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A survey of the city of Worcester, containing the ecclesiastical and civil government thereof, as originally founded, and the present administration as since reformed. Comprehending also the most material parts of its history, from its Foundation to the present Time. Extracted from the best Authorities. Together With an Account of whatever is most remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity, or Use, in this antient City. The whole embellished with sixteen copper-plates of Perspective Views of the Publick Buildings, &c. engraved from original Drawings, taken on Purpose for this Work. by Green, Valentine (1739-1813) - 1764

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A survey of the city of Worcester, containing the ecclesiastical and civil government thereof, as originally founded, and the present administration as since reformed. Comprehending also the most material parts of its history, from its Foundation to the present Time. Extracted from the best Authorities. Together With an Account of whatever is most remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity, or Use, in this antient City. The whole embellished with sixteen copper-plates of Perspective Views of the Publick Buildings, &c. engraved from original Drawings, taken on Purpose for this Work. by Green, Valentine (1739-1813) - 1764

A survey of the city of Worcester, containing the ecclesiastical and civil government thereof, as originally founded, and the present administration as since reformed. Comprehending also the most material parts of its history, from its Foundation to the present Time. Extracted from the best Authorities. Together With an Account of whatever is most remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity, or Use, in this antient City. The whole embellished with sixteen copper-plates of Perspective Views of the Publick Buildings, &c. engraved from original Drawings, taken on Purpose for this Work.

by Green, Valentine (1739-1813)

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Worcester: Worcester: printed by J. Butler for S. Gamidge, at Prior's Head, 1764. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. First edition; octavo; [4],vii,[1],252pp, with full complement of 16 plates, list of subscribers on p.[iv]-vii, and neat early handwritten bibliographical note opposite title page. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards (a little worn with minor loss to extremities, hinges cracked but secure), five raised spine bands,early engraved heradlic book label to front pastedown, a clean complete and attractive example with delightfully fresh plates of this early Worcester imprint, the first dedicated account of the city as it stood in the eighteenth century. ESTC T146687.
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  • Publisher Worcester: printed by J. Butler for S. Gamidge, at Prior's Head
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  • Date Published 1764
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The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by A. Pendennis Esqre. With...
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The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by A. Pendennis Esqre. With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Richard Doyle.

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London: Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars., 1855. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. Doyle, Richard. FIRST EDITION; octavo, two volumes complete, viii+380+viii+376pp. In attractive Victorian black half leather over purple cloth boards, five raised spine bands, red and green gilt-lettered leather title labels in second and fourth compartments, other compartments richly gilt, binding with only the lightest of wear and very light fading to cloth boards. With marbled page edges and matching original marbled endpapers. Occasional unobtrusive light stains and browning (especially to outer margins of plates well clear of printed images) but overall a clean copy free from foxing and with full complement of 46 engraved plates (including engraved frontispiece to each volume) and numerous in-text illustrations. Bound up from original parts with small stab holes to inner margins. A very attractive set in first edition.
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The History of England from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second.  (Designed as a...
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The History of England from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second. (Designed as a continuation of Mr.Hume's History.) In Five Volumes. A New Edition, with the Author's last Corrections and Improvements.

by Smollett, Tobias.

