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Imprint: LONDON.HODDER CHILDREN'S BOOKS,2015. UK,slim Qrto,gatefold French wraps,illustrated, 1st edn thus. [Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.First published UK,1911.Originally and first published (UK),Hodder & Stoughton,1925 and illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.Shirley Hughes had this title with her copyrighted illustrations in 1976 and then renewed her illustration copyright in 2007 with new illustrations.This edn with those new illustrations,2015.] NMINT. Wrapped+protected, stored from day of issue/purchase,so NO owner inscrptn,No price removal from card cover and unread other than my collation.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,wrap-round,blue night skyscape background illustration with black illustrated London rooftop cityscape along card covers bottom edges with a pair of flying children to each cover.Front cover with black outlined, capialised,matt white-lettered title and author's other white-lettered name and illustrator credit towards front's lower edge and multiple silver gilt stars decoration around the flying pair of children to either cover. Spine/backstrip with no reading creases and with similarly coloured+lettered title,author+ illustrator names as the fronts,and publisher's blue+ white illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear cover with a different pair of flying children in a nightscape sky with silver gilt stars decoration as the front's.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without ageing/toning, foxing/spotting or other blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages corners - unread other than my collation.Gatefold covers,or French flaps,are types of covers designed with a section that folds in on itself,these with black line illustrations and text.UK, slim Qrto,gatefold French wraps, illustrated,1st edn thus,11-135pp [paginated] includes 10 chapters,4-colour block (b/w,grey+ blue) illustrations of illuminated capitals of chapters,part,single and double page 4-colour block illustrations throughout the text and the book by Shirley Hughes.Plus [unpaginated] skyscape+white stars illustrated free endpapers, half-title,illustrated title page,illustrators illustrated Foreword with her facsimile signature,a Contents list/table,and to the rear; Peter Pan and Great Ormond Street Hospital and the legacy of royalties going to the Hospital, and separate potted biographies of Shirley Hughes and J. M. Barrie. Visually the external appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's 10 year-old age and nature, i.e. a children’s ephemeral book.It really is an exceptional, exemplary example for it's brightness, cleanliness and lack of other or age-acquired detracting faults commonly encountered in a book of comparable age. Fly away to the magical world of Neverland. Second to the right,and straight on till morning! Meet Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up, Tinkerbell the mischievous fairy, the Lost Boys and the villainous Captain Hook.A swashbuckling children's adventure classic for generations,this edition has beautiful four colour illustrations by beloved illustrator Shirley Hughes.Pan - a new film prequel to Peter Pan - is out summer 2015. Please contact the seller,particularly ALL overseas buyers for correct shipping/P+p quotes BEFORE placing your order,especially if ordering any multiples. N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1184724. ISBN: 9781444923957.
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Imprint: LONDON.PETER DAVIES,1937. UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn thus,1st trade edn.(50 copies printed privately, 1930.) Wholly reset and re-issued Nov, 1937.VG+.No owner inscrptn per se,but an unused Christ Church,Oxford (University) b/w coat of arms illustarted bookplate pasted to front pastedown and an ink, linear library stamp 'STUDENT MOVEMENT HOUSE LIBRARY with an ink biro lie drawn through it and above it handwritten ink 1609 B/Bar to ffe,rear eps immaculate and clean.Some residual evidence of docket removal with smeared ink stanp: 'To be returned no later than',to same ffe.Both hinges,solid and sound without any cracking.Publisher's sharp-cornered,dark blue buckram bds with bright,crisp, stamped/tooled author/title and publisher letters in respective gilt-bordered panels to top+bottom of spine/backstrip.Front board/cover with a couple of blemishes.Top edges lightly toned from light dust-soiling with a couple of foxing spots,fore-edges brighter but also with a smudge and a couple of foxing spots; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,v-ixpp+2-285pp [paginated] includes Preface by The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, K.G.,separate contents+illus lists/tables, XXIV (24) chapters and Envoi,9 monochrome plates - includes frntis - all called for and present interspersed throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated]half-title,b/w frntis,title page and to the rear,blank. The only purely autobiographical work of this great and much loved writer.Book is now out-of-print,as publisher folded in 1985. Peter Llewelyn Davies the middle son of five was befriended by Barrie and later informally adopted by him.Barrie publicly identified him as the source of the name for the title character in his play 'Peter Pan,or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.' That public identification as "the original Peter Pan" was to plague Davies throughout his life,which he ended in suicide in April,1960. Within three years,1907-10,both his father first and then his mother,died.In the mother's will she named Barrie as one of several guardians.Barrie took on the duties of the main guardian and supported the boys financially. Peter Davies in 1926,set up his own publishing company with financial help from Barrie,Peter Davies Ltd.When Barrie died in 1937,the majority of his estate and fortune went to his secretary,Cynthia Asquith,and as the copyright to the Peter Pan works had already and previously been given to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London,in 1929, Davies (and his surviving brothers) received a legacy, In 1937 William Heinemann Ltd took a majority interest in the firm of Peter Davies Ltd.,and the two firms were closely linked for the next forty years.In 1977 Peter Davies Ltd was fully incorporated into Heinemann. William Heinemann began his publishing business in 1890.By the end of 1957, control of William Heinemann Ltd belonged to Tillings.Tillings was acquired in 1983 by BTR,who then sold the Heinemann Group to Octopus Publishing in 1985.Octopus was in turn,taken over by Reed Books in 1987.In 1997 Reed Elsevier sold a number of its companies, including William Heinemann Ltd.,to Random House.William Heinemann is now part of Random House UK,which is owned by Bertelsmann. Please contact seller,because of the weight and the value of this item,for correct,insured (where necessary) quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja887920. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.PETER DAVIES LTD.,1937. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[This,the first trade edition,preceded only by a privately printed edition of only 50 copies in 1930 for the author.That edn wholly re-set and published in this edn/issue,1937. This trade edn precedes the US, Charles Scribner's Sons,1938 edn,by a year.Publisher ceased trading mid-1980s so this edn now out-of-print. ] NFINE/GOOD. Handwritten ink,owner's inscrptns, location+dates (Christmas 1937 and Manchester 7: XII:37) at either top or lower corners of front pastedown, but obscured and hidden by dw/dj inner flap,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Dw/dj lightly grubbed,with blemishes, discolouration and other imperfections commensurate with age - a small fluid stain to front panel of dw/dj,white background with contemporary b/w author portrait photograph to front with black+ green lettering,spine/backstrip slightly darkened,rear panel with publisher's advert for author's work 'THE BOY DAVID.' also lightly grubbed.Top edges lightly toned from light dust-soiling and with a couple of foxing spots,fore-edges brighter and cleaner and lightly affected with some minimal sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean with very occasional page-edge foxing/spotting,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean and blemish free,sharp-cornered - front top corner has a miniscule dent,publisher's original dark blue buckram cloth boards/covers with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters within gilt panels; title+author and publisher separately at head+foot of spine/ backstrip respectively; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,splits,tears or any fraying present - plain white eps - verso of ffe edges with off-set shadowing from opposing pastedown,rear fep with off-set shadowing from dw/dj inner flap.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,v-xipp+2-285pp [paginated] includes lightly foxed verso+recto of preface by the Earl of Bewdley,K.G., lightly foxed separate contents+ illustrations lists/tables,XXIV (24) chapters and an Envoi,9 (includes frntis) contemporary b/w photographs includes facsimile reproductions of book cover of Barrie's first work and a manuscript - all called for and present,interspersed throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] lightly foxed verso+recto of half-title page with book's subject's contemporary b/w illustrated frntis to recto of same,both verso +recto of title page also lightly foxed,and blank at the rear of the book.Uncommon with dw/dj. Now published for the first time (then 1937) it was the only purely autobiographical work of the much-loved author. Peter Llewelyn Davies the middle son of five was befriended by Barrie and later informally adopted by him.Barrie publicly identified him as the source of the name for the title character in his play 'Peter Pan,or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.' That public identification as "the original Peter Pan" was to plague Davies throughout his life,which he ended in suicide in April,1960. Within three years,1907-10,both his father first and then his mother,died.In the mother's will she named Barrie as one of several guardians.Barrie took on the duties of the main guardian and supported the boys financially. Peter Davies in 1926,set up his own publishing company with financial help from Barrie,Peter Davies Ltd.When Barrie died in 1937,the majority of his estate and fortune went to his secretary,Cynthia Asquith,and as the copyright to the Peter Pan works had already and previously been given to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London,in 1929, Davies (and his surviving brothers) received a legacy, In 1937 William Heinemann Ltd took a majority interest in the firm of Peter Davies Ltd.,and the two firms were closely linked for the next forty years.In 1977 Peter Davies Ltd was fully incorporated into Heinemann. William Heinemann began his publishing business in 1890.By the end of 1957, control of William Heinemann Ltd belonged to Tillings.Tillings was acquired in 1983 by BTR,who then sold the Heinemann Group to Octopus Publishing in 1985.Octopus was in turn,taken over by Reed Books in 1987.In 1997 Reed Elsevier sold a number of its companies, including William Heinemann Ltd.,to Random House.William Heinemann is now part of Random House UK,which is owned by Bertelsmann. Please contact seller,because of the weight and the value of this item, for correct,insured (where necessary) quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja887820. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.CASSELL AND COMPANY,1900. UK,8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn. VG+. No owner inscrptn.Publisher's bright,crisp,fairly clean but for small number of various small blemishes, spots etc - and other imperfections commensurate with book's age,sharp-cornered,original black buckram cloth boards/covers with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters within gilt panels title+author and publisher separately at head+ foot of slightly faded spine/backstrip respectively; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - one tiny snick at head of spine/backstrip,no other nicks, splits,tears or any fraying present,clean grey+white illustrated endpapers with publisher's device repeated design,hinges solid and sound with no cracking.Top edges gilt (teg), fore-edges slightly aged/toned with minimal and sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, clean with some occasional foxing/spotting,else solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj as issued,1st edn,vi-viiipp+2-431pp+2-8pp publisher's catalogue at rear [paginated] includes minimally foxed Contents list/table, XXXV (35) chapters,lightly foxed verso+recto of half-title page,similarly foxed title page,light foxing continuing through preliminary pages up to pp16 before noticeably decreasing. Please contact seller,because of the weight and the value of this item, for correct,insured (where necessary) quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1164824. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.ARTHUR BARKER,1988. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[First published in USA,1988 as 'Joe Louis: 50 Years an American Hero'.] FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj. Photographic dw/dj with some light creasing to dw/dj edges - shelf-wear - and a small closed tear to front bottom right corner.Fore-edges aged as usual/normal but contents clean and sound.Brown paper-covered boards with gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xviipp+270pp includes foreword by Henry Cooper,a foreword to US edn,Louis's complete professional boxing record; list of contribs,bibliography and 16pp b/w photographs. On a June night in Yankee Stadium in 1938,one of the most electrifying fights of this century took place: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling.Countless fight fans around the world were riveted to their radios at the opening bell.Two years before,Schmeling had destroyed the myth of Joe Louis's invincibility with a knockout in twelve rounds.Now Louis's destruction of Schmeling in the first round would establish him forever in the annals of boxing history. Here is a book that describes both the background and the exciting action of the Brown Bomber's most famous bouts.It also reveals the surprising private side of this most public of sporting legends - in an inside account that only his son could have written.Joe Louis Barrow,Jr.,weaves a compelling account of his father's life and times,the narrative enriched by first- hand recollections from the people who knew him best: siblings and former wives, boyhood friends,trainers,opponents (including Max Schmeling and Billy Conn), sportswriters, entertainers,politicians, and many others who remember Joe Louis and tell how their lives were changed by his presence.It's a book that takes the champ through all the highs and lows of his professional and personal life and reveals the dignity and quiet sense of humour that marked him as a rare human being in an often brutal sport. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja865. ISBN: 0213169673.
