Search Results: Titles starting with F from Byre Books

London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1926 Using the form of a novel to illustrate early Christianity in Rome in 302 AD. Covers worn and marked, piece missing from the spine, name and address to ffep, pages yellowed, tight and sound, good.

Ancienne Librairie Furne, Combet et Cie Paris HB Undated. With an introduction by C.-A. Sainte-Beuve, engravings by T. Johannot. Text in French. Bound in red leather a little marked and sunned, with a school crest (The Grange, Folkstone) to the front board, raised bands to the spine with gold decorative compartments, spine edges strengthened with japanese paper, gold decorative band to board edges, marbled end-papers, marbling to edge of page-block, neat ink inscription to prelims, some age-mottling to tissue guarded frontis, pages yellowed, tissue-guarded engravings all present, clean, tight and sound, a handsome book. 393pp 0

Macmillan and Co, 1902 Reprint. Decorated grey-green cloth worn and a little marked, gilt all round, neat inscription to ffep dated 1903, occasional foxing throughout, clean, sound, good.

London: Longman, 1972 Reprint. Text in Latin, with vocabulary and English notes. Covers lightly worn, school stamp to ffep, no other inscriptions or annotation, clean and sound, good.

Glenrothees: Ketillonia, 2001 Translated into powerful Scots poetry. Stapled booklet, no inscriptions, VG.

Shetland: Shetland Times, 2015 Following the fortunes of two Fair Isle families: the Irvines of Quoy and the Wilsons of Taft, as they fight to save their way of life. VG, very slight edgewear. Signed by the author.

Kirkcudbright: Markings, 1997 A Marking special edition. Powerful poems, reflecting on the holocaust through Grimm and Andersen. Stapled booklet, covers a little worn and sunned, address stamp (poet Brent Hodgson) to back fep, clean and sound, good.

Friends World Committee for Consultation London, 1992 The report from the fifth World Conference of Friends (Quakers), 1991, meeting in the Netherlands, Honduras and Kenya. Cover a little worn, generally VG. 257pp

J L Carr Kettering PB Undated, first, J L. Carr pocket book. 16pp abridged from Gibbon's Fall of Constantinople. Stapled booklet in VG condition. 16pp 0

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1922 Contains The Christmas Tree; The Torch of Time; Moonshine; A Fool and his Money; The House Fairy. Decorative paper covered boards lightly worn, yapp edges split, split to spine, internally clean, tight and sound, good.

Dido Press London 1995 PB Poems. VG. 72pp 0

Chatto and Windus, 1923 Literary criticism, covering Victor Hugo, Burns, Whitman, Thoreau, Yoshida-Torajiro, Villon, Charles of Orleans, Pepys and Knox. Name to ffep (Scottish writer Margaret Elphinstone), foxing to edge of page block, clean, sound, good, in worn, marked, chipped, mended, good DJ.

Stanley Paul & Co Ltd London 1st edition, 1975 Covers all matters pertinent to a family owning or hiring a cruising boat: fitting-out, maintenance of the boat and its gear, preparing and equipping for a cruise, practical cruising instruction, heavy weather sailing, pilotage and basic coastal navigation and eventual winter lay-up. VG in Good DJ. 188pp

Macclesfield: New Playwrights' Network Undated: 1970s. Small stapled booklet, light wear to covers, no inscriptions, clean and sound, good.

Samuel French London 1982 PB Family Voices was first produced on Radio 3 in 1981, and subsequently presented at the National Theatre in 1982 as part of the triple bill Other Places. Good - cover lightly marked, text VG, stamped 'Review Copy' on cover. 14pp 0

Gerald Duckworth % Co London 1st 1986 HB The theatrical Redgrave family. VG in very slightly edge-worn but generally VG DJ 242pp 0

Nottingham Drama Texts University of Nottingham 1979 PB Edited by Simon Shepherd. Large stapled booklet, good. 60pp 0

Victor Gollancz London 1929 HB Contains Journey's End by R C Sherriff; Young Woodley by John van Druten; Many Waters by Monckton Hoffe; The Lady With the Lamp by Reginald Berkeley; Such Men Are Dangerous by Ashley Dukes; Mrs Moonlight by Benn W Levy. Boards a little worn, name to ffep, good, no DJ. 672pp 0

Victor Gollancz London 1931 HB Contains The Barretts of Wimpole Street by Rudolph Besier; The Improper Duchess by James B Fagan; To See Ourselves by E M Delafield; After All by John van Druten; London Wall by Druten; Automn Crocus by C L Anthony. Boards marked and worn, good 672pp 0

Robert Hale London 1974 hdbk B & w illus. VG, no DJ. 242pp 0