Search Results: Authors starting with R from Wadard Books PBFA

University of North Texas Press, 1994 A US. Naval Intelligence officer behind Japanese lines in China during World War Two. 253 pp with black and white photographs throughout.

London: Edward Arnold, 1902 A masque of the Edwards of England written by C.R.Ashbee as a pageant for the time of the Coronation of Edward VII, 1902. Printed under Ashbees care at the press of The Guild of Handicraft at Essex House. The drawings by Edith Harwood are printed in six colours from stones by Sprague & Co. Ex library with discreet stamps. Damp stain to the covers top edge but barely discernable to the pages.

London: A&C Black, 1907 viii, 214pp+2, index. 24 full page illustrations in colour
202x137mm.
3000 copies only

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995 A balanced assessment. Hickey has succeeded in the difficult task of providing a scholarly, reliable general account of the complicated history of the War of 1812. 135pp.

London: B.T.Batsford, 1979 The sack of Rome 1527, one of the great tragedies of history. 220 pages illustrated with black and white plates. Slight fade to dustwrapper spine.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1912 The author was a Member of Parliament and the preface is by David Lloyd George, himself somewhat of an orator. xii, 177pp. Slight stain affecting the first few pages otherwise vey good throughout.

London: John Murray, 1912 A companion volume to the Hill Towns of Italy. Many of the towns covered - especially in the districts of Polesine, the Trevisan Marches, and Friuli. more than half the total number had received little written attention at this date. 603pp with good halftone plates and a map. Sage green cloth with a graphic illustrative cartouche in four solid colours to the upper board. Spine a little faded..

London: Leo Cooper, 1995 The story of the Kettledrummers, Trumpeters and the Band of the Lifeguards.
xiv, 194pp illustrated in colour and black and white.
Signed by the author.

London: Collins, 2012 465pp+2. Illustrated in colour throughout.

Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1975 Few men have exerted as profound an impact on economic analysis and policy as did Michel Kalecki (1899-1970). Kalecki anticipated Keynes' General Theory with a broader, more coherent version of that theory. He helped to lay the theoreticak base of modern capitalism in motion. 582pp.

Dunmow, Essex: Henry Richie, 1990 The story of an East Anglian farm worker who volunteers to join the colours of a Territorial Yeomanry Regiment before the Second World War, serving on the guns throughout the Desert Campaigns in North Africa. 241 pages, very readable.

Marks Hall Publications, 1993 From the burning sands of Alamein to the rolling acres of East Anglia. Sequel to The Fusing of the Ploughshare, picking up the thread of the last year of the war and Albert's return to farming in the fields of rural Suffolk. Faction at its best. 191 pages. Authors signed copy.

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1877 vi, 378pp with twelve good chromolith plates in colour and numerous wood engravings throughout the texts. End papers aged and some surface picking to upper panel of spine otherwise very good throughout and full of interest.

Kessinger A comprehensive evaluation of the origins and activities of the Press Gang with material drawn from a variety of sources..177pp. Published in America.

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck - U.Verlagsanstalt, 1964 311 plates most with multiple images printed on coated stock in colour and black and white. Some faint marks to covers only visable obliquely against the light otherwise very good throughout.

Stroud, Glouc.: Sutton Publishing, 1997 A photographic record and insight into the life of the Regiment from its origins in the 17th century to its involvement in the Second World War, Korea and later peace-keeping duties in Cyprus. Includes the stories and photgraphs of the five men awarded the Victoria Cross in the Second World War - more than any other regiment. 160pp illustrated in black and white.

New York: Fowler & Wells Co., 1888 Disclosing the laws of conjugal selection and showing who may, and who may not marry. vi, 238pp +viii + 8. Although of its time it makes interesting reading and is very scarce.

London: T Fisher Unwin, 1900 Ex Libris W.J.Macqueen-Pope. The famous Scottish yarn written in the vernacular. 409 pages plus publishers list. Pages lightly browned. Internal hinges cracked. Spine ends rubbed with small stains to front board.

Stroud Glous.: Sutton Publishing, 1997 It tells of the many near suicidal bombing operations flown from Swanton Morley at extremely low level against heavily defended targets in Germany and Occupied Europe, including the squadron's epic low-level attack on Bremen in July 1941, for which the commanding officer, Wing Commander Hughie Edwards was awarded the VC. 235pp, well illustrated.

Paris: Furne et Cie, 1853 Precedees d'une notice sur sa vie et ses ouvrages par L.S.Auger. xii, 720pp gilt all edges. Twelve fine engraved plates with tissue guards plus frontis portrait. Some occassional foxing otherwise very good.