Macmillan london 2014 (29 resultados)

First edition. 8vo, 345pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket. . Signed by the author.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2014). (1983) 2014 revised edition. 4to (196 x 252mm). Pp240. Colour photographs throughout, bibliography. Matt pictorial boards, issued without a dust-wrapper. Corners slightly bumped else a very good unread copy. "A unique photographic guide to finding, cooking and eating wild plants, mushrooms and seaweed." A terrifically good book. What to collect, where and when to look, and of course many ways of cooking what you have collected - a classic. "Roger Phillips is one of our leading experts on wild food and mushrooms. He has been foraging for decades and has influenced a generation of British chefs. Now, in this beautifully illustrated and authoritative book, he identifies hundreds of edible plants growing all around us, in our hedgerows, woodlands and fields, along river banks and seashores, even on inhospitable moorland. Roger gives fascinating information on how our ancestors would have used the plands, and includes over 150 delicious recipes for food and drink, from bilberry muffins to blackberry and apple jam, from red clover wine to watercress soup. Including berries, herbs and salad leaves, mushrooms, wild vegetables, seaweed and even bark, Wild Food will inspire you to start cooking with nature's free bounty." "I can safely say that if I hadn't picked up this book some twenty years ago I wouldn't have eaten as well, or even lived as well, as I have. It inspired me then and it inspires me now." Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Chapters include: Mushrooms; Flowers for salads; Seaweed and salt marsh plants; Vegetables, leaves and herbs; Fruit, berries, nuts and roots; Teas, beers and wines. .…

First edition. 8vo, 395pp. A near fine hardback copy in like dust jacket. . Signed by the author.

First edition, first print. Hardback. Book and dust jacket are in near Fine condition. Browning to the upper closed page edges. A 'Lucan Drakenfeld' title. 429pp. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2014). (1983) 2014 revised edition reprint. 4to (196 x 252mm). Pp240. Colour photographs throughout, bibliography. Pictorial boards, issued without a dust-wrapper. Fine new copy. "A unique photographic guide to finding, cooking and eating wild plants, mushrooms and seaweed." A terrifically good book. What to collect, where and when to look, and of course many ways of cooking what you have collected - a classic. "Roger Phillips is one of our leading experts on wild food and mushrooms. He has been foraging for decades and has influenced a generation of British chefs. Now, in this beautifully illustrated and authoritative book, he identifies hundreds of edible plants growing all around us, in our hedgerows, woodlands and fields, along river banks and seashores, even on inhospitable moorland. Roger gives fascinating information on how our ancestors would have used the plands, and includes over 150 delicious recipes for food and drink, from bilberry muffins to blackberry and apple jam, from red clover wine to watercress soup. Including berries, herbs and salad leaves, mushrooms, wild vegetables, seaweed and even bark, Wild Food will inspire you to start cooking with nature's free bounty." "I can safely say that if I hadn't picked up this book some twenty years ago I wouldn't have eaten as well, or even lived as well, as I have. It inspired me then and it inspires me now." Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Chapters include: Mushrooms; Flowers for salads; Seaweed and salt marsh plants; Vegetables, leaves and herbs; Fruit, berries, nuts and roots; Teas, beers and wines. .…

388pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper, a fine copy. First edition. Author's signed copy.

second edition).Octavo,389 pp.,colour illustrations, distribution maps, limp plastic.

First edition, first print. Hardback. Book and dust jacket are in as new Fine condition. 368pp. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.

First edition, first print. Hardback. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.

First publication of this paperback edition. Book is in Fine condition. SIGNED by the author to the title page, without dedication. Securely packaged.

First edition, first print. Hardback. Book and unclipped dust jacket are in Fine condition. SIGNED by the autho,r without dedication, to the title page. 529pp. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged. Please note, this is a heavy volume and will incur an additional Airmail charge.…

1st edition stiff wrappers As New octavo ix + 502pp., colour & b/w plates, reading list, index, Brilliantly told history by the master. Not just the Civil War, Ackroyd also covers literature & philosophy. Highly recommended.

