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By: -
Price: £12.00
Publisher: Chambers: 1847
Seller ID: 4705
Condition: Good
Black and white engraved illustrations. Decorative paper covered boards, now a little grubby, with the paper spine cover missing, so a little shaken. Previous owner's name and address on flyleaf, a couple of marks, otherwise internally clean. This volume has 10 'tracts' - including the life of William Penn, the man in the iron mask, the life and travels of John Lewis Burckhardt and The Christmas Holiday. View more info
By: -
Price: £5.00
Publisher: University of Leeds: 1969
Seller ID: 5144
Condition: Fine
B + w illustrations. Includes articles on Pascal and Newman by J M Cameron, A H Hanson SOme Literature on Student Revolt, Brian Hogan on Criminal Liability without Fault and J P Roberts on ceramics. View more info
By: -
Price: £4.00
Publisher: The Arts Council: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 11011
Condition: Fine
128pp, soft covers with an illustration by Van Gogh. Introduction, Vincent in England and the catalogue of the works in the exhibition, with useful biographical information and notes. View more info
By: -
Price: £7.50
Publisher: S W Partridge & Co: 1111
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 13484
Condition: Very Good
Circa 1890. 96pp and publisher's catalogue. Blue cloth covered boards with an illustration in gold and black. B + w engraved illustrations and headpieces to chapters. A clean, attractive copy. View more info
By: -
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Charles Knight: 1845
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16359
Condition: Very Good
Part of the Knight's Weekly volume series. Pocket sized. 245pp, decorated paper covers with tape strengthening to the lower part of the spine. Frontispiece engraved portrait. Internally clean. Includes an Appendix on Thomas Churchyard, and the publisher's catalogue. A rare copy of a biography of the Tudor merchant and founder of Gresham College. The BM catalogue gives the author as either Charles Knight or William Macfarlane. View more info
By: Appleman, Roy Edgar (ed) and Lincoln, Abraham
Price: £9.50
Publisher: Unites States Information Service: 1959
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 12688
Condition: Very Good
Large format. 44pp, softback covers. B + w maps and photographs. A couple of very light spots of foxing to Contents page, otherwise a very clean Near Fine copy. Produced to mark the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. View more info
By: Aretz, Gertrude
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Godfrey & Stephens Ltd: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16609
Condition: Very Good
Translated by Harry C Schnur. 244pp, black boards with gilt title. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate to the flyleaf, otherwise a clean copy. A biography of the German princess who became the ruler of Russia. Includes Appendix I - Catherine in her Letters, and a second Appendix of The Palace Revolution from the Memoirs of Princess Dashkov. View more info
By: Arundell, Dennis
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton: 1965
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 5652
Condition: Very Good
306pp, complete dustjacket in removeable plastic sleeve. B + w illustrations. Ex library, with pocket on inner board and stamps on flyleaf and title page, otherwise clean , so sold as good reading copy. The history of one of the oldest English Theatres, and the actors and playwrights who worked there. View more info
By: Aydon, Cyril
Price: £5.50
Publisher: Constable: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16898
Condition: Fine
326pp, the page edges tanning a very little with age. Complete illustrated dustjacket B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The life and work of the man who wrote the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, and changed the world. View more info
By: Ayling, Stanley
Price: £6.50
Publisher: Constable: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14810
ISBN: 0094653801
Condition: As New
218pp, complete dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. A biography of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the 18th century dramatist and politician. View more info
By: Baker, Michael
Price: £5.00
Publisher: BCA: 1978
Edition: Book Club
Seller ID: 4868
Condition: Very Good
Long format. 91pp, cream boards with a couple of small marks, gilt title. Colour and b + w illustrations. Internally clean. The curious case of Charles Altamont Doyle the father of Conan Doyle. View more info
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Johnson Books: 2015
Seller ID: 16160
ISBN: 0933472250
Condition: As New
45pp, illustrated laminated softback covers. Many b + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The colourful career of Mrs Molly Brown, the red haired Irish girl who rose from waitress in Leadville to being the grandest of Society dames - and survived the sinking of The Titanic. View more info
By: Barker, Anthony
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Readers Union and The Faith Press: 1961
Seller ID: 4984
Condition: Fine
175pp, complete dustjacket with a light ring mark to the front. B + w photographs. Internally very clean. Medical work in N'qutu, Zululand, South Africa. View more info
By: Barnes, Bertha
Price: £2.50
Publisher: Jefferson City: 1974
Seller ID: 5749
Condition: Fine
4th printing. 29pp, softback covers. B + w illustrations by Darrell Isaacs. A clean copy. The story of the famous American pioneer. View more info
By: Barrie, J M
Price: £5.50
Publisher: Hodder: 1898
Seller ID: 4486
Condition: Very Good
'43rd Thousand'. 204pp, black cloth boards. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Hand cut foredge. A couple of light fox marks, not affecting text, otherwise clean. View more info
By: Basso, Lelio
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Andre Deutsch: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16025
ISBN: 0233966382
Condition: Fine
First English editon, translated by Douglas Parmee. 183pp, with a complete dustjacket. A very clean copy. The life and thought of the socialist who played a leading role in the German and Polish movements before the 1917 - 19 revolutionary years. View more info
By: Bath, Philip E
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Wheaton of Exeter: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1740
Condition: Very Good
112 pp, dustjacket in removeable plastic cover. B + w photographs. Corner of flyleaf clipped, otherwise VG. Includes David Livingstone, Vasco Da Gama, Columbus, Thor Heyerdahl, Gertrude Bell, John Hunt, Admiral Byrd. View more info
By: Bathurst, Bella
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Flamingo: 1999
Seller ID: 11380
ISBN: 0006530761
Condition: As New
284pp, illustrated softback covers. B + w illustrations. A clean, tight, unread copy. The story of the building of the Scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson. View more info
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Constable: 1956
Seller ID: 6239
Condition: Very Good
251pp, dustjacket with wear to edges and a portion of loss to the top of the spine. Colour frontispiece portrait. A few light spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. View more info
By: Bayley, John
Price: £1.50
Publisher: Abacus: 2002
Seller ID: 16613
ISBN: 0349114293
Condition: Fine
294pp, paper browning a very little with age, illustrated softback covers with a photograph of Iris Murdoch. Complete dustjacket with a photograph of Judi Dench from the film. B + w photographs. A very clean, tight copy. A biography of the novelist and philosopher, by her husband. View more info