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Imprint: LONDON.MICHAEL O'MARA BOOKS LIMITED,2009. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,co-author (subject) SIGNED, ltd 1st edn. NFINE/VG+. No owner inscrptn, but subject's neat,expansive,black felt-tip pen ink signature - without dedication - to limitation page,not price-clipped - absence of publisher's price.[Usually indicates an export issue/edn,which generally precedes the UK,1st trade issue.) Bright,crisp,clean,subject portrait,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj, with blue+silver embossed letters and plain white lettering too,with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Head of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Dw/dj has a slight water stain internally,without any bleeding,to upper,top corner and some light, slight water damage to rear,lower corner.The internal,white backing paper of dw/dj for this particular corner,has adhered to the rear board's corner with some minimal loss and the laminate is lightly crinkled with a small closed tear - but no loss - in situ.No other major fault present. Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unead copy - apart from my own collation.Sharp-cornered,paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.Board's rear,lower corner has some remains of the dw/djs' internal,white backing paper adhering to it,otherwise generally clean apart from a few dulled areas to upper board.Described hard,but fairly and honestly - not as bad as it reads or sounds! UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,subject SIGNED,limited edn,7-256pp [paginated] includes subject/co-author's Acknowledgements,14 chapters,24pp subject and biographical contemporary,colour photographs,in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp64/5, pp128/9 and pp192/3 respectively,and an Index.Plus [unpaginated],half-title,subject SIGNED Limitation page,title page,and a Contents list/table. John Barrowman's 'gossipy,fun and endlessly entertaining' memoir 'Anything Goes' gave us the story so far.'I Am What I Am' now goes one step further,providing a fascinating insight into the everyday life and times of this very down-to-earth star - all told with his trademark wit and honesty. Prompted by letters and emails from fans,'I Am What I Am' intimately explores aspects of John's current life as a man and a performer revealing the person behind the icon John Barrowman has become. Crammed with details from Doctor Who,Torchwood and his other television projects,'I Am What I Am' is an unmissable treat for the many admirers of this multi-talented man. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct [insured,or not insured at own risk] shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja461113. ISBN: 9781843173793.
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Imprint: LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1995. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,auhtor SIGNED,illustrated,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten big,bold black ink,felt-tip pen inscrptn+signature to front free endpaper,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,portrait colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears - a tiny closed nick to front,top edge of spine/backstrip.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top edge lightly and sporadically spotted/foxed otherwise bright and generally clean,fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean also - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Publisher's bright,clean,original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,bumped top corners and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,author SIGNED,illustrated,1st edn,1-289pp [paginated] includes a Prologue,28 chapters/sections,16pp contemporary b/w+colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp86/7 (b/w) and pp198/9 (colour) respectively; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,a Contents list/table, Acknowledgements and 4pp blanks to rear. In April 1994,Michael Barrymore quietly checked himself into an American clinic,where he received treatment for alcohol and drug abuse. Father Martin's 'Ashley' is a rehabilitation centre in Maryland, USA,where Michael lived for thirty days with members of almost every community in America,all seeking the common goal of sobriety.Michael's day-to-day account of that month in his life provides a candid,sometimes painful,funny and revelatory story of human endurance,challenges the stereotyped view of rehabilitation,and allows the reader a first-hand insight into the disease of addiction. Surviving the tabloid onslaught as his situation was unceremoniously revealed to the public at home,and ultimately winning his battle with his own personal demons,this is Barrymore as you've never seen or herad him before.And yet,in the unique style that has helped secure his place as Britain's number one entertainer, Michael Barrymore says it how it is. 'This book is as unique and unexpected as its author.Like him it pulls no punches, takes no prisoners,and is magnificently quirky.Yet throughout it beams a deep felt humanity and an irrespressible sense of the ridiculous.' Jack Tinker. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja31598. ISBN: 0091792371.
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Imprint: UK.BRISTOL,AVON.ABSON BOOKS,1985. UK,24mo wraps,1st edn.NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no puzzles or quizzes attempted - unused.B/w illustrated upper wrap; three ovals black letters author+ title in two; third oval having black silhouette head of Holmes in deerstalker and pipe.Text to rear wrap.UK,24mo (approx 5.50" tall x 8" wide)wraps,1st thus,44pp includes 6 b/w contemporary illustrations; 5 by Sidney Paget and 1 by Howard Elcock, 40 puzzles includes word searches,x-words, mazes, cryptograms+anagrams,knowledge quizzes and 4pp answers to rear. Please contact seller,because of the light weight and ephemeral nature of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja1391. ISBN: 0902920520.
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Imprint: LONDON.HEATH CRANTON LTD.,1938. UK,slim wraps,author SIGNED,1st edn.VG.No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten,black ink inscrptn formally dedicated; 'For Mr and Mrs Golding Best Wishes Alice Hunt Bartlett Xmas 1938.' to half-title.Publisher's original pale eggshell blue card covers and inner flaps with a non-credited monochrome illustration to front cover with black lettering and black lettering to dulled darkened spine but still visible.Front card cover with toning to border edges,minimal foxing along top edge,rear wrap much less affected and slightly brighter.Top+fore-edges aged/toned with minimal sporadic foxing/ spotting,fore+lower edges deckled (untrimmed); contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - no annotations - appears unread apart from my own collation.UK,slim wraps,author SIGNED,1st edn,11-40pp [paginated] includes 24 poems; plus [unpaginated] clean,plain white free endpapers, SIGNED half-title,title page with stated First Edition 1938 to its verso,a dedication,a Contents list/table,a prefatory note by Cecil Palmer.Made for the publisher by The Garden Press Ltd.,Letchworth,Hertfordshire. An anthology of poetry. Alice Hunt Bartlett (aka Mistress William Allen Bartlett) born July 31,1870 Bennington,Vermont, United States.American editor,writer.Awarded gold medal by Poetry Society of Great Britain, 1924.The Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize named in her honour is awarded by the Poetry Society of London for a collection of poetry. Actively interested in national defense from 1915.Assisted in organizing and training aerial reserves.Member Executive Board and chairman aviation committee,1915-1919.Membership,Aerial League America. She also organized woman’s national defense rallies,Carnegie Hall (New York),Newport (Rhode Island),Nassau,etc. Founder,American editor American section Poetry Review (London),since 1923.Organized and directed poetry and dramatic celebrations held at New York World’s Fair,1939-1940. Member Poetry Society of London (vice-president and Executive Committee),Poetry Society America, American Literature Association,National League of America Pen Women (chairman arts since 1939), Sulgrave Institution,English-Speaking Union,and a Member Advisory Board of Allied Broadcasters. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja877020. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.FOURTH ESTATE,2010. UK,8vo HB,1st edn.FINE-.No owner inscrptn, no dw/dj,as issued.Bright,crisp,clean, publisher's original tan cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt decoration and lettering to both the boards and the spine /backstrip,a pink elastic band attached to rear bd (ensures tight closure); with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Immaculate plain white eps with b/w line illus/vignette to both verso+ recto of front and rear free endpapers respectively.Slight,light,partial discolouring/fading to all corner edges (boards,head+foot of spine/backstrip) and top+bottom edges.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? UK, 8vo HB,1st edn,3-362pp [paginated] includes author introduction,9 chapters, profuse colour line illus and contemporary colour photographs throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] potted biog of author,title page b/w line illus with rhyme,and contents list/table. Luella Bartley is a distinguished fashion designer,with over 20 collections to her name.She worked as a journalist for 'ES Magazine','Dazed & Confused','The Face' and was a fashion editor for British Vogue.She was awarded an MBE in 2010. Please contact seller,because of the weight and value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja411412. ISBN: 9780007285310.
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Imprint: LONDON.DECCA MUSIC GROUP,2007. UK,Limited Edn,32mo BOOK & DVD/CD.[A Limited edn DVD/CD tribute to Maria Malibran,a Spanish mezzo-soprano who commonly sang both contralto and soprano parts,and was one of the most famous diva/opera singers of the 19th century.] FINE. No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - as issued - CD/DVD in pasted card wallet to rear pastedown on rear board.Bright,crisp,clean,monochrome portrait photograph of Cecilia Bartoli with gilt,grey and black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and acreasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or bumps present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear readig creases to any pages' corner - would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Text in English,French,German and Italian.Bright,clean,monochrome portrait photograph of Cecilia Bartoli to sharp-cornered front+rear paper-covered card boards and immaculate colour photographic illustrated endpapers.UK,Limited Edn,32mo BOOK & DVD/17 track CD,8-146pp [paginated] includes colour photographs throughout the text and the book. Cecilia Bartoli leads a tribute to the extraordinary life of Maria Malibran,the first female superstar in music history.A meteoric career,which ended abruptly with her death at the age of only 28,made Maria an international celebrity.Surrounded by scandal and mystique,she was muse to the most important opera composers of the era.She was worshipped as the public goddess of Romanticism.Cecilia Bartoli follows La Malibran's unique journey through the musical capitals of the world. Cecilia Bartoli accompanied by the Orchestra La Scintilla,led by Ada Pesch. Maria Malibran: 1808-1836 - London 1825-36,New York 1825-1827,Paris 1827-1832,Bruxelles 1829- 1832,Napoli 1832-1835,and Milano 1834-1836. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja636416. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: US.NEW YORK,NY.ACE BOOKS,INC.,1973. US,ACE DOUBLE,12mo p/back,1st edn.[#48245. Last of 56 non-letter series of back to back "Ace Doubles",FIRST printing August, 1973.] 'Hunting on Kunderer' 120pp,colour pictorial cover art by Harry Borgman; 'Life With Lancelot' 132pp,colour pictorial cover art by Ed Valigursky,and publisher adverts between end/beginning of the next novel.FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price removal (95c) from cover. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy, colour pictorial illustrated card covers, no reading creases to spine; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.All edges aged/toned; contents bright,tight,clean with minimal page-edge toning - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread, apart from my own collation.A really superb example. 'Hunting on Kunderer' confronts humans with alien natives on a dangerous new planet. 'Life With Lancelot' is a collection of linked stories. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** UK,buyers please note,p/backs' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if p/back is offered P/p free. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving long before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja921821. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.BANTAM PRESS/TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS,2017. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£12.99) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj with black,dark green and white lettering to front panel,white lettered spine/backstrip,rear panel with dark green+white lettered critics' reviews; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corners – pristine,appears unread, apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked white lettered spine/ backstrip,a b/w striped headband and immaculate/clean plain slate grey sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-363pp [paginated] includes 86 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and to the rear, acknowledgements and note on author. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. When a paragraph in an evening newspaper reveals a decades-old tragedy,most readers barely give it a glance.But for three strangers,it's impossible to ignore. For one woman,it's a reminder of the worst thing that ever happened to her. For another,it reveals the dangerous possibility that her darkest secret is about to be discovered. And for the third,a journalist,it's the first clue in a hunt to uncover the truth. The child's story will be told. Author's debut novel,'The Widow' was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and has been published in thirty-five countries and optioned for television.This her second novel,'The Child',was a Sunday Times bestseller.Born in Cambridge (UK), she currently lives in south-west France. Previously,a senior writer at the Daily Mail,news editor at the Daily Telegraph, and chief reporter at the Mail on Sunday, where she won Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards.Whilst working as a journalist,she reported on many high-profile criminal cases and she developed a fascination with watching those involved, their body language and verbal tics.She has interviewed people at the heart of these crimes,from the guilty to their families,as well as those on the periphery,and found it was those just outside the spotlight who interested her most . . . Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja980921. ISBN: 9780593077719.
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Imprint: UK.TAVISTOCK,DEVON.GRAPHMITRE LIMITED,1984. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,montage'd illustrations illustrated dw/dj with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked pale blue ink printed letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-262pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,author's preface,prose extract,16 chapters,profuse contemporary facsimile b/w illustration reproductions,diagrams and photographs etc throughout the text and the book,appendices (2),and a bibliography; plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages and recto of contents list/ table and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book. Two hundred years ago Archibald Cochrane,ninth Earl of Dundonald set fire to the waste coal tar vapour escaping from his estate's small coal mine on the Firth of Forth: he had lit the first coal gas flame.This is the story of that 'New Flame' and how gas grew from a marsh light to one of the most important sources of energy for Britain today (then 1984). It is a story about people. Hugh Barty-King has travelled through 200 years with the men and women of Britain whose lives were changed in dozens of ways by piped gas; he described their first fears,their early excitement,their doubts and then their wonder. Each generation lived in a world different from the next; they were helped by gas in a way that was right for their time.Sometimes modern uses of gas obvious to those who benefit from it today,were ignored or even avoided years ago. 'New Flame' is a story of Britain from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution to the present day.Like the railway and the motor car,gas has been a catalyst of a continuing social revolution.How and why? This is the theme of 'New Flame'. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja802218. ISBN: 0948051000.
