Watch Clock Making, First Edition (9 results)

Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. First Edition. A very fine, clean and tight copy in jacket/brodart covered. First American Edition. A very nice copy in like new and unread condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The blue cloth cover have the title in gilt and in slightly faded gilt on the spine. The corners and spine ends are very lightly bumped. The endpapers are bright and clean, the first free end paper has a small amount of foxing that is very light in color. The interior is bright and clean and there are over 300 illustrations in black and white. BE.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st. First American edition Illustrated with over 300 line drawings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a professionally rebound copy of the 1832 Carey and Lea, Philadelphia edition. Currently bound in brown, title stapled in gold on spine, lovely new end papers. The interior is the original with 476 pages including an index , and twenty original fold-out plates bound in.The front gutter, following the title page, is split the bottom 3 inches. Then, following the Contents, it is split the top seven inches. However this has not affected the remainder of the book, which is tight and the back gutter is in tact. Following the title page is Reid's original dedication to the Duke of Sussex from the 1826 Edinburgh edition, then the Preface, Contents, 451 pages of text, the Index and Plates. Very light stamps "Property of the New York Society Library, Withdrawn" are at beginning and end of the book. A circular sticker about an inch in diameter of apparent former owner,Rodney V. Councell, Watch and Clockmaker.The pages have age discoloring but are not brittle and are quite readable.The book measures 61/2" X 11".

Hardback. Condition: G++. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Frontispiece (unmarked) 12 and 280 pages. No adverts. Last half of book stained in leading margin. Book has been rebound (some years ag0)in strong brown cloth lettered in gold on spine.Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Condition: near fine. 1st Edition. vii, 440pp. Octavo. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on front and spine. Slight shelfwear to top of spine and minor foxing in first and last couple of pages in text block. Over 300 B&W illustrations throughout. near fine A thorough look at watch and clock making and repairing, with chapters on tools and equipment, cleaning, keyless work, self-winding mechanisms and motion work, and an appendix on causes of failure and bad timekeeping. Includes 14 pages of ads at the back.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1885. Ex-Library, Usual Markings. Rebound in crimson buckram, gold on spine. Moderate general wear. Has bookplate. 341 pages. 6113.

No Binding. Condition: V.g. 1st Edition. 476pp, 18 of 19 plates eng. by Moffat and Smellie [lacking the pl 19]. No binding present . Text block only with title-page lacking. Soiling to the first few leaves and the last plates but a scarce and imprtant watch making book. Imprint at the last page 'Printed by James Clarke & Co. Edinburgh 1826'. 24cms. INCOMPLETE.

Cloth. Condition: Collectible; Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. A crisp, well-preserved copy of the 1953 1st edition. Tight and VG (with very light soiling at the spine) in a bright, VG dustjacket, with vey light creasing and soiling to the rear panel and mild darkening along the spine. Octavo, 440 pgs., including hundreds of detailed diagrams.