Search Results: Authors starting with B from Lansdowne Books

Karl Baedeker Publisher, 1911.Condition: Excellent 17th Edition. With 60 maps and 59 plans. All maps are in the book, 554 pages with decorative edges and endpages. Red cloth in VG condition with gilt title at the front and the spine.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Cloth boards with red and white lettering on spine and front cover with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Illustrator: Nick Bantock.
A delightful book a part mystery and a part romance and a complete work of art. But Griffin had never met a woman named Sabine. How did she know him? How did she know his artwork? Who is she? Thus begins the strange and intriguing correspondence of Griffin and Sabine. And since each letter must be pulled from its own envelope, the reader has the delightful, forbidden sensation of reading someone else's mail. Griffin & Sabine is like no other illustrated novel: appealing to the poet and artist in everyone and sure to inspire a renaissance in the fine art of letter-writing, it tells an extraordinary story in an extraordinary way.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.The correspondence of Griffin Moss and Sabine Strohem, at turns enigmatic, sumptuous, and romantic, reveals dangerous undercurrents and strange forces at work in the universe. These powers have only grown stronger with the couple's disappearance. Nothing is heard from them for quite some time, until Sabine asks Matthew Sedon, a young archaeologist working in Egypt, for help.

Frontispiece and 17 mounted colour plates, with descriptive tissue guards. Numerous black and white text illustrations. Gilt-stamped vellum with elaborate cover design, Interior near fine in very good bright cover.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression. 1914 Condition: V.G+ . Beige cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Some yellowing to pages due to age. 13 tipped-in colour plates, and frontispiece of HRH Princess Mary. Other b/w drawings throughout. 'All profits from sale are given to The Queen's Work for Women" Overall a very nice copy.British Great War fund-raising album assembled with the approval of Buckingham Palace and directed at children. Princess Mary was the only daughter of King George V and was 17 years old when the Great War began. Her portrait was pasted-in as the frontispiece of the book. The fourteen tipped-in color plates include:'So nobody can quite explain Exactly where the rainbows end' (Arthur Rackham)'True Spartan Hearts' (Edmund Dulac)'The Ant Lion' (E.J. Detmold)'A Holiday in Bed' (W. Russell Flint)'.

Cloth boards with black lettering on spine and black lettering and image front cover with pages clean and tight. Light foxing due to age. Overall a very nice copy.

A very clean and tight copy. The dust jacket has minor wear and in now in protective mylar. A Rare Edition The young narrator of this story tells of life in 1930s Italy as a Jew. He is fascinated with the aristocratic Finzi-Contini family, who live behind walls on an expansive estate. The beautiful Micòl Finzi-Contini first invites the narrator into her private, assimilated world as the laws restricting Jewish activity in the city intensify. From then on, the narrator frequents the family's estate to play tennis and study within the father's library, until his relationship with Micòl becomes more complex and confusing. The novel was the basis of the 1970 film directed by Victorio De Sica.

A rare copy of this title offered for sale. Beautiful production of high quality photographs celebrating the "Divine Child" and representations of the Infant Jesus. This title comes with related exhibition brochure and 6 postcards from the exhibition hosted in Gardone Riviera. A delightful Christmas Gift.

Green Boards with gilt lettering to spine. As New Dust Jacket unclipped and in Mylar protective covering. 198 pages : numerous illustrations (some color), plans ; 27 x 30 cm. A clean and tight copy. Gardens include: Beaufront' Ross, Tas. 'Woolmers' Longford, Tas. 'Lindsay Park' Angaston, S.A. 'Delatite' Mansfield, Vic. 'Springfield' Goulburn, N.S.W. 'Beleura' Mornington, Vic. 'Government House' Perth "Rippon Lea' Elsternwick, Vic. 'Retford Park',Bowral, N.S.W. Mount Wilson, N.S.W. Mount Macedon, Vic. 'Forest Lodge' Stirling, W.A. Pioneer Sugar Mill Plantation, Brandon, Qld. 'Admiralty House' Kirribilli, N.S.W. 'Mawallok' Beaufort, Vic. 'Dalvui' Mount Noorat, Vic. 'Marathon' Mount Eliza, Vic. 'Milton Park' Bowral, N.S.W. 'Eryldene' Gordon, N.S.W. 'Micalago' Michelago, N.S.W. 'Nurney House' North Adelaide, S.A. 'Willyama' Medindie, S.A. A town garden in Grant Avenue, Toorak, Vic. A town garden in St. George's Road, Toorak, Vic. 'Cruden Farm' Langwarrin, Vic. 'Mawarra' Sherbrooke, Vic. 'Markdale' Binda,… Read More

Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. In very good condition for age with some yellowing of pages. Some bumping to spine but otherwise a tight copy. A very rare copy and delightful read for poetry recitation.

