Search Results: Authors starting with Y from CHARLES BOSSOM

Robson Books. Very Good/Very Good. 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0860517810 Dust wrapper unclipped. Red cloth with bright gilt lettering to spine. Previous owner's neat inscription on ffep. 231 pages clean and tight. .

Arcturus. Very Good. 2003. Large Format Paperback. 0572029454 .

UK: Oriel Press. Very Good/Good. 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket complete except price clipped, repairs. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Frontis plate. 339 pages clean and tight. `A dear little Irish girl-the very thing I've always wished for' was what her mother said when Sydney Owenson was born on Christmas Day, c. 1776. From her father, a kinsman of Oliver Goldsmith, she inherited the flamboyant elements in her character, from her English Methodist mother that hard core of common sense which enabled her to become a success in the world. Brought up in the Dublin Music Hall, and educated at the Clontarf Huguenot School, Sydney determined to be self-supporting when her father became bankrupt. As a governess her career was remarkably hilarious. Her first poems were published in 1801 and her first novel-St. Clair-in London in 1803. The Wild Irish Girl (1 806), though slighted by Jane Austen, established her… Read More

London: Ward Lock. Good/No DJ. 1938. Reprint. Hard Cover. 8vo Green cloth, black titling, slightly worn. cocked. No ownership inscription. Some light foxing mainly to page edges. 319 pages. Text clean. Tightly bound. .

Challenger Publications. Very Good/Very Good. 1999. Hard Cover. 4yp 1899624392 Dust jacket complete, unclipped, small rubbed area on upper cover. Illustrated boards. No ownership inscription. iv, 92 pages clean and tight. During and immediately after World War 2, the LNER was desperate for motive power, especially heavy freight locomotives. The railways of the United Kingdom were shouldering most of the burden of moving the vast tonnage requirements of wartime and ever more so prior to the Liberation of Europe. In 1943 the War Department introduced a 2-8-0 locomotive capable of hauling heavy freight trains, whilst at the same time was able to do so with minimum maintenance, carried out in less than ideal conditions. The Riddles WD 2-8-0 or `Austerity' locomotive was destined to be used both on mainland Europe, once the Allied Armies had gained a foothold, and in other countries where required. Over 900 of these `far from elegant' locomotives would eventually be built for war… Read More

Phillimore. Very Good/Very Good. 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 1860771017 Inscribed By the Author SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Maroon cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. Numerous Photographs / Illustrations. xiii, 114 pages clean and tight. .

Everyman's Library. Very Good/Very Good. 1992. Hard Cover. 8vo 1857151038 Dust jacket complete and unclipped, slightly creased and small mark. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. lxxii, 868 pages clean and tight. .

London: Macmillan. Good. 1926. Hard Cover. 8vo Reprint of the 1922 edition. Fading green cloth boards with very blind stamped art deco geometric designs to front cover. Gilt titling to sunned spine. No ownership marks. Slight bumped corners. 363 pages clean and tight. "Preface. THIS book contains all poetry not in dramatic form that I have written between my seven-and-twentieth year and the year 1921. I have included one long poem in dramatic form, of which a much shortened version, intended for stage representation, is in my book of plays. I have left out nearly all the long notes which seemed necessary before the work of various writers, but especially of my friend Lady Gregory, had made the circumstantial origins of my verse, in ancient legend or in the legends of the country side, familiar to readers of poetry. THOOR BALLYLEE, May 1922" .

Maidenhead. UK: Sampson Low. Very Good/Good. 1976. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. 4to 0562000372 Foreword by F.W. Walbank. Dust jacket rubbed & worn to edges. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. No ownership marks. 509pp. tables, index. clean and tight. Western civilization has its roots in the Graeco-Roman World. The influence of the Classical tradition in literature, art, philosophy, science, law and language in the Middle Ages and Modern Times cannot be overrated; and it is still. alive. Today the study of classics has spread to new countries and more people than ever are engaged in it. in schools, in universities or as independent scholars. Tremendous advances in the state of learning have been made in recent decades. One needs only mention the epoch-making decipherment of Linear B as an example. Concisely compiled the Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Classical World supplies up-to-date information on people, places, concepts and institutions in the fields of art, history, law,… Read More

London: Collins. Very Good/Very Good. 1976. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket complete, unclipped price on flap, now in a clear protective sleeve. Green cloth with gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. 61 colour photographs, 62 b/w photographs. 311 pages clean and tight. .

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited. Very Good. 1888. Hard Cover. 8vo Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Gilt to upper cover. Wear to extremities particularly top and tail of spine, corners. Slightly bumped corners Browning to end papers. A few foxing spots. Previous owner's details on ffep. 436 pages clean and tight. plus 44 publisher's pages. .

