A little light foxing, ink name to front pastedown; cloth very good; jacket rather worn at head of spine and upper fore-corners, spine very slightly sunned, otherwise very good.
Photographic illustrations.
£250
A Guide for the Amateur
London, OUP, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket.
An attractive work on the evolving technology of television.
In stock
A little light foxing, ink name to front pastedown; cloth very good; jacket rather worn at head of spine and upper fore-corners, spine very slightly sunned, otherwise very good.
Photographic illustrations.
London, Putnam, 1908.
Sixth edition. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, priced sixpence.
An early edition of this classic of feminist theory, reflecting on women's economic reliance on men, first published in 1898. A landmark treatise in the struggle for gender equality.
London, Jonathan Cape, 1946.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A handsome first UK edition of this important anthropological and sociological study of the African-American urban experience in the first half of the 20th century.
Non-Fiction
and other essays
London, OUP, 1939.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
This collection comprises nine essays on literature, education, and Christianity, reflecting the Narnia creator's scholarly interests and his engagement with contemporary literary criticism.
London, Warne, [1931].
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.
The Story of Electrical Communications.
...edited by William Garnett Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1881.First edition, later state (advertisements dated July 1886). 8vo. Original cloth.An important work on electricity by an author praised to this day for his discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.