Crompton Way by Thompson (11 results)

Condition: Fair. 1947. First Edition. 224 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Cracking to back pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards. …

Condition: Fair. 1948. 2nd Impression. 224 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Beige pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Dust jacket attached to boards and protected by plastic wrapper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . 1948 2nd imp, bright clean copy, with dustjacket, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original green gilt-blocked cloth, somewhat dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 224 pages 20 cm. Notes; An imaginative novel about Samuel Crompton, the inventor of the spinning mule. Subjects; Crompton, Samuel 1753-1827 Fiction. Inventors England Fiction. Spinning machinery History Fiction. Industrial revolution England Fiction. Biographical fiction, English. Thompson, T. 1880-1952. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Good condition blue hardback book Cover complete - minor rubbing to edges Pages - some tanning to fly leaf pages but other pages clean and unmarked and text clean and clear. Dust jacket - pictorial - front and back fair but tears to spine and parts missing. Collectable.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear, chipping and small loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with small loss, some slight overall darkening to fab retro jacket by Kirby. Not price clipped (8s 6d), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 224pp. The story of the life and hard times of pioneering inventor and a father of the Industrial Revolution, Samuel Crompton (1753-1827), inventor of the 'Spinning Mule', by Lancashire historian T. (Thomas?) Thompson. Jacket by Kirby (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: DW GOOD, SOME WEAR. INSCRIPTION.

Hardback. Condition: vgc. No Dust Jacket. First. first, tanned, incsription.

Hardback. Condition: vgc. No Dust Jacket. First. first, tanned, incsription.

Hardback. Condition: vgc. First. first, tanned, with DW, Lancashire Dialect vgc, slight wear at the top edge.

Hardback. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. 1st UK, 1st impression. Unique fictionalised account of the life of Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule, one of the key pre-cursors of the Industrial Revolution. Signed and dedicated by author to front endpaper. There is somespotting to top edge (only) and the jacket has some losses to spine extremities; is a little grubby to rear.…