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Imprint: UK.BATH.DEMPSEY PARR,1999. UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj - almost as new.Bright,crisp,clean,colour pictorial,glossy laminated,illustrated dw/dj - design repeated to glossy, laminated board; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean, contents bright,tight and pristine.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-256pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,contents list,introduction by Dr Jonathan Wood, profuse colour illustrations/photographs etc.,of Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech's work throughout the text and the book,a detailed commentary on 120 examples of his work,and author biographies and acknowledgements to rear. While many of these are amongst his most famous,others may be less well-known,but they are all essential to the development of Dali's artistic philosophy.Dali's talents were prodigious; not only was he a painter of abstracts and portraits,a superb draughtsman,printer and illustrator,he was also a sculptor,a maker of ceramics, jewellery and furniture,and a costume designer.Above all,he was a consummate self-publicist,his moustachioed persona at times in danger of transcending his ability as an artist. However,it is quite likely that without this element of exhibitionism,combined with a healthy lust for commercial success,Dali would not have been driven to achieve international fame and status that he is now accorded. Please contact seller,because of the heavier weight (in excess of 1Kg) 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,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: rja33329. ISBN: 1840845090.
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Imprint: LONDON.GRANADA,1984. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.(All UK 1st edn novels/titles published singly and sequentially in 1954, 1957, and 1963 respectively and the first published omnibus is this edition.)NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, but a faint, faded,ink public service library stamp to top edge - no other stamps/marks to book, no price-clip to dw/dj.Laminated, dark blue background dw/dj with white and gilt printed letters to spine/backstrip and bds respectively with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/ backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creases as usual/normal, and no bumping or rubbing to corners.Top edge lightly dust-soiled with afore-mentioned ink stamp but no foxing;fore-edge cleaner with minimum marking, contents bright, tight and near pristine apart from pp185/86 bottom corner which is dog-eared/creased (production fault?) - no other creases to ant other corners. Unblemished, bright, clean, plain yellow paper-covered bds with black, ink stamped letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate, plain white eps.8vo,3-647pp includes half-title+title pages.This first omnibus contains Bradbury's first three haunting novels:'Fahrenheit 451', 'Dandelion Wine', and 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'. Please contact seller, because of the weight and the value of this item, for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja2119. ISBN: 0246124296.
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Imprint: LONDON.CASSELL & COMPANY LTD.,1958. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,yellow background front+spine/backstrip with red+black lettering to both,a lightly grubbed rear panel with b/w illustrated advert for author's prequel title 'The Naked Island',illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - a tiny abrasion tear without total loss - to front,gutter's fold/crease of front panel - without affecting board/cover beneath.Top edges though lightly toned, clean and without foxing/spotting,fore- edges brighter and also clean and without foxing too - one tiny spot blemish; contents bright,tight,and exceptionally clean - no foxing to text body,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 red cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and clean plain white eps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-201pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters,short story ''Song of War',plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and a dedication. In this new book (then 1958) he explains the effect of the years of peace on his sttitude to his former captors. His prequel,'The Naked Island' - illustrated by a fellow POW,Ronald Searle, chronicles his four years as a Japanese prisoner of war after the brief,but disastrous,Malayan campaign of 1942. Published in 1952,The Naked Island sold over a million copies by the mid-Seventies.Unfortunately it was released on the day that King George VI died the 6th February,1952.All coverage of it was bumped off the pages of the newspapers - except for a review by Guy Ramsey in the Daily Telegraph,which solicited a good review.However,the book's initial print-run of 10,000 was then reduced to only 3,000 copies.But due to that favourable review,by end of March total sales exceeded 70,000 copies. Since April 2013 and 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: rja893020. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1984. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG++.No owner inscrptn,unclipped dw/dj - assumed export edn,which precedes trade 1st edition - as no publisher price to front, inner flap.Colour,subject portrait photograph to upper wrap and b/w subject portrait photograph rear wrap; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with minimal reciprocal creases - no nicks or tears - with top, rear,right-hand corner having a small closed tear with no loss.Top edge slightly dust-soiled and lightly aged and generally clean,fore-edge cleaner and less aged/ tanned; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Unblemished,plain red paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xivpp+1-242pp includes half-title+title pages,contents+ illustrations lists,3 Pts covering 13 chapters,an epilogue,32pp contemporary b/w photographs,a filmography,a select bibliography,sources,and an index. Grace Kelly's career was the ultimate fulfilment of the American dream.The grand-daughter of an immigrant farm boy from County Mayo,she became a top Hollywood star and then the wife of a ruling European Prince.Idolized by Alfred Hitchcock,courted by Clark Gable,Bing Crosby and William Holden among others,she abandoned her glittering career at twenty-six for marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco.Yet she remained a star,her golden image adorning the covers of magazines and the front pages of newspapers until her untimely death in 1982.The whole world mourned the Princess from Philadelphia and her former subjects wept in the streets.Who was Princess Grace? Despite her extremely public life as actress and princess,wife and mother, she remained an unusually private person. Sarah Bradford,author of two highly praised biographies,has travelled thousands of miles to interview her family and friends,the people who worked with her from Hollywood to Monaco,to compile the first full-length insight into the remarkable woman whom the world knew simply as 'Princess Grace'. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja2122. ISBN: 029778370X.
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Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1962. UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,2nd impression.[Originally and first published (UK) December, 1961,this the 2nd impression in 1962.] VG. No owner inscrptn,Publisher's original bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering and publisher's similarly bright,crisp,blocked gilt colophon and immaculate plain white endpapers.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – a repaired small snick/ split to front board's top of it's gutter's fold /crease - no other nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges coloured a rosy-pink with a minor bleached spot,fore-edges uncoloured but lightly aged/toned and with some light sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – near pristine,possibly unread,apart from my own collation.UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp,5-256pp [paginated] includes author's Foreword. separate contents+ illus lists/tables,31 chapters,2 b/w maps,a b/w contemporary reproduction of portrait of Jean Parisot de la Valette,Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem,b/w plan of Fort St. Elmo,and 4 double-page monochrome facsimile contemporary engravings reproductions interspersed within the text,a 2pp bibliography, Notes,a Glossary and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title with author's published other title to its verso,title page,verse extract (16thC Cypriot ballad - translated by Hubert Pernot) between th last page of foreword and the first page of contents list. Author's 2nd title,preceded by THE HOOD Visually,the book's appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age, and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the exterior faults described that prevent a higher grading.Despite them,it is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness. Account of the siege of Malta from May to September,1565,by the Ottoman Turks,in which all but 600 of the defending 9000 Knights of Malta died in repelling the 40,000-man army of Suleiman the Magnificent.Suleiman's defeat,which cost him 30,000 men,marked the beginning of the end of Turkish expansion in Europe. 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: rja1021322. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.THE ROBSON PRESS,2012. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,subject's portrait b/w photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with orange+white lettering to front and spine/backstrip,critics' reviews to rear; 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. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xpp+2-373pp [paginated] includes an introduction and acknowledgements,11 chapters,8pp subject's contemporary b/w auto+ biographical photographs in 1 block, between pp182/3,a select bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] title page,a dedication,and a contents list/table. Kingsley Amis was a mimic,jester,father, husband,atheist,pseudo-socialist and clubland Tory boozer with a limitless taste for adultery; Philip Larkin a glum misanthrope who lived in self-imposed solitude.And yet,after meeting at St John's,Oxford in 1941,this unlikely pair struck up a friendship to endure for more than forty years,despite a period of acrimony in the 1960s.From their early days of undergraduate ambitions and enthusiasms through to the bitterness of middle-age,Richard Bradford charts the progress of a remarkable friendship,and shows how crucial it was to the making of these two literary giants. Without Larkin's inspiration and input, Amis would never have written his award-winning debut,'Lucky Jim'; if not for Amis's overnight success,Larkin would never have abandoned his hopes of becoming a novelist and turned instead to verse. Larkin's ensuing resentment would simmer beneath the surface of their relationship for years to come. Drawing on an enormous archive of letters,manuscripts and interviews,'The Odd Couple' not only offers a rare glimpse into the private correspondence of two controversial and eccentric men,it also illuminates some of the finest novels and poems of the twentieth century. 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: rja739717. ISBN: 9781849543750.
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Imprint: LONDON.GRAFTON BOOKS,1991. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE-/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Geoff Taylor,illutrated dw/dj,with fluorescent/ metallic blue title and black ink printed letter to front panel,red+white lettering to spine/backstrip,red lettered title to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot,inevitably,but minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing,and very minimal, minor and superficial scoring/ indents to either panel.Top edges very lightly toned, minimal sporadic foxing/spotting,fore- edges brighter but also with minimal, sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - text block internally unaffected with any foxing other than to page edges - no dog-ear reading creases - appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,generally sharp-cornered, original,plain pale grey cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked fluorescent/metallic blue gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1- 347pp [paginated] includes a prologue and 46 chapters; plus [unpaginated] publisher's notes on the three female authors and title page. The three author's collaborated to write this novel; each creating one of the three princesses in the novel,modelling their individual character on a different female archetype - each with personal strengths and weaknesses inherent in each of the characters. A gripping tale of love,magic and treachery. Late one stormy night three infant princesses are born.As each baby is placed into her mother's arms,so the Archimage Binah bestows on her a gift of great power: a pendant containing a bud of the long-extinct Black Trillium.One day that power will be all that protects the princesses from certain doom. 'Black Trillium' is a major achievement by three of the most important talents in this genre. Please contact seller,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: rja914520. ISBN: 9780246137173.
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Imprint: 088882100X. CANADA,8vo s/back,5th Printing.[Originally published in 8vo HB+dw/dj,in 1988 by same publisher.Reprinted 3 times between 1989 -92,this example printed 1993,the 5th reprint.] NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover - absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean and sharp-cornered,glossy,colour photographic illustrated front cover+spine with red+ white lettering to front and white lettering to spine and rear cover; 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 though lightly aged/toned are generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, unread - apart from my own collation. CANADA,8vo wraps,p/back,5th print,2-391pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements, foreword by John Robert Colombo,author's forewarning,10 chapters,b/w photographs, diagrams and illustration reproductions interspersed throughout the text and the book,notes,selected bibliography,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/table,2pp blanks between notes and select biblio and to recto of last page potted biographies of co-authors and John Robert Colombo. Montsegur,in the French Pyrenees was the last stronghold of Cathar heretics,and the reputed sanctuary of their great religious treasure,the Holy Grail,guarded by Templars. Montsegur was sacked by forces of the Inquisition on March 16,1244; over 200 Cathars were burned alive and martyred,but legends insist that the Holy Grail was taken to safety before the doomed citadel was stormed by soldiers of Simon de Montfort. Was a castle in Nova Scotia the new haven for the Holy Grail? Do ruins in a Nova Scotia village conceal a dramatic and romantic chapter of history? Is the famous and mysterious "Money Pit" on Oak Island in Mahone Bay connected with a desperate and courageous attempt to save the Holy Grail? Was Samuel de Champlain a secret agent for the Grail Dynasty,and did his maps and journals purposefully obscure the location of the Grail's secret refuge in Acadia? And,just before Nova Scotia was attacked by Sedgewick in 1654,was the Holy Grail again transported to a new haven . . . Montreal, founded by a mysterious secret society called the Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement? 'Holy Grail Across The Atlantic' offers fascinating answers to these questions,and presents an interpretation of early Canadian history that you may prefer to doubt . . . but will not be able to forget! Since April 2013 and 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 lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja831919.
