Search Results: Authors starting with F from CHARLES BOSSOM

Phaidon Press. Very Good. 1985. Hard Cover. 4.75" BY 7.75" Tall 0714823554 .

Thomas Telford Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1983. Hard Cover. 0727701835 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright titling on spine. No ownership marks.Illustrated ."The Men Who Built Railways - A Reprint of F. R. Conder's Personal Recollections of English Engineers". Edited by Jack Simmons. This is the story of Francis Roubiliac Conder and other English Railway Engineers who built the British Railways between 1833 and 1856. With numerous black & white photographs & illustrations. 232 pages clean and tight. .

London: Faber & Faber. Very Good/Very Good. 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket unclipped in a clear protective sleeve, a little loss to edges. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Neat name on f. paste down. 16 pages of b&w photographs. 173 pages clean and tight. During the past twenty years there has been a revolution in British grassland farming. The use of the new strains of herbage plants and new techniques of pasture establishment have resulted in vastly increased sward output; but whilst improvement in grassland husbandry has made rapid strides, there are many indications that our management of livestock to get the best utilization of this increased sward output has not progressed fast enough. In this book an attempt has been made to show the vital need for increasing our farm animal population, with particular emphasis on systems of stock management which enable animals to feed themselves by grazing, for by the extension of this… Read More

Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0713708956 Dust jacket unclipped, some loss to edges. Orange cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Photographs. 157 pages clean and tight. Nobody can fail to be thrilled by the overwhelming sound and glittering sight of a military band in all its pageantry with rich splendid uniforms and highly polished instruments. This volume recreates in detail those colourful and decorative uniforms of the military bands throughout the world, from the seventeenth century to the present time. Through the authentic black and white and full colour plates, complete with detailed text, are shown the diverse military band uniforms: The French armies of the Bourbons and Bonaparte, to the United States of America, the South American States and the military bands of the British, European, African and Asian countries. Military Bands have always been treated with the most lavish care and expense. In the… Read More

Privately Printed. Very Good. 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. Red cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine, gilt motif on upper cover. No ownership marks. 92 pages. .

London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8o 028398516X Dust jacket complete. Black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Plates. 264 pages clean and tight. 'This book is a condensation of twelve volumes written by former key officers of the German Air Force for the United States Air Force Historical Division on why the legendary Luftwaffe disintegrated under wartime pressures in World War II. With one exception, an historian, all the authors are former Luftwaffe generals who held important staff positions before and during the war. 'Based on personal experience and knowledge, the perspective of the authors is neither unbiased nor history in the ordinary sense of the word. Instead, their insight into the rise and Hall of the Luftwaffe-intimate, reflective, and in many ways incomplete-constitutes a vital part of the story of the air war over Europe, fascinating in itself and an essential part of any… Read More

London: BCA. Very Good/Very Good. 1978. Reprint. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 0354042521 BCA reprint. Dust jacket complete. Illustrated cloth covered boards. No ownership inscription. Frontis. Numerous Illustrations / Photographs. xiv, 369 pages clean and tight. From the time of the conquistadores until the 1900s, archaeology in the Americas witnessed an era of unbridled speculation, frenzied excavations, and conflicting attitudes toward the Indians. ELUSIVE TREASURE describes the major controversies surrounding such varied topics as the Spaniards' treatment of the Aztecs and Incas, the destruction of the North American Indians' mysterious ancient burial mounds, and the discovery of the Seven Lost Cities of Cibola. Professor Fagan's ability to synthesize enormous bodies of literature and history on the subject ensures this work as a comprehensive display of the most puzzling questions concerning Indian civilization. ELUSIVE TREASURE contains a lucid and free-flowing text balanced… Read More

London: Macdoald and Jane's. Very Good/Very Good. 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 0354042521 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Illustrated cloth with bright red titling on spine. No ownership inscription. 369 pages clean and tight. From the time of the conquistadores until the 1900s, archaeology in the Americas witnessed an era of unbridled speculation, frenzied excavations, and conflicting attitudes toward the Indians. ELUSIVE TREASURE describes the major controversies surrounding such varied topics as the Spaniards' treatment of the Aztecs and Incas, the destruction of the North American Indians' mysterious ancient burial mounds, and the discovery of the Seven Lost Cities of Cibola. Professor Fagan's ability to synthesize enormous bodies of literature and history on the subject ensures this work as a comprehensive display of the most puzzling questions concerning Indian civilization. ELUSIVE TREASURE contains a lucid and free-flowing text balanced with… Read More

London: Cambridge University Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1970. First Edition. Name and date on Ffep. Slight indentation on Ffep from previous pencil pricing and cataloguing. Price clipped dj. Octavo. 331 pages, plates and textual illustrations .

