Search Results: Authors starting with A from Bath and West Books (PBFA)

London: Edward Stanford, 1888. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Publisher's terracotta cloth with engraved illustrations, gilt titling and decoration to upper board and spine. Lightly soiled, edges rubbed, spine tips frayed, bottom corners bumped. An attractive copy though worn. Front hinge split but text block solid. Soiling and age-toning to page edges. Bookseller label and W. H. Smith Library blind stamp to front endpapers; 1952 date in ink to top edge of half-title. Light foxing to front and back matter, and to some top margins but contents o/w clean. xvi, 447 pp + 1 advertisement for author's other works. Illustrated with photographs, engravings and lithographed maps (1 folding). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ralph Abercromby (1842-1897) was a noted meteorologist known for his reports in seas and skies in many latitudes, his work on the nomenclature of cloud formation, and his contribution to the development of Luke… Read More

London: Folio Society, 2023. Limited Edition First & Only Printing. Fine Binding. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Burton, Jonathan. New in publisher's packaging, as received directly from The Folio Society. Limited to 750 hand-numbered sets which have been signed by the artist, Jonathan Burton. Published on Towel Day 2023, this limited edition is sold out at the Folio Society. The Folio Society limited edition of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' arrives in a spectacular presentation box with DON'T PANIC written in large, friendly letters on the front. All five volumes feature new illustrations by artist, Jonathan Burton, who has already illustrated the collector's edition of HGTTG for the Folio Society. The first novel in Douglas Adams's celebrated 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series has been a beloved cult hit since 1979. Now, all five novels and a short story have been brought together in a spectacular… Read More

Mill Dam, South Shields: T. L. Ainsley, 1916. Forty-Ninth Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. N.D. but preface to the forty-ninth edition dated 1916. Full title: 'Ainsley's New Examiner in Seamanship. Containing all the subjects in Seamanship required of Candidates for Certificates of Competency, both in the Ordinary and Extra Examinations, arranged in Questions and Answers. Plates for the International Code of Signals, British Signal Manual, Rule of the Road, Hydrographic Chart Signs, Making and Taking In Sails, etc.' Terracotta cloth with gilt lettering and ship device to upper board. Reasonably clean with some marks, bumps and rubs; gilt bright. Firmly bound. Age-toning and minor spotting to page edges. Contents clean without bookplates, inscriptions or markings other than a few pages with spotting. 287 pp. + ad for Ainsley's Navigation School. Illustrations and diagrams, some in colour. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.… Read More

London: P. S. King & Son, 1905. First Edition, Second Impression 2nd Printing. Printed Paper Wrappers. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Second impression, the same year as first. A historically important book which is scarce in this original format. Green paper wrappers printed in black. Light rubbing to edges; a 6 x 4 cms stain to the back top edge; tanning and spotting to page edges and very occasional spotting to text. Contents o/w clean without bookplates, inscriptions or other markings. viii, 199 pp. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Percy Alden (1865-1944) was a British social worker, land reformer and radical Liberal Party politician, and a strong advocate for garden cities, land settlement and farm colonies. From 1892 to 1901, he was a member of the West Ham Borough Council, serving as deputy mayor in 1898. West Ham was then one of the most deprived areas in London with high unemployment. Alden's experiences in West Ham - in particular around the… Read More

Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed and inscribed by Linda Ambrose to half-title. From the estate of Professor Roy Parker, the inscription is to his wife Jo. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket which is clean and bright with very slight fading to spine and minor edgewear. Boards clean and square with minor bumping to spine tips and bottom corners. Contents clean without bookplates, inscriptions or markings other than author's inscription. 256 pp; many b/w ills. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Landscape format. A lively account of the organizational life of the Women's Institutes of Ontario. First established in 1897 in Stoney Creek, Ontario, the WI set out to improve the conditions of life for rural women through the promotion of domestic science education. That mandate soon expanded to include self-improvement, government lobbying, and community betterment. At the same time the organization… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. First Edition, First Impression First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket which is clean and bright with fading to spine. Blue cloth gilt. Clean, square and sharp. Minor spotting to top page edges but o/w clean and fresh without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. First edition, first impression. Jacket design by Raymond Hawkey. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for, and insured.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1946. First Edition, First Impression First Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket which is sunned and rubbed with fraying to spine tips and corners. Publisher's cloth blocked with Ben Line flag in red, white and blue. Binding is clean with fading to lettering on spine and a little spotting to top edges. Firmly bound, hinges tight. Signature to front pastedown, one ballpoint pen annotation, contents o/w clean, crisp and fresh without foxing or other markings. Map endpapers. xi, 105 pp.; b/w photos. Includes Roll of Honour. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