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Imprint: LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2007. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,red+black illustrated wrap-around dw/dj,with red,white and orange lettering to front and spine/ backstrip,orange+white Lenin quote and orange+white lettered critics' reviews to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered - exception of top two corners each with a minimal bump,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked red ink lettering to spine/ backstrip,and clean maroon endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,x-xvpp+4-363pp [paginated] includes author's 3pp note with b/w Black Sea regional map to reverse of last page,a prologuePts I-III comprising 5,12 and 5 chapters respectively,8pp contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp176/7,and an epilogue; Dramatis Personae, acknowledgements,research notes and a 12pp bibliography,notes and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and contents list/table, and 4pp blanks at rear In June 1905,the sailors of Imperial Russia's newest and most powerful battleship,the Potemkin,killed their captain and raised the red flag of revolution.Subjected to atrocious conditions,they were led to rise up against their tyrannical officers by a band of dedicated revolutionaries. The spur had been a consignment of rancid, maggot-infested meat purchased by the ship's supply officer,the intended result, a fleet-wide mutiny that would in turn trigger a nationwide revolution.But it was not to be. With uprisings quelled aboard other warships,the crew found themselves alone on the Black Sea with the rest of the Russian navy in pursuit.Hunted and hounded from port to port,the mutineers entered Odessa,sparking the bloody insurrection later immortalised in Sergei Eisenstein's film 'The Battleship Potemkin'.Rebellions broke out all over Russia,with massive riots in the big cities.For a few weeks it seemed that Nicholas II,already facing defeat in his war with Japan,would be overthrown. As Lenin said at the time,'The Rubicon has been crossed',for though the Black Sea mutiny ultimately failed to launch the great revolution,it exposed the rot within the country's bloated regime.Neal Bascomb paints a vivid portrait of the men at the centre of events,from sadistic naval officers to hardened revolutionairies,from the hapless tsar to the leader of the mutiny,Afanasy Nikolayevitch Matyushenko. Drawing on long-closed Soviet archives, 'Red Mutiny' is a thrilling tale threaded through with dramatic adventure,epic naval battles,treachery and heroic sacrifice. Please contact seller,because of the weight and value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja911420. ISBN: 9780297846482.
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Imprint: LONDON.MACMILLAN CHILDRENS'S BOOKS,1989. UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. [Originally and first published in Australia, Penguin Book Australia Ltd.,1988.This listing the 1st (UK) edition,with the extra included special 'The Inside Story' labelled TOP SECRET' 8pp section still sealed and unopened.] FINE/FINE.Handwritten gift presentation inscrptn and contempraneous year date hidden behind the front inner flap of dw/dj,but no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial artwork illustration by Graeme Base,illustrated front of dw/dj,with yellow-outlined black-lettered title and author's black-lettered name within a black double-lined yellow horizontal panel; spine/backstrip with capitalised,white-lettered title,author's other white-lettered name and publisher's capitalised,white-lettered initial M to foot of same,dark brown with printed marbled effect faux blind spine. Negligible shelf-wear,minimal creasing to top edges edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright crisp,clean without blemish/foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – appears unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean/unblemished, sharp-cornered,glossy,glazed boards with repeated dw/dj design/illustration,and immaculate plain brown endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB +dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,32pp [unpaginated and excludes endpapers and the SEALED,special 'The Inside Story' labelled TOP SECRET' 8pp section, as the last pages] includes colour illustrated title page with unused Birthday Party Invitation,9 double-page and 12 single page full-colour illustrations with rhyming text, and cipher code and its instructions to verso of last illustration; and laid in loose,publisher's related advertising leaflet with an 11 questions quiz about the story to its verso - these leaflets are usually missing because of its nature, i.e. as an ephemeral,paper item. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation,for a book of its 30+ year-old age and nature, i.e. a children's book.It is only the minimal faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading overall.Despite them,it eally is still an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. When Horace the elephant turns eleven, he celebrates in style by inviting his exotic friends to a splendid costume party.But a mystery is afoot, for in the midst of the games, music, and revelry, someone has eaten the birthday feast! Rhyming text and detailed illustrations provide clues to help readers find out who committed the crime.'The Eleventh Hour' is like running a marathon: finish exhausted but satisfied.Graeme Base,creator of the popular 'Animalia',has crafted another intricately wrought, gorgeously illustrated picture book, this time a mystery in verse. When Horace the Elephant decides to throw himself a party for his 11th birthday,he never suspects a crime will be committed by lunchtime. Who has stolen the birthday feast? As with any good mystery, everyone is guilty until proven innocent.The proof lies in the myriad clues embedded in each glorious illustration.Young sleuths will delight in decoding the complex messages that pop up in unexpected places. Graeme Base used the buildings he saw during his travels through Africa, Asia, and Europe to design and decorate Horace's fantastic house. Astute readers may recognize Roman cathedrals, Scottish palaces, and stone carvings from India. Best of all, secreted in these walls are cryptic messages in Egyptian hieroglyphics, anagrams, and even Morse code to challenge the perceptive and deductive abilities of any reader "of tender years or long in tooth." Written in rhyme,the book includes large and lavish full-page illustrations of Horace's opulent house and the events of the party, packed with hidden details. The author invites the reader to deduce the identity of the thief by examining the illustrations and making deductions and observations.Also among the details in the illustrations are hidden messages, ciphers, and codes for amateur cryptographers (for example, one page's border consists of Morse code, while another page set in the ballroom, contains musical clues as to which guest is guilty). The biggest and most noticeable clue lies in a paragraph of ciphertext at the end of the book, which is to be decrypted, once the reader has discovered the identity of the thief, by means of a 'Caesar cipher' mapping A to the first letter of the guilty animal's name. The solution to the cipher confirms the answer to the puzzle and offers an additional challenge to the reader. The final portion of the book contains the answers to almost all of the clues in the book (including the cipher), and how to solve them. But these last pages are sealed together (as in this book - unopened), as the reader is encouraged to try to solve the puzzles themselves first. In Australia,when published, this sealed section was absent from earlier printings of the book - but was available by mail.When reissued in 1993,the sealed section was included in the printing.'The Eleventh Hour' is a brilliant, rigorous, creative romp that no child (or adult) should miss. Graeme Rowland Base (born 6th April,1958) Amersham,Buckinghamshire (UK), moved to Australia aged 8,and has lived there since,is a British-Australian author and artist of picture books.He is perhaps best known for his second book,'Animalia' published in 1986, and this,his third book 'The Eleventh Hour' which was released in 1989 (UK) and a year earlier in Australia,1988.The book was a joint-winner of the "Picture Book of the Year" award from The Children's Book Council of Australia [CBCA.] He'd attended schools in Melbourne and then studied a Diploma of Art (Graphic Design) for three years at Swinburne University of Technology at Prahran.He worked in advertising for two years and then began illustrating children's books,gradually moving to authoring them as well.His first authoured book,'My Grandma lived in Gooligulch' (1983),was accepted by the first publisher he sent it to.His very first book,as a co-illustrator with Betty Greenhatch,was for Susan Burke's 'The Island Bike Business' was published a year earlier,in 1982. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1120324. ISBN: 0333518675.
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Imprint: LONDON.TIME WARNER BOOKS (UK),2004. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Not indicated as a reprint or a subsequent impression - merely states first published 2003,by same publisher as this edition,but in 2004.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/j.Bright,clean, matt,wrap-around colour scenic photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - almost as new.Top+fore-edges minimally aged,but bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Publisher's bright,clean,original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,red ink blocked letters to spine/backstrip,sharp corners and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,vii-xvpp+1-299pp [paginated] includes Acknowledgements,a Contents list/table, Patricia Cornwell Foreword (book's title was also the title of her 5th Dr Kay Scarpetta novel),20 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w photographs between pp142/3,Appendices (2),an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and 2pp blanks to rear. In 1981 Dr William Bass founded the Antropology Research Facility at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.It was the first,and remains the only,institution in the world dedicated to research into the timing of post-mortem human decomposition.It quickly acquired the nickname 'the body Farm' - phrase given international recognition after Dr Bass assisted Patricia Cornwell with her forensic research and she used the sobriquet as the title for the 5th Dr Kay Scarpetta novel.The notion that knowledge was desperately needed about the minutiae of how our bodies decay after death struck Dr Bass in the early 1960's when he was asked if he could estimate the interval since a dead cow had been killed by cattle rustlers:he had to reply that there was no known scientific method of establishing that fact. The seed remained in his mind and began to take firmer root in 1977 while he was examining some human remains that appeared to be only a few months old,when in fact the time since death was more than a century.This episode spawned the Body Farm; in the decades since,the research facility and its founder have revolutionised forensic science and have successfully helped to prosecute hundreds of criminals. Besides detailing the meticulous work on the Body Farm - the study of the effects of humidity,temperature,clothing and shelter on bone and flesh,and how insects and bacteria leave a now easily interpreted trail - and describing how numerous killers were brought to justice through Dr Bass's work. 'Death's Acre' also offers a fascinating and intriguing chronicle of a visionary scientist who has inspired his peers and who has helped shape the art of forensic investigation into the remarkable science it is today. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja31878. ISBN: 0316725277.
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Imprint: WEST GERMANY.HEADQUARTERS 1 (BR) CORPS,BFPO 39.1977. WEST GERMANY,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Though printed and published abroad - Guttersloh, W.Germany and BFPO 39 respectively - text is in English.]FINE/VG.Red,b/w designed dw/dj with white lettering,with some shelf and edge wear,and rubbing+chipping to all corners and head+foot of spine/backstrip of same - miniscule loss.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight, solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain red cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt spearhead silhouette and title to centre of upper bd,bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.Slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6- 152pp [paginated] includes contents/illus/b/w maps lists/tables, acknowledgements,a foreword by Commander of First British Corps (Lieut-Gen. Sir Richard Worsley),9 chapters,b/w contemporary photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book includes a colour photographic frntis,5 b/w maps, appendices I-VII(7).Plus [unpaginated], half-title+title pages,and dedication page. This book traces the history of the First British Corps from its origins at the turn of the century,through two World Wars,and the changes seen since the end of hostilities,culminating in Her Majesty The Queen's Silver Jubilee Review of the British Army in Germany on 7 July,1977. It is a tribute to a formation which gave and did not count the cost. Desmond Bastick served with the Royal Tank Regiment in the Far East,Middle East and Europe before commanding The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry.He is at present (then 1977) a member of the Staff of Headquarters First British Corps. 'SPEARHEAD' is the fifth of his publications,which include a Regimental History,shipwreck, international sport and climbing in the Alps; all situations in which he has personally been involved. Since April 2013,again in March 2015 and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja468714. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.BLOOMSBURY,2015. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,monochrome photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with black ink,fluorescent mauve and fluorescent gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain maroon cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped fluorescent mauve+gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a mauve+white striped headband and immaculate contemporary historical b/w photographic (Indian cavalry soldiers and Indian foot soldiers) front+rear respectively,endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xiv-xxviipp+2-224pp [paginated] includes recto page of Dramatis Personae, an introduction,13 chapters and an epilogue,16pp contemporary sepia+colour photographs and illustration reproductions in 1 block,between pp100/1,appendix,notes, a biblio,acknowledgements and an index, plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, dedication,poetry extract (Sarojini Naidu, 'The Gift of India',1915) with author's note to it's recto,contents list/table,b/w Frontline,Western front,1914 map,and verso page of Dramatis Personae. Over a million Indian soldiers fought in the First World War,the largest force from the colonies and dominions.They travelled from remote villages in India to the harsh trenches of Flanders and France,for a war they could not comprehend.They fought with unquestioning valour and went on to win the highest bravery awards,but their contribution has been mostly forgotten. 'For King and Another Country' tells,for the first time,the personal stories of some of these Indians who went to the Western Front: from a grand turbaned Maharaja raring to fight for the Empire to an illiterate peasant who won the Victoria Cross; from a sweeper who accompanied the troops only to die in an English hospital to a young pilot,barely out of school,who brought down German airplanes. Shrabani Basu delves into narratives buried in villages in India and Pakistan, as well as British archives,to recreate the War through the eyes of the Indians. There are tales of courage and heroism as well as those of despair and desperation. The book examines the relationship that developed between the Indians and their British officers.Above all,it is about how the Great War changed India and led, ultimately,to the call for independence. [For India,the first experience of Western warfare was to be a turning point as a nation.The country's educated elite began staking their claim for greater autonomy as a prize for the nation's contribution to the war.The Indians had proved their worth and their loyalty,but unfortunately,there was to be no reward. Barely five months after the guns were silenced,General Reginald Dyer opened fire on a gathering largely made up of Sikh men, women and children on 13 April 1919 at Jallianwala Bagh near the Golden Temple in Amritsar.Despite the loyalty of the Sikh troops,their contribution to the war and sacrifice,Dyer ordered his soldiers to continue till the last bullet was fired.It was an act that alienated the nation.The poet Rabindranath Tagore,who had so inspired Wilfred Owen,returned his knighthood in protest,and the Indian freedom struggle took on a new momentum. See my book ID rja388111 Arthur Swinson's: 'SIX MINUTES TO SUNSET' for a related book about the incident.] Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja627116. ISBN: 9789384052911.
