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ATTENBOROUGH**, DAVID:
AMAZING RARE THINGS: THE ART OF NATURAL HISTORY IN THE AGE OF DISCOVERY.
Imprint: LONDON.ROYAL COLLECTION ENTERPRISES LTD.,2007.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
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With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no publisher's price,so no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,cream background with colour pictorial flora+fauna figures illustrated dw/dj,with black+brown 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 red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain red endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,10-223pp [paginated] includes 6 sections/chapters,profuse colour+sepia figures/illustrations/plates by artists: Leonardo da Vinci,Cassiano Dal Pozzo, Alexander Marshal,Maria Sibylla Merian and Mark Catesby throughout the text and the book,illustrations list/ table,further reading,an index; plus [unpaginated] double-page with a colour vignetted title page,colour vignette illustrated contents list/table,and a foreword by Jane Roberts (Librarian and Curator of the Print Room).
The great voyages of discovery of the 16thC and 17thC brought European artists face to face with new and exotic plants and animals,and created an intense interest in the way nature was investigated and recorded.
In 'Amazing Rare Things',Sir David Attenborough - the renowned naturalist and documentary-maker,and one of the natural world's best-loved commentators - leaves the here-and-now to explore the history of natural history instead.Joining expert curators from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle he explores the contributions of four great artists and one pre-eminent collector to this era of extraordinary scientific advances.
Profusely illustrated throughout,this book is organized around a selection of exquisite drawings and water-colours by Leonardo da Vinci,Alexander Marshal,Maria Sibylla Merian,and Mark Catesby; and the works collected by Cassiano dal Pozzo from his immense 'Paper Museum'.These beautiful images - all held in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle - reflect each artist's engagement with the natural world,from Renaissance Italy and England,and on to the New World of the Americas.Sir David Attenborough's introduction,discussing representations of the natural world from prehistory to the present day,leads the reader on to detailed examinations of the passions and achievements of each of these five individuals,with fresh,lucid and thought-provoking commentaries provided throughout by Sir David on a range of their works.
All artists have responded to and been inspired by the natural world.This unique and fascinating book shines a new light on the role of art and the artist in our exploration of that world.
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Stock number: rja769118. ISBN: 9781902163468.
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ATTENBOROUGH**, DAVID:
Journeys to the Other Side of the Wordld: Further Adventures of a Young Naturalist.
Imprint: LONDON.TWO ROADS/an imprint of John Murray Press,2018.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.
Binding:
Hardback
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With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Complete number line 1. Original publications copyright of David Attenborough in 1960,1961 and 1963.First published in UK in 1981 by Lutterworth Press as 'Journeys to the Past: Travels in New Guinea, Madagascar,and the Northern Teritory of Australia.'This abridged combined volume copyrighted to Attenborough 1981.This edition of 'Journeys to the Past' is published by arrangement with the Lutterworth Press with an copyrighted Introduction of David Attenborough.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,subject's colour portrait photograph to front panel of dw/dj,with glossy navy blue lettered part-title, glossy black lettered sub-title and author's gilt lettered name,spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author+part-title as the front panel and repeated thumbnail photograph from front illustration and publisher's colour+lettered colophon,to foot of same,rear panel with subject's different colour photograph and a pair of black lettered two prose paragraphs.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks, tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without foxing/spotting; 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,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/ backstrip,a pale blue+silver striped headband, and immaculate plain light khaki endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,vii-xipp+3-413pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,an Attenborough Introduction,Books 1-3: Quest in Paradise,Zoo Quest to Madagascar and Quest Under Capricorn comprising 9,8 and 7 chapters respectively,profuse contemporary,small b/w part-page photographs,3 b/w maps interspersed throughout the text and the book,16pp contemporary b/w+colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp148/9 and pp260/61; plus [unpaginated] critics' reviews with blank verso, half-title page,title page,individual Books separator pages each with a small b/w photograph and a full-page,b/w regional map to its verso and to the rear,a Note about the author and 4pp blanks.
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,exemplary example for its cleanliness and brightness and lack of faults. Following the success of the original 'Zoo Quest' expeditions,in the late 1950s onwards the young David Attenborough embarked on further travels in a very different part of the world. From Madagascar and New Guinea to the Pacific Islands and the Northern Territory of Australia, he and his cameraman companion were aiming to record not just the wildlife but the way of life of some of the indigenous people of these regions,whose traditions had never been encountered by most of the British public before.
From the land divers of Pentecost Island and the sing-sings of New Guinea,to a Royal Kava ceremony on Tonga and the ancient art of the Northern Territory,it is a journey like no other. Alongside these remarkable cultures he encounters paradise birds,chameleons,sifakas and many more animals in some of the most unique environments on the planet.
Written with David Attenborough's characteristic charm,humour and warmth,'Journeys to the Other Side of the World' is an inimitable adventure among people,places and the wildest of wild life.
Sir David Attenborough is a broadcaster and naturalist whose television career is now in its seventh decade. After studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge and a brief stint in publishing,he joined the BBC. Since the launch of his famous Zoo Quest series in 1954 he has surveyed almost every aspect of life on earth and brought it to the viewing public.His latest program,Blue Planet II,was the most-watched nature documentary of all time. Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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Stock number: rja1063323. ISBN: 9781473666641.
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ATTENBOROUGH**, DAVID:
LIFE ON AIR - Memoirs of a Broadcaster.
Imprint: LONDON.BBC,2002.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
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With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.B/w subject portrait photographic panels to dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges.Top edges minisculey, faintly marked,fore-edges bright and clean: contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,5-384pp includes 27 chapters, contents+illus lists/tables,profuse mixture of both b/w+colour contemporary photographs throughout the text and the book,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title-pages.
'An enthralling autobiography from one of the lynchpins of television.
His life has been fascinating. Attenborough is a master story-teller,and his book is crammed with anecdotes.' - Good Book Guide.
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Stock number: rja436512. ISBN: 0563534613.
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ATTENBOROUGH**, DAVID:
Life on Earth. [Author SIGNED copy.**]
Imprint: LONDON.WILLIAM COLLINS SONS & CO.,LTD.,/BBC,1979.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,reprint.
Binding:
Hardback
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With Dust Jacket
Inscription: 'To Pryne with best wishes David Attenborough'
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,reprint.[First published by same publisher,1979.Three reprints quickly followed,Feb 1979,March 1979 and April 1979 - this example.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten,blue inked dedication and signature to titlepage: 'To Pryne with best wishes David Attenborough',and no price-clip to dw/dj.The ink inscrptn has bled around the writing.
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Stock number: rja533815. ISBN: 0563176180.
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ATTENBOROUGH**, DAVID:
Life Stories. [Author SIGNED copy.**]
Imprint: LONDON.COLLINS,2009.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
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With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author SIGNED - without dedication.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn but author's immediately recognisable,neat,blue ink, handwritten signature - without dedication - to title page and a price-clip to dw/dj. Rear inner flap of dw/dj top corner with an accidental small diagonal corner crease. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,subject /author portrait colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with pale blue+white lettering to front and spine, rear panel with numerous colour natural wild life photographs; 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 dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain pale green endpapers. UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,10-224pp [paginated] includes author foreword,20 chapters,profusely illustrated with b/w+ colour illustrations reproductions and colour photographs - some from his own personal library and collection, acknowledgements/illus lists/credits; plus [unpaginated] half-title with colour illustration reproduction (Paradise Birds) illustrated frntis to its verso,SIGNED title page,and contents list/table.
Teaching as it should be: an outstanding observer of the world around us,sharing his fascination and excitement.Now in his 80s (then 2009),Sir David has never stopped widening his interests.Mineral,fossil, vegetable,human and other animals - he keeps his eyes open and discusses what he sees and thinks,with not only charm and intelligence but something rarer - directness.He knows how to speak to people.
So in 2009 BBC4 suggested to him a series of very short - 10-minute - weekly radio talks,a new medium for this master of television,on any subjects he cared to choose.These relaxed but concentrated, 'bite-sized' broadcasts are predictably a triumph,on Friday evenings and Sunday mornings.
But radio is impermanent,has a faithful but smaller audience than television,and above all is not visual.So this book not only offers the complete texts of the first five months of the Life Stories radio talks,but has given David Attenborough the chance to illustrate them.To this he has brought his personal selection of pictures old and new,and his commentary on each - from creatures perfectly preserved in amber millions of years ago to singing gibbons of today, mermaids and salamanders,dragons and Charles Darwin,great collections and bird artists of the past.For any reader with curiosity and a lively mind,here is rich entertainment - full of surprises and unexpected pleasures.
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Stock number: rja775418. ISBN: 9780007338832.
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ATTENBOROUGH**, DAVID:
THE LIFE OF MAMMALS. [Author SIGNED copy.**]
Imprint: LONDON.BBC BOOKS/BBC WORLDWIDE LTD.,2002.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
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With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author SIGNED - without dedication,1st edn.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE+/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,glossy,colour photograph of a tiger to front panel b/w lettering to same,thumbnail, repeated front cover photograph to head of spine/backstrip with white+yellow lettering,rear panel of dw/dj with an author+meerkats colour photograph; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – pristine - unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate /clean plain sets of endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,7-320pp [paginated] includes Foreword,10 chapters,mammals' profuse colour photographs throughout the text; plus [unpaginated] half-title with orang-utan colour photographic frntis to its verso,author SIGNED title page and contents list/table.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's 20+ year-old age and nature, i.e. an ephemeral paper item,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.
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Stock number: rja1006022. ISBN: 0563534230.
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ATTENBOROUGH**, DAVID:
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF PLANTS.
Imprint: LONDON.BBC BOOKS,1995.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
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With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - assumed an export edn,which it is believed,precedes the UK trade issue/distribution.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,plant to front with white+green lettering,similar lettering to spine/backstrip,rear panel with author's portrait colour photograph; all 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, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a red headband and immaculate plain white endpapers.Production fault to prelims (pp1-8: half-title+title pages,contents list/table and first 2pp of the introduction) over-sized and untrimmed. UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-320pp [paginated] includes author's introduction, chapters,subjects' (plants) profuse colour photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book, acknowledgements,and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title with colour photographic frntis to reverse,title page, contents list/table and first page of the introduction these being joined at lower corner and untrimmed.
Without plants,there would be no food,no animals of any sort,no life on Earth at all.Yet for most of the time their lives remain a secret to us,hidden,private events.
The reason is merely a difference of time. Plants live on a different time-scale from ours. Though not obviously to the naked eye,they are constantly on the move: developing,fighting, avoiding or exploiting predators or neighbours, struggling to find food,to increase their territories,to reproduce themselves,to find and hold a place in the sun.We only need to learn to look.
In this book,and his BBC television series, David Attenborough does look.He examines in turn the great trials of plant life the world over: 1 Travelling,2 Growing,3 Flowering,4 The Social Struggle,5 Living Together and 6 Surviving.
David Attenborough shows us the natural world and how it works,with a clarity and infectious enthusiasm that few other writers or film-makers have matched.One of the most successful teachers of the late 20th century,his books and films are consistently of the highest quality.'The Private Life of plants' is central to his work,the background to all that he has studied so far.
Given this fascinating new view of vegetable life,anything that grows on soil or rock or water,in open country or the smallest garden,suddenly seems quite different: less gentle altogether,in restless motion night and day,locked in the endless competition necessary for survival.
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Stock number: rja870020. ISBN: 9780563370239.
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ATTENBOROUGH**, DAVID:
The Trials of Life: A NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]
Imprint: LONDON.WILLIAM COLLINS SONS & CO.LTD.,1990.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
,
With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author's signature - without dedication.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's uncommon,but neat,handwritten,blue ink signature - without dedication - to half-title page; and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.A tiny,tiny nick/closed tear with miniscule rubbing to front,top corner; front lower corner is also minisculely rubbed and both head+foot of dw/dj's spine/ backstrip are minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Some inevitable,but minor scoring/indents to dw/dj panels,but the boards beneath unaffected.Described hard but honestly and fairly - nowhere as faulty as it reads! Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight,solid and sound, pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband,and near immaculate plain white endpaperss.UK, Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,8-320pp [paginated] includes introduction,12 chapters,profuse nature colour photographs throughout the text and the book, acknowledgements,the Trials of Life TV production team,picture credits,and an index.Plus [unpaginated]; author SIGNED half-title,colour photographic frntis, title page and contents list/table.
