Search Results: Authors starting with R from Church Street Books

Norwich: Wensum Books, 1974. Accounts - with photographs - of shipwrecks dating back to 1868, and including Sir Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod in 1919. Many photographs taken by the author. Red covers with gilt lettering to spine. Book (112pp) in very good condition. DJ very sound and intact but with minor discolouration to top edge and some fading of spine lettering. A very nice copy. Ref:06990. First Edition. Cloth. VG++/VG+. 19x24.5cm.

Newport, Isle of Wight: Isle of Wight County Press, 1981. History of the island port. Cream covers with gilt, 208pp with b/w illustrations. Book has no obvious faults. Unclipped DJ has very light signs of use and a small (1cm) closed (repaired) tear near foot of spine. A VG copy. Ref:114764. First Edition. Cloth. Almost as New/VG. 14x22cm.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1930. A textbook for students and craft workers in Pitman's Craft-for-all series. First edition. Beige card covers with black lettering and motif and green spine. Some marks on covers and head and foot of spine worn. Decorative DJ has ben the resting place for several cups of tea. It has several small losses and closed tears. Ref:06802. First Edition. Card Covers. G+/G-. 12.5cmx19cm.

London: Methuen, 1935. "An imaginary reconstruction of the past based upon the relations of an old man, an old woman and a young boy.attempt to recreate the spirit of a society which has now disappeared." 173pp with delightful b/w illustrations. Second edition published the same year as the first. Brown covers with green lettering to spine and front. Green page top edges. Minor marks and rubbing to extremities and ffep removed (which has started to weaken the front hinge), otherwise a sound copy. Ref:071054. Second Edition. Cloth. G+/N/a. Illus. by Douglas Percy Bliss. 15x20cm.

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1952. Complete two-volume set, sponsored by the Indian Government's Ministry of Education. Mauve covers with gilt. Vol I, 617pp inc index, plus adverts. Vol II, 462pp inc index, plus adverts. Both volumes in similar condition. Covers very sound with minor bumping to head and foot of spine, light foxing to endopapers and dusty, yellowing page edges. Some highlighting (fading), underlining and some marginalia in first half of each volume. Neat name and note on each ffep, otherwise internally very tight. Both DJs unclipped with modest edgewear, particularly head and foot of spine, and a few small nicks and closed tears. Overall a very decent set. Heavy set might require extra postage. Ref:114967. First Edition. Cloth. VG-/G. 16x24cm.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. Life of the Victorian actress, edited from her own writings. First edition with initialled note from the editor slipped in. Red covers with gilt lettering to spine, 272pp inc index with one bloc of b/w illustrations. Apart from slightly dusty page edges, book has no obvious faults. In intact DJ which shows just very light signs of use. Ref:082669. First Edition. Cloth. VG+/VG. 14x22cm.

Fareham, Hants: The National Poetry Foundation, 1991. First slim edition of poems - many previously published in other forms - from the Cumbrian poet, 55pp. Book has no obvious faults - looks unread. Ref:081994. First Edition. Card Covers. VG++/N/a. 15x21cm.

London: Falcon Press, 1948. Pieces give a taste of the work of the Victorian creator of "Jorrocks". A falcon Press Classic with introduction by Cyril Ray and biography and bibliography. Illustrated cream boards with red and black lettering and illusration on spine and both boards, 96pp, rough-cut lower edges. Covers have light foxing and a couple of light marks, but very little wear. Dusty, lightly-spotted page edges and slightly yellowed prelims. Unclipped DJ has very light wear to extrems and a couple of small closed tears. Ref:104470. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. VG/VG-. 12.5x19.5cm.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Author traces and points out shortcomings with the approach of many standard schools of literary criticism. Card covers, 228pp inc index. Covers have virtually no wear, very light spine creases, light foxing to upper edges. Internally very clean and tight. Ref:124994. Reprint. Card Covers. VG+/N/a. 13.5x21.5cm.