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Imprint: US/UK.YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS,NEW HAVEN AND LONDON,2021.. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.Though with a different ISBN internally,and a Library of Congress Control Number,the book was printed in Padstow, Cornwall,and has a Blackwell b/w adhesive barcode+price label pasted over US printed price - as when bought from them as new.Laid in loose, b/w illustrated BLACKWELL'S advertisement card bookmark.] NMIN/NMINT.Wrapped+protected from day of issue/purchase,so NO owner inscrptn and no price removal from dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,wrap-around grey background with overlaid multi-colour illustrated dw/dj panels,white outlined black lettered book title (Just So Stories) other letters white,and capitalised, red-lettered author name to front,white-lettered title with red-outlined capitalised 'Just So Stories' within whole title,red capitalised author name,rear panel multi-colour illustration from front with critics' reviews in b/w letteres to red background - all with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - unread other than my own collation and then stored.Publisher's bright,crisp, unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked silver gilt-lettered spine/backstrip,a red+ silver(?) striped headband,and immaculate pale blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii -xiipp+1-224pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table,author's Preface and Acknowledgements,13 chapters and an Epilogue, profuse b/w illustrations by Kipling, interspersed throughout the text and the book, Endnotes,a select bibliography,and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with b/w portrait photograph of Kipling with his eldest child and daughter Josephine to its verso,recto of contents list/ table and 4pp blanks at the rear. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of presentation.It really is an exceptional copy for brightness,cleanliness and lack of detracting faults. A richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling's world-famous children's classic. For over a century,Rudyard Kipling's 'Just So Stories' - including such celebrated tales as 'How the Leopard got his Spots' and 'The Elephant's Child' - have delighted readers across the world.But what makes the stories so timeless and engaging,and what prpmpted Kipling to create them? John Batchelor illuminates the artistry with which Kipling crafted this unusual volume. Uniquely,Kipling created all the illustrations and design features himself.Why did control matter so much in this case? batchelor takes each tale as an entry point into an aspect of the writer's life and work and reveals the tragedy that shadows much of the text: the death of Kipling's 'Best Beloved' first child,his daughter Josephine. Some of the stories are meditations on that terrible loss.Others pose playful challenges to late Victorian and Edwardian assumptions by asking how the world and its animals became 'just so'.Kipling drew freely on biblical and other creation myths,as well as fantastical tales of animal development and man's discovery of literacy,to question the preconceptions of his time. Beautifully illustrated with kipling's own drawings,images made by his father and family photographs,'How the Just so Stories Were Made' sheds new light on a much-loved classic and one of Kipling's best known works. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1015422. ISBN: 9780300237184.
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Imprint: LONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1952. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 3rd imp.VG/VG. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.All corners rubbed,with minimal losses and tears.Head+foot spine/backstrip slightly darkened and also rubbed,with minimal chipping and loss to same. Contents clean and sound. Author's first novel with an English setting that he has written since before the war.The story of a young girl,the daughter of a decaying aristocratic household,and her lovers,of which the most important is the narrator himself. Please contact seller,because of the weight and value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja1318. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.HEAD of ZEUS LTD.,2014. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - wrapped+ protected from day of issue/purchase - virtually as new.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,combined contemporary colour illustration and contemporary b/w photograph illustrated front panel of dw/dj with grey+black lettering,rear panel with contemporary b/w photograph; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain pale grey paper-covered boards with bright,crisp, blocked white ink printed letters to spine/ backstrip,a white headband and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-344pp [paginated] includes an introduction,12 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w+colour illustration reproductions and contemporary monochrome photographs in 1 block,between pp184/5,notes,a bibliography,acknowledgements and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,contents list/table,and a dedication. Britain in 1846 was a country in the grip of dramatic change as the Industrial Revolution reached its height: the population was moving irreversibly from countryside to city; the railways were spreading along routes they still follow today; inventors were developing machines that would transform the way people lived. But Britain was also a grim and frightening place: starvation and destitution existed alongside immense wealth and power; children were still sent to work in factories and mines; terrifying diseases rampaged beyond the power of contemporary medicine; in Ireland,the devastating potato famine entered its second appalling year. And seismic change was afoot in the world of politics,Repeal of the protectionist Corn Laws by the Tory prime minister Robert Peel reduced food prices,chipped away at the power of landowners and ushered in an age of free trade that would form the basis of Britain's future wealth and industrial prosperity.But it splintered the old Tory party and realigned British parties for good,with the emergence of a new Conservative party and the creation of the Liberals out of the merger of the Whigs and Peelites,forshadowing the politics of today. Falling between the old,pre-industrial Britain with its rigid hierarchies,and a new era of economic and social flux,1846 was a pivotal moment in British history.In 'Penny Loaves & Butter Cheap.',Stephen Bates paints a kaleidoscopic and richly involving portrait of a society on the cusp of modernity. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. **** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja836619. ISBN: 9781781852545.
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Imprint: LONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1960. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip (12s 6d) to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around,colour pictorial artwork by Broom Lynne, illustrated dw/dj,with with white letter to upper panel and spine/backstrip,with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners.Some minor,miniscule chipping with miniscule reciprocal loss to both head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj.Some miniscule rubbing and reciprocal loss to all four corners of dw/dj.Upper panel of dw/dj has it's spine/ backstrip's gutter edge also lightly rubbed it's entire length; with small closed nicks/tears to both the top and the bottom gutter's edges.Rear panel of dw/dj, similarly affected,but with less prominent nicks/tears.Top edge of dw/dj has 4 tiny, tiny snicks (2 each to each panel's top edge).Described hard,but fairly and honestly - nowhere as bad as it sounds or may read - 99.9% present and virtually complete.Top+fore-edges dust-soiled and darkened/aged; fore-edges also tanned/ aged,but to a much lesser degree and therefore appears much brighter; contents remarkably clean - given the book's age - bright,tight,solid and sound - foxing free with a mirrored,tiny,light non-foxing blemish to lower page-edges of pp134/5 and lower 1/3rd of centre-fold to same pages.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain brick-red cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip, with the inevitable light,off-set foxing to both pastedowns from dw/dj's inner flaps - else eps bright and clean. Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip with a miniscule (1/16th") horizontally faded edge strip to head of spine/backstrip,the foot of same minimally and minisculely frayed.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5- 157pp [paginated] includes 9 chapters,plus [unpaginated],half-title+title pages,and 2pp blanks at rear. 'The Darling Buds of May' is a picture of the spiv-like Larkin family,who live on the fat of the land while all else about them decays,and has something of the gay, exuberant,abundant quality of a Breughel. The Larkins,with their passion for eating and drinking,dodging taxes,making love and drawing up their own peculiar and uninhibited moral code,face life as many of us would like to face it if we dared - richly,robustly and with no single thought for consequences or tomorrow.They behave as naturally as the nightingales whose song floods the woods on the edge of their junkyard paradise; they flourish as happily as the darling buds that give the book it's title. They are as pungent and real as earth and their crazy comedy of living,making a mockery of social values,restrictions and fears,blows through the book like a breath of spring. Since April 2013,and in March 2015,and again in 2016 too,the UK Post Office has increased it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its weight allowances, dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contactseller,because of the lighter weight and value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja465513. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.HarperCollinsPublishers,2005. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, monochrome photographic illustrated front panel+ spine of dw/dj with dark brown+red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges very lightly toned,but along with the fore-edges,generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xxivpp+1- 326pp [paginated] includes list of illustrations,acknowledgements,author's introduction,8 chapters and an epilogue,16pp contemporary b/w+colour photographs in 1 block, between pp134/5,assorted b/w maps interspersed throughout the text and the book,a bibliography and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a contents list/table. From the bestselling author of 'The Lighthouse Stevensons',a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the 18th-century - and the often grisly ingenuity of British wreckers, scavengers of the sea.A fine wreck has always represented sport,pleasure,treasure,and in many cases,the difference between living well and just getting by.The Cornish were supposedly so ferocious that notices of shipwrecks were given out during morning service by the minister, whilst the congregation concocted elaborate theological justifications for drowning the survivors.Treeless islanders relied on the harvest of storms to furnish themselves with rafters,boat hulls,fence- posts and floors.In other places,false lights were set up with grisly ingenuity along the coast to lure boats to destruction.With romance,insight and dry wit, Bella Bathurst traces the history of wrecking, looting and salvaging in the British Isles since the 18th-century and leading up to the present day.'For a fully-laden general cargo to run to ground in an accessible position is more or less like having Selfridges crash-land in your back garden,'she writes,a Selfridges with the prices removed.' Far from being a black-and-white crime, wrecking is often seen as opaque by its practitioners - the divisions between theft and recovery are small.No successful legal prosecution has ever been brought; the RNLI was founded by wreckers - even today lifeboat crews maintain the right to claim salvage.In settings ranging from the eerily perambulatory Goodwin Sands to the wreck-strewn waters off the coast of Durham,these murky tales of resourcefulness and quick-witted opportunism open a beguiling vista of life at the rough edges of our land and legality. From all around Britain,Bathurst has uncovered the secret history of ships and shipwreck victims,from shoreline orgies so dionysian that few participants survived until morning to crofts fitted with silver candelabra,and from coastlines rigged like stage sets to the strange tale of Britain's Royal Fish. Spanning three hundred years of history, 'The Wreckers' examines the myths, realities,and superstitions of shipwrecks, and uncovers the darker side of life on our island shores. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja796118. ISBN: 0007170327.
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Imprint: UK.NORWICH.JARROLD,1987. UK,12mo s/back,1st edn.VG+.No owner inscrptn,National Trust sticker - 'Purchased at HILLTOP the home of Beatrix Potter' - to rear wrap's lower left-hand corner.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,laminatedcolour photographic illustrated wraps; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges and wraps - no nicks or tears present.Contents bright,tight and clean.UK,12mo (approx 6.5" tall x 4.75" wide)wraps,1st edn,2-63pp [paginated] +title page,includes profuse colour+b/w photographs throughout the text. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja27807. ISBN: 0711701776.
