Search Results: Authors starting with M from CHARLES BOSSOM

London: G.BELL AND SONS. Good. 1924. Hard Cover. 5" By 7" Tall Brown cloth with tipped on colour plate to upper cover. Gilt lettering to upper cover and spine. Fading to spine. Neat name on ffep. Frontispiece. Bumped corners. 240 pages clean and tight. .

Presidio Press. Very Good/Good. 1988. Hard Cover. 8vo 0891413197 Dust jacketunclipped, closed tears, a little loss to edges. Original black cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Illustrated with photographs. xv, 331 pages. "The two-week battle for Corregidor was complicated by the American's gross underestimation of enemy strength: expecting a few hundred demoralized defenders, they encountered more than 6,000 Japanese soldiers and marines deployed in tunnels and caves, every man dedicated to the Bushido code that dictated a fight to the death. As the dust was settling, MacArthur himself came ashore and was greeted by the commander of the victorious U.S. Army troops. 'Sir, ' said Col. George Jones, 'I present to you the Fortress Corregidor' -- a stirring conclusion to a dramatic and well-told story". -- Publishers Weekly. .

London: Folio Society. Very Good. 1996. Hard Cover. Narrow 4to Introduction by Chris Wrigley. No slipcase. Blue Boards, bright gilt titling and decoration. No inscription. Colour frontis plate. Numerous colour & b/w plates / illustrations. Map end papers. 503 Pages. Clean And Tight. .

London: Batsford Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 0713473142 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Maps, b/w illustrations. 128 pages clean and tight. Canterbury is a small market town in east Kent which attracts visitors from all over the world who come to see its great cathedral and many other architectural riches. This is the first book to trace the history of this city from its earliest beginnings right up to the present day. It is where St Augustine came to at the start of his mission in England; Chaucer's pilgrims travelled to it; Christopher Marlowe was born there and Thomas Becket was murdered there. This book brings Canterbury's history to life, studying the famous monuments and the people who have lived and live there. .

Islamabad: National Book Foundation . Very Good/No DJ. 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Only 1,000 copies of first printing. Illustrated boards. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. Maps. 397 pages clean and tight. Mr.Close's views on the specifically military aspect of Lord Wavell's genius, as declared during his period as Commander-in-Chief, form the theme of the book that is now published. About the author: -Mr. H.M. Close, SI, OBE, MC, MA, has been known in Peshawar since 1947, first as a teacher at Islamia College, and at Edwardes College, and more recently, in the few years since his retirement, (though still at Edwardes College) as the author of a few books. He was born in London in 1914, and educated at University College School, Hampstead, and then at St. John's College, Cambridge. On leaving Cambridge, in 1937, he took a teaching appointment at St. Stephen's College, Delhi. In 1940, however, he joined the Indian Army and sailed to the Middle East to… Read More

US Naval Institute Press. Very Good/Very Good. 2000. Hard Cover. 4to 0870216538 Dust jacket complete, unclipped, slightly wear to edges. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine, rubbed to edges. No ownership marks. Numerous photographs, line drawings, and blueprints. 288 pages clean and tight. Detailed information for the model builder. When the American colonies declared their independence in 1776, they were ill-prepared for a regular maritime war, and consequently pressed into service ex-privateers and many small and fast merchant ships before building a small number of frigates and lesser warships. Great Britain, on the other hand, had the largest navy of the time, but still found herself poorly equipped to fight a guerilla war at sea and so also increased the numbers of small craft by purchase and capture. This book presents a representative sample of these smaller ships - privateers and regular warships, American and British - including an example of the kind of… Read More

London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. Very Good. 1822. Full Leather. 4" By 6.75" Tall Full leather with gilt lettering and decoration, slightly rubbed edges. 5 raised bands on spine. Previous owner's inscription dated 1827 and book plate on front paste down. Engraved frontis. plate. Contents Letters. Sketch of Grecian History: Literary Characters of Greece: Roman History. History of England: The Reformation: English History concluded: Notes: Several letters on each subject heading. 248 pages clean and tight. Scarce title. .

Very Good. 1996. Soft Cover. 8vo Soft cover. Photographs. Illustrations colour & b/w.131 pages clean and tight. .

London & Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Very Good/Very Good. 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0710070462 Dust jacket price clipped. Black cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Neat name on paste down 207 pages. This important work of Chaucerian scholarship deals with two aspects of the poet and his work - his individual achievement and his place in history and demonstrates that in both these senses Chaucer is a maker of English poetry. The book is divided into two volumes. In Volume II, the author explores Chaucer's narrative art. The book includes an examination of the puzzling question of narrative structure in the Canterbury Tales and of the nature of Chaucerian comedy in these works. The author surveys the major themes of the poems: Fortune and free will, marriage, and the nobleness of man. In the final chapter she treats of the meaning of Chaucer's art for his successors. Throughout the work, Miss Kean deals extensively with the sources which… Read More

Oregan: Beautiful West Publishing Company. Very Good/Very Good. 1977. Third Printing. Hard Cover. 4to 0915796066 Dust jacket complete but price clipped. Brown cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling on upper cover and spine. No ownership inscription. 72 pages, colour photographs, map, clean and tight. .

