Search Results: Authors starting with D from CHARLES BOSSOM

Spellmount Publishers Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to Dimensions: 28.2 x 22.6 x 2.2 cm 1873376588 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks.Numerous photographs. 192 pages. The Gurkha regiments began in 1815 and have continued their tradition right through to the present in Hong Kong, Cyprus, and the Falklands. The author traces the history of these regiments in this illustrated book. .

London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press. Good/No DJ. Hard Cover. English Critical Essays: Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries.Ed.E.D.Jones (World's classics). viii, 460, (16 catalogue.) Clean and tight. Writing previous owner's details on f. end papers. .

Cambridge At the University Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to 052121310X No extra postage will be asked for. Dust jacket complete, unclipped.. Green cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. xiv, 542 pages clean and tight. Compiled by J. D. PICKLES. More than two hundred specialists have contributed to the new edition of the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors was to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to reshape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries. The… Read More

Headline Book Publishing. Very Good/Very Good. 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to Dimensions: 26.2 x 26 x 3 cm 0747202869 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. 2 small ownership label on f.paste down. This is a book about war more than about art; the multitude of pictures it contains are chosen from the collection in the Imperial War Museum, to show how much they can portray of the conduct and experience of war. The Imperial War Museum holds over twelve thousand twentieth-century paintings and drawings, from which Professor M.R.D. Foot has selected 288 of the finest - many of which have never been reproduced before. Here, vividly portrayed in both colour and black and white illustrations, is human kind under the strongest pressure - the pressure of war. These pictures bear testament to what trench life, or life on the march, or life in an air raid shelter were like in the two great wars of the twentieth century and in the… Read More

New Jersey: A. S. Barnes. Very Good/Good. 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to 0498013561 Dust jacket tears / chips to edges and slightly rubbed. Cloth, no inscription. 259 pages clean and tight. Showing Your Cat: A Complete Guide is just that. It is the most complete guide to date on the world of the "cat fancy." It goes into every aspect of the cat fancy and the world of show cats. The approach is one that gives the reader a look at each breed as seen through the loving eyes of those who actually specialize in that breed. Actual breeders have made the chapter on cat breeds an informative one, yet one that gives more than the facts. It also tells about the personality of the cat and its charm as a housepet and show animal. The book informs the breeder about the various associations that govern the cat world, how they function, why there are more than one, and how they differ in their operations. The chapter on record-keeping gives the cat breeder-exhibitor numerous insights… Read More

London & New York: Routledge. Very Good. 2002. Hard Cover. 8vo 0415198186 His groundbreaking exploration of the nature of madness, R.D. Laing's The Divided Self illuminated the nature mental illness, making the mysteries of the mind comprehensible to a lay audience. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Professor Anthony S. David. First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing so revolutionized the way we perceive mental illness. Using case studies of patients he had worked with, psychiatrist R. D. Laing argued that psychosis is not a medical condition, but an outcome of the 'divided self', or the tension between the two personas within us: one our authentic, private identity, and the other the false, 'sane' self that we present to the world. Laing's radical approach to insanity offered a rich existential analysis of personal alienation and made him a cult figure in the… Read More

London: Merrion Press. Fine/Fine. 1975. Hard Cover. 0903560011 To honour Alfred Fairbank on his eightieth birthday in July 1975, The Merrion Press in England, and David Godine in the United States are pubhshing this facsimile of the superb writing manual of Augustino da Siena with an introduction specially written by Alfred Fairbank, probably the most distinguished scribe and calligraphic scholar in the Western World. This first modern critical edition has been prepared from the British Museum copy of the 1568 edition, of which the only other known copy is in Florence. The text is set in I3pt Monotype Poliphilus and Blado and is printed on mould/made paper from the Wookey Hole Mill, Somerset. The binding is in Relon 'Terre de Cuivre' made by Rougier & Ple', Paris, and the endpapers are Ingres 'Tabac' made by Canson & Montgolfier, Paris. The brasses were cut by Mackrell of Essex and Avison of London. The jacket paper is 'Tre Kronor' from the Tumba… Read More

London: Witherby & Company Ltd . Very Good. 1989. Second Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo 0948691859 92 pages clean and tight. No inscription .

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. Very Good/Very Good. 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket price clipped. Slight rubbing to jacket edges along top and bottom. Jacket in a plastic protective sleeve. Blue cloth with gold titles to spine. Slight shelf wear to upper and lower book edges. No ownership markings. Numerous black and white photographic plates, illustrations and graphs including an additional line graph loosely placed within the book showing pounds and months of different dog breeds in comparison to that of a child, courtesy of Lawrence Alden Horswell.152 pages clean and tightly bound. .