Attenborough's brilliant new book (then 1990) and BBC TV series follow 'Life on Earth' and 'The Living Planet' in surveying the whole animal kingdom - mites and mammals,insects,fishes,birds and reptiles worldwide - but with a difference.
Whereas the earlier books were about evolution and the variety and development of animal's bodies,this one is about the way they use those bodies: how animals behave and why.
Each chapter,like each TV programme of the same title,looks at a separate stage in the life of animals.In each,Sir David shows with dramatic and often moving examples how from birth to death all animals have to solve a particular set of problems if they are to survive and eventually pass their genes to the next generation.Life is indeed a series of trials.
This book ends a trilogy begun 11 years ago with 'Life on Earth',which set out to examine the vast diversity of animal life. The second book,'The Living Planet', concentrated on the other great influence that shapes the bodies of animals - the environment.Thus,the first two books are concerned with the bodies of animals and the way they have been shaped.This last book looks at the way animals use those bodies and the way they behave.
David Attenborough wrote the text,and chose the colour photographs to illustrate it,at th same time as making the films.
The book and TV programmes complement each other.
Attenborough has collected twenty three awards and thirty-one honorary degrees from British universities since 1970.His contribution to broadcasting and wildlife film-making has brought him international recognition,and his BBC programmes are considered the exemplary model of public service broadcasting.
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Stock number: rja487114. ISBN: 0002199122.
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ATTENBOROUGH**, DAVID:
The Trials of Life: A NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]
Imprint: LONDON.WILLIAM COLLINS SONS & CO.LTD.,1990.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
,
With Dust Jacket
Inscription: 'To Jan David Attenborough'
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's uncommon,but neat,handwritten,blue ink signature,with dedication - 'To Jan David Attenborough' to half-title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated, colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Some miniscule rubbing to front,top corner; front lower corner is also minisculely rubbed and both head+foot of dw/dj's spine/backstrip are minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing. Some inevitable,but minor scoring/indents to dw/dj panels,but the boards beneath largely unaffected.Described hard but honestly and fairly - nowhere as faulty as it reads! Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight,solid and sound,pristine - no dog- ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread? Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip, b/w striped headband,and near immaculate
plain white endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj, author SIGNED,1st edn,8-320pp [paginated] includes introduction,12 chapters,profuse nature colour photographs throughout the text and the book,acknowledgements,the Trials of Life TV production team,picture credits, and an index.Plus [unpaginated]; author SIGNED half-title,colour photographic frntis,title page and contents list/table.
Attenborough's brilliant new book (then 1990) and BBC TV series follow 'Life on Earth' and 'The Living Planet' in surveying the whole animal kingdom - mites and mammals,insects,fishes,birds and reptiles worldwide - but with a difference.
Whereas the earlier books were about
evolution and the variety and development of animal's bodies,this one is about the way they use those bodies: how animals behave and why.
Each chapter,like each TV programme of the same title,looks at a separate stage in the life of animals.In each,Sir David shows with dramatic and often moving examples how from birth to death all animals have to solve a particular set of problems if they are to survive and eventually pass their genes to the next generation.Life is indeed a series of trials.
This book ends a trilogy begun 11 years ago with 'Life on Earth',which set out to examine the vast diversity of animal life. The second book,'The Living Planet',
concentrated on the other great influence that shapes the bodies of animals - the environment.Thus,the first two books are concerned with the bodies of animals and the way they have been shaped.This last book looks at the way animals use those bodies and the way they behave.
David Attenborough wrote the text,and chose the colour photographs to illustrate it,at the same time as making the films. The book and TV programmes complement each other.
Attenborough has collected twenty three awards and thirty-one honorary degrees from British universities since 1970.His contribution to broadcasting and wildlife film-making has brought him international
recognition,and his BBC programmes are considered the exemplary model of public service broadcasting.
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Stock number: rja499414. ISBN: 0002199122.
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ATTENBOROUGH**, DAVID:
The Trials of Life: A NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]
Imprint: LONDON.WILLIAM COLLINS SONS & CO.LTD.,1990.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
,
With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author SIGNED - without dedication.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's uncommon,but neat,handwritten,blue ink signature - without dedication - to half-title page; and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Some inevitable,but minor scoring/ indents to dw/dj panels,but the boards beneath unaffected.Described hard but honestly and fairly - nowhere as faulty as it reads! Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight,solid and sound,pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread? Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband,and near immaculate plain white endpaperss.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn,8-320pp [paginated] includes introduction,12 chapters,profuse nature colour photographs throughout the text and the book,acknowledgements,the Trials of Life TV production team,picture credits, and an index.Plus [unpaginated]; author SIGNED half-title,colour photographic frntis,title page and contents list/table.
See also my book ID rja487114,for a similar SIGNED - without dedication - UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Attenborough's brilliant new book (then 1990) and BBC TV series follow 'Life on Earth' and 'The Living Planet' in surveying the whole animal kingdom - mites and mammals,insects,fishes,birds and reptiles worldwide - but with a difference.
Whereas the earlier books were about evolution and the variety and development of animal's bodies,this one is about the way they use those bodies: how animals behave and why.
Each chapter,like each TV programme of the same title,looks at a separate stage in the life of animals.In each,Sir David shows with dramatic and often moving examples how from birth to death all animals have to solve a particular set of problems if they are to survive and eventually pass their genes to the next generation.Life is indeed a series of trials.
This book ends a trilogy begun 11 years ago with 'Life on Earth',which set out to examine the vast diversity of animal life. The second book,'The Living Planet', concentrated on the other great influence that shapes the bodies of animals - the environment.Thus,the first two books are concerned with the bodies of animals and the way they have been shaped.This last book looks at the way animals use those bodies and the way they behave.
David Attenborough wrote the text,and chose the colour photographs to illustrate it,at th same time as making the films.
The book and TV programmes complement each other.
Attenborough has collected twenty three awards and thirty-one honorary degrees from British universities since 1970.His contribution to broadcasting and wildlife film-making has brought him international recognition,and his BBC programmes are considered the exemplary model of public service broadcasting.
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Stock number: rja960121. ISBN: 0002199122.
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ATTERBURY**, PAUL:
A-Z OF RAILWAYS - A Nostalgic Tour of Britain's Railways.
Imprint: UK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES,2010.
Edition: UK,landscape rectangular Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
,
With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,landscape rectangular Qrto HB+ dw/dj, 1st edn.[Entries in this collection were originally published in 'Tickets Please!',
'Branchline Britain,'Along Lost Lines' and 'Along Country Lanes' - all by Paul Atterbury.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,montage'd monochrome+colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with white,yellow,brown and green lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and some minimal creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Tiniest of snick/closed tear to front lower edge of dw/dj,near the spine/backstrip of same.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.A small circular grease(?) spot internally to front panel of dw/dj with concomitant spot to publisher's original, sharp-cornered,plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark green endpapers.UK,landscape Qrto HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,6-176pp [paginated] includes an introduction,59 sections (A-Z - Ambulance to Zoo on Rails) with profuse mixture of contemporary colour+b/w ephemra illustrations and monochrome+colour photographs etc.,an index,picture credits and a note about the author.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page, double-paged scenic b/w photograph with colour+b/w montage'd photographs+railway ephemera illustrations title pages, double-paged b/w photographic+colour illustrations contents list/table.
For other Paul Atterbury's related UK,HB+dw/dj,SIGNED or unsigned titles/ edns,please see my book ID's rja600716 and rja734817.
Discover an evocative compilation of all things railway,from Ambulance trains to royal trains; milk trains to livestock on rails,'An A-Z of Railways' is an unashamedly nostalgic journey down memory lane.
With hundreds of pictures of the railways in their active heyday,as well as old postcards,tickets and other evocative ephemera,this book brings the golden age of railways vividly back to life.
Paul Atterbury is probably familiar to many as a long-standing member of the team of experts on BBC TV's 'Antique Roadshow' and someone who has always appreciated the importance of ephemera in telling the story of domestic life in the 20thC.
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!
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Stock number: rja734717. ISBN: 9780715338148.
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ATTERBURY**, PAUL:
Paul Atterbury's LOST RAILWAY JOURNEYS: REDISCOVER BRITAIN'S FORGOTTEN RAILWAY ROUTES.
Imprint: UK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES,2011.
Edition: UK,landscape,rectangular Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
,
With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,landscape rectangular Qrto HB+ dw/dj, 1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,montage'd monochrome+ colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with white+yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.A minor indent to front panel which has also impresed the bd beneath in the concomitant spot.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped black ink printed lettering to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain,pale lemon endpapers.UK,landscape Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-176pp [paginated] includes an introduction,7 sections comprising The West Country, outhern England,East Anglia, Central England,Wales,Northern England, Scotland and Exploring Lost Lines in 44 chapters,all illustrated with a profuse mixture of contemporary colour+b/w ephemera illustrations,monochrome+colour photographs,adverts etc.,picture credits,a note about the author and an index.Plus [unpaginated] colour postcard illustrated half-title,scenic colour photograph with b/w+colour montage'd double-paged title page,double-page colour photographic illustrated contents list/table.
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During the 1960s and early 1970s Britain was devastated by railway closures and many parts of the country were left without any kind of railway service.Since the 1960s,Britain has witnessed the closure of over 2,000 stations and many thousands of miles of track,thus halving the network that had been inherited from the Victorians and littering the landscape with the remains of abandoned railways.The timetables of the 1950s and early 1960s are therefore filled with journeys which are now either impracticable or impossible.
'Paul Atterbury's Lost Railway Journeys' is not just about closed lines,it is about memory,nostalgia and imagination.Walking old railways is now a national past time, while many miles of lost lines have also been saved as preserved or heritage railways.The lines and journeys in this book are arranged regionally,and have been selected to show the diversity of the routes that were lost.They are depicted in their prime and as surviving remains integrated within the landscape,waiting to be rediscovered by the generations that knew them best.
In this nostalgic journey,Paul Atterbury traces the routes that have long since been abandoned but are nevertheless still rich in railway culture.
Paul Atterbury is probably familiar to many as a long-standing member of the team of experts on BBC TV's 'Antique Roadshow' and someone who has always appreciated the importance of ephemera in telling the story of domestic life in the 20thC.
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!
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Stock number: rja734817. ISBN: 9781446300954.
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ATTERBURY**, PAUL:
PAUL ATTERBURY'S FAVOURITE RAILWAY JOURNEYS.
Imprint: UK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES,2013.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
,
With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white +yellow 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 intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain gilt cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped black ink stamped letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain dark grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,6-175pp [paginated] includes an introduction,7 sections covering regions in England,Wales and Scotland with 3 routes/journeys to each and with the exception of Scotland's - an extra section on: Station architecture,London Termini,Halts,City Stations,Contry Stations and Town Stations respectively, profuse contemporary colour +b/w ephemera illustrations,monochrome+ colour photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a contents list/table,double-page area section separator pages and verso of last page of index,picture credits.
See also,my book ID's rja600716,rja734717 and rja734817 for other/similar Paul Atterbury railway titles as UK,HB+dw/dj, SIGNED or unsigned titles/1st edns.For other railway-related books/titles,please search my GENERAL ctalogue.
For many people train travel is just a necessity,a quick and efficient means of transport that tends to be taken for granted,until it goes wrong.Yet,a train journey can be so much more,bringing together history,landscape and the particular but ever-changing view of Britain through the carriage window.
Much of the network in use today,and its infrastructure,is a legacy of the 19thC, built by Victorian entrepreneurs and engineers,and you can explore these wonderful railway journeys all over Britain's national railway network.
Paul Atterbury shares a wealth of memories and stories about the many railway journeys he has taken in Britain, encouraging you to explore the wonderful railway journeys that are still there to be enjoyed all over Britain's national railway network.
The routes selected are particular favourites from the National Network,with a special combination of landscape,history and visual pleasure.They range from short, but classic,branch lines to long-distance routes that explore the best of Britain's countryside to link interesting cities, towns and villages.The journeys are arranged regionally,from the far west of Cornwall to the Highlands of Scotland.They also represent the full history of Britain's railways from the 1850s to the early years of the 20thC.
