474pp. Hardback with dust-wrapper. D/w marked and worn with some small perforations. Sound binding. Some slight edge soiling. Private ownership. Good used copy. (Q3) View More...
348pp. Hardback with dust-wrapper. D/w soiled and slightly creased. Book itself is in very good condition. Private ownership. Firm binding. Decent reference copy. (BS7) View More...
No D/J. The book is in good used condition. The Time Life Seafarers series, this book looks at the Clipper ships, with wonderful images and illustrations, a good easy flowing text, and a delightful chapter on "The Cutty Sark". The book will suite all ages from mid to late teens, and upwards. You will receive the book seen in the image. Size: 4to - over 9" - 12" tall View More...
No D/J. The book is in good used condition (some v/minor foxing to a small number of pages) A reasonable collectible copy, with good easy to read text. (illustrated) You will receive the book seen in the image. Size: 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall View More...
Hardback with protected dust-wrapper. xxviii, 360pp. Illus. Slight wear to d/w. Very faint pencil mark to front free end-paper. A very pleasing copy. (q32) View More...
D/J is price clipped, but good. The book is in good used condition. Here we have a great book showing some of the most wonderful watercolour paintings by victorian artist's, all the subjects are of children in natural mood's. 27 paintings in all, by both known, and not so well known artists of the period. Each painting has a wonderful historical text, to help guide you through this fascinating period of art. You will receive the book seen in the image. Size: 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall View More...
Hardback, full-calf, gilt decorative spine. 16.5cm x 11cm. iv, 591pp. Head of spine slightly worn. Previous owner's details to half-title. A very pleasing copy. (bs46) View More...
D/J is good (minor shelf wear) The book is in good used condition. Alan Jenkins, who has spent most of his life in villages, knows the customs and the characters intimately and in A Village Year he follows a typical English village month by month through the activities and seasons of the year, in an account that is part fiction, part fact, a style he has made all his own. You will receive the book seen in the image. Size: 4to - over 9" - 12" tall View More...
D/J is good. The book is in good used condition. From exploitation, superstition and prejudice, man's attitude to his environment and the other creatures who inhabit it has changed radically over the past two hundred years. That it has done so hs resulted largely from the work of the naturalist pioneers, which first gradually dispelled ignorance and then replaced it with interest and sympathy. You will receive the book seen in the image. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall View More...
Hardback, later rebind in half-calf with marbled paper covered boards. Original label from spine retained and laid down. 26 x 21.5cm. Vol 1: [10], 356pp; Vol 2: [4], 188pp, + Appendix 186pp + [2] folding table. Previous owner's details on initial blank. A few spots to title pages, but generally clean. Firm binding. A nice copy of the quarto first edition. View More...
D/J is OK, but has a crease along front top and minor shelf wear. The book is in good used condition. Ann Thwaite's major biography radically alters the story of the poet's relationship with his wife. It was as a small girl in Lincolnshire that Emily Sellwood first saw the boy Alfred Tennyson. Nearly thirty years later, in the year he became Poet Laureate, they married. What kept them apart and what eventually brought them together has never before been fully explored. Readers who know little about Tennyson, as well as admirers of his poetry, will enjoy this Biography of a Victorian wife who w... View More...
D/J and Book are good, tight and clean (as new) Anthology of letters written by soldiers, sailors and airmen from the fighting fronts in the First and Second World Wars. Heartbreaking, funny and vividly descriptive, the letters are to wives, sweethearts, mothers and friends. They talk of loneliness and hilarity, boredom and the terrifying excitement of action, the companionship of friends and the agony of loss. You will receive the book seen in the image. Size: 4to - over 9" - 12" tall View More...
Hardback, recent binding. New end-papers. Main work is complete with 216pp and Index. Lacking pp. 37-50 of Supplement to rear. Boards a little marked. Very occasional spotting to contents. Scarce. (r44) View More...
Hardback, later half-calf with marbled paper covered boards. 19.5 x 14.5cm. [x], 955pp, [20]. With engraved frontispiece. Frontis and title frayed to edges with small losses. Previous owner's details erased from verso of title and trimmed from upper margin of a3. Pages 59/60 and p. 955 replaced with photocopy facsimiles. Some foxing and browning to paper throughout. End-papers replaced, firm binding. View More...
4 out of 5 parts only (lacking 5) - these are paperback all together in original folder. 43cm x 32cm. 48 hand-coloured plates by Job, pseudonym for Onfray de Breville. nd. [circa1910]. Ex-library copy with usual library markings, but plates un-marked. Paperback covers are somewhat frayed with very small losses. Scarce. A heavy book, additional postage will be required for orders outside the UK. (oversize2) View More...
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