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Imprint: LONDON.METHUEN,1982. UK,Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st edn. [Simultaneous issue as US,1st edn.]FINE.No owner inscrptn,minus dw/dj.Crisp,bright, clean,glossy laminated,colour wrap-around artwork by Michael Hague,illustrated bds with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear to edges - no bumped corners and miniscule bumping to both head+foot of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creases. Colour pictorial illustrated eps.Top edge very lightly dust-soiled,fore-edge brighter and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK,Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,ixpp+1-219pp [paginated] includes oval,colour illustrated vignette half-title,colour illus frntis,title-page,contents list, author intro,24 chapters,profuse part+full +double-page colour illustrations and colour chapter head+tail-pieces,all by Michael Hague,throughout the text and the book,an afterword by Michael Hague and lastly a note about the author. Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies,with Uncle Henry,who was a farmer,and Aunt Em,who was the farmer's wife. [First lines . . .] This is the story of Dorothy,a little farm girl from Kansas,who is whisked away by a cyclone and dropped into the Land of Oz.With the Tin Woodman,the Scarecrow,the Cowardly Lion and her dog Toto,Dorothy makes her way along the Yellow Brick Road to the City of Emeralds to meet the wonderful Wizard of Oz. 'And oh,Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be at home again!' [. . . last words.] Michael Hague,American artist,born Los Angeles,1948.He has established an international reputation as an illustrator of children's classics,notably the 'Wind in the Willows' (1980). Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item - just under 1Kg unpackaged - for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja24837. ISBN: 0416265901.
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Imprint: UK.DORKING,SURREY.TEMPLAR PUBLISHING,2007. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt colour pictorial artwork illustrated upper panel of dw/dj,by Wayne Anderson,with pale green+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present,with majority of any of the light creasing to top edges of dw/dj. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glazed boards with colour,pictorial repeated dw/dj design to them,and immaculate pale green endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,11-158pp [paginated] includes author introduction,24 chapters,20 full-page,full colour,back-to-back artwork illustration - all by Wayne Anderson and all called for - throughout the text and the book.Plus [unpaginated] a b/w vignette illustrated name bookplate-style page (unused - no owner name),half-title page,b/w vignette illustrated title-page,and separate contents and illustrations lists/tables. Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies,with Uncle Henry,who was a farmer,and Aunt Em,who was the farmer's wife. [First lines . . .] This is the story of Dorothy,a little farm girl from Kansas,who is whisked away by a cyclone and dropped into the Land of Oz. With the Tin Woodman,the Scarecrow,the Cowardly Lion and her dog Toto,Dorothy makes her way along the Yellow Brick Road to the City of Emeralds to meet the wonderful Wizard of Oz. 'And oh,Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be at home again!' [. . . last words.] 'The Wizard of Oz' is one of the most famous of all children's stories.Its author L. Frank Baum set out to write a truly American fairy tale and it was with this in mind that he created the story of Dorothy and her dog Toto,both whisked away from Kansas to the magical kingdom of Oz. Many people's familiarity with this wonderful story comes from seeing the 1939 film masterpiece and,indeed,the basic elements of the original story are all there.There are some notable differences, however.In the film,the Wicked Witch of the East's silver shoes become ruby slippers,while Dorothy's journey to Oz, presented as real in the book,becomes a dream in the film. Baum wrote 14 'Oz' books,with Dorothy enjoying numerous adventures in and around 'Oz',appearing in seven of them. Wayne Anderson was born in Leicestershire England in 1946.Leaving school at 15 he went to Leicester College of Art,spending 4 years studying graphic design.He then went to London spending 5 years working freelance.His work has been used in advertising,magazines and for posters and greetings cards.He has made two animated films - one,featuring his drawings,was shown on British television - and has originated and illustrated two children's books in collaboration with Christopher Logue; 'Ratsmagic' (UK,Qrto HB,Cape 1976), for which he won the American Society Illustrators' Gold medal,and 'The Magic Circus' (UK,Qrto HB,Cape 1979) - see my book ID rja31058.He has won the National Art Library Illustration Award (UK) and has illustrated numerous books,including 'The Tin Forest','The Dragon Machine','The FLIGHT of DRAGONS' (see book ID rja529015) and 'Twenty-five December Lane',among many others.See also book ID rja31058 - 'The Magic Circus',rja665217 - 'A Mouse's Tale' and also rja728617 - 'Moon Dog' for others of his books/titles. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja534715. ISBN: 9781840115871.
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Imprint: SWITZERLAND,ZURICH.NORTH-SOUTH BOOKS INC.,2011. SWITZERLAND,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.Illustrations copyright 1996 by NordSud Verlag AG,Zurich,Switzerland.First published in US,UK,Canada,Australia and New Zealand in 2011.Printed in Germany, Leipzig July 2011.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - generally believed to be an export copy,which usually precedes the UK trade edn issues. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork by Lisbeth Zwerger,illustrated dw/dj,with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Dw/dj design+ lettering repeated to bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,paper-covered boards,navy blue headband,a sewn-in red silk bookmark ribbon and clean,plain dark blue endpapers.SWITZERLAND,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,9-155pp [paginated] includes 24 chapters,15 full-page,full-colour colour illustrations,part-page and page-edge illustrations throughout the text and the book - all by Lisbeth Zwerger; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,colour pictorial illustrated title page,contents list/table with an illustrated dedication page to it's reverse,and intro by L. Frank Baum (Chicago,April 1900) and to the rear; a note about the author,a note on the illustrator,list of other illustrator illustrated classics from the same publisher. Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies,with Uncle Henry,who was a farmer,and Aunt Em,who was the farmer's wife. [First lines . . .] This is the story of Dorothy,a little farm girl from Kansas,who is whisked away by a cyclone and dropped into the Land of Oz.With the Tin Woodman,the Scarecrow,the Cowardly Lion and her dog Toto,Dorothy makes her way along the Yellow Brick Road to the City of Emeralds to meet the wonderful Wizard of Oz. 'And oh,Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be at home again!' [. . . last words.] The appeal of 'The Wizard of Oz' is universal.Published in every major language,it has been enjoyed by children the world over.Now the internationally acclaimed Viennese illustrator Lisbeth Zwerger brings her exceptional artistry and singular vision to a new edition of the title.Her unique perspective,her blend of whimsy and grace,charm and imagination offer readers a view of Oz that is fantastic yet familiar,startling yet strangely satisfying.Her vision of Baum's timeless classic is sure to be treasured by young and old alike. Lisbeth Zwerger b.Austria 1954.An Austrian illustrator of children's books and children's classic fiction.She studied 1971-74 at the Applied Arts Academy of Vienna,but left before completing the course.She is married to English artist John Rowe.Since the publication of her first illustrated book in 1977,she has worked as a freelance picture book illustrator in Vienna,specializing in fairy tales.Her style is similar to that of the English illustrators of the 19thC and she particularly acknowledges being influenced by the work of Arthur Rackham (b. 1867 - d. 1939.). Michael Neugebauer Verlag published Zwerger's first book,'Das Fremde Kind' (The Strange Child') in 1977. Zwerger continued to work with Neugebauer,who also occasionally contributed to the lettering and book design.Since 1981 she has devoted her extraordinary talents to children's literature,to stories as charming and picturesque as her native Vienna.Always surprising,always engaging,her work combines technical mastery with an insight and gentle wit so rare and captivating that she has been correctly called one of the finest illustrators of the 20thC. She has been accorded nearly every prize that can be given,including the prestigious and the highest international award for lifetime achievement,the Hans Christian Andersen Medal,in 1990.She has also been honored at the Bologna International Children's Book Fair and the Biennial of Illustrators at Bratislava and she has exhibited at exhibitions world-wide. A highly collected and prolific children's book illustrator,and an unusual item/ephemera in Zwerger's bold style and will be an important and welcome addition to her canon and also to L. Frank Baum's illustrated editions. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja691817. ISBN: 9780735840423.
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Imprint: LONDON.HUTCHINSON JUNIOR BOOKS LIMITED,1974. UK,slim Qro HB,minus (issued?) dw/dj,1st edn.[The true 1st edn, published as 'Der Schlafhund und der Wachhund',Nord Sud Verlag,Zurich,1972,which was followed by this English 1st edn thus.]VG.No owner inscrptn.Bright,clean,glossy laminated orange background with colour pictorial artwork by Ralph Steadman,illustrated upper bd,black letters/text to non-illustrated rear bd; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping to edges and corners and near immaculate,plain white eps.Spine/ backstrip lightly sunned/faded,the sunning /fading spreads approx 6/10th" (15cms) horizontally inwards from spine/backstrip edge on upper bd and vertically the bd's height too - rest of the front board is unaffected - due to proximity of a similar sized book,preventing further sunning/ fading,when on shelf or in storage. Corners minimally rubbed with miniscule loss.Some minor indents along both the front+rear top edges; a few minor scoring/ indentations to rear bd,one in particular, vertically from bd's bottom edge up towards the top edge with some minimal coloured paper loss - noticeable but not excessive.Described hard,but fairly and honestly - still an acceptable,collectable state/condition given book's scarcity.UK, slim Qro HB 1st edn,32pp [unpaginated] + feps, includes colour illustrated title-page,colour illustrated dedication page, another 8 single-page colour illus,and 7 full-colour,double-page colour illus - all by Ralph Steadman. In a small town overrun by mice there lived a man with two dogs.One was very lazy and the other was a perfect watchdog, always alert.They were known as Dozy and Hawkeye.Not only did Dozy sleep all the time but he wouldn't stop growing.It was a great worry to both the man and the people of the town. However,even the lazy have their uses and it was Dozy that solved the problem of the mice,though not in the way that was originally intended.Ralph Steadman's marvellous illustrations combine with the text to make a delightful and unusual picture book. Ralph Steadman,born 1936,in Wallasey,near Liverpool.Educated at Abergele Grammar School,North Wales.Apprentice engineer with the De Havilland Aircraft Company. Served in the RAF (1954-56).Caricaturist, sculptor,painter,printmaker:also writer of music and songs. Contributor to Punch,Private Eye [UK satirical magazines),The Times and The Daily Telegraph (UK newspapers) [1961-69], to Rolling Stone (1970-79), and the New Statesman (since 1979).A winner of the Francis Williams Illustrations Award (1972) with Alice in Wonderland(1967). Has travelled extensively in America,Canada, Europe and the Orient. As a caricaturist,Steadman has been influenced by the German expressionist George Grosz and the American Saul Steinberg.He was one of the artists (another was Gerald Scarfe) who,during the 1960's broke away from the tradition of gentlemanly realism established in the 19thC by John Tenniel to explore the realms of passion,fantasy and nightmare. Significantly,perhaps,he took up the challenge of illustrating 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass', (first illustrated by Tenniel) and proved to be the only 'Alice' illustrator since Arthur Rackham to succeed in creating convincing images that owed nothing to Tenniel's authoraitative iconography.His more recent illustrations to 'Sigmund Freud' have been described as 'the mature work of an artist in sympathy with a genius and through that sympathy finding new reaches in his own capabilities' (Michael McNay: The Guardian,6th July,1982.). Since April 2013,again March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja473914. ISBN: 0091196302.
