Resultados de búsqueda: Libros de Paul Haynes Rare Books

First edition. The Aquarian Press. London. 1954. Octavo. 147pp. Text illustrations. Original green cloth, in original dust wrapper, chipped, with closed tears. A crisp bright textblock. Chapters include Automatic Script, Materialisation, Mrs Annie Brittain, Mrs Estelle Roberts, Spiritualism, Materialism

The American University in Cairo Press. Cairo, Egypt. 1999. Quarto. viii, 151pp. Numerous photo illustrations and plates. Original paper covers. A nice copy.Colin Osman (1926-2001) Photographer, writer and collector, the founder and editor of the seminal photographic magazine Creative Camera.Compiled from the private archive of Colin Osman, featuring pioneering photographic techniques including calotypes by Robert Murray dating back to 1852, and coloured photographs made using the PZ process. This is a unique compilation of early images of Egypt, many never before published.

First edition. Christopher Davies. Llandybie. 1966. 46pp. Original cloth, slightly darkened to exposed edges, in original protected dust wrapper. A nice copy.

First edition. Viking Penguin. London. 1986. Small quarto. 144pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Original brown cloth, gilt to spine, in the original dust wrapper. A near fine copy with no inscriptions. Freya Stark (1893-1993) a fearless and indomitable traveller. Her unique collection of photographs range from North Africa to the Levant, South Arabia to Turkey, Persia, Soviet Central Asia, China, the Alps, Himalayas, the gorges of the Tigris, the arid wastes of Central Asia and the lush palm groves of the Wadi Hadhramout, the wilds of Kurdistan. She sought hospitality among Shamar Bedouin, Kashgar herdsmen, Kurdish camel-herders and yurt-dwelling Turkomans. Many of her photographs evoke a world now inaccessible. Her godson Malise Ruthven adds to her writings with a short biography.

David and Charles. Newton Abbott. 1970. [Originally published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. London. 1912] xii, 532pp. Original blue cloth, gilt to spine. In the original dust wrapper, chipped to edges, with short closed tear and crease to fold and light red biro line. Some spotting to lower edge.An important work with source footnotes and a useful bibliography covering the evolution and development of roads, navigable rivers, canals, railways, tramways, buses, cycles and the car.Note that "England" in the title also includes "Wales".

First edition. Hamish Hamilton. London. 1981. xii, 260pp. Photo plates. Original red cloth, gilt to spine. In the original protected dust wrapper, slightly sunned to spine. A nice copy.Ewart Scott Grogan (1874-1967) "The Churchill of Kenya"

First edition. John Donald. Edinburgh. 1989. 147pp. Photo illus in colour and monochrome. Original cloth, in original dust wrapper. Vgc.

The White Eagle Publishing Trust. Liss. Hampshire. 1968. 2nd edition. 2nd printing. Octavo. viii, 203pp. 3 plates. Original cream boards, gilt to spine and upper board vignette. In the original dust wrapper, slightly chipped. Edges sunned/darkened. Occasional spotting.The manuscript account was submitted to Lady Conan Doyle. It was published under the title Thy Kingdom Come and published before the World War. It was republished here, re written and revised. Part One comprises the story behind the work, and Part Two The Message of Arthur Conan Doyle. A retrospective conclusion by the editors.

George Routledge and Sons. c. 1905. Octavo. ix, 109, (1)pp. Numerous monochrome plates, two coloured litho plates, lacking frontispiece. Coloured folding plan "Section of a Cocoa Factory", Coloured folding chart of "Cocoa Producing Countries", coloured folding map of Trinidad. Original green pictorial boards, spotted and rubbed to extremeties. Signature to fep.
The natural history of cocoa, its growth and cultivation, its sources and varieties, and its manufacture, with a well illustrated section relating to Bourneville.

First edition. Collins. London. 1980. xxiii, (1), 356pp. Text illustrations. Original quarter two tone cloth, silver lettering and vignette to spine. In the original unclipped dust wrapper, a little sunned to spine. Bookplate of Clare Tritton McLaren of Coughton Court to ffep.An anthology of writings through 155 years of train travel. Recalling historic journeys, the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Line, the inaugural journey of the Orient Express, Lenin's return to Russia, The Flying Scotsman, The Trans-Siberian, the Indian Grand Trunk Express, The Santa Fe Super Chief, etc. For some contributors, see the photograph image of the lower cover.

William Blackwood in association with the National Trust for Scotland. Edinburgh. 1983. 4to. 86pp. Monochrome photo illus. Original laminated paper covers. Slightly bumped to corners.

John Murray. London. nd. 11cm x 17cm. Advertising flyer for Scott's Last Expedition and The Voyage of the Discovery. Printed on both sides. Text and vignette to each.

Alfa Art Publishers. Saint Petersburg. 2003. Large Quarto. 231, (23)pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Original blue cloth, gilt to spine and upper board, in original dust wrapper. A fine copy with no inscriptions. Foreword by Mikhail Piotrovsky. Essays by Nina Vernova, Larisa Bardovskaya, Nicolai Tretyakov, Yury Mudrov, & Vladimir Semionov.

First edition. Routledge. 1942. 40pp. Original wraps, with unclipped price. A slim volume printed on yellow paper. Spine strip and edges showing a little wear, rear cover discoloured. The author's first published work. A nice copy of this scarce work of wartime poetry by the influential poet and founder editor of The New Apocalyptics with Henry Treece. James Findlay Hendry (1912-1986) Royal Artillery and Intelligence Corps in WWII.

First edition. Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1989. Octavo. 395pp. Photo plates. Original black cloth, gilt to spine. In the original dust wrapper. Lightly and uniformly toned. A nice copy.Newspaper clipping, undated, loosely inserted: "Lost Tribe of black Eskimos found at Pole". The story of the hunters who are the direct descendants of Matthew Henson, who accompanied Peary to the Pole in 1909.The discovery of the North Pole by Commander Robert E. Peary.

First edition. Thames and Hudson. London. 2003. Large octavo. 240pp. 130 illustrations, 30 in colour. Original red cloth, embossed to upper board, silver lettering to spine. In the original dust wrapper, slightly chipped to extreme edge. A little offsetting of frontispiece ink to title. A nice crisp copy.

First edition. The Delyn Press. Caernarvon. [1955]. 154pp. Photo plates. Original orange cloth, black lettering to spine, sunned to top of spine. In the original dust wrapper, chipped and torn with loss to top edge. Light toning to endpapers, text and plates bright and crisp.Signed by Jeremiah Williams (the editor), Bryngwenallt, Caernarvon, dated February 1955.

Winter 1937-8 Edition. Ahrens Publishing Co. Inc. New York & Chicago. 1937. Octavo. 200 pp. Directory plus adverts. Original pictorial covers, sunned to spine and rubbed to edges. Text toned, edges darkened. Crease to lower corner of rear cover. Still firmly bound and seemingly unread. A nice vintage primary historic source. Pre WWII-USA.

The Cottage Furniture Arcade (Next door to P. E. Gane, Ltd.), 161-2, Commercial Street, Newport, Mon. 16mo. nd. [c. early 20th century]. 14pp. Original pictorial paper covers, red and black. String tie. Staple rusted. Includes Kitchen Economy, Fuel Economy, Cleanliness, Saving Gas, Soap, Table of Rough Measures, The Larder in Hot Weather, Odds and Ends, Cast Iron and Economy.

Hodder & Stoughton. London. nd. [c.1906]. 8.5cm x 14cm. Postcard advertising the publication of "The most significant book on the subject since Nansen's" Printed in dark green. Unused.