Search Results: Titles starting with A from C L Hawley

New York:: Random House,. Hardback. Two small selections of black and white plates. 551pp. Contemporary adverts to endpapers. Critical biography that deals not just with Milnes' children's books but also his plays, and other novels including his popular The Red House Mystery. Very clean and neat. Very good copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. 1990.

E. J. Arnold. Paperback. Marketed as stories for readers age 9-11 these are actually rather challenging stories. Abridged with notes by Dorothy Green. Illustrated in black and white by H. M. Brock with black and white frontis and one further full page illustration. Rubbed. Clean. Ex-school copy with school stamps. Good copy . Paperback.

E. J. Arnold. Paperback. 89pp+ Notes and Meanings glossary. Marketed as stories for readers age 9-11 this a historical story originally by Sir Walter Scott and set in medieval France. Described as prepared for pupils' use by James Broadbent Marshall and presumed significantly abridged. Black and white frontis. Lightly rubbed. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback.

E. J. Arnold. Paperback.96pp. Marketed as stories for readers age 9-11. Described as prepared for pupils' use by Chas A. Milford and presumed significantly abridged. Black and white frontis. Covers are very worn especially around the staples to the spine. Children's names written to prelim. Internally clean and sound. Reading copy only . Paperback.

E. J. Arnold. Paperback. Marketed as stories for readers age 7-9 these are actually rather challenging stories. Illustrated by Ruth Westcott. Rubbed. Splitting to tail of spine. Clean. Ex-school copy with school labels etc. Reading copy only . Paperback.

E. J. Arnold. Paperback. Marketed as stories for readers age 7-9 these are actually rather challenging stories. Illustrated in black and white by M. M. Thorpe with black and white frontis and some further full page illustrations. Lightly rubbed. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback.

E. J. Arnold. Paperback. Marketed as stories for readers age 5 to 7 these are actually rather challenging stories all drawn from Greek and Roman mythology. Retold by Dorothy Green. Illustrated in black and white by Ruth Westcott. Rubbed. Significant splitting to tail of spine. Clean. Reading copy only . Paperback.

E. J. Arnold,. Stapled pamphlet. Graduated series of exercises in addition and subtraction and easy multiplication and division. Large print. School stamps internally. Slightly faded. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback.

Oxford: Clarendon,. Hardback. 192pp. A-Z of usage conundrums: -ible versus -able, shall and will, collective nouns, etc. Remains a useful book. Rubbed to spine ends. Minor ding to top edges. Endpapers tanned. Very clean. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1950.

Collins. Hardback. 276pp. Seagull Library series. Silver titles to spine. Silver seagull device to front. A little rubbed. Rather bumped to the corners. Some minor splitting to both internal hinges but binding still feels tight. Good+, sound copy. . Hardcover. Reprint. 1950.

Manchester: Abel Heywood. Hardback. 324pp. Frontis is author portrait. The Lancashire dialect writer visits the USA. Red cloth decorated in black with gilt titles to spine is worn, darkened and stained. Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Society of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire prize label to endpaper. Text is clean. Good copy . Hardback. 1885.

Oldham: W. E. Clegg,. Hardback. Lancashire dialect. xxv,272+293+294pp. This set brings together the work of three important Lancashire men the dialect poet Ben Brierley, the Arts and Crafts architect Edgar Wood and Wood's close friend the painter Fred W. Jackson in a volume published in Oldham, the fulcrum of their lives in Lancashire. Edited by James Dronsfield with biography of Ben Brierley to introduction. Ribbed green cloth with gilt titles to spine illustrated title page by Edgar Wood. Illustrated by F. W. Jackson. Black and white frontis portrait photograph with tissue guard and three further illustrated plates to volume I. Frontis and two further illustrated plates each to volumes II and III. Gilt to top edge. An interesting piece of Oldham local history. Cloth is generally clean but with occasional faint mark and spots of wear to spine ends and and corners. Faint stain to page margins of the third volume for a few pages. Binding is sound. Text is clean. Good+ set . Hardback. 1896.

Victor Gollancz. Hardback. 286pp. First edition. Very clean and neat. Not price clipped. Near fine, bright copy in very good dust wrapper . Hardback. First Edition. 1998.

Delhi: Ravi Dayal. Hardback. xii, 92 pp. Indian medieval poetry. Selected and translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. In English and Prakrit. Includes notes to the poems. Good+, sound copy in good dust wrapper . Hardback. 1991.

Faber and Faber,. Hardback. First edition. Children's novel in the Bagthorpe saga. Illustrated by Jill Bennett. Orange boards with gilt titles to spine are very clean and neat. Dust wrapper is somewhat sunned to spine and slightly rubbed to top edge. Clean and sound. Very good copy in good+ dust . Hardback. First Edition. 1978.

Faber and Faber,. Hardback. First edition. Children's novel in the Bagthorpe saga. Illustrated by Jill Bennett. Green boards with gilt titles to spine are very clean and neat. Dust wrapper is very slightly rubbed to top edge. Very clean and bright. Near fine, bright copy in very good dust jacket . Hardback. First Edition. 1979.

Collins. Hardback. 255pp. Col. frontis. Reprint. Colour dust wrapper is bright but heavily wrinkled. Some light foxing to closed page edges and endpapers. Not price clipped. Good+, sound copy in like dust wrapper . Hardback. 1957.

Little, Brown and company. Hardback. Historical fiction. Signed and inscribed by Beryl Bainbridge to the title page. The novel is set in Georgian, literary London and focuses on the relationship between Samuel Johnson and Hester Threale and her daughter 'Queeney'. Reprint. 242pp. Yellow ribbon bookmark. Illustrated endpapers. Long-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize. Pages are tanned else very clean and neat. Very good copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. 2001.

New Delhi: Sage Publications,. Card bound and stapled booklet. Essay from Psychology and Developing Societies, 4, 187-212pp. Brief bibliography. Reading copy. . Paperback. 1992.

Fourth Esate,. Hardback. First UK edition. Gothic novel. 667pp. Slightly rubbed and softened to spine ends. Dust jacket has some creasing and rolling to edges and a 1.5inch tear to the fore-edge. Clean and sound. Very good copy in fair dust wrapper . Hardback. First UK Edition. 2013.