Search Results: Titles starting with A from Goldring Books

London: Hermes House, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of 160 pages. Coloured photograph throughout. This classic, comprehensive book is a guide to the motorcycles produced by the main manufacturers since Gottlieb Daimler's Einspur in 1885 - both the models that became classics to others that litter the wayside of history. From Aprilia's modern 250cc Grand Prix racer; from a booming Velocette single to Honda's futuristic EXP-2 desert racer - all are featured in this definitive new guide. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.27 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 1. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999. A Fine copy ) with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. An oblong format volume of 160 pages. Colour photographs throughout. Despite Henry VIII's decade of architectural destruction during the Dissolution, Britain has hundreds of surviving examples of monastic buildings, varying in size and scale from forlorn and crumbling fragments to the well-preserved majestic ruins such as Fountains, Lindisfarne, Glastonbury and Tintern. In addition, some of Britain's finest churches and cathedrals are monastic in origin, ehibiting the stunning craftsmanship associated with Romanesque and early medieval religious architecture. Complementing Derry Brabb's superb photography, his text examines the history of the monasteries. 2. First. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: John C. Nimmo, 1893. COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES. The Deluxe Border Edition of The Waverley Novels. Gilt titles on red cloth boards which have minor marks but no wear. Top edge gilt. Internally there is light foxing to fore edge which is uncut else very clean, tight and unmarked. Volume I - xxxi + 337 pages including Glossary. 5 etchings by W.H. Boucher, H. Macbeth-Raeburn, H.R. Robertson, Herbert Dicksee, F. Huth.; Volume II - 335 pages. 5 etchings by V. Focillon, W. Nooth, Alfred Boilot, H.W. Batley, F. Huth. Some pages unopened. Introductory essays and notes by Andrew Lang. Andrew Lang was given access to the original manuscripts and other materials at Abbotsford by the Hon. Mrs. Maxwell Scott of Abbotsford (the great-granddaughter of Sir Walter), so that new points of interest relative to the production of each of the novels could be incorporated into his essays and notes. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY SET OF 1.66 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST A1D. Hard Cover.… Read More

London: Chatto and Windus, 1991. A Very good+ unmarked copy which has a very small indentation to front top edge and age toning to page edges. Dustjacket is VG+ and is not price clipped. 255 pages. In this absorbing autobiographical memoir, Blady is not so much the principal (although she has a crucial part to play) as the core symbol and catalyst. It is a true story of people, events, themes and relationships which together have formed a special pattern in Laurens van der Post's life. Unlike anything he has written before, it combines intuitive fantasy with a taut dramatic narrative as the story gathers pace to the climax of Blady's great race. Outwardly random occurrencesm from the writer's childhood in Africa to the death of his son from cancer, provide the framework for the searching exploration that follows - an exploration into fundamental aspects of the human spirit, its besetting ills and troubles, and the life-forces that keep it intact. B2A. First. Hard Cover. Very… Read More

Sutton, Surrey: Severn House, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards as dustjacket with VG+ dustjacket which is price clipped. On a stark and cold January day, Philip Stavely, successful actor, screenwriter and family man, is killed during a shooting party, and although the inquest records it as accidental, his widow, Ellie, believes it was suicide. Their once happy marriage had disintegrated over the last year and now she finds that she cannot move on, or grieve, until the real reasons for Philip's death are known. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Leominster, Herefordshire: Gracewing, 2000. A Fine unmarked copy. In this Gospel guide we are presented with the latest balanced scholarship on Luke's writing in an accessible form, which will be equally invaluable to individuals seeking resources to help in their private study and devotion, to parish study groups, and to teachers looking for firm guidance in their classroom work. **** NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY **** R7. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Athens: Art Editions, 1983. A near Fine unmarked copy in card covers with pages of glossy paper. A large format work detailing the history of the Acropolis - the rocky hill on which the Parthenon is sited and describes in detail all of the ancient buildings there. It also covers the Acropolis Museum which houses many ancient sculptures and those from the Parthenon Frieze. 50. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1979. In collaboration with John Miller and John Powell. Silver title on brown cloth boards - a near Fine copy. Dustjacket has coloured photograph of Gielgud to front with photographs in black and white of some of his roles to rear and is near Fine.12 coloured plates and 111 black and white illustrations. A fascinating autobiography by undoubtedly one of the greatest actors of the twentieth century profusely illustrated with many photographs from his own collection. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** 24. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Phoenix House, 1949. Red title to spine and six acting figures in red on yellow cloth boards which are clean and unmarked apart from a small mark to back and with no wear. Internally clean, tight and unmarked with light foxing only to closed edges. An interesting work with short chapters on Burbage, Betterton, Garrick, Siddons, Kean, Irving and the role of the audience. 8 photographic illustrations. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1975. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. 253 pages. 12 colour plates and 112 black and white illustrations. In this book Sir John Gielgud tells the story of his life in the theatre, of the plays he starred in, and directed, of the actors and actresses he worked with - from Mrs. Patrick Campbell to Richard Burton - and of the theatres in which he has played - from New York to Rangoon. He also tells of the theatre he knew as a young man, the theatre that was run by the great actor/managers, men like Tree and du Maurier, and of the star actresses whose name alone could fill a theatre - Eleonora Duse, Sarah Bernhardt, and, of course, his own great-aunt, Ellen Terry. With the aid of many photographs from his own collection, he recounts not only his own life, but also a well documented history of the British theatre. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** 24. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near… Read More