London: Andre Deutsch, 2000. Cricket's history seen through writers since the dawn of the sport. Card covers, 353pp with b/w and colour illustrations. Covers have very light spine crease and bump to top fore corner of upper cover. Edges of prelim yellowed, otherwise internally very clean and tight. Ref:104380. First P/back Edition. Card Covers. VG/N/a. 15x23.5cm.

London: Taylor and Francis, 1960. Very scarce first edition - and almost totally incomprehensible without a Ph.D in Pure Mathematics! Includes an appendix on mechanical barrel-setting calculators. Blue covers with red lettering to front board, 43pp, inc 19pp of tables. Book has just the lightest wear to extremities. Intact DJ has very modest wear to extremities. Ref:082360. First Edition. Cloth. VG++/VG-. 21x26cm.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. Selection of lay sermons from the News Chronicle. Paper covers in original wraps, white with red stripes and picture of Redwood and red and black lettering to spine and front, 127pp. Mild foxing, spine a little faded, modest wear, one split neatly repaired and neat inscription on ffep (dated 1939). Overall a decnt copy. Rf:071351. Reprint. Original Wraps/paperback. G/G. 12.5x18.5cm.

Peterborough: Fastprint Publishing, 2011. Author's third novel - as well as several non-fiction works - is a fact-based historical tale set in late 18th Century Suffolk town of Bungay, the author's home town. First edition inscribed and signed by author. Card covers, 303pp. Covers have virtually no signs of use, no spine creases and internally very clean and tight. Ref:125058. By Author. First Edition. Card Covers. Almost as New/N/a. 13x20cm.

London: Heinemann, 1967. In the Heinemann Educational "Poetry Bookshelf" series. Card covers, 146pp inc index. Light spotting to page edges, otherwise only lightest signs of use and internaly very clean and solid. A nice copy. Ref:082103. First P/back Edition. Card Covers. VG/n/a. 12.5x18.5cm.

London: Guinness Publishing, 1996. Ref:06315.

London: Methuen, 1908. Two-volume look at women through the ages - from Egyptian women to 19th Century feminism and American women. Spine bumped top and bottom on both volumes. Very slight damage to top of spine, particularly volume two and minor marks on covers, but text blocks tight with uneven page cutting at bottom. Ref:06236. First Edition in Two Volumes. Cloth. Good/N/a.

Ipswich: W. E. Harrison, 1923. Rare copy published on behalf of the author for private circulation. Beige paper-covered boards with black lettering on upper front board, 39pp with b/w illustrations. Covers are a little scuffed at edges, page edges dusty. Front hinge is cracking and binding is weakening in a couple of places (spine area may have had some damp problems, which have just left a few tell-tale marks). Otherwise internally clean and overall a decent copy of a very scarce book. Ref:093483. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. G/N/a. Illus. by E. T. Lingwood. 23x29cm.

London: Harper Collins, 1999. Used but in very good condition. 500-plus pp. May need extra postage. Ref:06298. First Edition. P/back. VG+/N/a. 13cmx19cm.

London: Heinemann, 1980. Heinemann Educational stapled book for young readers on WWII on the home front, a companion to "War in Europe". First edition, 13th printing. Card covers, 60pp, illustrated in b/w. Moderate wear to cover extrems, school stamp inside front cover. But contents clean and tight. Ref:093566. First Edition. Card Covers. G+/n/a. Illus. by Belinda Swanson and Nigel Martindale. 20x25.5cm.

London: Cambridge University Press, 1939. View of how national and local government works- for younger readers. Forerunner of Reynold's larger "Ourselves and the community". Scarce first edition, maroon covers with gilt, 134pp with b/w illustrations, frontis of the king opening Parliament and endpapers showing Norwich Civic Centre. Maroon top edges. Light foxing to prelims, spine slightly sunned, otherwise covers show only lightest wear and internally very clean and tight. Ref:093540. First Edition. Cloth. VG/N/a. 13.5x20cm.