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., : Di Capua / Harper Collins Publishers. Very Good/Very Good. 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to 0062050699 Dust jacket unclipped. Colour illustrated boards. No ownership marks. Colour illustrations on every page by Maurice Sendak. Product Dimensions: 26.3 x 26.3 x 1.2 cm. When the great explorer Giuseppe Giaweeni left Italy to look for China, who knew he'd stumble across Miami and discover a lost tribe of dancing giants? Who knew his fateful voyage -- with a little detour into show business -- would lead to an unforgettable lesson in friendship? At long last, Arthur Yorinks and Maurice Sendak collaborate on their first picture book. It's stupendous, it's hilarious, it's an absolutely joyous event! .

London: Hutchinson & Co.. Very Good. 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo .

London: Macmillan. Very Good/Very Good. 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket complete, price clipped. Red cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. Slight bump at top of spine. No inscription. 225 pages clean and tight. Who detested 'Tipperary'? In what book does Gloriana appear? What was the name of the `Stute-fish' and where does he appear? There is now no need to grope for the source of a Kipling quotation or the name of his story in which X appears: John McGivering has built on the corpus of W. Arthur Young's well-known but outdated Dictionary to produce a work that is authoritative, comprehensive, and a boon which will be welcomed by the growing body of Kipling addicts and by the librarians who are perpetually beset by the odd query. Young recorded some six hundred and thirty titles; Kipling's post- i r i literary output has enabled the present compiler to bring the number up to just under a thousand. He sets forth all the books, stories and… Read More

London: Stanley Paul. Good. 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Colourfully illustrated cover with pictures of motor cars. slight bumping and rubbing to edges and spine top and base. colourfully illustrated end pages. No inscriptions. Illustrated frontispiece of a Bently around 1930, tear to frontispiece. Numerous black and white photographs and illustrations. 190 pages, clean bright and tightly bound. .

Penguin. Very Good. 1988. Soft Cover. 0140105182 Unread Paperback : 400 pages clean and tight. .

London: Robert Hale. Very Good/Good. 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket now in a clear protective sleeve, unclipped, chunks missing to edges. Original cloth boards with bright titling on spine. Darkened ffep. A very few foxing spots on page tips. No ownership inscriptions. 9 illustrations. 192 pages clean and tight. ON AUGUST 5m, 1952, THREE British tourists camping by a farm in Lurs, in the valley of the River Durance, Upper Provence, were brutally murdered by an unknown assailant. They were Sir Jack Drummond, distinguished British nutrition expert, his wife and their ten-year-old daughter, Elizabeth. After a police inquiry lasting over two years, a 77 year old French farmer, Gaston Dominici, was put on trial and found guilty of the murders. But the evidence on which he was sentenced was so flimsy that the verdict resulted in an outcry in France and a re-opening of the investigation. As Special Correspondent for the Daily Mail, Gordon Young, Chief Paris Correspondent… Read More

Cambridge, UK: Granta Editions. Very Good/Very Good. 1991. First Ediition. Hard Cover. 4to 0906782627 Dust jacket complete, small closed tear. Original cloth with bright gilt titling. No ownership inscription. 285 pages clean and tight. .

London: Harper Collins Publishers. Very Good/Very Good. 2008. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 9780007266791 Dust jacket unclipped. Red cloth with bright titles to spine. Very sligh shelf wear to lower spine end. No ownership markings. 387 pages clean and tightly bound. Sara Young takes us into the very heart of the Nazis’ cradle with a powerful story of love set against the true events of one of the most secret and terrifying of Heinrich Himmler’s wartime projects – the Lebensborn Nazi breeding programme. Cyrla’s neighbours have begun to whisper. Her cousin, Annika, is pregnant and has passed the rigorous exams for admission to the Lebensborn, a maternity home for Aryan girls carrying German babies. Annika’s soldier has disappeared; the Nazis confiscate fatherless children. Cyrla, sent from Poland to hide with her Dutch relatives, has been warned that her neighbours know she is half Jewish. She won’t be safe for long. A cruel twist of fate… Read More

Leo Cooper Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 2004. Hard Cover. 8vo 1844150518 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 224 pages clean and tight. Dimensions: 16.4 x 2.4 x 23.9 cm. This action packed military memoir tells of the exploits of a young Sapper officer during both the Second World War and in Korea. Tony Younger was in the thick of the action during the German Blitzkrieg of 1940 seeing desperate fighting as the beleaguered British Expeditionary Force struggled to escape at Dunkirk. He then became closely involved in anthrax experiments, before playing a full role in the Normandy Campaign and the conquest of Germany. After a period in Burma, he was sent to Korea, where in bitter fighting against hordes of Chinese and North Korean troops he was extremely lucky to escape with his life. .