the bodley head publishing (27 resultados)

Condición: very_good.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Fair condition paperback pictorial cover laminated no DJ. 302 yellowing pages good and clean with clear print, indexed. Minor foxing on edge of pages, no previous names. Several black and white photographs.

Condición: Gebraucht / Used. 790pp, paperback. good.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Published In 1986 : 1st. UK Edition : The Bodley Head : Light To Faint Face Wear To The Dust Wrapper : Otherwise , In Excellent Condition : Price Un-Clipped : Sill Reasonably Crisp & Tight , With No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Bright Clear Text & Photographs : Overall , A Very Nice Book :

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Published In 1988 : 1st. Edition : The Bodley Head Publications : Just Faint Face Rubbing To The Dust Wrapper : Otherwise Fine : Price Un-Clipped : No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Bright Clear Text & Photographs : Overall , A Very Nice Book :

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Published In 1989 : 2nd. Revised Edition : The Bodley Head : Quite A Hard Book To Find In The UK : This Is A Very , Very Thick & Heavy Book At 958 Pages : General To Light Face Wear To The Covers : Lots Of Little Surface Creases To George's Beard : General Edge & Corner Rubbing : No Spine Creases : ( Unusual For Such A Thick Paperback ) : Very Light Reading Wear : The Top Leaf Edge , Which Is Quite Broad , Is Very Grubby : A Light Dustiness Is On The Other 2 Sides : The Interior Is Very Clean Throughout : Otherwise Fine : No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Bright Clear Text :

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. Published In 1991 : Reprinted Edition : The Bodley Head : This Is A Very Thick & Heavy Book At Well Over 1 Kilo : Just A Small Amount Of Faint Face Rubbing To The Dust Wrapper : Otherwise Fine : Price Clipped : No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Bright Clear Text & Plates : Overall , A Very Nice Book :

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Corners show some moderate wear, thin reading crease to spine, period name on endpaper. otherwise book is excellent, clean and bright, with a tight binding and very clean pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Copyright. Algonquin "Sunny Book" No 102. Hardback: illustrated in colour, including many small pictures replacing words, by the author, colour pictorial covers are slightly rubbed on the edges, spine is a bit damaged with some of the paper covering missing, front endpaper has a short split, else vg. 12mo, (38pp). Merry Murphy is an Irish potato.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. Published In 1980 : 1st. Edition : 1st. Printing : The Bodley Head Publishing : Very Large Format & Extremely Heavy At Nearly 2 Kilos : Overall , A Very Nice Book :

Cloth Spine and Boards. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Gruelle, Johnny Ilustrador. Delightful little book for small Children about a Little Girl, Dorothy Mary who is given the Fairy Queen's Bam Bam Clock, with all it's fairies, to help her keep up with all there is for a happy child to do in a Day. Beautifully illustrated with many Full-page and In-Text Colour illustrations by Johnny Gruelle. "Good Morning" Song by Jessie More Wise ( Lyrics and Musical Score ) on verso of front free endpaper. Endpapers illustrated in Colour with Flying Fairies. Frontis and Title Page illustrated with the Fairies flying out of the clock to greet Dorothy Mary. White cloth spine with Green paper-covered boards illustrated with the Bam Bam clock on the front and Fairies on the back. 7 1/2" Tall, 120g. Some edge wear and a little crinckling to front board. Cloth spine reinforced with clear tape. Gift inscription on half-title page, no other inscriptions. Pages in nice, clean condition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" Tall.

Illustr. Paperback. 124 Pages. Pages slightly brownish. Endpaper & Back Endpaper slightly marked. Adhesive Plastic cover. Fair Condition.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. PB/pub.1986/Gd. condition/191 pages - A fascinating narrative, illustrated with superb photographs, telling of the dramas and dangers involved in the construction of the line as well as looking at the different generations of locomotives and rollin g stock used on the line. [KA311715]. Book.

