GALWAY, H

Echo Sounding at Sea [British Practice]

London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. VMery good and sound blue cloth hardcover, No inscriptions or marks. There are 4 black and white photographs of Soundings and many drawings and diagrams. From the preface "There are several excellent textbooks on sound waves and their uses, but none that was at time of publication devoted solely to echo sounding at sea and to the intricacies of the equipment required for this purpose and it is thought that this book may, therefore, help to remedy this deficiency as much of the information contained herein has not been published before." ; Black & white photographs and diagrams; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 299 pages. Very Good .

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Book number: 13149

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Depth Maritime

GANN, ERNEST K.

The High and the Mighty

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. 4th impression. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good red cloth, no inscriptions. The dustjacket is worn to extremities and some internal repairs but is unclipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 17189

Catalogue: Aviation

GANNON, PAUL

Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret

London: Atlantic Books, 2006. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. ISBN: 1843543303. Fine black cloth with a fine unclipped dust jacket, no inscriptions. The Bletchley Park codebreakers used science, maths, innovation and improvisation to invent an entirely new machine: Colossus. Colossus was instrumental in several extraordinary breakthroughs. ; Black & white photographs; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 562 pages. Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 17538

Catalogue: Code Breaking

Keywords: 1843543303

GARDNER, CHARLES.

British Aircraft Corporation: A History

London: Batsford, 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with dustjacket. ISBN: 0713438150. Signed by the author to the Title Page Fine Blue cloth with gilt decoration. Fine unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with colour and black & white photographs. The author was Publicity Manager for BAC. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages; Signed by Author. Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 17254

Catalogue: Aviation

Keywords: 0713438150 Tsr2 Concorde 1 11 Vc10

GARLAND, KEN

Mr. Beck's Underground Map

London: Capital Transport, 1998. Reprint. Hardcover. ISBN: 1854141686. Fine pictorial laminated boards. No inscriptions or marks, an excellent copy. ; Colour maps; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 80 pages. Fine .

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Book number: 17826

Catalogue: Railways

Keywords: 1854141686 Cartography Railway

GARNETT, RICHARD

Relics of Shelley

London, Edward Moxon & Co, 1862. . First Edition: Purple blind stamped cloth, some soiling to background, spine darkened, gilt titles bright and readable, corners a little bowed, generally very good clean and sound, between the front paste-down and front endpaper are publishers advertisements, July 1862, 8 pages. There are traces of purple seepage that have come from the cloth boards on the endpapers, not intrusive, small rectangular stamp to front endpaper from some kind of library small and neat, xiv, 182 pages, followed by sheet of publisher's advertisements, circular stamp to verso of rear endpaper 'Bookseller Charing Cross Railway. ' A very scarce but respected source book on Percy Bysshe Shelley..

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Book number: 13506

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Horsham Literary Criticism Antiquarian Books Garnette Poetry Poets Biography Reference

GARRATT, COLIN ON THE WORK OF HENRY PRIESTLEY

Trams of Southern Britain

Leicester: Milepost, 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket. ISBN: 1900193205. Fine coloured pictorial laminated boards with a very good matching coloured pictorial dust jacket, not price clipped. No inscriptions, not paginated. ; Black & white photographs. Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 14905

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: 1900193205 England

GARVIN, BRIAN. & FOX, PETER.

Osterreichische Bundesbahn / Austrian Federal Railways Locomotives and Multiple Units

Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing, 1989. Second Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0906579872. Fine card covers, no inscriptions or marks. ; Black & white and colour photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages. Fine .

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Book number: 17890

Catalogue: Railways

Keywords: 0906579872

GATES, BILL

Business and the Speed of Thought

London: Penguin Books, 1999. First Edition; First Printing. ISBN: 0140283110. With eye opening detailed tours into Microsoft and other major corporations. Gates unveils the way digital nervous systems are revolutionizing the very nature of business. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 470 pages. Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 784

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0140283110

GAVIN, HECTOR.

Sanitary Ramblings: Being Sketches and Illustrations of Bethnal Green, a Type of the Condition of the Metropolis and Other Large Towns

Nabu Press, 2010. Reprint. Softcover. ISBN: 1143879538. Facsimile reprint of the 1848 edition. Fine laminated card covers, no inscriptions or marks. Complete with 2 folding maps. "This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. That were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process." ; Black & white maps; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 117 pages. Fine .

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Book number: 17734

Catalogue: History

Keywords: 1143879538

GERRITSEN, WILLEM P. AND MELLE, ANTHONY G. VAN

Dictionary of Medieval Heroes, a: Characters in Medieval Narrative Traditions and Their Afterlife in Literature, Theatre and the Visual Arts

Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. ISBN: 085115381X. Translated from the Dutch by Tanis Guest: Fine blue cloth hardcover with a fine unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions. Some black and white illustrations in the text. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 336 pages. Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 13344

Catalogue: History

Keywords: 085115381x Reference Myth Magic Legends

GIFFARD, INGARET

The Way Things Happen: A Memoir

London: Chatto & Windus, 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. ISBN: 0701134402. Autobiography of Lady van der Post. Fine hardback with near fine unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions or marks. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 376 pages. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 5568

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0701134402

GILBERT, RICHARD

Everyman's Sussex, the Countryside in Varying Moods and Seasons

London: Robert Scott, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good and sound brown paper covered boards with coloured pictorial panel to front board. Neat gift inscription to half title. ; Black & white drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages. Very Good .

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Book number: 17478

Catalogue: Sussex

GILLHAM, ROGER

Scalextric. Cars and Equipment, Past and Present. 5th Edition

Haynes Publishing, Yeovil, 2001. Hardcover. ISBN: 1859604323. 5th edition, tall quarto, 175 pages illustrated with colour photographs. Fine black cloth hard back with a fine unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions or marks, an excellent copy. The complete guide to models that have been marketed under the brand name of Scalextric since their introduction in 1957. Fine .

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Book number: 16466

Catalogue: Collectables

Keywords: 1859604323 Model

GILLMAN, CATAIN R. E

Croydon to Concorde

London: John Murray, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket. ISBN: 071953741X. Fine blue cloth. No inscriptions or marks with a near fine unclipped dustjacket. "Ron Gillman turns to his thirty years of civil aviation since the Second World War, years of amazing technical progress in which aircraft have developed unbelievably fast. His personal flying experience covers the whole gamut from the biplane days to Concorde by way of the first prop-jets, the pure jets and the wide-bodied Jumbos." ; Black & white photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 230 pages. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 17318

Catalogue: Aviation

Keywords: 071953741x Aeronautics Commercial