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Imprint: LONDON.HEINEMANN,1996. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,3rd reprint.[Originally published by same publisher in same year (1996),this is the 3rd reprint edn in the same year.] FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - usually indicates an export edition,and generally believed to precede UK trade issue/distribution. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with gilt+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges though lightly toned are still bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain tan cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4-362pp [paginated] includes Pts I-IV comprising 17 chapters,a conclusion,contemporary b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp114/5 and pp242/3 respectively,numerous b/w line illustrations+diagrams etc.,references,a select bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,separate contents+illustrations lists/tables,co-author's acknowledgements, individual Pts separator pages and to the rear,8pp blanks. Guardian of the ancient mysteries,the keeper of secrets. . . For thousands of years the Great Sphinx of Egypt has gazed towards the east,his eyes focused on eternity,reading a message in the stars that mankind has long forgotten.And today, as our civilization stands poised at the end of a great cycle,it is a message that beckons insistently to be understood. All the clues are in place.Geology and archeo-astronomy have already indicated that the lion-bodied Sphinx may be vastly older than Egyptologists currently believe,dating not from 2500 BC,but from 10,500 BC - the beginning of the astrological Age of Leo.We now know,too, that the three pyramids of Giza,standing on high ground half a mile to the west of the Sphinx,are not merely the tombs of megalomaniac Pharaohs but form a precise map of the three stars of Orion's belt in 15 million tons of solid stone. So is somebody trying to tell us something? And,if so,what? In 'Keeper of Genesis',Robert Bauval (author of 'The Orion Mystery') and Graham Hancock (author of 'Fingerprints of the Gods') present a tour de force of historical and scientific detective work, using sophisticated computer simulations of the ancient skies to crack the millennial code that the monuments transcribe,and set out a startling new theory concerning the enigmatic Pyramid Texts and other archaic Egyptian sculptures. These texts serve as an ingenious treasure trail and,as the authors reveal in their shattering conclusion,a covert treasure hunt has been underway for the last twenty years at the pyramids and the Sphinx - a hunt bringing together senior Egyptologists,high government officials, wealthy funders,and a strange esoteric organisation lurking behind the scenes. What are they looking for? What is contained in the rectangular chamber that seismic surveys have located in the bedrock far below the paws of the Sphinx? What lies behind the mysterious door recently discovered at the end of a previously unexplored shaft deep inside the Great Pyramid? And does mankind have a rendezvous with destiny - a rendezvous not in the future,but in the distant past,at a precise place and time? The secrets can be kept no longer. . . Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight of this item for correct,insured shipping/ P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja770918. ISBN: 0434003050.
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Imprint: UK.HANTS.NAUTICAL PUBLISHING CO LTD.,1980. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour photographic illustrated dw/dj, blue+b/w lettering with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - one tiny closed tear to head of spine/backstrip,with internal aged sellotape repair - text unaffected.Top+ fore-edges clean,contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Clean,pale blue paper-covered bds with white cloth blind spine and blue lettering and bright,clean,plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vi-xvpp+ 1-240pp [paginated] includes foreword by Rod Stephens,13 chapters,profuse contemporary b/w photographs throughout the text and the book,appendices(2); plus [unpaginated] half-title+itle pages, b/w photographic frntis and contents list/ table. The America's Cup!The one sailing event which captures the popular imagination, receives international press coverage,and has never been lost to any foreign challenger (then 1980!). Every three years,select boats from around the world compete against each other for the right to meet the American defender in the choppy seas off Newport, Rhode Island.No one is more qualified to trace the development of modern Cup competition than Bob Bavier,sailor extraordinaire,defending helmsman aboard 'Constellation' in 1964,and President of Yachting Magazine.Reaching back over 50 years,from his first sail on 'Weetamoe' as a teenager in 1930,through the early years of Twelve Meter matches after the War,up to the potentials for the latest duel, Bavier has drawn an exciting picture of the boats and men who have made the America's Cup the premier sailing race in the world. Here are all the colourful characters!The great designers: Olin Stephens,always calm and always learning; Alan Payne,the Australian draightsman whose 'Gretel' was easily the fastest boat; Brit Chance, brilliant but arrogant; plus the current crew of whiz kids: Dave Pedrick,Johan Valentjin and Ian Howlett.The helmsmen: the "voice," Ted Turner; intuitive Ted Hood; Mr Clean himself - Bill Ficker; high-pressure Bus Mosbacher; and the men behind the new boats,Russell Long,Ted Turner,John Oakeley,Dennis Connor,Pelle Peterson,the ever-present Baron Bich. . . .only one will claim the silver for his country.There are only winners in the America's Cup,no second places.That's the way of match racing. Not only does Bavier cover the details of match racing,he goes into the intricacies of computers on board,why the early leader often loses,and the psychology of Twelve Meter racing.He goes into the controversies over the use of Twelve Meter boats,the famous protests and the role of the Selection Committee,often discussed and rarely understood.With great acumen, Bavier talks about the future of the America's Cup and the chances,domestic and foreign,for an eventual foreign win. Whether designer,builder,crew,helmsman,or syndicate head - Bavier has known them all,and knows the new faces too. He's either raced aboard or carefully examined all the new boats,talked to all the participants and has the added advantage of being on the New York Yacht Club Selection Committee.Nobody could give you a clearer view or more unexpected inside information.'America's Cup Fever is the book for the race if the year! Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja29188. ISBN: 0245536191.
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Imprint: LONDON.MACMILLAN, 1987. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Colour,pictorial (non-credited) artwork, illustrated upper wrap,literary reviews rear wrap; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to dw/dj edges - no nicks or tears present - miniscule bumping with reciprocal creases to head of spine/ backstrip.Top edge slightly aged and slightly dust-soiled as usual/normal,fore- edges less aged and considerably cleaner; contents bright,tight and clean. Unblemished,plain slate-grey paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-188pp includes half-title+title pages. A subtle and compelling story of human suffering enveloped in a comedy of deception,it is the achievement of a writer at the height of her powers. Narrated by a painter who specialises as a copyist - 'an honest craftsman; not a cheat,not a forger' - this is his story: 'bothered by bills and artistic conscience in about equal measure, physically short and rotund like my merry, dead grandfather,but unlike him (I hope for his sake) susceptible to,bullied and badgered by women.' His women: Clio,his child-bride,wilful,deceptive,dependent; Helen,his first wife,his beloved betrayer; and Maisie, his mother,redoubtable and straightforward,yet not altogether what she seems. Major figures on the canvas,they confound lies and truth in a subtle weave,while the silent agony of the painter's son is a poignant reflection on the busy web of deception. And as the copyist transcribes his modern versions of Old Masters,so the past keeps breaking through the surface of the present,until fact and fiction,like art and life,meet in a remarkable conclusion. Elaborate,compelling and beautifully crafted,this moving counterpoint of artistic and emotional deceit confirms Bawden's reputation as one of our most outstanding novelists.Nominated and short-listed for the 1987,Booker Prize.See also rja2078. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja2077. ISBN: 0333446844.
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Imprint: LONDON.MACMILLAN, 1987. UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to protected dw/dj.Colour pictorial (non-credited) artwork,illustrated upper wrap,literary reviews rear wrap; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to dw/dj edges - no nicks or tears present - miniscule bumping with reciprocal creases to head of spine/backstrip.Top edge lightly aged and lightly dust-soiled as usual/normal,fore-edges less aged and considerably cleaner; contents bright, tight and clean.Unblemished plain slate- grey paper-covered boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-188pp includes half-title+title pages. A subtle and compelling story of human suffering enveloped in a comedy of deception,it is the achievement of a writer at the height of her powers. Narrated by a painter who specialises as a copyist - 'an honest craftsman; not a cheat,not a forger' - this is his story: 'bothered by bills and artistic conscience in about equal measure,physically short and rotund like my merry,dead grandfather, but unlike him (I hope for his sake) susceptible to,bullied and badgered by women.' His women: Clio,his child-bride, wilful,deceptive,dependent; Helen,his first wife,his beloved betrayer; and Maisie,his mother,redoubtable and straightforward,yet not altogether what she seems.Major figures on the canvas, they confound lies and truth in a subtle weave, while the silent agony of the painter's son is a poignant reflection on the busy web of deception. And as the copyist transcribes his modern versions of Old Masters,so the past keeps breaking through the surface of the present,until fact and fiction,like art and life,meet in a remarkable conclusion. Elaborate,compelling and beautifully crafted,this moving counterpoint of artistic and emotional deceit confirms Bawden's reputation as one of our most outstanding novelists.Nominated and short-listed for the 1987,Booker Prize.See also rja2077. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja2078. ISBN: 0333446844.
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Imprint: LONDON.VIRAGO PRESS,1997. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour illustrated dw/dj (painting 'La Croisette a Cannes 1956' by Charles Camoin),with brown+blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,maroon+white striped headband, and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,1-192pp [paginated] includes 14 chapters+envoi; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,epigram,title separator page,and 6pp blanks at rear. Reminiscent of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - where the most unlikely people fall in and out of love,and where everyone harbours a secret desire - this is classic Nina Bawden territory, told with the ironic humour and compassion her readers have come to know her by.No one is better on the emotional landscape of the human heart. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja567415. ISBN: 1860492762.
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Imprint: LONDON.GOLLANCZ,1971. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,dedicated+ dated,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, but neat,ink familial donor gift,dated presentation inscrptn to top edge of ffe, whilst to the recto of same,author's handwritten blue ink,dedicated+dated signature: 'To Alison Best Wishes Nina Bawden 18/XII/71.' to top edge,no price- clip to dw/dj.Both inscrptns are to the same named recipient/person (Alison). Bright,crisp,clean,4-colour block (b/w, brown,blue-green) artwork illustrated dw/dj by Shirley Hughes; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and no fading to spine/ backstrip.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.There seems to be a production(?) fault of a light crease/indentation starting on ffe and decreasing in degree to first dozen or so pages.Top edge very lightly dust-soiled/aged with some minimal,sporadic spotting/foxing,fore-edge generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy? Bright, clean,sharp-cornered,green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers with the aforementioned inscrptns to both sides of the front free endpaper.UK,slim 8vo HB+ dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,8-127pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters,3 full-page b/w line illus by Shirley Hughes throughout the text and book; plus [unpaginated] half- title+title pages,and dedication.A really exceptional copy,certainly the best I've handled. Kate Pollack is a girl who likes to get to the bottom of things.An only child and intensely motherly,she worries about Squib,a wordless waif of a boy,who is always in the park when she goes there with Robin and Prue and Sammy,and always stays when they leave.He wears strange, frilly,old-fashioned clothes,and Kate almost believes that he is the ghost of her much-loved brother who was drowned years before. Squib is surrounded by a mystery Kate has to solve: why is he sometimes covered in bruises; why does he never speak; who is he really? But by becoming involved,Kate finds herself in a terrifying situation she is unable to cope with. In Kate,Nina Bawden has created one of her most memorable characters.Shirley Hughes' atmospheric illustrations enhance the text. Nina Bawden British authoress born 1925. A reputation in books for both adults and children,and notable for and 'Carrie's War' (1973) and 'The Peppermint Pig' (1975). Shirley Hughes (b.1927).Born in Hoylake, near Liverpool,daughter of a department store owner.Educated at West Kirby High School.Studied drawing and costume design at Liverpool School of Art,and drawing and lithography at the Ruskin School of Drawing,Oxford.Since then,working freelance,she has illustrated more than 200 books for British,American and Dutch publishers.As an 'intimate chronicler of familiar childhood experience',she has developed a distinctive,easily recognisable way of drawing children, winning the Kate Greenaway Medal (1977) with 'Dogger.' For black and white work, she uses pen and ink,sometimes with brushed-in areas of solid black; for colour,she works up from a fine sepia brush drawing,adding chalk,watercolour, gouache,and finally black ink. The 2nd of 3 Nina Bawden titles that Shirley has illustrated,the first being 'The Witches Daughter' (Gollancz,1966) and the 3rd being 'Rebel on a Rock' - sequel to 'Carrie's War' -(Gollancz,1978). Awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1977 and the Eleanor Farjeon Award in 1984. Awarded the OBE in 1999. Since April 2013,and in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja411012. ISBN: 057500665X.
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Imprint: LONDON.MACMILLAN,1983. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Colour photographic upper panel with white letters,rear panel literary critics' reviews,in white to black background; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges both very lightly aged and both top+bottom edges have a tiny splash stain/ mark; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Unblemished,tan paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,3-236pp. 'Love is an ideal thing,marriage a real thing,the confusion of the real with the ideal always brings punishment.' So Goethe says,and so Nina Bawden,in her new novel (then 1983),shows.Her book is about adultery - adultery with an ironic twist that throws a fascinating light on human fantasies and powers of self-deception.It is also about love and marriage, friendship and revenge. 'The Ice-House' is initially a pit of punishment but grows to signify more as the story unfolds,moving from a terrifying suburban household in 1951,Festival of Britain year,to its unexpected conclusion in the cold tombs of the Egyptian Pharoahs in 1981,the year of Sadat's assassination. Even by Nina Bawden's own high standards, the observations of the motives,moral attitudes and confused emotions of her main characters is sharply brilliant; the dilemma in which they find themselves is by turns tragic and hilarious,and their confrontations are tremendous. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja1949. ISBN: 0333352440.
