Search Results: Titles starting with S from Zetetic Books

No Place: No Publisher, 1908. Single sided printed poster, approximately 430mm x 700mm in size. Browned generally, with a band of heavier brown stain across the head, several small tears to edges, a couple of small holes from wear to folds. Instituted in 1783, this society, like many other similar societies, largely existing between 1780-1850, "were private institutions, made up of local property-owners, who came together to form an organization and raise a fund in order to find, arrest, and prosecute, at common expense, offenders against themselves and their property" (Philips in Hay and Snyder, 'Policing and Prosecution in Britain 1750-1850', page 118). This society is unusual as it still exists, and has a link to Eton College, the website notes, "Salt Hill, from which the club takes its name, was the place where Eton boys waylaid travellers to collect 'salt money' - an annual ancient ceremony known as 'Montem', which traces its roots all the way back to the… Read More

Norwich: No Publisher, 1979. [92]p, original cloth in DJ. DJ lightly soiled, chipped to head of spine with tiny amount of loss. A couple of small dirty marks to top edge of text block, but internally bright and clean. Number twenty-two of one hundred and fifty copies, signed by the illustrator to the colophon. With the key to the illustrations loosely inserted. Signed by Illustrator. First Thus. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Medley, Robert. Folio. Limited Edition.

Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995. xxi,340pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ spine faded, otherwise bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1993. xii, [2], 152pp, original buckram in DJ, bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Petrum Vander Aa, 1695. [32], 402, [14], 214pp, [12]; [6], 409-980pp, [68]. Full speckled calf, raised bands, spines in six panels, morocco title label to second panel, volume label to third, remaining panels with a triple fillet border, lozenge shaped centre piece and leaf corner pieces in gilt and gilt roll to board edges. Spine ends chipped with loss, lacking end bands, outer joints split but holding well, corners bumped and worn, scrape with loss to leather on lower cover of volume two. Internally some light dust staining, but generally fairly clean, bottom corner missing of Ii4 (not affecting text), and (X4) is absent, but the catchword is correct. In the second volume Cccc is missing bottom corner (not affecting text). With ten full-page engravings in Juvenal, and two in Persius. Title in red and black, previous owners' (Falle) book plate to front pastedowns. This is a reprint of the 1685 Utrecht edition, expanded with a new frontispiece (Dibdin), Brunet calls it… Read More

London: Peace News 8pp, original paper covers, n.d. c.1943. Covers slightly rubbed, staple rusted, otherwise bright. BL and Senate House Library in COPAC. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xviii, 301pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Oakland, CA: People's Translation Service, 1979. 64pp, original card covers. Rubbed to extremities, internally quite bright and clean. First Edition. Card Covers. Good. 4to. Journal.

Palo Alto, CA: Sam Smidt Publishing, 1967. Single sided printed poster, approximately 885mm x 570mm in size. Curled from being rolled, otherwise bright and clean. Center for the Study of Political Graphics suggests an ecological slant. First Edition. Unbound. Good+. Elephant Folio (Oblong). Poster.

Glasgow: Allan & Ferguson Single sided lithographic broadside, approximately 205mm x 280mm in size, n.d. c.1850? Some light surface soiling, corners lightly browned from old glue, small closed tear to foot catching text but with no loss, small piece missing from bottom right hand corner, a few small pen trials to borders, probably slightly cropped to head. Advertising the flowers available at A. & McA. including hyacinths, narcissi, tulips and anemones, noting that they "have also on hand all sorts of Agricultural, Garden and Flower Seeds, Fruit, Forest and Ornamental Trees, Evergreen and Flowering Shrubs, Greenhouse Plants, Dahlias, Pansies &c. Garden Tools, Mats, Flower Pots &c.". A. and McA. were Austin and McAslan, seed merchants in Glasgow, established in 1717 by John McAslan, he was succeeded by his son Alexander McAslan and John Austin, trading as Austin and McAslan. For the printers [David] Allan and [William] Ferguson, see SBTI and Worms and Baynton-Williams, pages… Read More

Cambridge: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1924. [4], v-vii, [2], 2-33pp, [1], plates. Original cloth, title blocked in black to spine and upper cover. Cloth chipped to spine ends with some loss, small split to cloth covering upper joint, corners rubbed. Text lightly browned, with a couple of small spots of foxing, but generally fairly bright and clean. Lacking one tissue-guard. With a frontispiece and thirty-eight tissue-guarded colour plates (printed by Charles Whittingham and Griggs). Number one hundred and seventy-two of three hundred copies. Particularly rich in early Venetian bindings. Mejer-Herbst 1005; Schmidt-Kunsemuller 960. First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket (as Issued?). 4to.

London: J. Matthews and C. Dilly, 1795. 24pp, original paper wrappers, disbound. Light staining to foot of title, title nearly detached, creased to fore-edge of pages, lightly browned, but generally fairly clean. The second edition, ESTC shows a couple of provincially printed editions in the same year (Leicester and Hull), all editions are uncommon, with seven locations in the UK and only one in the US of this edition. Second Edition. Unbound. Good. 12mo. Pamphlet.

