Search Results: Authors starting with A from Bookfare

Preston: George Toulmin, 1928 22 plates; Hardback: maroon cloth decorated in gilt and blind; Covers spotted, lacks free end-papers, school stamp to title-page, inscription to half-title, previous owner's note to one page of text, still a tightly-bound and fairly fresh vg copy.

1st Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1971 A volume in the "Cambridge Texts and Studies in the History of Education" series; Hardback: brown cloth decorated in gilt on spine; Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper and marks in margins on 52 pages of text in pen or pencil, mostly not too obtrusive, otherwise near fine in slightly less fine dustwrapper.

1st Edition, Fisher Unwin, 1910 135 illustrations; Presentation copy, inscribed on front free end-paper to H.V. Higgins; A volume in the 'Chats' series for collectors; Blue cloth lettered in gilt, facsimiles of autographs set into spine and top board, title-page printed in red and black, top edge blue, partly unopened; Strip of old damp to top board, string marks to spine, front hinge tender, internally fine.

Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1979 5 maps and 28 illustrations; "Neither a text-book nor a source-book, but something between the two - a collection of historical material ."; Paper wrappers; Near fine.

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1963 75 illustrations by John Dugan; "From the Earliest Times to the Union of 1707"; Hardback: black cloth decorated in white, Dugan illustrated 'time line' end-papers; Bruise to top board, previous owner's name to half-title, near fine.

London: Alexander Maclehose, 1932 Author: Sir Robert Bruce; Hardback: grey patterned cloth, paper label decorated in red; Label very faded, slight signs of use, light foxing, vg+

Norwich: Jarrolds, 1967 51 colour illustrations; "A Warwick Series Colour Book"; Hardback: pictorial glazed boards, illustrated end-papers; Previous owner's inscription, else near fine.

Ambleside, Cumbria: Sanderson & Dixon 42 colour illustrations; Not dated: published early 1960's ?; A Jarrold printing; Paperback; Light wear and creasing to wrappers, text and illustrations clean, vg.

London: Nelson Not dated: published 1920's ?; 580 pages; A volume in "The Nelson Library of Copyright Fiction"; Hardback: light blue cloth decorated in black with a swastika to top board, duodecimo; Slight cover wear, binding a little shaken, vg- Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

1st Edition, Robert Hale, London, 1957 29 illustrations; Foreword by Norman Birkett; Hardback: green cloth lettered in gilt on spine; Top board a little bowed, spine sunned, edges spotted, previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper, vg.

Preston: Guardian Press, 1963 49 plates from photographs; 14 illustrations by Alfred Wainwright; Foreword by Jack Longland; Hardback: green cloth decorated in gilt on spine; Boards very slightly bent, previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper, near fine in g worn and torn dustwrapper.

1st Edition, Robert Hale, London, 1968 33 plates from photographs by Geoffrey Berry; Hardback: green cloth decorated in gilt on spine; Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper, near fine in tape-repaired dustwrapper.

London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1964 Presentation Copy, inscribed on front free end-paper: "Laurence with love from Father"; Hardback: green cloth lettered in gilt; Fine in fair dustjacket.

London: Methuen, 1937 Hardback: yellow cloth lettered in blue on spine; Binding somewhat slanted, small area of fading to spine, previous owner's inscriptions to front free end-paper, vg- in fair slightly defective dustwrapper.

London: Methuen, 1931 "The music of the opera is composed by Thomas F. Dunhill"; Hardback: blue cloth decorated in black; Light foxing, near fine in dustwrapper.

London: Methuen, 1936 Humourous miscellany and essays; Hardback: yellow cloth strikingly lettered in brown; Very light foxing, previous owner's name to front free end-paper, fine in worn dustwrapper defective on spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: Methuen, 1931 20 illustrations; A volume in "Methuen's Monographs on Biological Subjects" edited by G.R. De Beer, with a preface by the editor; Hardback: green cloth decorated in black; Binding slanted, slight cover wear and spotting, previous owner's name to front pastedown, g+ in used dustwrapper.

Clarke Irwin, 1963 11 tipped-in colour plates by the author; Foreword by Vincent Massey; Hardback: blue cloth decorated in gilt; Very slight signs of use, fine in slightly torn and dirtied g Jackson dustjacket.

1st Edition, Oxford University Press, 1954 163 illustrations, 2 folding; Published for "The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum": no. 6 of its new series publications, edited by E. Ashworth Underwood; Hardback: blue cloth decorated in gilt, illustration of scots firs to top board, quarto; Stain to top board, covers unevenly faded, internally clean and tidy.

London: Mills and Boon, 1912 Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece; 32 other plates; 10 text illustrations; "Recalling the Most Famous Cricketers and their Methods, together with Advice on the Game"; Hardback: green cloth lettered in gilt and elaborately decorated in black; Spine creased, corners rubbed, lacks front free end-paper, text a little fingered and dusty, g.