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London: London: Printed for T.Cadell, in the Strand; and R.Baldwin, No.47, Pater-Noster-Row, 1791. Full leather. Good. Heath, Caldwell, Collyer et al.. Five volumes complete; octavo; [ii], 515, 574, 548, 510, 390, [unpaginated Index of c.150pp]. In full contemporary speckled calf (worn with loss to extremities, hinges cracked but secure), flat spines divided by gilt double fillets into six compartments, gilt-lettered spine labels in second compartments (but labels to vol.1 missing and partially absent to vols.2 and 4), volume number labels missing from fourth compartments, ink ownership inscriptions to free free endpapers, marginal wormtrack to first 50pp of vol.2 not affecting text, otherwise a sound complete set with a number of attractive engraved portraits. ESTC T55318, citing just four UK institutional locations.
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LECTERN PRAYER BOOK:  The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other...
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Cambridge: Cambridge: Printed by John Burges, Printer to the University; and sold by F. & C. Rivington, J. White, and J. Mawman, in London; and J. Deighton, in Cambridge, 1801. Full leather. Very Good. Large folio; not paginated; collates A-5A2 [Common Prayer], A-F2 [Constitutions Ecclesiastical], A-G4 [Psalms]pp. In contemporary full reverse panelled calf (a little stained and worn with minor loss), six raised spine bands, gilt lettered red morocco label to front board ('Chipping Barnet. Rev. B. Underwood M.A., Rector; Isaac Newton, Thomas Tapster, Churchwardens; 1806'). A few quires towards front of the volume creased with occasional tears and loss to few pages; damp damage and tears to outer lower corner of final 30 leaves with loss of text; occasional light spots and browning, otherwise a sound copy of this finely printed, monumentally large lectern edition. Housed in recent brown cloth solander box with gilt lettered spine. Rev. Benjamin Underwood A.M. (1736-1815) was Rector of St… Read More
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The History of Blockley in the County of Worcester
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by Soden, Alfred J.

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Coventry: Coventry: Printed, for Private Circulation Only, by J. W. Parbury, West Orchard, 1875. 1st Edition . Full cloth. Very Good. First edition, quarto; [x], 129pp, complete with 10 plates (including 7 sepia lithographs) and a hadnful of in-text woodcuts. In contemporary green cloth (very lightly worn) with gilt arms to centre of front board and gilt lettering direct to spine. Early ink ownership names to front free endpaper and reverse of frontispiece, binders ticket to rear pastedown, endpapers stained by turn-ins, small light marginal stain to frontispiece well clear of image, a very clean attractive copy of this uncommon history.
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Sketch of the antiquities of the ancient city of Worcester, illustrated with fourteen...
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London: London: printed for and sold by Greenland & Norris, Finsbury Square, 1805. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. Two separate works in one volume. First editions, octavo. Sketch of Worcester: [2], 16pp, with full complement of 14 engraved plates, one folding. Memoirs of Charles I: [1], 22, [ii]pp, complete with engraved title-page bearing portrait of Charles I and 17 engraved portrait plates together with closing publisher's adverts. In contemporary full speckled leather (lightly worn with minor loss to extremities), gilt rolls to board margins, spine gilt, gilt lettered black leather spine label, marbled endpapers with internal hinges expertly reinforced in matching blue cloth, twentieth century ownership label to front blank, sporadic light paper browning and unobtrusive soiling, overall an attractive complete copy of these two uncommon illustrated titles. The Sketch of Worcester is listed in ESTC (T155523) since it was previously thought to have been printed around 1760; 4xUK… Read More
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The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by A. Pendennis Esqre. With...
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The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by A. Pendennis Esqre. With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Richard Doyle.

by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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London: Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars., 1855. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. Doyle, Richard. FIRST EDITION; octavo, two volumes complete, viii+380+viii+376pp. In attractive Victorian black half leather over purple cloth boards, five raised spine bands, red and green gilt-lettered leather title labels in second and fourth compartments, other compartments richly gilt, binding with only the lightest of wear and very light fading to cloth boards. With marbled page edges and matching original marbled endpapers. Occasional unobtrusive light stains and browning (especially to outer margins of plates well clear of printed images) but overall a clean copy free from foxing and with full complement of 46 engraved plates (including engraved frontispiece to each volume) and numerous in-text illustrations. Bound up from original parts with small stab holes to inner margins. A very attractive set in first edition.
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The History of England from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second.  (Designed as a...
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The History of England from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second. (Designed as a continuation of Mr.Hume's History.) In Five Volumes. A New Edition, with the Author's last Corrections and Improvements.

by Smollett, Tobias.