London: Printed, and to be sold by B. Bragg, at the Blew-ball in Ave-mary-lane, 1706. First Edition, First Impression . Full Leather. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Bound in full calf. Original panelled calf relaid on later burgundy leather, recently rebacked in brown calf with five raised bands and new red leather gilt title label. Replacement endpapers which are lightly marked and partly cracked along hinges. Contents are browned and foxed throughout but this doesn't affect legibility. Early ink inscription of J Beaumont to bottom margin of title page. Pencil bookseller's inscription to ffep regarding the author/biographer George Cavendish who was gentleman-usher to Woolsey and one of his closest confidantes. Cavendish's biography of Woolsey was first published as 'The Negotiations of Cardinal Woolsey' in 1641. Cavendish is not named as author here. 'The Memoirs of Cardinal Woolsey' is followed by William Cecil's 'A Memorial Presented… Read More

Vancouver: UBC Press, 1995. First Edition . Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Wrappers clean and bright; light reading crease to spine; minor spotting to inside front cover and to page edges. Contents clean, tight and white without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. xiii, 286 pp. "The first systematic and comparative treatment of the social policy of assimilation followed by Australia, Canada, and New Zealand....not only provides comprehensive and comparative data on the conduct of assimilative policy but also examines its origins and rationale. In the end, the policy is shown to be primarily an expression of the racist and colonial nature of the immigrant societies." 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for, and insured.

London: Folio Society, 2019. First Edition, First Impression First Printing. Hardcover. New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Lee-Merrion, Harriet. A new copy in the publisher's shrink wrap, as received directly from The Folio Society. Bound in blocked textured paper with glow-in-the-dark varnish. Printed on Abbey Wove paper and set in Dante with Neutraface display. 360 pages. Frontispiece and 6 colour illustrations by Harriet Lee-Merrion. Printed endpapers. 9½" x 6¼". Die-cut slipcase lined in blue paper. Printed and bound in Italy. Shortlisted for both the Man Booker and Orange prizes, Margaret Atwood's novel - a prophetic tale of a human race all but wiped out by plague - is threaded with dark humour. Using a carefully selected pastel palette, award-winning illustrator, Harriet Lee-Merrion, has produced a series of quietly unsettling artworks that convey societal collapse with an eerie sense of detachment, while the binding design reflects the… Read More

Brink Literacy Project, 2023. First Edition, First Impression . Hardcover. New. The Brink Literacy Project created this stunning tarot deck which brings together the worlds of tarot and great literature. They gathered together some of the greatest authors and cartoonists of our time and asked them to pair a tarot card with a seminal book that embodies the meaning of the arcana. A few of the authors involved in this momentous work are Margaret Atwood, Stephen Fry, Joe Abercrombie, Simon Tolkien, Cassandra Clare and Chloe Gong. The authors meticulously paired a classic with each tarot card, making sure to select works that reflected the upright and reversed meaning of each arcana e.g The World: Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur'. Just as King Arthur aspired to create Camelot, The World pushes us to quest for something greater. By coming together around our metaphorical round table, we can work together to fight for harmony and prosperity. But, as Lev Grossman (The Magicians… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 1996. Limited Ed. . Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hassall, Joan. Rare Folio Society leather-bound edition of Jane Austen's full works: 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Mansfield Park', 'Northanger Abbey', 'Persuasion', 'Emma', 'Shorter Works' including 'Sanditon'. Introduced by Richard Church and illustrated with wood-engravings by Joan Hassall. This is an elusive and desirable set, published by The Folio Society as part of a series of regular box sets offered in full morocco leather bindings, limited to 1000 sets but unnumbered. Stated thirteenth printing (1996) of the first Folio Society editions (1957-1963), reset in 1975 (i.e. second edition). Seven volumes housed in one slipcase. Fully bound in Georgian-style, teal morocco leather, with gilt titling and decoration to upper boards and spines. The leather is clean and bright, with rubbing to… Read More

Winchester & London: The Wykeham Press: Warren & Son, Winchester; Simpkin & Co. Ltd., London, 1906. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed to fep: 'Margaret H. Awdry. Nov. 1st 1906. With the Author's Love'. Green cloth gilt. Title and author in gilt to upper board; 'Sir W. Heathcote Bart.' and 'The Wykeham Press' to spine. Cloth is badly worn away on bottom corners of both boards and along edges and spine joints. Age-toning to paper. A couple of annotations to text. Offsetting to endpapers; stain to top edge of back eps, diminishing to nothing over last section of book. 213 pp; 6 b/w plates inc. portrait frontis. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An uncommon biography that came from the family estate complete with author's signature. Additional photos available on request. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for, and insured.

Bristol: Policy Press, 2008. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Laminated hardcover which is clean and bright without bumping or marking. Light spotting to top page edges. Contents clean, white and tight without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.