Barnett, Henrietta.
Canon Barnett: His Life, Work and Friends
(John Murray, 1918).
With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, plus a typed and signed letter by Henrietta Barnett. Complete in two volumes. Hardbacks. Minor yellow highlighting, lacking spine covers.Good working copies, vol I firm; vol II firm also though with splitting inside at spine. xxiv + 302; xii + 415pp. Order No. NSBK-A15635
Keywords: Henrietta Barnett, Canon Barnett, Samuel Augustus Barnett, housing, social conditions, Octavia Hill, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, Victorian, Edwardian, biography, biographies, social reform, philanthropy, Toynbee, state relief, social problems, poverty
Price £30.00.
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Anon, .
Life at the Cape A Hundred Years Ago:
(Centaur (Pty) Ltd, 1983).
With contemporary illustrations selected from the work of Thomas Bowler. Covers the years 1861-2 in a series of vignettes which first appeared in the Cape Monthly magazine. Chapters include first impressions of people and scenery, Camps Bay, excursion on Table Mountain, Christmas festivities at Wynberg and Newlands, hospitality at Constantia, a picnic at Kalk Bay, a State Ball, Stellenbosch, Wellington and the Paarl. Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly worn dustwrapper. 119pp. Order No. NSBK-C3900
Keywords: 0908379471, Cape Town, South Africa, Table Mountain, autobiographies, autobiography, women, woman, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Wynberg, Newlands, Constantia, Kalk Bay, Stellenbosch, Wellington, Paarl, Berg River
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The Journal of the National Playing Fields Association:
(Nat Play Fields Assoc., Jan. 1933).
Includes an editorial entitled, "The Right Use of Leisure". Paperback. Covers browned, otherwise very good. xiii + 104pp. Order No. NSBK-A3053
Keywords: leisure, playing fields, green fields, sport, recreation, recreation ground, space, National Playing Fields Association, sports, history
Price £2.50.
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Morley Scrap Album:
(Morley College, 1973).
Paperback. Over size, covers slightly soiled, otherwise good, laid out like a scrapbook. pp. Order No. NSBK-A11924
Keywords: B000HC7CLG, Morley College, higher education, education, educational, university, universities, colleges, academia, academe, twentieth century, 20th, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
Price £6.00.
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Gagnon, Serge.
Man and His Past: The Nature and Role of Historiography
(Harvest House, 1982).
Translated by Margaret Heap. Paperback. Fine. vii + 79pp. Order No. NSBK-A11092
Keywords: 0887722156, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, historiography, history of ideas, sociologists, sociology, philosophy, philosophers, Canada, Canadian, French-Canadian, French, France
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Concannon, Dale.
Golf The Early Days: Royal and Ancient Game from its Origins to 1939
(Salamander, 1995).
Hardback. Large book, very good in dustwrapper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A13178
Keywords: 0861018044, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, golf, golfing, golfers, sports, sportsmen, sporting, games
Price £9.00.
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Beauties and Wonders of Vegetable Life: Or, Rambles in Parks, Forests, Conservatories, Orchards, Gardens, Fields and Heaths
(The Religious Tract Soc, n.d., Victorian).
With numerous illustrations. Hardback. Some foxing, some pages loosening at binding, cloth lightly rubbed, otherwise good. vi + 276pp. Order No. NSBK-A2869
Keywords: flora, vegetable, botany, walking, ramble, nature, natural world, horticulture, horticultural, gardens, garden, gardening, parks, park, forest, forests, wood, woodland, woods, trees, agrarian, agriculture, orchard, orchards, field, fields, heath, heaths
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Enumeration and Parish Registers, 1811: Abstract of the Answers and Returns made Pursuant to an Act, Passed in the Fifty-first Year of His Majesty King George III. An Act for Taking Into Account of the Population of Great Britain, and of the Increase or Diminution Thereof
(House of Commons, 1812).
Preliminary Observations, Enumeration Abstract, Parish-Register Abstract. Hardback. Outsized book, front and back boards loose / detached and rather worn / battered (poor), lacking spine cover. A few rear pages loose also. A good working copy. xxxi + 511 + 148pp. Order No. NSBK-A11784
Keywords: B000HC1RTE, enumeration, parish registers, population, demography, demographic, people, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, nineteenth century, census, head count, parish register, legal, laws, census, 1811, Georgian
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Pillai, Vijayan K. and Shannon Lyle W., eds.
Developing Areas: A Book of Readings and Research
(Berg, 1995).
Paperback. Fine. xi + 552pp. Order No. NSBK-A7030
Keywords: 1859730027, politics, political, development, developmental, economic, economy, economics, twentieth century, 20th, AIDs, Central American, North America, United States, Third World, Fourth World, colonialism, colonialists, colonies, colony, social, ecosystems
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