Showing 21-40 of 99
Price: $7.20
Publisher: London, UK., Werner Laurie: 1955
Seller ID: 17445
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; viii - 184 pp. red cloth over boards with gilt lettering on a blue spine panel. Illustrated with 13 black and white plates one of which is the frontis. The remaining 12 plates are printed on both sides of a coated paper. Beau Nash was a one-time Master of Ceremonies at the spa in Bath and concurrently at the more provincial resort located in Tunbridge Wells. Beau Nash has been called by some the most picturesque dandy of the age. Connely writes from the viewpoint of one who is very familiar with Bath and the enourage of those who went there "to take the cure". The ... View more info
By: Cross, F. J.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: London, UK., Cassell and Company.: 1895
Seller ID: 26845
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
12mo - 18 x 12 cm.; viii - 244 - (16) pp. Brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and the front board and with blind stamped decoration on the spine and both boards. All text block edges are gilt as issued. First published in 1894, this is the second edition. Illustrated with many black and white engravings, head pieces, tail pieces and full page. Thirty-nine narratives in all from common working folk to world famous explorers. The externals show mild wear with lightly bumped board corners and spine tips. The gilt lettering on the spine is a trifle faded, otherwise all gilding... View more info
By: Dakers, Lionel.
Price: $7.20
Publisher: Norwich, UK., Canterbury Press.: 1995
Seller ID: 5164
ISBN: 1853111228
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; xii - 239 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with 8 pages of black and white photographs. Autobiography of "one of the most world travelled church musicians of our time. For sixteen years while Director of the Royal School of Church Music, Dakers had the privilege to visit many outposts of the Anglican Communion . . . organ pupil of Sir Edward Bairstow . . . Assistant organist of Sir William Harris at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle . . . held appointments as organist at Ripon and Exeter Cathedrals . . . since 1990 he has been Chairman of t... View more info
By: Danyun.
Price: $5.40
Publisher: Tonbridge, UK., Sovereign World.: 1991
Seller ID: 30266
ISBN: 1852400951
Condition: Near Fine
12mo - 18.5 x 12.5 cm.; 352 pp. Translated from the Chinese by Brother Dennis. Foreword by Marilyn Hickey. Very minor wear to the fore corners of the covers, otherwise an as-new and unused book. View more info
By: Dinnis, Enid.
Price: $67.50
Publisher: London, UK., Harding & More.: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 31274
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
12mo - 19 x 12.5 cm.; 126 pp. Light blue paper over boards with beige cloth on the spine and a brown lettered paste-on paper label at the head of the spine. Printed in a limited edition of 500 copies this copy is not numbered. Sepia toned frontis photograph of Emily Hickey. Enid Dinnis' introduction and essay on Emily run up to page 60, then followed by Emily's "Pilgrim Songs" and "Sabbath Songs". The text is printed on a cream toned woven paper with the the fore and tail edges of the tetx block being left untrimmed. Many of the fore edges of the pages are unopened. The fore corners and spine ... View more info
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Pulborough, UK, SMH Publishing.: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 21000
ISBN: 951261924
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
8vo - 21 x 14.5 cm.; [4] - 261 - [1] pp. Green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine. Dowden left Italy at the onset of the second world war and settled in Spain living in a convent. She became involved with the resistance in Barcelona and rescued prisoners who fled France over the Pyrenees into Spain. Arrested for espionage, she was imprisoned. Illustrated with five pages of black and white photographs, one of which is a frontis portrait. The publisher's name has been covered with a distributor's label on both the title page and the copyright page. Signed with an inscription by the a... View more info
By: Erny, Edward.
Price: $4.50
Publisher: Westchester, Illinois., Good News Publisher.: 1967
Seller ID: 30431
Condition: Very Good
12mo - 19 x 13.5 cm.; 96 pp. Illustrated with 4 pages of black and white photographs. Henry Steel was a minister with the Oriental Missionary Society and this account is taken from the original manuscript written for that same society. Minor wear to the covers and the first page is clipped on the top fore edge corner, otherwise clean with a sound binding. View more info
By: Erny, Edward.
Price: $4.50
Publisher: Westchester, Illinois., Good News Publisher.: 1967
Seller ID: 30432
Condition: Very Good
12mo - 19 x 13.5 cm.; 96 pp. Illustrated with 4 pages of black and white photographs. Henry Steel was a minister with the Oriental Missionary Society and this account is taken from the original manuscript written for that same society. Minor wear to the covers and the first page is clipped on the top fore edge corner, otherwise clean with a sound binding. View more info
By: Evans, A. R.
Price: $16.00
Publisher: London, UK., Oliphants.: 1956
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 27169
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
12mo - 18.5 x 12.5 cm.; 95 pp. Bright yellow cloth over boards with black lettering on the spine and the the front board with a black line drawing illustrating the front board also. Full colour frontis drawing of Mackay operating a hand pump. From the dust jacket: "The first engineer missionary, Alexander Mackay answered the challenge made by H. M. Stanley to send a missionary to Uganda, to teach the people to become Christian, and cure their diseases . . . and turn his hand to anything, like a sailor." The book shows a trace of wear to the spine tips, otherwise clean and tight. The du... View more info
By: Evans, Derek.
Price: $7.20
Publisher: Kelowna, British Columbia., Wood Lake Publishing.: 2007
Seller ID: 30790
ISBN: 1551455536
Condition: Fine
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 190 pp. Evans is a Canadian who has traveled the world working for various human rights organization including Amnesty International. An as-new and unused book. View more info
By: Evans, Rosalie. (editor - Daisy Caden Pettus).
