Search Results: Authors starting with A from White Eagle Books

Cairo, Govt Press, 1938. 1st Edition. 154 pages. Large folio size card covers with cloth back-strip. Condition very good. Some minor wear to the corners and spine. Contents fine. Folding map of the Bahr El Gebel System, tables, sketch diagrams. 154 pages. Signed by the author to J B Stevenson, Nov 1938. A scarce document on the control of water flow irrigation channels in the Sadd El Kafara region of Egypt. Scarce.

London, L Booth, 1857. 1st Edition. 31 pages. Original paper covers. Covers are fragile and loose. Lib nos to front panel and Univ of Bristol Library stamp also to front panel. Internally good. Very Scarce.

Faber and Faber 1968. Ist edition. 360 pages. A near fine hardback copy in a near fine pictorial dist wrapper. Contents fine. Sketches. The author's best work on the Slavonic relationship with the Western world. Scarce.

Roma 1924. Ist edition. 155 pages. Very good if slightly worn stiff card covers. Contents good. Black and white frontis of the King of Italy and one illustration of General Pollio and General Diaz. Sketch maps. Folding maps at the rear of the book. Bookplate on front pastedown of Staff College Camberly and presented by the Italian Ministry Odf War 1924

Damascus, Ibn Zeydoun, 1949. 2nd Edition. 40 pages. Portrait frontis. Very good slightly worn original card covers. The Role of Music in the Erection of Peace"" English and Arabic text. Scarce

Singapore, Malaya Publishing House, 1953. 1st Edition. 125 pages. Privately published by the author. Very good stiff boards with Chef illustration to front board. Some minor staining. Contents fine. Menus for the English speaking classes in British Malaya. Scarce.

Beirut, 1940. 1st Edition. 112 pages. Very good original decorative soft covers worn with some tears but sturdy. Ex-libris BBC Library and The Share at Dana Library, Doha. Stamps on the end papers and occasional stamps on leaves not affecting the tex.t Spine reinforced with black strip but not unattractive. A good copy of a scarce item. One copy listed at SOAS, London.

Eric John Alston 1999. First edition. 64 pages. Illustrated soft covers with title on front in very good condition. Contents clean and bright. Limited edition of 200 copies. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

Hong Kong, Carlton Hotel, 1960. 7th Edition. 192 pages. Near fine black stiff covers with silver titles. Contents fine with black and white ills and coloured maps. The complete Hong Kong guide with history of Hong Kong to car rental Scarce.

New Delhi, Inst for Media Communication, 1995. 1st Edition. 196pp. Very good light blue cloth covers in a very good pictorial dust wrapper. Contents fine. Black and white ills. Uncommon.

St Lucia, Peter & Co, 1933. 1st Edition. 40 pages. Very good but worn illustrated card covers. Internally vey good with black and white ills. A short travel guide, more of a vehicle for Peter & Co which appears to have a hand in most activity on the Islands. Some adverts on their trade towards the back of the brochure. They also act as local agents for Thomas Cook & Son Ltd as well as Wagon-Lits Co - hence the travel wing to their corporation. Very Colonial in it's presentation

London, The Camera Studies Club. 1950. 1st edition. Very good + pictorial soft covers. Internally fine. Black and white ills. 7 stereo photos by Roye and Vala. Complete with the all important original 3D glasses.
Carole Lesley (27 May 1935 – 28 February 1974), was a British actress who had a short but significant career as a "blonde bombshell".She was born Maureen Rippingale in Chelmsford, Essex, but ran away from home at the age of 16, "aiming to become a star".She starred in several films in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the 1957 film Woman in a Dressing Gown, which won the 1958 Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film. She also appeared in No Trees in the Street, These Dangerous Years, Doctor in Love, Operation Bullshine and What a Whopper, and played Helen of Troy in a television play.However, Associated decided to end her contract, which devastated her and she disappeared from the public eye. She subsequently lived in a semi-detached house overlooking New Barnet… Read More

Soft covers. Condition: Very good +. Vintage Diana Dors in 3D. Stereo-Glamour Series No 3 published by the Camera Club, 23 Chesham Street, London, SW1 8 stereo photos and by Roye and Vala. Complete with the all important original 3D glasses. Scarce
Dors came to public notice as a blonde bombshell, much in the style of Americans Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Mamie Van Doren. Dors was promoted by her first husband, Dennis Hamilton, mostly in sex film-comedies and risqué modelling. After it was revealed that Hamilton had been defrauding her, she continued to play up to her established image, and she made tabloid headlines with the parties reportedly held at her house. Later, she showed talent as a performer on TV, in recordings, and in cabaret, and gained new public popularity as a regular chat-show guest. She also gave well-regarded film performances at different points in her career.According to David Thomson, "Dors represented that period between the end of the war and the coming of Lady… Read More

Vinton and Co, 1933. Ist Edition. 479pp. 1933. Very good original red cloth gilt covers. Cloth has slight wear and fade to top edges of the front and back boards. One or two minor marks. Contents fine. Adverts of the period. Diary unused. Scarce.

London, L N Fowler, 1938. 1st dition. 282 pages. Very good black cloth covers with gilt titles. Cloth recased in matching cloth. Contents fine. Portrait frontis and other black and white plates. Signed on the front free end paper To my Barry fromm an old old friend. With sincere love Doris""

London, Eliott Stock, 1913. 1st Edition. 121 pages.. 8vo. Pp xiii, 121. Twelve illustrations and 2 plans. With an Author's compliments slip loosely inserted, and a newspaper cutting of an article by Elizabeth Andrews. Front board has some soiling and scuffing. Otherwise the cloth is clean and the gilt titles to front and spine are bright. Heavy tanning to rear endpapers, the front endpapers have much lighter discolouration. Occasional light foxing throughout, with some tanning to pages opposite illustrations. two of the illustrations show edgewear. Scarce pictorial dust jacket repaired but with loss to the spine. Scarce.

Leo Cooper 1982. Ist edition. 478 pages. A near fine hardback in a near fine pictorial dust wrapper. Contents fine. Black and white ills. Signed by the author.

Ann Summers. London 1985. Very good + pictorial soft covers. Internally fine with numerous erotic bland and white sketch ills to accompany each cocktail. Scarce.

Edinburgh, Turnbull & Spears, 1916. 2nd Edition. 94 pages. Very good plus to near fine green cloth gilt covers. Contents fine. Privately published. Active service in the Ypres Salient, billeted at Voormezeele & Vlamertinghe, in action at Sanctuary Wood, in support of the Canadians at St. Julien during '2nd Ypres,' then Sanctuary Wood.

Berlin 1935-44. 1st Edition. 4 pages. Very good one letter and 3 notices concerning Heinrich Grubert of the SA on assuming the position as Political Leader. Scarce.