Constable london 1985 (21 resultados)

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 245pp, illustrated, clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper., ISBN: 0094658501.

256 pp., index, well ill. with contemporary color & b&w photos and old photos and engravings. A highly readable and lesser known history of Kew Gardens which ha become rather scarce. very good copy in d.j.

paperback, 8vo, xiv,507pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, no creasing on spine, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0094528519.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 8vo, 24 cm, 233 pp, ills. From the blurb - "'I think she is the best poet alive' - wrote the literary critic Walter Raleigh in 1892. Later authorities have echoed his judgement, calling Christina Rossetti the finest woman poet of the nineteenth century. There are no less than eleven of her poems in the New Oxford Book of English Verse, and her poem In the bleak mid-winter has, in its setting by Gustav Holst, become one of the best loved and most popular of English carols, known to thousands who have never heard of the Rossetti family or the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But in her brilliantly perceptive biography Mrs Battiscombe convinces us that the sadness characteristic of her poetry has causes deeper than any external troubles. In early adolescence Christina had a spiritual and emotional crisis from which she emerged transformed. It is only possible to guess at the causes of this crisis. 'The tension between two nationalities, two cultures, two ways of thought can be very fruitful of results,' writes the author, 'though it will inevitably be the cause of much stress and suffering to the person concerned. From this tension genius can be born.'In this book a tragic story unwinds against a background of life in an immensely gifted and closely-knit family, and it is a story of unflagging interest and moving pathos." Slightly agetoned, otherwise Good.…

245pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper, b/w illustrations, a very good copy. First edition.

256pp. Large 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. A near fine copy. First Edition.

Hardback, 8vo, 175pp. Very good condition (light wear; pages yellowed; owner's name penned on ffep) in good dustwrapper (light wear; unevenly faded on spine and back cover). ISBN: 0094664307.

Hardback, 14.5x22.5cm, 245pp. Very good condition (light wear; spotting at top edge) in very good dustwrapper (light edge wear and foxing). ISBN: 0094658501.

Condición: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. ISBN 0094666008. Contains 189 printed pages of text. Cheap paper browning to the edges, without any ownership markings. Very Good condition book, in Very Good condition dust wrapper with one 12 mm closed tear to the top of the spine, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).…

Thick med. 8vo; pp.446; endpaper map, frontispiece,profusely illustrated. A very good copy. A splendidly revised and re-illustrated issue.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 191pp..

Condición: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original russet covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 256 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and colour photographs throughout. Near Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with slight sun fading down the spine, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0094662401 GARDEN & HORTICULTURE.…

First edition thus (first fully illustrated edition). Hardcover. Small quarto. Some mild edge foxing, otherwise very good in good dustjacket slightly faded on the spine (not affecting lettering or illustration). Illustrated with b/w and colour photographs, maps and drawings.This heavy book will cost more to send overseas, than any default postage rate noted.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New octavo 393pp., colour & b/w plates, maps, bibliog., index, Account of the discovery of previous civilisations in the 19th Century & the beginning of our understanding of the ancient world.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Fine octavo 191pp..

1st edition dust jacket As New 8vo. 238pp., colour frontis., colour & b/w plates, text ills., maps, references, index, Published to commemorate the 500th Anniversary of Richard's death at the battle of Bosworth, superbly illustrated. Much of military interest.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Fine octavo 192pp., Memories of the Irish Ghetto in pre-War Manchester. Paper starting to brown o/w nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket.

Cloth. Dustwrapper. 184pp. Very Good.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 191 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped leather spine with raised bands. No dust jacket, as issued. Bound and issued by Kenney's of Galway. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Lavin.

Condición: Fine. First edition hard back black covers, silver titles. 167 pp. Author's first novel. SIGNED presentation copy by the author to William Price Turner, author of Soldon's Women. Accompanied by colour photograph of the author with Bill Turner. Light tanning to closed page edges. Nr. Fine in Fine dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…

First edition. The author's own copy with the words in ink on the front fly leaf "Author's copy." Fine in dust jacket. A model is found on her couch, bashed over the head with a club. There is no sign of a break-in nor a struggle, but several suspects with alibis exist. Gently eliminates them one by one to find the Chelsea ghost. Provenance: From the estate of Alan Hunter.…