1st edition hardback in original cloth Nice copy octavo xi + 249pp., b/w plates, maps, notes, bibliog., index, The Crusaders elected Baldwin II to rule Jerusalem and Melisende (1105-1161), his daughter, became the city's first hereditary queen. This book introduces her family and friends (ie Morfia; the Armenian Gabriel of Meletine). …

Condición: Fine. First UK edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covered boards, white title and author lettering to the spine, black end papers. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 290 printed pages of text. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9781447236689 MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…

First publication of this edition. Book is in Fine condition. SIGNED by the author to the title page, without dedication. Securely packaged.

Condición: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy cloth effect covered boards, gilt back, end paper maps. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Full printer's key 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. Contains [xi], double page family tree, 1004 + ii pp. Hint of tanning to the text block edges, tiny pin prick to the top front corner. Near Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, £20.00. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…

Condición: Fine. First edition, first print. Hardback. Book and unclipped dust jacket are in Fine condition, a slight tinge to the upper closed page edges. SIGNED by the author, without dedication, to the title page. A 'Shetland' title. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.…

First edition, first print. Hardback. Short Shockers one and two. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. SIGNED by the author, without dedication, to the title page. 370pp. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.

First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket. Anneliese Vos, sixteen-year-old daughter of Amsterdam detective, Pieter Vos, disappeared three years ago under mysterious circumstances. Her distraught father's desperate search reveals nothing and results in his departure from the police force. Pieter now lives in a broken down houseboat in the colorful Amsterdam neighborhood of the Jordaan. One day, Vos is visited by case, Laura Bakker, a misfit trainee detective from the provinces. She?s come to tell him that Katja Prins, daughter of an important local politician, has disappeared under circumstances similar to Anneliese. In the company of the intriguing and awkward Bakker, Vos finds himself drawn back into the life of a detective.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Large 8vo HB. pp; xi, 284. B&W illustrations. Tips of three pages turned, otherwise Near-Fine in pictorial boards, with minimal shelf-wear.

First edition. Signed by the author. Detective Inspector for homicide, Sarah Lund, is contacted by old flame Mathias Borch from National Intelligence. Borch fears that what first appeared to be a random killing at the docks is the beginning of an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Troels Hartmann. The murder draws attention towards the shipping and oil giant, Zeeland, run by billionaire Robert Zeuthen. When Zeuthen?s 9-year-old daughter, Emilie, is kidnapped the investigation takes on a different dimension as it soon becomes clear that her disappearance is linked to the murder of a young girl in Jutland some years earlier. Hartmann is in the middle of an election campaign, made all the more turbulent because of the mounting financial crisis. He needs Zeeland?s backing. Lund needs to make sense of the clues left by Emilie?s perpetrator before it?s too late.…

8vo. (224x143mm), pp: x, 189,[1], illustrated, in pictorial laminated boards as new & very good indeed.

First edition, first print. Hardback. A near Fine book in a Fine dust jacket. A slight toning to the closd page edges. SIGNED by the author, without dedication, to the title page. The last title in 'The Century' trilogy. 1003pp. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.

Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First edition. First impressions of ten exciting thrillers, in lovely condition, by the bestselling author Robin Cook. Ten volumes in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Robert Brian "Robin" Cook is a very popular American novelist, who uses his knowledge as a physician to write thrillers focusing on important topics surrounding medicine and public health, in particular the socio-ethical problems which come with them. This selection includes ten of his works, with two from his Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series. These volumes are all first editions, first impressions in lovely condition. This selection comprises: Mortal Fear (1988); Mutation (1989); Harmful Intent (1990); Vital Signs (1991); Abduction (2000); Shock (2001); Seizure (2003); Crisis (2006); Foreign Body (2008); Cell (2014). In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, cloth is in immaculate condition for all volumes. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally very bright and clean, though a little age toned to the page perimeters of Mortal Fear, Mutation and Harmful Intent. Dust wrappers are very bright and smart to all volumes. Fine. Not Stated (ilustrador). book. …

Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First edition. The first editions of the final two novels within Sansom's bestselling Tudor detective Shardlake series, with Tombland being a signed limited edition. The first editions of Lamentation and Tombland, the final two novels in the bestselling Shardlake series, written by British novelist C.J. Sansom. Tombland is a limited edition signed by Sansom.In the publisher's original cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. Illustrated colour maps of the setting are to the front end papers of each novel, and Sansom's signature is inscribed to the limited edition leaf before title of Tombland.An intriguing premise, The Shardlake series fuses both detective and historical fiction, as it follows hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake solving crimes under the backdrop of Tudor England. Shardlake often finds himself involved within significant events of the period, such as court struggles between Catholics and Protestants in Lamentation, and Kett's Rebellion in Tombland, as well as being commissioned by royal figures, with Catherine Parr hiring him in Lamentation and Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth I) hiring him in Tombland.The novels are particularly praised for their originality and engagement with history. In the publisher's original cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, in excellent condition, with minimal marks. Slight edgewear to Lamentation, with marginal rubbing to head and tail of spine and to joints. Dust wrappers are bright and clean, with minimal edgewear. End papers are bright and clean. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Author's signature to limited edition leaf of Tombland. Near Fine. Unknown (ilustrador). signed by author. book.…

Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First edition. A delightful set of ten signed modern novels, majority of which are limited numbered editions. Includes thrillers, dystopian and speculative fiction. A fine selection of ten modern fiction titles, each signed by their respective authors.Offering the first impressions of these novels, with those being first UK editions specified below.Complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers for all volumes.Includes the following works: The Age of Reinvention (2015) by Karine Tuil First UK edition. A suspenseful Gatsbian tale of a famous New York lawyer whose charmed and glamorous life is a sham. Gold Fame Citrus (2016) by Claire Vaye Watkins First UK edition. Speculative fiction novel set in a near-future dystopian California ravaged by extreme drought. The Sport of Kings (2016) by C. E. Morgan No. 357 of 750 numbered copies of the first UK edition. A finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A family saga about horse racing set in Kentucky and Ohio. Swan Song (2018) by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott An exclusive signed edition, with an embossed number 167 of 250 copies to the title page. With the publisher"s exclusive white dust wrapper, bookmark, and an inserted playlist. Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019, this debut centres around the high society women who punished Capote for his indiscreet reporting. There There (2018) by Tommy Orange No. 151 of 250 numbered copies of the first edition. A finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, exploring themes of Native peoples living in urban spaces and struggles with identity and authenticity. An Ocean of Minutes (2018) by Thea Lim No. 121 of 250 numbered copies of the first edition. Set in an alternate version of 1981 where time travel was made possible, following a young American couple who are forced to separate when one if infected with flu and the other travels into the future. The House (2020) by Tom Watson and Imogen Robertson Double signed. A remarkable political thriller about secrets, lies and betrayal, by former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. The Women Could Fly (2022) by Megan Giddings No. 169 of 500 numbered copies of the first edition. Dystopian about the bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored. Either/Or (2022) by Elif Batuman - Second novel continuing the story of Selin in her second year at Harvard University. One of the Good Guys (2024) by Araminta Hall No. 530 of 1,500 numbered copies of the first edition. A man is forced to reevaluate his seemingly content marriage when his wife leaves him. In the original cloth bindings. With the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, fine. Dust wrappers are fine. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Fine. None (ilustrador). signed by author. book.…

A first edition, first printing of Princess Mirror-Belle and the Dragon Pox by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Lydia Monks, published by Macmillan Children's Books in 2014. A near fine book with slight bumping to the spine tips and corners.

A first edition, first printing of the 15th Anniversary Edition (softcover) published by Macmillan in 2014. A near fine book SIGNED without dedication to the title page by Julia Donaldson. A rare signed book.

A pair of 2015 limited editions produced by Macmillan in 2014. Both in fine condition. 'The Gruffalo' has been signed by Julia Donaldson on the title page. 'The Gruffalo's Child' similarly signed by Donaldson. A very nice pair of books in slipcase.