Hardback. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Edward Ardizzone Ilustrador. First edition. A smart set of first edition copies of Edward Ardizzone's tales about Tim, illustrated in colour by the author. A two volume set.In the publisher's original hardback bindings. In the original dust wrappers.A set of works written by Edward Ardizzone, a British painter, printmaker, and war artist, as well as an author and illustrator of children"s books. These volumes follow the adventures of Ardizzone"s recurring character Little Tim, illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout by the author.Including: (1972) Tim's last Voyage, the UK first edition, and (1978) Ship's Cook Ginger: Another Tim Story, the first US edition. In the publisher's original hardback bindings. In the original dust wrappers. Externally, excellent. Odd spot to endpapers. Dust wrappers are very smart. Wrap of 'Ship's Cook Ginger' is price clipped, with minor rubbing to spine. Light spotting to reverse of both wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. None Ilustrador. First edition. Two beautiful first edition novels by Graham Greene, wonderful examples of his precise and popular writing style. The first edition, first impressions of these works.In the original unclipped dustwrappers.Two novels by Graham Greene.'The Honorary Consul' is a tense thriller, one of Greene's personal favourites.'The Captain and the Enemy', Greene's last novel, following a young boy who is taken away from his boarding school by a stranger to live in London.Greene was one of the most popular authors of the twentieth century, known for his works 'Brighton Rock', 'The End of the Affair' and 'Our Man in Havana'. In the original publisher's cloth bindings, in the original unclipped dustwrappers. Externally, smart. A few minor marks to the boards of 'The Honorary Consul'. Dustwrappers with very light edgewear and a few minor marks, heavier to 'The Honorary Consul'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. book.

1 h., XII p., 129 p., 1 h., 7 p., 1 h.; 20x12 cm.- Piel. En bun estado. Intonso. Literatura Poesía Inglés.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. All still well bound and in nice clean condition, most probably never read. All dustwrappers good with just some sun fading to spines. printed 1985 to 2021, Very Overweight set, Weighs about 28 Kg, additional P&P may be requested for overseas shipment. Includes 1. The Military Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, 1918-1922 by Dr Keith Jeffery. 2. The Army and the Curragh Incident 1914 by Dr Ian Beckett. 3. The Napoleonic War Journal of Captain Thomas Henry Browne, 1807-1816 by Professor Roger Buckley. 4. An Eighteenth-Century Secretary at War: The Papers of William, Viscount Barrington by Dr Tony Hayter. 5. The Military Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, 1915-1918  by Professor David Woodward. 6. Colonel Samuel Bagshawe and the Army of King George II, 1731-1762 by Dr Alan Guy. 7. Montgomery and the Eighth Army by Stephen Brooks. 8. The British Army and Signals Intelligence during the First World War by Dr John Ferris. 9. Roberts in India: The Military Papers of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, 1876-1893 by Brian Robson. 10. Lord Chelmsfords Zululand Campaign 1878-1879 by Professor John Laband. 11. Letters of a Victorian Army Officer: Edward Wellesley, 1840-1854 by Field Marshal Lord Carver. 12. Military Miscellany I, George Durant's Journal of the Expedition to Martinique and Guadaloupe, 1758-1759; by Dr Alan Guy. . Daniel Robinson: Letters from India 1845-1849 by Dr Robin Thomas. . The Reverend George Duncan at GHQ, 1916-1918: by Dr Gerard DeGroot. 13. John Peebles' American War, 1776-1782 by Professor Ira Gruber. 14. The Maratha War Papers of Arthur Wellesley, January to December  1803 by Anthony Bennell. 15. The Letters of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles à Court Repington CMG, Military Correspondent of the The Times, 1903-1918 by Professor AJA Morris. 16. Sir Hugh Rose and the Central India Campaign, 1858 by Brian Robson. 17. Lord Roberts and the War in South Africa, 1899-1902 by Professor André Wessels. 18. The Journal of Corporal William Todd, 1745-1762 by Andrew Cormack & Alan Jones. 19. Rawlinson in India by Dr Mark Jacobsen. 20. Amherst and the Conquest of Canada by Dr Richard Middleton. 21. At Wellington's Right Hand by Dr Rory Muir. 22. Allenby in Palestine by Dr Matthew Hughes. 23. Military Miscellany II: The Journal of Sergeant John Wilson, 1694-1727 by Dr David Chandler with Christopher Scott. Captain the Hon William Leslie (1751-1777), His Life, Letters and Commemoration by Dr Marianne Gilchrist. Diary of Private Robert Cross, 1899-1901 by Robin Jenkins. 24. Romaine's Crimean War by Major Colin Robins OBE. 25. Lord Kitchener and the War in South Africa 1899-1902 by Professor André Wessels. 26. Major General Oliver Nugent and the Ulster Division, 1915-1918. by Nicholas Perry. 27. Montgomery and the Battle of Normandy by Stephen Brooks. 28. Wolseley and Ashanti by Professor Ian Beckett. 29. The First World War Letters of General Lord Horne by Dr Simon Robbins. 30. The Military Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam, 1910-1942 by Dr Jim Beach. 31. Crimean Cavalry Letters by Glenn Fisher. 32. The Military Papers of Lieutenant-General Frederick Stanley Maude, 1914-1917 by Dr Andrew Syk. 33. The Kenya Papers of Sir General George Erskine 1953-1955 by Dr Huw Bennett and Professor David French. 34. Military Intelligence from Germany 1906-1914 by Matthew S Seligman. 35. The Diary of Corporal Vince Schürhoff 1914-1918 by Jim Beach. 36. Liaison: General Pierre des Vallières at British General Headquarters, January 1916 to May 1917 by Elizabeth Greenhalgh. 37. The Military Papers and orrespondence of Major-General J F C Fuller, 1916-1933 by Dr Alaric Searle. 38. The Duke of Cumberland's Campaigns in Britain and the Low Countries, 1745-1748: A Selection of His Letters by Alastair Massie And Jonathan Oates. 39. Lord Gorell and the Army Education Corps 1918-1920 by Jim Beach. 40. The Military Papers of Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, Volume 1: 1940-42 by Timothy Bowman.

