Locks Lockmaking by Butter (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. ex library grubby. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The green boards are clean with some bumping to the edges, with title to the spine, with a slightly cocked spine. Tanning to page edges and inside covers, pencil marks to first page. Otherwise the binding is firm and the pages appear clean and crease free, with some tanning. This book has 135 pages. All in all a nice example of this book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. weak hinge Josiah Parkes & Sons stamp. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The books once belonged "The Florence M Taylor Technical Library" and there are some pencil markings along the edge throughout the book. Some pages are damaged: pp 34 to 42 are creases and have staple marks at the edges as does pp 99/100 and pp 107/108. The last is also torn at the edge.pages 100 and 101are damaged towards the bottom inside edge with loss of letters The pages just described look as though they have been tipped back in and jut out of the covers. The jacket, now protected, is torn and has a white label on the tail of the spine It sounds worse than it is as the book is actually clean and in solid binding. No publishing date, foreword dated 1926.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, (1931). Sm. 8vo. Orig. green cloth with black text. (xii, 132, 24pp.). With b/w frontisp., 31 b/w illusts. and front endpaper adverts. Toning on endpaper, otherwise fine. NOTE: '.the art of the locksmith in the direction of security has been developed to keep pace with the skill of the thief.' (Foreword). The author's Grandfather, Charles Chubb, developed a famous lock.