Resultados de búsqueda: non fiction jan 2015 from Black Cat Bookshop

London: Leonard & Virginia Wolfe at The Hogarth Press. Translated by W J H Sprott. Dustwrapper a little chipped at edges & unevenly faded . Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 1937.

UK: Frith Book Company Ltd. Photographs from the Francis Frith Collection. Large format softback full of nostalgic black & white photos & accompanying text . Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 2004.

Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. The story of the Irish Regiments in the Great war 1914-18. Larger format softback. 498 pages including detailed index . Very Good. Soft cover.

USA: University Of California Press. Numerous contributors. History / Asian studies. Large format softback. 617 pages including index. Spine a touch sunned & minor irregular sunning to boards . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1983.

London & Boston: Reeves & Turner. Collected & annotated by Walter Hamilton. Includes parodies of the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bret harte, Thomas Hood, Reverend C Wolfe. Volume 1. Armourial book plate of W H Brace MD. Green cloth, titled gilt. Top edge gilt. Boards a little marked on rear & damp stain near front outer hinge. Inner hinges starting to pull a little. 1/- stamped on front endpaper corner . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1884.

London: Whittaker & Co. Around 20 pages of plates showing awards, honours, arms etc. Beige cloth, heavily decorated & titled in gilt on upper board, spine titled head to foot in gilt. Original 1850 ownership signature on front endpaper. Also some pencil notes here. Publishers 32 page catalogue bound-in at rear. Covers showing minor signs of wear / ownership with minor splits, mostly to hinges. Prelims have minor foxing. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1850.

USA: University Of Rochester Press. Tiny name & numbers in ink at base of blank endpaper . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1996.

London: Thames & Hudson. The 2nd of the Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures. Presentation copy (plate on inner front endpaper). Olive green cloth, titled gilt. Without dustwrapper - in slipcase as issued. Spine just a touch age toned. Black & white illustrations throughout . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1970.

UK: Highclere Thoroughbred Racing. Photos by Adri Berger & Colin Turner. Includes an 8 page & covers stapled card booklet on "The Housemaster Syndicate". dark blue cloth, titled silver. No dustwrapper as issued? Horseracing . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2002.

London: Herbert Jenkins. Cecily Kent's new methods of divination clearly explained. 3 colour plates & 8 black & white illustrations in text. Possibly 1930's. Orange cloth, titled black. Spine a touch age toned. Closed page edges a trifle foxed. . Very Good. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition.

UK: Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd. Colour frontis & nice selection of colour photos of the inside of The Reform Club. With the compliments slip of the author Colette Littman laid-in . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1991.

Chinese poetry. Dual text in English & Chinese. All publishing details in Chinese so possible 1st edition. 447 pages. Decorated covers, blossoms & a butterfly. Spine has light reading creases . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1971.

London. Undated first edition. Privately published by the author. A detailed study with useful index. Green cloth (what else?) with gilt titles & image of Robin Hood drawing a bow on the front. Spine just a shade sunned & one corner lightly bumped. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1951.

London: The Women's Press. Larger format softback with colour & black & white illustrations throughout. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1987.

London: David & Charles. Development, testing, 70 tables of information, black & white photos etc all about this famous outboard / inboard boat engine. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1980.

UK: M & P Medical & Technical Publishing. A detailed study. Numerous black & white photos . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1970.

Columbo: Ceylon Daily News / General Publishers Ltd. Illustrated with black & white photos by the author. Minor alterations to this edition by the author. Beige paper covered boards decorated with an axe & title in red. Plain camel coloured cloth spine . Very Good. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. 1945.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Numerous black & white plates including 3 fold-out plates. Dustwrapper has 3 small closed tears. An uncommon book. Revised & enlarged edition of 1938 classic "Zen Buddhism & It's Influence On Japanese Culture . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st thus. 1959.

London: Granada. Autobiography of healer & clairvoyant. Foreword by Michael Bentine. Black & white photos. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1983.