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London: Westley and Parrish, 1824. [ii], 414pp, illustrated with many diagrams, and including index. Wonderfully various and buzzing with discoveries and inventions. Contents clean, although with a considerable amount of offsetting. 1952 ownership name on ffep. Small nick to bottom edges c.p230-p280, where something had been pressed into edge of text block. Tall quarto, 8.5 x 5.25 ins, in contemporary half calf with marbled boards: boards slightly scuffed, spine ruled gilt and with a red label, joints restored with Japanese tissue. Rare: a very nice firm copy. Very Good+.

Price: £450.00

[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: £60.00

London: Chapman and Hall, 1930. First edition. xxxi, (i), 709pp, with many photographs, tables and diagrams, including foldouts, and with unusual tables of contents on the endpapers. Contents firm, clean, and unmarked. Quarto, in the original binding of navy buckram, spine faded, but gilt titling bright. Binding firm and clean (faint marks), with minimal blunting to extremities. A very nice copy. [Arranged in 5 Parts: Fundamental Principles; Light Sources; Lighting Equipment (the main part of the book); Auxiliary Equipment; and Appendices. The authors were Members of the Staff of the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Co.] VG+.
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Price: £80.00

London: BBC Books, 1999. First edition. 208pp. Including eight maps, many black and white photographs and 60pp gazetteer. Ornately signed by the Author on front endpaper, 'Best Wishes from Fred Dibnah 1999'. Contents clean and fresh. In the original green cloth-textured binding, spine titled in silver, clean, bright and firm: corners sharp, spine ends blunted. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, with slight puckering to spine ends and a small scuff at one corner. A very nice copy. VG+ in VG+ dust-jacket.

Price: £35.00