Search Results: Titles starting with B from Ripping Yarns

London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1948. Crimson boards, 8 x 5 inches, 147 pp plus 13 pp adverts. Includes practical instruction and diagrams with chapters on 'Engine Dismantling', 'Tuning for Speed', 'Permissable Alterations to Specifications and their Effects'. Dulled and grubby externally; rather grimy and marked on some pages within - has obviously been used as reference during repair work. One page has a 3-inch tear but text still legible. A tight complete reading copy.. 1st Edition. Hardback. Good.

London: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1956. Hardcover. G+. Red boards, a few tiny white spots to back cover. Otherwise very good. Inside tight and clean, apart from three tiny grey dots to front endpapers and one to contents page. Includes list of BBC Board of Governors, details of BBC services, engineering, programmes, administration, accounts and reviews. Also index, bibliography and lists of BBC information. Size: 7½ x 5 Inches

London: BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), 1967. 1st Edition. . G. 264 pages a good tight copy with slight browning to half of front cover. Pictures of radio personallities of the period Shirlley Bassey Frankie Howerd the Pogles etc Size: 4 Ins By 7ins

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1925. Issue of the lietrary magazine. Articles on David Grayson, Tales of Hearsay By L.P.Hartley, Wordsworth's Daughter By Fausset, John Freeman etc. Cover worn at spine and detached. Main body of magazine tightly-bound, clean and good otherwise.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1925. Issue of the literary magazine. Articles on William Hazlitt, Henry Fielding, Charles Lamb and Griffiths Wainewright, etc. Staples rusty, cover has 3 inch split from base and is detached. main body of magazine tightly-bound, clean and otherwise good.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1978. 1st Edition. . Paper Covers. Good ++. Glossy illustrated covers, 40 colour plates full-page. Good++ clean and tight. Size: 11 x 8 Inches

Princeton: Kitchen Sink Press, 1990. Paper Covers. Very Good. Glossy coloured card covers, b&w comic strip. Contributors incl. Sala, Clowes, Woodring, Friedman, Tomkins, Landman. Vg clean and tight. Size: 10 x 7 Inches

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1942. 2nd Reprint. . Hardback. Good. TURLAY NEWBURRY, CLARE. Corners and spine bumped. A few scuffs to covers. Book plate to one endpaper. Joints visible at some centrefolds. Size: 9.5 x 8 Inches

London: Kegan Paul / Rudolph Steiner Publishing Col, 1947. Hardback. Good+/Good+. Black boards with unclipped dust jacket. Corners and spine bumped. Edges rubbed. A couple of damp marks to jacket spine. Previous owner's name to FFEP. Size: 7 x 5 Inches

London: W. & R. Chambers Ltd. Hardback. Good. H.A. Bone. Brown cloth pictorial boards; gilt title to spine. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard. Decorated chapter headings. Ink inscription dated 1894 to ffep. 128pp. Lacks title page. Browning to end papers & last page of text; slight water-marking to back board; back hinge cracked; bumped at corners, slightly rubbed. Otherwise a good copy.

London: Walker Books, 2000. First Edition. . Very Good/Very Good. Black cloth boards, 5 x 9 inches, gilt lettering to spine, with dustwrapper. 231 pp. "Happiness was mine. This was what I'd always wanted. Plus, having a baby beat taking my GCSEs." Very good in a very good dustwrapper.

London: Frederick Warne. Hardback. Good. Walter Crane. Red cloth spine, brown/red paper-covered pictoral boards, 56pp. Colour illustrations throughout to accompany the songs and music. Eleven full-page colour plates. No date or inscription but early 20th century. Externally boards scuffed and worn at some edges. Back board faded near spine. A couple of pages have a small closed tear at edge. Good tight and clean early copy. Size: 7 x 6 Inches Approx.

New York: Applause Theatre&Cinema Books / Hal Leonard, 2001. First Edition. . Paperback. Good ++. Applause Classics Library. Translated and with introduction by Herbert Golder. Corners a little bumped and creased, showing signs of shelfwear, couple of marks to page edges - otherwise very good. Author's dedication to previous owner on title page. Size: 5.5 x 8 Inches

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Co., 1934. 1st Edition. . Hardback. Good/Good. Green boards, gilt decoration to front and spine; pictorial dustwrapper showing a couple in evening dress, worn at edges with some small loss and closed tears. 331 pp, endpapers very slightly faded at edges. Pages rough cut as issued. Size: 8 x 5 Inches

New York: Permabooks, 1961. 1st Thus. . Paperback, 441pp. Film tie-in edition with still as front cover illustration. Tanned pages but sopine indicates unread. A clean tight and otherwise very good.

London: Cassell, 1955. 224pp. Unclipped dustjacket, a little grubby with small tears to edges; tear to front corner (previous owner has repaired with sellotape); one inch missing at top of spine. Jacket now protected by archive quality plastic cover. Blue boards with title embossed in red. Boards in very good condition. Tiny bookseller label to 1st pastedown. Book itself has a few spots of foxing to page edges, visible when closed but text unaffected. Otherwise good clean tight copy without inscription. Lovely colour frontispiece.. 1st Edition. Hardback. Good +/Good-. Illus. by C. H. Chapman.

Berlin: FHTF, 2007. Paperback with Dustjacket. Good. Corners and spine ends rubbed but good clean and tight. Size: 8 x 5 Inches

London: Evans Brothers, 1954. 1st Edition. . Good. Paper covers, 5½ x 8½ inches. 91 pp, plus 7 pp list of Evans Plays. Introduction by Lionel Hale. Two b/w plates. Spine and edges faded, corners slightly bumped, faint stamp to bottom right-hand corner of front cover, occasional grubbiness to covers; one tiny mark to front cover and very light foxing to ffep only. Small neat inscription to title page. A good, tight copy.

London: William Heinemann, 1947. 1st Edition. . Hardback. Blue cloth bjoards, 151pp. Boots sticker to front board. Spine scuffed and bumped at edges. Free endpapers a little tanned; remains of Boots Library sticker to last pastedown. Good tight copy otherwise.

Norfolk: Tom Mollard, Quaker Press, 1971. Soft cover. Good. Contemporary Norfolk Poets Series. Introduction by George Barker. Brown paper covers, red, green and black printing. Some light shelf wear, mild toning to margins. Contents good. Signed by author to ffep.