Price: $7.20
Publisher: Indianapolis, Indiana., Bobbs-Merrill Co.: 1926
Seller ID: 4695
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
8vo - 19 x 13 cm.; 472 pp. Red cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and the front board. Illustrated with black white photographs. Daisy Caden Pettus is Rosalie's sister. These letters describe the plight and struggle that Rosalie went through in order to obtain justice as a foreigner living in Mexico during the turbulent times during WW I and the post war aftermath. Book shows minor wear to the extremities. Some pages are unopened on the fore edges. The text block edges are age darkened. The book retains a very good presentation. View more info
By: Ffinch, Michael.
Price: $18.00
Publisher: London, UK., Weidenfeld & Nicolson.: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 30135
ISBN: 0297788582
Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
8vo - 23.5 x 15.5 cm.; (14) - 369 pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated with 8 pages of black and white photogrpahs. Sixteen pages of references, 3 page list of selected works by Chesterton and a 7 page index. Some light sunning or fading to the head edges of the boards, else fine. The dust jacket is not clipped. View more info
By: Fitts, Sister Mary Pauline, G.N.S.H.
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Yardley, Pennsylvania., Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart.: 2000
Seller ID: 30836
ISBN: 0967971608
Condition: Fine
8vo - 20.5 x 13 cm.; xiii - 293 pp. Approbations present. Biography of the Foundress of the Grey Nuns. Bibliography, index. An as-new and unused book. View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York., Charles Scribner's Sons.: 1944
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 27286
Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
4to - 25.5 x 19 cm.; x - 347 pp. Green cloth over boards with off-white lettering on the spine and art work centered on the front board. Signed and dated with a personal inscription by the author on the half title page. Loosely laid in is a mimeographed list of Newberry Award Winners issued by the Chicago Public Library and signed by Genevieve Foster on the back. The book is well illustrated by the author. Five page "Index of Characters" at the back. The book shows only mild wear to the board corners and spine tips and the tetx block head edge is darkened. otherwise clean and tight. Th... View more info
By: Gara, Vera.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., Self-published.: 2011
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 26881
ISBN: 0987778900
Condition: Fine
8vo - 23 x 15.5 cm.; (10) - 123 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. From the back cover, a comment written by the Hon. David Kilgour: ". . . Vera Gara tells of a childhood of virtually unimaginable circumstances beginning in 1938 when her Jewish Austrian family was forced to flee from Vienna to Hungary at the beginning of the Nazi nightmare. She guides readers through the ensuing ordeals which involved being forced into ghettos, then cattle cars, and months of forced labour before ending up at Theresein camp near Prague, and finally, years later, reaching the freedom of Vienn... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Signal Mountain, Tennessee, Walden's Ridge Historical Association.: 1985
Seller ID: 22003
Condition: Very Good
8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; xi - 249 pp. Biography of Miles (1879-1919) a writer, poet and artist in love with the Appalachian Mountains where she and her family lived in great poverty. A number of her stories and a few books were published; her major work is "The Spirit of the Mountain" published in 1905. List of Emma's works at end of biography. B/w photos. Minor edgewear on card stock cover, inscription of former owner on verso of front cover; otherwise, text pages are clean, binding sturdy. View more info
By: Godwin, Peter
Price: $8.00
Publisher: London, Max Parrish.: 1960
Seller ID: 19149
Condition: Good+
12mo - 19.5 x 13 cm.; 143 pp. Autobiography of a man with cerebral palsy and his triumphs. Paper-covered boards lightly soiled with bumped corners, former owner's name on front free endpaper, small closed tear on last page; binding sturdy, text pages clean. View more info
By: Grant, Hamil.
Price: $13.50
Publisher: London, UK., Grant Richards Ltd.: 1917
Seller ID: 8866
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
8vo - 22 x 14 cm.; 311 pp. Dark blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine and front. A Brit's look at different aspects of American culture in the early 20th century such as newspapers, British in the US, social class, summer resorts, West Point and the Navy, millionaires, Americans in Britain, the Canadian bush . . . . . The spine is sunned, the corners bumped and the edges show mild shelf wear. Light foxing in text and that is confined to the first and last pages. Otherwise the interior is clean and the binding is solid. A clear and removable archival cover has been fitted. View more info
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Helsinki, Finland., 1936
Seller ID: 14095
Condition: Good+
4to - 25.5 x 19.5 cm.; 32 - [32] pp. The text is in French. "Publié par le Comité Organisant la Célébration du Soixante-Quinzième Anniversaire du Président de la République Finlandaise". Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1861-1944) was President of Finland from 1931-1937. The last 32 pages are photos of Svinhufvud. Paper wraps are soiled with edgewear of small tears and creases to the overhanging yap. View more info
By: Hassard BCL., Albert R., BCL.
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Confederation Life Building, Rockingham Press: 1918
Seller ID: 9906
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
12mo - 18 x 12.5 cm.; 76 pp. Green cloth over boards with black lettering on spine and front. Frontis of Lord Macaulay A short biography of Lord Thomas Macaulay (1800-1859), English lawyer, politician, essayist, poet and historian. Hassard, the author, was a Canadian and authored, among other books, "Famous Canadian Trials". The fore and tail edges of the text block are not trimmed. The externals show mild shelf wear and soiling. The interior is very clean and the binding is solid. A clear and removable archival cover has been fitted. View more info
