Results for: Technical and Mechanical

Grimston: A.G.M.Projects, 1999. Reprint. 304pp, with many illustrations, mostly photographs of traction engines. Contents clean and fresh and unmarked, appears unread. In the original black cloth-textured binding lettered in silver, clean, bright and firm, with very slight compression at spine ends. In protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, very bright and fresh. Fine in near fine dust-jacket.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £60.00

Cassell, London, 1958. First Edition. xii, 116pp, illustrated with photographs, maps, diagrams and tables. Contents very clean. In original blue cloth-textured binding lettered in silver, bright and firm, bottom edge of lower board slightly knocked. In price-clipped pictorial dustjacket, some soiling to the back, a nearly-invisible repaired one-inch closed tear to the front, and slight scuffing to the edges. Near-Fine/ VG.

Price: £25.00

London: Ransomes and Rapier Ltd: 1901. Presumed first and only edition. xiii, 107pp + (ii) adverts, followed by two sheets of squared paper bound between the final blank leaves. With many photographs. Smudges at pp.vi & vii, contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Quarto, with black endpapers, firm in the original binding of red cloth over bevelled boards lettered in gilt. Front bright with a little sunning, spine slightly dulled, extremities slightly bumped. Very Good.

Price: £160.00

[Publisher not stated]: printed by Silk & Terry Ltd, London and Birm., [1919]. Presumed only edition (date given by Steward). 23pp, preceded by 6 portrait photographs of the prime movers (Stokes (inventor of the Stokes Gun), F.H.Crittall, Mawdsley Brooke, H.S.Jefferies, P.A.Sanders & W.H.Scott), and followed by 12 photographs of the factories and production areas in Ipswich. Title page printed in black and red, and the text pages printed black with a red border. With a list of the Members of the East Anglian Munitions Committee, and a list of the Firms in the Area who Worked for the Committee (42 are listed, including Ransomes, Garrett, Girling, Boby, Crittall, Boulton & Paul, Marconi, and the National Steam Car Co.). While mostly concerned with the production of shells, credit is given to the various firms for the production of flying machines, ball bearings etc, and included is a summary to highlight the primacy of East Anglia's contribution to munitions production. Some very minor browning to endpapers, a little very faint foxing to some text pages. Very clean. In original brown paper-surfaced printed boards, ruled in blind, with a cloth spine. A little light scuffing and discolouration to edges. Very fresh copy. VG+. Scarce. [Steward 836]

Price: £120.00

Geneva: ISO: International Standards Organization, 1985. First edition. viii, 456pp, with many diagrams. Very clean fresh copy, appears unused, in the original bright red pictorial softcover. Fine.

Price: £40.00

(Originally published by John J. Griffin & Sons.) Facsimile reprint by The Gemmary, Fallbrook, California, 1997. Reprint (of the 14th and last edition of the catalogue), limited to 300 copies. (viii), 1037pp, with over 2500 illustrations +(iii) catalogue of books. Prospectus/order form flyer for the reprint laid in. Hardbound in dark green leather-textured binding lettered in gilt. All very bright and fresh, appears unread. **[PLEASE NOTE ! - this is a large book, not one of the Griffin reprints with a similar title but with only 200 or so pages]. Near-Fine.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £65.00