Clockmaking Past Present by Gordon (34 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright, copious pen rear pastedown, webbing showing at gutters. Poor DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

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.

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.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: Fair. 1925. Trade Edition. 232 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Black and white photographic plates to centre of book. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Fraying to cloth to edges. Wear marks overall.

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.".

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

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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. 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. Octavo. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt stamped titles in illustrated jacket. 232 pages, 35 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm. VG/G-. Jacket has large chunks missing largest being the top quarter of the jacket from the rear board to a quarter of the way into the front board. A few other tiny chips, rubbing and general wear. Book itself is clean, unmarked, besides some foxing around he text block edges.

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. Clockmaking, Past and Present by G.F.C. GordonPublished by EP Publishing, 1978Condition is good, with dust jacket.

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.

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. 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. 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.

. 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.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 310 1:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 310.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 310.