London: Bloomsbury, 2005. A Near Fine unmarked copy which has a few marks to top edge with Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 1721. George I is on the throne and Britain is just emerging as the world's leading commercial power. Handsome young Adam Hanaway arrives in Lisbon, where his uncle is a merchant, hoping to restore the family fortune, devastated the previous year by his father's speculations on the South Sea Bubble. But almost nothing turns out as Adam planned. His family's welcome is cool and his rise to the top thwarted by his uncle's treacherous head clerk Bartolomeu Gomes. Nor is Adam, with his gaudy clothes and his young-man swagger, an immediate success with his uncle's fellow merchants. Expelled from his uncle's firm, Adam must clear his name, win his love, and make his fortune. D4C. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Century / Mysterious Press, 1990. A Very Good + uninscribed copy with light age fading to page edges and one small bump to one corner tip with Very Good + complete dustjacket. The author is a past Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and this title was first published also in 1990. It is the story of a missing heiress who was presumed abducted, after her car and handbag were found abandoned, now twelve years later Detective Superintendent Marsh returns to the district where he had worked on the case as a young sergeant. The girl's body had never been found and he is determined to re-open the case and when his enquiries leads him to the one person who holds the key, a terrifying chain of events are set in motion and for the girl's family it might have been better if the past had remained buried and the mystery left unsolved. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3C. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1959. Silver title on green boards which are clean and unmarked with a minor indentation to front side. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. 252 pages. Translated by Carl Wildman with an introduction by Harold Nicolson. 1. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Medici Society, 1924. Brown title to cloth spine with brown title and decoration on paper boards with inset coloured picture after Albrecht Durer. Boards are quite clean with no wear. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers and light foxing but pasted in coloured plates are clean and bright. Comprises 27 carols and 10 coloured plates on the procession of the kings into Bethlehem and The adoration of the kings after Gozzoli, Mostaert, Fra Angelico, Fabiano, Masaccio, Botticelli, Correggio, Brueghel. R3. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Longmans, Green, 1897. A Very Good + to near Fine unmarked copy in cloth boards. New edition with 203 illustrations, 6 maps and fold out coloured plate of spectra. A very clean and tight copy of this Victorian work with fascinating illustrations, first published in 1890. Physiography is the subfield of geography that studies physical patterns and processes of the Earth. It aims to understand the forces that produce and change rocks, oceans, weather, and global flora and fauna patterns. B2C. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: A.R. Mowbray, 1968. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy. 91 pages. 'It has not been the custom in the Anglican Church' writes Rev. Goodacre in his introduction, 'to provide outlines for Advent, though many devotional Lent books come out each year'. It is an omission that has persisted for so long and one he now corrects. **** NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY **** R7. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Blackie and Son, 1928. Black and grey pictorial boards of bear and Red Indian to front and a girl with rifle to spine on orange cloth. Slightly bumped corners, pictorials still bright, age darkened endpapers with contemporary inscription to ffep dated 1928 also a later inscription dated 1947 which is rather interesting. Coloured frontispiece and 4 plate illustrations. Internally claen and unmarked. A Good + copy. C3E. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by H. Coller. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Faber and Faber, 2003. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small mark to rear) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. Hailed as one of Britain's greatest living directors and certainly one of cinema's authentic visionaries. Boorman enjoyed an archetypal English suburban boyhood in the 1940's and 1950's, attending Catholic school and finding his first employment running a dry-cleaning business. But his passion was for film, getting his big break during the 'goldrush' of British television in the 1960's. After directing several innovative documentaries for the BBC, he graduated to motion pictures, and eventually to his first masterpiece 'Point Blank', which inaugurated his profound friendship with Lee Marvin. Illustrated with photographs. **** NOT EX LIB **** A1E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Macmillan, 1901. Gilt title to spine with coloured pictorial of victorian child, red title to front with large coloured pictorial in red, blue and black of mother and child looking at shop window on beige cloth boards. Some light marks to boards, a touch of wear to spine head and tail which is also slightly darkened. Back board has gilt motif of The London School Board. The pictorials are still very bright. Internally there is a prize book plate and foxing to endpapers with a few marks to occasional pages else clean, tight and unmarked. Overall a Good + copy. 12 delightful illustrations by Walter Crane. A charming Victorian children's story by the popular Scottish children's author Mary Louisa Molesworth (1839 -1921) first published in 1881. A1C. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Walter Crane. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: George Routledge, 1929. Gilt title on green cloth boards which have very minor marks and just a touch of wear to corner tips. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers and the odd page with some light foxing else very clean, tight and unmarked. Fore and lower edges uncut. xlvii + 205 pages. Uniform with The Broadway Library of XVIII Century French Literature edited by Richard Aldington. Contains also Rival Souls - A Fable, Fairy Gifts or the Power of Education -a Tale, The Ancestors or Personal Merit - A Tale, Alidor and Thersander - A Tale and The Travellers - A Tale. Translated with an introduction by C. K. Scott Moncrieff (his descendant). 1. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.