Search Results: Titles starting with B from C L Hawley

Unpaginated but 12 printed pages. Landscape format picture books with tiger cub to the front and back. Poems and pictures about zoo animals. 5 full page rather charming colour illlustrations and some integral line drawings. No date but mid-twentieth century in style. No publication details except number 104 to back. Somewhat rubbed to all edges. A little bent. Black mark to colour illustration of zebra else very clean and bright internally. Good, sound copy. . Paperback. 1950.

Loughborough: Ladybird,. Hardback. 52pp. Series 606.  Matt illustrated papers to boards with colour illustration and purple boards. Illustrated endpapers, orange with black line drawing. Illustrated by Clive Uptton.  No price. Reprint. Bumped to spine ends. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1961.

Cambridge University Press. Hardback. 704pp. Very clean, bright and neat. Very good copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. 2016.

Lucas Book. Paperback. 125pp. Black and white photographs throughout. Slightly rubbed to corners. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1998.

Blackie. Paperback. 128pp. Blackie's English Texts series. Talwin Morris design in black on blue limp cloth. Slightly darkened to spine. Tanned to endpapers. Foxed to closed page edges. Lightly rubbed. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback.

Blackie. Paperback. 128pp. Blackie's English Texts series. Talwin Morris design in black on blue limp cloth. Slightly darkened to spine. Tanned to endpapers. Foxed to closed page edges. Lightly rubbed. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback.

Jonathan Cape. Hardback. Signed, first edition with complete numberline. Signed by Carmen Callil to the title page. Callil is best know for founding the publishing house Virago. The story of Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Commissioner-General for Jewish Affairs under the Vichy Régime. Lightly rubbed. Very clean and bright. Very good copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. First Edition. 2006.

John Murray,. Hardback. 372pp. a study of some of the women who were incarcerated at Holloway Prison, once the largest women's prison in Europe, from the Victorian jail, through two world wars, Irish republicanism and the fight for suffrage, to prison reform under Joanna Kelley, the 21st century and its eventual closure. Well known prisoners included Emmeline Pankhurst, Emily Davison, Constance Markievicz, Diana Mitford , etc. Small selection of black and white plates. Very clean, bright and neat. Very good copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. 2018.

Faber and Faber. Hardback. 276pp. Novel. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. First UK edition. Brown boards with gilt titles to spine are very clean and bright. Pages very slightly tanned. Dust jacket is very lightly rubbed. Very good copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. First UK Edition. 2008.

Rupert Hart-Davis. Hardback. 232pp. First edition. With 40 illustrations by Ralph Thompson. Attractive colour illustrated dust jacker design also by Ralph Thompson. Blue boards with silver titles to spine are bumped to spine ends and corners but clean and sound. Slightly faded to top edge. Dust jacket is tanned with some faint marks and light foxing. Dust jacket also has a small number of short tears and small chips and a with two patches of more significant loss to to the lower edge of the front (dust jacket image unaffected) and to the head of the dust jacket spine. Good+, sound copy in good dust jacket . Hardback. First Edition. 1954.

Nordic Africa Institute,. Paperback. 208pp. University library label to inside cover. No other library marks. Lightly rubbed. Good, sound copy. . Paperback. 1996.

London: Collins. Hardback. First edition. 127pp. Illustrated Glynis Overton. The second book in the Messenger series Blue boards with gilt titles to spine are very sound and clean with just a hint o fading to very edges. head of spine is a little rolled. Dust wrapper is rubbed and dust marked to very edges. Good+, sound copy in like dust wrapper . Hardback. First Edition. 1985.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. Hardback. xiii, 89pp. Illustrated throughout by Hugh Thomson with frontis, with tissue guard, and numerous further integral drawings. Third edition. Green cloth with very pretty gilt flower design to front with two characters holding a broadside swag, and gilt titles to front and and spine. Further flowers in gilt to the spine. All edges gilt. Dark green end papers. Ex-libris label Wilma Lady Skelmersdale to endpaper and more modern name in ink to prelim. Generally very clean and bright. Gilt to spine is slightly rubbed and duller than the front. Slightly bumped to points. Worn to head of spine. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1892.

Ballet magazine. Black and white photographs throughout plus a double page spread of drawings of the dancers from the Covent Garden Cinderalla including Moira Shearer. Articles include pieces on ballet in Covent Garden, Ballet Glacés, Soviet Ballet, Folk Dance Festival 1949, Ballet in the Provinces, Alexandra Danilova, Olga Preobrajenska,etc. very clean and neat copy. Very good copy . Paperback. 1948.

Ballet magazine. Black and white photographs throughout. Articles include pieces on ballet in Covent Garden, dance in Paris, Madeleine Guimard, Ballet in Bratislava, Soviet Folk Dance, The Metropolitan Ballet, and a review of Moira Shearer in Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes as well as letters pages (ballet compared to football!) and other items. very clean and neat copy. Very good copy . Paperback. 1948.

London: Michael Joseph,. Hardback. This is the second joint novel for the husband and wife writing duo. In real life Felicity Carter was from a family of writers and she met her husband John Coulson in a Spanish language language class. Black boards with silver titles and silver Pegasus to the spine are very clean and neat. Complete dust jacket is tanned to white panel to the back and has very tiny chips and small patches of loss to the very edges. Main dust jacket image is unaffected. Previous owner's address label to endpaper. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Very good copy in good+ dust jacket . Hardback. First Edition. 1951.

Banstead History Research Group,. Paperback. 96pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. Lightly rubbed. Some minor marks to the back. Clean and sound. Very good copy . Paperback. 1988.

London:: T. Fisher Unwin,. Hardback. xviii,316pp. Beautiful fine binding in tree-calf with gilt decorations, by Riviere and Son. First edition. A study of the Barbary or Ottoman slave trade and the "infinite number of souls...dragged into wretched captivity" (p.202). The raids peaked in the 17th century. Riviere and Son stamp to prelim. Decorative gilt borders to boards and gilt dentelles. Raised bands to spine green label and gilt titles to one compartments and repeated design in gilt to the remaining. Gilt to top edge. Marbled endpapers. Some foxing to closed page edges and prelims, and scattered occasional foxing to page margins. Otehrwise very clean, bright and neat. A really very nice copy. Very good copy . Hardback. 1890.

The Herbert Press,. Paperback. 200pp. Rubbed to corners. Light reading wear. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1999.

Birkhäuser,. Paperback. 80pp. Very clean and neat. Very good copy . Paperback. 2006.