Search Results: Titles starting with U from Zetetic Books

Aberdeen: James Leatham, 1891. 16pp, original paper covers. Lightly browned, tiny nick to head, final page of text browned, otherwise clean. Without the Reeves advert to head of title and with the upper case 'S' in 'Country-Side', which LeMire relegates behind the other 1891 edition. LeMire A-56.02; Buxton Forman 131 (showing the cover without the Reeves advert); Stammhammer III:238.9. Second Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 16mo. Pamphlet.

Aberdeen: James Leatham, 1891. 16pp, original paper covers. Lightly browned, final page of text browned, otherwise clean. Without the Reeves advert to head of title and the upper case 'S' in 'Country-Side', which LeMire relegates behind the other 1891 edition. LeMire A-56.02; Buxton Forman 131 (showing the cover without the Reeves advert); Stammhammer III:238.9. Second Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 16mo. Pamphlet.

London: Balne [Printer], 1836. Single sided printed hand bill, approximately 95mm x 265mm in size. Browned, trimmed quite closely, some creasing and a couple of tiny nicks. The printer was probably [Giles] Balne (fl.1799-1838) of Gracechurch Street, London (BBTI). The 'Mr. Green' was almost certainly Charles Green (1785-1864), a professional balloonist between 1821 and 1840, this being his two hundred twenty-fourth aerial voyage. Later that year (November 1836), Green, with Mason and Holland, flew from Vauxhall Gardens London in the 'Royal Vauxhall'. The flight covered a record distance (until 1907) of 480 miles, landing in Germany after eighteen hours. Green was the first to use "coal-gas" for lift (1821), the first to use a drag rope for ballast and he made five cross-channel attempts, with three being successful, and two ending in the sea (information from ballooninghistory). Admission was two shillings and sixpence, with the Coldstream and Quadrille bands also attending. See Altick, 'The Shows of… Read More

San Francisco: Celestial Arts, 1970. Single sided printed poster, approximately 880mm x 590mm in size. Slightly curled from being rolled, otherwise bright and clean. Image of Nixon and Agnew as Wyatt and Billy from the film 'Easy Rider'. First Edition. Unbound. Good+. Elephant Folio (Oblong). Posters.

London: Anti-Apartheid Movement [2], 2-38pp, [1], original paper wrappers, n.d. but probably 1962. Staples rusted, slightly rubbed and lightly browned to edges, otherwise fairly bright. Erratum label pasted to reverse of upper cover, also loosely inserted is a leaflet inviting people to join the Anti-Apartheid Movement. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

No Place: No Publisher, 1827. [4], single sheet with conjugate blank, no title, no publisher, no place (though probably Norwich). Small amounts of loss to gutter edge where removed from an album, otherwise quite bright and clean. Proposing the setting up of a Society, 'consisting of Maltsters, Corn Factors, Land Owners and Corn Growers ... That it be the avowed Principle of the Society to Support his Majesty's Government against Frauds, and at the same time Protect the Fair Trader'. First Edition. Unbound. Good. 4to. Leaflet.

London: Peace News, 1943. 8pp, original paper covers. Staple rusted, otherwise clean and fairly bright. BL only in COPAC (erroneously dated 1933). First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London: No Publisher 12pp, original paper wrappers, n.d. but 1972. Quite bright and clean. Printed on three different colours of paper. Volume One Issue One (only, of at least nine). Noyce notes that it was a "radical legal rights magazine, with very good coverage of police corruption. Also details of court procedure and legal representation. No.6 was printed by SW Litho (the printing arm of the Socialist Worker Party, formerly the International Socialists) who pulped the print run without informing 'Up Against The Law' - resulting in legal action" Noyce, 'The Directory of British Alternative Periodicals 1965-1974', 1161. Library Hub notes copies at the BL, Cam, Ox and NLS. First Edition. Unbound. Good+. 4to. Journal.

London: St. Boltoph Publishing Co. Ltd. [10], 11-144pp, original cloth in DJ, n.d. but c.1946. DJ slightly trimmed, spine lightly browned, some chipping to spine ends and corners with small amount of loss, significant closed tear across upper panel, with a couple of smaller closed tears to upper and lower panels, light foxing to edges of text block, small spot of staining to the fore-edges of a few pages, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. An examination of the "stranglehold which big finance has obtained on the whole of our British economy". First Edition. Hardback. Good+/Fair. 8vo.