Search Results: Authors starting with H from CHARLES BOSSOM

London: B.T. Batsford. Good/No DJ. 1960. First Edition. Illustrated Laminated Boards. 4.5" By 5.5" Tall Paper covered boards, rubbed to edges of spine. Previous owner's details on ffep. 256 pages clean and tight .

London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Very Good/Good. 1964. Second Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo Dust jacket complete, rubbed edges, unclipped price on flap. Blue cover with bright silver titling on spine. No ownership inscription. 200 pages clean and tight. .

London: University of London Press LTD. Good. 1930. Limp Cloth. 8vo Previous owner's details on ffep. 100 pages. .

London: Argonaut Press. Very Good/No DJ. 1936. First Edition. Hard Cloth Cover. 8vo Green cloth gilt titling to spine and upper cover. Slight fade to spine and weat to edges. No ownership marks. Full page Frontis Portrait Plate. 223 pages clean and tight. .

London: Duckworth. Fair. 1930. First Edition. Original green cloth with gilt titles on spine. Cover discoloured due to fading. Wear to extremities. Name and date on ffep. Some light foxing spots through out. 106 pages .

Oxford at the Clarendon Press,. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1955. Reprint. Hard Cover. 8vo Black cloth with fading title on spine. Ex library. 246 pages plus chronological table. .

London: Chatto and Windus. Very Good/Fair. 1931. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo Dust jacket worn and some loss to edges, tears, unclipped, browning to spine. Illustrated cloth boards. No ownership marks. 64 pages clean and tight. .

London: A & C Black. Very Good/Fair. 1950. Reprint. Hard Cover. 5" By 7.5" Tall The Sportsman's library. Green cloth with bright lettering in yellow on spine. The dust jacket is now in a sleeve protector, torn and chipped. The author was the editor of the Samon and Trout Magazine, formerly angling editor of the Field. Original Gray cloth very good copy .

UK: Oliver & Boyd. Very Good/No DJ. 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Green cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. Name on f. paste down. Light foxing mainly to end papers & page edges. xi, 91 pages. .

London: Benn. Good. 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Brown cloth, gilt to spine. Worn to edges. Ring mark on upper cover. Slightly bumped corners. Light foxing. 285 pages .

Profile Books Ltd. Very Good. 2017. Soft Cover. This book is a non fiction book largely set outside the UK, so not usually my sort of book for light reading. It is in some ways the book behind “My Family and Other Animals” by Gerald Durrell, in that it is the family history of a group of people that ranges from India to England, Corfu and other places offering homes to those driven by sadness, romance and friendship. It does not hold back on describing the differences between the amusing and neat adventures of a family in exile, travelling to a sunny, friendly safe idyll as depicted in the novel, and a real life spread of adult children in relationships. .

Pet Library. Good. First Printing. Illustrated Card Cover. 8vo .

London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good/Good. 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover. Lge 8vo Dust jacket chips, tears, chunk missing from base of spine, now in protective sleeve. Green cloth with black titling on spine. Ownership inscription dated 1942 on verso of frontis. Light foxing to page tips. Frontis colour plate. Illustrated title page. 60 illustrations. 275 pages + catalogue page clean and tight. .

Jonathan Cape Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1973. Hard Cover. 8vo 0224006312 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Neat inscription. Illustrations. Plates. 288 pages. .Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.8 cm There is no shortage of irrational or unscientific ideas about the supposed properties of human blood. Mostly these are folk theories which neither survive practical tests nor lend themselves to fruitful application in a modern context. But they still influence our language and customs. As a result, we speak of blood brotherhood and blood-feuds; of the blood of our fathers, blood relations, blood poisoning and sang-froid; of princes of the blood who may own blood-horses, bloodhounds and bloodstones; and of people or ideas which are cold-blooded, blood-curdling, blood-thirsty, bloody-minded, sanguine, clottish or plain bloody stupid. There are similar ranges of expression relating to the heart and veins. In some ways the symbolism in these… Read More

London: Sheed & Ward. Very Good/Good. 1937. Second Impression. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket unclipped, closed tears. Red cloth boards with titling to spine. No ownership inscription. viii, 216 pages clean and tight. .

New York: Burt Franklin. Very Good. Hard Cover. 8vo Biography of this 19th century English publisher and center of controversy. Contains a bibliography of Hone imprints. Binding is 8vo., cloth. 373 pages. Contents : INTRODUCTORY : AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL : EARLY STRUGGLES : A BOOKMAN'S ACQUAINTANCES : POLITICAL ACTIVITIES : AN ALERT PUBLISHER : IMPENDING PROSECUTION : THE ARREST : THE FIRST TRIAL : CLOSE OF THE TRIALS : AFTER THE TRIALS : THE CRUIKSHANK CONNECTION : A BANK RESTRICTION NOTE : INDUSTRY WITHOUT BUSINESS METHODS : POLITICAL PAMPHLETEERING : THE QUEEN CAROLINE AFFAIR : ANTIQUARY AND CONTROVERSIALIST : THE " EVERY-DAY BOOK" : THE "TABLE BOOK" : WILLIAM HONE AND CHARLES LAMB : GETTING OUT OF KING'S BENCH PRISON THE cc YEAR BOOK" : HONE'S POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS VIEWS : CONVERSION : LIFE AT PECKHAM : SUB-EDITOR OF THE PATRIOT : RETIREMENT AND DEATH : HONE'S FUNERAL-A DICKENSIAN EPISODE :… Read More

London: T C & E C Jack. Good/Fair. Hard Cover. Pocket Size Dust jacket tears, chipped with some loss. Soiled cover with tipped- on picture of the Pope. Name on ffep. Colour frontis plate. Illustrated title page. 46 pages. .

London: Heinemann. Very Good/Very Good. 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Slim 4to 0434311065 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Green cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. 343 pages clean and tight. .

The Authors, Felixstowe. Very Good. 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to 0951055976 Illustrated glazed boards. Small name label. 310 High quality vintage photographs of historic scenes, together with information text about each picture. 132 pages. Product Dimensions: 29.7 x 20.8 x 1.3 cm .

The Authors, Felixstowe. Very Good. 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to Illustrated glazed boards. No ownership marks. 310 High quality vintage photographs of historic scenes, together with information text about each picture. Product Dimensions: 29.7 x 20.8 x 1.3 cm .