First edition, one of 800 copies; 8vo; title printed in red & black, 7pp. advertisements, mild marginal toning; publisher's boards, a bit spotted and browned, slight edge wear. An early collection of the poems of this prolific eighteen-nineties writer, perhaps remembered more today for his brief affair with Wilde and their subsequent correspondence.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. First Australian edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper but for shallow chips at the foot of the thin spine. Suspense novel made into a feature film directed by John Farrow in 1948 with a Jonathan Latimer script, and featuring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, and Maureen O'Sullivan, and again in 1987 as *No Way Out* directed by Roger Donaldson with Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman. The Australian edition is uncommon.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Barney, Maginel Wright (Illustrator) Ilustrador. First Edition. Early printing; published by The Bodley Head and the Algonquin Publishing Co. Stated at back board: "Alogonquin 'Sunny Book' No. 103." Matches PF Volland edition in illustrations, design, and size. Compact 6" x 7 1/2" design. Bright wrap-around pictorial boards, moderate shelf wear, spine chip. Pages near fine, bright; clean and without writing. Bind fine; hinges intact. Front and back endpapers with red, orange, and green birds and foliage over black starry night background. Rare attractive very good original. In the best tradition of children's story books is this example with richly colored, darkly quaint and intriguing, painterly images printed in five colors from process plates on a fine grade of English book paper, while the cover, in eight colors, is done by lithograph. Written by the sister of Meredith Willson (actor) and illustrated by the sister of Frank Lloyd Wright (architect), author Tom Wolfe has called it one of the books which made him resolve to become a writer (even before he himself became a reader). So moved by its narrative about a baby kidnapped from a bassinet by a black bear and its "rollicking and rolling rhythm," Wolfe has slipped a phrase or two from Honey Bear into every book he's ever written. Insured post. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Barney, Maginel Wright (Illustrator) Ilustrador. First Edition. First edition thus. Alogonquin "Sunny Book" No. 103. Bright orange full-cloth, pictorial boards, moderate shelf wear, rub. Front cover features sharp impressed design of Honey Bear playing with infant, and bold titles. Pages very good, clean. Small antiquarian owner's label for children at front endpaper; name fields remain blank. Front and back endpapers w/red, orange, and green birds and foliage against black, starry night background. String-bind, good; hinges intact. Near very good illustrated rarity in orange cloth cover. In the best tradition of children's story books is this example w/richly colored, darkly quaint, and intriguing, painterly images printed in five colors from process plates on a fine grade of English book paper, while the cover, in eight colors, is done by lithograph. Written by the sister of Meredith Willson (actor) and illustrated by the sister of Frank Lloyd Wright (architect), author Tom Wolfe has called it one of the books which made him resolve to become a writer (even before he himself became a reader). So moved by its narrative about a baby kidnapped from a bassinet by a black bear and its "rollicking and rolling rhythm," Wolfe has slipped a phrase or two from Honey Bear into every book he's ever written. It is the Volland Publishing Company's ideal that books should make children happy and build character unconsciously and should contain nothing to cause fright, suggest fear, glorify mischief, excuse malice or condone cruelty. 6 1/16" x 7 1/2" design. Insured post. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Unnamed Ilustrador. First edition. An excellent first edition eighteen volume set comprising records of the army throughout the years. First editions stated, comprising eighteen volumes with narratives on different aspects of the army from journals, letters, correspondences as well as narratives of the events. Published for the Army Records Society, volume one to three by the Bodley Head, volume fifteen to twenty five by Sutton Publishing, volume twenty sevent to thirty five by the History press, and volume forty by the Boydell Press.The titles include: volume one The Military Correspondence of Field marshal Sir Henry Wilson, volume three The Napoleonic War Journal of Captain Thomas Henry Browne,volume fifteen The Letters of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles á Court Repington: Military Correspondence of the Time, volume seventeen Lord Roberts and the War in South Africa 1899-1902, volume twenty fiveLord Kitchener and the War in South Africa, volume twenty sevenMontgomery and the Battle of Normandy, volume twenty eightWolseley and Ashanti, volume twenty nine The First World War Letters of General Lord horne, volume 30 The Military Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam 1910-1942, volume thirty one Crimean Cavalry Letters, volume thirty twoThe Military papers of Lieutenant-General Frederick Stanley Maude, volume thhirty threeThe Kenya Papers of General Sir George Erskine, 1953-1955,volume thirty four, Military Intelligence from Germany 1906-1914,volume thirty fiveThe Diary of Corporal Vince Schurhoff, 1914-1918,volume thirty sixLiaison, volume thirty seven The Military Papers and Correspondence of Major-General J.F.C.Fuller, 1916-1933, volume thirty eightThe Duke of Cumberland's Campaigns in Britain and the Low Countries, 1745-1748, and volume fortyThe Military Papers of Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, Volume 1: 1940-42. In the original publisher's red cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Externally, lovely with minor shelfwear. Loosely inserted to volume twenty seven is a newspaper article about Montgomery and his Normandy landing plan, dated 23.12.11 and signed by Montgomery. Dustwrapper is unclipped and excellent with minor shelfwear only. Spine to thirteen volumes slightly sunned. internally,m firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. With two maps to volume one, sixteen illustrations to volume three, one map to volume seventeen, twenty five, and thirty three, eight maps to volume twenty-nine, five illustrations and four maps to volume thirty-two, five illustrations to volume thirty five, seven illustrations to volume thirty six, three maps to volume thirty eight, and five maps to volume forty. Including the Army Records Society annual general meeting booklet loosely inserted to volume thirty three and thirty seven, respectively dated 2013 and 2017, with lectures by Dr huw Bennet and Prof. Alaric Searle. Fine. book.

Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. None Ilustrador. A very smart collection of historical works from the Army Records Society reviewing a variety of important military events and individuals. Fifteen volumes. This set includes: All for the King: The Life Story of Sir George Carteret (1609-1680), 1976. Written by George Reginald Balleine. Illustrated with twelve plates. Collated complete. The Army and the Curragh Incident 1914, 1986. Volume II only. Edited by Ian F. W. Beckett. Illustrated with frontispiece and one map. Collated complete. Colonel Samuel Bagshawe and the Army of George II 1731-1762, 1990. Edited by Alan J. Guy. With portrait frontispiece. Letters of a Victorian Army Officer: Edward Wellesley 1840-1854, 1995. Edited by Michael Carver. Illustrated with frontispiece and three maps. Collated complete. Amherst and the Conquest of Canada, 2003. Selected and edited by Richard Middleton. With portrait frontispiece. At Wellington's Right Hand: Letters of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon 1808-1815, 2003. Edited by Rory Muir. Illustrated with frontispiece and six maps. Collated complete. Military Miscellany II: Manuscripts from Marlborough's Wars, the American War of Independence and the Boer War, 2005. Edited by David Chandler. Illustrated with double-page frontispiece, a map and one plate. Romaine's Crimean War: The letters and Journal of William Govett Romaine, 2005. Edited by Colin Robins. Illustrated with frontispiece, fourteen figures, and six maps. Collated complete. Lord Kitchener and the War in South Africa 1899-1902, 2006. Edited by Andre Wessels. Illustrated with frontispiece and one map. Collated complete. Major General Oliver Nugent and the Ulster Division 1915-1918, 2007. Edited by Nicholas Perry. With portrait frontispiece. Wolseley and Ashanti: The Asante War Journal and Correspondence of Major General Sir Garnet Wolseley 1873-1874, 2009. Edited by Ian F. W. Beckett. Illustrated with frontispiece and one map. Collated complete. The Military Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam 1910-1942, 2010. Edited by Jim Beach. With portrait frontispiece. Crimean Cavalry Letters, 2011. Edited by Glenn Fisher. Illustrated with four plates and two in-text images. Collated complete. The Military Papers of Lieutenant-General Frederick Stanley Maude 1914-1917, 2012. Edited by Andrew Syk. Illustrated with frontispiece, five figures, and four maps. Collated complete. The Kenya Papers of General Sir George Erskine 1953-1955, 2013. Edited by Huw Bennet and David French. Illustrated with frontispiece and one map. Collated complete. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper very smart with light shelf wear and sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.

