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Price: £30.00
Publisher: U.S.A., Authorhouse: 2011
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 019631
v +262pp, index, 10pp illustrations, 3 appendices. Blue boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Signed by the author on half title 'With very best wishes, Maurice Abney-Hastings'. Underneath is 11/500 with authors initials alongside, indicating that this is perhaps one of a limited edition. Included is a small pamphlet 'Karteria - The Story of the First Steam Paddle Ship used in Naval Warfare' by Dianne Williams. View more info
By: Adams, Tony / with Ian Ridley
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, CollinsWillow: 1998
Edition: Reprint
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 022434
288pp, index, 2 appendices, 24pp illustrations. Black boards, light browning to pages, a VG copy in (slightly edge rubbed) dustwrapper. Flat signed on title page by the author. View more info
By: Ambler, Eric
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022707
234pp, 13 illustrations. Blue boards, general light ageing, light wear, a VG copy in (small chip to one corner) dustwrapper. View more info
By: An Old Potter (Charles Shaw) / with an Introduction By Robert Spence Watson
Price: £75.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co: 1903
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021409
xv + 258pp, index, not illustrated. Red boards, rubs to spine head/tail. a few minor marks spine sunned, general foxing to contents, overall a Good copy without dustwrapper. Autobiography of the author, his life growing up in the Potteries. View more info
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Bicester, Primrose Hill Press Ltd: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021861
xii + 426pp, index, further reading, notes, 399 illustrations. Blue cloth boards, minor marks very slight lean to spine, overall a VG copy in (slight edge creasing) dustwrapper. This is the first book to be published on Robert Gibbings which encompasses his whole life and provides a context for his work and achievements. Many of the illustrations, of Gibbing's own work and those recording his life, are previously unpublished. Heavy book, UK at standard rate, overseas at ... View more info
By: Andrews, Surgeon Captain OW
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Ernest Benn Ltd: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 017484
359pp + x + folding chart at rear, illustrations, index, appendix. Gilt on blue boards, slight edge rubbing, slight dulling to spine, general light foxing only, mainly to endpapers, a Good+ solid tight copy without dustwrapper. Gift inscription from the author to his (un-named) god-daughter, dated March 1927, frontispiece of the author signed and dated February 1927. View more info
By: Anon
Price: £50.00
Publisher: London, Art and Book Company:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021716
50pp, 8 plates (7 called for), all tissue guarded, errata slip, 2 relevant newspaper obituaries. White boards, edges browning, a few marks, patterned endpapers, general foxing to contents, creases to one tissue guard, some crinkling to pages. Overall a Good copy. Undated gift inscription from R Dering (Rebecca, formerly Ferrers, nee Orpen) to 'The Rev Bernard Grafton, In Memoriam of EHD'. View more info
By: Anonymous (Coleridge, Henry Nelson)
Price: £125.00
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1826
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022369a
332pp, not illustrated. Half bound in calf over marbled boards, some edge rubbing, bookplate of Marmion Edw'd Ferrers, Baddesley Clinton, to front pastedown, general light ageing, overall a Good+ copy. Published anonymously, it was written by HN Coleridge (ref British Library). View more info
By: Appleyard, JE (Edited by) / Appleyard, Major John Geoffrey
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, Blandford Press: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022830
191pp, illustrations. Blue boards, a few minor rubs/marks, general foxing, a VG copy in a Good (chipped with internal tape repair and small edge losses, to be supplied in a removable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. The story of Major John Geoffrey Appleyard, based upon his correspondence before his death in 1943, when he was 2nd in command of the new 2nd SAS Regiment. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: St. Jacques: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015360
clxxxi pp, card wrappers, 4 illustrations. Undated, circa 1990. The author was born c. 1910 into the well-known Scottish family, from whence came the only Scottish missal to survive the reformation. Scarce. View more info
By: Arnot, R Page
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, The William Morris Society: 1957
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 019380
26pp, 1 of 350 copies printed. Card covers, slight creasing to upper front corner otherwise light wear only, a VG copy. View more info
By: Ashmore, Sir Edward / Grove, Eric (Editor)
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Stroud, Sutton Publishing Ltd: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 020086
vi + 282pp, index, 32pp illustrations. Blue boards, light wear only, a VG copy in a Good+ (edge chipping with small loss, to be supplied in a removable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. Detail of life as an Officer and then in higher command in the post-war Royal Navy. View more info
By: Atkins, William
Price: £12.50
Publisher: London, Saint Bride Foundation Printing School: 1917
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022287
16pp. Oversize card covers, edge a little frayed, 6mm split to spine head, contents VG, overall a Good tight copy. View more info
By: Awdry, George
Price: £20.00
Publisher: George Awdry: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021400
72pp, illustrations. Red card covers, a VG copy. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1957
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017357
290pp, index, 15pp plates. Blue boards, light ageing only, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Ball, F.C.
