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Bourne End, United Kingdom: Etna Publishing, 1975 Collectible. Some shelf and age wear to the card wrapper - wrapper edges light rubbing with creases around edge and spine - internally the pages are in very good condition - clean pages with no internal markings.
First edition, no date on the front endpaper, but the drawings are dated 1975, unpaginated. The twelve b/w line drawings by Michael Bayley are secured in a paperback black card wrapper with cream writing - wrapper designed by David Howden. The drawings are of old surviving buildings in the Thames valley, with his handwritten captions, reproduced one per page. Contents: Foreword with a hand drawn map; The Old Manor House Mapledurham; Henley Church and the Red Lion; The Dog and Badger, Medmenham; The Guildhall and Red Lion, High Wycombe; Hurley Church; Marlow Bridge and Church; Cookham High Street; a riverside house, Maidenhead; Jesus Hospital, Bray; Oakley Court; The Cockpit, Eton; Church Street, Windsor.

London, United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape, 1998 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY. Tight copy as new never been read - slight age and wear to cover edges - no internal markings. "In Bruce Robertson, Welsh has created one of the most misanthropic characters in contemporary fiction, and has written a dark, disturbing and very funny novel about sleeze, power, and the abuse of everything. At last, a novel that lives up to its name." Welsh is the author of 'Trainspotting' and 'The Acid House'

London, U.K. : Piatkus Books, 1997 First edition. Original dustjacket not price clipped. Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text pages. Coloured photographs/illustratons throughout. The garden is the world's oldest medicine chest. The book shows you how to choose the appropriate herbal remedy for a wide range of common health problems and to grow and prepare plants for their treatment. Anne McIntyre shows you how to plan an appropriate herb garden for both large and small growing spaces. With a comprehensive glossary, this is the perfect companion for everyone who enjoys gardening. Anne McIntyre is a member and former director of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists. Her garden has over 300 different varieties of herbs.

London, U.K. : Collins, 1930 No dustjacket. Some age and shelf wear - edges of boards worn and corners bumped - spine top and tail worn with a small tear at the top of spine. Boards are burgundy artificial leather. Clean text pages - no internal markings. No date or copyright page in this edition - circa 1930. Part of Collins' "Illustrated Pocket Classics" series. With b/w illustrations. Illustrated by R.W. Matthews; Introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. Translated from the French. A French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French author in the world.

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY for the cased and paperback editions (actually copied by Faber from corrected page proofs). Prepublication first edition. [Probable publication date: 18 September 1989.] 55pp. Green soft cover. Clean text pages. "Wolfwatching" was Hughes' 14th collection of poetry - he digs deeply into his own childhood and his family history, as well as writing about nature's violence and the meaning he finds in it. Included in the collection is the poem "The Black Rhino" written for the purpose of raising funds to save this endangered animal. The Library Journal considered reading Wolfwatching was "like visiting a zoo envisioned by Hieronymus Bosch: we're caught between fright and fascination". He was married to the American poet Sylvia Plath until her death in 1963. Ted Hughes is considered one of England's finest modern poets - winning the Whitbread Book of the Year in two… Leer más

London, U.K. : The Harvill Press, 1991 This edition is the first anthology of Japanese poetry. Original dustjacket not price clipped which has some age and shelf wear - the dj edges are rubbed and there is a crease at the bottom of the front page of the dj. The boards are in better condition than the dj - tight copy. Previous owner has written in blue ink a note on the front endpaper; and on the half title page there is an inscription to the previous owner from a friend in blue ink. Otherwise no other markings in the book, clean text page. "The Manyoshu contained over 4,000 poems from 250-759 AD. It was intended to demonstrate that the poets of the Yamato ascendancy could match, and even out-match, the Chinese poetry that was then regarded as the model of literary perfection. In Graeme Wilson's vivid English, seventy-six of these remarkable poems by warrior princes and Imperial princesses, priests ad provincial governors, courtiers and lovers, frontier-guards and conscript soldiers,… Leer más

London, U.K. : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1952 Collectible. Beautifully illustrated with coloured and black & white illustrations. No dustjacket. Age and shelf wear - edges of boards worn, corners bumped. Spine sundamaged. Sewing of the inside back and front boards loose. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd - March 1952 reprint (first published 1943). Subject title: "Being a true and faithful account of a number of highly interesting meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, about whom we had always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as our dinner guests in a bygone year". Coloured illustrated endpapers (front & back). Includes a list of people mentioned in the book. Some of the "guests" are: Erasmus; George Washington; Sir Thomas More; Cervantes; Shakespeare; Moliere; Descartes; Queen Elizabeth I; Robespierre; St Francis; Mozart;… Leer más

Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.: Conde Nast Publications, 2000 Volume 57, Number 1. INTERIOR DESIGN LEGENDS. Editor-in-chief Paige Rense. 252 pages. Colour and b/w illustrations/photography throughout. Slight shelf and age wear - edges of back cover slightly rubbed with 3 small tears (1/8"). Lower right hand corner of front cover has crease. Tail of spine slightly rubbed. Tight copy. Minimal wear. Not sunfaded. Clean text pages no internal markings. Cover shows Mrs Henry Clay Frick's boudoir by Elsie de Wolfe. THIS SPECIAL ISSUE features Billy Baldwin; Geoffrey Bennison; Rose Cumming; Elsie de Wolfe; Angelo Donghia; Dorothy Draper; Tony Duquette; Frances Elkins; Vincent Fourcade; John Fowler; Jean-Michael Frank; Georges Geffroy; William Haines; Mark Hampton; David Hicks; Jansen; Jed Johnson; Syrie Maugham; Renzo Mongiardino; William Pahlmann; Sister Parish; T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings; Henri Samuel; Michael Taylor; Ruby Ross Wood; and much more.

New York, N.Y., USA: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926 With seventy-four illustrations by photographic reproduction and seventy-four drawings. Published by Doubleday, Page. Illustrated throughout. Hardback. First Edition. American Edition. No dustjacket was issued with this edition. Blue boards. Age and self wear - spine is sun damaged - Binding good - no pages missing - clean text pages, no markings on pages. Front and back frontispages have yellow spotting - light spotting to half title page, title page, letter from Archbishop and contents page. Inside back cover has a brown envelop glued to it (where map of the Great Western Railway was stored - this map is missing). Inscription to previous owner on bottom corner of first frontispage written in black ink ("To Donald from Mr & Mrs Tomlinson, Christmas 1940"). British Cathedrals, fine photos and drawings with detailed essays, includes: Cathedrals and how to understand their architecture, and a special map showing the… Leer más

London, United Kingdom: Penguin Classics, 2006 Edited and Translated by Richard Zenith. As new with very slight age and shelf wear to cover edges, otherwise tight copy with no internal markings. The Los Angeles Times considered this volume as "The largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from 'the greatest twentieth-century writer ..'." Pessoa was the equal of Yeats, Rilke, Valery, Lorca, Pasternak or Hart Crane. This is the finest introduction available to the stunning breadth of Pessoa's genius.

London, U.K.: Chatto & Windus, 1935 Age and shelf wear - no dustjacket. Orange boards. Corners and edges of boards rubbed & bumped - spine top and tail rubbed - spine sun faded. One inch whitish mark on spine below title. Otherwise tight binding, no pages missing, no markings to pages, clean text pages.
This was Pritchett's third novel about a provincial tannery and people whose lives are centered around it - the main character: Mathew Burkle. It was based on his own work experience in the leather trade. One of last century's masters of the short story. He was knighted in 1975 and died in 1997 at age 96. The novel is divided into four sections: Book 1: The Innocence of Mathew Burkle; Book 2: The Temptation of Mathew Burkle; Book 3: The Fall of Mathew Burkle; Book 4: The Rise of the Women.

London, United Kingdom: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976 [First published in 1976 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd] Now out of print. 181pp with index, notes, calendar of witch trials. Clean text pages with no internal markings. Very good copy except that there is no dustjacket. Contents: Introduction; Chronological Survey; Distinction of Popular and Learned Traditions; The Content of Popular Tradition; The Imposition of Learned Notions; The Social Context of Witch Trials; Conclusion; Calendar of Witch Trials; List of Abbreviated Titles; Notes; Addenda; Index. The book explores the relationship between clerical and lay notions of witchcraft in late medieval Europe. Richard Kieckhefer is a professor of religion and history at Northwestern University, and a world renowned historian working on the late Middle Ages in Western Europe.

Los Angeles, CA, USA: Conde Nast Publications, 1997 Volume 54, Number 12. Editor-in-Chief Paige Rense. Colour and b/w illustrations/photography throughout. Slight shelf and age wear - usual white address label at lower right hand side of back cover. Tight copy. Minimal wear. Not sunfaded. No creases. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Cover: The dining room of fashion designer Carolyn Roehm's Manhattan apartment - photography by Jaime Ardiles-Arc. Features include: Carolyn Roehm in Manhattan; Giving a Nineteenth-Century Terrace House in London a contemporary spin - interior design by David Linley; Alabama Tale in Point Clear; France's Renowned Chateau Rauzan-Segla restores; Aldo Rossi's last projects a Paean to small-town life in Florida; bold forms in stone, wood, and metal define a residence in San Francisco's Russian Hill; Jennifer Bartlett's home and studio in Greenwich Village; Claudia Ruspoli revives her family's castle in Italy; and much more.

