Search Results: Authors starting with R from Gordon Hughes

London: Patrick Stephens, 1972.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Many photos, diagrams and folding plans, including a large foldout reprinted from the London Illustrated News. vi,210, pages, also 90 pages of period adverts. 34 x 25 cm. Light ghost marks of tape use on endpapers, a very good copy in dw . An informative wonderland of technical detail and social history!

Sydney, Villawood, the author, 1986.. Soft cover. Very Good. Documents reproduced, 49 pages, linen backed softcover, 30 x 21 cm Pre-internet genealogy This early edition not in NLA, which holds an enlarged edition published in 2000 on the Gold Coast.

Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1955.. Hardcover. Good. 38 pages, 22 x 14 cm.Papered boards, only slightly marked. A good clean ex library copy.

London: Paget, 3rd edn 1843.. Hardcover. Good. Frontispiece and 9 plates, as called for. vi, 594 pages. Fairly plain half maroon morocco with olive boards, spine and corners ruled in gilt. 22 x 15 cm A take-off of 'Master Humphrey's Clock', by Charles Dickens. Reynolds out-sold both Dickens and Thackeray in the 19th century but is hardly remembered today. Good. With the old rubber ownership stamps of G. E. Casper on front endpapers. Some occasional browning, especially of prelims, and signs of use. Both hinges cracked internally, but very strong and secure in a good tight binding.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1st edition 1991.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Profusely illustrated with colour and monotone photographic plates. 240 pages. Large quarto, 25 x 32 cm. A beautiful photographic essay on the vanishing traditional way of life of three Amazon tribes: The Kampa, The Marubo and The Yanomami.

Published by the author as a part work issued every few months and Dedicated, by Permission, to the Society of Antiquities of Newcastle on Tyne., 1820. Soft cover. Very Good. Parts 1-3 of 4. Containing 50 engravings of Coats of Arms, and several wood-cut embellishments of curious remains of antiquity in the Church of St Nicholas. 24.5 x 16 cm. Grey printed card covers, spines of parts one and two frayed at top and tail. Tipped in list of subscribers. 78 (rather than 50, as called for) engraved armorial plates, rather haphazardly numbered. 40 pages per part. Very good and clean. Inscribed in ink at the top of each part: From Mrs Bewicke, Close House, to her sister Mrs Swinburne, ---(Indecipherable)---- Hall. Both these families are old established families in the district, St Nicholas Church containing several Bewicke monuments. Close House still exists as a Boutique Hotel. Very scarce

Methuen, 10th edition, 1935.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. vii, 248 pages. 19 x 13cm. A very good clean copy in the original unclipped dust jacket, which has minor wear at the top and tail of the spine.

Sawbridgeworth: Thomas Rivers.. Soft cover. Good. Illustrations, 56 pages, green card covers 18 x 25 cm. Undated, about 1930. A slightly used copy, some occasional soiling and paper adhesion, but without loss. A sound working copy (Then and now!). A scarce garden trade catalogue issued by a firm established in Hertfordshire in 1725 and which continued trading until 1985. Of particular interest is the large number of varieties available for each type of plant, including 10 pages of roses.

Soft cover. Good. Bulli, NSW: Roberts, 1992. Illustrated, 115 pages. 30 x 21 cm. A used ex-library copy, with their markings. The glossy pages show evidence of some damping towards the rear, but there is no damage or adhesion. A tightly bound sound copy.

Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1910.. Soft cover. Good. 137 pages, 18.5 x 12.5 cm. Card covers, slightly used. Old front internal hinge repair. A good copy. Home Rule, Disestablishment, old age pensions, climate, education, landlords and agents.

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1st edn. 1965.. Hardcover. Good/Good. xxii,416, pages. 22.5 x 15 cm. Ex-library, stamp on fep and title page, old tape marks on feps. Otherwise a good clean copy in a very good dustjacket. Islam in Turkey, Arab nationalism, Pakistan, Malaya, India, Iran, Tunisia and Morocco. Includes chapters on Islam and Women and Islam and Education

London: Bloomsbury, 1st Australian edition, 2000, Printed in Australia by Griffin Press printed on back of title page.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Australian edition, very good copy in very good dustjacket, not price-clipped. Photos available on request.

Longman's of Malaya, 1962.. Soft cover. Very Good. Maps, photos, 184 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Neat library marks, a good sound copy.