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Imprint: UK.EXETER,DEVON.GREENWATER PUBLISHING,2000. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - though there is an adhesive price ticket (£17.99) to front, inner flap of dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,monochrome photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with green+white lettering; rear panel of same with b/w facsimile newspaper cuttings/ headlines with a superimposed thumbnail colour photograph and b/w lettering to spine/backstrip of dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top +fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - 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 green cloth bds with no gilt or ink printed lettering to spine/ backstrip,and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,i-xvipp +1-440pp [paginated] includes 2pp blank,title page,dedication page, contents list/table,author note/ intro,foreword by A.P. McCoy,33 chapters,32pp contemporary b/w+ colour (the majority) auto+ biographical photographs in 1 block, between pp208/9,table of race wins and an index,plus [unpaginated] 8pp blanks at rear. Controversy and Graham Bradley have ridden side by side throughout his 23 year career as one of the most charismatic jump jockeys that Britain has ever seen.As he fought his way from a council estate in West Yorkshire to ride for the finest stables in Britain and Ireland he made headlines - and not always for the right reasons. When most jump jockeys were getting up to ride work in the early morning,Brad was often just coming home from a night out. Elegant on and off horseback as he scooped the glittering prizes,this is his story told his way. He talks candidly about his life as one of the great jump jockeys and takes you into a world where triumph and disaster are separated by only a hoof beat.'The Wayward Lad' allows you to meet the heroes and villains in a sport where fortunes are won and lost amidst temptations and allegations of corruption. This is an emotional rollercoaste that moves at a gallop with big race wins interwoven with a dawn raid by the Serious Crime Squad and a harrowing period under suspicion. Friendships are tested to the full as Brad's life is splashed over the papers. He's down but not quite out. Since April 2013,and again in March 2015,the UK Post Office has increased it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight of this item (just under 1Kg unpackaged),for correct and possibly,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja596916. ISBN: 9781903297005.
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Imprint: LONDON.BLOOMSBURY,1988. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Colour,pictorial artwork by Oliver Burston,illustrated upper wrap; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creases to edges - no nicks or tears present and minimal bumping with reciprocal creases to head of spine/backstrip.Top edge lightly dust-soiled and lightly grubbed/marked, fore-edge clean and considerably brighter; contents bright,tight and clean. Unblemished,plain blue paper-covered boards with upper board gilt decorated to bottom,right-hand corner with gilt author initials and 4 star constellation, and bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with immaculate royal blue endpapers and a blue,silk bookmark.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-239pp includes title page,20 chapters and author note to rear. Things were destined to career out of hand once John Girlie let the mysterious woman, kneeling by a graveside,become his obsession.There would be obvious pressures on any man called Girlie - and Louisiana football hero John Girlie had his share of them.It was not so much taunts like 'Your'e all Girlie' which gave him pause, for on the whole he had been instilled with a pride in the family name.But the notion that he was from a long line of quitters really bothered him.His grandfather,ex-senator Jason Girlie,had put the busy end of an automatic shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.His father,J. Beauregard Girlie, simply disappeared when John was nine,leaving behind more profound family casualties than were first apparent.Brother Sam quit being a Girlie by legally changing his name.Although John himself quit football and eschewed fame for home-town obscurity after university,he did not abandon his already once-abandoned mother.But this act of loyalty was no simple matter - especially after he had seen the melancholy figure of Emma Groves amidst the tupelo trees in the graveyard where his friend Charley sniffed cocaine and dug artistic graves. The chances of 'that spooky woman' Emma being welcomed into John's household on Duncharme Road were slim now that his mother had only one last Girlie to hold on to.The lures of love and death are strong in Old Field,Louisiana and 'Tupelo Nights' is a superb first novel from a young writer of exceptional promise. Please contact seller,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja2080. ISBN: 0747501335.
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Imprint: LONDON.ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN GROUP,2013. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 001.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour painting illustrated front panel+spine of dw/dj with orange+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.An orange circular, adhesive label with white lettering 'As seen on BBC2's HORIZON: The Secret Life of the Cat' affixed to top left-hand corner of front panel of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - one dog-ear folded reading crease to pp11/12's corner.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain tan endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xi- xviiipp+1-306pp [paginated] includes author's preface,acknowledgements and introduction,11 chapters,profuse b/w illustrations by Alan Peters throughout the text and the book,further reading,Notes and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/table,epigrams(2) and to the rear,10pp blanks. Worshipped as gods,feared as demonic servants, seen as both wild opportunists and beloved companions,cats often seem an unfathomable, enigmatic and magical to us today as thet did in ancient times.They have lived with humans for at least ten thousand years (well before the reign of the Pharoahs) and today are the popular pet in the world.That they now outnumber the dog, man's 'best friend',by three to one,is small wonder: at once affectionate and self-reliant, they seem to be perfectly suited to our busy 21st-century lifestyles.Yet cats still think like wild scavengers and hunters from which they are descended - and to which they can quickly revert.Today,they face unprecedented challenges in their life with humans: from conservationists who cast them as a threat to wildlife; from other cats with whom they compete for territory; and from good-intentioned owners and vets with misconceptions of what they require. Cats need not so much as our sympathy as our understanding if they are to continue to enjoy our companionship.The recent surge in feline science - with John Bradshaw at the forefront - means we are now better equipped to understand them than ever before.'Cat Sense' offers us for the first time s true picture of one of humanity's closest and most enigmatic companions. A scientific portrait of the true,surprising nature of cats - as seen on BBC's 'HORIZON': The Secret Life of the Cat. John Bradshaw is a biologist who founded and directs the world-renowned Anthrozoology Institute,based at the University of Bristol.He has been studying the behaviour of domestic cats and their owners for over twenty-five years,and is the author of many scientific articles, research papers and reviews. He is also the author of the Sunday Times bestseller 'In Defence of Dogs'. 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: rja856719. ISBN: 9781846145940.
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Imprint: LONDON.CONSTABLE,1993. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Constable Crime series/imprint.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj,by Terry Pastor; with negligble shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges - no nick,tears or splits present.Top edge lightly aged/toned,fore-edges less so,clean but for a couple of very small,faint grub (thumb?) marks; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.Publisher's bright,unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-317pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,17 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title with story precis,author's previous 3 titles to its verso,title page,a dedication with an epigram to its verso and to the rear,2pp blanks. It's October in Dublin and the constant drizzle and grey skies are wearing on everyone's patience and humour.Inspector Matt Minogue dreams of the bright white architecture and piercing blue skies of Greece,but is brought back to sombre reality by the attempted suicide of his partner,Seamus Hoey. When his nephew,Eion,is suspected of gun-running for the IRA down in County Clare,Minogue reluctantly prepares to do his duty by his family.While he's in Clare,Minogue is introduced to Alo Crossan,a local lawyer who convinces Minogue,against his better instincts,to do some unofficial digging into the murder of Jane Clark,a young Canadian visiting Clare some dozen years before. Putting aside his plans for a holiday and telling himself the case will create a diversion for Hoey,Minogue soon finds himself enmeshed in the case of Jane Clark and her lover,Jamesy Bourke,the half-crazed poet and local eccentric who was accused of her murder and is now out of prison.But,after years of drugs and experimental electroshock therapy,Jamesy Bourke's memory is returning - and what he is remembering of that night has set more than one old friend's heart pounding. Author's 4th novel,also featuring Inspector Matt Minogue. 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: rja25087. ISBN: 0094725209.
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Imprint: LONDON.SIMON & SCHUSTER,2005. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with red+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - one small,vertical,closed nick/ tear of approx 2/5ths" to rear panel's lower edge.Top+fore-edges though lightly toned,are still bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound and near pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an accidental (?) small diagonal crease to a couple of consecutive pages bottom corners,otherwise appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain burgundy cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,2-471pp [paginated] includes 40 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,dedication,author's note and acknowledgements to recto of last paginated page. How much - or how little - does it take to make a man kill? Hugh Freyl is invincible,scion of the richest family in Springfield,Illinois,and much-loved,most respected lawyer in the city.That he is blind only enhances his reputation for truth and integrity: justice should be blind.And yet late one night,in the library of his law firm,he is beaten to death. There is only one obvious suspect: David Marion,a convicted killer from the wrong side of the tracks.Hugh himself secured David's release from South Hams State Prison,a brutal maximum security penitentiary.David has never seemed grateful. But nothing in Springfield - except a dead body - is as it seems.The Freyls are almost too anxious to send David to death row.Hugh's successor is certainly too pleased to be head of the firm.David's desperate attempts to discover the truth - or is it to cover up his guilt? - lead him beyond displays of family grief and power into a world of ruthless political ambition and financial manipulation where even the best reputations hide deceit. David must fight with the only weapons he knows: the criminal skills he learned in prison and the savage fury of a hunted man. 'Bleedout' unravels with startling reversals and visceral detail to deliver a stunningly tense,psychological tour de force from award-winning author Joan Brady. In her author's note she credits South Hams District Council responsible for the existence of the book.With and through them,she underwent an 8-year court battle in a dispute with a neighbour's factory - his occupation as a cobbler and it's manufactoring processes of noise and acrid fumes seeping into her Tothes home causing a nuisance and health problems.And then with the Council over 'destruction of property in damaging a listed building' by removing a staircase - in a home she'd lived in for 35 years - in order to lessen the vibration her neighbour's machinery was causing.After 15 court appearances she was cleared and received £115,000 in damages - she also moved away to Oxford. "I decide what I am going to do and keep at it.Many people thought I was quite silly to keep fighting [South Hams Council].Perhaps I was,but once I am committed to a course I find it quite difficult to change." This tenacity only manifests itself when faced with a fight. The experience has tainted her views of the justice system.'The presumption of innocence is missing',she says. Since April 2013 and 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: rja771718. ISBN: 0743267893.