Cardiff: W. Bird and Son, 1852. 21pp, [1], ex-library with accession number in blue pencil to front pastedown. Quarter cloth and paper over boards, gilt title to cloth cover. Original covers bound in. Worn and slightly chipped to extremities, minor browning / spotting internally but generally clean. Uncommon, COPAC shows at NLW and Cardiff only. First Edition. Quarter Cloth and Boards. Good. 8vo. Ex-Library.

London: Communist Party Small collection of Communist Party election manifestos, all original paper or card covers, lightly browned, slightly rubbed, but generally fairly clean. 'The Socialist Road for Britain', 1949, 32pp; 'A Policy for Britain', 1955, 16pp; 'New Britain, People's Britain' (suspiciously Blairite!), 1966, 16pp; 'People Before Profits', 1970, 16pp (covers lightly soiled); 'Challenge Big Business - Build A New Britain', 1974, 16pp; 'People Before Profit', 1979, 4p broadsheet, (creased from old folds); and 'Tories Must Go! People's Need Before Private Greed! Vote Communist', n.d. but 1997, 4p broadsheet (creased from central fold). Cope 865, 999, 1253, 1320, 1383 and 1470 respectively (the last mentioned was published by the Communist Party of Britain after the CPGB had dissolved and is not therefore covered by Cope). First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1954. 358pp, original buckram in DJ. DJ spine slightly browned, small tear to head of spine / front panel joint, lower panel slightly stained, lightly faded to edges of flaps, internally bright and clean. From the library of Robin Langdon-Davies (John Langdon-Davies' son), but no evidence of this. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 8vo.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971. [5], vi-xii, [3], 4-393pp, [1]. Original cloth in DJ. Quite bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983. [4], 3-197pp, [1], full leather with gilt to spine and upper cover, a.e.g., watered silk endpapers and ribbon book mark. Very minor rubbing, but generally bright and clean. With twenty-five tipped in and tissue guarded colour illustrations by Thomson. Limited edition reprint of the 1912 original, in its original (slightly worn) card slipcase. First Thus. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket (as Issued). Illus. by Thomson, Hugh. 4to. Limited Edition.

Sheffield: Sheffield Anarchists A run of eleven issues, 1983-1987. Original paper covers, stapled as issued. Rubbed, a couple of minor nicks and tears but generally in decent order. Vol.3, No.2, Summer 1983, [1], 1-20pp, [1] (new staples over the old); Vol.3, No.3, Winter 1984, [1], 2-19pp, [1]; Vol.3, No.4, Spring 1984, [1], 2-21pp, [1]; Vol.3, No.7, Winter 84/85, [1], 2-17pp, [1]; Vol.3, No.8, Spring 1985, [1], 2-23pp, [1]; Vol.3, No.10, Autumn 1985, [1], 2-23pp, [1]; Vol.3, No.11, Winter 1986, [1], 2-23pp, [1]; Vol.3, No.12, Spring 1986, [2], 3-23pp, [1]; Vol.3, No.13, Summer 1986, [2], 3-17pp, [1]; Vol.4, No.2, Winter 1987, [1], 2-23pp, [1]; and Vol.4, No.3, Spring 1987, [1], 2-23pp, [1]. A further three defective issues (Vol.3, No's 5, 6 and 9) are also included. Taking its name and numbering from John Creaghe's original 1891 version, this was one of the more interesting of the many provincial anarchist journals that flourished in England during the 1980's. Library Hub shows at Leeds… Read More

Exeter: S. Hedgeland [Printer], 1820. Single side printed broadside, approximately 210mm x 335mm in size. Lightly creased, with some minor offsetting, small tear to foot, but generally quite bright and clean. Political satire relating to the Cato Street conspiracy dressed as a shipping news announcement. The boat, 'Revolutionaire' is suffering from dry-rot, "owing to her principal Supporters being of 'Thistle-wood', instead of Heart of Oak", with the stores of the boat "consisting of Hand Grenades, Pikes, Daggers, Cutlasses, and Shoe-Maker's Knives, will be put up to Auction; and have for that purpose been lately removed into a Stable in Cato-Street, for convenience of sale". Mention is also made of the Manchester radicals and White Hats (probably relating to Peterloo and Henry Hunt). Unrecorded. First Edition. Unbound. Good+. Folio. Broadside.

London: The British-Italian Bulletin, 1936. [6], 7-45pp, [3], original card covers. Pages very lightly browned, but generally quite bright and clean. Pro-Italian pamphlet relating to Italy's invasion of Abyssinia in 1935, the British-Italian Bulletin was published by the Italian Embassy. Abyssinia "is a conglomeration of primitive tribes and peoples" Seven locations in COPAC. First Edition. Card Covers. Good+. 8vo. Pamphlet.