Search Results: Authors starting with B from The Last Word

London: Henry Frowde , c. 1910. Card_book. Very Good. M Tameson. E Tamesin illustrated end papers of Avrora Leigh. XLIII PAGES (43.) List of 12 other moment volumes at rear. Small crease in rear cover. Small triangle missing from front freee ne paper 3 x 5 mm. Published by Henry Frowde, Selfridge & Co, miniature octavo, 10 x 7 cm. ,single-page publisher's catalogue at rear, illustrated endpapers and portrait frontispiece in colour , white card with oval portrait of E B Browning to front cover with gilt titles and decoration to front and spine, all edges gilt 1910. Published by Henry Frowde, Selfridge & Co GB

Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; ix, [1], 373, [1] pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 228 x 151mm. Illustrated. "The Chang Tang, the vast, remote Tibetan steppe, is home to a unique assemblage of large mammals, including Tibetan antelope, gazelle, argali sheep, wild ass, wild yak, wolves, snow leopards, and others. Since 1985, George B. Schaller and his Chinese and Tibetan co-workers have surveyed the flora and fauna of the Chang Tang. Their research provides the first detailed look at the natural history of one of the world's least known ecosystems. The plains ungulates are the main focus of this book - especially the Tibetan antelope, or chiru, whose migrations define this ecosystem much as those of the…

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1946. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 194 - 389 pp A study of the Kota language of Southern India. Minimal library markings - withdrawn only 3 times

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1944. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 191 pp A study of the Kota language of Southern India. Minimal library markings - withdrawn only 4 times

London: Philip Allan, 1920. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st edn, misssing a fep, uncommon title, 195 pages. Untrimmed page edges. Blue cloth boards with some staining and sunning to spine. A couple of pencilled alterations - "Hell" has been replaced with "The Depths"!

Murray, 1978. Revised. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. A nice copy of a very rare book.

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. Eighth Edition. Leather_bound. Very Good. Three quarter leather Bound by Wm. Detmold of Melbourne. Ownership plate in front. 680 pages The bindings are tan calf with raised bands, elaborately gilt decorated spines.

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. Ninth Edition. Leather_bound. Very Good. the History of England From the Accession of James the Second Three quarter leather Bound by Wm. Detmold of Melbourne. Ownership plate in front 684 pages The bindings are tan calf with raised bands, elaborately gilt decorated spines.

Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1970. Cards. Good. ISBN 0715604872

Wellington, New Zealand: The New Zealand Drama Council, , 1949. Cards. Very Good. 21cm x 13.5cm. 40 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Includes fourteen black and white illustrations. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. End paper inscribed in ink by previous owner. This book clarifies some of the principle underlying stage lighting practice and the main methods based on those advocated by S.R. McCandless. Includes Suggestions for the making of equipment for those societies who wish to reduce their lighting budget to a minimum, as well as a list of firms handling lighting apparatus. Contains sections on: colour harmony, (complimentary colours, coloured light and its effect on coloured costumes and scenery, accompanied by a table of coloured light and its effects); home made equipment; use of equipment; floodlights; spotlights; footlights; battens; dimmers; motivating light, etc.

Wellington, New Zealand: Historical Publlocations branch Department of Internal Affairs, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Green pictorail dust jacket with black and white illustrations. 660 pages. Slight sunning to spine of dustjacket making it slightly bluer than the rest.

Paraparaumu: Fields Publishing House, 1990. First printing. Cards. Fine/fine. 82 pages including index,. DJ slightly sunned near spine on DJ. Pictorial dj and covers.

Wellington, NZ: Fields Publishing House, 1983. First printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. ISBN10: 0959757732, ISBN13: 9780959757732, Signed to Hugh Barr from the aurhor. Softcover Although d'Urville Island is relatively small, it has an extensive, interesting and colourful history, which is well recorded here by Olive Baldwin. The island lies at the north west extremity of the South Island's Marlborough Sounds area and French Pass is on its south eastern coast and is the extremely narrow passage between island and mainland. The author relates the story in Three volumes, this being the third volume only, (the second volume was printed in 1980),364 pages plus an index and a large fold out aerial photo of the island.

paraparaumu: Fields Publishing House, 1997. First printing. Paperback. Fine. signed by: Shane Treadwell, Olive Baldwin, Andrew Baldwin, Rob Suisted , Din Collings, Steve Collings. . 112p Signed by the author, the rescue of weka on Kapiti Island and their relocation in the Tararua Ranges

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Second printing. Hardcover. Good/good. The author's first novel, a Bildungsroman based on his life as the adopted son of a Harlem preacher and his struggles with identity as a young African-American man. "In this autobiographical family novel, fourteen-year-old John Grimes undergoes an emotional-psychological-religious crisis of adolescence and is 'saved'. Go Tell It on the Mountain explores the histories and internal lives of John's stepfather Gabriel, mother Elizabeth, and Aunt Florence, spanning the years from 1875 to the depression and including 'the Great Migration' from the South to Harlem" Octavo. Later pink cloth to spine and covers. With the rare pictorial dust jacket. Some tape residue from some previous cover. Front flap of dust jacket has been detached, trimmed and pasted onto the title page: a good copy with a good dust jacket which has been trimmed about 1 - 2 mm along the bottom edge. - protected in an archival Brodart clear cover now. 2nd printing… Read More

New Zealand: Inprint New Zealand, 1985. First printing. Cards. Fine. murray ball. no page numbers - about 80 pages. Pictorial card covers. No 1 but not stated. Some creases to front and rear covers. Some cup stains to front cover.

Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 1995. First printing. Cards. As New. 17x26.5 cm, 80 pages, pen & ink cartoon illustrations, soft covers. tiny crease top right corner creases, no indentations, slight browning around some page edges, no sunning

Australia: Orin Books, 1996. First printing. Cards. Fine. murray ball. 79 pages. Pictorial card covers. Small crease bottom right corner of front cover.

Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 1995. First printing. Cards. Very Good. 17x26.5 cm, 80 pages, pen & ink cartoon illustrations, soft covers. Slight foxing to inside of covers. Slight yellowing around page edges from age. Slight damage to clear laminate near bottom right corner of front.

New Zealand: Inprint New Zealand, 1985. First printing. Cards. Fine. murray ball. no page numbers. Pictorial card covers.