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Stock number: rja749617. ISBN: 9781446302996.
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ATTERBURY**, PAUL:
THE WAY WE WERE ON HOLIDAY: Remembering yesterday's holidays. [Author SIGNED ephemera.]
Imprint: UK.BASINGSTOKE,HANTS.AA PUBLISHING 2008.
Edition: UK,landscape rectangular Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
,
With Dust Jacket
Inscription: 'To Ron,with best wishes for your birthday from Paul Atterbury.'
UK,landscape rectangular Qrto HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn.FINE+/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's calligraphic handwritten,blue inked warm dedication and signature: 'To Ron,with best wishes for your birthday from Paul Atterbury.' to back of an unused postcard which has been sellotaped in to front pastedown,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,colour beach holiday photographic illustrated dw/dj - design repeated to sharp-cornered,immaculate glazed bds beneath - with gilt coloured and white lettering,a green+white chequered headband and immaculate pale yellow eps; with negligible shelf-wear and some minimal creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+ fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, would appear unread - apart from my own collation.UK,landscape Qrto HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn,8-224pp [paginated] includes 8 sections: The Holiday Tradition,Where We Stayed,What We Wore, Touring,At The Seaside,The Great Outdoors, Something Different,Going Abroad, illustrated with a profuse mixture of contemporary colour+b/w ephemera illustrations,monochrome+colour photographs/adverts etc.,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, double-page content list/table. See also,my book ID's rja734717,rja734817 and rja749617 for other/similar Paul Atterbury railway titles as UK,HB+dw/dj, SIGNED or unsigned titles/1st edns.For railway-related books/tittles,please search my GENERAL ctalogue.
This delightful book is a treasure trove of holiday memories: of days on the beach (and what we wore there),of picnics in the woods,of camping and caravanning,of touring by car or bicycle,of walks in the hills and outings in sailing boats,of travel,hotels and boarding houses,of resorts of all kinds,of cruising and of the early days of travel abroad,before cheap flights and package tours changed the holiday for ever.
We all carry memories of holidays from childhood onward,brought to life by family photographs - many taken with the first generation of cheap and foolproof cameras - and scrapbook ephemera such as old postcards,brochures,tickets and luggage labels.A quintessentially British book, whose every page spills over with evocative images.For anyone who went on holiday in Britain between the Edwardian era and the 1960's - a feast of nostalgia. A unique,and uncommon SIGNED 1st edn.
Paul Atterbury is probably familiar to many as a long-standing member of the team of experts on BBC TV's 'Antique Roadshow' and someone who has always appreciated the importance of ephemera in telling the story of domestic life in the 20thC.
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Stock number: rja600716. ISBN: 9780749558550.
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ATTWELL**, MABEL LUCIE:
LUCIE ATTWELL'S ANNUAL - 1966.
Imprint: LONDON.DEAN,1966.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj(as issued),1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
, No dw/dj - as issued
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.VG.Child's ownership name in pencil,Liverpool Echo, Children's Section (newspaper) 1st Prize, presentation/prize bookplate to ffe,in aid of Cot Fund,Jan/Feb 1967.Colour pictorial, laminated,colour picrotial artwork by Lucie Attwell,illustrated card covers,and colour pictorial illustrated endpapers,with minimal shelf-wear to edges and corners.Very slightly bumped and lightly rubbed with minimal loss to two top corners,lightly bumped+rubbed to head+ foot of spine/backstrip with a couple of tiny splits/nicks to head of same - substantially complete,intact and in situ.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned -as usual/normal; contents bright,tight and clean.UK,Qrto HB,1st edn,7-92pp includes profuse colour+b/w +1 colour illustrations throughout,stories,verse and activity pages.Both painting pages not attempted,dot-to-dot neatly completed in pencil.
Another nice,acceptable copy of a sought-after illustrator's latter work.
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Stock number: rja291. ISBN: No ISBN.
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ATTWELL**, MABEL LUCIE:
LUCIE ATTWELL'S ANNUAL - 1970.
Imprint: LONDON.DEAN,1970.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj (as issued),1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
, No dw/dj,as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.NFINE. Neat ink gift presentation inscrptn to pictorial colour illustrated front free endpaper.Bright, clean,pictorial colour artwork by Lucie Attwell, illustrated card covers; with negligible shelf-wear to edges: top two corners minimally bumped with some miniscule rubbing to same.Head+foot of spine/backstrip also minisculely bumped with miniscule reciprocal creases - no nicks or tears present - complete and intact.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned as usual/normal; contents bright,tight and clean.Painting page neatly attempted but not completed,in felt-tip pens, dot-to-dot also neatly completed,in pencil.UK, slim Qrto HB,1st edn,7-93pp incudes profuse colour and b/w+colour illustrations throughout, stories,verse and activity pages.A really nice,sound,solid copy obviously carefully looked after at the time and since.
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Stock number: rja290. ISBN: No ISBN.
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ATTWELL**, MABEL LUCIE:
LUCIE ATTWELL'S ANNUAL - 1971.
Imprint: LONDON.DEAN,1971.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj,(as issued),1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
, No dw/dj - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,Qrto HB,1st edn,no dw/dj - as issued. VG++. No owner inscrptn.Bright,clean,pictorial colour artwork by Lucie Attwell,illustrated card covers; with negligible shelf-wear to edges - corners lightly bumped with reciprocal creasing and pictorial,colour illustrated endpapers. Minimal bumping/creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip - as usual/normal - no nicks or tears present,complete and intact.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned; contents bright,tight and clean.UK,Qrto HB,no dw.dj,as issued,1st edn,6- 92pp, includes stories,verse and activity pages, and profuse colour and b/w+1 colour illustrations.Colouring to colouring page (felt-tip pen) and to 2 other pages (wax crayon),dot-to-dot neatly done in pencil.A very nice, acceptable copy.
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Stock number: rja289. ISBN: 0603070043.
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ATTWELL**, MABEL LUCIE:
LUCIE ATTWELL's SUPER BOOK OF FUN: No.3.
Imprint: LONDON.DEAN,1969.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj(as issued),1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
, No dw/dj - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.No owner inscrptn.Crisp,clean,colour pictorial artwork by Lucie Attwell,illustrated,laminated boards with 3-colour block (green,black+white) pictorial illustrated endpaperss; with minimal shelf-wear to edges - no nicks or tears present - no bumped corners,miniscule rubbing to upper board's bottom corner and laminate wrinkle to same,and negligible bumping with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip - as usual/
normal.Top+fore-edges aged/toned; contents bright,tight and clean.UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn,8-125pp includes 3-colour block (yellow,black+white) illustrated verso of front free endpaper,a colour frntis,3-colour block (yellow,black+white) pictorial illustrated title page,3-colour block (green,black+white) pictorial illustrated double-page contents list, 4 painting pages untouched,2 dot-to-dot pages also untouched,the activity pages also untouched,and b/w+colour illustrations throughout the book.The illustrations are in 3-colour block - either red,blue,green,yellow and b/w - all by [Mabel] Lucie Attwell.
Contributors include M.L.Attwell (10), J.G. Metcalfe, Nancy D.Stevens, Margaret Connor, Eunice Close, Margaret Johnson, Leslie C. Hulley, Brenda Haylock,Charles Griffiths, Reginald Brown and Bertha Leonard.
An exceptional and very uncommon title and copy particularly for book's age and ephemeral nature, i.e a child's activity book.
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Stock number: rja1528. ISBN: No ISBN.
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ATTWELL**, MABEL LUCIE:
LUCIE ATTWELL'S ANNUAL - 1952.
Imprint: LONDON.DEAN & SON LTD.,[not dated but 1952.]
Edition: UK,slim,8vo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
, No dw/dj - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,slim 8vo HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.[Not dated,but the annuals were produced earlier in the year for the Christmas market.] VG. Handwritten blue ink,familial gift presentation inscrptn: 'In loving memory of Grandad to Lillian 1953 Xmas to front pastedown.Bright, crisp,generally clean with some minimal age grubbing,wrap-around paper-covered card boards with colour pictorial artwork by Lucie Attwell to either cover,capitalised author's name and publisher and capitalised blue lettered part title to front,spine/backstrip missing,rear cover with colour illustration but with some residual blue biro ink overlapping circles over said illustration.Repeated colour pictorial artwork by Lucie Attwell,illustrated sets of endpapers.All four corners minimally bumped and rubbed with reciprocal paper loss - no other nicks,tears or splits present.Inevitable, ubiquitous ageing and toning to top edges,fore-edges slightly brighter and toned to a lesser degree; contents surprisingly bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no hinges cracked or split - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - possibly unread,other than my own collation.UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn,7-92pp [paginated] includes 11 short stories by assorted authors all with colour artwork illustrations by Lucie Attwell within the text - first story When The Wizard Lost His Hat,2 double-page colour illustrated poems,5 other separate colour illustrated poems,2 full-colour,full-page child's portraits,a painting page (pp53) competently completed,a tiny closed tear to top edge of pp79/80.
Visually the exterior appearance is acceptable, and even internally,the book is also in a more than acceptable condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's age and nature, i.e. a child's ephemeral book.It is only the exterior faults and the minor minimal internal faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them,it really is still an acceptable example for collectors and for its cleanliness and brightness.
Mabel Lucie Attwell (b. 4th June,1879 – d. 5th November,1964) was a British illustrator and comics artist,known for her cute and nostalgic drawings of children.Her drawings are featured on many postcards, advertisements,posters,books and ceramic figurines.
Educated privately and at the Coopers' Company School and at the Regent Street school.She studied at Heatherley's and Saint Martin's School of Art,but left to develop her own interest in imaginary subjects,disliking the emphasis on still-life drawing and classical subjects.As well as illustrating such children's classics as Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland, Attwell produced her own Annuals and 'midget books'. The 'Lucie Attwell Annual' was published from 1922 - 1974,its continuing publication ten years after her death being made possible by extensive re-use of images.She also drew a comic-strip for the magazine,The Passing Show,and contributed to Pearsons,the Strand and many other magazines.
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Stock number: rja1028922. ISBN: No ISBN.
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ATTWELL**, MABEL LUCIE:
LUCIE ATTWELL'S ANNUAL - 1964.
Imprint: LONDON.DEAN & SON LTD.,1964.
Edition: UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued, 1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
, No dw/dj - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.No owner inscrptn,but a childishly handwriiten, colour pencilled comtemporaneous price (1/6d) to top edge of colour pictorial Attwell illustrated front free endpaper,no cracked hinges and the absence of a published price.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy/glazed,wrap-around black background with colour pictorial artwork by Lucie Attwell, illustrated paper-covered boards with white bordered graduated pink capitalised author's name and similalrly coloured,capitalised publisher name and white bordered lemon yellow capitalised 'ANNUAL' as remainder of title,all to the front board,capitalised yellow title and pink capitalised publisher name to spine/ backstrip which has some verical laminate wrinkling,rear board with colour pictorial artwork illustration but no text/letttering.Some minimal shelf-wear to lower corner tips - miniscule rubbing and subsequent colour paper loss to same,foot of spine/backstrips' gutter crease/fold with minor nicks and reciprocal colour paper loss too.Top corner tips minimally bumped with gentle curl and head of spine/ backstrip with rear-facing gutter's crease/fold having an approx. 2cm split/pull - seemingly an ubiquitous fault - with miniscule colour paper loss,and both boards with inevitable but minor laminate wrinkles and scoring/indents - but not excessive,or obtrusive.Front cover of a child reading a large book with two other smaller babies,a bear,a dog a duck,and elf peering round the back of the chair and a gollywog squeezed between the reading child's arm and arm of the chair,rear illustration of a tiger with a giraffe and a sailor and a pair of elves riding on its back,accompanied by 2 flying elves and a rabbit and a duck running alongside the tiger. Top edges aged/toned as usual/normal,but without foxing/spotting,fore-edges slightly darker ageing/toning with some minimal sporadic foxing/ spotting; contents overall,bright crisp,clean and solid - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn,7-92pp [paginated] includes 3 full-colour illustrated stories - Come to the Fair,Peaches for the Queen and The Birthday Owl respectively,9 other short stories in several 3-colour block illustrations of either b/w with blue,red,green or mustard,A painting page with colour pencilling partially attempted and childish pencilled handwriting to same's margin, another painting page minimally attempted and incomple,a double-page instruction to make a Woolly Woggie doll,a double-page blue+b/w illustrated Attwell poem,a green+b/w 3-colour block illustrated 2 verse poem (Margaret Johnson),an attempted+completed dot-to-dot puzzle,full-page green+b/w illustrated Attwell single verse poem,another double-page mustard+ b/w 3 colour-block Attwell illustrated single verse poem,a child's uninvited but completed, colour crayoned illustration to Forest Friends story (pp65) a tracing+colouring page unused and not attempted,text block of Sue's Brolly Tent story with childish handwritten blue ink-lined part/section/block of the text,and one more blue+b/w 3-colour block illustrated single verse poem.Plus [unpaginated] verso of front free endpaper with full page colour Attwell illustration - elves+characters hot-air ballooning,another similar themed colour illustrated title page with a full-page,full colour Attwell illustrated frntis to its reverse.
