Search Results: Authors starting with F from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

Pax Forlag, Oslo, 2008 Uncommon title in near fine condition; an unread copy. Architect and interior designer Kristin Jarmund started her own architectural office in 1985. The book presents a variety of works from this office, for example. Råholt middle school in Hobart and the new Norwegian Embassy in Nepal. Complete biography, list of competitions and prizes, projects and buildings, and employees in the period 1987-2008. Parallel text in English and Norwegian.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Werner Laurie No date. 16 plates, contemporary 3/4 green calf, includes Chapter on Billy the Kid. This is an especially attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. The spine has a leather label and five raised bands & is densely tooled in gilt. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Oxford University Press. London : Humphrey Milford, 1931 Original green cloth, 8vo, 23 x 16cm, xviii, 525 pp, 22 plates, 43 full page text illustrations and facsimiles. With a dedication inscription from the author to Sir Thomas Barlow, in clear ink hand on front free endpaper. As a pioneer of full time paediatrics, as the first professor in this new discipline, and as inaugural president of the British Paediatric Association, Still has been called with justice the father of British paediatrics. From Cambridge he studied medicine at Guy's Hospital in London, qualifying in 1893. Coming under the influence of Sir James Goodhart, Still studied children's diseases at Guy's and at the Hospital for Sick Children. In 1899 Kings College Hospital established a special department for the diseases of childhood (the first hospital in the United Kingdom to do so), and Still was appointed physician to take charge of it. Seven years later he was promoted honorary professor of the diseases of children,… Read More

London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., Paternoster Row. Bath: Charles Hallett., 1888 xxiii, 379 printed pages, 9 folding pans, 5 engraved plates (2 of which are Woodburytypes). Author's presentation copy with his inscription to a Dr. Case in a neat ink hand on the title page. Includes 15 page bibliography. Chapters on diseases, medical and surgical applications and on the Aix-Les-Bains massage. Appendices include the climate and mortality rate in Bath. 14 x 19.5 cm. Original green embossed gilt cloth with bevelled edges. Spine with gilt lettering, upper cover with gilt lettering and gilt embossed shield of Bath within a black border; rear cover with blind stamped Bath shield within black border. Extremely slight wear to the head and tail of the spine and the lower part of the boards. Bath and Aix are renowned spa towns, whose thermal institutions continue to provide medical care specialising in rheumatology, phlebology, diseases of the respiratory tract and throat diseases. The Woodburytype process… Read More

Victor Gollancz, 1954 432 printed pages, photographic portrait frontispiece, map endpapers ('The Author's Routes'). 15 x 22.5 cm. Original red cloth, spine with gilt lettering (very slightly faded. Complete with photographic portrait dust jacket, in good condition. Old tape residue just showing through from inside of head & tail of spine. Very slight edgewear & a few very short closed tears. Presents well. This book of memoirs was translated from the Danish by Johan Hambro. Contents - each chapter headed by a quote, followed by list of subjects. For example: Chapter III - "No matter how I achieved it, the degree bolstered by morale." Copenhagen, Hippocrates, pigs' trotters - first steps toward the Arctic. Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen (1886-1957) was a Danish explorer, author, journalist and anthropologist, notable for his role in Arctic exploration, namely the Thule Expeditions.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good.

Institute of Economic Affairs, 1977 Occasional Paper #51. Complete with loose summary. In fine condition.. Soft cover. Fine.

Leopold Collin, Paris, 1809 NICOLAÏ (Christophe-Frédéric), a famous German critic, born in Berlin in 1733, died in 1811; "Historical research on the use of false hair and wigs, in ancient and modern times". This handbook of hairdressing was designed in part for the use of personal attendants of elegant French society and contains details on powdering wigs and false hair. It contains two folding engraved prints showing various hairstyles. It is bound in contemporary pale salmon paper covered boards with a gilt leather label on the spine. Slightly shelf worn, commensurate with age and careful use. Wonderful 209 year old French book on coiffure.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.