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Imprint: LONDON.SECKER & WARBURG,1996. 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 painting photographic illustrated dw/dj (red+black Mark ROTHKO painting),with red+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present. Majority of any creasing to top edges of dw/dj. Top+fore-edges generally 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. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original,plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-309pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-5 comprising 21 chapters+an afterword,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,acknowledgements,Pts separator pages, and 2pp blanks at rear. 'Death Comes for Peter Pan' is a turbulent, unpredictable love story as well as a study in fear and the black humour of fear.But above all, it is the story of a young woman's fight for her husband's dignity and a powerful indictment of the politics that rule medicine today. Author's 4th book to date [then 1996],of 3 novels and a memoir (Prologue: An Unconventional Life.). Acclaimed author of 'The Theory of War' - see my book ID rja436,a UK,HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn, 2nd imp example.This was her debut novel,and winner of the WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD 1993. 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: rja566815. ISBN: 0436202611.
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Imprint: LONDON.ANDRE DEUTSCH,1994. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn thus.[First revised edition,UK 1st edn,previously published in USA,by Harper & Row,1982,as 'The Unmaking of a Dancer.'] FINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj, but author's neat,handwritten black ink signature - without dedication - to title page.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated b/w author portrait photographic upper wrap with silver gilt lettering,b/w lettered critics' reviews to rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and minimal creasing to both top+bottom edges of dw/dj.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges generally,bright and clean,contents bright,tight and clean also - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,3-213pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3 comprising 10,8,and 4 chapters respectively,and an afterword; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, acknowledgements and a dedication. All writers' pasts are prologue to publication,but few are so dramatic as this unconventional life,which began not in literature but in the cloistered world of professional ballet. Joan Brady grew up in California,the daughter of a black-listed economics professor and his strong-willed,brilliant, powerfully jealous and ultimately vengeful wife. Dancing lessons took Joan away from the tensions between these two,and she turned out to be extremely gifted.By the time she was twenty,she was dancing with the most important ballet company in the Western world,George Balanchine's New York City Ballet,then at the height of its artistic powers. At the crucial moment,Joan lost her confidence and so her chance at stardom. Dance had taught her discipline,technique, elegance and courage.Now she needed all these qualities to fight her mother,whose vengeance had destroyed her prospects,and to claim for herself the love of Dexter Masters,whom her mother had coveted for years. Joan Brady won her man,a university degree,a happy marriage,and a new life in England.She had a son.Then after years away from the excruciating physical demands of ballet,she decided to try again.At thirty-eight,she undertook an astonishing retraining programme and began the journey back to performance level and another chance - to take if she wished. The pages of this book are peopled with characters - many famous,some unknown - so powerful that they leap off the page.Joan Brady writes with exhilarating honesty of growing up,of the emotional and physical intensity of a dancer's life,and so - with ballet as allegory - of life itself: its elations,exhaustions,contradictions and despairs.This is a fierce and moving autobiography. It is also a testament to the reality of dreams that come true.Now she lives alone in Devon,but is working on a 3rd novel. 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 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! Stock number: rja597116. ISBN: 023398884X.
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Imprint: LONDON.SECKER & WARBURG,1999. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.NFINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's neat, handwritten black ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,colour photographic montage illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top edge tanned/aged - as usual/normal - fore-edges brighter and cleaner,contents bright,tight and clean, with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Thumb crease towards middle of ffe,half+title pages' fore-edges,no other faults internally.Bright,clean, unblemished,publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain dark maroon endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,3-286pp [paginated] includes Pts I-V comprising 19 chapters+ epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,contents+ technical consultants lists, acknowledgements,and 6pp blanks to rear. Author's 5th book,and 3rd novel. Also,the author of her highly acclaimed autobiography - Prologue - see rja597116 a signed copy. From his father,an emigre Russian count, he inherits his charm.His talent for music comes from his mother.He wants to be a great concert pianist,but he isn't quite gifted enough and there's no heart in his playing.He is witty and ruthless and when in London he encounters the conman's dream, an heiress who is enthralled by him. In the course of a long and tempestuous relationship,Prisclla,Countess of Carmarth, becomes variously his lover,his patron,his fiancee and finally - because even Nikolas has his weaknesses - his most lethal opponent. Please contact seller,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! ** 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: rja33429. ISBN: 0436202638.
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Imprint: LONDON.ANDRE DEUTSCH,1993. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp (same year as 1st edn).FINE/FINE.Handwritten and inscribed/signed by author to title page. US born writer,now living,writing in the West Country.Debut novel,winner WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD 1993. Story of two boys rivalry from youth to adulthood which ends in murder.Set in post-Civil War US,story of 'bounden boy' - one of many white children sold into slavery in that period. Since April 2013,and 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 value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja436. ISBN: 0679419667
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Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1989. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE. Gift presentation inscrptn to top corner of ffe,but no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial wrap-around art work by Brian Campbell,illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Sharp-cornered,unblemished, publisher's original dark green cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean grey eps.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,slim 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,5-51pp [paginated] includes 5 chapters,b/w line illus by Brian Campbell - some chapter head+tail pieces plus part-page,full-page and double-page b/w line illus throughout the text and book,plus [unpaginated] half-title page, b/w vignette illustrated title page,and 3pp (text & illus) to rear. A young couple - Joe and Mary - arrive in a small Cumbrian town on Christmas Eve. They have nowhere to stay and the woman is about to have a child. Joe has lived in this town before and some of his old friends and memories return to haunt him.He is torn between the freedom of his earlier life and his new responsibilities towards his young wife, who is soon to give birth.Her life is absorbed by that mystery. Melvyn Bragg evokes both a sense of place and a timelessness in this story which echoes events two thousand years ago and still moves us today. 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: rja376210. ISBN: 0340510390.
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Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON 2003. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around colour photographic seascape illustrated dw/dj,with blue,brown and yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of dw/dj's spine/backstrip,and majority of any creasing is to the top,front+rear edges.Top+fore-edges very slightly aged - as usual/normal - not excessive,generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread?Bright,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate dark maroon endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xiipp+1-354pp [paginated] includes intro,24 chapters, 32pp b/w+colour historical illus/ photographs in 4 blocks of 8pp apiece, between pp84/5,pp148/9,pp196/7 and pp260/1 respectively; acknowledgements,picture acknowledgements,biblio and an index.Plus [unpaginated]; half-title+title pages,a dedication,and contents list/table and 2pp blanks at rear. English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages.It is democratic,everchanging and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance,medicine and the Internet,and it is understood by around two thousand million people across the world.It seems set to go on.Yet it was very nearly wiped out in its early years. In this book Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established glogal language.Along the way its colourful story takes in a host of characters and locations,from the early tribes,Alfred the Great's stubborn resistance to the Danes and through its early literary masterpieces such as Beowulf and the bawdy Geoffrey Chaucer; Henry VIII's battles with the church over bootleg bibles; a 'coarse' playwright named William Shakespeare; the songs of the Creole slaves and the words of Davy Crockett; street slang and Dr Johnson's dictionary; the role of English in India and its adoption in the United States of America which returned the language with full interest. Embracing elements of Latin,French, Spanish,Italian,Portuguese,Arabic,Hindi and Gullah,this 1500-year story covers a huge range of countries and peoples.'The Adventure of English' is not only an enthralling story of power,religion and trade,but also the story of people,and how their day-to-day lives shaped and continue to change the extraordinary language that is English. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja484114. ISBN: 0340829915.
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Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2003. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,5th imp. [Complete number line 5 7 9 10 8 6,so 1st edn,5th imp.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten,black ink dedication,signature and date: 'To Gail with best wishes Melvyn Bragg Dec/03.' to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.(Recipient's name obliquely underscored and another separate oblique line through his printed name as part of the autnor's inscrptn.) Bright,crisp,clean,part matt, part glossy,wrap-around seasscape colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with brown and b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and both head +foot of spine of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top edges with minimal thumbing near headband area but otherwise,along with the 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. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain maroon eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn, ix-xiipp+1-354pp [paginated] includes author introduction,24 chapters,32pp contemporary facsimile colour+b/w illustrations reproductions in 4 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp84/5,pp148/9,pp196/7 and pp260/1 respectively,acknowledgements, picture acknowledgements, a 10pp bibliography,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title,author's handwritten SIGNED,dedicated and date-lined title page,dedication and contents list/table and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book. English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages.It is democratic,everchanging and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance,medicine and the Internet,and it is understood by around two thousand million people across the world.It seems set to go on.Yet it was very nearly wiped out in its early years. In this book Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language.Along the way its colourful story takes in a host of characters and locations,from the early tribes,Alfred the Great's stubborn resistance to the Danes,and through its early literary masterpieces such as Beowulf and the bawdy Geoffrey Chaucer; Henry VIII's battles with the church over bootleg bibles; a 'coarse' playwright named William Shakespeare; the songs of the Creole slaves and the words of Davy Crockett; street slang and Dr Johnson's dictionary; the role of English in India and its adoption in the United States which returned the language with full interest. Embracing elements of Latin,French, Spanish,Italian,Portuguese,Arabic,Hindi and Gullah,this 1500-year story covers a great range of countries and peoples.'THE ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH' is not only an enthralling story of power,religion and trade,but also the story of people,and how their day-to-day lives shaped and continue to change the extraordinary language that is English. 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: rja736817. ISBN: 0340829915.
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Imprint: LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1990. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour background+b/w illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally clean; contents bright,tight and clean also. Clean,publisher's original,plain dark maroon cloth bds with bright, crisp stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and yellow eps.8vo,9-220pp [paginated] includes 19 chapters, plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, dedication and 4pp blanks to rear. For his first novel (then 1990) since the bestselling The Maid of Buttermere, Melvyn Bragg stays in his native Cumbria, but comes forward to the present for his most passionate novel to date.'A Time to Dance' charts the obsessive and sensual consequences of a relationship between a man of 54 and a girl of 18.The gap in their backgrounds, in their expectations, and in their experience, is as wide as that between their ages.His over-controlled world collapses;her quest for healing and forgetting a trauma in her past leads her to reckless daring.The story builds to a compelling study of the violence, exhilaration and uncompromising nature of love which is sexual, tender and utterly demanding. 'A Time to Dance' is set in the Lake Dustrict,as is much of Melvyn Bragg's fiction,but this is a landscape unseen in his previous novels. Here the author reveals himself as much a master of the contemporary love story as he was of the historical in 'The Maid of Buttermere'.With 'A Time to Dance' he has produced a joyful,complex and radical,yet sometimes disturbing exploration of overwhelming passion and how it makes and breaks its own rules. Please contact seller for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja35089. ISBN: 0340529113.