London: Frederick Warne & Co. Good to Very Good/No DJ. Hard Cover. Sm 4to Circa 1915. Colour illustrated boards rubbed to edges. Green cloth spine with embossed black titling. Previous owner's inscription dated Xmas 1917. 2 of the b/w illustrations have been coloured. Colour frontis plate. Colour illustrated title page. .

London: Printed By A J Valpy. Good/No DJ. 1833. Hard Cover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall No dust jacket. Family classical library no XLV. Slight wear to edges, bmped. Previous owner's small book plate on f paste down. Foxing spots mainly to end papers. [The Editor has gladly availed himself of the kind permission of Mr. HARFORD to reprint, and adapt for the English reader, by the omission of various Greek extracts and references, a portion of the learned Essay prefixed to his admirable translation of the Agamemnon, * which has been recently published by Mr. Murray in one volume octavo, with beautiful classical embellishments. For an interesting disquisition on the state of the Grecian drama and the fine arts in the age of Pericles, we must refer the scholar to the work itself, which will amply repay his perusal.] " The Agamemnon of AEschylus, translated from the Greek, illustrated by a Dissertation on Grecian Tragedy, &c., by JOHN S. HARFORD, Esq.,… Read More

London: Rupert Hart-Davis. Very Good/Good. 1954. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket rubbed with wear to extremities. DJ is in a sleeve protector. Brown cloth slight bumping to corners. Previous owners small address label on ffep. Light spots to prelims. 272 pages clean and tight. .

London: Cassell. Very Good/Good. 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket complete, unclipped, foxing spots, some fading to spine. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Frontis plate. 65 photographs by the author. 278 pages clean and tight. "This is a record of hopeful travel-travel for its own sake. It is also the story of a car and of her nomadic owners." This is what the author says himself of the journey he and his wife made from the extreme south to the farthest north of Sweden. It was no tourist trip from one luxury hotel to the next; there were no luxury hotels in the places they went to, and in any case they preferred to "do for themselves" at each vandrarhem, or hiker's hostel, they stayed at. If there wasn't a vandrarherrz they camped. From Gothenburg to Lapland and Finland, up the heart of Sweden, and back south again along the shores of the Baltic; through remote villages and by busy… Read More

London: The Bradford Exchange Limited. Very Good/Very Good. 1993. First Thus. Hard Cover. 4to U.K.Edition. Due to weight we can only post to a UK address, standard postage no extra charge will be asked for. Dust jacket complete in clear protective sleeve. Comprehensively illustrated in full colour. 527 pages. Clean and tight. .

London: Ward, Lock & Co. Good. Hard Cover. Mauve cloth with bladk titles to front and spine. Nick to spine. Covers slightly soiled. Previous owner's name and date to upper title page. Circa 1880. 637 pages followed by 8 pages of index and 16 pages of book advertisements. Slight foxing to page edges. Pages tigthtly bound. .

London: Evans Brothers Ltd. Very Good/No DJ. 1924. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Sm 4to Pictorial cloth covered boards. An innovative alternative approach to teaching music to children, employing music, dance, theatre, mime etc. No ownership inscription. Numerous photographs. 88 pages clean and tight. .

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0575017422 Dust jacket complete in a clear protective sleeve, unclipped. Brown cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. 73 pages clean and tight. George MacBeth has been called "the most versatile poet writing today", and "arguably the most inventive and entertaining poet now writing in England", and has been invited to "pack it in". He is invariably provocative. The poems in his new collection were written between September 1971 and September 1972, and are published in the order in which they were written. The first was begun in Darmstadt, standing in front of the only building to survive the Allied raid in 1944, and the last arose out of losing a watch in the sea. Not for the first time, death and sexual energy are mainsprings, but there is also a greater concern with time and the effects of time than has been evident in George… Read More

London: Omphalos Press and J-Jay Publications. Very Good. 1978. First Edition. Paperbacks. 8vo 0906139007 Card cover, gold colour with black titling, crease on back, slight fading to spine. /no ownership inscription. 82 pages clean and tight. .

London: Secker & Warburg. Very Good/Very Good. 1983. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0436270161 Dust jacket complete in a clear protective sleeve, unclipped. Original fawn cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. 66 pages clean and tight. The governing notes of George MacBeth's new collection are feelings of regret and expectation, the grief and joy which spring from a death and precede a birth. As in Poems from 0by, these emotions are worked out against the changing seasons of the Norfolk countryside, in which MacBeth now has firm roots. There is humour too, as well as lyricism and nostalgia. The Long Darkness confirms the change of direction marked by Poems from 0by: it has the sustained power and the true voice of a master craftsman who is willing to subdue all the resources of technique in the service of exactly what he wants to say. The Long Darkness is the Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Winter 1983. .