Search Results: Titles starting with N from Andrew James Books

HarperCollins, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st ed / 1st printing. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears. Faded to edges of text block with some foxing to top edge not affecting the pages. Otherwise near fine, Very clean throughout. Volume IV of Gay's acclaimed The Bourgeois Experience in which he examines the victorian preoccupation with the self particularly in the field of art and literature.

London: Orion Books, 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Unclipped dust jacket, no inscription clean throughout. A postal surcharge may apply for overseas buyers

Nonsuch Publishing, 2005. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Covers crease free, very light reading crease to lower spine clean throughout. Taken from the journals of David and Charles Livingstone this book was first published in 1865 and is a fascinating insight into the early days of the exploration of Africa by Europeans. With reproduction of the original illustrations.

Christopher Helm, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With price clipped dust jacket, School Prize label to ffep, otherwise clean throughout. An anthology of nature poetry spanning four hundred years from the 1700's onwards. Illustrated with 30 pen and ink drawings.

Holdsworth & Ball, 1830. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Good to very good 2nd edition 1830. Half leather with marbled boards and end papers. Raised bands to spine with gilt titles. Some rubbing to leather and what appears to be a label abrasion to front board otherwise very good. Red edging to text block. Book Plate of John Hopton of Hereford to front end paper and some foxing to prelims and latter pages with the majority of the text clean and free from blemishes. A detailed discussion of meaning & abuse of religious and secular enthusiasm, prophecy, special providences, heresy, devotion, etc. In essence enthusiasm evaluated right and wrong, good and bad.

National Museum of Wales, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears. No inscription or markings very clean throughout. The book deals with the more important aspects of the island's natural history and includes chapters on landform, climate, vegetation, invertebrate animals, birds, other vertebrates, marine life, as well as the influence of man. Illustrated with black and white photographs, line drawings, charts and diagrams.

English Universities Press, 1939. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In very good condition without dust jacket. Original black buckram boards with white titles to spine in very good clean condition. Internally clean throughout. A study of the nature and origin of Coal as it relates to, and aimed at the Coal Mining and related Industries

New York: Perseus Books/Basic Books, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Unclipped dust jacket, no inscription, margin notes to chapter one otherwise clean. Inner paper binding is split to title page due to fault in publishing. The New Irag's riveting portrayal of Iraqi society - from its preachers and wealthy elites to its prostitutes and disaffected majorities - shed slight on a world unknown to Westerners due to the country's decade long international isolation. Major wars, thirteen years of sanctions, and the domestic legacy of a police state have all combined to preserve and reinforce an old culture with attitudes and skill sets that other traditional societies would be hard pressed to match. All books posted within 24 hours wrapped in bubble and boxed in cardboard.

Willan, 2003. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Single reading crease to spine and owners name to front end paper otherwise virtually as new.

The Midland Educational Ltd. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Undated circa late 19th century. In very good condition without dust jacket. Light brown buckram with gilt titles to spine. No inscription, lightly age toned to end papers, a small amount of light foxing to last few pages otherwise very clean throughout. A collection of light hearted short stories or more likely anecdotes, based on the authors experience as a Doctor. They also give a fascinating insight in to the life of a medical practitioner around the turn of the last century.

Methuen, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Without dust jacket, minimal rubbing to boards. Owners book plate to ffep verso. Light foxing to edges of text block and prelims, text clean. Slightly musty. Maps to end papers and colour frontis with further black and white plates to the text. The author, part of a small academic film unit, was in Greece and Turkey during the Spring of 1960 making a film about the beginnings of science with an intense interest in the scientific ideas of the Classical Greeks, who out of all of the other ancient cultures and civilizations were the only ones to invent the idea of abstract and general scientific theory. The book looks at why this was and how it came about.

UK: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1st printing. As new with near fine unclipped dust jacket with very small nick to top of jacket spine otherwise fine. Very clean throughout. 272pp 28cm x 24cm approx. This profusely illustrated book (both in colour and black and white) converys what it was like for British and american pilots, aircrew and groundcrew, during their wartime service based in Britain during World War II. It is a vivid and powerful human expression of the bomber airmen's wartime experience.

Sceptre, 2011. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears, very lightly creased to top of jacket spine. No ownership details and very clean throughout.

Martin Secker, 1929. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. New Adelphi Library Edition without dust jacket, spine slightly sunned with gilt decoration to front board. Owners name to ffep. End papers partially tanned, small bumps to top edge of rear board. Binding is tight and the text is very clean. Described by Betjeman as 'A Work of Genius' this is the account of the author's childhood which was largely spent in Eton and London before the First World War. MacCarthy was member of the 'Bloomsbury' set and married Desmond MacCarthy to whom the book is dedicated. Reduced postal rates apply.

Kegan Paul, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears and very clean throughout. Hadjor's study of Nkrumah provides a reconstruction of one of the most significant political experiments in post colonial Africa.

Constable, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st thus, originally published as 'Love's Witness Five Centuries of Love Poetry by Women' in 1993. With unclipped dust jacket, silk book mark, no inscription clean throughout. This delightful and highly original collections shows that on the subject of romantic and sexual love women can be just as eloquent as men - if not more so. Here the bitter and the sweet mingle as women from the last five hundred years write about jealousy, fickleness, exhilaration, the pain of parting and the transcience of love. Reduced postal rates apply

Continuum, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Virtually as new other than crease to inner front flap of jacket, very clean throughout. The new face of terrorism in the 21st century

Secker & Warburg, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing. In very good condition in good to very good unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears but with some creasing along top and bottom edges and lightly rubbed to top of jacket spine. Some light foxing to edge of text block. Internally clean with some minor very light foxing to end papers. The memoirs of Lev Kopelev, a staunch Communist in the Soviet Union, who was unfairly thrown out of the Party he loved for standing up against the atrocities of and cruelty inflicted by Stalin's Troops during and after the end of World War II

Firefly Books, 2010. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. As New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 2nd revised edition 1st printing, immaculate throughout. Laminated boards no jacket (as published). Contains photographs and background information on more than 200 of the most famous and interesting Laureates of the last 100 years and a full list of all prize winners

Hamish Hamilton, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st impression with unclipped dust jacket very light shelf wear to head and base of spine, no inscription very clean throughout though pages edges have tanned slightly. Hanley takes the reader on a tragi comic pilgrimage to India, A country losing its foothold on the past. With the remnants of British influence retiring in a scotch filled haze, the Maharajah tries to steer India into the twentieth century