Price: £36.00
Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016651
xiii + 266pp, index, appendix, 8pp plates. Brown boards, top edge red, light foxing mainly to endpapers and edges, minor edge marks, overall a near VG copy in VG dustwrapper. Uncommon View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Shropshire, Laundry Cottage Books: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 022337
301pp, black and white photographs. Softback, small rub to base of rear cover otherwise a VG copy. Flat signed by the author on title page. View more info
By: Bantock, Myrrha
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, JM Dent & Sons Ltd: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021683
xi + 203pp, index, list of principal works, 16pp illustrations, music examples and line drawings in text, top edge of pages coloured green. Black boards, light ageing only, a VG copy in a near VG (small corner loss, price-clipped) dustwrapper. View more info
By: Baring-Gould, S
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co: 1949
Edition: Twelfth Edition
Seller ID: 022763
vii + 248pp. Red boards, light wear, general light ageing to contents, a VG copy in a Good (edge chipped with small loss mainly to spine head/tail, price-clipped) dustwrapper. View more info
By: Bate, Jonathan
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, Viking: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021815
xii + 500pp, index, references, illustrations. Black boards, light wear and ageing, a VG copy in dustwrapper. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Shrewsbury, Airlife Publishing Ltd: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017546
192pp, index, bibliography, 11 appendices, photographs, including 8pp in colour. Blue boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. The author was one of Britain's greatest pilots, this book includes his wartime reminiscences together with experiences as Chief Test Pilot for the English Electric Canberra, and later one of only 3 pilots to fly the ill-fated TSR2. Scarce. View more info
By: Bearman, Robert
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Stroud, Sutton Publishing Ltd: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021122
viii + 88pp, index, sources and notes, appendix, illustrations. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. View more info
By: Beauchamp, RH
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Regency Press (London & New York) Ltd: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022427
102pp, 2 appendices, 32 illustrations. Brown boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Bednall, Dundas
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Pembrokeshire, Paterchurch Publications: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 018693
140pp, index, references, illustrations. Softback, light reading wear, a VG copy. The author's career in the RAF during WW2 on Sunderland Flying Boats in the Mediterranean and later in Africa. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Janet Bee: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016743
52pp, 27 illustrations. Softback, colour fading to spine and adjacent edges otherwise a VG clean tight copy. Biography of an organist, of local interest to Worcester and Malvern. View more info
By: Beesley, Patrick (Foreword By Captain SW Roskill)
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017398
xxv + 345pp, index, bibliography, 8pp illustrations, maps. Green boards, light ageing only, very slight spine twist, a VG clean tight copy in (slight spine fading) dustwrapper. Biography of John Godfrey who was appointed Director of Naval Intelligence in 1939. View more info
By: Bennett, Paula
Price: £10.00
Publisher: USA, University of Illinois Press: 1990
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 020395
xv + 300pp, index, notes, not illustrated. Card covers, slightly sunned, light ageing to contents, a VG copy. View more info
By: Beria, Sergo / Edited By Francoise Thom / English Translation By Brian Pearce
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd: 2001
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 022865
xvii + 397pp, indexes, biographical notes, bibliography, notes, appendix, 16pp plates. Softback, reading creases, overall a VG copy. View more info
By: Berthoud, Roger
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, The Hart Gallery: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 020217
120pp, bibliography, biographical notes, illustrated including 64 colour plates. Large format softback, slight edge rubbing/creasing to covers, overall a VG copy. Text in English/German/Spanish. Undated, assumed to be 1996 1st edition. View more info
By: Birks, Tony
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Dorset, Alphabooks Ltd: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021227
224pp, bibliography, chronology, illustrations throughout, many in colour. The story of the life of Lucie Rie, her friendship with Bernard Leach and Hans Coper and illustrates a wide range of work from tableware to specially commissioned pots. Brown cloth boards, a VG copy in (price-clipped, slightest colour fading to spine and adjacent edges, slight edge creasing) dustwrapper. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Andre Deutsch: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 015756
192pp, illustrated by Paul Cox. Cream boards, general slight browning to pages, otherwise a VG clean tight copy in (price-clipped, slight colour fading to spine) dustwrapper. Signed by author on front endpaper. View more info
By: Blake, Cameron
Price: £18.00
Publisher: South Africa, Zebra Press: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 030040
xvii + 310pp, bibliography, glossary, sources, 6 appendices, not illustrated. Softback, light browning to contents, light reading wear, slight fading to spine, a VG copy. National Service recollections by over 40 former conscripts. View more info
By: Bleakley, David
Price: £12.50
Publisher: Oxford, Mowbrays: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 017128
xi + 204pp, index, 5 appendices, references, 16pp plates. Blue boards, light wear only, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Dated gift inscription to 'Lord Edmund-Davies' to the front endpaper, signed by the author. View more info
By: Bloom, Harold (Edited and with an Introduction by)
Price: £20.00
Publisher: USA, Chelsea House Publishers: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016661
x + 188pp, index, bibliography, a collection of 14 essays. Maroon boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Boardman, A.W.
