Recent Arrivals from JimsOldBooks

Preston: Carnegie Publishing, 1996. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, some bumpng to bottom end of spine and to lower corners of blue boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the town of Scarborough during the English Civil War, including the Siege of 1645. 305pp, a few b&w illustrations and… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper has a tear to top edge of front panel and is a bit creased, a small hole in the leather at top corner of front board (insect damage?), but otherwise a good clean tight copy,… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper has a tear to outer side of back panel and is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all… Read more about this item

Belfast: Eastside Partnership, 2015. Some scuffing to spine ends and outer corners of cover, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim soft-cover book. Short piece on the lives and works of thirteen writers from East Belfast working between the late eighteenth century and the 1980s. The writers are: Sam Hanna Bell, John Boyd, Joseph Campbell,… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1947. Unclipped dustwrapper (original price 10/6) has creasing and a number of small tears to the edges Minor bumping to corners and spine ends of black cloth boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles on spine still bright, of this hard-cover novel, being the tale of an imaginary Devon village seen through the eyes of… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper has had most of back panel torn away, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1979. A slight crease to the spine, also fading to spine and to inner half-inch of covers, scuffing to spine ends, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover book. Part of the publisher's "Poets on Poetry" series, this one has interviews, essays and lectures by American poet Maxine Kumin, including… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in… Read more about this item

Gillingham, Dorset: Wilson Hunt, 1993. Paperback edition. Slight creasing to spine and very minor scuffing to outer corners of cover, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover book. Looks at English gunmakers of the Cvil War and Commonwealth periods, and at some surviving examples of their work. 237pp, colour frontispiece, 70 b&w illustrations.. Paperback.… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2008. Creasing to corners of back cover and scuffing to those on the front, also to corners of frnt outer pages. Otherwsie a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Originally published in 2006, this is a New Expanded Edition from 2008. Deals with the Scottish shipping company… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1956. Price-clipped dustwrapper has a lot of fading to the spine, also has a lot of sellotape to the edges and folds. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in French as "Conversations avec Pablo Casals: souvenirs et opinions… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Scottish Childrens Press, 1997. Some fading to spine,minor scuffing to outer corners of cover, some yellowing to page edges (NOT from tobacco), but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. A story for children set in and around Perth, involving a nine-year-old boy who can see figures from the city's… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Floris Books, 2014. A very good clean tight copy, with no creasing to te spine or covers, of this soft-cover book. The first in the author's "Fabled Beasts Chronicles" series, originally published in 2008, this is a later edition from 2014. Signed by the author to original owner on title page. 215pp.. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over… Read more about this item

Brampton, Chesterfield: Ronald Slack, 1997. A crease to bottom corner of front cover and to top corner of back cover, some fading to the spine, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. A biography of John Gell, Derbyshire landowner and Commander of a Parliamentarian Regiment during the English Civil War.… Read more about this item