Search Results: Authors starting with C from Andrew James Books

New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket with damage to base and head of spine, small tear to top front edge and bumped at corners. Faded to spine and edges. No inscription and internally clean.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Covers and spine crease free immaculate throughout

Cassell & Co, 1927. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Without dust jacket. No better than a good reading copy. Cloth boards with rubbing to edges and small tear to head of spine. Partial fade to rear board and front hinge cracked but binding secure , No inscription and clean throughout.

Orion, 2008. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing with unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears Very clean throughout. Cameron's debut novel. A gruesome tale set in the dark underworld of London in 1900.

Jonathan Cape, 1928. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Without dust jacket, tan cloth boards with purple titles to spine. Rough cut pages, many of which remain uncut and thus unread. No inscription very clean throughout. Campbell's satirical poem about the lack of culture in South africa. Please note postal charges will be reduced

The Bodley Head, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing very good in very good unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears and now in protective sleeve, slightly faded to spine and partial light fade to title page and half title otherwise near fine. Titles of three poems not included in the book lightly in pencil to rear end paper otherwise clean. 221pp 22cm x 14cm approx. This volume embodies a broad selection from the work of one of the most markedly individual poets of the twentieth century. The selection was made with a view to illustrating every facet of his personality and the full range of his immense technical skill in the handling of sound and imagery.

Nonsuch Publishing, 2007. Soft cover. Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Samuel Lover. Virtually as new, Covers and spine crease free and very clean throughout. A collection of stories about life in rural Ireland during the early nineteenth century

Orion, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing. 1st English translation of any of Carlotto's works. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears, no inscription or markings clean throughout. Hailed as probably the best living Italian Crime Writer

London: Orion Books, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Unclipped dust jacket with very small (1cm) repaired tear to rear top edge, otherwise fine. No inscription very clean throughout. 1st UK edition. - Alligator, former Blues singer and ex convict, now a private detective, finds his job increasingly complicated. It's hard to tell the difference between the law breakers and law enforcers, and no one plays by the old rules anymore. Those who call the shots are too powerful to reach. A master crime novel steeped in drugs, blood and murder, by Italy's foremost crime writer

Giuseppe de Nicola Editore, 2004. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Virtually As New other than slight yellowing to page edges and previous owners details have been removed from front end paper. Otherwise clean throughout. Overseas buyers please note additional shipping charges will be required.

Doubleday, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket, free from nicks and tears. No inscription very clean throughout, with slight fade to page edges. A humorous novel based on the return of the Irish hero, Sir Roger Casement, who died a traitors death in an English gaol in 1916. Casement returns to haunt the Irish Republicans of Northern Ireland in the period before the peace talks, with the aim of knocking a few heads together and showing the terrorists the error of their ways. Carson's rich and poetic story captures both the essence of Ireland and the spirit of the times. Hilariously realized, profoundly moving, it is a novel of wit, wisdom and humanity.

William Morrow & Co, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing with unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears, no inscription clean throughout. A masterful easy to grasp overview of science's answers to the great questions as we understand them today; the origin of life on planet earth, the sources of human behaviour, the acquisition of language, the human thought process, the existence of extra terrestrial life. Please note additional postal charges will apply

The Friday Press, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Julia Inns. A Moorhen Book, In good to very good condition, 1st printing with unclipped dust jacket, lightly worn to top of jacket spine and with one or two very small tears along top edge otherwise very good. Blue cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Internally clean. Children's story of the further adventures of Mr Puffett, who having purchased a Gypsy Caravan from a local farmer sets off on a holiday with his young friends Peter, David, Jennifer and Jo. With illustrations to the text by Julia Inns

Collins Crime Club, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears other than very small closed tear to rear top edge, light creasing to edges. W H Smith 'damaged in transit' label to front paste down with little sign of original damage. Crayon D to rear paste down otherwise very clean throughout though page edges slightly tanned

John Dicks. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Meissenbach. Originally published as a cheap edition in paper wraps in two parts in the mid to late 1800's. These have been bound together at some stage in a library style plain green buckram with gilt title to spine. The original paper covers being discarded in the binding process. Both Part I & II are each embellished with 12 engravings by Meissenbach. In good to very good condition plain green 'library' style buckram (but not ex Library) with some handling marks. End papers clean. A few large brown marks affect the title page of Part I and and continue for the first few pages otherwise the pages are very clean and clear. The pages to Part II may be of a lower grade paper as these are quite faded. Both Parts are printed on thin paper commonly used in cheap paper editions and the text is set in a double column format. I have found only one other example of this edition and that remains in the original paper covers.

George Routledge & Sons, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1st printing. In very good condition and very good unclipped dust jacket now in protective sleeve. Small nick to top of jacket spine and age toned to spine and top edge. Original black boards with gilt titles to spine in very good clean condition. Internally clean throughout although there is a slight fade to edges of pages. By the co author of English Domestic Clocks which was published some 30 years before this volume. With costs of re-publishing the original title prohibitive, Cescinsky here provides an abridged form of the original title which concentrates on all that was important in the earlier book. Profusely illustrated.

John Murray, 1819. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two Volumes complete. Half leather binding with marbled boards. Some damage to leather which is beginning to perish to the edges. Rubbed and chipped to corners and along edges. Gilt decoration and titles to spine with raised bands, volume I in particular has some loss of gilt to the spine due to rubbing. Some foxing to early and later pages with the inner text clear though pages edges have age toned. Owners name in pencil to ffep in both volumes. Top edge of title page to both volumes has been removed presumably to remove ownership details. binding secure and boards are fully attached . Please note additional postal charges will apply due to insurance charges The Memoirs of Napoleon in 1815, Please note the text in this work is in French

Quiller Press, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket, free from nicks and tears, no inscription very clean throughout. The story behind both the woman and the museum, and how despite the obstacles that the society that she lived in put before her she succeeded in establishing one of the most famous museums in the world. Overseas buyers please note postal rates will be reduced for this item.

John F Shaw. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. William vans. Good to very good Undated edition circa 1913, Owners name to ffep. All pages age tanned due to quality of paper, partial rubbing to edges of rear boards. Colour frontispiece by W E E Evans.

The Shakespeare Head Press, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In very good condition, blue cloth boards with gilt titles to front and spine. Minor shelf wear only. Slight fade to end papers and a small amount of light foxing to early pages but predominantly clean and clear.