Search Results: Non Fiction from Books in Bulgaria

Bodmin, Cornwall: Bossiney Books. Very Good+. 1986. Second Printing. Softcover. Minor shelf wear. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; B&W Photographs; 120 pages; A history of Somerset told in 125 photographs and old postcards. .

London: Piatkus Books. Very Good. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Light foxing to edges of reading block. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names inside. Cover design by Ken Leeder. ; B&W Illustrations; 144 pages; A collection of austerity beating ideas for saving time and money, covering many aspects of the home and divided into categories for easy reference. .

London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Fair in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library . Ex library copy with usual stamps and marks inside. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ with tiny publisher's price sticker to front fly. Missing title, spine corners lightly bumped and rubbed. ; First UK edition. Blue cloth boards with white lettering to spine. DJ protected by clear library sleeve. Nice tight copy, no names inside. DJ design by John Booth. ; Colour Photographs and Maps; 176 pages; The story of a year in Nepal by the son of the man who first conquered Everest. Illustrated with colour photos and sketch maps of some of the mountains. .

London: Elliot Right Way Books. Near Fine. 1992. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Slight foxing to edges of reading block. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread, near as new. ; Paperfronts; 160 pages; 160 pages of ingenious ways to make life easier arranged alphabetically with index. .

London: Pan Books. Very Good-. 1998. Reprint; Seventh Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Some reading and cover creases, some shelf wear, paper lightly edge toned. ; Seventh printing of Pan mass market edition, 1998. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork by Sylvain Grandadam and Ralph Wetmore / Getty Images subsequently manipulated. ; B&W Illustrations; 368 pages; The excavation of a mysterious Egyptian tomb in the early twentieth century holds the key to one of the greatest disasters to strike humankind. Strangely sealed, this was a tomb constructed to keep someone - or something - in. Writer-detective Graham Phillips uncovers the evidence that links a chain of extraordinary events. The findings in this cursed Pharoah's tomb, new evidence from the polar icecaps which overturns ancient chronology, together with the eruption of a volcano 300 times more powerful than the Nagasaki bomb, proves that the biblical parting of the Red Sea and plagues of Egypt could be accurate… Read More

London: Edinburgh University Press. Very Good. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Trade PB . Light reading and cover creases, sunned spine. ; First trade paperback edition, first printing with no other printings listed. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; B&W Illustrations and Photographs; 320 pages; An indispensible guide for any amateur astronomer wanting to improve their skills. Covers advanced work in amateur astronomy with sections on telescope optics and hardware, electronic imaging and astrophotography, photometry, spectroscopy and radio astronomy. .

Nashville: Winston-Derek Publishers. Good. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Some shelf wear, some grime to inside covers and endpapers, ink name to front end paper, some internal underlining, original price sticker to rear cover. ; Stated first printing. Good reading copy. ; B&W Illustrations; 176 pages; An interesting personal African American approach to metaphysical concepts encouraging the reader to do their own research by looking at original sources. .

London: William Collins Sons & Co Ltd. Fair in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library . Ex library copy with usual stamps and marks inside, DJ protected by clear library sleeve attached by tape to inside covers, missing front endpaper, light foxing to edges of reading block. ; First edition, first printing with no other printings listed, 1983. Library binding of burgundy rexine boards. Good reading copy, no names inside. DJ design by Roger Hammond. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; B&W Photographs; 352 pages; For many years after the exposure of Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and Kim Philby as Soviet spies the story of what went on at Cambridge during the 1930s that led to the creation of the notorious spy ring was based on rumour. This work outlines what really happened and how the author informed on Anthony Blunt in the early 1960s. How did the author know Blunt was the fourth member of the ring working for the KGB? Because Blunt had… Read More

London: Arrow Books Ltd. Good. 1993. Second Printing. Paperback. Some edge and shelf wear with some scuffing and tint surface tears to front cover, paper edge toned and water stained with slight rippling to reading block. ; Second printing. Tight copy, appears unread, but reading copy only due to water damage. ; Diagrams; 192 pages; The discovery in 1992 of "cosmic ripples" - slight variations in the temperature of ancient radiation left over from the "big bang" - resulted in sensational headlines. One researcher describing the discovery as "like seeing the face of God". This account goes behind the hype and hysteria to offer a well-paced, clear explanation of one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. .