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London: London: Printed for T.Cadell, in the Strand; and R.Baldwin, No.47, Pater-Noster-Row, 1791. Full leather. Good. Heath, Caldwell, Collyer et al.. Five volumes complete; octavo; [ii], 515, 574, 548, 510, 390, [unpaginated Index of c.150pp]. In full contemporary speckled calf (worn with loss to extremities, hinges cracked but secure), flat spines divided by gilt double fillets into six compartments, gilt-lettered spine labels in second compartments (but labels to vol.1 missing and partially absent to vols.2 and 4), volume number labels missing from fourth compartments, ink ownership inscriptions to free free endpapers, marginal wormtrack to first 50pp of vol.2 not affecting text, otherwise a sound complete set with a number of attractive engraved portraits. ESTC T55318, citing just four UK institutional locations.
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LECTERN PRAYER BOOK:  The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other...
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Cambridge: Cambridge: Printed by John Burges, Printer to the University; and sold by F. & C. Rivington, J. White, and J. Mawman, in London; and J. Deighton, in Cambridge, 1801. Full leather. Very Good. Large folio; not paginated; collates A-5A2 [Common Prayer], A-F2 [Constitutions Ecclesiastical], A-G4 [Psalms]pp. In contemporary full reverse panelled calf (a little stained and worn with minor loss), six raised spine bands, gilt lettered red morocco label to front board ('Chipping Barnet. Rev. B. Underwood M.A., Rector; Isaac Newton, Thomas Tapster, Churchwardens; 1806'). A few quires towards front of the volume creased with occasional tears and loss to few pages; damp damage and tears to outer lower corner of final 30 leaves with loss of text; occasional light spots and browning, otherwise a sound copy of this finely printed, monumentally large lectern edition. Housed in recent brown cloth solander box with gilt lettered spine. Rev. Benjamin Underwood A.M. (1736-1815) was Rector of St… Read More
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The History of Blockley in the County of Worcester
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Coventry: Coventry: Printed, for Private Circulation Only, by J. W. Parbury, West Orchard, 1875. 1st Edition . Full cloth. Very Good. First edition, quarto; [x], 129pp, complete with 10 plates (including 7 sepia lithographs) and a hadnful of in-text woodcuts. In contemporary green cloth (very lightly worn) with gilt arms to centre of front board and gilt lettering direct to spine. Early ink ownership names to front free endpaper and reverse of frontispiece, binders ticket to rear pastedown, endpapers stained by turn-ins, small light marginal stain to frontispiece well clear of image, a very clean attractive copy of this uncommon history.
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Sketch of the antiquities of the ancient city of Worcester, illustrated with fourteen...
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London: London: printed for and sold by Greenland & Norris, Finsbury Square, 1805. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. Two separate works in one volume. First editions, octavo. Sketch of Worcester: [2], 16pp, with full complement of 14 engraved plates, one folding. Memoirs of Charles I: [1], 22, [ii]pp, complete with engraved title-page bearing portrait of Charles I and 17 engraved portrait plates together with closing publisher's adverts. In contemporary full speckled leather (lightly worn with minor loss to extremities), gilt rolls to board margins, spine gilt, gilt lettered black leather spine label, marbled endpapers with internal hinges expertly reinforced in matching blue cloth, twentieth century ownership label to front blank, sporadic light paper browning and unobtrusive soiling, overall an attractive complete copy of these two uncommon illustrated titles. The Sketch of Worcester is listed in ESTC (T155523) since it was previously thought to have been printed around 1760; 4xUK… Read More
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A survey of the city of Worcester, containing the ecclesiastical and civil government thereof, as...
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Worcester: Worcester: printed by J. Butler for S. Gamidge, at Prior's Head, 1764. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. First edition; octavo; [4],vii,[1],252pp, with full complement of 16 plates, and list of subscribers on p.[iv]-vii. Recent period-style half calf over marbled boards with five raised spine bands between glt single fillets and gilt-lettered red morocco title label in second compartment, plate of King Edgar's Tower laid down on matching paper preserving decent margins around printed image,very occasional unobtrusive spots and stains, otherwise a very clean complete copy in attractive period binding of this early Worcester imprint and first dedicated account of the city as it stood in the eighteenth century. ESTC T146687.
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Secret Splendor (Silhouette Classics, No 11)

Secret Splendor (Silhouette Classics, No 11)

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Bloody Sunrise

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1965 - First Edition stated - A Tiger Mann Mystery - "...for Tiger is told on his wedding day that he is needed for Operation Plato." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - no previous owner markings - dj: vibrant colors with some rubbing to the black base and abstract sun - interesting black and white photo of Spillane on the back cover - a few chips repaired with archival tape - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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More Than Forever
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by McLean, Jay