Described in detail,honestly and fairly - reads worse than actually is!
Visually the exterior appearance is acceptable, and even internally, the book is in an acceptable condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's age and nature, i.e. an child's ephemeral book.It is only the faults described that prevent a better grading. Despite them,it really is still an acceptable example for its scarcity and collectability.
Mabel Lucie Attwell (b. 4th June,1879 – d. 5th November,1964) was a British illustrator and comics artist,known for her cute and nostalgic drawings of children.Her drawings are featured on many postcards, advertisements,posters,books and ceramic figurines.
Educated privately and at the Coopers' Company School and at the Regent Street school.She studied at Heatherley's and Saint Martin's School of Art,but left to develop her own interest in imaginary subjects,disliking the emphasis on still-life drawing and classical subjects.As well as illustrating such children's classics as Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland, Attwell produced her own Annuals and 'midget books'.
The 'Lucie Attwell Annual' was published from 1922-1974,its continuing publication ten years after her death being made possible by extensive re-use of images.She also drew a comic-strip for the magazine,The Passing Show,and contributed to Pearsons,the Strand and many other magazines.
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Stock number: rja1029022. ISBN: No ISBN.
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ATTWELL**, MABEL LUCIE:
LUCIE ATTWELL'S READ ME A STORY POP-UP BOOK.
Imprint: CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED.
Edition: UK,slim,landscape 16mo HB,Pop-up,reprint.
Binding:
Hardback
, No dw/dj - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,slim,landscape 16mo HB,Pop-up,reprint.[First published 1970,this edn 1977.] NFINE. No owner inscrptn,absence of published price.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy/glazed,wrap-around pale pink background paper-covered boards with colour pictorial artwork by Lucie Attwell,illustrated covers with author's capitalised red-lettered name and capitalised green+black-lettered title and capitalised black-lettered publisher's name to front cover,rear cover with colour pictorial artwork by Attwell illustration,and black lettered publisher's colophon; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears or splits present.Front+ rear left-hand lower corners are minisculely rubbed with reciprocal colour paper loss - other corners unaffected.Front cover a boy running with a wheelbarrow full of anthropomorphic animal characters and elves followed by a running squirrel holding a balloon,rear covera little girl in a bathing suit holding a watering can and sprinkling a running elf with the watering can.Contents bright,clean,solid and sound - all pop-ups functional without tears, [unpaginated] 4 double-paged colour artwork by Attwell illustrations with 3 pop-ups and accompanying text,and immaculate colour pictorial illustrated pastedowns.Story title Joanna Goes For A Walk.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s age and nature, i.e. a child's ephemeral pop-up book.It really is an exceptional example for its undamaged contents/pop-ups and its cleanliness and brightness.
Mabel Lucie Attwell (b. 4th June,1879 – d. 5th November,1964) was a British illustrator and comics artist,known for her cute and nostalgic drawings of children.Her drawings are featured on many postcards,advertisements,posters,books and ceramic figurines.
Educated privately and at the Coopers' Company School and at the Regent Street school.She studied at Heatherley's and Saint Martin's School of Art,but left to develop her own interest in imaginary subjects,disliking the emphasis on still-life drawing and classical subjects.As well as illustrating such children's classics as Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland, Attwell produced her own Annuals and 'midget books'. The 'Lucie Attwell Annual' was published from 1922 - 1974,its continuing publication ten years after her death being made possible by extensive re-use of images.She also drew a comic-strip for the magazine,The Passing Show,and contributed to Pearsons,the Strand and many other magazines.
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Stock number: rja1029322. ISBN: 0603020259.
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ATTWELL**, MABEL LUCIE:
LUCIE ATTWELL'S TELL ME A STORY POP-UP BOOK.
Imprint: LONDON.DEAN & SON LTD.,1968.
Edition: UK,slim,landscape 16mo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
, No dw/dj - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,slim,landscape 16mo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and absence of published price.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy/glazed wrap-around blue background paper-covered boards with colour pictorial artwork by Lucie Attwell,illustrated covers with author's capitalised name,title and publisher's name to front cover,rear cover with colour pictorial artwork by Attwell illustration,and black lettered publisher's colophon; all with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Front cover with a boy& girl sitting on a tree branch,the boy holding a teddy bear and a doll,both surrounded by anthropomorphic animal characters and birds; rear illustration of a kneeling boy talking to a teddy bear,a giraffe and a puppy.Contents bright,clean,solid and complete - all pop-ups functional without tears,[unpaginated] 4 double-paged colour artwork by Attwell illustrations with 3 pop-ups and accompanying text,and colour pictorial illustrated pastedowns.Residual evidence of coloured pencilled scribbling over the body of the text on the first page and partially but minimaly to some of the page's pop-up,2nd pop-up also with similar but very minimal coloured pencil traces and further residual coloured pencilling again,to text body mainly of the last page and pop-up - in each case text is visible and not obliterated! Nowhere as bad as it seems to read.Described fairly and honestly.
Story title The BOOBOOS AT THE SEASIDE.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in a more than acceptable condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's age and nature, i.e. a child's ephemeral pop-up book.It really is still an acceptable example for its undamaged pop-ups and its overall cleanliness and brightness,despite the residual coloured pencil attempts.
Mabel Lucie Attwell (b. 4th June,1879 – d. 5th November,1964) was a British illustrator and comics artist,known for her cute and nostalgic drawings of children.Her drawings are featured on many postcards, advertisements,posters,books and ceramic figurines.
Educated privately and at the Coopers' Company School and at the Regent Street school.She studied at Heatherley's and Saint Martin's School of Art,but left to develop her own interest in imaginary subjects,disliking the emphasis on still-life drawing and classical subjects.As well as illustrating such children's classics as Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland, Attwell produced her own Annuals and 'midget books'. The 'Lucie Attwell Annual' was published from 1922 - 1974,its continuing publication ten years after her death being made possible by extensive re-use of images.She also drew a comic-strip for the magazine,The Passing Show,and contributed to Pearsons,the Strand and many other magazines.
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Stock number: rja1029422. ISBN: 060302002X.
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ATTWELL**, MABEL LUCIE:
LUCIE ATTWELL'S TINY RHYMES POP-UP BOOK.
Imprint: LONDON.DEAN & SON LTD.,1982.
Edition: UK,slim,landscape 16mo HB,no dw/dj, as issued,reprint.
Binding: Hardback Pop-up book., No dw/dj - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,slim,landscape 16mo HB,no dw/dj,as issued, reprint.[Originally published 1967,this edn 1982.]NFINE. No owner inscrptn,and absence of published price.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy/glazed,wrap-around orange background paper-covered boards with colour pictorial artwork by Lucie Attwell,illustrated covers with capitalised author's name,title and publisher's name to front cover,rear cover with colour pictorial artwork by Attwell illustration,and black lettered publisher's colophon; all with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Front cover of a boy wheeling a baby and puppy in a wheeled carriage flanked by various anthropomorphic animal characters: a chicken,a mouse,a penguin and a fox-like mammal,rear panel with colour illustration of a young girl opening a pop-up book,overlooked by other anthropomorphic animal charcters;bear,rabbit,puppy and a gollywog. Contents bright,clean,solid and complete - all pop-ups functional,the first opo-up being glue repaired to the two individual pop-ups,the 2nd and 3rd pop-ups functional,[unpaginated] 4 double-paged colour artwork by Attwell illustrations with 3 pop-ups and accompanying text,and immaculate colour pictorial illustrated pastedowns.Nowhere as bad as it seems to read. Described fairly and honestly.
Collection of 6 colour illustrated rhymes.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in a more than acceptable condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's age and nature, i.e. a child's ephemeral pop-up book.It really is still an acceptable copy for its mostly undamaged remaining pop-ups and its overall cleanliness and brightness,despite the repairs to first pop-up.
Mabel Lucie Attwell (b. 4th June,1879 – d. 5th November,1964) was a British illustrator and comics artist,known for her cute and nostalgic drawings of children.Her drawings are featured on many postcards, advertisements,posters,books and ceramic figurines.
Educated privately and at the Coopers' Company School and at the Regent Street school.She studied at Heatherley's and Saint Martin's School of Art,but left to develop her own interest in imaginary subjects,disliking the emphasis on still-life drawing and classical subjects.As well as illustrating such children's classics as Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland, Attwell produced her own Annuals and 'midget books'. The 'Lucie Attwell Annual' was published from 1922 - 1974,its continuing publication ten years after her death being made possible by extensive re-use of images.She also drew a comic-strip for the magazine,The Passing Show,and contributed to Pearsons,the Strand and many other magazines.
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Stock number: rja1029522. ISBN: ISBN 0603003095.
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ATTWELL**, MABEL LUCIE & assorted others:
LUCIE ATTWELL'S SLEEPYTIME TALES.
Imprint: LONDON.DEAN & SON LTD.,1970.
Edition: UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued, 1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
, No dw/dj - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.VG++. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip [6/- 30 NP] Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered tips with exception of top two corners which are gently pushed,glossy wrap-around pale blue background with a colour pictorial illustration of a boy+girl reading a book accompanied with a tiger,a car,a gollywog and a doll, repeated to rear board,with capitalised yellow lettered author name and capitalised pink with black shadowing lettered title and capitalised green with black shadowing lettered publisher name to front board,similar coloured lettering to rear board too,pale blue spine/backstrip with capitalised yellow lettered author name+title and capitalised black lettered publisher name;3-colour block illustrated endpapers- front in b/w+blue,rear endpapers in b/w+ orange; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners no major nicks,tears or splits present,other than a tiny indent to front fore-edge and miniscule creasing to rear board's gutter's fold/crease.Top+fore-edges inevitably aged/toned; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound other than a small semi-circular tear/ loss at lower/bottom edge of pp43/4 without affecting any text.UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn,8-125pp [paginated] includes 25 short stories each with 3-colour block illustrations of either b/w+red,blue,green or yellow,by assorted authors,8 illustrated single or double-paged verse/poems - 7 by ATTWELL and 1 verse/poem by Eunice Close - but all illustrated by ATTWELL,story authors include: Leslie C. Hulley (3), J. G. Metcalfe (1), Sylvia Pyke (1), John Keating (1), Charles Griffiths (1), Vera Munday (1),Reginald Brown (1), Catherine Morris (1), Sylvia Allen (1), May Kent (1), Penelope Douglas (2), Clement Wood (1),and Aileen E. Passmore (1) respectively.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally, the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its age and nature, i.e. a children’s book. It is only the minimal faults described that prevents a higher grading. Despite them, it really is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness,brightness and completeness.
Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879-1964.) Born Mile End,London,the ninth of ten children of a butcher.Studied at Regent School of Art and at Heatherley's School of Art,but,disliking the formal training, completed neither course. Married Harold Earnshaw (1908) and he is thought to have been responsible for some of the more naturalistic parts of her drawings,such as the animals.From 1911 until the end of her life she designed postcards for Valentines of Dundee. Following the success of a card depicting two children peering over the end of a bed at a mouse (entitled 'What's the good of a perfect day if you can't spend a perfect night') she developed a line in pictures of chubby children in situations with adult overtones and (possibly unconscious) suggestions of double entendre.A rapid and prolific worker,she also designed posters, advertisements,calendars,figurines and wall plaques and contributed to annuals and gift books.Some of her earlier books such as 'Peter Pan' and 'The Water Babies' were delicate and appealing but as she becme a household name her drawing became increasingly stereotyped.She worked mainly in pen and ink and watercolour. Member SWA.She died at Fowey in Cornwall, where she had lived for many years.