London: B B C/Andre Deutsch. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Some shelf wear. ; Khaki cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, nice tight copy. ; B&W Photographs; 366 pages .

London: Little, Brown & Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Light shelf wear to unclipped DJ with tiny sticker and tiny drag tear to base of spine. ; First edition, first printing with no other printings listed, 2000. Grey cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine, black textured endpapers. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread and near as new. DJ photos courtesy of the author. ; B&W Photographs; 288 pages; Campbell Armstrong met his first wife Eileen in Glasgow when they were both young. She was Jewish, the only daughter of an Orthodox family, and lived in the Gorbals. When they married, Eileen showed Campbell the scar on her belly - the result of a Caesarean birth at 17. The baby had been given up for adoption and Eileen got on with her life. Over forty years later Eileen was diagnosed with terminal cancer, at the same time another woman, Barbara was trying to trace her mother. The story of a… Read More

London: Macmillan. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ, minor foxing to edges of reading block. ; Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, map endpapers. Nice tight copy, no names inside. DJ design uncredited. ; 288 pages; First hand acount by the former Travel Editor of British Vogue of his travels to sixteen countries where he sought and bought the time and services of prostitutes in twenty-one cities. In the process discovering not only more about the lives of those who are employed in the oldest profession in the world but also about himself. .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Pelican. Very Good; Light reading creases and shelf wear, paper toned. ; Nice tight . copy, no names inside.. 1976. Reprint. Paperback. Mass Market PB . First Printing; B&W Illustrations; 304 pages; A fascinating book on the work done on teaching chimpanzees to 'talk' and how this alters our perception of our own place in Nature. ; 0140218963 .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. Very Good+. 1991. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Minor shelf wear. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. ; B&W Illustrations; 304 pages; An introduction to the delights, paradoxes and intellectual challenges of modern mathematics. .

London: Pan Books. Very Good; Light reading creases and shelf wear. ; Nice tight flat copy, . no names or marks inside.. 1977. First Edition. Paperback. Mass Market PB . First Printing; Charts; 192 pages; Fun to compare the predictions with the reality, as 'the stars unfold the destiny of our royal house'. ; 0330247107 .

London: Watts & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Missing DJ, some sunning to edge worn spine, pencil name to front endpaper. ; First edition, first printing with no other printings listed, 1948. War economy standard edition. Glazed red cloth boards with black lettering to front cover and spine. Nice tight copy. ; The Thinker's Library; Vol. 128; B&W Illustrations; 160 pages; Somewhat dated but still a good introductory guide to the subject. .

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket; Some wear and tear to price clipped DJ . with small loss at to of spine, fly shadows to endpapers. ; Red cloth . boards with gilt lettering to green spine panel. Nice tight copy, no names . inside.. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing; B&W Photographs; 386 pages; A naturalists record of a 20,000 mile journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast through the North American autumn. .

Boston: Shambhala. Very Good. 1995. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. One corner crease and old dealer sticker to rear cover, some shelf and edge wear. ; First printing in this edition, 1995. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; B&W Photographs; 194 pages; Dave Lowry juxtaposes his singular experience as an adept student of the art of swordsmanship with a Japanese teacher in St. Louis with a riveting account of the samurai tradition in Japan. Intertwining tales of the masters with reflections on his own apprenticeship in the samurai's arts, he reveals in their time-honored methods a way of life with profound relevance for modern times. .

London: Fourth Estate. Very Good+; Light reading creases. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks . inside.. 1998. First Edition. Paperback. First Printing; 294 pages; Provocative and controversial book sheding light on the darkest secrets of family life. ; 1857026349 .

London: Picador. Very Good; Light shelf wear, slight mark to top of reading block, damaged . in transit ink stamp to title.. 2001. First British Edition. Paperback. Trade PB . First Printing; B&W Photographs; 304 pages; For every Edison, Faraday, and Darwin credited with a winning innovation there are the nearly men, those who followed a similar path to failure and obscurity. Here a thirteen stories of people who nearly changed history and are now almost completely forgotten. ; 0330486888 .