Search Results: Authors starting with P from Church Street Books

Bristol: John Wright, 1969. Filling the education gap in children's dental care. 212pp (inc index) with numerous b/w illustrations. Yellow covers with red lettering to front and spine. Book's only faults are very minor spotting to covers and top page edges and neat previous owner's name on ffep. Non-price-clipped DJ is clean and intact. A very sound, tight copy. Ref:061009. First Edition. Cloth. VG+/VG+. 14.5x22cm.

London: Cricket Lore, 2001. Limited edition published to celebrate the 65th birthday of the great West Indian batsman. Very scarce first edition. Only 365 (his highest test score) copies were published of which 160 (his highest West Indian test innings) were signed. Blue covers with silver, 81pp inc index with b/w illustrations. Book has no obvious faults. In unclipped DJ with just the very lightest signs of use. An almost perfect copy. Ref:104246. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. Near Fine/Almost as New. 15.5x21.5cm.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1961. Very tight, clean copy with tiny, neat bookseller's sticker on front endpaper. Bright non-price-clipped DJ with Gillian Willett illustration showing just minimal shelfwear. Re:06504. First Edition. Cloth. VG+/VG. 14.5x21cm.

Shepperton, Surey: Ian Allan, 1996. Blackpool's trams in the second half of last century. Landscape book with illustrated board covers. Lavishly illustrated 79pp in the "Heyday" series. Book has no obvious faults. Ref:071082. First Edition. Illustrated Boards. VG++/N/a. 24.5x19cm.

Clacton, Essex: Heritage House, 1992. Revised edition using updated text, card covers, 144pp inc index with numerous maps and illustrations in colour and b/w. Mild indentations on fron cover from being written over, otherwise book is in VG condition. Ref:082350. Reprint (updated and revised). Card Covers. VG+/N/a. 11.5cmx18cm.

London: Artists House, 1989. Blue leatherette covers with gilt, 256pp, with b/w illustrations. Book has no obvious faults, in intact DJ which has just a lightly-sunned spine. A VG copy indeed. Ref:093538. Reprint. Leatherette. Almost as New/VG++. 12.5x23cm.

London: Macdonald / Queen Anne Press, 1988. Signed first edition of the former England cricket captain's autobiography. Blue covers with gilt, 216pp inc index with four blocs of b/w illustrations. Inscribed on title page "To Mary Best Wishes Mike Gatting". Very light bumping to head and foot of spine, otherwise book has no obvious faults. Unclipped DJ has just lightest signs of use. A VG signed copy. Ref:104224. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. VG++/VG++. 15.5x24cm.

London: Rout and Kegan Paul, 1978. Lectures given at York University in 1977-78 to mark the tercentenary of Marvel's death. Maroon covers with silver lettering to spine, two blocs of b/w illustrations, 354pp inc index. Book has no obvious faults, in similar, intact DJ.Heavy book may require extra postage. Ref:081905. First Edition. Cloth. VG+/VG++. 16cmx24cm.

Loughborough: Ladybird Books, 1982. Ladybird series 621. Paper-covered boards, 52pp, with colour illustrations. Very light wear and bumping to cover extrems, but no serious faults. Previous owner's neat name on ffep and title page. No DJ. Ref:114649. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. VG+/N/a. Illus. by Peter Robinson. 12x18cm.

London: Joh Gifford, 1971. Maroon covers with silver lettering to spine, 200pp inc appendices, illustrated in colour and b/w. Book has very light bumping to head and tail of spine and DJ has light wear to extremities. But overall a good copy. Refd:081869. First Edition. Cloth. VG+/VG. 14.5x22.5cm.

Sevenoaks, Kent: Geographers' A-Z Map Company, 1990. Blue covers with gold lettering to spine. Book in excellent condition except for gift inscription on ffep. DJ in similar condition, but price-clipped and with slight fading to rear edges. Ref:06569. First Edition. Cloth. VG++/VG++. 17x25cm.

LONDON: Kevin Francis Publishing, 1986. Guide to jug values on the UK and US markets. Card covers, 112pp plus 16pp of adverts, illustrated in b/w and colour. Book shows just the lightest signs of use. A VG copy. Ref:093027. Third Edition. Card Covers. VG++/N/a. 15x21cm.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1940. Love story in Hodder's Yellow Jacket series, 320pp. Red covers with blind-stamped decoration to front and black lettering to spine. DJ has a couple of neat repairs and some losses, particularly at head and foot of spine, which has led to slight sunning of spine. Ref:071226. Reprint. Cloth. VG/G-. 12cmx18cm.

London: Pluto Press, 1991. Explores the changing patters of health, illness and medical practice in Britain and the Third World, with consideration of health as a welfare provision and the NHS. Very minimal signs this is an ex-library book. Spine crease and modest signs of wear at extremities. Some pencil underlining and margin notes. Ref:07876. Seventh Impression. P/back. VG/N/a. 13.5cmx21.5cm.

New Jersey: T. F. H. Publications, 1984. History and advice on keeping one of the most popular dog breeds in America. Illustrated laminated boards, 320pp inc index, with numerous b/w illustrations and 47 full-colour plates. Book has "Ex-Libris" sticker on front pastedown, otherwise no obvious faults. No DJ. Ref:093463. First Edition. Illustrated Laminated Boards. VG++/N/a. 16x23.5cm.

Bath, 1979. History of the Elizabethan mansion. Stapled 15pp booklet with b/w illustrations. Book has very little sign of use. Ref:093055. First Edition. Card Covers. VG++/n/a. 12.5x19.5cm.

London: Penguin, 1954. BE11 in Penguin's Buildings of England series. Card covers, 440pp inc index, one bloc of b/w illustrations. Book has just very light wear at extremities, but page edges are very yellowed. Illustrated DJ has modest wear at most extremities, but a couple of small nicks and tiny losses at head and foot of spine. Overall a very tight copy. Ref093000. Fifth Edition. Card Covers. VG-/G. 11cmx18cm.

London: Faber and Faber, 2000. Award-winning West Indian author's second non-fiction work traces history of the Atlantic slave trade. First edition, first printing. Blue covers with yellow lettering, 221pp. Top page edges a little dusty and very small dint to lower edge of lower cover, otherwise book has no obvious faults. Unclipped DJ in similar condition, without tears or creases. Ref:114875. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. VG+/VG+. 16x24cm.

London: W. A. Hammond, Primitive Methodist Publishing House, 1913. The fifteenth Hartley lecture. Maroon covers with gilt lettering to front (panelled) and spine (with gilt bands), 283pp. Apart from some foxing, mild bumping and very modest wear to extremities and neat previous owner's initials and "1913" on front endpaper, book is in exceptionally good condition. Ref:071349. First Edition. Cloth. VG+/N/a. 13x19.5cm.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1990. Very clean copy of this book on principles and theory of soaring by one of the great instructing gurus. Revised second p/back edition. Ref06357. Revised Edition (second). Illustrated Card Covers. VG+/N/a. Illus. by Derek Piggott. 19x25cm.