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Stock number: rja1050423. ISBN: No ISBN.
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ATTWELL**, MABEL LUCIE - with new poems+stories by ANNE FORSYTH:
MABEL LUCIE ATTWELL'S GOING-TO-BED TALES.
Imprint: LONDON.MICHAEL O'MARA BOOKS LIMITED,1994.
Edition: UK,slim Qrto HB,1st edn thus.
Binding:
Hardback
, No dw/dj - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued(?) - 1st edn thus.[These stories and their illustrations: 'Bunty and the Little Boos' and 'The Little Boos at the Seaside' taken in part from Attwell's earlier printed titles,circa 1921-22.The new stories and poems are by Anne Forsyth.] FINE-.No owner inscrptn,printed price to rear board. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around custard yellow paper-covered boards with colour pictorial artwork illustration,by Mabel Lucie Attwell,with capitalised blue-lettered author's name and capitalised red-lettered title to front board,blueoutlined lettering to a ubiquitously but slightly sunned/faded spine/backstrip,rear board with blue+black lettering; all with negligible shelf-wear,bumping and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Front top+bottom corners minisculely bumped and some minor indentation to front board too.Top+ fore-edges generally bright and clean with some minimal,sporadic spotting/foxing; contents bright,tight,clean - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,generally sharp -cornered,pictorial illustrated boards and clean b/w illustrated pastedowns and free endpapers. UK,8vo HB,1st edn,7-125pp [paginated] includes a mixture of stories and poems - 39 in total,each accompanied by either an illustration or illustrations,profuse colour illustrations by Mabel Lucie Attwell throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] black ink printed 'This Book Belongs to' (unused) bookplate to front free endpaper - which has a few foxing+ gubbing spots,b/w vignette illustrated separator title page with a colour pictorial frntis to it's verso,a b/w line illustrated title page,a b/w vignette illustrated contents list/table.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s age and nature, i.e. a child's ephemeral book. It is only the exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them,it really still is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness and brightness.
A bedtime collection of specially written stories and poems,traditional nursery rhymes and original Mabel Lucie Attwell stories,all accompanied by her classic illustrations.
Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879-1964.) Born Mile End, London,the ninth of ten children of a butcher. Studied at Regent School of Art and at Heatherley's School of Art,but,disliking the formal training,completed neither course.Married Harold Earnshaw (1908) and he is thought to have been responsible for some of the more naturalistic parts of her drawings,such as the animals.From 1911 until the end of her life she designed postcards for Valentines of Dundee. Following the success of a card depicting two children peering over the end of a bed at a mouse (entitled 'What's the good of a perfect day if you can't spend a perfect night') she developed a line in pictures of chubby children in situations with adult overtones and (possibly unconscious) suggestions of double entendre.A rapid and prolific worker,she also designed advertisements,posters,calendars,figurines and wall plaques and contributed to annuals and gift books.Some of her earlier books such as 'Peter Pan' and 'The Water Babies' were delicate and appealing but as she becme a household name her drawing became increasingly stereotyped.She worked mainly in pen and ink and watercolour. Member SWA.She died at Fowey in Cornwall,where she had lived for many years.
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Stock number: rja618216. ISBN: 1854799938X.
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ATTY, HENRY:
EDWARDIAN RAMBLES.
Imprint: UK.WARRINGTON.ALFRESCO BOOKS,1998.
Edition: UK,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
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With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
NMINT/NMINT.[Wrapped and protected from day of issue and purchase,therefore pristine.] No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj with red+brown letters; with virtually NO shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - and no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered paper-covered boards with dw/dj design/illustration repeated to same,with immaculate plain pale cream eps.UK,slim landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,96pp including two-colour pictorial illustrated title page,a preface,profuse colour water-colour illustrations (the majority) with some in b/w pencil,all with handwritten text/notes,throughout the text and the book.
'Edwardian Rambles' portrays Henry Atty's talent as an artist and observer of the countryside and towns he visited during his leisure time,cycling in Cheshire and Wirral,alone or with his wife and friends,
during the first years of this century (then the 20th).His talent would have gone unnoticed if what he produced had not recently been discovered at the back of a wardrobe by the grand-daughter of a friend of his,to whom he had given this journal, which he called Cycling Rambles.
Readers of this evocative,wonderfully illustrated book can delight in this craftsman's superb work with paintbrush and pencil,his knowledgeable asides about the historical and literary connections of the area,his visual and written descriptions of the flora and fauna,
churches,public houses,and so much more along the way.And one of his longest cycle rides,about twenty-five miles from his home,was to Chester,a city he depicts with well-informed artistry.
Yet it is not necessary to know this part of the North West of England to be transported back to those years just before the First World War.Here is a world which,although of this century (then the 20th),now seems far in the past - a time when it was still safe,and a pleasure,to have an exhilarating and enlightening day out on two wheels,only rarely having to cope with,as Atty puts it,'the dust of passing motor cars'.
Each page is individually illustrated and handwritten,and the occasional minor errors in spelling add to the charm and immediacy of what was produced with no intention of reaching a wide readership.
Henry Atty would almost certainly be astonished,and we think delighted,to see his work available now for all to enjoy.
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Stock number: rja497214. ISBN: 1837727100.
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ATWELL**, MABEL LUCIE:
LUCIE ATTWELL'S STORY FOR A POPPET.
Imprint: LONDON.DEAN & SON LTD.,1964.
Edition: UK,slim 12mo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
, No dw/dj - as issued?
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,slim 12mo HB,no dw/dj - as issued(?),1st edn. VG.No owner inscrptn,no publisher price present. Bright,crisp,glossy wrap-around blue background with colour pictorial artwork by Mabel Lucie Attwell,illustrated paper-covered card boards with capitalised white lettered author's name and half-shaded green+white lettered title to front board,rear board with colour pictorial vignetted illustration also by Lucie Attwell and b/w 'Dean's Little Poppet' series colophon and black lettered+numbered other titles from same series; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping and creasing to edges and corners and repeated colour pictorial artwork by Lucie Attwell, illustrated front+rear pastedowns with some minimal graphite(?) grubbing to both pastedowns and the colour illustrated title page too. Staples rusty and where attached to the boards just starting to tear and become looser - so fragile - but still attached.Some sporadic, minimal rubbing to extremities with miniscule colour paper loss.UK,slim 12mo HB,1st edn, 20pp [unpaginated] includes part-page (10) and full-page (9),full colour illustrations by Attwell within the text and the book.Story of a puppy given as a gift for the twins birthday and the escapades that followed.
Visually the exterior appearance is acceptable, and even internally,the book is also in an acceptable condition for a book of it’s age and nature, i.e. a child's ephemeral book.It is only the minimal faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them,it really is still an acceptable copy for its cleanliness and brightness.
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Stock number: rja1028822. ISBN: No ISBN.
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ATWOOD**, M[argaret] E[leanor]:
CAT'S EYE.
Imprint: LONDON.BLOOMSBURY,1989.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
,
With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Jamie Bennet,illustrated front dw/dj panel with white and other black letters,white lettered dark blue spine/backstrip,rear panel with critics' white-lettered reviews; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Some minimal, superficial scoring/indents to either dw/dj panel - but without penetration or affecting the boards beneath.Top edges with some minimal,faint dust flecking but still bright,fore-edges bright and clean without any blemish; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corners – virtually pristine,would appear unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt 5-star constellation and author's capitalised initialled design to lower fore-edge of front board, bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,rear board plain and unillustrated,a sewn-in blue silk ribbon bookmark and immaculate/clean navy blue sets of endpapers - publisher's colophon to front free endpaper,but same colophon absent from rear endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 3421pp [paginated] includes Pts I-XV (1-15) comprising varying numbers of chapters to each Pt,but 74 chapters in total; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with author's Acknowledgements and Thanks to its verso,epigrams(2),a Contents list/table, individual Pts separator pages,and to reverse of last page - a note on the author.
Visually the exterior appearance is acceptable for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the exterior faults described that prevent a higher grading.
Controversial painter Elaine Risley returns from Vancouver for a retrospective of her work. Here,in Toronto,the city of her youth,she confronts the submerged layers of her past – her unconventional family,her eccentric and brilliant brother,the self-righteous Mrs. Smeath,and the two men Elaine later came to love in diverse and sometimes disastrous ways.But it is the enigmatic Cordelia,once her tormentor, then her best friend,whose elusive yet powerful presence in her life Elaine finally comes to understand.The realm of childhood and growing up,with its secrecies,cruelties, betrayals,and terrors,has never been so brilliantly evoked.By turns disquieting,humorous,compassionate, haunting and mordant.'Cat's Eye.' is vintage Atwood.
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Stock number: rja1001122. ISBN: 0747503044.
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ATWOOD**, M[argaret] E[leanor]:
NEGOTIATING WITH THE DEAD: A Writer on Writing.
Imprint: UK.CAMBRIDGE,CAMBRIDGESHIRE.CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS,2002.
Edition: UK,small,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
,
With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,small,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Printed in USA with Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data.] FINE/FINE+.Virtually as NEW. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj (painting of 'Morality Cubes',1997,by Marianna Gartner reproduced by permission of the artist),with brown+black lettering,author b/w portrait photographic rear panel of dw/dj and white 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 - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain dark green paper-covered boards with plain dark green cloth blind spine/backstrip with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain pale green endpapers.UK, small,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xxviipp+2- 219pp [paginated] includes note on Empsom Lectures,a Contents list/table,an Introduction,a Prologue,6 Lectures,Notes,a Bibliography, Acknowledgements and an Index; plus [unpaginated] publisher's blurb,title page, epigrams/prose extracts(3),and a dedication.
The Empsom Lectures,named after the great scholar and literary critic Sir William Empson (1906-84),have been established by the University of Cambridge as a series designed to address topics of broad literary and cultural interest.Sponsored jointly by the Faculty of English and Cambridge University Press,the series provides a unique forum for distinguished writers and scholars of international reputation to explore wide-ranging literary-cultural themes in an accessible manner.
Margaret Atwood's wide and eclectic reference to other writers,living and dead,is balanced by anecdotes from her own experiences as a writer, both in Canada and on the international scene. The lightness of her touch is underlined by a seriousness about the purpose and the pleasures of writing,and by a deep familiarity with the myths and traditions of western literature.
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Stock number: rja626016. ISBN: 0521662605.
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ATWOOD**, M[argaret] E[leanor]:
ORYX AND CRAKE.
Imprint: LONDON.BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING Plc,2003.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
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With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author SIGNED+dedicated.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE-/NFINE. No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten,black ink dedication+signature thus: 'To Glenn (? - my parenthesis) best wishes Margagret Atwood' to the title page,and a price-clip to dw/dj - the clip with an accidental,but small oblique crease at it's top edge of clip.Bright,crisp,clean,matt background with randomised glossy pixels to a colour pixilated raster photographic image of a vertical half of a portrait's face to front panel of dw/dj with the other corresponding half of the photographic image to the rear panel of dw/dj with capitalised,white-lettered author's name and capitalised,pink-lettered title to front,spine/ backstrip with matt white background and capitalised,black-lettered author name and capitalised,pink-lettered title,with publisher's black illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with similarly capitalised+ coloured lettering as front panel. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges or corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges though lightly toned,still clean and bright without foxing/spotting; 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,unblemished,sharp-cornered,original paper-covered boards with bright apple-green background with randomised purple, grey and rose-pink strokes,no lettering to spine/backstrip,a dark green headband with matching sewn-in silk bookmark ribbon,and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,4-378pp [paginated] includes 15 parts/sections with varying numbers of chapters to each - 53 in total; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title page,a dedication with blank verso,2 epigrams (Jonathan Swift - 'Gulliver's Travels' and Virginia Woolf - 'To the Lighthouse') also with blank verso,a Contents list/table,a title separator page with blank verso,individual parts/section separator pages each with a blank reverse too,a 2pp blank after the last paginated page,Acknowledgements, 2pp blanks,a Note on the Author - a blank verso to same,and another 6pp blanks before the rear free endpaper.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 20 year-old age. It is only the minor described fault (light toning) that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite that,it really is STILL an exceptional and exemplary copy for its cleanliness and brightness and an uncommon SIGNED+dedicated example of the title.
