Capper Pass (11 results)

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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 93pp. Illus. D/w in fair condition. Book itself in very good condition. Some chipping to d/w, with a couple of very small losses. Previous owner's label to front pastedown. Private ownership. (bs57).

4th edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 94 pages: illustrations; 19 cm.Notes: Previous edition: 1932. Subjects: Metals.Type and type-founding. Genre: Illustrated 3 Kg.

Cr.8vo, (190x125mm), 86p. 16 illustrations. Some slight damage to the extreme fore-edge of a number of leaves. Original cloth.

12mo (19x12.5cm), hardback, 93pp. Good condition in goodish dustwrapper (bumped, cuffed, marked, upper rear edge has several tears with associated creasing, spotted at inside rear). Bumped, light marks and indents to rear. Contents good, clear and bright. Pictures available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 4th Edition. 16 figures within the text, some photographic; blue pebbled cloth, titled in silver, marbled endpapers. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 4th Edition. 16 figures within the text, some photographic; blue rexine, titled in silver, marbled endpapers. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 5th or later Edition. 22 figures within the text, some photographic; maroon cloth, titled in silver. Silver paper dust-jacket, titled in black, a little chipped at the head of the spine. A near fine copy.

4th edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 94 pages: illustrations; 19 cm.Notes: Previous edition: 1932. Subjects: Metals.Type and type-founding. Genre: Illustrated 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 12 photographs - 22.5 x 17 cm. Oblong 8vo. Modern brown cloth. The photographs show the construction of the Capper Pass tin smelting works at Melton during 1936 and '37, starting with trenches in an empty field through to an aeriel shot of the finished site. The site was acquired by the company in 1928 but the Depression delayed the project. The civil engineers were Sir Alexander Gibb & Partner, they built the plant, including housing for workers, for £170,000. The plant was acquired by Rio Tinto in 1967, the 200 foot chimney, as shown in these photographs was replaced by a 600foot chimney in 1971. The plant was closed in 1991 and decommissioned. With LITTLE, Bryan. CAPPER PASS. The First Hundred and Fifty Years. London. Newman Neame Ltd. 1963. pp.(vi),33. Frontis, 13 illustrations. 8vo. Blue cloth.

No Binding. Condition: Good. First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18 cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.