Published by Henry Melland, London England, 1982
ISBN 10: 0907929001 ISBN 13: 9780907929000
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Very slight foxing to top edge. The company was started in London in 1882 by James Alsford, a firewood merchant, and its subsequent history is a chronicle of the Alsford family which, through 100 years and four generations, built that insignificant business into the large and well-known concern it is today - a firm with a rigidly maintained code of excellence in materials, workmanship and service, giving Alsfords a reputation which is jealously guarded. The history of Alsfords is also an account of the rapid and drastic changes that have overtaken the timber industry during the last century and how the company has met the challenge presented by these changes to profitably further its development and progress. Illustrated. 100 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic, Scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).