Search Results: Authors starting with A from Rochdale Book Company

pp.xiv,880. Original cloth a little dull and with a few splashes, but a good,sound copy.

Liverpool University Press,1922, pp.142, with 4 illustrations. Original cloth with paper label. Name and small label inside,some slight foxing,but a good copy. Includes reprints of White's writings on puerperal fever.

King, London,1873, pp.xvi,333, 2 maps, woodcuts in the text.Original cloth,spine gilt,front inner hinge just beginning to crack, spine ends a trifle rubbed, some foxing at begiining and end, but a nice,clean copy.

Huddersfield Nine parts published in Huddersfield between 1940 and 1945. Believed to be a complete set. Original card covers, general signs of use, some wear to spines, some foxing and marks from rusting staples. Still a very sound, useable set. 5 parts have inscriptions from the author and some have the bookplate of Edward Law of Lindley. Very scarce as a set.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974, 4to, Dust jacket price-clipped and possibly with a faded spine, vertical crease to front endpaper, else nice, bright condition.

1950, pp. xiv, 186, well illustrated. Dust jacket a bit rubbed and frayed, but complete and now in a loose protective sleeve. Book excellent.

York, Coultas and Volans,1907, first edition, small 8vo,pp. (6),136, illustrated. Very good condition in the original cloth.

Printed for the author, 1965, 4to, pp.xxvii, 120. Original cloth, a little rubbed, but a good, sound copy. One of 1000 printed. Covers English Grammars written in English and English Grammars written in Latin by native speakers to 1800.

H. Rhodes, London, 1701, first English edition, translated from the French, pp. xl, [4], 266, [26]. With 4 small plates on two leaves, plus the very large fold-out plate. Attractive contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked with a fully gilt spine. Paper generally foxed and browned, small plates a little frayed at the fore-margins, large plate (which is frequently missing or defective) with old repaired tears and some staining, but complete. Includes a chapter on whether the use of tobacco shortens life. In spite of the browning a very sound copy. Please enquire for further details.

Regents Press of Kansas,1979, pp.xii,211. Very good in just slightly rubbed dust jacket. A study of the outlaw in eighteenth century Italy.

Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, 1955. Preface by Lord Woolton, introduction by Lord Boyd Orr. 164 pages. Original cloth-backed printed card covers. Some library marks, but good, sound condition.

Middlesborough, 1929, pp. 32, tipped in illustrations. Soft leather binding. Good condition. The story of the invention of a major improvement in the process of steel making.

Council for the Preservation of Rural England, 1939, 4to, pp. 75, well illustrated. Preface by Professor Patrick Abercrombie. Original card covers, a little dusty, but good, sound condition.

Printed for Private Circulation, 1886, pp. 70. Original green cloth, very good condition.

Dean & Dawson, c. 1935. Original cloth-backed boards a bit used, but sound. 32 pages and complete with the 4 maps on 2 sheets in the back pocket.

Derbyshire Record Office, May 1969. A4,pp. 56,9. Original card covers. A list of the lead-mining documents deposited by Brooke-Taylor & Co., solicitors.

Manchester University Press,1936, pp.137. Original cloth.Spine a little dull and creased,bold inscription on front endpaper,else good condition.

1871, CONTENTS. Message of the Governor of Virginia to the Senate and House of Delegates.--Bill introduced by Col. J.M. Crews, of Shelby County, Tennessee.--Com. Maury on immigration.--What an Englishman thinks of Virginia.--Letter from W.H. Richardson, com. of immigration, Richmond, Virginia.--Through rates of passage from Liverpool to the Southern States via Norfolk.Disbound pamphlet, size approx 7x5 inches, 28 pages, folding map.World Cat lists only 3 copies ( Cornell, Johns Hopkins and University of Virginia ) and gives place of printing as Richmond ? and date 1871. It also only says 26 pages, but ours has an extra leaf giving Fares and advertising the Allan Line.

Manchester University Press, for the Chetham Society,1982, pp.241, illustrated. Very good in the original cloth. Chetham Society, Third Series, Volume 29. Covers the old counties of Lancashire and Cheshire, except Furness and Cartmel.

Bury, 1999. A4 format, card covers, pp. vi, 96. Slight split at top of spine, else good, sound condition.