Clockmaking Past and Present by Gordon G F C (34 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. 232 pages, 35 plates, 2nd edition, enlarged by A.V. May, 1949. This book includes sections on turret clocks and gravity escapements written by Lord Grimthorpe in Clocks, Watches & Bells. A good copy (inscription inside front cover).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No jacket. Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1925. Hardback, 8vo, viii,232pp, illust, 16pp catalogue. Repairer stamp, small label (R. Pringle & Sons, Wilderness Works), spotted/foxed throughout. Original blue clock, rubbed and worn. A fair working copy. /0.6uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).

Condition: Good. 1949. 2nd Edition, Enlarged. 232 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations are lightly tanned throughout. Pencil inscription to rear pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining to rear board.

Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This book does NOT include a 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: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Very good condition, octavo, blue cloth, titles in gilt across front and spine, in tatty remains of the dust wrapper in protective cover, foxing to edges and occasionally internally, book serllers' label on front end paper, illustrated, vii plus 232 pages including index then 16 p[ages of publisher's list for February 1924. [QP].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The boards are a little shelf rubbed.Library markings.No inscription.Well bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 2nd Revised and enlarged edition. Spine and Top Corners bumped, Wear and Nicks on DJ, with losses to spine, front and back of DJ. Sellotape repair on inside of DJ. DJ now protected by clear plastic. ; B&W Plates and Illustrations; 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.9"; 232 pages.

Condition: Good. Light wear and fading to boards. Content has toning to page ends. Notes to rear. DJ with some edge wear, loss and fading.

Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Various(Art and Photographs) (illustrator). First. Boards in blue cloth, near fine, w/ owner bookplate inside front(A. H. Hills, of Hills Bros. Coffee fame). 232p., indexed, plates w/ photographs of examples, sketches and diagrams instruct in mechanical principles. Subtitle: With which is incorporated the more important portions of "Clocks, Watches, and Bells" by the Late Lord Grimthorpe, relating to turret clocks and gravity escapements.".

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). The second impression of this survey on clockmaking by G F C Gordon. The second impression of this work. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper, increasingly scarce. Dedicated to the art of clockmaking, with chapters on the materials and tools, wheels, escapements, pendulums, repairing and restoration, &c.Illustrated with thirty-five plates.Written by G F C Gordon, superintendent of the workshops of the engineering department of Cambridge University. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities, back strip faded. Dust wrapper unclipped with chipping to extremities, loss to head of spine. Original photograph of a clock loosely inserted. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to fore edge, not affecting pages that remain bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Extremities faintly rubbed, and lightly bumped; pages slightly toned; otherwise very good condition in soiled dust jacket. . 232p. Illus. Frontispiece.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Spine faded. Gilt printing on spine. Identification sticker and tape on spine, some foxing and staining on covers, endpapers and edges, bookplate on pastedown, stamp on free endpaper, half-title, title and preface page, slightly unhinged. Else in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.

Hardcover. Condition: good. no jacket. no additional printings listed . NOT an ex library book. Book with blue cloth binding, fade on spine. 232 pages including the index.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Faded and worn blue cloth bound hardback book. No dust jacket. Good condition, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. Gilt titles on both front board and spine. 232 pages all intact, small amounts of foxing. All pages, text and illustrations are in reasonable, clean, readable order. An informative book that deserves to be preserved for future generations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover edition, published by Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1928. A thorough review of the art and science of clockmaking. The author was the Superintendent of the Engineering Department of Cambridge University. This is the UK edition from Crosby Lockwood, known for their technical books and guides. 232 pages, with Index and more than 30 plates, 5-3/4" X 8-3/4". Sturdy brown cloth covered boards, with the title and author name on the spine panel in gold, and impressed on the front cover as well. Very mild wear to the edges at the head and heel of the spine and the very tips of the corners are slightly bumped inward. There are some notes and underlining on pages 116 - 120. Fore edge of the text block has just a couple of dots of age foxing. Binding is tight. This copy is not an ex-library copy. No dust jacket. The attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.

Hardcover. Condition: Used: Acceptable. Hardback no dust jacket internally clean but pages showing their age, aged dust to page edges and cover stained. Size: a5 blue hard to read spine garag.

. 22 cm. VIII-232 pág. y 16 pág. de cat edit. Ilustr. con 29 figuras, en el texto, y 25 láminas con fotografías, fuera del texto. Enc. tela edit. Ligera señal de óxido. Relojería.

London, 1949. XVII,232 pp. 27 b./w. figs. Cloth.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Ex-Library. Hardback/Hardcover. Well-read copy with some spine wear but still useable. Colouring of pages due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.