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Imprint: LONDON.GOLLANCZ LTD.1930. UK,slim 12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE.No owner inscrptn,minus issued dw/dj.Bright,clean,bright,crisp,stamped gilt decorated upper bd - caricature moon+ stars peeping from behind clouds - gilt letters to spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and minimal bumping to corners.Top edges gilt,fore- edges lightly aged/toned - as usual/ normal; contents bright,tight and clean, with some minimal foxing/spotting to endpapers and some minimal grub/marks to a few pages internally - but overall clean and crisp.Pink+grey marbled endpapers.UK, slim 12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,7-84pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, 41 poems/verses,profuse b/w line illustrations by Anna Zinkeisen,as head+ tail pieces or full page illus,throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title page b/w vignette (design repeated from upper bd) title-page, author dedication and another title separator page.A collection of child's verses/poetry - many of which have previously appeared on the Home Page in the Evening Standard (a contemporary British newspaper). Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (b1901-1976). Worked as Anna Zinkeisen.Married name: Mrs Heseltine.Born Kilcreggan,Scotland, daughter of a research chemist and sister of the theatrical designer Doris Zinkeisen. At 15,she was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools,where she won bronze and silver medals. Best known for society portraits,she also painted flowers,executed murals (including commissions for the liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth), made sculptures and designed book jackets and magazine covers. As a nurse in St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington during WW2,she worked in a former operating theatre,making detailed paintings of wounds for the benefit of the medical profession.In 1953,she exhibited in the Art Medicine show in London.Her book illustrations,mostly in black and white,are lively and stylish,often with fringes of shading in the manner of the later work of John Austen and other 1930's illustrators.Elected ROI (1928) Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct, insured,shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja437612. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.EYRE METHUEN LTD.,1977. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj,publisher's [Associated Book Publishers Ltd. b/w adhesive price label to front inner flap.] With the absence of a publisher's printed price - these generally believed to be export edns,that are released before the trade edns distribution in the country of its origin.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,repeated colour photograph by Theo Bergstrom to either panel of dw/dj with white-lettered author name and brown lettered title to front panel; a black spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author name+title as the front's and publisher's capitalised,white lettered+illustrated colophon to foot of same, rear panel with repeated photograph from the front. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - front's top and rear's lower corner tips with miniscule nick/rubbing - but no major tears or splits present.Top edges with minimal,sporadic light foxing/spotting,fore-edges also with minimal sporadic foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,would appear unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain RAF blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine,and near immaculate plain white endpapers - faint off-setting vertical line from front's inner flap to facing front free endpaper,rear free endpaper unaffected.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-230pp [paginated] includes story over period of Tuesday 4th May to Tuesday 18th May,days with one or more specific timeframes as breaks/chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,an epigram, and a strap-line separator page. 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. It is only the exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them it still is an exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and overall lack of major detracting faults. The members of FIST are model citizns.Their life-styles are blameless,unobtrusive,civilised. But the members of FIST share a secret.They are dedicated to the overthrow of a free society. Trained,disciplined,ruthless,their methods accept murder as normal and terror as expedient. Opposing the insidious threat of FIST is the bureaucrat-harried Counter Espionage Department,short of men,short of funds,short of morale.Xavier Flynn is,briefly,its chief before it is 're-organised'In a desperate race from London to Los Angeles and Hollywood,he fights for his department,his country - and his life. In the deadly game played out between FIST and CED,nightmare can lie behind the most respectable facade,and terror lurks constantly in the shadows. Xavier Flynn made his debut in 'The Pious Agent' (1975) and this is Braine's 2nd excursion into the political thriller genre. Please contact seller,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: rja1094623. ISBN: 0413365905.
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Imprint: LONDON.EYRE METHUEN LTD.,1977. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/FINE-.No owner inscrptn but a handwritten inked number (215) towards top fore-edge corner of front free endpaper,and no price-clip to dw/dj,but a publisher's [Associated Book Publishers Ltd.] b/w adhesive price label to front inner flap.] With the absence of a publisher's printed price - these generally believed to be export edns, that are released before the trade edns distribution in the country of its origin. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,repeated colour photograph by Theo Bergstrom,to either panel of dw/dj with white-lettered author name and brown lettered title to front panel; a black spine/ backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author name+title as the front's and publisher's capitalised,white lettered+illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with repeated photograph from the front.Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Front inner flap with a diagonal top corner crease.Top+fore-edges with light toning but without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,would appear unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original plain RAF blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine,and near immaculate plain white endpapers - inked number excepted.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-230pp [paginated] includes story over period of Tuesday 4th May to Tuesday 18th May,days with one or more specific timeframes as breaks/chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,an epigram, and a strap-line separator page. 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.It is only the minimal exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them it is still an exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and overall lack of major detracting faults. The members of FIST are model citizns.Their life-styles are blameless,unobtrusive,civilised. But the members of FIST share a secret.They are dedicated to the overthrow of a free society. Trained,disciplined,ruthless,their methods accept murder as normal and terror as expedient. Opposing the insidious threat of FIST is the bureaucrat-harried Counter Espionage Department,short of men,short of funds,short of morale.Xavier Flynn is,briefly,its chief before it is 're-organised'In a desperate race from London to Los Angeles and Hollywood,he fights for his department,his country - and his life. In the deadly game played out between FIST and CED,nightmare can lie behind the most respectable facade,and terror lurks constantly in the shadows. Xavier Flynn made his debut in 'The Pious Agent' (1975) and this is Braine's 2nd excursion into the political thriller genre. Please contact seller,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: rja1094723. ISBN: 0413365905.
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Imprint: LONDON.EYRE METHUEN LTD.,1977. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG-.No owner inscrptn,front free endpaper removed,causing front hinge to partially but minimally crack,and no price-clip to dw/dj,but a publisher's [Associated Book Publishers Ltd.] b/w adhesive price label to front inner flap.] With the absence of a publisher's printed price - these generally believed to be export edns,that are released before the trade edns distribution in the country of its origin.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,repeated colour photograph by Theo Bergstrom,to either panel of dw/dj with white-lettered author name and brown lettered title to front panel; a black spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author name+title as the front's and publisher's capitalised,white lettered+ illustrated colophon to foot of same, rear panel with repeated photograph from the front.Some shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - both top corners' tips with miniscule laminate peel/curl and reciprocal rubbing with reciprocal loss to same,rear lower similarly affected; both head+foot of spine/ backstrip of dwdj with minimal bumping/creasing and miniscule chipping,the rear facing gutter with an approx. 15mm closed tear at foot of same,no other major tears or splits present. Front inner flap with a diagonal top corner crease.Top edges with minimal blemish,fore-edges with thumbing /grubbing(?) mark,but no foxing/ spotting; contents generally bright,tight,clean and solid - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered - front lower corner with minimal bump excepted - original plain RAF blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine,and minimally foxed/spotted sets of plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj, 1st edn,9-230pp [paginated] includes story over period of Tuesday 4th May to Tuesday 18th May, the individual days with one or more specific timeframes as breaks/chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,an epigram, and a strap-line separator page. Visually the exterior appearance is acceptable, and internally,the book is also in an acceptable condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 45+ year-old age. It is only the faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them it is still an acceptable example. The members of FIST are model citizens.Their life-styles are blameless,unobtrusive,civilised. But the members of FIST share a secret.They are dedicated to the overthrow of a free society. Trained,disciplined,ruthless,their methods accept murder as normal and terror as expedient. Opposing the insidious threat of FIST is the bureaucrat-harried Counter Espionage Department,short of men,short of funds,short of morale.Xavier Flynn is,briefly,its chief before it is 're-organised'In a desperate race from London to Los Angeles and Hollywood,he fights for his department,his country - and his life. In the deadly game played out between FIST and CED, nightmare can lie behind the most respectable facade,and terror lurks constantly in the shadows. Xavier Flynn made his debut in 'The Pious Agent' (1975) and this is Braine's 2nd excursion into the political thriller genre. Please contact seller,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: rja1994823. ISBN: 0413365905.
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Imprint: LONDON EYRE METHUEN LTD.,1962. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG-.Owner name+ contempraneous date to lightly,sporadically foxed/spotted front free endpaper,but no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,glossy,laminated,b/w photographic front panel of dw/dj by Tom Hustler,with an approx. 2" wide horizontal white band across top edge and spine with an horizontal dividing black line with capitalised, red-lettered author name to top band and black-lettered title to lower band of front panel; black remainder of spine/backstrip with capitalised,black-lettered author name in its white band and other white-lettered title and publisher's capitalised,white lettered colophon/initials to foot of same,white background to rear panel with author's contemporary b/w portrait photograph by Werner J. Kuhn.Some shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and rubbing/chipping with miniscule loss to 3 corner tips,small splits at both head+foot of spine/backstrip's both gutter's folds/creases - no other major tears or splits present.Front panel of dw/dj with a production fault of an internal crease under the laminate,causing the laminate to bubble,crack and peel with minimal loss of same at the middle of the gutter's external front's fold/crease.Dw/dj inner flaps both with minimal,sporadic foxing spotting and causing off-setting and light foxing to respective facinge free endpapers.Top edges lightly toned/aged with sporadic dust-flecking spots,fore-edges slightly brighter with less foxing/spotting; contents tight,generally clean and solid - some sporadic foxing spots to page edges - but no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,else appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original plain blue cloth boards with a red ink square panel and author name in blue within and bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered title+publisher's initials to spine/ backstrip and aforementioned lightly foxed+offset affected plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-287pp [paginated] includes 26 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title with synopsis and author's previous 2 titles listed to its reverse,a title page,a dedication with a blank reverse - these latter 3 pages all with sporadic foxing - as are the page edges' of the first few chapters (pp7-46. Author's third book and a sequel to "Room at the Top". In 'Room at the Top', Joe Lampton's escape from his working-class background through his seduction of, and marriage to, the daughter of a wealthy mill owner had been portrayed. Adapted into an Oscar-winning film (1959). Laurence Harvey reprised his role as Joe for the 1965 follow-up film, co-starring Honor Blackman and Jean Simmons. Ten years on, Joe is living the dream of the successful young executive,complete with luxurious suburban house,a white S-type Jaguar car,and two young children.However,Joe's life is not the dream it appears to be. Please contact seller,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: rja1094823. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.EYRE & SPOTTISWODE,1959. UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Publisher's Catalogue No. 6/4206.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,white background with b/w photographic part- illustrated front panel of dw/dj with superimposed yellow lettered title,with black and red lettering to remainder of same panel,red lettering with some ubiquitous but slight sunning/fading to spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf- wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears,no chipping or rubbing present.Top+fore-edges although bright and clean are with some very minimal,sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - virtually 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 bds with bright,crisp,stamped silvered gilt letters to spine/backstrip, and immaculate plain white front+rear pastedowns; both font+rear endpapers with inevitable concomitant off-set foxing margins from the dw/dj's inner flaps.UK, 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-283pp [paginated] includes 26 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title with precis,title page,a dedication,and a prose extract. 'Room at the Top' [1st edn,UK,March 1957] was the study of a man in love with success.In his second novel,'The Vodi', John Braine portrays a very different man. Dick Corvey was still a child when he learnt that the prizes of success were not for him: later he found that there is an even sweeter and more deadly seduction - the love of failure. When the book opens he is sick,perhaps dying.Now of all times it would be easiest to give in,to accept failure as his natural condition.Yet it is now that,for the first time in his life,he begins to fight.On his side there is only one last spark of obstinacy and his desire for a girl whom he will probably never win.But slowly,against all odds,Dick Corvey learns to take his place in the world as a man and to escape at last from the strange childhood fantasy that gives the book its name. The Vodi lives in the dark places of the world: you don't see it but it always there,a gang of little men ruled by one obscene old woman.The Vodi has great power and only one aim: the good must always suffer,the vicious and brutal succeed.When you believe this it explains a lot of things and it has one other great advantage: you can be proud to fail. 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: rja842619. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.METHUEN LTD.,1985. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.nFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with black lettering and a small abrasion/nick - without affecting bd beneath,rear panel with author's b/w portrait photograph; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present and spine/backstrip ubiquitously sunned/faded. Top edges aged/toned with faint,sporadic dust-soiling foxing/spotting,fore-edges also aged/toned but generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound,only page-edges toned - 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 pale green cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpapers - fore-edges of both free endpapers with off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps.UK,slim 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,7-187pp [paginated] includes 10 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,an epigram,and 4pp blanks at the rear of the book.Author's last book,he died the following year. John Braine's latest (and last) book,a complete novel in its own right,shows the central characters of 'One and Last Love' (see my book ID rja720717 - an author SIGNED,UK HB+dw/dj,1st edn) at a later stage in their lives. In 'These Golden Days' we see the road Tim has travelled from the emotional security of his parental home via his first disastrous marriage and his first affair with an older woman,leading finally to his relationship with Vivien.It is a story of emotional maturity,achieved through the pain of experience. John Braine's touching account of one individual's journey of self-discovery offers a rare and poignant portrait of a loving friendship between a man and a woman. 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: rja720717. ISBN: 0413543501.