London: British Museum Press,. Very Good/Very Good. 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0714122424 Dust jacket complete, unclipped price on flap. Original black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Colour plates. 166 pages clean and tight. This is the life story of the wine god Bacchus-seducer, magician, and merrymaker-as never told before. Tales of his bizarre birth from a womb fashioned in his father Zeus's thigh led to even stranger stories, passed down through generations of dramatists, poets, storytellers, and historians. Bacchus is best remembered, however, for his gift of wine to humanity. With it he brought not only pleasure but also savagery and death. Pentheus, for example, was torn apart at the hands of his own mother and her fellow Maenads in the midst of a Bacchic frenzy. In this highly enjoyable biography, Andrew Dalby weaves together these and other intriguing episodes from Bacchus's life-from his youth spent on Mount Nysa among nymphs… Read More

London: Biteback Publishing. Very Good/Very Good. 2013. First Edition, First Impression. Hard Cover. 8vo 184954607X Dust jacket complete. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Illustrated with photographs on plates some in colour. 592 pages clean and tight. Dimensions: 15.88 x 5.08 x 24.13 cm. Memories of Margaret Thatcher brings together personal reminiscences and anecdotes from more than a hundred political figures. Featuring a foreword by Prime Minister David Cameron, these entries are tributes from friends, opponents, and those who observed her from the press gallery. Each contributor experienced a close encounter with the Iron Lady, among them Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bob Hawke, Boris Johnson, Michael Howard, William Hague, Ann Widdecombe, Edwina Currie, Alan Clark, Norman Tebbit and Geoffrey Howe, whose resignation speech in Parliament can be said to have brought to a dramatic end the Thatcher Era. .

London: Macmillan. Good. 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Slight creasing to covers Afew spots. 96 pages text clean and binding tight. .

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Inscribed By the Author Purple cloth. Dust wrapper slight wear to extremities and surface. Previous owner's name on ffep. 56 pages clean and tight. This copy has been signed by Peter Dale on front paste down. .

UK: Sutton Pub Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0750943815 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 256 pages. Illustrations on plates. Early on 21 February 1814, an army officer revealed that the French had been defeated and Napoleon killed. When the London Stock Exchange opened at 10.00 am, the City was full of rumours of an allied victory. This work offers a tale of one of the earliest stock market scams; a tale of greed, deceit and the public humiliation of Lord Cochrane. .

Stroud, Glos. UK: Sutton Pub Ltd,. Very Good/Very Good. 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0750943815 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 256 pages. Illustrations on plates. Early on 21 February 1814, an army officer revealed that the French had been defeated and Napoleon killed. When the London Stock Exchange opened at 10.00 am, the City was full of rumours of an allied victory. This work offers a tale of one of the earliest stock market scams; a tale of greed, deceit and the public humiliation of Lord Cochrane. .

London: John Murray. Good/Very Good. 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0719554772 Dust Jacket unclipped, complete in a clear protective sleeve. Black cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Some pages turned over including some photographs. xvi, 616 pages clean and tight. Iillustrated in half-tone, with maps. A history that traces the transition from war to peace across Europe after World War I. It follows the movement of armies over the northern plains, their collapse, their demobilization, and the effect this had on the material life of people. The book examines these dramatic events from the perspective of five capitals: Berlin, Paris, London, Moscow and Washington.;Dallas argues that the start of peace is more complex and fascinating than the start of war, for it sets the habits and builds the patterns of life for generations to come. This text weaves politics, ideas, social life, fears, aspirations and harsh realities into a reconstruction of life… Read More

London: John Murray. Very Good/Very Good. 2005. First Edition, First Impression. Hard Cover. 8vo 0719554780 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Photographs on plates. 739 pages clean and tight. Unlike the Napoleonic Wars, and the First World War, there was no peace settlement in 1945. The shape of Europe was determined entirely by military force, dividing it into two halves which corresponded to neither geography, culture nor previous history. From the D-Day landings to the collapse of Berlin, military movements were more and more dominated by separate national ambitions. And the Yalta and Potsdam conferences were more recognitions of a fait accompli than agreements on the terms of peace. With Gregor Dallas we re-live the vast events of the end of the war years in the experience of real people. The Birth of the Present opens in Berlin on the day of Hitler’s suicide, where life, such as it existed,… Read More

London: Richard Cohen Books. Very Good/Very Good. 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 186066072X Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Illustrated. 543 pages clean and tight. By the author of "Clemenceau", this is an account of the political, constitutional and social life of Europe's capital cities in the year leading up Waterloo. It explores the dramatic events of the Hundred Days through the perspectives of three different European cities - London, old revolutionary Paris and baroque Vienna - using Castlereagh and his quest for peace as a central thread. It aims to explain the machinations of country against country, their different political and ethical viewpoints, and how the decisions and emotions of men and women helped form a fragile Europe in a time of flux. .

New York: Henry Holt and Co.. Very Good/Very Good. 1997. First Edition, First Impression. Hard Cover. 8vo 0805031847 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Black cloth spine over yellow boards. Illustrated end papers. xv, 544 pages clean and tight. 1814-15: Europe embraces an uneasy peace. The fires of revolution have been banked, the ardor of Napoleonic expansion dimmed. But memory keeps fear alive. Despite mutual antagonisms, the ruling powers know they must restore the "natural order" or risk repeating the past. And so they agree to convene a great congress of nations in Vienna. Its goal: to insure the peace of Europe. Its hidden agenda: to secure advantage, fix disputed boundaries, eliminate republicanism. No diplomatic event in history had so stellar a cast as the Congress of Vienna: Tsar Alexander, with his mystical visions, his chimerical moods. Talleyrand, cunning and duplicitous, who would act as a victor though he represented a defeated nation. Castlereagh, alone in… Read More

Greenhill Books. Very Good/Very Good. 2001. Hard Cover. 8vo 1853674508 Signed by the Editor Signed by Michael Hargreave Mawson the editor on the title page. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white plates. 304 pages clean and tight. ' The powerful and unrestrained testimony of a British officer of the Crimean War, vividly portraying the daily hardships endured by troops at camp and in battle. Insight into key military and political personalities of the Victorian age '. .