London: Modern Humanities Research Association. Fine/No DJ. 1986. Hard Cover. 8vo 0947623043 Original cloth covered hard back with bright gilt titling on spine. 300 pages clean and tight. .

London: William Glaisher. Very Good/No DJ. 1903. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Maroon cloth, some fading, with gilt titling on spine. New end papers. Frontispiece. 500 engravings on wood by Fairholt. 474 pages clean and tight. .

London: Duckworth. Very Good. 1918. Full Leather. 12mo Bright gilt titling and decorations / illustrations to full leather covers. Slight wear to edges. No ownership marks. Illustrated end papers. Foxing mainly to margins of end papers. viii, 191 pages clean and tight. .

London: Duckworth. Good/No. 1913. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Green cloth boards, upper cover elaborately decorated and titling in gilt. Fading to embossed titling and decoration on spine. No ownership marks.Slight foxing to prelims and margins. xi, 142pp., 8 fine coloured plates tipped in, tissue guards with captions. .

Ian Allan Publishing. Very Good. 2006. Soft Cover. 4to Dimensions: 21.5 x 27.8 x 0.7 cm 0711031940 Paperback: 80 pages clean and tight. Numerous photographs. Although Edinburgh adopted electric traction relatively late, at its peak it ran some 360 electric trams throughout the city. The first electric cars started to operate in the city in 1910 but it was not until the early 1920s, when the Corporation took over from the Edinburgh & District Co, that the process of converting the city's cable-operated routes to electric traction commenced. As a result, by the late 1940s the city possessed one of the most modern tramway operations in the UK. Indeed, there were proposals for Cxtensions after the war and new trams were built as late as 1950. However, in a dramatic switch of policy, in mid-1952 the Corporation announced that the system would be converted to bus operation. Over the next four years the system was rapidly abandoned, with the last tram operating on 16 November 1956.… Read More

London: Boxtree. Very Good/Very Good. 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to 0752211609 Dust jacket price clipped. Red cloth with bright gold titles to spine. No ownership markings. Black and white and colour photographs. Jacket designed by Robert Updegraff. 144 pages clean and tightly bound. .

London: Boxtree Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1995. First Edition, First Impression. Hard Cover. Obl 4to 1852839481 .

London: Richard Bentley. Good/No DJ. 1844. Hard Cover. 12 Mo DECORATED CLOTH BOARDS, BRIGHT GILT TITLING ON SPINE. NAME PLACE ON FFEP. 407 pages clean and tight. .

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1979. Second Impression. Hard Cover. 4to 0575025026 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Colour & b/w photographs. 254 pages clean and tight. "Nature detective work, the reading of animal tracks and signs, is a skill that must have been second nature to early man, but is now almost entirely forgotten. And yet, for any person of any age who has any interest whatever in wildlife, tracking can become an absorbing pastime. "Nearly everywhere in the countryside there are stories to be read-if we have eyes to see, and use our intelligence to interpret what we see. Moorland and mountainside, common land, fells, sand dunes, sea shore and estuary, fields and hedgerows, lakeside, river and stream, even the garden at home, offer unlimited opportunities for nature detective work. There are tell-tale signs on plants, bushes, rocks, branches and the bark of trees. In wet grass,… Read More

London: Cassell. Very Good/No DJ. 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Blue cloth boards with embossed red titling on spine. Light foxing mainly to pae tips. vi, 295 pages clean and tight. .

London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Good/Good. 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket complete in a clear protective sleeve, closed tear, slight fading to spine, unclipped price of 3s 6d. net on flap. Red cloth with black titling, some fading to cloth. No ownership inscription. A few light spots on page tips. 148 pages clean and tight. Miss Farjeon's gay and delightfully original plays for children need no publisher's introduction, for they are too well known to need one, and too popular to be anything but welcome. They are always easy to ad, to learn, to speak, and to produce, and these are no exception, especially suited in consequence for nursery-school production, or for simpler village entertainment. The singing-games are published with music, clearly and readably printed, which naturally adds greatly to their value, and the last little play is favourite `Snow-White,' newly written as a lector play. The introduction here of a Narrator solves many problems of… Read More