Thompson, Thea.
Edwardian Childhoods:
(RKP, reprint, 1982).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers and a little waviness to a few pages, otherwise good. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A6236
Keywords: 0710093357, child, children, Edwardian, infancy, family, Britain, British, England, English, history, childhood, reminiscences, memories, memory, autobiographies, autobiography, autobiographical, class, povert, poor, paupers, working class, working classes, lower orders
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Fletcher, H. R.
Story of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1804 - 1968:
(OUP, 1969).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, otherwise very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. xii + 564pp. Order No. NSBK-A15159
Keywords: 9780192129444, Royal Horticultural Society, flowers, plants, history, nineteenth century, 19th century, Victorian, gardens, gardening
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Hill, Octavia.
House Property and its Management: Some Papers on the Methods of Management Introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and Adapted to Modern Conditions
(George Allen & Unwin, 1921).
Intro. by I. G. Gibbon. Presented by M.M. Jeffery and Edith Neville. Scarce original. Hardback. Pages and boards browned with age, spine split a little at top end, and internally at binding, else a good copy. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C6430
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, tenants, town planning, urban history, Britain, England, British, English, history, house property, house management, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, cottages, model dwellings, letters to fellow workers, women managers, Amsterdam, municipal, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment
Price £30.00.
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Saville, Diana.
Colour:
(Charles Lett, 1992).
Letts Guide to Garden Design. Hardback. Very good. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A12240
Keywords: 1852381973, colour, gardens, gardening, gardeners, color, horticulture, horticulturalists, plants, flowers, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Shewell-Cooper, W. E.
The Royal Gardeners: King George VI and His Queen
(Cassell & Cooper, 1952).
With five colour plates and forty-eight pages of half-tone illustrations. Hardback. Good in torn/ worn/soiled dustwrapper. xiii + 66pp. Order No. NSBK-A5670
Keywords: B0000CIDVJ, royalty, monarchs, kings, queens, George VI, gardeners, garden, horticulture, gardens, flowers, horticulturalists, twentieth century, leisure, Windsors
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Nicholson, Winifred. (Compiled by Andrew Nicholson).
Unknown Colour: Paintings, Letters, Writings by Winifred Nicholson
(Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1987).
An extremely scarce title, for the collector. Very good, clean, tight copy. "Unknown Colour" by Andrew Nicholson, brings together all Winifred Nicholson's works for the first time and reproduces in colour the wide range of her paintings, conveying in words and images the essence of her art which is light, colour and radiance. Compiled by Andrew Nicholson. Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981), wife of Ben Nicholson, is particularly remembered for her exquisite flower studies - many of which were painted before a window. She often incorporated landscape elements from Cumberland, Cornwall and the South of France into her work. Also characteristic of her style was the abstract using an ellipse shape. Hardback. Top corner slightly bumped, otherwise very good+, clean bright copy. Dustwrapper also very good, though with light creasing at corners, & minor, almost imperceptible, scratches. 271pp. Order No. NSBK-C4620
Keywords: 0571149502, winifred nicholson, nicholson, nicholsons, winifred, flower tales, unknown, colour, watercolour, watercolours, art, artist, artists, painting, paintings, painter, painter, English, England, Britain, British, great, twentieth century, 20th century, female, woman, women, females, letters, design correspondence, history, women writers, women writer, cornwall, st ives, modern, modernist, modernists, modernism, modernistic, ben nicholson, impressionist, impressionists, impressionism, impressionistic, impressions, impression, writings, color, unknown color, unknown colours, unknown colors, colors, GB, British Modern, Modern British Art
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Hattatt, Lance.
Gardening in a Small Space:
(Parragon, rpt, 1999).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 255pp. Order No. NSBK-G5226
Keywords: 0752524607, gardens, garden, garden design, gardening, British, Britain, English, England, landscape gardening, landscape design, horticulture, horticultural, planting, flowers, plants, small spaces, space, kitchen gardens, cottage gardens, small gardens, hobbies, perennials, patios
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Burn, James Dawson.
The Autobiography of a Beggar Boy:
(Europa Publications, 1978).
Edited by David Vincent. Hardback. Good in slightly creased / torn / browned dustwrapper. v + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-A2992
Keywords: 090511826X, poverty, nineteenth-century, working-class autobiographies, autobiography, beggars, trade unionism, radicalism, Oddfellows movement, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Cunningham, Anne; Irvine, Isobel; et al, eds.
Lightyears: the First Collection of Merseyside Women's Writing
(Headland, 1992).
Paperback. Edges slightly soiled, otherwise good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-C4108
Keywords: 0903074710, Merseyside, Liverpool, women's writing, literature, fiction, prose, poetry, poems, North West England, English, Britain, British, Anne Cunningham, Isobel Irvine, Pauline Lavercombe, Tracy Ryan, Flora Small, Ruth Symes, Clare Rush, Rose Ryan, Dora Kennedy, Jean Barlow, Women's Anthology Group, poets, women
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Gibbens, T.C.N. and Prince, Joyce.
Shoplifting: A Report On Research Carried Out Under The Auspices Of The I.S.T.D.
(Institute Study Treatment of Delinquency, 1962).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, rear cover soiled, some tearing to spine ends. A good working copy. 168pp. Order No. NSBK-A13916
Keywords: B0011CWJSM, shoplifters, shoplifting, shops, retail, thieves, theft, sociology, Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency, 1960s, sixties, crime, criminals, women, shopping, women shoplifters, Holloway Prison
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