Besant, Annie.
Selection of the Social and Political Pamphlets of Annie Besant:
(Augustus M. Kelley, 1970).
With preface and notes by John Saville. Hardback. With newspaper article pasted to inner board, spine browned, corners bumped, otherwise very good. xiiii + pamphletspp. Order No. NSBK-D15452
Keywords: 9780678006382, theosophy, theosophical, history, Annie Besant, spiritualism, spiritualists, England, English, Britain, British, religions, religious, spiritual, psychism, London, essays, pamphlets, history, Victorian
Price £35.00.
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Miller, Jon.
Of Fish and Men:
(Jarrolds, 1958).
Hardback. Very good in chipped and worn dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A5746
Keywords: B0000CK0MK, Regents Park Aquarium, aquaria, fish, fishes, piscatorial, Madeira, Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Rumanian, Caviar, Moscow, London Zoo, Russia, Russian caviar industry
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Cundall, H. M.
The Life and Work of Birket Foster:
(Bracken Books, 1986 rpt of 1906 edit.).
Illustrated. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xx + 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A3320
Keywords: 1851700331, Birket Foster, art, artist, painter, biography, Myles Birket Foster, Quaker, North Shields, Northumberland, London, Ebenezer Landells, engraving, edmund Evans, Victorian, watercolour, watercolorist
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
Price £14.00.
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Mackenzie, Norman and Jeanne, eds.
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Volume Two, 1892-1905: All the Good Things of Life
(Virago, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xv + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-C6087
Keywords: 0860682102, Beatrice Webb, Sidney Webb, the Webbs, social reform, Edwardian, Victorian, LSE, London School of Economics, poor, poverty, trade unionism, local government, state, women's history, woman, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, diaries, diary, Virago
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Marillier, H. C.
The Tapestries at Hampton Court Palace:
(HMSO, revised, 1962).
31 pages of text plus 29 b/w plates. Paperback. Ex library, with usual library stamps and markings, some wear to edges, and creasing to covers. A good working copy. 31pp + 29 b/w platespp. Order No. NSBK-A15810
Keywords: B0000CLJY9, Hampton Court Palace, tapestry, London, history, needlework, royalty, royals
Price £20.00.
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Slater, Catherine Ponton.
Margaret Pow in Foreign Parts:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1913).
Margaret Pow in Foreign Parts. Hardback. Corners rubbed otherwise very good and bright. 123pp. Order No. NSBK-C4929
Keywords: B000HBXQQM, Catherine Ponton Slater, Margaret Pow, women's history, woman's history, twentieth century, Edwardian, travellers, travelers, travel, woman traveler, woman traveller, English, England, Britrain, British, history, Scots Pictorial, France, Paris, Rome, Italy, Europe, European, Florence, Roman, Firenze, venice, Venezia, Grenoble, letters, epistolary, correspondence, woman writer, women writers, London, Bloomsbury, Square
Price £7.00.
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Renton, Andrew.
Maria Chevska:
(Anderson O'Day Gallery, 1990).
Published in a limited edition of 500 to coincide with an exhibition at Anderson O'Day Gallery, 18 October - 17 November 1990. Illustrated. White and stored with art catalogues. Catalogue. Very good paperback in red card covers protected by a soiled white dustwrapper. 30pp. Order No. NSBK-F7669
Keywords: B00379DEUE, Maria Chevska, art, artists, twentieth century, catalogues, Anderson O'Day Gallery, London, paintings, women painters, White and stored with art catalogues in rare book stack
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Thompson, E.P. and Yeo, Eileen.
The Unknown Mayhew: Selections from the "Morning Chronicle" 1849 - 50
(Penguin, rpt, 1984).
Paperback. Light creasing to spine, covers slightly yellowed. Newspaper review pasted to inside of cover, else good. 592pp. Order No. NSBK-A14943
Keywords: 0140432302, Henry Mayhew, Morning Chronicle, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, social investigations, poor, poverty, London, working class, working-class, classes, trades
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Stocks, Mary.
My Commonplace Book: an Autobiography
(Peter Davies, rpt, 1970).
Women's suffrage; the welfare state; the L.S.E.; adult education; the Great Depression in Manchester; social work in London; a variety of government assignments. Hardback. Very good in soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. ix + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C779
Keywords: 0432157506, suffrage, suffragette, women's rights, L.S.E., the Great Depression, adult education, Manchester, London, social work, welfare state, England, Britain, history, English, British
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