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Imprint: LONDON.COLLINS CRIME CLUB,1980. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Originally published 1954.One of 12 titles of Crime Club's Jubilee reprints especially selected and introduced by Julian Symons. Chosen from titles which appeared under the imprint during the years 1930-1955, and which were out of print at time of selection.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£4.75,which then has an ink cross through it) to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,gilt colour background with b/w Crime Club logo to top of front panel and b/w lettering,rear panel with the other 11 titles from this series advertised to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges with inevitable but very light dust-soiling and toning and minimal sporadic foxing/spotting,fore-edges bright and clean with similar but less foxing/ spotting; contents crisp,bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp- cornered,publisher's original green+black mottled faux leather (rexine?) boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt Crime Club logo to front within a single-line edge border and bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,10- 203pp [paginated] includes 14 chapters; plus [unpaginated] blanks,story's precis, title page and an introduction by Julian Symons. Humphrey Stone was the respected headmaster of a well-known public school. Was it possible that he had been so unwise as to have an affair with the young,very beautiful girl who now confronted his wife in their drawing-room,claiming that he was the father of her unborn child? About the affair there seemed no doubt,for she could produce his love letters.But what about the child? Shaken by doubts,and fearful for her family's future if the scandal became public,Humphrey's wife summoned her husband's oldest friend,Will Hunt,a solicitor,who had always been a little in love with her and through whom the story unfolds.For the murder which soon follows adds terribly to the network of troubles in which Humphrey is already enmeshed,and all Will's seemingly ineffective enquiries lead back to a disreputable little club called The Odd Flamingo,whose members comprise some very weird characters indeed. 'The Odd Flamingo',first published in 1954,was Nina Bawden's second novel.Lovers of a good crime story must regret that she has since turned her talents in other directions,while welcoming the reissue of this memorable and skilful work,with its gripping suspense,foreboding atmosphere, and startling revelation at the end. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja648716. ISBN: 002316145.
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Imprint: LONDON.WALKER BOOKS LTD.,1988. UK,slim,landscape rectangular,small 8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+.No owner inscrptn.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy,glazed paper-covered boards with capitalised,black-lettered title and other black-lettered author and illustrator names with rectangular colour pictorial artwork illustration by Michael Foreman to front board,spine/backstrip with capitalised,black-lettered title,author+ illustrator surnames and publisher's capitalised,black-lettered+illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear board with rectangular colour pictorial artwork illustration by Michael Foreman.Top+fore-edges inevitably but lightly aged/toned and without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,apart from my own collation.UK,slim,landscape rectangular, small 8vo HB minus dw/dj,41pp excluding front endpaper and verso of rear free endpaper, includes colour illustrated title page,part page,1/4 page and 18 single,full-page colour illustrations throughout by Michael Foreman. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 45-year-old age and nature, i.e. a child's book. It is only the missing dw/dj fault that prevents a slightly higher overall grading.Despite that, it really is still an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults the despite loss of a protective dw/dj.Almost MINT but for minimal superficial minute indents. A first print of this charming picture book about a young boy becoming acquainted with the countryside. Michael Foreman,one of the best-known British writer-illustrators,thanks to his remarkable output: since he began his career in 1961,he has published over 300 books for children and adults.He has earned two Kate Greenaway Medals, and has twice been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Martin Bax is a consultant paediatrician who has now retired from clinical work and is an honorary reader in Child Health at Imperial College,London.In addition to his medical career he founded the arts magazine 'Ambit' in 1959, which continues to this day.'Ambit' has published poetry,prose and artwork from people such as Fleur Adcock, Peter Porter, Tenessee Williams, JG Ballard, Peter Blake, Eduoardo Paolozzi, Carol Ann Duffy and many others. His novels 'The Hospital Ship' [UK,Picador and New Directions in 1978],and 'Love on the Borders' [UK,Seren, 2005].Back in the 1970s,using text from 'The Hospital Ship',he developed the Vietnam Symphony with jazz trumpeter Henry Lowther which was performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.He also writes for children and his book 'Edmund Went Far Away.',illustrated by Michael Foremen,was published in the UK and the USA. Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1093523. ISBN: 0744510600.
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Imprint: WALES.PONTYPOOL,TORFAEN.WARREN & PELL PUBLISHING,2007. UK,slim 8vo wraps,2nd edn.[Firstly and originally published by Routledge(UK) 2004. This is the 2nd edn.This edn published in collaboration with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.] FINE.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - wraps as issued.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, wrap-around contemporary b/w photographic covers,with black+red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Some laminate wrinkling/creasing to front spine/backstrip gutter's edge - no reading creases to actual spine/backstrip.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK,slim 8vo wraps,2nd edn,12-216pp [paginated] includes introduction,7 chapters,contemporary b/w photographs,b/w maps,figures and tables throughout the text and the book,appendices(2),notes,reference andbiblio,and an index,with last page as a publisher's advert for other book/titles. Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, author precis,b/w photographic frntis, contents list/table,list of b/w plates, separate lists of of figures,maps and tables,acknowledgements,and a list of abbreviations. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39, almost 2,500 men and women left Britain to fight for the Spanish Republic.This book examines the role,experiences and contribution of the volunteers who fought in the British Battalion of the 15th International Brigade,asking who were these volunteers? Where did they come from? Why did they go to Spain? And how much did they actually help the Spanish Republic? 'There is a huge literature on the role of the British volunteers in the International Brigades.Some of it inspirational,some of it deeply moving,yet If I could keep only one book on the subject it would have to be the one by Richard Baxell.No one before or since has managed to weld the huge volume of disorganised and confusing memoir material into a clear and coherent political and military chronology and geography. Not only is this entirely serious but it is also extremely exciting.Baxell's book is a classic in the making on the Spanish Civil War.' [Paul Preston,Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja531215. ISBN: 9780955419904.
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Imprint: LONDON.BBC BOOKS,2015. UK,12mo wraps,p/back Original,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn.] FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover.Bright,crisp,clean and sharp-cornered, glossy,colour photographic illustrated front cover with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread - apart from my own collation.UK,12mo wraps,p/back original,1st edn, 7-253pp [paginated] includes a prologue and 21 chapters,acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and towards the rear,2pp of publisher's other available titles advert. 'I DO HOPE YOU'RE ALL READY TO BE TERRIFIED!' The Phaeron disappeared from the universe over a million years ago.They travelled among the stars using roads made from time and space,but left only relics behind.But what actually happened to the Phaeron? Some believe they were they eradicated by a superior force Others claim they destroyed themselves.Or were they in fact the victims of an even more hideous fate? In the far future,humans discover the location of the last Phaeron road and the Doctor and Clara join the mission to see where the road leads.Each member of the research team knows exactly what they're looking for but only the Doctor knows exactly what they'll find. Because only the Doctor knows the true secret of the Phaeron: a monstrous secret so terrible and powerful that it must be buried in the deepest grave imaginable. THE GLAMOUR CHRONICLES.This trilogy of adventures across time and space follow the Doctor's search for the Glamour,the most desirable - and dangerous - artefact in the universe. An original novel featuring the Twelfth Doctor and Clara as played by Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. See my book ID's rja662417 and rja662517 for other titles in the trilogy. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja662317. ISBN: 9781785940682.
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Imprint: LONDON.BBC BOOKS,2015. UK,12mo wraps,p/back 1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn.] FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover.Bright, crisp,clean and sharp-cornered,glossy,colour photographic illustrated front cover with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and no reading creases to spine/ backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread - apart from my own collation.UK,12mo wraps,p/back 1st edn,7-253pp [paginated] includes a prologue and 21 chapters, acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication and towards the rear 2pp of publisher's other available titles advert. 'I DO HOPE YOU'RE ALL READY TO BE TERRIFIED!' The Phaeron disappeared from the universe over a million years ago.They travelled among the stars using roads made from time and space,but left only relics behind.But what actually happened to the Phaeron? Some believe they were they eradicated by a superior force Others claim they destroyed themselves.Or were they in fact the victims of an even more hideous fate? In the far future, humans discover the location of the last Phaeron road and the Doctor and Clara join the mission to see where the road leads.Each member of the research team knows exactly what they're looking for but only the Doctor knows exactly what they'll find. Because only the Doctor knows the true secret of the Phaeron: a monstrous secret so terrible and powerful that it must be buried in the deepest grave imaginable. THE GLAMOUR CHRONICLES.This trilogy of adventures across time and space follow the Doctor's search for the Glamour,the most desirable - and dangerous - artefact in the universe. An original novel featuring the Twelfth Doctor and Clara as played by Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja790918. ISBN: 9781785940682.
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Imprint: LONDON.BBC BOOKS,2015. UK,12mo wraps,p/back 1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn.] FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover.Bright, crisp,clean and sharp-cornered,glossy, colour photographic illustrated front cover with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and no reading creases to spine/ backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread - apart from my own collation.UK,12mo wraps, p/back 1st edn,7-253pp [paginated] includes a prologue and 21 chapters, acknowledgements,plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication and towards the rear 2pp of publisher's other available titles advert. 'I DO HOPE YOU'RE ALL READY TO BE TERRIFIED!' The Phaeron disappeared from the universe over a million years ago.They travelled among the stars using roads made from time and space,but left only relics behind.But what actually happened to the Phaeron? Some believe they were they eradicated by a superior force Others claim they destroyed themselves. Or were they in fact the victims of an even more hideous fate? In the far future,humans discover the location of the last Phaeron road and the Doctor and Clara join the mission to see where the road leads.Each member of the research team knows exactly what they're looking for but only the Doctor knows exactly what they'll find. Because only the Doctor knows the true secret of the Phaeron: a monstrous secret so terrible and powerful that it must be buried in the deepest grave imaginable. THE GLAMOUR CHRONICLES.This trilogy of adventures across time and space follow the Doctor's search for the Glamour,the most desirable - and dangerous - artefact in the universe. An original novel featuring the Twelfth Doctor and Clara as played by Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja759417. ISBN: 9781785940682
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Imprint: LONDON.BBC BOOKS,2008. UK,8vo HB board,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn. FINE.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj,as issued. Bright,clean,crisp,colour pictorial/photographic illustrated boards with immaculate plain white endpapers; with negligible shelf-wear and bumping to edges and corners.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned,but generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - possibly an unread copy? UK,8vo HB boards,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn,7-249pp [paginated] includes 29 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,5pp publisher's advert for other published titles available. Dr Bob Strong's GP surgery has been treating a lot of coughs and colds recently,far more than is normal for the time of year.Bob thinks there's something up but he can't think what.He seems to have caught it himself,whatever it is - he's starting to cough badly and there are flecks of blood in his hanky. Saskia Harden has been found on a number of occasions submerged in ponds or canals but alive and seemingly none the worse for wear.Saska is not on any files,except in the medical records at Dr Strong's GP practice.But Torchwood's priorities lie elsewhere: investigating ghostly apparitions in South Wales,they have found a dead body.It's old and in an advanced state of ecay.And it is still able to talk. And what it is saying is 'Water hag' ... Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman,with Gwen Cooper,Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles,Burn Gorman,Naoki Mori and Gareth David-Lloyd in the hit series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja450913. ISBN: 9781846074370.
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Imprint: LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE Ltd.,1982. UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued, author SIGNED,1st edn.[Originally and first published in 1979 by Uitgeverij De Harmonie,Amsterdam,The Netherlands.This is the first UK edition issued by CAPE.] FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's neat black ink handwritten signature - without dedication to foot of ffe,no dw/dj - as issued.Bright,crisp,clean,generally sharp-cornered,glossy laminated,b/w+colour pictorial cartoon illustrated front board, with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Near immaculate plain white endpapers with a small,pale blue circular spot/stain to front pastedown with corresponding presence to front free endpaper; author's neat,handwritten black ink signature - without dedication - towards foot of same. Top edges lightly aged/toned - as usual/ normal,fore-edges brighter and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original glazed boards with bright,crisp,black ink printed letters to inevitable,but still lightly sunned/faded spine/backstrip,and near immaculate plain white endpapers - spot/stain,author signature excepted.UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,author SIGNED 1st edn, 96pp [unpaginated] includes b/w illustrated half-title page,b/w illustrated contents list/table,91 b/w cartoons - nearly all with accompanying text/caption. Glen Baxter has exhibited his drawings and paintings in New York,Amsterdam and London.His first book to be published in UK was 'Impending Gleam' and this is his 9th published work/title.A master of incongruousness and fatuity,fusing the familiar with the absurd and improbable, giving new,surprising and hilarious life to verbal and visual cliches.An excellent,SIGNED 1st edn,particularly uncommon with the signature,for the discerning collector. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja643816. ISBN: 022402941X.
