Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Roger Middleton

London, printed by R. Everingham for the Author, and are to be sold by T. Parkhurst and S. Simmons, 1677.. TITLE CONTINUED: To out-do the Dutch without fighting, to pay debts without moneys, to set at work all the poor of England with the growth of our own lands. To prevent unnecessary suits in law; with the benefit of a voluntary register. Directions where vast quantities of timber are to be had for the building of ships; with the advantage of making the great rivers of England navigable. Rules to prevent fires in London, and other great cities; with directions how the several companies of handicraftsmen in London may always have cheap bread and drink. FIRST EDITION 1677, VOLUME 1 ONLY (Volume 2 published in 1681). 8vo, approximately 200 x 140 mm, 8 x 5½ inches, 8 folded plates, pages: [20], 1-71, [1], 97-196, last page blank and last 2 printed pages misnumbered 178 & 179, jump in pagination is in all copies, bound in full contemporary sprinkled sheep, gilt lettered green label to… Read More

London, Transatlantic Arts, 1944.. FIRST EDITION 1944, 245 x 190 mm, 9¾ x 7½ inches, yellow cloth gilt, 64 pages. Coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates and many charming black and white illustrations. Story of a little Chinese boy and his beloved water-buffalo. Neat inscription on front endpaper, very light creasing to a couple of lower page corners. VG+ bright copy in VG+ DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, slightly worn at head of spine, 5 mm (¼") hole in upper hinge, 3 tiny rust marks to lower panel, a couple of tiny closed edge tears). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Macmillan, 1991.. FIRST HARDBACK EDITION 1991, 4to, 260 x 210 mm, 10¼ x 8¼ inches, colour illustrated shiny white boards, (32) pages. Excellent humorous coloured illustrations throughout. "In this amazing work of reference, the authors have come up with a wealth of facts which positively defy belief!" (lower cover). Tiniest bump to top corners of boards, no inscription. A Fine copy (issued without dustwrapper). First published by Puffin as a paperback in 1975, here revised and in a much larger format. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Hamilton, 1995.. FIRST EDITION 1995, small 4to, 270 x 210 mm, 10½ x 8 inches, shiny colour illustrated boards, (31) pages. Coloured illustrations throughout. Mr Nodd is a keen amateur carpenter - he has made a wooden umbrella for his wife, wooden bicycles for Ham and Shem and a wooden romper-suit for little Japhet. As he has wood left he decides to build a boat in the garden and so he builds his ark. No inscriptions, minute bump to top corner of upper cover, otherwise a Fine clean crisp unread copy. Issued without dustwrapper. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Hamilton, 1995.. FIRST EDITION 1995, small 4to, 270 x 210 mm, 10½ x 8 inches, shiny colour illustrated boards, (31) pages. Coloured illustrations throughout. Mr Nodd is a keen amateur carpenter - he has made a wooden umbrella for his wife, wooden bicycles for Ham and Shem and a wooden romper-suit for little Japhet. As he has wood left he decides to build a boat in the garden and so he builds his ark. A Fine clean crisp unread copy, no inscriptions. Issued without dustwrapper. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Pavilion Books, 1996.. FIRST EDITION first issue 1996 (correct countdown digits), small 4to, 250 x 195 mm, 9¾ x 7¾ inches, black and purple boards, gilt lettered spine, pale green endpapers, 119 pages. Black and white and coloured illustrations throughout, some full page. No inscriptions, a Fine copy in Fine DUSTWRAPPER, not price clipped. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Methuen, 1963.. FIRST EDITION 1963, oblong 4to, 185 x 245 mm, 7¼ x 9¾ inches, green boards gilt, no pagination (30). Charming delicate illustrations to every page, many full page, black and white with 1 colour. When his red gum tree is felled, Flip the feathertail possum has to find a new home. No inscriptions, a Fine copy in VG+ DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, two 5 mm (¼") closed edge tears, head and tail of spine and corners just very slightly rubbed, 1 tiny dark mark to upper corner of upper panel). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, John Murray, 1875.. SECOND EDITION 1875, With the Addition of New Matter and Many New Illustrations. FIVE PAGE INK HAND WRITTEN LETTER SIGNED BY YULE to COLONEL (LEWIS) PELLY, author of "Journal of a Journey from Persia to India through Herat and Candahar" seeking information for this work. 2 volumes, complete set, 8vo approximately 220 x 145 mm, 8½ x 5½ inches, 2 frontispieces, portrait and Great Armilary Sphere, extra pictorial title pages, text printed red and black and dated 1874, 16 maps, 6 folding, 14 full page plates, 3 folding, 2 in colour and 1 heightened in gilt, 35 full page text illustrations, approximately 78 text illustrations of various sizes, pages: Volume 1, xl, [ii], 1-139 (Introduction), followed by Additional Corrigenda (1 tipped in slip), 1-444; Volume 2, xxi, [ii], 1-606 including index, bound in full vellum (probably a presentation binding), gilt lettering and decoration to spines, gilt pictorial covers with coat of arms of Marco Polo, gilt cross to all pastedowns, all… Read More