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Imprint: UK.WELLINGBOROUGH,NORTHANTS.PSL,1990. 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,glossy laminated,subject's contemporary b/w biographical photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white and gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean - without spotting/ foxing; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear to be unread.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a blue headband and immaculate plain pale blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,6-288pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales,a preface,12 chapters and an epilogue, appendices(I-VII),64pp contemporary b/w photographs in 4 blocks of 16pp apiece,between pp64/81,pp112/129,pp160/177 and pp208/225 respectively,a bibliography and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and contents list/table. Successful competition pilot,accomplished yachtsman and sportsman,engineer and industrialist,Sir Thomas Sopwith's life not only spanned the era of heavier-than-air flight but also contributed immeasurably to the story of aviation.His Camel and Pup biplanes helped to win the First World War,his Hurricane,Typhoon and Lancaster,the Second.But his contribution does not end there - the Harrier,designed and built by his Hawker company,can fairly be said to have won control of the Falklands.His 101 years saw both personal tragedy and international recognition but he remained a modest man to his final days.'Pure Luck' places in perspective Tommy Sopwith's astonishing career and reveals many events in his private and business life that have never before been published. Alan Bramson,a pilot himself,has produced a biography of this remarkable individual with the full support of his family,many friends and colleagues. Please contact seller,because of the 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 AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja656517. ISBN: 1852602635.
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Imprint: LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1989. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE-. No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten,bold,large,blue ink dedication +signature: 'To Delyth All the Best! Kenneth Branagh' to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated author/subject b/w portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with orange+ed lettering to front, yellow+red lettering to spine/backstrip and orange letters to rear panel.Front, lower corner tip of dw/dj with tiniest of snicks/closed tear; front panel with minor,superficial indents but without any penetration to boards beneath,rear panel similar with minor superficial score/ indent but without any penetration or mark to board beneath and a faint crease to not quite entire length of spine/backstrip - hence FINE-.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,publisher's original navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip, and immaculate navy blue endpapers illustrated with superimposed contemporary b/w photographs with white text - parents wedding to front,and gathering for Henry V Read-Through Oct '88,to the rear.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,ix-xpp+1-244pp [paginated] includes author's 2pp introduction,3 Pts - Home,Work,and Adventure - comprising 3,4 and 3 chapters respectively,and a postscript,b/w line illustrations interspersed throughout the text and the book,by Phyllida Law; plus [unpaginated] publisher's b/w colophon illustrated half-title with b/w line illustrated frntis to reverse,author SIGNED+dedicated title page, acknowledgements with dedication to reverse,and an epigraph (from As You Like It). The most acclaimed actor of his generation,Branagh is also a writer, producer and director.His outstanding performances include several major roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company (at twenty-three,Stratford's youngest ever Henry V),and on the screen in 'A Month in the Country' and as the bespectacled Gary Pringle in BBC's 'Fortunes of War'.he has also been involved in founding the most exciting theatre company in years, Renaissance,which was launched in 1987 with a phenomenally successful season of Shakespeare plays directed by some of Britain's leading actors. 'Beginning' is an impassioned and forthright book about Branagh's lfe and career: a childhood in Belfast,a period at RADA (where he won the gold medal,and then a starring role in Julian Mitchell's 'Another Country',followed by an astonishingly varied series of stage and film roles.Branagh talks candidly about his failures and successes; about his family and friends; about the setting up of Renaissance and of his association with Prince Charles,the company's Patron; and about the filming of 'Henry V',a major feature film directed by and starring Branagh himself. Full of humour,charm,anecdotes and sharp observation,'Beginnings' is a frank and fascinating account of an actor's life,and the record of a young man at the very top of his profession. Born in 960,Kenneth Branagh came to England in 1970.He studied at a Reading comprehensive and at RADA,and is well- known both as an actor and director.He is also the author of two plays,'Tell Me Honestly' and 'Public Enemy'.His screenplay of Shakepeare's Henry V is published simultaneously by CHATTO & WINDUS. 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: rja912320. ISBN: 0701133880.
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Imprint: LONDON.WHITE LION PUBLISHERS LIMITED.,1977. UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus. [Originally and first published by Hodder & Stoughton (UK),1944. Max Brand is the pseudonym of Frederck Schiller Faust. William Shatner was offered/cast in the role but declined it for work on For The People,leaving unknown Richard Chamberlain to the role of of the new intern at metropolitan Blair General Hospital.] NFINE/VG++. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,glossy,wrap-around black background with b/w+colour pictorial illustration to front panel of dw/dj,with capitalised black lettered title+author name within a black+red squared banner at its top edge - a letter in each square,lightly sunned/ faded spine/backstrip with repeated title+author as front and publisher's b/w colophon to foot of same,rear panel with white letteredadvertising of author's previous Dr Kildare title and a short synopsis.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners,some miniscule rubbing at corner tips and head+foot of spine/ backstrip - no nicks,tears or splits present. Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,soild and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt boxed panel with blue lettered spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim,snall 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,6-144pp [paginated] includes 11 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages.Author's 2nd Dr Kildare title,after DR KILDARE'S CRISIS. Visually the exterior appearance is acceptable, and particularly internally,the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its age.It is only the exterior faults that prevents a slightly higher grading for the dw/dj.Despite them,it is still an acceptable copy. Estelle Courcy had a tremendous future as a model and dancer until she was terribly injured in a street accident.It was only by a miracle that Doctor Kildare managed to save her life. And in order to do so he had to make his priorities.Her shattered leg had to take second place.Even if it meant she would never dance again. But Estelle Courcy couldn't accept that Doctor Kildare had done the right thing,and she sued him for a king's ransom in damages.In doing so she placed him in an impossible position. For the only way he could only defend himself was to tell her in an open court a terrible truth about herself.Something she could not possibly know. And it was something which would destroy her. 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: rja1059823. ISBN: 072740315X.
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Imprint: SCOTLAND.EDINBURGH.CANONGATE.(n. d.) UK,Qrto HB.no dw/dj as issued,1st edn. NMINT. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover. Bright,crisp,clean and immaculate,sharp-cornered,paper-covered boards with colour pictorial artwork by Chris Riddell,illustrated covers with b/w lettering to front,and a mauve spine/backstrip with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear,no bumping,no creasing to edges and corners and no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges multi-coloured and shiny; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread apart from my own collation.UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj as issued, 1st edn,128pp [unpaginated - includes endpapers,colour illustrated half-title+title pages and a Trickster's glossary to rear endpapers.] It was as if some magical being who lives in the sky and the trees,the rivers and beneath our thoughts knew the people of Hamelin were no good,for on this day, without warning a gang of rats bowled into the town and began causing a right rumpus. . . Once upon a time,a mysterious time that exists through a window in your mind,a time that seemed,to those present,exactly like now does to us,except their teeth weren`t so clean and more things were wooden, there was a town called Hamelin. Welcome to Russell Brand`s Hamelin,where revolution is afoot.You`ll be enchanted and revolted in equal measure by the host of characters you meet along the way: the anarchic rats,the arrogant townspeople, sharp-eyed Sam and of course the Pied Piper himself,all brought to life in Brand`s inimitable style and with the illustrations of Costa Award-winner Chris Riddell. Please contact seller,for correct,insured 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: rja949121. ISBN: 9781782114567
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Imprint: SCOTLAND.EDINBURGH.CANONGATE,2014. UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj as issued,illustrated,1st edn. NMINT. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover.Bright,crisp,clean and immaculate,sharp-cornered,wrap-around,matt white background,paper-covered boards with colour pictorial artwork by Chris Riddell,illustrated covers with b/w lettering to front, and a mauve spine/backstrip with white lettering and publisher's colour illustrated colophon to foot of same; with negligible shelf-wear,but no bumping,no creasing to edges and corners and no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges multi-coloured and shiny; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread apart from my own collation.UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj as issued,illustrated,1st edn,128pp [unpaginated - includes endpapers,colour illustrated half-title+title pages and a Trickster's glossary to rear endpapers. It was as if some magical being who lives in the sky and the trees,the rivers and beneath our thoughts knew the people of Hamelin were no good,for on this day,without warning a gang of rats bowled into the town and began causing a right rumpus.. . . Once upon a time,a mysterious time that exists through a window in your mind,a time that seemed,to those present,exactly like now does to us,except their teeth weren`t so clean and more things were wooden,there was a town called Hamelin. Welcome to Russell Brand`s Hamelin,where revolution is afoot.You`ll be enchanted and revolted in equal measure by the host of characters you meet along the way: the anarchic rats,the arrogant townspeople, sharp-eyed Sam and of course the Pied Piper himself,all brought to life in Brand`s inimitable style and with the illustrations of Costa Award-winner Chris Riddell. Brand's first book for children.The illustrator,Chris Riddell,has won numerous awards,including two Kate Greenaway Medals,and in June 2015 he was appointed the UK Children's Laureate. 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: 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: rja1154924. ISBN: 9781782114567.
