Search Results: Mining from Godley Books

Newcastle Upon Tyne: TUPS Books, 2001. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to edges and minor traces of handling. 160pp. Easington District was the last area of Durham's huge coalfield to be exploited. This book tells the story of the heroic struggle by the people of Easington District with tragic disasters, defeats and triumphs in their mining industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Illustrated by a stunning collection of drawings and photographs, some in colour. A very scarce book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8.5 x 8.5 inches.

Altrincham, Cheshire: John Sherratt & Son, 1979. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 144pp. The story of the copper and lead mines at Alderley Edge south of Manchester.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 7.25 x 4.75 inches.

Exeter, United Kingdom: University of Exeter, 1988. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight marking to page edges and no bumping to corners. 177pp. Includes reference to around five hundred books, a hundred university theses and nearly two thousand articles drawn from over three hundred different journals and periodicals. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8.25 x 5.75 inches.

London: Mineworkers Defence Committee, 1985. No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing. A clean pamphlet with unmarked boards and minor rubbing to edges. 20pp. Weekly bulletin produced by the miners during the Miners' Strike in the mid 1980s with details of various support groups, delegates representing at conference, politics and letters about the strike, picket actions and other events. Edited by Ken Livingstone. Very scarce.. Soft Cover. Fair. 8.25 x 5.75 inches.

Windermere: Lake District National Park Information Service, 1976. Four leaflets. No marks or inscriptions and un-creased. Very clean leaflets with bright unmarked covers and no bumping to corners. Total of 32pp. Leaflets numbers 2, 13, 15 and 16 on Hill Farming, Stone Walls and Appendages, Farming for Food and Mines and Mining in the Lake District National Park.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8.25 x 6 inches.

Cape Town: Purnell & Sons (SA) Pty Ltd, 1962. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Clear gilt lettering and embossing to front and spine. 340pp. Detailed study of the story of the South African gold fields. Illustrated.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Benny Gruzin. 11 x 9 inches.

Nottingham: Reflections of a Bygone Age, 1993. Booklet in mint unread condition. 36pp.. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8.25 x 5.75 inches.

North East Labour History Society, 2018. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 146pp. A list of the contents can be seen in the scanned image. Scarce.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8.25 x 5.75 inches.

Observer Books, 2008. Book in 'as new' condition. 112pp. A concise study of the earth, its history, structure and minerals and the famous people who made the great discoveries about our planet.. Soft Cover. Fine. 7.75 x 5 inches.

London: A Crombie, 1900. Fingermarks to a few pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Dusty pages in a very tight binding with unmarked maroon boards and minor bumping to corners. Tissue-guarded frontispiece photograph of (presumably) Peter and Ann foxed around edges. 95pp. The story of Peter and Ann from a midlands mining community. Very scarce.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 7.5 x 5 inches.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1986. Signed by Peter Townsend to front end paper - otherwise 'fine'. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 196pp. Six months after the miners' strike of 1984-5, the author visited the north-east of England where he interviewed people on both sides of the dispute - miners, their wives, Union officials, policemen, shopkeepers, young people, Coal Board officials, schoolteachers and many others. This vivid social documents sets out their words. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and… Read More

London: Earth Island, 1972. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little sunning. 201pp. An account of one of the largest mining companies in the world, the London based Rio Tinto-Zinc (RTZ). The book charts the drastic alteration of land and culture which occurs wherever RTZ's mining takes place.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8.75 x 5.75 inches.

Johannesburg: Financial Mail, 1966. Previous owners' names/stamp to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly rubbed/marked boards and corners. 244pp. Originally primarily designed as a promotional vehicle for trade in South Africa and South West Africa (Namibia) during the apartheid era, this gives a fascinating insight into social conditions at that time.. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 11.25 x 8.5 inches.

Matlock, Derbyshire: J. N. M. Publications, 1986. No marks or inscriptions. Very light creasing to covers adjacent to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 38pp. Eleven humorous and true stories with sketches from the British Coalfields.. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by John Creber. 8.25 x 5.5 inches.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1912. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with pictorial embossed unmarked boards, dusty page edges, slight rubbing to ends of soft spine, tissue-guarded coloured frontispiece and no bumping to corners. 487pp. Victorian and Edwardian works including railways, mining, water power, tunnels, harbours, canals (including Panama), aqueducts, reservoirs and bridges. Undated ca 1912.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 7.75 x 5.5 inches.

Walhalla, Australia: Graham Publications, 1970. Insciption and name/address inside front cover. No other marks to contents. No creasing to covers, light crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with stain to lower edge of front cover, slight marking to rear cover and no bumping to corners. 144pp. A mainly pictorial story of gold mining north east of Melbourne in Australia and in particular of the Walhalla Mine from the 1860s. A fascinating picture of Australia 150 years ago. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 11 x 8.5 inches.