Margaret Atwood's classic novel, THE HANDMAID'S TALE, was about the future. Now, in 'ORYX AND CRAKE', the future has changed. It's much worse.
And we're well on the road to it now. The narrator of Margaret Atwood's riveting new novel is Snowman, self-named though not self-created. As the story begins, he's sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. Earlier, Snowman's life was one of comparative privilege. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Was he himself in any way responsible? Why is he now left alone with his bizarre memories - except for the more-than-perfect, green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster? He explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief.
With breathtaking command of her shocking material and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into a less-than-brave new world, an outlandish yet wholly believable space populated by a cast of characters who will continue to inhabit your dreams long after the last chapter. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers.
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Stock number: rja1057723. ISBN: 0747562598.
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ATWOOD**, M[argaret] E[leanor]:
STONE MATTRESS - Nine Tales.
Imprint: LONDON.BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC,2014.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
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With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,lemon yellow background with part-glossy,part-matt, colour photographic illustrated designs to both dw/dj panels and spine/backstrip with glossy embossed red+black letters to front+spine; other black printed letters to front,and assorted authors' red+black lettered reviews to rear panel of dw/dj.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – virtually pristine - possibly unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked black lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean plain white sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-273pp [paginated] includes 9 stories; plus [unpaginated] half-title with first page of 2pp info of author's published titles to its verso, 2nd page of listed works with blank reverse, title page,a Contents list/table,title separator page,and to the rear a page each to Note on author and Type (font),each with blank versos.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.
A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband.An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing,while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire, and a crime committed long ago is revenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatalite.
In these nine tales,Margaret Atwood ventures into the shadowland earlier explored by fabulists and concoctors of dark yarns such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Daphne du Maurier and Arthur Conan Doyle - and also by herself,in her award-winning novel 'Alias Grace.'
In 'Stone Mattress.',Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.
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Stock number: rja1001622. ISBN: 9781408857168.
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ATWOOD**, M[argaret] E[leanor]:
The Blind Assassin - A NOVEL.
Imprint: LONDON.BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC,2000.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
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With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.Booker Prize winner for 2000,but no indication of such to dw/dj.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj,with brown and b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Spine/backstrip of dw/dj inevitably but lightly sunned/faded.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean,top edges very lightly and almost imperceptibly dust-soiled with faint,minimal sporadic spotting,fore-edges brighter and cleaner; 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. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,a dark green headband and similar sewn-in silk bookmark ribbon and immaculate plain maroon endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 2-521pp [paginated] includes 15(XV) Pts comprising 93 sections/chapters including an Epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,epigrams,a Contents list/table,individual Pts separator pages,and to the rear; Acknowledgements,a Note on the author,and 6pp blanks.
'Ten days after the war ended,my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.'
Thus begins 'The Blind Assassin',Margaret Atwood's stunning new novel (then 2000).
Laura Chase's older sister Iris,married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two,is living in Port Ticonderoga,a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War.While coping with her unreliable body,Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life,in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death.Chief among these was the publication of 'The Blind Assassin',a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following: as Iris says,she herself lives 'in the long shadow cast by Laura'.
Sexually explicit for its time,'The Blind Assassin' describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the run.During their secret meetings in rented rooms,the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron.As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal,so does the real one; while events in both move closer to war and catastrophe.
By turns lyrical,outrageous,formidable, compelling and funny,this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama.It is Margaret Atwood at her breathtaking best.
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Stock number: rja624416. ISBN: 0747549370.
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ATWOOD**, M[argaret] E[leanor]:
The Robber Bride.
Imprint: LONDON.BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING LTD.,1993.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
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With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE+/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictoial artwork ('Portrait of the Late Mrs Partridge') by Leonora Carrington,illustrated upper panel of dw/dj with b/w lettering,critics' b/w lettered reviews to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - front,upper corner minisculely rubbed with reciprocal loss.Top edges minimally and imperceptibly dust-soiled, but still bright and clean,fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,solid and sound, clean and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a dark maroon+ white striped headband,a sewn-in dark maroon silk bookmark and immaculate plain dark maroon endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-470pp [paginated] includes 7 parts/sections comprising 57 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,prose extracts reverse of which has Acknowledgements,a dedication page,a Contents list/table and individual Parts/sections separator pages.
In her captivating new novel (then 1993),
Margaret Atwood reports from the farthest reaches of the sex wars.The group of women and men at the centre of this wise,unsettling, drastic,funny and wholly involving story all fall prey to a chillingly recognisable menace, which is given its power by their own fantasies and delusions.
Set in Canada in the 1970's,'The Robber Bride' explores several of Atwood's favourite topics - sex,the empowerment of women,the nature of violence,and the inescapable binding of women's fates to the men they know.Loosely based on 'The Robber Bridegroom' by the Brothers Grimm,where an evil groom lures three unsuspecting women into his lair and devours them,the story follows the lives of three women who have been injured by a mutual friend,Zenia,a sociopath whose only joy is hurting people.In Atwood's charateristic style,each of them - Tony,Roz,and Charis - is in some way weak and vulnerable.
Beautiful and arrogant,Zenia befriends each woman long enough to determine what would hurt her most deeply,then steals,seduces,and casts aside the man each woman loves.The course of the novel spans less than a week,beginning at a moment of revelation for each woman,when she finds out Zenia is not, as she had believed, dead.Each is forced to deal with the threat Zenia poses to her sanity and relive her defeat at her hands.Driven to act,the three women each arrive on their own at Zenia's hotel to seek retribution but they each,independently,reach the decision not to kill her.
On the surface,this is a bleak tale that wallows in the destructive side of human emotions - envy,hatred,and retribution - but by the end,a warmer message emerges: the consolation offered by shared companionship and affection. [EF.]
Magnificently written and conceived,'The Robber Bride' is Atwood's finest novel to date.This is her 8th novel.
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Stock number: rja475114. ISBN: 0747516138.
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ATWOOD**, M[argaret] E[leanor]:
THE TENT.
Imprint: LONDON.BLOOMSBURY,2006.
Edition: UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn
Binding:
Hardback
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With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj - virtually as new - wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase.Bright,crisp,clean 3 colour block (cream,red+black) design illustrated dw/dj,with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, soiid and sound,virtually pristine and unread/untouched apart from collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked fluorescent red ink letters to spine/backstrip with immaculate plain red endpapers,a b/w headband and a red silk bookmark.UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-155pp [paginated] includes Pts I-III comprising 35 essays in total [10,14,11 respectively],6 full-page author's b/w line illustrations throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,publisher's advert to verso of author's b/w line illustrated frntis,title page,a dedication,a Contents list/table,individual Pts separator pages, Acknowledgements,Note on the author,and 5pp blanks at rear.
One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has written a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays,in the genre of her previous books 'Good Bones' and 'Murder in the Dark'.
Chilling and witty,prescient and personal, delectable and tart,these highly imaginative tales tackle a broad range of subjects, reflecting the times we live in with deadly accuracy and knife-edge precision.
Punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the author,they are vintage Atwood.
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Stock number: rja434212. ISBN: 0747582254.
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ATWOOD**, M[argaret] E[leanor]:
THE TESTAMENTS. [Sequel to THE HANDMAID'S TALE.]
Imprint: LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,Sept,10th,2019.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
,
With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] NMINT/NMINT.Wrapped+protected from day of issue/purchase,so no owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - but merest hint of tiny abrasion to front lower corner's bottom edge with miniscule colour paper loss.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,navy blue black background with 3 colour green,white and black Handmaiden's and other female silhouetted illustration by Noma Bar,to front and rear panels of dw/dj respectively,with bright,crisp,embossed white lettering to either panel and glossy white,green embossed lettered spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.A glossy red+black female portrait illustrated circular adhesive label with white lettering with 'THE SEQUEL TO THE HANDMAID'S TALE' within, to front panel of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright, clean - pristine - without any blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – again pristine,unread other than my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original matt navy blue paper-covered boards with impressed detail of respective portrait illustrations fron dw/dj design to repeated to respective board beaneath,glossy white embossed letters to spine/backstrip,a navy blue+white striped headband,a vivid green sewn-in silk bookmark ribbon and immaculate,2-colour (green, white) repetitive silhouetted pony-tailed female portrait illustraion to navy blue background sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4- 419pp [paginated] includes XXVII (27) chapters and The Thirteenth Symposium (partial transcript of its proceedings),acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] contents half-title,2pp publisher's list of author's other titles,title page,epigrams(3),a Contents list/table,b/w vignetted individual chapters' separator pages and 2pp blanks at the rear.Joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minor exterior fault described that prevent a higher grading overall and for the dw/dj in particular.
Noma Bar is an Israeli graphic designer, illustrator and artist,based in London.His work has been described as "deceptively simple", featuring flat colours,minimal detail and negative space to create images that often carry double meanings that are not immediately apparent.
Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece,'The Handmaid's Tale.' is a recognised classic.Now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.More than fifteen years after the events of 'The Handmaid's Tale',the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within.At this crucial moment,the lives of three radically different women converge,with potentially explosive results.
Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets.
As Atwood unfolds 'The Testaments',she opens up the innermost workings of Gilead as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is,and how far she will go for what she believes.
'Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well,almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in.' Margaret Atwood.
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Stock number: rja1000522. ISBN: 9781784742324.
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ATWOOD**, M[argaret] E[leanor]:
THE TESTAMENTS. ** [Sequel to THE HANDMAID'S TALE.]
Imprint: LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,Sept,10th,2019.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
,
With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
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, matt,navy blue black background with 3 colour green,white and black Handmaiden's and other female silhouetted illustration by Noma Bar,to front and rear panels of dw/dj respectively, with bright,crisp,embossed white lettering to either panel and glossy white,green embossed lettered spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Minimal bumping with reciprocal creasing to head+foot of spine/ backstrip of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges very lightly aged/toned but still bright,clean without blemish or foxing/spotting; 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,clean,sharp-cornered, original matt navy blue paper-covered boards with impressed detail of respective portrait illustrations from dw/dj design to repeated to respective board beaneath,glossy white embossed letters to spine/backstrip,a navy blue+white striped headband,a vivid green sewn-in silk bookmark ribbon and immaculate,2-colour (green, white) repetitive silhouetted pony-tailed female portrait illustration to navy blue background sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4- 419pp [paginated] includes XXVII(27) chapters and The Thirteenth Symposium (partial transcript of its proceedings),Acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] contents half-title,2pp publisher's list of author's other titles,title page,epigrams(3),a contents list/table,b/w vignetted individual chapters' separator pages and 2pp blanks at the rear.Joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minor exterior fault described that prevent a higher grading overall.
Noma Bar is an Israeli graphic designer, illustrator and artist,based in London.His work has been described as "deceptively simple", featuring flat colours,minimal detail and negative space to create images that often carry double meanings that are not immediately apparent.
Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece,'The Handmaid's Tale.' is a recognised classic.Now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.More than fifteen years after the events of 'The Handmaid's Tale',the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within.At this crucial moment,the lives of three radically different women converge,with potentially explosive results.
Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets.
As Atwood unfolds 'The Testaments',she opens up the innermost workings of Gilead as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is,and how far she will go for what she believes.
'Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book.Well,almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in.' Margaret Atwood.
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ATWOOD**, M[argaret] E[leanor]:
UP IN THE TREE. [illus by Margaret Atwood.**]
Imprint: LONDON.Bloomsbury Publishing ,plc.,2008.
Edition: UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
, No dw/dj - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued, illustrated,1st edn. [Originally published in Canada,by McClelland and Stewart,1978,this is the book's first UK publication and appearance as a 1st edn here. Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] Near MINT.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from rear cover.Publisher's original,bright,crisp,clean and sharp-cornered, paper-covered boards with white background and a narrow red border with colour illustration to front with red capialised,lettered title and brown lettered author's name,rear panel with similar bordered white background as front,but with coloured owl vignette and brown (repeated book's title) in black lettered history note on book's production etc.,and immaculate plain lilac endpapers; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean - without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread other than my own collation.UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued, illustrated,1st edn,32pp [unpaginated - includes title page,9 double-page colour illustraions,11 single-page colour illustrations - includes the colour illustrated title page; plus an unillustrated half-title with the author's (introduction?) to verso of same. Author's first children's book.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age and nature, i.e a child's book,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness.