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Imprint: LONDON.BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN'S BOOKS,2005. UK,16mo HB+dw/dj,3 vols+s/case,1st edns thus.[Originally published previously, sequentially,by Brockhampton Press (UK). Nurse Matilda (1964),NURSE MATILDA GOES TO TOWN(1967),Nurse Matilda goes to HOSPITAL(1974).]FINE/FINE.(Virtually as new!) No owner inscrptn,no clips to dw/dj - absence of publisher price.Bright,crisp, immaculate,red paper-covered card s/case, with bright,crisp,gilt printed nanny's head silhouette+letters to sides and spine/ backstrip of same; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Bright,crisp, clean,colour pictorial artwork by Edward Ardizzone,illustrated dw/dj's - upper wrap+ spine/backstrip - again,all with negligible - if any - shelf-wear to edges and corners, no nicks or tears or rubbing present.Tops+ fore-edges bright,crisp and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.Unblemished,paper -covered boards with printed gilt, silhouette design of dw/dj repeated to upper board+spine/backstrip,immaculate coloured endpapers and colour co-ordinated headbands and sewn-in bookmarks/ribbons. NM,NMGTT,and NMGTH,have green boards+green bookmark+red endpapers,red boardds+red bookmark+brown endpapers and brown boards+ brown bookmark+cream endpapers respectively.UK,16mo HB+dw/dj,1st edns thus,3-126pp,3-124pp and 3-122pp [paginated] respectively,all with b/w vignette illustrated title page,chapter Capital illumination,and profuse,b/w line illus,all by Edward Ardizzone,throughout the text and the books.The first book about Nurse Matilda and subsequent others, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone,cousin of the author. Uncommon,complete,slipcased set. Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone,1900-1979, worked as Edward Ardizzone.Born in Haiphong,China,the son of an employee of the Eastern Telegrah Company,the eldest of five children.He lived in the Far East until he was five and then moved with his family to England.Ardizzone lived in Ipswich until he was 14,'and it was here', he wrote,'that I learnt to know and love the little coastal steamers that I have drawn so often in the TIM books.' He attended evening classes in life drawing given by Bernard Meninsky at Westminster School of Art,while employed as a statistical clerk in London(1916-26). He worked freelance as an illustrator from 1926,achieving widespread recognition with his first children's book 'Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain(1936) the first of the famous TIM books. Served in the Royal Artillery(1939-40); Official War Artist(1940-45),noted for his war diaries.Taught illustration at Camberwell School of Art(1948-52).Worked for UNESCO in India(1952-53).Part-time tutor at the Royal College of Art School of Etching(1953-61).Ardizzone worked in watercolour,pen and ink,pencil and lithograph as a painter,printmaker, greetings card designer and illustrator of over 170 books,many of them his own.He was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal(1956) for 'Tim All Alone' and the Carnegie Medal (1955) and Hans Christian Andersen Medal (1956) with 'The Little Bookroom'.He particularly enjoyed illustrating poetry. He worked mainly from memory,early developing a freely drawn and unmistakable style that changed very little during the course of his long career.He acknowledged the influence of Bernard Meninsky on his work,and also the 19thC draughtsmen Daumier,Dore and Caldecott.His brother-in-law Gabriel White considered 'perhaps no artist since Randolph Caldecott has captured so easily the qualities essential in successful illustration for a child. Ardizzone's are bold and clear and tell the tale in the simplest lines and colours. Ardizzone was awarded the CBE (UK honour) in 1971.In 1973,a retrospective of his work was held at the V & A Museum in London. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the 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 AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja33029. ISBN: 0747576750.
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Imprint: THE STANDFAST PRESS,1973. UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, revised 2nd edn.(True 1st was published,MacGibbon & Kee,1961 and written by Douglas Saunders.)FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped to dw/dj. Pictorial colour illustrated upper wrap (18thC hunting scene), to green background and white letters to upper wrap and spine/ backstrip,with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present and minimal bumping with reciprocal creasing to head+foot of spine/ backstrip.Top edge coloured pale green; fore-edge very slightly aged but generally clean,contents bright,tight and clean. Publisher's original,unblemished, plain green cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with sepia line-illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, revised 2nd edn,10-239pp includes title+ half-title pages,colour frntis,author and publisher's foreword and preface respectively,contents+illustrations lists,b/w folding map laid in to Chapter 1,12pp b/w illustrations/photograph, appendices(3) and biblio to rear. This is a travel book written on several time levels,written to all intents and purposes by two authors separated by a gap of 175 years.In 1959 Michael Brander followed the route allegedly taken by Colonel Thomas Thornton in 1784 during his classic 'Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England and Great Part of the Highlands of Scotland.'Although Thornton was famed as the leading all round field sportsman,huntsman,falconer, fisherman and shot,of his day,subsequent generations did not consider him dedicated to the truth.Quoting Thornton's comments Michael Brander noted discrepancies as well as parallels and contrasts between the scene described by the Colonel and that in 1959.Following the 175 year old trail,Brander found himself in effect hunting the Colonel,the finest huntsman of his time.In the event the book published originally as 'Soho for the Colonel' (from the 18thC hunting cry 'Soho' used to encourage hounds on a scent) itself became a recognised classic. This revised version with colour cover and frntis and greatly improved illustrations also has an additional appendix covering the major changes in the scene since 1959.It remains a fascinating account of travel in the north of England and the Highlands of Scotland and of a successful hunt over the centuries conducted with zest on both sides. 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: rja510. ISBN: 0950214825.
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Imprint: LONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,2021. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 001.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn, but author's handwritten,black felt-tip ink signature - without dedication - to title page, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,b/w+colour tinted photographic front panel of dw/dj,with capitalised,embossed gilt lettered author name and embossed white lettered title and othercritics' black+gold lettered reviews, white spine/backstrip with grey lettered title, capitalised blocked gilt lettered author name and publisher's b/w illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with subject/author's b/w photograph and his explanation of the photograph.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip,a gold headband and immaculate forebear and contemporary familial b/w photographic illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,viipp+1-439pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,a Prologue,Pts 1+2 comprising 11 and 14 chapters respectively,an Epilogue,24pp contemporary sepia,b/w+colour biographical photographs and b/w+ colour illustrations in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp88/89,pp216/17 and pp344/45 respectively,Acknowledgements and Permissions and an Index; plus [unopaginated] half-title, author SIGNED title page,and 3 epigrams (W. B. Yeats,John Masefield, 'Biography',and Agatha Christie,An Autobiography). Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness,brightness and also an uncommon author SIGNED example of this title. Join the beloved star of Just a Minute, QI, Have I Got News For You and Celebrity Gogglebox, Gyles Brandreth, in his long-waited, moving and hilarious autobiography. - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Hilarious, ribald, eye-popping, unforgettable, will make you laugh out loud' - Daily Mail, 'Staggeringly brilliant, funny and touching, I loved it' - Joanna Lumley' Warm, witty, charming.A moving and very affectionate family history. An enthusiast for life' The Times' I am what my childhood made me' But what is that exactly,Gyles? Who are you? And why? 'Odd Boy Out' is an extraordinarily revealing account of growing up in an apparently well-to-do but always strapped-for-cash middle-class English family. But it is also far more than that.It is about adventures - meeting princes and presidents,visiting Death Row in America, exploring the sex clubs of Copenhagen.It is a story of a boy blessed with wit, what he got up to,and the people he met growing up in the most wonderful city in all the world in those extraordinary years after the Second World War. For 'Odd Boy Out' is about more than Gyles and his exploits: it is also a kaleidoscopic portrait of Britain from the 1950s onwards, featuring a cast drawn from politics, the media, swinging London,stage and screen,from Laurence Olivier to Twiggy.By turns hilarious and moving, and chock full of unforgettable stories,'Odd Boy Out' is the unexpected and candid autobiography of one of the country's most unlikely personalities.Yet at root it is a powerful and passionate exploration of childhood - how our heritage,our parents and our upbringing make us who we are. 'A whirlwind of witticisms and of funny tales, both short and tall . . . 'I feel I have lived my life in a magic garden where the sun is always shining' he writes,and in 'Odd Boy Out' he offers us yet another glimpse of that bright,shining sun.' Please contact seller,because of the 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,the 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 any inexpensive 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: rja1050823. ISBN: 2928377065492.
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Imprint: LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,2011. UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,regional colour map and colour imaginery scenic painting illustration to front panel of dw/dj with brown+black lettering,rear panel with contemporary sepia thumbnail photographs of various ships' crew members' portraits; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges lightly toned and with fore-edges generally bright and clean with a couple of spots to the fore-edges; contents though,are bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually 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 black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and clean plain burgundy endpapers.UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,x-xvipp+4-441pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,a chronological list of Arctic Explorations: 1818-1880,author's introduction,contemporary b/w portrait illustration (John Barrow) frntis,Pts I-V comprising 20 chapters,an epilogue,illus with contemporary b/w biographical portrait reproductions and b/w maps,sources,a bibliography,acknowledgements and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,double-page b/w Western Arctic map,a title separator page,individual Pts separator pages each accompanied with contemporary individual b/w portrait illustration,blank reverse of last paginated page and 4 further blanks at the rear of the book. The enthralling,often harrowing story of the adventurers who searched in vain for the Northwest Passage,the holy grail of 19thC British exploration. Dozens of missions set out for the Arctic during the first half of the nineteenth century; all ended in failure and many in disaster,as men found themselves starving to death in the freezing wilderness,sometimes with nothing left to eat but their companions' remains.Anthony Brandt traces the complete history of this noble and foolhardy obsession,which originated during the sixteenth century,bringing vividly to life this record of courage and incompetence, privation and endurance,heroics and tragedy. Along the way he introduces us to an expansive cast of fascinating characters: seamen and landlubbers,scientists and politicians,sceptics and tireless believers. 'The Man Who Ate His Boots' is a rich and engaging work of narrative history - a multifaceted portrait of noble adventure and of imperialistic folly. 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: rja857319. ISBN: 9780224082310.