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2014. Book Four in the More Than Series 8vo size trade paperback; 369 pages Please note: This book has a Mature Readers Advisory. From back: "Lucy - There is love so fierce it cannot be measured... Cameron - Forever. Everlasting. Eternal. THere is no measure of time... But our forever isn't always." Creased back cover and last few pages, worn corners. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Private Press.
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by Marcus, Phillip

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Bradbury & Evans, 2007. Covers PC-CD ROM/DVD ROM & Playstation 3 Computer Entertainment System 4to sized softcover; 271 heavy glossy pages with color illustrations throughout Brand new, but note some edgewear and blemish to top of back cover. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. New/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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The Birth and Death of Meaning:  An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man
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New York: The Free Press, 1971. Second Edition. Contents include: The Man-Apes; The Origins of the Mind; The Distinctive Human; The Inner World; Socialization: the Creation of the Inner World; The New Meaning of the Oedipus Complex; Self-Esteem; Culture and Personality; Social Encounters: The Staging of Self-Esteem; Culture: the Relativity of Hero-Systems; What is Normal?; What Would A Science of Man Then Be?; Religion: The Quest for the Ideal Heroism. 228 pages. Edgewear; light wear to covers; worn corners and light creases on spine. Deeply creased spine opens flat at pages 60/61. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. 2nd. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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by Day, Karen

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2011. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 215 pages. Signed by author on title page. Stated First Edition From jacket: "(Lucy) wants to get out of Boston and forget her worries about starting middle school and about her father's new girlfriend. Pierson Point is where she feels most like herself, and where memories of her mother, who died when Lucy was six, are strong and sacred. But this summer, nothing is the same. Ian, a boy from home in Boston, comes to Pierson Point...Lucy's father wants his girlfriend to become a bigger part of Lucy's life. Though Lucy struggles against change, she gradually realizes that sometimes, change is for the better. Average wear to jacket; bumped corners and head and heel of spine, owner's name on fep. Autographed Copy sticker on front of jacket; one previously folded page corner. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits… Read More
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The Republic Of Plato: A New Version Founded On Basic English

by Richards, I.A

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1942 - noted on the copyright page as "A WARTIME BOOK This complete edition is produced in full compliance with the government's regulations for conserving paper and other essential materials" book: very good -tight, sound, and square, no previous owner marks - moderate edgewear plus rubbing to the boards - some toning from age - no dj - includes a vintage (pre - "The Google") Buccaneer Books Laguna Beach, CA out-of-print book search card
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A study of child-nature from the Kindergarten Standpoint
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A study of child-nature from the Kindergarten Standpoint

by Elizabeth Harrison

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A study of child-nature from the Kindergarten Standpoint by Elizabeth Harrison. Published by Chicago Kindergarten College; 4th edition (1892). 207 pages. Interior clean and unmarked except for previous owner's name and date of Aug 1893 on fly page. Another fly page has "Compliments Chicago Kindergarten College Co." in handwriting. Edge of several pages have slight bend and small tear. Hardback with no dj if offered. Slight bumping on edges and spine. Blue cloth cover and spine has some fading. Condition: Good. Measures 7.5" x 5"
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Kane & Abel
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Kane & Abel

by Jeffrey Archer

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New York, 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club/Has Jacket. Book is a book club edition. Quite a few closed tears, chips, and other signs of wear to the dust jacket. Some bumping to the boards at corners, edges and ends of the spine. Pages are clean.
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Beautiful Leaved Plants
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Beautiful Leaved Plants

by Perry, Frances

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1980 - 1st United States ed - 64 full-page plates - "This unusual book about indoor plants is based on plates first printed from 1861 to 1891 by Benjamin Fawcett, who developed a technique of colour printing from multiple engraved wood blocks which in its richness and depth of tones gives a result unsurpassed by other nineteenth-century printers in colour." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - all pages are clean and unmarked - moderate edge wear on the boards - dj: normal edge wear for age - toning of the white background throughout but this makes it look nicely aged for the beautiful colour prints - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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