Search Results: Authors starting with B from finecopy ltd

Bullen, UK, 1909. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First Edition 1909 Light spotting to early and last leaves and to textblock edges, complete, title with tissue guard, covers immaculate.

London: Longman, Green, 1864. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition 1864. Publisher's green cloth, very lightly bumped at corners a few tiny nicks in the cloth. Internally a few odd intermittent spots else a Fine copy. Frontis of the Difference Engine Fine and retaining the original tissue guard. Entirely original and unmolested, the bindings are in excellent condition. Provenance Bookplate of Thomas Sopwith MA FRS to pastedown. xii 496pp

Cassell, 1911 London. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition 1911 A Near Fine copy with light intermittent marginal foxing to head of some text leaves, otherwise very clean and bright. Tissue guarded title / frontis. Bindings original green cloth in excellent shape. Lengthy later holographic inscription from the author to Sir William Milver (1939) Signed by Author

Virago, 1982. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition First Impression. The author's first book. Near Fine copy in original red cloth, ghost of previous owner's bookplate on pastedown, in a Near Fine Jacket small tide mark to foot of lower panel, very minor wear to top edge and verso of Jacket lightly spotted. Flat signed to title. No ownership markings. Not clipped. In a protective wrapper. Signed by Author

Virago / The Leisure Circle 1986. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First Edition later Impression "specially printed for the Leisure Circle Ltd" Fine copy albeit with light toning to textblock, in a fine Jacket. Flat signed to title. No ownership markings. Not clipped. In a protective wrapper. Superb copy. Almost identical to the true first but without credits for author's first 2 works, slightly different copyright wording. Signed by Author

Virago 1989. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First Edition First Impression. Fine copy, in a fine Jacket. Flat signed to title. No ownership markings. Not clipped. In a protective wrapper. Superb copy. Signed by Author

Virago, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Fine/No Jacket. A Fine proof Advance copy of the author's second book. Powder blue wrappers. Flat signed to title. No ownership markings. In a protective wrapper. Superb copy. Signed by Author

Putnam, 1983. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First Edition First Impression of the USA edition. The author's first book. Fine copy in a fine Jacket. Flat signed to title. No ownership markings. Not clipped. In a protective wrapper. Signed by Author

Viking 1991 1993 1995. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. A set of three 1st impressions, all Viking UK 1991, 1993, & 1995. Ghost Road flat signed by the author to title. All Fine in Near Fine or Fine (Ghost Road faded to spine) Jackets and all in protective covers. Attractive collection. Signed by Author

Ex Officina J. Redmayne, [1657] London. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First London edition (first Leiden 1654) of Baron's Aristotelian philosophy exposition. Period full calf, blindstamped decorative corners, lacking spine label but very solid crisp bindings. Provenance Kenyon family with signature and bookplate of Roger and George (early 18th C) [12] 479pp 12mo

London: Longman et al 1814. later edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Third edition, 1814 very good colour frontispiece as called for, xxiv,344pp, period half calf, with later vellum corner pieces. An excellent clean and bright copy. No ownership markings, square and crisp bindings.

Boston & Cleveland, John P. Jewett, 1852. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Harriet Beecher Stowe: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly', Boston & Cleveland, John P. Jewett, 1852, 1st edition, 1st state, 2 volumes, Hobart & Robbins stated on both copyright pages, engraved vignette title pages + 6 engraved plates as called for (3 in each volume), 312; 320pp, original publisher's blindstamped pictorial cloth gilt. Minor rubbing to spine ends, mild and light markings to covers, but overall a very square clean and bright set.

D. Wilson and T. Durham, London, 1753. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition 1753. 8vo. Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine, covers lightly rubbed. Text with very light odd marking but generally very clean. Complete with all 42 plates also in excellent condition. Bound with no blanks front or rear. Upper hinge cracked and holding by the cords. This copy has the additional section from the second edition bound in at the end collates : vii [1] 236pp [3] 42 plates [4] (title & Dedication to "Observations" the additions made to the second edition) 41pp. More photos available on requestProvenance: J. Watson ink name to title-page.

Macerata, Francesco Mancini, 1812. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Lettera sugli scavi fatti nel circondario dell'antica Treja. First edition, engraved vignette title and 15 plates on 13 sheets, 2 folding, with 16pp. offprint in smaller format by A.L.Millin (the dedicatee of the main work) reviewing the book bound in at end, foxing and marginal water-staining affecting only a few leaves, abrasion to one plate, generally in near fine condition, original printed wrappers, Macerata, 1812. A scarce archaeological survey of the excavations at Treja in the Marche; Library Hub lists 3 copies (British School at Rome, BL, & Bodleian).

London: Printed for the Author, and Published by Robert Heward, 1830. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition, 1830, folding table at front, some light soiling, original brick cloth, paper label to spine, very slightly rubbed, 8vo. Complete copy, scarce in original bindings.Provenance : Greenock family with their shelf reference label to spine and manuscript note to pastedown dated 1831. The work comprises 11 papers in one which are itemised in the Contents, complete with the directions to binder and the Code bound before the title as per directions. Also retains all the original blanks front and rear and between papers where called for. 8vo.

Printed for R. Hunter, London, 1817. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in the form of a Catechism, with reasons for each article, with an introduction shewing the necessity of radical, and the inadequacy of moderate reform, 1st edition, 1817, some soiling or odd spotting, modern morocco-backed boards retaining original and adding a new blank front and rear. iv, cccxxxvii [2] 52pp 16pp (incl ad).

Venice, Giovanni Battista Surian, 1642. later edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. Second edition, 3 parts in one, with half title, early vellum, spine with old repair to vellum, now worn. 4to, Gio. Battista Surian, Venince, 1642. Collates complete with half title [16], 163, [1]; [12], 176; [12], 104. A very good copy of a scarce work.Attributed 2nd edition by Rohricht (1019) although no 1st edition has ever been offered at auction and no earlier edition appears on Worldcat

London, 1770 for the author. later edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Third Edition 1770. first few leaves slightly creased at lower margin (photo) a few intermittent odd spots, else a Near Fine copy in modern half calf. xv [i] 249pp. [Wellcome II 146] 8vo. The earliest English text-book of dentistry, first published in 1768 with a Dublin edition the following year. Berdmore (1740-85) was dentist to George III and one of the most eminent and successful exponents of dentistry in England. He was the first to employ the use of the microscope in the study of teeth and conducted experiments into the action of acids on the teeth. All early editions are scarce.

Mexico: Carral y Carral, 1945. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First and only edition 1945. A complete set with frontispiece, 3 jokers and 52 playing cards. 5 of the plates have previously been wall mounted and are slightly toned and have adhesive residue to the corners (extending typically 1 cm - see photographs for an example). Else in a Fine condition. In the original portfolio with silk ties, spine worn with loss of paper.

Librairie Floury - Boulevard Saint-Germain 136 - Paris, Paris, 1930. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition, this one of 200 copies (though this unnumbered) on Japon, which include 5 etchings not found in the trade edition (as well as the frontis which is common to both). Bound in later blue cloth with the original wrappers bound in. Complete with all the colour and the 6 original black and white etchings.