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Imprint: LONDON.HarperCollinsPublishers,2011. 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, glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with white 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. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain white cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked black ink printed letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xipp+1-388pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,author foreword,13 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w+colour auto+ biographical photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp116/17 and pp260/61 respectively and to rear; sources,a bibliography,discography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table with blank reverse. Paul Brannigan's unauthorised biography of Dave Grohl is the exceptional story of an exceptional man.With an account of Dave Grohl's life that is more personal than anything ever written before, more startling,more thrilling,more heart-rending and more inspiring,Paul Brannigan reveals Dave fully for the first time. From Nirvana to Foo Fighters,from brotherhood to bitter rivalry,from breathless highs to lifeless lows,this is the story of the man who changed music forever. Paul Brannigan has a professional relationship with Dave Grohl stretching back almost 15 years: 'I would consider the two of us to be friends,' Grohl told Brannigan when the pair last spent time together in Los Angeles.Brannigan is the former Editor of Kerrang! - the world's biggest weekly music magazine - and his writing on punk rock,grunge and hard rock has also appeared in world-renowned Q and Mojo magazines. 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. UK and all overseas buyers please note, stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR 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. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/ rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja830219. ISBN: 9780007391219.
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Imprint: LONDON.HARPER COLLINS,1995. UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn. MINT.Pictorial colour decorated, laminated bds,as issued.Small 8vo,48pp colour cartoon illus,and colour photographs. Humphrey,The Downing Street Cat,is no stranger to life at the top.In the course of his duty,he rubs shoulders with Prime Ministers,Heads of State,Royalty,as well as his chums,the trusty people who keep Downing Street and the Cabinet Office, running smoothly.But is life at the top all it's cracked up to be? At one stage Humphrey disappeared. Speculation was rife - had he been catnapped? Did he have a girlfriend elsewhere? Was he simply tired of being a pampered pet? Or - had he gone over to the Opposition - deserted the thinking ship? As the world knows,Humphrey returned to life at No.10 and here,in his never-before published story,he takes us through his cat-flap and shows us a day in his very active political life. Revealed for the first time:Humphrey's influence at Downing Street.His friendship with Socks, the White House Cat.His high- profile colleagues and much much more. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overses buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja1415. ISBN: 0004710002.
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Imprint: LONDON.CONTINUUM UK,2001. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/FINE-.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (£16.99) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,gold-coloured background with white lettering and colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no major nicks or tears present.Majority of creasing is to top edges,including head of spine/backstrip and some minimal rubbing to the top two corners,and the book has a slight lean. Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound with pp141/2 and pp161/2 the only pages each with a dog-ear reading crease. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xpp+1-246pp [paginated] includes separate contents+ illus lists/tables,a foreword by Sir Richard Branson (Chairman,Virgin Atlantic Airways),11 chapters and an epilogue,27 contemporary b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,a chronology of the industry and an index. Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages. Described hard but fairly,in no way,as bad as it reads! 'Back in London,the idea of supplying clients to my friends in Corsica was increasingly appealing. It would be straightforward and uncomplicated,a sideline to my day job at Reuters.What could be simpler? Charter a plane,put a couple of ads in the papers, and the public would come rolling in.' Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the very first modern package holiday,this fascinating history tells the story of one of the defining phenomena of the 20thC: mass tourism.The authors describe how the industry grew from virtually nothing in the years after the Second World War,when a handful of entrepreneurs - of whom Vladimir Raitz was the first and most ambitious - used warplanes to take ration-weary British holiday-makers to exotic European beaches. The contrasting perspecive provided by the two authors bring the subject to life. Raitz's chapters tell of how he developed his own company,Horizon Holidays,into a highly successful organization - a story full of vivid characters and sparkling anecdotes.Bray's chapters trace the history of the industry as a whole,in tandem with the trail being blazed by Horizon.The result is an authoritative and colourful account of how tourism was transformed from a plaything of the rich into what it is today - the pursuit of millions of ordinary people. Please contact seller for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja492314. ISBN: 0826448291.
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Imprint: LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1989. UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price- clip (£16.95) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,montage'd monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Inevitable but slight sunning/fading to spine/backstrip of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - 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 dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,11-208pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/ table,an introduction,60 authors' contributions,18 b/w assorted illustrations by various authors - includes b/w illus frntis by Anthony Powell,sources,index of first lines and acknowledgements,plus [unpaginated] half-title with b/w illustrated frntis to it's recto,title page,in memoriam (to Michael Allmand,V.C. 1923-1944.Founder of The Wind and Rain - a literary review journal.) and contents list/table. George Orwell was an imperialist patriot, Virginia Woolf making fun of feminism and T S Eliot as the author of an adventure story set in the South Seas are some of the literary surprises to be found in this wide-ranging collection of 20thC juvenilia.The age limit has been set at sixteen.By the time Stevie Smith and Elizabeth Bishop were two and three respectively they were composing couplets, and the parson poet Andrew Young,by the time he was five,had set down a short poem about the battle of Bannockburn,which says almost everything that there is to be said about war: 'They fell,they fell Till there were few to tell How the great battle was ended.' Neville Braybrooke has been collecting material for this book for the past thirty years.He has encouraged friends like Francis King,David Gascoyne and Elizabeth Jennings to search through their old papers.Other items he has tracked down in school magazines. John Betjeman's attempt to find words to rhyme with "summer" first appeared in the Dragon School magazine in 1922,when he was thirteen.Malcolm Lowry,when he began contributing to the Leys School magazine, was anxious to try his hand as a sports correspondent. Jocelyn Brooke,on his eighth birthday,set out to write a natural history of Surrey, where he lived,and within the next few months completed four chapters. There are drawings by Bernard Shaw,David Jones and Anthony Powell as well as illustrated short stories by Wyndham Lewis and Evelyn Waugh,which have never appeared before.H G Wells's novel 'The Desert Daisy' is printed here in full and there is an extract from 'Filthy Lucre' by Beryl Bainbridge - both completed when their authors were thirteen. Included also are unpublished poems by Katherine Mansfield,Robert Graves,Kathleen Raine and Thomas Keneally. However,as one might expect,there is far more to this anthology than curiosity value.E M Forster's attitude to the British raj in 'A Passage to India' is already anticipated in a school essay which he wrote at the age of sixteen,and there are anticipated echoes,too,in 'Finnegan's Wake' of a translation that James Joyce made of an ode by Horace when he was fifteen.'Seeds in the Wind' - entertaining,instructive and often prophetic - is about 20thC literature in the making. 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, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja641016. ISBN: 009174265X.
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Imprint: LONDON.BLACKIE & SON LTD. [n.d. - circa 1927.] UK,12mo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn thus. [Originally and first published 1904,her 4th title.This edn is a later reprint.] VG+.No owner inscrptn.Bright,crisp,mildly and minimally grubbed but still clean overall,sharp-cornered,publisher's original beige cloth boards/covers with single-line black bordered edge on front board/cover and a blocked 2-colour (light blue,black and background colour) blocked illustration within and blocked black lettering (title/author) to top edges,a lightly darkened spine/backstrip also with similar colour illustration within a vertical,black bordered panel with black lettering,a plain and undecorated rear board/cover with minimal grubbing,plain white eps; each set with verso+recto of both front+rear free endpapers with off-set shadowing from respective opposing front+rear pastedowns,both hinges solid and sound without any splits,tears or cracking.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners,no nicks, tears,splits or fraying present.Top edges lightly toned/aged but without foxing/ spotting,fore-edges also lightly toned but with very faint,sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,generally clean with sporadic foxing/spotting,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Any discolouring or other imperfections are commensurate with book's age and therefore with some foxing/ spotting.UK,12mo HB,minus dw/d,1st edn thus,10-256pp [paginated] includes XV (15) chapters,4 b/w illustrations by H.L. Bacon (includes frntis) interspersed throughout the text and the book - all called for and present,plus [unpaginated] foxed/spotted half-title,aforentioned b/w frntis,lightly foxed title page with publisher's advert for author's other titles (to date) to it's recto,and lightly foxed separate contents+illustrations lists/tables.Book dated from the most recent and first title listed in publisher's advert - 'Ruth of St. Ronan's.' Bright,clean and presentable item,this example has survived exceptionally well, particularly without any dw/dj and unusually,without the usual discolouration and other imperfections usually encountered or expected in a book of this age. Angela Brazil,born Preston 30 Nov,1868 - d. 13 March,1947.She attended Manchester High School,Ellerslie College and finally Heatherley's,where she studied art.She was one of the first British writers of schoolgirls' fiction,written from the point of view of the character herself and initially intended as an entertainment.In her lifetime she published 49 novels of this genre - the majority being girls' boarding school stories and these were commercially successful.She also produced and published numerous short stories for various magazines. 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: rja896820. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: SCOTLAND,EDINBURGH.CANONGATE,1999. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,scenic colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,grey-flecked white paper-covered boards with black papered blind spine with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,b/w chequered headband and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,14-319pp includes foreword by Jon Krakauer,a prologue,12 chapters+epilogue,contemporary b/w scenic photographic chapter head-pieces,16pp of contemporary biographic+ scenic,b/w+colour photographs between pp160/1,acknowledgements+ photograph credits,an index; plus [unpaginated] b/w photographic title page,a dedication, double-page b/w map [author's attempts+ ascents of Everest] and contents list/ table. For generations of resolute adventurers, from George Mallory to Sir Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay to Jon Krakauer,Mount Everest and the world's greatest peaks have provided the ultimate testing ground. As the world's fascination with mountaineering reaches a fever pitch,the question remains: Why climb? In 'High Exposure',elite mountaineer and acclaimed filmmaker David Breashears answers with an intimate and captivating look at his life.Breashear's passion for climbing began on the cliffs of Boulder,Colorado - and nearly ended on the south side of Everest in 1996. From childhood,Breashears felt irresistibly drawn to the Himalayas' promise of adventure and unforgiving demands on body,mind,and soul.Readers learn of his turbulent early years and his training on the rock before he was dubbed the Kloberdanz Kid.While most American teens were revelling in the recklessness of the 70's,Breashears indulged in a potent mixture of discipline,passion,and drive to pioneer the improbable Perilous Journey in Colorado,ascend Half Dome in Yosemite,and attempt Everest's unclimbed Kangshung Face in Tibet.Along the way,the intense young man apprenticed on film shoots and gradually took to the camera himself, relishing its physical and artistic demands.He was soon consumed with capturing on film the unsurpassed beauty and profound human experience he witnessed as a climber. That he would someday film at the top of the world with a forty-two- pound camera during the Everest/IMAX Filming Expedition surprised no one who knew him: he was always looking to the next challenge,his eyes on the highest horizons. For David Breashears,climbing has never been a question of bravery: Rather,it is the pursuit of excellence and a quest for self-knowledge.Danger comes,he argues,when ambition blinds reason.The stories this world-class climber and great adventurer tells will surprise you.From discussions of egotism and competitiveness on the heights - despite the brotherhood of the rope - to a frank description of mistakes made during the 1996 Everest tragedy,this personal history goes beyond Mallory's famous qup "Because it's there" to find meaning and hope at the top of the world. Please contact seller,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: rja31268. ISBN: 086241962X.