Facsimile of original handwritten diary with transcript on facing pages. The authors recorded his voyage on the sailing ship "William Metcalfe" between 25 July 1839 and 15 Nov. 1839. Inscribed Issued to Clients by Were and Son in April 1964frontis. maps on endpapers , dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board in protective mylar jacket, illus, frontispiece, fold-out genealogical tree.

An invaluable illustrated catalogue of all the etched works of Norman Lindsay, whose output in this medium was remarkable. The various essays, appendices and notes make this reference book an essential resource on the subject. Bungendore: Odana editions and Sydney : Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1999. First edition. Quarto, illustrated boards. Beautifully illustrated. Out of print. The contents cover: the etchings: notes on the unpublished etchings catalogue raisonne; notes on the published etchings catalogue raisonne; selected exhibitions in chronological order; public collections; glossary of etching terms; selected bibliography; index of published etchings in alphabetical order; index of etchings in chronological order.

Good condition. Good dust jacket in protective mylar.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Cloth boards with pages clean, tight and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Slipcase is clean and solid. Overall a near fine copy. Colour illustrations throughout. A lovely copy of this anthology of accounts of Christmas spent abroad. With contributions by Tolstoy, Washington Irving, Noel Coward, Shelley, Paul Theroux, Richard Burton, Dostoevsky, Alice B Toklas, Rommel, Solzhenitsyn, and many others. A lovely Christmas Gift

A presentation copy from Lady Brassey's widower, inscribed on a leaf of thin paper pasted on the left margin to the half title page 'Madame de Falbe from Brassey'. 2 folding maps, frontispiece, pictorial title page, 19 plates, illustrations to the text. Includes illustrations from photographs Wood engravings executed by Whymper E. et al. Original dark blue buckram gilt, pages untrimmed, gold trimauthor's monogram in gilt to the spine and upper cover. Hardcover 1st Edition. Lady Brassey died on this voyage, and was buried at sea, at the age of 47 in 1887. Brassey, who finished the manuscript, was a man with the sea in his blood, and is still remembered as the founder and first editor of 'Brassey's Naval Annual', and in 1876 to 1877 is said to have made the first circumnavigation of the world by a private yacht, the steam-assisted three-masted topsail-yard schooner 'Sunbeam', the same vessel used in this journey. Madame de Falbe was Australian by birth and published late in her life a memoir of her… Read More

Hardcover. 1st Edition. ,Condition: V.G+ . Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: V.G.+ D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Slight yellowing to pages due to age. Previous owners bookplate.
Overall a very nice copy of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. 1984

Hardcover in the dust jacket in protective mylar Signed by the author to title page Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.

Near Fine books with Near Fine dust jackets in protected mylar sleeve. Tight bindings with pages clean and unmarked. Illustrated with photographs and maps in colour and black and white. All three books are signed by their respective authors. Volume I offers a comprehensive and accessible account of the Victorian migration experience over 50,000 years. Volume II looks at the Aborigines' relationship with the land; the Europeans' ambitions and search for wealth; 20th century urbanisation and industrialisation. Volume III analyses the changing look of Victoria: Melbourne, its suburbs, country towns, roads, railways, reservoirs, farms, etc. This item is heavy and may require additional shipping costs. For larger or multi-volume items additional shipping charges may be necessary.

Quarto format black hardback brown lettering to the spine. Price un-clipped DJ. Illustrated with more than 150 colour photos, drawings. Clean pages. . 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, full number line present. In excellent condition. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. Special illustrated edition. SCARCE in 1st/1st. This is heavy book postage to be advised.

First Edition; First Printing. Green cloth boards with pages clean and tight withgood dust jacket now protected in mylar.