First editions, Rex Mundi signed by the author. George Sims drew upon his experiences as an antiquarian bookseller for many of his thriller novels, including his first, The Terrible Door. Sims also authored three non-fictional accounts of the "Rare Book Game", and his bookseller's catalogues helped to revive interest in figures such as Eric Gill and Llewellyn Powys. Provenance: Stephen C. Massey. 3 works, octavo. Original boards in dust jackets. A fine set in near-fine, unclipped jackets.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A near fine complete run 1985-2011 of Army Record Society volumes 1-31 in near fine D/Ws. 1985 Vol 1 Military Correspondence of FM Sir Henry Wilson 1918-1922 1986 Vol. 2 The Army and the Curragh Incident 1914 1987 Vol 3 The Napoleonic War Journal of Captain Thomas Henry Browne 1988 Vol 4 The Papers of William Viscount Barrington 1989 Vol 5 Military Correspondence of FM Sir W Robertson 1915-1918 1990 Vol 6 Colonel Samuel Bagshawe and the Army of George II 1991 Vol 7 Montgomery and the Eighth Army 1992 Vol 8 The British Army and Signals Intelligence during the First World War 1993 Vol 9 Roberts in India 1994 Vol 10 Lord Chelmsford's Zululand Campaign 1878-1879 1995 Vol 11 Letters of a Victorian Army Officer: Edward Wellesley 1840-1854 1996 Vol 12 Military Miscellany I 1997 Vol 13 John Peebles: A Scottish Grenadier in America, 1776-1782 1998 Vol 14 The Maratha War Papers of Arthur Wellesley January-December 1803 1999 Vol 15 The Letters of Lt Col Charles à Court Repington, Military Correspondent of The Times 1903-1918 2000 Vol 16 Sir Hugh Rose and the Central India Campaign 1858 2000 Vol 17 Lord Roberts and the War in South Africa 1899-1902 2001 Vol 18 The Journal of Corporal Todd 1745-1762 2002 Vol 19 Rawlinson in India 2002 Vol 20 Amherst and the Conquest of Canada 2003 Vol 21 At Wellington's Right Hand 2004 Vol 22 Allenby in Palestine 2005 Vol 23 Military Miscellany II 2006 Vol 24 Romaine's Crimean War 2007 Vol 25 Lord Kitchener and the War in South Africa 1899-1902 2008 Vol 26 Major General Oliver Nugent and the Ulster Division 1915-1918 2008 Vol 27 Montgomery and the Battle of Normandy 2009 Vol 28 Wolseley and Ashanti 2009 Vol 29 The First World War Letters of General Lord Horne 2010 Vol 30 The Military Papers of Lt-Col Sir Cuthbert Headleam 1910-1942 2011 Vol 31 Crimean Cavalry Letters Heavy. Extra payment for shipping will be required.