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Imprint: LONDON.QUEEN ANNE PRESS,MACDONALD & CO (PUBLISHERS) LTD.,1984. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,andno price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,subject's colour photograph portraits illustrated dw/dj with b/w+yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Some inevitable but light and superficial scoring/indents to both panels of dw/dj - not excessive.Top edges lightly dust-soiled with some light spotting,fore-edges brighter and cleaner and not affected so; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine /backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.Two small circular indents/ impresses to front board. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,13-206pp [paginated] includes co-author introduction,20 chapters,profuse contemporary,b/w biographical photographs throughout the text and the book,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication,contents list/table, subject's b/w portrait photographic frntis,acknowledgements with another b/w subject's portrait photograph to recto and 2pp blanks at rear. Sixteen years have elaped (then 1984) since Scobie Breasley,a hero to many racing enthusiasts,put away his size-four riding boots for the last time,yet mention of his name still evokes memories of a race-riding skill unmatched today.The man who rode 3,500 winners went on to become a highly successful trainer in England, France and the USA and,later,to manage Ravi Tikoo's string of racehorses.This fascinating study of Breasley's life and career explores the man's legendary style and race-riding philosophy,his championship battles with the young Lester Piggott and the early successions of suspensions,as well as Scobie's assessments of other key racing people and events.Looking back across the wide and vivid canvas of Breasley's two great international careers,as jockey and trainer,this unique portrait reveals the exceptional,though fallible,character behind the public figure. The magic of Scobie Breasley appreciates rather than fades. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured 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: rja518415. ISBN: 0356100812.
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Imprint: LONDON.PAN/PICADOR,1992. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour photographic dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear and or creasing to dw/dj edges and light miniscule creasing/bumping to head of spine/backstrip.No bumping to corners.Top edge lightly dust-soiled, fore-edge clean, contents bright, tight and clean.Green paper-covered bds with stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with clean, plain white eps.8vo,ix-xvi+1-202pp. Algeria, Rahwun the Storyteller reveals the fables which constitute the history of that wonderous country:fables of times of intrigue and of strife, of families uprooted and children sold, of wars and war.Here the strands woven to form that elaborate tapestry, here the threads which will pull it apart.And at the centre of it all, Rahwun, a wanted man, a political fugitive, spinning, fleeing from one adversary into the arms of another, telling the tales whilst his listeners piece together the ragged fragments which make the mysterious whole. In his first and debut novel,'A Country of Vanished Dreams',Brebner has created a breathtaking picture of a beautiful, magical and formidable country,written with wisdom,wit and compassion. Stock number: rja1764. ISBN: 0330321781.
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Imprint: UK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES,1987. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.8vo, 213pp includes appendices(a-e),glossary, b/w line drawings and maps,colour photographs. In January 1985,Cherie Bremer-Kamp and Chris Chandler together attempted the first winter climb of Kanchenjunga's north face,the realisation of a dream that had grown between them since they first met and fell in love on the slopes of K2,seven years earlier.Third highest mountain in the world,'Kanche' was to be their final challenge together.Gripping and harrowing account of their days on 'Kanche' in the bitterly cold winter months,the days of frustration in snow-bound tents,moments of isolation and pure peace,the constant struggle to survive amidst furious 'jetstream' winds and the mountains armour of ice and rock,driven by sheer will through illness and despair; and their final defeat with the loss of Chris,and Cherie's return. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja395. ISBN: 0879052716.
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Imprint: LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2004. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (£16.99) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,author's portrait colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with red+b/w 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 - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate maroon endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xipp+2-274pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,a preface by Rory Bremner,acknowledgements,spoof foreword of fictional Tony Blair,Pts I-V, comprising 39 chapters in total,b/w illus+diagrams interspersed throughout the text and the book,notes and references.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a b/w diagram frntis. Over the course of ten years' collaboration,Bremner,Bird and Fortune, together with their producer Geoff Atkinson,met,spoke to,had lunch or shared a bath with dozens of politicians, journalists,academics,researchers and writers. Now,for the first time,th fruits of those conversations have been gathered and pressed under the auspices of the JIC (Joke Intelligence Committee) into a Dossier fro public consumption.In it you will find more extraordinary and fascinating information that you could possibly know what to do with,about a world and a government that are truly beyond parody. It's a book to be read,treasured and dipped into by anyone interested in finding out more about the country and the world we live in. 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: rja539415. ISBN: 0297847783.
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Imprint: LONDON.ROBERT HALE,1963. UK,8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG.No owner inscrptn.Brownish,paper-covered bds slightly faded,grubbed and minimally marked with minimal shelf-wear and minimal bumping with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip as usual/ normal.Top edge slightly aged and marked; fore-edge considerably less aged but slightly foxed/spotted,contents bright, tight and clean,no dog-ear corners; main body of text generally unfoxed,apart from light,sporadic foxing to fep,blank before half-title,half-title+title pages,recto of final page,and rear blank also.UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,5-187pp includes half-title+title pages,contents+illus lists,author preface,9 chapters,and 13 contemporary b/w photographs on 8pp. Translated from the German by Frederick Holt,the true,and comprehensive account of the fateful three-year career of the vessel which bore the name of the creator of the first German battle fleet,the Tirpitz - the "Lone Queen of the North". When the 1st edition was published in Germany,the German documentary material seized by the Allies,was not at the author's disposal so that he has had to enlarge the second edition considerably to make full use of the additional material now available.This includes various books published in both Germany and England (then 1963),and above all the memoirs of Grand-Admiral Erich Raeder. 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,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja569. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.ARMADA/MAY FAIR BOOKS LTD.,1968. UK,12mo wraps,p/back,1st edn.[Originally published by W. & R. Chambers,LONDON & EDINBURGH,1951,UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.This p/back edn first published by ARMADA/ MAY FAIR BOOKS LTD.,1968,LONDON.(C232) to spine and white ink price 2/6 towards foot of spine on front cover - later imprints had same price + UK capitals in in black ink on a white background of a black edged box.Plus publisher's colophon/ Armada Paperbacks strap line and logo - an astern view of ship under sail with words 'for Boys and Girls' below,to front,top left- hand corner.] VG.No owner inscrptn.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,colour pictorial artwork (non-credited) illustrated front cover with red+black lettering to front,b/w lettered story precis to rear cover; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - one 3/10ths" split at foot of spine - no other nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges ubiquitously aged/toned; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - ubiquitous page-edge tanning too,but no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,almost appears unread internally - apart from reading creases and laminate wrinkling to spine.UK,12mo wraps,p/back 1st edn,5-159pp [paginated] includes 19 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title with 9 listed 'Chalet' titles - last one 'Mary-Lou at the Chalet School' - and copyright details etc.,to verso, title page with contents list/table to it's verso and no publisher's advert - which were present in later impressions /issues. NEW GIRL . . . "I'm sick of it!" Carola flared out."I'm sick - sick - sick of perpetually travelling about! I want to go to school like other girls,and have fun and games with them,and proper lessons - not stupid little lectures from governesses! I want to go to the Chalet School." Carola was very unhappy as normally happy girls go - and as normally happy girls go she went - straight to the Chalet School. . . . And so began one of the most eventful times ever for Carola - and for the other girls of the Chalet School too! Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (b.1894 - d.1969). British authoress of nearly 100 girls' stories,chiefly in school settings.She created the 'Chalet School' series, beginning with 'The School at the Chalet' (1925) see my book ID rja784818 for UK, p/back 1st edn; these were set in an international school in the Tyrol and centred on the character of 'Joey ' Bettany - one of the original nine pupils when her sister opened the school,an English girl who rises to be head of the school and then in adult life becomes a writer of girls' stories. The Chalet School stories,published over a period of at least 40 years,have introduced young readers to scores of girls,each with one dominant trait illustrated through suitable vicissitudes. The clever and the careless,the earnest and the mischievious,the lonely and the debonair - one after another the girls appear,make their mark on the stories,and vanish again.Jo alone is drawn in some depth and forms a link between many of the stories,even when she is glimpsed only in the reminiscences of other characters.The last book in the series,'Prefects of the Chalet School',was published posthumously in 1970. 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: rja785418. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: LONDON.ARMADA/MAY FAIR BOOKS LTD.,1968. UK,12mo wraps,pback,1st edn thus.[Originally published by W. & R. Chambers,LONDON & EDINBURGH,1951,UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.This p/back edn first published by ARMADA/MAY FAIR BOOKS LTD.,1968,LONDON. (C232) to spine and black inked price 2/6 UK to white background,in a black border-edged rectangular box towards foot of spine's corner and listing 13 'Chalet' titles - the last one 'The NEW MISTRESS at the CHALET SCHOOL' (37) to verso of half- title page.'England' is missing from the printer's address - where it is included in the true p/b 1st edn.Also publisher's colophon is of a six-sail,side profile of the Armada ship - as opposed to the astern view of ship under sail and with printed ARMADA PAPERBACKS for Boys and Girls below it.] VG.Owner (girl) name to top edge of half-title page.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,colour pictorial artwork (non-credited) illustrated front cover with red+black lettering to front,black-lettered story precis to rear cover; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present and no reading creases to spine. Top+fore-edges ubiquitously aged/toned; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - ubiquitous page-edge toning too,but no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,12mo wraps,p/b 1st edn thus,5-159pp [paginated] includes 19 chapters and 1pp publisher's advert to verso of last paginated page; plus [unpaginated] half-title with available titles listed+copyright details etc.,to verso,title page with contents list/table to reverse and aforementioned publisher's advert at rear. NEW GIRL . . . "I'm sick of it!" Carola flared out."I'm sick - sick - sick of perpetually travelling about! I want to go to school like other girls,and have fun and games with them,and proper lessons - not stupid little lectures from governesses! I want to go to the Chalet School." Carola was very unhappy as normally happy girls go - and as normally happy girls go she went - straight to the Chalet School. . . . And so began one of the most eventful times ever for Carola - and for the other girls of the Chalet School too! Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (b.1894 - d.1969). British authoress of nearly 100 girls' stories,chiefly in school settings.She created the 'Chalet School' series, beginning with 'The School at the Chalet' (1925) - see my book ID rja784818 for UK, p/back 1st edn of this same title; these were set in an international school in the Tyrol and centred on the character of 'Joey ' Bettany - one of the original nine pupils when her sister opened the school, an English girl who rises to be head of the school and then in adult life becomes a writer of girls' stories. The Chalet School stories,published over a period of at least 40 years,have introduced young readers to scores of girls,each with one dominant trait illustrated through suitable vicissitudes. The clever and the careless,the earnest and the mischievous,the lonely and the debonair - one after another the girls appear,make their mark on the stories,and vanish again.Jo alone is drawn in some depth and forms a link between many of the stories,even when she is glimpsed only in the reminiscences of other characters.The last book in the series,'Prefects of the Chalet School',was published posthumously in 1970. 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: rja785518. ISBN: No ISBN.
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