'Up In the Tree' is the charming story of two children who decide to make their home in the leafy branches of a tree.wonderfully playful and whimsical,this is vintage Margaret Atwood.Long out of print,'Up In The Tree' was first published in 1978.
From her introduction(?):
I drew this book in the very early days of children's book publishing in Canada,We could use only two colours,as three would have been too expensive to print: hence the blue,the red,and the odd brown that is a combination of the two.I hand-lettered the entire book for the same reaso: to save on costs.I had a background in poster design and printing - in my university days in the late fifties I'd had a little serigraph poster business that I ran on the ping-pong table - so I knew how to do the lettering.The drawings were black and white pen-and-ink - I then indicated to the publisher which of the two colours should go where.The techniques were primitive - there were no computers then - and the results look a little primitive as well,but I remain very fond of this book,for sentimental reasons. - Margaret Atwood,2005.
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Stock number: rja1015822. ISBN: 9780747591924.
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AUBERGINE - Edited by:
MANCHESTER UNITED: OFFICIAL MEMBERS' HISTORY BOOK - ONE UNITED.
Imprint: LONDON.CARLTON BOOKS LTD.,2004.
Edition: UK,slim 8vo s/back original,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
UK,slim 8vo s/back original,1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn - almost as new,and unread - no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic wraps; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents crisp,bright,tight and near pristine. Slim 8vo,7-143pp [paginated] includes 15 chapters,profuse contemporary monochrome+
colour photographs throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] club crest vignetted title-page,contents list/table and introduction.
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Stock number: rja29668. ISBN: 0233001131.
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AUBREY, PHILIP:
The Defeat of James Stuart's Armada 1692.
Imprint: UK.LEICESTER.LEICESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS,1979.
Edition: UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
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With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. FINE+/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,yellow+black pictorial illustrated dw/dj (detail of 'Fireships at La Hogue,by Adriaan van Dienst - National Maritime Museum,London.) and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Spine/backstrip of dw/dj is inevitably,but lightly sunned/faded.Top edges coloured green,fore-edges crisp,bright,white and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,possibly unread? Publisher's bBright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate cream+green map (England,France and the English Channel) illustrated endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,12-192pp [paginated] includes introduction, 10 chapters,7 b/w maps (excluding endpapers),9 b/w contemporary historical illustrations/plates; Notes,Appendices(5),a Bibliography, contemporary manuscript+printed Sources, secondary Sources,and a General index; plus [unpaginated],half-title+title pages,a Contents list/table,2 lists of maps+b/w plates,and an author Preface.
This book aims to rescue from neglect a period of naval history having much in common with the Armada and Trafalgar campaigns,yet virtually unknown to the general reading public.For over 80 years (then 1979) no attempt has been made
to assess the importance of the battles of Barfleur and the Hogue,which saved England from invasion in 1692 by a Franco-Irish army already assembled in Normandy and from the danger of a second civil war had Jacobite sympathizers been given a rallying point.The account of naval operations is based almost entirely on contemporary sources and is set against the political background of the uneasy first five years of the English revolution.It leads to a more favourable view of Edward Russell,the English naval commander-in-chief,than has hitherto been accorded him.
The story of the struggle at sea that followed the flight of James II is of particular interest,not only to the naval historian,but also to the general student of war and international conflict.Many matters with which we are familiar in the twentieth century were already the subject of trial,of argument and of resolution in the seventeenth.The command and control of a large fleet,its relations with an allied navy,the degree to which a government might interfere in an admiral's conduct of operations,the defence of trade,the mounting of joint operations with the army,the administrative backing and finance for large naval and military forces - all these things and more find a place in the narrative.
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Stock number: rja482714. ISBN: 0718511689.
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AUCHINCLOSS**, LOUIS:
SKINNY ISLAND: More Tales of Manhattan.
Imprint: LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1988.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
,
With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner
inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.4-colour block (black,white,grey and gold) pictorial illustrated upper wrap+spine/backstrip artwork by Anita Turpin,and b/w literary reviews to rear wrap; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.
Minisculely bumped with miniscule reciprocal creases to head+foot of spine/backstrip but no bumped corners.Top+fore-edges slightly aged and generally clean; contents bright,tight and clean.Unblemished,plain black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-230pp includes half-title+title pages,a Contents list, and 12 stories.
It's only twelve miles long and two miles
wide,but it has more money for its area,more history packed into its relatively brief settlement,and more emotional and intellectual energy coursing through its streets than any other place on earth.
Manhattan is the setting for all of Louis Auchincloss's fiction,and it is the stage
on which those New Yorkers whose roots go down to its bedrock play out the drama of their lives.From the turn of the century to our present urban follies,these stories follow the fortunes of the socially secure and powerful as they try to cope with the changes shaped by the momentous events and growing anxieties of recent decades.Taken together,the tales weave a larger pattern of human strengths and foibles that bemuses the mind and touches the heart.The elegant prose, crystalline dialogue,immense insight into the mores, preoccupations,and afflictions of the rich,and the connoisseur's sense of both art and life are characteristic of Auchincloss - all are here,but with a depth of passion and irony exceeding anything he has accomplished in the past.
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Stock number: rja2128. ISBN: 0297792660.
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AUDEMARS, PIERRE [pseud. Peter Hodemart]:
NIGHT WITHOUT DARKNESS.
Imprint: LONDON.SELWYN & BLOUNT,1936.
Edition: UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
,
With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/GOOD-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - publisher's price (7/6 NET) to spine/backstrip. Colour pictorial artwork illustrated front panel and slightly dulled/darkened spine/backstrip of dw/dj with white lettering to both,rear panel with author's b/w portrait photograph and story precis and publisher's review,with slight discoloring and grubbing - commensurate with book's age.Front panel detached along the entirety of it's front gutter's edge with creasing,rubbing with associated but limited losses; top+lower edges small nicks and closed tears and light chipping,corner tips with some minor loss.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip also with small tears and loss at edges, but lettering present with no loss.Rear panel with some shelf-wear,creasing and chipping+rubbing to edges and corners miniscule chipping and closed tears at head+foot of spine/backstrip's gutters,rear lower corner with closed tear and some partial loss.At some stage,the dw/dj had been sellotape repaired(?), evidenced by aged sellotape 'ghosts' at internal top+bottom edges of dw/dj. Detailed description but approx 98% present,could do with sympathetic repair or restoration and included as is,for completeness.Top edges lightly toned from slight dust-soiling with faint but minimal blemishes, fore-edges brighter but also toned with faint and minimal,sporadic foxing too; contents bright,tight and exceptionally crisp and clean - virtually foxing-free,and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with a bright,crisp,blocked gilt decoration of a yacht under sail to front, lower right-hand corner and blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,plain white endpapers - front endpaper with off-set shadowing from dw/dj's inner flap,which has bled through to concomitant area of half-title page,rear endpaper similarly affected with versos of it and of the last page of publisher's catalogue too,but pastedowns clean and foxing-free,hinges solid and sound without any splits or cracking.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,9- 254pp [paginated] includes Books I-III comprising 10 chapters each respectively, 2-32pp [paginated] Spring,1936 publisher's catalogue at rear; plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,a dedication and individual Books' separator pages.Author's non-crime/mystery debut.
To Jacques Giron,painter,his art was everything and when he was at work, nothing,nobody else mattered.So it was that when he came to the little French fishing village of Aumer and saw in childlike Francine Goulard the incarnation of all the beauty of the sea and the shore,he first visualized her as an exquisite picture - then he fell in love.
Francine,enamoured by Jacque's charm,was convinced that she,too,loved him and consented to marry to marry him.And so they journeyed to Paris in search of new inspiration - but happiness was short- lived and Jacques was led to unfaithfulness.Heartbroken,Francine returned to her grandparents at Aumer,there to take up the threads of her old, tranquil life; but love came afresh to her in the form of Paul d'Amiot,a man of the sea and childhood friend - a love so deep and strong that with him she was prepared to become an outcast,facing the disapproval of both Church and people.
Author's (rare - more so with a dw/dj) debut novel,one of four that were not of crime fiction.Better known to collectors and readers,for his later published crime fiction titles,with his series characters; Monsieur Pinaud and Hercule Renard - these novels being set in France.He also wrote under pseudonym Peter Hodemart.
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Stock number: rja893420. ISBN: No ISBN.
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AUSTER**, PAUL:
MAN IN THE DARK. [Author SIGNED copy.]
Imprint: LONDON.FABER & FABER LIMITED,2008.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,SIGNED,ex-library,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
,
With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Author SIGNED - without dedication.
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,SIGNED,ex-public library,1st edn.[Complete Number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] NFINE/FINE+.An ex-public library book,so no owner inscrptn,but author's neat, black ink signature - without dedication to the title page,and no price-clip to protected dw/dj. Front free endpaper has been torn out and removed and in doing so,has slightly caught and affected part of half-title's gutter's edge.To the title page also,a 'WITHDRAWN FROM PLYMOUTH LIBRARY SERVICES' red inked library stamp and to recto of title page,an adhesive b/w library label pasted to it,and to rear pastedown is a rectangular white paper security(?) label - these are the ONLY library notations/indications to the book.Protected in a clear protective sleeve,bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around colour,
scenic photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white and fluorescent silver gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear - if any - to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,original,sharp-cornered, plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a black headband and immaculate plain,dark blue endpapers - missing ffe excepted.A tiny red ink line to top edge towards the headband.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners. Described honestly and fairly - even as an ex-library book,with the listed imperfections - it is still in exceptional condition and state.UK copies with author's signature are uncommon due to the few and infrequent personal appearances and signings of the author in/at UK signing and literay events.Author of THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES and THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS.
Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is at his daughter's house in Vermont,recovering from a car accident.When sleep refuses to come,he lies in bed and tells himself stories,struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend,Titus.
August imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the Twin Towers did not fall,and the 2000 election results led to secession,as state after state pulled away from the union,and a bloody civil war ensued.As the night progresses,August's story grows increasingly intense.and what he is so desparately trying to avoid insists on being told.
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Stock number: rja527715. ISBN: 9780571240760.
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AUSTER**, PAUL:
Travels in the Scriptorium.
Imprint: LONDON.Faber and Faber Limited,2006.
Edition: UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
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With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,silvered abstract design illustrated dw/dj,with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - though some incidental,light superficial scoring/grazing to foil-type paper - but without penetration and without affecting the boards beneath.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 - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain pale grey endpapers.UK,slim,small 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,1-130pp [paginated] includes story without chapters or chapter numeration; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and 8pp blanks at the rear.
An old man sits in a room,with a single door and window,a bed,a desk and a chair.Each day he awakes with no memory,unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room.Attached to the few objects around him are one-word,hand-written labels and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photographs and four piles of paper.Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment,but also of love and promises.
Who is this Mr Blank,and what is his fate? What does Anna represent from his past - and will he have enough time to ever make sense of the clues that arise?
After the huge success of 'The Brooklyn Follies','Travels in the Scriptorium' sees Auster return to more metaphysical territory.A dark puzzle,and a game that implicates both reader and writer alike,it is an ingenious exploration of language, responsibility and the passage of time.
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Stock number: rja702717. ISBN: 0571232558.
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AUSTIN, STEPHEN:
The 'Cornish Riviera Express' - A VIEW FROM THE PAST.
Imprint: UK.SHEPPERTON,SURREY.IAN ALLAN LIMITED,2000.
Edition: UK,slim 8vo HB,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
, No dw/dj - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,slim 8vo HB,1st edn.FINE+.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - as issued - loosely laid in,a facsimile GWR railway poster (1904) postcard.Bright,crisp,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork,by George F. Heiron,illustrated boards,with red,orange and black lettering;
with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners and immaculate double-page,
contemporary railway+locomotive scenic b/w
photographic illustrated endpapers.Top+fore -edges clean; contents bright,tight,clean -pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners would appear uread - apart from my own collation.UK,slim 8vo HB, 1st edn,3-112pp [paginated] includes b/w photographic part-illustrated contents
list/table,prologue,4 chapters and an epilogue,profuse b/w contemporary railway+
locomotive photographs throughout the text
and the book.
