The Cigarette Packet Summer 1989 No. 38
London: The Cigarette Packet Collectors Club of Great Britain, 1989. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall A quarterly magazine by and for members of the Cigarette Packet Collectors Club of Great Britain. (Book ref. 030299) £25.00
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Smoke Rings and Roundelays: Prose and Verse since Raleigh's Time
London: John Castle, 1924. Illustrated by Norman Janes. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall B001GCQMSA Ex-Library Anthology on the joys of smoking. Top third of spine missing. suitable for rebinding. (Book ref. 028510) £75.00
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Cigarette Card Cavalcade: Including a Short History of Tobacco
London: Vawser & Wiles Ltd, 1948. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall B0007J216A Ex-Library A comprehensive guide to British amd American cartophilly up until the Second World War. Rebound in strong library binding. (Book ref. 018620) £20.00
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A History of Smoking
London: George G. Harrap, 1931. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall B00086A1ZA Ex-Library Translated by Paul England. Rebound in strong library binding. Rare. (Book ref. 017085) £20.00
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Tobacco: Its History & Associations, including an Account of the Plant and its Manufacture; with its Modes of Use in all Ages and Countries
London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall B000862ETQ Ex-Library Rebound in strong library binding. Rare. (Book ref. 017084) £65.00
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Legislative Action to Combat the World Smoking Epidemic
Geneva: World Health Organization, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 9241560746 Ex-Library (Book ref. 013455) £28.00
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The Health Consequences of Smoking: a Public Health Service Review: 1967
Washington: U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall B000MXQ0EK Ex-Library (Book ref. 012559) £20.00
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Confessions of a Tobacco Addict
London: Frederick Muller, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall B0000CLV2G A psychological novel exploring the smoking habit and the dangers and benefits of hypnosis as a means of curing the habit. (Book ref. 012555) £20.00
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The Smoking Craze: An Indictment With Reasons and an Appeal to Christians
London: S.W. Partridge, 1902. Third Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall B0010XC0VS An amazing book about the evils of smoking. Revised and enlarged, the most complete edition. Publisher's catalogue bound in at the rear. Rare in any edition. (Book ref. 012553) £125.00
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Cigarette Country Tobacco in American History and Politics
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0395291259 "Why do we smoke? Who started it? What are the forces that have kept Americans (and the rest of the world) puffing on pipes, cigars, and, most of all, cigarette. The author delves into all these questions- and more, besides. She writes about the tobacco-user's renewed interestin chewing tobacco and snuff- and devotes a chapter to the plight of tobacco farmers.". (Book ref. 012552) £15.00
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St Nicotine of The Peace Pipe
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1909. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall B00085PSK4 One of the rarest books on the history of tobacco and smoking. Some pages uncut. Nice copy of an uncommon book. (Book ref. 012551) £225.00
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The Habit of Tobacco Smoking
London: Staples Press, 1954. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall B0000CJA95 The history of tobacco and current research into tobacco related diseases. (Book ref. 012548) £18.00
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The Tobacco Habit, its History and Pathology: A Study in Birth-Rates, Smokers Compared with Non-Smokers
London: J. & A. Churchill, 1912. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall B0010XA0I8 Signed by Author Includes: An Appeal to Medical Students and all members of the Medical Profession who are true christians and zealots in promoting true hygiene and temperance. An amazing book about the evils of smoking. Rare. (Book ref. 012547) £125.00
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Le Tabac: Origine - Histoire - Classification - Chimie - Culture - Récolte - Génétique
Paris: Société d'Editions géographiques maritimes et Coloniales, 1929. First Edition. Leather. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall B000WY6P94 3 vols. Comprehensive history of Tobacco. French text. Rebound in full leather binding with title gilt embossed on each volume. Some rubbing to spines. (Book ref. 036931) £285.00
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Signed Receipt ('Jo: Webb') for '2lbs. Bengal Cheroots', bought by 'Mr Smith'.
2 June 1852; 49 Friday Street, Cheapside, London. On one side of a piece of landscape 8vo grey wove paper. Clear and complete. Discoloured and worn, with spike hole at centre. Printed part of receipt reads 'London, ..........18..... | 49, Friday Strt. Cheapside. | M............ | Bought of Joseph Webb, | Importer of Cigars.' The bill is for '2lbs. Bengal Cheroots - 9/- | 18/-', with the receipt reading '1852 | Aug 4th. paid [signed] Jo: Webb'. Docketed on reverse 'Webb | 18/'. Webb does not appear to have traded from the site for very long, and little is to be discovered about him. (Book ref. 9518) £56.00
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photograph, autograph letter signed, autograph note signed, and 2 fragments signed,
all undated. English actor (1826-81). A tiny studio photograph (an inch by three-quarters of an inch) of Sothern in the role with which he is forever associated, that of Lord Dundreary in Tom Taylor's 'Our American Cousin' (1858). Head and shoulders, looking slightly to the left, sporting a monocle and a raffish look, a centre-parting, moustache, and the sideburns which gave a new word to the English language, "dundrearies". Mounted and glued to a torn sheet of paper also bearing two signatures cut away from letters, the first "E. A. Sothern" and the second "Ted". The letter to "Will" (his assistant?), no date or place, 2 pp, 12mo. He asks him to return to Mr Coppell all but one of the boxes of cigars he ordered for him, as these are not up to the standard of the sample. The note, to an unnamed male correspondent, no date or place, one page, 8vo. He requests that a copy of the illustrated Ingoldsby Legends be sent to Mrs Sothern at Oakley Lodge in Fulham. Five items, (Book ref. 946) £45.00
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Autograph note signed to unnamed male correspondent,
no date, with letterhead 48 Pall Mall. One page, 12mo, written in purple ink on grey paper. "My dear Sir / Could you lunch with me at 2. on Tuesday at my rooms in Midland Hotel St. Pancras? / Yrs always / E. A. Sothern". With traces of previous mounting to the reverse. (Book ref. 945) £20.00
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Our family business
The Bodley Head Ltd, 1979. 037030229X First Edition. Hardcover. Fair in Very Good dust jacket. Good reading copy, ex library with the usual stamps on the front endpapers, but otherwise clean and complete, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. 146 pages, photos on plates (Book ref. 33265) £6.00
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The Making of Tintin. Cigars of the Pharaoh & The Blue Lotus
London: Methuen, 1995. Reprint. Illustrated hardback laminated board cover. G: in Good condition without dust jacket as issued. Inner hinge cracking, Some pages reinforced with sellotape at hinge. Ex-lib. 155pp :: 300mm x 220mm (12" x 9") (Book ref. ttn08a) £76.00
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Clearing the Air: Perspectives on Environmental Tobacco Smoke.
Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books., 1988. 1st.. Hard Cover.. VG,/VG.. 0669180076 An independant study? UNREAD copy in d/j, not price clipped. (Book ref. 011766) £10.00
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