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Stroud, Sutton Publishing Ltd: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021913
x + 230pp, index, bibliography, notes, 8pp plates. Black boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Biography of the character immortalised by Shakespeare in Henry IV, his background, overbearing family and his rise to fame which brought him into direct conflict with the king. View more info
By: Boteler, Captain John Harvey / Bonner-Smith, David (Editor)
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, The Navy Records Society: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 018067
xiii + 272pp, index, map. Quarter bound in blue buckram over grey boards, gilt banding and decoration, light wear, light foxing mainly to rough cut edges, a few pages uncut. Pencilled notes to rear endpaper, occasional pencil marks to text, easily removed but left for interest, overall a VG copy, no dustwrapper as issued. View more info
Price: £42.00
Publisher: London, The Historians' Press: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 018298
vii + 224pp, index, bibliography. Blue boards, light wear only, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Bret, David
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Robson Books Ltd: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 030130
viii + 296pp, index, bibliography, 5 appendices, 16pp black and white photographs. Mauve boards, slight foxing to top edge of pages, overall a VG copy in (small mark to rear) dustwrapper. View more info
By: Brode, Anthony
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Elek Books: 1956
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 016693
183pp. Brown boards, slight sunning to spine, general foxing with spotting to page edges, overall a Good clean copy in a Fair-to-Good (edge chipped with loss mainly to spine and adjacent top edge, to be supplied in a removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. Interesting dedicated gift inscription from the author to front pastedown. View more info
By: Brodsky, Joseph
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Viking: 1986
Edition: Fifth Edition
Seller ID: 022699
501pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth over buff paper boards, light wear and ageing, a VG copy in (slightly edge creased) dustwrapper. View more info
By: Broonzy, William (as Told to) Bruynoghe, Yannick / Dance, Stanley (Foreword)
Price: £500.00
Publisher: London, Cassell & Co: 1955
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 018359
xii + 139pp, index, discography, 8pp photographs plus frontispiece, 4 drawings by Paul Oliver. Gilt on brown boards, light foxing mainly to endpapers, occasional minor marks, overall a VG tight copy in a Good (edge chipped/tears with small losses, general browning/minor marks to rear panel, not price-clipped, to be supplied in a removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. Signed 'Big Bill Broonzy' on 1/2 title page. Very scarce. View more info
By: Brown, Tommy
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Hampshire, Navigator Books: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022021
vii + 308pp, illustrations. Card covers, a few reading creases, creases to corner tips of a few pages, overall a VG copy. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: USA, William B Eerdmans Publishing Co: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 019986
viii + 207pp, index, bibliography, 16pp plates. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Grayson & Grayson: 1933
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 030197
292pp, index, 26 illustrations. Black boards, fraying to spine head/tail, split to rear spine joint over 8cm, but still firmly attached, a few rubs/bumps/marks to boards. General foxing to contents, pencilled name to front endpaper, overall a Fair-to-Good copy of a scarce book, no dustwrapper. This is the first reprint, one month after the first edition. The author was the first of Gladys Cooper's three husbands, and was the originator of the Buck's Fizz as well as the f... View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Surrey, Plateway Press: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 018138
64pp, illustrated throughout. Softback, an excellent clean tight copy. Engineering biography of HCS Bullock, who built live-steam model locomotives in his spare time! He is best known for 12 large passenger locomotives built 1931 - 1937. View more info
By: Burnett, Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Hertfordshire, Blenheim Press Limited: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022082
ix + 324pp, index, illustrations, some in colour. Softback, laminate lifting very slightly at page edges, light ageing and wear only, overall a VG copy. A distinguished career in the RAF, followed by 10 years as Chairman of the All England Club, Wimbledon. View more info
By: Burnett, Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian
Price: £16.00
Publisher: Hertfordshire, Blenheim Press Limited: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022083
ix + 324pp, index, illustrations, some in colour. Softback, slight creasing to covers and a few pages, light ageing mainly to top edge of pages, overall a near VG copy. A distinguished career in the RAF, followed by 10 years as Chairman of the All England Club, Wimbledon. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: USA, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.: 2003
Edition: First Thus
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 017811
xii + 187pp, index, chronology, notes. Softback, a VG clean tight copy. Signed and dated to 1/2 title, almost certainly by the author. View more info
By: Butcher, Cyril / Foreword By Beverley Nichols
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1934
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021629
224pp + 12pp adverts at rear, 8 illustrations. Red cloth boards, Boots Library label to front, slight spine fading, slight rubbing/bumping to edges, remains of library label to rear pastedown, small internal loss to front board hinge, foxing throughout, short edge tears to 1 plate, overall a Good tight copy, no dustwrapper. 35 celebrities featured. Undated, assumed 1934 1st edn (ref British Library). View more info
By: Bye, Ranulph / Richie, Margaret Bye (text)
Price: £25.00
Publisher: U.S.A., Haverford House Inc: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 018354
viii + 128pp, index, bibliography, glossary, 94 plates, many in colour. Gilt on red boards, small mark to front board, overall a VG clean tight copy in (short closed edge tear, slight fading to spine and adjacent edge, price-clipped) dustwrapper. View more info