The 'Cornish Riviera Express' is one of the greatest names in British railway
history.Starting in the first decade of the 20th century,the Great Western Railway's prestigious service from London to Penzance maintained it's premier status well into the postwar British Rail era.All those who are interested in the great days of British steam railways will find that this latest addition to Ian Allan Publishing's 'A View From the Past' series provides a superb illustrated history of this service,and its locomotives and rolling stock.Looking for other railway-related titles@ Then check out my GENERAL catalogue - some with book ID prefix rjap+number,others rja+number.
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Stock number: rja552015. ISBN: 0711027234.
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AUSTIN, R[obert] S[argent]:
WARWICK,LEAMINGTON & KENILWORTH - A SKETCH-BOOK.
Imprint: LONDON.A & C BLACK LTD,nd (but circa1920).
Edition: UK,slim 8vo HB,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
, No dw/dj,as issued?
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,slim 8vo HB,1st edn.[Though undated, believed to be circa 1920.Also believed to be his first published book and first in the series of Sketch Books he illustrated. Known for Surrey: A Sketch-Book (1922) from this same series.) VG++.Neat,black ink owner name+date to top,left-hand corner of front pastedown,with ffe partially removed,leaving an approx 1" vertical edge/border.Top+fore-edges aged/ toned - as usual/normal - contents bright, tight and clean with virtually no foxing/ spotting.Generally clean,beige,textured, coarse-weave-patterned paper-covered bds with miniscule rubbing to edges and corners and to spine/backstrip edges and minimal shelf-wear,b/w line illustrated paper onlay illus+title to upper bd.Slim 8vo HB,48pp [unpaginated] includes 24 b/w pencil like line illus/sketches (includes b/w line illus title page) - rectos of ilustrations are blank.No text apart from illustrations title+artist name and list of sketches page.
Robert Sargent Austin (1895-1973).Worked as Robert Austin.Born in Leicester,brother of painter and etcher F.G. Austin.Studied part-time at Leicester School of Art from the age of seven,and full-time from the age of thirteen (1909-11).Worked as an apprentice printer and lithographer (1911-1913).
Attended the Royal College of Art on a scholarship (1914-16 and 1919-1922) studying engraving under Frank Short. Served in the Royal Artillery (1916-19). Studied engraving on a scholarship at the British School in Rome (1922-23); elected to the Faculty(1926).Travelled in Germany, then returned to England(1925).Teacher of engraving at the Royal College of Art (1927-44) and Professor of Graphic Design (1948-55).He became known during the 1920's for his etchings and etching/ engravings of Italian figure subjects, which were drawn with great precision, somewhat in the manner of Durer.A sensitive topographer,he produced pencil landscape illustrations for travel books on which he collaborated with his wife Ada Harrison.His illustrative work also included humorous figures sketches for children's books and small but very striking b/w line drawings for G.K. Chesteron's 'The Ballad of the White Horse'.
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Stock number: rja425712. ISBN: No ISBN.
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AVALLONE, MICHAEL.
THE SATAN SLEUTH: No. 1 - FALLEN ANGEL.
Imprint: LONDON.MEWS BOOKS [NEL.],April 1976.
Edition: UK,slim 12mo p/b 1st edn.
Binding: Paperback., No dw/dj,p/back as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,slim 12mo p/b 1st edn.[Originally and first published US as p/back Original by WARNER Paperback Library,November,1974. This the first UK,p/back 1st edn and the first title of that series.] VG+.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover.Bright,clean.colour pictorial artwork illustrated front cover with yellow-outlined red and plain white lettering to same and the spine/backstrip,rear panel with yellow, red and white lettered blurb; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Small corner creases to top front+rear corners of covers and reading creases to spine.Top edges aged with a small stain,fore-edges also aged but to a lesser degree' contents tight,solid with page-edge toning but no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners; included internally,an unused attached contemporaneous,perforated business card for Co-Operative Insurance Society Ltd,between pp80/1.
AN uncoomon,vintage pulp p/back 1st edn.
From the moment Philip St. George saw the butchered and mangled corpse that had once been his beautiful wife,Dorothy,he became a man with a terrible mission.
For the bloody handiwork was that of an obscene and blasphemous cult of Devil Worshippers - and so Philip St. George dedicated himself to destroying all those who followed the way of Satan.
He became a crusader against The Evil One and all his minions on earth - THE SATAN SLEUTH!
A new (then 1974) but short-lived suspense series with loose themes of Satanists,werewolves,and shapeshifters etc began in the US,January 1974 to January, 1976,with just 3 titles: 'The Werewolf Walks Tonight' and 'Devil,Devil' as last title published.
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Stock number: rja928721. ISBN: 452000017.
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AVERY**, RN,(Retd.), Lieut.Commander K. R:
A DOSE OF SALTS. **
Imprint: UK,BRAUNTON,DEVON.MERLIN BOOKS LTD.,1988.
Edition: UK,small 8vo wraps,p/back 1st edn.
Binding: Paperback., Nodw/dj - p/back - as issued.
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,small 8vo wraps,p/back 1st edn. NMINT. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from rear cover.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy navy blue background with Navy's Medical Branch uniform's badge illustration and white lettering to front card cover,white lettering to navy blue spine/ backstrip which has no reading creases,rear cover with author's thumbnail b/w portrait photograph and black lettered potted biography of author to a white background.Negligible shelf-wear,if any,no bumping,no creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present either.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; 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.UK,small 8vo wraps,p/back 1st edn,v-xiiipp+17-270pp includes a Foreword by Surgeon Vice-Admiral G.J. Milton-Thompson,QHP,FRCP,Medical Director General (Naval),unpaginated contents list/table,an an Appreciation by Surgeon Rear-Admiral J. Cox,OBE, MB,BS,FFARCS (CA),an illustrations list/table, acknowledgements,author's Introduction,Pts 1-4 comprising 5,6,7 and 1 chapters respectively, profuse b/w contemporary b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and individual Pts separator pages.
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 it’s age and its nature, i.e. an ephemeral p/back book.It really is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness and brightness.
The medical side of the Royal Navy at its grass roots has never been recorded.Here is a narrative which covers this aspect and is informative and of historical value.It gives a good picture of a rating's life on foreign stations prior to WW2,it tells of conditions prevailing in Plymouth during the Blitz and describes operations in the Mediterranean in which HMS Stalker took part in 1942/43.
The books title alludes to the dispensation of Epsom and other Salts in Medicine,the salty seas,and Old Salts - the sailors.
A copy of the manuscript is now preserved at the Imperial War Museum which sets great store on its value.
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Stock number: rja1035922. ISBN: 0863033806.
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AVERY, HAROLD:
THE MARLCOT MYSTERY.
Imprint: LONDON.WARD,LOCK & CO.,LIMITED,1935.
Edition: UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
,
With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.
UK,thick 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG+. FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Matt,colour pictorial artwork by Frank Marston,illustrated front panel - illustration repeated from an internal b/w illus,and ubiquitously darkened spine/ backstrip with colour illustration detail and red+black lettering to both,rear panel wih darkened white background with blue ink lettered publisher's advert for 'The TOWER SERIES' of copyright gift books; some negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing with fold-overs to some,to edges and corners.Some minimal creasing,3 of 4 corner tips rubbed with some miniscule loss,small closed splits at both head+foot of spine/backstrip's front gutter,some minimal cresing,chipping to head with small loss,top,rear and top front gutters each with small missing portions - no other major nicks,tears or splits,but still approx. 99% present.Top+fore-edges bright and fairly clean with very faint and very minimal sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean with very minimal foxing - majority of text body foxing-free,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 taupe cloth bds with bright,crisp,black ink illustration to front with black ink lettering,similar lettering to spine/ backstrip,rear board/cover plain and undecorated but with some light,but sporadic mottling to it's lower edge,plain white pastedowns immaculate,but verso+ recto of front+rear free endpapers respectively,each with a narrow band of off-set shadowing from dw/dj's inner flaps.UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7- 255pp [paginated] includes contents list table,XXIII (23) chapters,4 b/w illustrations by Frank Marston - frntis included,interspersed throughout the text and the book - all called for and present, plus [unpaginated] blank,half-title,b/w illustrated frntis,and title page.
Harold Avery (1867–1943) was an English author of children's literature,who wrote school stories for both boys and girls.
Basil Severn and Dick Ferris,his school friend,bored in the holidays,receive permission to fish in the lake at Marlcot Hall,a deserted mansion in the neighbourhood.While fishing,they take it into their heads to look over the Hall,and find a curious steel spike which completely puzzles them.From then on they have no chance of being bore,for the holiday becomes filled to the brim with excitement and adventure.
Another uncommonly presentable item,this example has survived exceptionally well, particularly with the dw/dj's protection - particularly in respect to the book,and unusually,without the usual major discolouration and other imperfections usually encountered or expected in a children's book of this age.
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Stock number: rja895320. ISBN: No ISBN.
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AWDRY,CHRISTOPHER**:
THOMAS AND THE EVIL DIESEL.
Imprint: LONDON.KAYE & WARD,1987.
Edition: UK, landscape 8vo HB,1st edn.
Binding:
Hardback
, No dw/dj,as issued.
UK,slim landscape 8vo HB,1st edn.NFINE.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj,as issued.Bright,
crisp,clean,colour pictorial illustrated glazed bds; with negligible shelf-wear and bumping to edges and corners,and clean,
plain white eps.Some inevitable slight scoring/indentations to both bds.Top+fore- edges generally bright and clean; contents
bright,tight and clean also.Ffe+title-page
have a light accidental crease,the title- page also lightly spotted/foxed(?).UK,slim, landscape 8vo,32pp [unpaginated] includes near full-page,full colour illustrations by Clive Spong pages,with lines of text to foot of same.
Diesel had come to help the Fat Controller while Percy was away being mended.He was delighted to be back,but Thomas and Toby were not so pleased to see him.They remembered the tricks he had played on Duck the last time he came.The trucks remembered too."Here's Evil Diesel," they whispered to each other.
This made Diesel very angry and before he
knew it he was causing trouble again.
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Stock number: rja437012. ISBN: 0434928070.
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AWDRY,THE REV. W:
Thomas the Tank Engine: The Railway Series [3 volumes].
Imprint: LONDON.EGMONT CHILDREN'S BOOKS LTD.,1998/9.
Edition: UK,32mo HB,1st edn thus.
Binding:
Hardback
, No dw/dj - as issued?
UK,32mo HB,1st edn thus.[Vols No. 2,
3 and No. 13.The 3 vols offered as one purchase.Can be split if needed,
each originally retailed £4.99,but can bought @ £3.50 each singly.] FINE.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - as
issued? Bright,crisp,clean,matt colour pictorial artork illustrated,
sharp-cornered card bds,with either yellow,orange,red and black lettering,and colour pictorial illustrated endpapers; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents 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.UK,32mo HB,1st edn(s) thus,64pp [unpaginated],colour illus
by C. Reginald Dalby,John T. Kenney. Volume 2 - 'Thomas the Tank Engine'
contains stories: 'Thomas and Gordon','Thomas's Train', 'Thomas and the Trucks',and 'Thomas and the Breakdown Train'.Originally published in 1946,this edn 1998.(Front pastedown+free endpaper each have colour cartoon adhesive label fixed to centre of each.) Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.
Volume 3 - 'James the Red Engine' contains stories: 'James and the Top-Hat','James and the Bootlace',
'Troublesome Trucks',and 'James and the Express'.Originally published in 1948,this edn 1998.Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.
Volume 13 - 'Duck and the Diesel Engine' contains stories: 'Domeless Engines','Pop Goes the Diesel',
'Dirty Work',and 'A Close Shave'.
Originally published in 1958 and this edn 1999.Complete number line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4.
Since April 2013,and again in March
2015,and again in this year too,the
UK Post Office has increased it's Pricing in Proportion template,
altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too!
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Stock number: rja607616. ISBN: 0434803782.
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