Search Results: Authors starting with U from Eastleach Books

Faber & Faber, 1993. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, VG/G+. xiv+690pp, 8pp b/w plates, index, page margins tanned, dustjacket bumped along the edges, especially the top of the spine. Detailed biography & critical assessment of the life & work of the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell [ 1810 - 1865 ].

Chatto & Windus, 2004. 4th impression.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/F. x+342pp, 24pp colour plates showing 50 images, 110 b/w text illustrations, inex, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. A hisyory of the garden & gardening in Britain, from the cultivation of thorn bushes around prehistoric encampments to the decks & fads of modern gardens.

Collins, 1948. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, G. 320pp, b/w frontis, 24pp b/w plates, 4 maps, index, cloth rubbed & faded along the spine & edges, frontis near detached, some yellowing to the pages, a reading copy. A collection of extracts from various expeditions accounts which detail the struggle to attain the top of the World. Ullman connects the extracts with the story behind the attempts.

Collins, 1946. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG/VG. 479pp, ink inscription, dustjacket repaired in places with brown paper, some chips & rubbing, rear panel of dustjacket a little grubby. A mountaineering novel set against the backdrop of the second world war and the Alps. A fair copy

Cassell, 1964. 1st UK edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. 236pp, a superb copy just a little bumped at the base of the spine. Crime fiction set in New York - a prize winning novel.

Macmillan, 1986. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, VG/VG. 191pp, endpapers, dustjacket flaps & title foxed, page margins yellowed, edges of the dustjacket a little worn, otherwise a nice copy. A whodunnit set in a country mansion that has been converted into flats, featuring the solicitor, Rosa Epton. The author, born John Michael Evelyn, [ 1916 - 1992 ] was a barrister & his novels ( some 40 odd ) are usually about the 'solid plod of police work and after that the sober and intricate processes of the law'. ( H F R Keating ).

University of London Press, 1955. 4th edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG. xii+452pp, 12pp b/w plates, 73 text figs, index, spine of the edgeworn dustjacket a little grubby, otherwise a nice copy. A Systematic Regional Geography volume III. A broadview of the way in which man lives upon the Earth, & who the environment & humans have influenced each other.

Michael Joseph, 1956. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG/VG. 205pp, endpapers browned, spine of the price clipped dustjacket a little yellowed & with some rubbing to the edges, rear panel a little grubby. The author's first work of fiction for adults. He is beter known as a Children's author, writing as David Severn. He was the son of the publisher Sir Stanley Unwin.

Michael Joseph, 1956. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG/VG. 205pp, endpapers browned, spine of the dustjacket a little yellowed & with some rubbing to the edges, rear panel a little grubby. The author's second work of fiction for adults. He is beter known as a Children's author, writing as David Severn. He was the son of the publisher Sir Stanley Unwin.

Shire Publications, 1983. 1st edition.. Paperback. Card wrappers, VG. 32pp, b/w illustrations throughout, a nice copy. Shire album 110. A short monograph on the history of the anchor, its design & usage.

W W Norton & Co, 1977. 1st US edition.. Hardback. Cloth spined boards, dj, G/G. 191pp, price clipped dustjacket a little grubby & worn at the edges, fore edges dust marked, a good reading copy. A novel set in Florence at the time of the Renaissance & which seeks to answer the mystery behind the murder of the tyrant Alessandro de Medici by his cousin & benefactor Lorenzino de Medivci.

privately printed for the author., 1930. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, VG+. xii+140pp, b/w frontis, 7 b/w plates, 12 text figs, endpapers & last page of the text yellowed, otherwise a fine copy. A comprehensive account of the history of the Church of All Saint's Writtle by the then vicar of the church.

Faber & Faber, 2001. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. xvi+333pp, 8pp b/w plates, index, a nice fine copy in a slighttl edge bumped dustjacket. Account of Scovell's breaking of the French armies 'Great Paris Cipher'. From a common background & gifted in languages Scovell managed to crack Napoleon's codes & give Wellington an advantage in the Peninsular war. He found it hard to rise in the ranks due to his low birth.

Paul Cave Publications, Southampton, 1983. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, VG. 90pp, 5 b/w illustrations, index, corners a little bumped, otherwise a nice copy. A biography of Sir John St Barbe, 1st Baronet [ 1655 - 1723 ] of Ashington, Somerset and Broadlands, Hampshire.

published for TEAMS by Medieval Institute Publications - Western Michigan University, 1998. 1st edition.. Paperback. Large format paperback, F. xiv+455pp, a fine copy. A critical student edition of The Testament of Love, which is an allegorical prose work written whilst the author, Thomas Usk was in prison. The poem describes Love descending to Usk's prison cell, and the two engaging in a long, theological conversation reminiscent of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy.

published for TEAMS by Medieval Institute Publications - Western Michigan University, 1998. 1st edition.. Paperback. Large format paperback, F. xiv+455pp, a fine copy. A critical student edition of The Testament of Love, which is an allegorical prose work written whilst the author, Thomas Usk was in prison. The poem describes Love descending to Usk's prison cell, & the two engaging in a long, theological conversation reminiscent of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy.

Izd-vo Akademii Nauk, Moskva, 1948. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, G. 860pp, b/w frontis, 7 maps most of which are folding, 14 b/w plates, index, rear hinge repaired, cloth bumped & worn, occasional grubby mark to the text. The last volume in the posthumously published magnum opus of the Russian Byzantine historian Fedor Uspenskii [ 1845 - 1928 ]. The book was the culmination of his lifelong study of Byzantium, including 10 years living in Constantinople preserving the Byzantine ruins there.

Collins, 1954. 2nd impression.. Hardback. Illustrated boards, dj, VG/VG. 80pp, colour illustrations throughout, childs name in pencil on the half title, a nice bright copy, some rubbing to the dustjacket at the extremities, neat brown crayon colouring to the squirrel's tail on the upper cover [ very hard to spot ]. Hare decides, as it is March & he is feeling very Brave, to have the Easter Eggs from Mr Bunting's shop.

Collins, 1969. 6th impression.. Hardback. Illustrated boards, dj, VG/VG. 80pp, colour illustrations throughout, a nice bright copy, some rubbing to the dustjacket at the extremities. Hare decides, as it is March & he is feeling very Brave, to have the Easter Eggs from Mr Bunting's shop.

Faber & Faber, 1960. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG+. 128pp, 14 woodcut illustrations by Tunnicliffe, dustjacket a little faded to the spine, price clipped, owners name in neat ink, a nice copy. Twelve essays on various subjects, including Cricket, music, philosophy, etc.