indeed. Thomas R. Way (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Blue decorative front board and spine; gilt title, frontispiece with tissue guard; 30 plates/lithographs with tissue guards; limited to 310 copies; private library label inside; spine tanned a little, foxing and toning to eps.; shelfwear and edgewear, interior clean. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Way, Thomas R. (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ex library hardback with illustrated boards; usual stamps/markings. C/w 21 lithographs with original tissue guards - all intact. Number 103 of limited edition of 310 published in 1907 by The Bodley Head, London. . Litho no 12 partially loose. Front/rear hinges partially split. Binding open in a couple of places but intact. Text/lithos clean. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 16E*.…