Simon, E.D.
The Anti-Slum Campaign:
(Longmans, 2nd Impression, 1933).
Very scarce. Hardback. Cloth sun faded and worn at edges, internally good. viii + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A4069
Keywords: B000KYQ3D4, Manchester, slums, anti-slum campaign, housing, cities, urban history, North West, England, English, Britain, British, Addison Act, rents, Greenwood Act, town planning, urbanisation, conurbation, dwellings, houses, building, city, local government, local authorities, Chamberlain Act, Wheatley Act, Hilton Young Acts, slum clearance, housing shortage, tenants, Homes for Heroes, Simons, E.D. Simon, Ernest Simon, poverty, poor
Price £12.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Scrase, Tony.
Wells: A Pictorial History
(Phillimore, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-A7823
Keywords: 085033814X, Wells, Britain, Britsih, England, English, Somerset, towns, cities, city, cathedrals
Price £5.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Ouvry, Elinor Southwood.
Extracts from Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1864 - 1911:
(Adelphi Book Shop, London, 1933).
Foreword by Neville Chamberlain. Card covers. Spine darkened, edges of covers slightly chipped / slightly curled, some chipping to spine, internally very good. iii + 64pp. Order No. NSBK-C4295
Keywords: B001QVTYT0, open spaces, housing, housing management, house, houses, Octavia Hill, London, philanthropy, women, woman, philanthropist, philanthropists, town planning, social history, welfare, towns, city, cities, fellow workers, fellow-workers, housing reformers, housing reformer, slum, slums, property, poor, poverty, nineteenth century, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century
Price £26.50.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Lemmen, Hans Van.
Victorian Tiles:
(Shire Publications Ltd, rpt., 1986).
In booklet form. Paperback. Good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A6018
Keywords: 0852635486, Victorian, tiles, tiling, art, artists, buildings, architecture, urban, decorative, decoration, history, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, interior design, designs, cities, city, towns, booklet
Price £4.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Dundee Municipal Statutes, .
Dundee Municipal Statutes: Being Acts of Parliament Administered by the Corporation of Dundee Relating to The Town Council as Such, and also as Coming in Place of the Commissioners of Police; and Including Recent Amendment of Acts (Separately Printed) of Dundee Gas and Dundee Water Commissioners, 1872-1898
(Winter, Duncan & Co, n.d).
Hardback. Spine ends and corners slightly worn, slight bubbling to cloth, otherwise very good. 471pp. Order No. NSBK-A5663
Keywords: B001EVRYBW, Dundee, Scotland, Scots, Scottish, history, Britain, British, towns, cities, city, Corporation, Acts of Parliament, government, local government, political, politics, statutes, gas, water, commissioners, public health, municipal facilities, urban, laws, legal, police, policemen, Victorian, nineteenth century, municipal corporations, Dundee Municipal Statutes
Price £26.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Roberts, Robert.
A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
(Fontana, 2nd impression, 1979).
Paperback. Light creasing to covers, newspaper article pasted to front endpaper, otherwise good. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A10160
Keywords: 0006348947, education, schools, schooling, slums, housing, urban, cities, Britain, British, England, English, social history, Edwardian, industry, industrial, terraces, poverty, poor, cobbles, By Joe, cinema, magic lantern, railways, canals, Manchester, North West, Salford, Robert Roberts, apprentices, labour, labor, Labour party, Esperanto, TB, tuberculosis, working class, working classes, Charles de Gaulle
Price £5.50.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Thwaite, Ann.
Waiting for the Party: the Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849-1924
(Secker & Warburg, 1974).
Hardback. Ex library, lacks fly leaf, usual lib stamps & stickers, some white speckling to boards, otherwise good in dw. xii + 274pp. Order No. NSBK-C757
Keywords: 436521504, Frances Hodgson Burnett, children's writing, woman writer, women writers, literature, Secret Garden, The Little Princess, Britain, British, England, English, history, biography, biographies
Price £4.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Booth, Charles, ed.
Life and Labour of the People of London:
(Macmillan, 1892).
Volume III (3, Three): Blocks of Buildings, Schools and Immigration. Original edition. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, gilt lettering to spine, good+ condition, firm. 306pp. Order No. NSBK-A16073
Keywords: London, streets, Charles Booth, Charles Booth's London, metropolitan, social history, poverty, poor, class, population, demography, demographic, occupations, working classes, working class, working-class, neighbourhood, Britain, British, England, English, Booths, Booth, social investigations, surveys, urban history, labor, labour, life and labour, towns, town, city, cities, urbanisation, classification, statistical, statistics, school boards, education, housing, neighbours, inhabitants, respectability, blocks, London, antiquarian, buildings, schools, immigration, schooling, Victorian, nineteenth century
Price £42.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Dyos, H.J., ed.
The Study of Urban History: The Proceedings of an International Round Table Conference of the Urban History Group at Gilbert Murray Hall, University of Leicester, Sept. 1966
(Edward Arnold, rpt, 1971).
Hardback. Fly leaf clipped, otherwise good in browned dustwrapper. xxii + 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A266
Keywords: 0713154136, urban history, Britain, British, England, English, history, towns, cities, Victorian, nineteenth century, urbanisation, industrialisation
Price £12.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Baines, Thomas.
History of the Town and Commerce of Liverpool: and of the Rise of Manufacturing Industry in the Adjoining Counties
(Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, London, Liverpool, 1852).
Small library markings to spine and front endpaper. Frontispiece plan of Liverpool damaged and repaired with sellotape. Another plan, of Royalist Fortifications, torn in two but complete. A little rubbing / bumping to corners, but a very nice copy indeed, sound and tight. Hardback. Full leather nicely repaired. Gilt decoration front & back, raised gilt bands & titles to spine, all edges gilt. Ex library, but library markings minimal. Very good, attractive. xvi + 844 + 13pp. Order No. NSBK-A6861
Keywords: B000K40UBA, towns, cities, urban, city, commerce, commercial, manufacturing, manufacture, Liverpool, Merseyside, North West, England, Britain, British, English, counties, Lancashire, history, urbanisation, antiquarian, industry, industrial, Thomas Baines, Industrial Revolution, industrialisation, town, Mersey, Victorian, nineteenth century, Liverpool Docks, trade, exports, imports, economic, economy, ports, port
Price £60.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
|
|
