Search Results: Titles starting with B from Island Books

[World Ship Society, Gravesend],, [1999]. Oblong 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title, numerous photographs and pictorial endpapers; pictorial boards, a bright, clean working copy. THIS COPY IS HEAVILY ANNOTATED WITH COLOURED HIGHLIGHTER. Comprehensive record of BEF shipping movement, with obvious concentration on Operations DYNAMO, CYCLE and ARIEL.

HMSO,, [1941-45]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 6 plates (one folding), folding table, and numerous diagrams (a number full-page) in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board lettered in red, Appendix wire-stitched as issued, both very good, bright, clean copies. 'This Handbook supersedes the Stokers Manual and is to be issued free of charge to each direct entry engine-room artificer, engine-room artificer apprentice and stoker on joining'. VERY SCARCE TOGETHER IN THIS CONDITION

Pima Paisano, Reserve NM,, [1990]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pale blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Includes details of production, deployment and bibliography.

Ian Allan, [Shepperton],, [1978]. Roy. 4to., First Edition, with with coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

BB Society, [Solihull],, [2007]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.

BBC,, [1941]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published in format similar to the well-known HMSO wartime booklets. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Ward Lock,, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition, neat inscription on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly spotted at lower fold-in. Dustwrapper artwork by Rudland.

Pavilion,, [1990]. Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous fine coloured and monochrome photographs and reproductions throughout; black boards, backstrip lettered in silver, black endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

D Bradford Barton, [Truro],, [1981]. 5 vols., oblong 4to., First Edition, with drawings and tables throughout; pictorial boards, a near fine set. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE. Ottley 15800, 17961, 18481, 18128, 18933 respectively.

Jonathan Cape,, [1931]. 8vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy; original wrappers, upper cover with paper label printed in black, a near fine copy housed in custom-made board solander case with printed paper labels. With the following additional items: (1) typescript resume on author's printed stationery of the British Military Mission in Siberia 1918-1920 (with MS corrections); (2) draft T.L. on the author's printed stationery. A request by the author for information regarding Lieut.-Col. L.C. Morley, Royal Hampshire Regiment, senior officer i/c British Military Mission at Irkutsk in 1919; (3) T.L.s. from Captain H. Flint, Royal Hampshire Regiment, responding in some detail to the author's request; (4) publisher's printed order form for the published work. Apart from the author's book we have been unable to trace any published dedicated account of BRITMIS, which accordingly remains a well-nigh forgotten component of the immediate aftermath of WWI. A UNIQUE COLLECTION NOW SAFELY PRESERVED… Read More

Oxford University Press,, 1997. 3 vols., 4to., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome illustrations and maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, all near fine copies. The run comprises Vol. I No. 1: Shag, Greater Flamingo, Lesser Flamingo, Whooper Swan, Pink-footed Goose, Lesser Kestrel (April 1997); No. 2: Bewick's Swan, Cory's Shearwater, Golden Eagle (August 1997); No. 3: Northern Gannet, White Pelican, Dalmatian Pelican, Pink-backed Pelican, Night Heron, Squacco Heron, Barnacle Goose (December 1997). VERY SCARCE.

Penguin, [Harmondsworth,, 1957]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; original printed wrappers, a bright, clean copy. Includes stills from Elia Kazan's feature film (1956) starring Karl Malden and Carroll Baker. Penguin I233.

Penguin, [Harmondsworth,, 1954]. 8vo., First Edition thus, page-edges browning very slightly; original printed wrappers, covers very faintly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy. The cover roundel, designed by Berthold Wolpe, is based on the illustration of Agave with the head of Pentheus from the Sandys edition of The Bacchae. Penguin Classics, L44.

The Sign of the Unicorn, Cecil Court,, 1901. 16mo., First Edition, with half-title and title in red and black; original green cloth, upper board blocked in black with an elaborately interlaced framework enclosing a unicorn and lettered gilt, back gilt extra, gilt top, uncut, two corners very faintly bruised else a near fine copy. Number Seven of the Unicorn Books of Verse. This copy bears an inscription on front free endpaper reading 'RKH to GLH, fellow descendant of the Ettrick Shepherd' [James Hogg]. All Unicorn Books are very scarce, especially in this condition.

Bach Choir,, 1920. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 19 fine sepia-toned facsimile plates of scores, neat contemporary signature on half-title (lightly spotted); original printed wrappers, yapped edges, uncut, a very good, firm copy.

Barrie & Jenkins,, [1973]. 8vo., First Edition; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With wonderful dustwrapper artwork by Osbert Lancaster. A direct sequel to 'Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin', published in the previous year. Jasen 95; McIlvaine A96a.

Badger Books, Bideford,, 1983. Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and a full-page map in the text; original photographic wrappers, a very good, clean copy.

Chatto & Windus [with] Punch,, [1964]. 8vo., First Edition,top and fore-edge lightly spotted; original yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip and mildly age-spotted. Cross & Perkin A31.

Oliver & Boyd,, [1946]. 4to., First Edition, with title-vignette and illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. SCARCE.

County Press, Newport,, [1957]. 8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece and 9 plates; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped with minor loss at edges. Classic account of shipwrecks and smuggling, first published in 1934 and continuously expanded.