Search Results: Titles starting with M from Church Street Books

London: Methuen, 1958. Herbert brings back the Earl of Caraway, a character from one of his earlier novels ("Number Nine"). DJ designed by Thelwell. Blue covers with red lettering to spine, 283pp. Book has dusty top cover and page edges and mild bumping to head and foot of spine. But text bloc is clean and tight. Intact DJ has general light wear and a couple of very small closed tears. Overall a decent copy. Ref:093041. First Edition. Cloth. VG/VG-. 13.5cmx20.5cm.

London: Fourth Estate, 2006. Author's first novel, set during seige of Leningrad in WWII. Uncorrected proof, 231pp. Looks unread, no obvious faults. Ref:071676. Uncorrected Publisher's Proof. Card Covers. VG++/N/a. 14.5x21cm.

Loughborough: Ladybird Books, 1982. Ladybird series 621. Paper-covered boards, 52pp, with colour illustrations. Very light wear and bumping to cover extrems, but no serious faults. Previous owner's neat name on ffep and title page. No DJ. Ref:114649. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. VG+/N/a. Illus. by Peter Robinson. 12x18cm.

London: David Marlowe, 1948. Foreword by Christmas Humphreys. Blue covers with gilt, 146pp, advert and newspaper cutting slipped in. Covers have modest bumping to extrems, slightly dulled spine lettering. Foxing to prelims and dusty page edges. Unclipped DJ has light wear to edges and extrems, a couple of small nicks at head and foot of spine and a 1cm, closed (repaired) trear at fot of rear.But overall a very sound and internally clean copy. Ref:093585. Reprint. Cloth. VG/VG-. 13x19cm.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1948. Left-wing thinkers from Thomas Paine to H G Wells. First edition in red covers with gold lettering to spine. Books is sound with minor bumping to extremities. DJ has been damaged by water, has several tears and a section missing from top of rear. Title has faded from spine, but front cover is mostly intact. Ref:06651. First Edition. Cloth. G++/fair+. 14.5x22.5cm.

London: Hutchinson, 1996. Life story of an amazing horse trainer. Red covers with gold lettering to spine. Book clean and tight, but sunned at edges, page edges slightly tanned and spine top and foot bumped. DJ intact but bumped with nicks from general wear. Ref:06620. First Edition. Cloth. Good+/G+. 16cmx24cm.

London: William Heinemann, 1929. Very early - and new - impression (September 1929, first published in June 1929) of Green's first published novel. Black covers with gilt lettering and rules to spine, blind-stamped Heinemann device on lower rear board, 354pp. Very light rubbing to fore corners of front cover, cover edges and page edges dusty. Foxing to prelims and page edges, otherwise book is clean and tight as is text bloc. No DJ. Ref:082549. New Impression. Cloth. VG/N/a. 13cmx19cm.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1965. Novel set in a desert state of south-western USA where the church's authority is undermined by a rattlesnake-obsessed settler. Blue covers with silver lettering to spine, 192pp. Mild spotting to page edges, otherwise book has no obvious faults. DJ (designed by margaret Gordon) is a little grubby on white rear, otherwise showing just minor wear with attractive blue/black/yellow front. A nice copy. Ref:071062. First Edition. Cloth. VG+/VG. 14x20.5cm.

London and New York: Tavistock Publications, 1982. Examinaton of the skills and style demanded of social work managers. 202pp (inc index). Some sunning to spine, otherwise in very good condition. Ref:07833. P/back. P/back. VG+/N/a. 13.5x21.5cm.

London: Cassell, 1996. Psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists and educationalists contribute to a broad view of manging children with problems. 128pp (inc index). Spine slightly faded, otherwise only very minor sgns of use. Ref:07850. First P/back Edition. Card Covers. VG++/N/a. 17cmx24.5cm.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994. Life of the unconventional career diplomat. A couple of minor scratches to the rear of the DJ are the only marks on a virtually faultless copy. Heavy book (517pp) which will require extra postage. Ref:06661. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/VG++. 16x24cm.

Manchester / London: The Textile Institute / Butterworths, 1964. Red covers with gilt, 241pp inc index, with b/w illustrations. Covers have no wear. Light stain on fore edge of ffep and dusty, lightly foxed top page edges, otherwise book has no obvious faults. No DJ. REf:104282. Second Edition. Buckram. VG++/N/a. 14x22cm.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1988. Manual of techniques and hardware written with a background of 60 years in the sport. Green covers with gilt, 182pp inc index, with b/w illustrations (90 photographs and 26 line drawings). Book has no obvious faults in DJ, which is similar, but price-clipped. Ref:093495. Reprint. Cloth. VG++/VG+. 16x24cm.

Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1976. Thirty-six poems by the former Chinese leader. Card covers in original illustrated wraps, 53pp inc translators' note on the verse form. Frontis portrait of the author and fold-out poem in original Chinese calligraphy. Covers have very little wear, but yellowing edges, spine and page edges. Internally very clean and tight. Ref:124989. First English Edition. Card Wraps. VG+/VG+. 13x21cm.

Exeter: The University of Exeter, 1968. Written in 1908, but not finished and therefore not published until 1968. The work now has a bibliography of more recent works added. Blue covers with gilt lettering to spine, 175pp inc index, with 31 b/w plates and Deveon map endpapers. Book has light wear to lower board edges and dusty top page edges, otherwise very clean and sound internally. DJ has light wear to extremities, rubbing and tiny loss to head of spine. Overall a very decent copy. Ref:082462. First Edition. Cloth. VG+/VG-. 14.5x22.5cm.

London: Robert Hayes ND, but assumed First Edition. Red covers with gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped vignette and lettering on front, 374pp. Spotting to dusty page edges and mild sunning to spine, but otherwise a very clean, attractive copy of this scarce edition. Ref:071181. First Edition (?). Cloth. VG+/N/a. 13x18.5cm.

London: Viking, 2000. First edition, first printing, with red covers and gilt, 340pp with black endpapers. Apart from tiniest dint to fore edges and lightly bumped head and fooot of spine, covers are VG. Top page edges dusty. Unclipped DJ has just lightest shelfwear and sunned spine. But overall a VG copy. Ref:125022. First Edition. Cloth. VG/VG. 15.5cmx24cm.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Novel contribution to Marxist literary theory. Green covers with silver lettering to spine, 275pp inc index. Book has light foxing to top page edges, otherwise it is faultless. Intact DJ shows only the mildest signs of use. A VG copy. Ref:081937. First Edition. Cloth. VG++/VG. 16.5x24cm.

London: Clarke, Beeton, 1853. New edition of the novel by the Rector of Wortham, near Diss. Very nicely rebound in marbled boards and dark-blue leather spine with gilt lettering and rules, 332pp, rough-cut edges with frontis of Norwich Castle and half-title vignette (by Cobbold?). Covers show virtually no wear, text bloc is solid with mild foxing, generally discoloured page edges, which are a little ragged in places and a few mild marks. But overall a VG copy. Ref:082493. New and improved Edition. Quarter Leather. VG/N/a. 11cmx18cm.

London: Book Club Associates, 1973. Tiny nick to rear outer corner of DJ otherwise, clean tight copy.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Cloth. VG/VG. 15cmx21.5cm.