Boston, USA: Little, Brown and Company, 1955 Thirteenth and Centennial Edition. Completely Revised. 9th Printing. Rare edition. With an Index of Authors at the beginning of the book and a general Index at the back. Some age and shelf wear especially to dustjacket. Original dustjacket not price clipped. D/j in removable protective clear wrapper. D/j worn and torn around the edges. The boards have bumped corners. Inscription in blue ink on front endpaper. Otherwise no other internal markings, clean text pages. Tight copy. "This anniversary volume has been completely revised and edited by the editorial staff of the publishing house whose name has been connected with Bartlett's for the past ninety-two years. The section of anonymous work has been increased and reorganized for the reader's convenience. A general section includes quotations from songs, sayings, and political writings, while new selections from ballads, nursery rhymes, and foreign sayings and proverbs have been added.… Leer más

Cornwall, UK: Peterloo Poets, 2003 Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text page. Slight edge wear to top right corner of cover. This is Elisabeth Rowe's first volume of poetry which includes a wide range of form and tone and embraces a fine balance of descriptive, intellectual, and emotional content. The poems convey an intense relationship with landscape, a gently satirical exploration of human behaviour, and strong elegiac vein.

New York, U.S.A.: Madison Books, 2000 206 pages with index, notes, bibliography. Tight copy, clean text pages, no internal markings. ".. David Stuart traces Nash's life from his idyllic boyhood in upstate New York through his rise to literary fame in the rapidly expandig publishing industry in New York City of the 1950s and 1960s to his gradual retirement to family homes in Baltimore and New Hampshire. Stuart includes selections and complete poems from the poet whose astute observations of American society earned him the title "Master of Light Verse".

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1987 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY for the hardback and paperback editions. Prepublication first edition. [Probable publication date 3 August 1987.] Green soft cover. 69pp. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Gross is a well-known English poet and novelist who writes for both teenagers and adults. His poetry collection The Wasting Game was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. This title is now out of print in both hard and paperback editions.

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY for the cased edition. Prepublication first edition. [Probable publication date: 3 July 1989.] 340pp. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Novel set in the near future, by one of the leading white opponents of apartheid in South Africa, who was imprisoned for seven years for terrorism. Widely recognized as South Africa's finest Afrikaner poet, Breytenbach is also a distinguished novelist and artist. He has been awarded numerous prizes (literary and artistic) over his writing career (ie the APB literary prize in 1965; Hertzog Prize for Poetry in 1984, 1999, 2008; and Allan Paton Award for Literature). The Companion to African Literatures describes his writings as "marked by a combination of Kafkaesque skepticism and a celebration of life; images connect surreal worlds to the harsh and brutal realities of apartheid, magical realism to critical realism". This title is now out of print.

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOFS FOR THE CASED EDITION (on front cover states "probable publication date 4 September 1989"). Prepublication First Edition. Blue soft cover. 330pp. Clean text pages with no internal markings. Anthology of tales of love lost and found, letters on marriage and fatherhood, together with reflections on cigarette-smoking, baseball and the perils of nearsightedness, including six new pieces - some of the selections were written for The New Yorker. Keillor states that the stories are "at the time of Ronald Reagan, the President who never told bad news to the American people". Garrison Keillor is an American storyteller, humourist, columnist, satirist and radio personality. The host of "A Prairie Home Companion" on the Minnesota Public Radio Show - heard in Britain on BBC 7 "Garrision Keillor's Radio Show". He wrote and appeared in Robert Altman's final film, A Prairie Home Companion… Leer más

London, U.K. : Thames and Hudson, 1981 328 pages with 353 illustrations: 85 in colour, 268 photographs, drawings and maps in b/w; with index, sources of illustrations and select bibliography. Some age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped - dj edges and corners worn - slight tanning to the dj's front and back flaps. Slight water damage to the lower edges of the back board of the book. Otherwise tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. " Professor Barraclough's book is not written specifically for Christians or for non-Christians; it takes Christianity as a historical fact and uses the resources of modern research to trace the way in which it has moulded men and events. The thirteen authors, all leading historians in their fields, have interpreted Christianity in its widest sense, exploring the religious life of ordinary people as well as the rituals of cardinals and kings."