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.
Translated by Bernard Miall
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1913.
First English edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt.
Le Bon's investigation into the psychological underpinnings of revolutionary movements, with a particular focus on the French Revolution. Le Bon analyses how collective beliefs, emotions, and behaviours influence the course and outcomes of revolutions. The author is perhaps best known for his earlier work, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895), which is considered a key text in the field of crowd psychology.
Non-Fiction
London, Walter Scott, 1899.
First edition. 8vo. Original red gilt-pictorial cloth.
A bright attractive copy of this mournful reflection on British society at the turn of the century, by a then well-known socialist, novelist and campaigner.
Non-Fiction
Aberdeen, Impulse Books, 1971.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced £2.00.
Uncommon account of the early days of pirate radio.
...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.
London, Warne, [1931].
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.
The Story of Electrical Communications.