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Imprint: LONDON.HarperCollinsPublishers/Science Fiction & Fantasy,1994. UK,12mo p/back,1st edn.[HarperCollins Science Fiction & Fantasy issue/edn and true UK,1st edn p/back.Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.Not to be confused with the HarperCollins/Voyager later imprint of 1998.Uncredited artwork,but identical to that of the scarce,uncommon UK,HB+dw/dj,1st edn of a year earlier, 1993,to this UK p/back issue and entirely different from the later 'Voyager' imprint's artwork.] Near MINT.Wrapped+ protected from day of issue,so no owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial non- credited artwork illustrated front cover with raised silver gilt author name, raised orange lettered title and white lettered critic's quote,silver+orange letters to a black spine,red+white lettered critics' reviews to rear cover; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing - no nicks,tears or splits present.No reading creases to spine/ backstrip and to the rear cover with a couple of minor indents - the only really noticeable fault! Top+fore-edges bright and clean and with toning or blemish; contents similar - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,apart from my own collation.UK,12mo p/back,1st edn,5-366pp [paginated] includes 29 chapters; plus [unpaginated] note on author,title page and to the rear,a blank with order page to it's reverse.Author's fourth book. Star Humans are microscopic,but their hopes and fears,and loves,are not.And the future of humans everywhere,on Earth and among the stars,depends on their courage in the face of attack by the mighty Xeelee,owners of the Universe. A novel of the Xeelee Sequence,the 3rd, from the acknowledged heir to the visionary legacy of Clarke and Wells, heralding a new Golden Age in science fiction. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight/value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** UK,buyers please note,p/backs' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before order's despatch,especially if p/back is offered P/p free. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving long before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja918321. ISBN: 0006476201.
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Imprint: LONDON.HARPER COLLINS,1998. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NMINT.An excellent,unread copy.Pictorial,colour scenic illustrated upper wrap dw/dj with no nicks or tears present.Unblemished, black paper-covered bds with bright,crisp, stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white eps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-534pp includes title+half-title pages,dramatis personae list and an author afterword. FROM THE MOON TO THE EARTH.Tons of mineral samples were brought back from the Moon during the Apollo missions.Among them was a chunk of Moon bedrock,found by astronaut Jays Malone.NASA kept it in storage for decades.No one suspected the awesome secret it contained.Then geologist Henry Meacher - his career at JPL in ruins - his marriage over - in exile at Edinburgh University - makes a study of the neglected sample.When the Moon rock accidentally comes into contact with lava from Edinburgh's extinct volcanoes,he witnesses solid rock turning into seething dust.This is the Moonseed.Inspired, terrified,Henry is the first to understand the pitiless logic of the Moonseed: it eats planets,and it's here. Soon ancient breaches in Earth's crust are opened up - with devastating consequences.Though Henry has fallen in love with a Scots girl,Jane,he knows he must leave Edinburgh to play his part in the forthcoming global struggle against terror and destruction as the Moonseed takes hold.Against the odds,he must return to the United States to convince the world's most powerful nations to pool their resources and send him to confront the alien menace, in it's lair at the heart of the Moon.At last,on the Moon, Henry confronts a mystery that reaches back across five billion years to the formation of the Earth itself.And Henry must implement a final,desperate gamble to deliver the last hope of mankind.FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON. Please contact seller,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving long before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja1784. ISBN: 0002254263.
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Imprint: LONDON.GRAFTONBOOKS/an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,[Special Overseas Edition],1991. UK,12mo p/back.Special Overseas Export Edition, 1st edn.[Wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase as MINT,and now recently discovered in an old stock box.] NMINT. No owner inscrptn,and no price removal from cover.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Chris Moore,illustrated front card cover with capitalised,yellow-lettered author name,capitalised silver gilt lettering with thick black outline/shadowing to title and a critic's capitalised,white-lettered review to front cover; a white background to spine/backstrip with capitalised black-lettered author name and capitalised,red letters with thick black outline/shadowing to title and publisher's coloured colophon to foot of same, rear cover with glossy white background with synopsis and 2 critic's red+black-lettered reviews.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits and no scoring/indents.Top+fore-edges with very light ageing/toning despite it's storage hibernation but still clean without any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,and NO reading creases to spine/backstrip either,unread apart from my own collation.UK, 12mo p/back,Special Overseas Edition,1st edn,9- 251pp [paginated] includes 16 chapters; plus [unpaginated] author's potted biography,pair of critics' reviews,a title page,a dedication, Acknowledgements,and to the rear 4pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 30+ year-old age and nature, i.e. an ephemeral p/back. It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. Author's debut novel and the first book in the Xeelee series. Imagine a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times stronger than on Earth. Where humans detectable gravity fields.Where stars are only a mile across and burn out within a year of their formation. Five hundred years after a spaceship acidently crossed into this universe the crew's descendants are struggling desperately to survive.Society is divided into two mutually dependent groups - the Miners,excavating the iron ore of a dead star,and the scientists who live on the Raft,made from the ramshackle wreckage of the ship.Raw materials are exchanged for food - this way their precarious survival is maintained. But for how long? Rees is a young boy Miner whose natural curiosity leads him to stowaway on a trade vessel to the Raft.Once there,he is luckily taken on as an apprentice scientist.What he learns is devastating - their world is dying and nobody seems sure how to stop it. Rarely has a first novel been so brillaintly conceived. Comparable to the best of Greg Bear or Larry Niven,'RAFT' is unique,wondrous,utterly strange and peopled with believable characters. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight/value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1099923. ISBN: ISBN 0586210911.
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Imprint: LONDON.HarperCollinsPublishers/Science Fiction & Fantasy,1993. UK,12mo p/back,1st edn.[HarperCollins Science Fiction & Fantasy issue/edn and the true UK,1st edn p/back.Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.Not to be confused with the HarperCollins/Voyager later imprint of 1997.Uncredited artwork,but identical to that of the scarce,uncommon UK,HB+dw/dj,1st edn of a year earlier, 1992,to this UK p/back issue and entirely different from the later 'Voyager' imprint's artwork.] MINT.Books has been wrapped+protected from day of issue,so no owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial non-credited artwork illustrated front cover with raised gilt author name, raised orange/red lettered title and black lettered critic's (Arthur C. Clarke) quote,white+orange letters to a black spine,red+white lettered story preamble and critics' reviews to rear cover; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing - no nicks,tears or splits present - and no reading creases to spine/backstrip! Top+fore-edges bright and clean and without toning or blemish; contents similar - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,apart from my own collation.UK,12mo p/back,1st edn,7-253pp [paginated] includes 16 chapters; plus [unpaginated] note on author+critics' reviews,title page,a dedication with blank reverse and to the rear,last page with blank reverse and2pp blank following on from the last printed page, Author's second book and second novel in the Xeelee sequence.The sequels are FLUX (1993) - see my book ID rja918321 for true UK,1st edn p/back - and RING (1994). First there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights,even immortality. Then there were bad times: Earth was occupied by the faceless,brutal Qax. Immortality drugs were confiscated,the human spirit crushed.Earth became a vast factory for alient foodstuffs.Into this new dark age appears the end of a tunnel through time.Made from exotic matter,it is humanity's greatest engineering project in the pre-Qax era,where the other end of the tunnel remains anchored near Jupiter.When a small group of humans in a makeshift craft outwit the Qax to escape to the past through the tunnel,it is not to warn the people of Earth against the Qax,who are sure to follow them.For these men and women from the future are themselves dangerous fanatics in pursuit of their own bizarre quantum grail. Michael Poole,architect of the tunnel, must boldly confront the consequences of his genius.The battle for Earth's future begins with colossal violence in the eerie light of Jupiter - and ends at TIMELIKE INFINITY. . . the strange region at the end of time where the owners of the universe,the fabulous Xeelee,are waiting. ** UK,buyers please note,p/backs' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before order's despatch,especially if p/back is offered P/p free. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving long before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja918421. ISBN: 000647618X.
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Imprint: LONDON.VOYAGER/imprint HarperCollinsPublishers,1997. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] NMINT/NMINT. Wrapped+protected fron day of issue/ purchase,so no owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,part wrap-around (front+ spine),colour pictorial artwork by Chris Moore,illustrated dw/dj with white,grey and light blue letters to front,blue, white,yellow+orange letters to spine,rear panel with orange and blue+white critics' reviews; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread, apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped fluorescent,metallic blue gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj, 1st edn,3-581pp [paginated] includes a prologue,Books 1-6,an epilogue and an afterword' plus [unpaginated] half- title+title pages,a dedication, acknowledgements,individual prologue, Books,and epilogue separator pages and 2pp blanks at rear. To sail among the rings of Saturn. . .to touch the ground of a new world. . .and to do it now. . . NASA's Cassini probe will reach Saturn in 2004: TITAN is the amazing story of a visionary's response to Cassini's discovery of life on Saturn's moon. Award-winning author Stephen Baxter single-handedly rescues the US manned space programme from near extinction, taking astronauts to the other planets in this extraordinary and gripping novel. 'TITAN' is the epic saga of one woman's will to succeed and the triumph of a dream over bureaucracy and fear.Paula Benacerraf,grandmother and astronaut,is appointed to oversee the dismantling of the Shuttle fleet after another Challenger-type disaster.Instead,she listens to the oddball JPL scientist Rosenberg,who is determined to explore the ammonia-based life Cassini discovers on Titan. NASA's rusting Saturn rockets,mothballed Apollo spacecraft and remaining Shuttles are fitted with as much new technology as NASA can be persuaded to afford - and in the face of violent opposition from the military,frail humans are hurled to the edge of the Solar System.To the edge, also,of sanity. From the acknowledged heir to the visionary legacy of Clarke and Wells,his most ambitious novel yet,a compellingly believable story of our conquest of space as it could still happen. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving long before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja915120. ISBN: 0002254247.
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Imprint: LONDON.VOYAGE/HarperCollinsPublishers,1997. UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] NMINT/NMINT.Wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase,so no owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, immaculate glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Chris Moore,illustrated front panel of dw/dj,critics' reviews to rear panel of same; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - virtually pristine.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean without blemishes; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain black cloth boards (bds) with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers (eps).UK, small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xiipp+3- 460pp [paginated] includes a foreword, acknowledgements,a contents list/table,a prologue,22 stories in 7 sections,and an epilogue (short bridging story 'Eve'); plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, a dedication,individual section separator pages and section intro(?)/precis and at the rear,an appended 4pp Xeelee Sequence Timeline followed by 4pp blanks. Novel based on the short stories which - together with his novels 'Raft' (1991), Timelike Infinity' (1992),'Flux' (1993), and 'Ring' (1994) - comprise his 'Xeelee Sequence' Future History. The stories written between 1987 and 1995,have been revised for this edition; a new timeline is appended; references to the novels are included as footnotes,and a new short story ('Eve') has been included as bridging material. Of the 22 stories included here,four were first published in IsaAc Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine,one in SF Age,one in a Writers of The Future anthology,and eight in Interzone.Two,('Lieserl' and 'Cilia-of-Gold') have been included in annual Legend Year's Best SF collections,edited by Gardner Dozois.The other stories mostly appeared in small-press magazines and, while fans are aware of the pieces,they have been largely unavailable before this collection. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving long before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja913720. ISBN: 9780002254250.
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