Search Results: Authors starting with H from Rickaro Books Ltd

Huddersfield: Kirklees Cultural Services, 1992. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A substantial collection of essays on Huddersfield. A very good copy in d/w that has small closed tear. A fine clean copy. 716pp..

Horbury: Middlestown with Netherton PCC, 2018. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The story of Sitlington's Great War and the people affected by it. 212pp. Colour illustrations throughout..

Brentford: Transport Bookman Publications Ltd/ Cassell& Company, 1978. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine copy in similar d/w. The updated edition of the autobiography of Mike Hailwood with a fine signature to the title page dated "TT'78". It was winning the 1978 Isle of Man TT after 11 years away from bike racing that Mike Hailwood had perhaps the greatest ever of his many achievements. A beautiful copy with a nice association of the event.128pp..

London: William Heinemann Ltd & The Book Society Ltd, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardback. Signed by the Author. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near fine copy of hardback edition bound in green cloth with gilt title and and author to spine. Some wear to spine. With very good d/w some wear to spine and mild discolouration. SIGNED by author dated January 1974. 216pp..

Oxford: Oxford University Press (world classics), 1936. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The leaflet of this address being the first UK publication. O'Brien E094..

Horbury: Rickaro Books, 2013. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy of this illustrated volume on John Carr. Though John Carr of York was one of the leading architects of the Georgian period, his huge and varied achievement is still there to be enjoyed. Every day thousands of people cross his bridges, work in his hospitals, offices and farms, visit his country houses, worship in his churches, or live in his houses without making any connection between the architect and themselves. This 64 page pictorial survey of nearly fifty buildings will help to redress the balance, and at the same time will bring attention to the splendid craftsmanship that has ensured their survival into the twenty first century. The photographs are accompanied by a brief and helpful text. Particular emphasis has been given to those buildings to which the public has some degree of access..

Winchester: Carriana Publishing, 2023. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine, new copy of this long-awaited volume of essays by the celebrated historian Dr Ivan Hall. John Carr of York (1723-1807) was one of the most prolific and significant architects of the eighteenth century, with an output of over 400 designs, most of which were executed. His designs vary from simple gateways through to the grandest schemes, such as that for the palatial hospital at Oporto in Portugal, Harewood House and village in Yorkshire and St Peter's Church in Horbury. 508pp plus colour plates. .

London: The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1974. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An offprint from Notes and Records of The Royal Society of London Vol 23 No 1. June 1968. pp. 33-42..

Troy: Obadiah Penniman, 1803. Book. Good. Hardback. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A good copy of the first American edition, bound in contemporary full calf with red leather title label to spine. Front board with weak hinge but holding. Some minor scattered foxing but a good sound copy. 498pp..

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Book. Fine. Hardback. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine, as new copy of this meticulously researched and authoritative history of nurses in the First World War. B&W illus. 359pp..

Elland: W.H. Gledhill, 1901. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy of the first edition in original clean green cloth with title in black to front board. Photographic frontispiece and twenty line drawings on different paper. xv + 188pp and plates. With some contemporary notes about Joseph Brookbank of Halifax to rear blank inner end paper. Laid in is the elusive original prospectus with publication details and sample page..

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2012. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. A fine new copy. An exciting look at the little known Charles Spooner and his work, as well as putting him into perspective with his peers. Printed in full colour, with 277 pictures this is a wonderful guide to the work of a highly influential but not greatly well known architect. 277 pp.

London: R. Royston, Bookseller to His Most Sacred Majesty, at the Sign of the Angel, 1677. Book. Illus. by Hollar, W. Good. Hardback. Eleventh Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A good copy bound in full calf with four raised bands. The fep contains early (seventeenth century?) ink notes and has lower corner missing to paper. With an added engraved title page: A practicall catechisme, said to be engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar, interestingly in these later editions the engraved plate appears cut down to remove the quote "Royall Flame" that appeared on the 1646 edition; the second tp. is typographic. title, 2nd title, A3-[A6], 1-419, title, 421-482.482pp. Henry Hammond (1605-1660) had been a chaplain to Charles I and was a Royalist supporter..

Leeds: Yorkshire Richard III Society, 1984. Book. Good. Soft cover. Three editions of the Blanc Sanglier magazine. Fascinating Ricardian articles and reviews. 28pp.

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine copy. A series of essays drawing on both staging practices and contemporary performance. 241pp..

London: Privately Printed by the author, 1930. Book. Illus. by Roberts, William. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Limited/Numbered. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very good copy of this signed and limited edition, limited to 500 this copy being number 81; only sold to Private Subscribers. Bound in red cloth with some minor fading, with gilt titles and teg, has a splendid woodcut frontispiece by William Roberts in the cubist style (reminiscent of Roberts tail-piece drawings in "Seven Pillars of 1926). Introductory note by Richard Aldington. An uncomfortable novella, this was published the same year as his first novel, 'Drift.' His second novel 'Boy' (1931) was prosecuted for obscenity by Bury police. T.E. Lawrence owned copy Number 59 and wrote of it; "I call this a fine thing: it is really three dimensional and excellent.....but why in God's name, an Introduction by Richard Aldington?" 36pp.

Halifax Antiquarian Society, 1928. Book. Good. Paperback. Offprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Offprints making up the article pp253-317pp, with 7 b/w plates. From a publication by the Halifax Antiquarian Society dated October 2nd 1928.

Halifax Antiquarian Society, 1941. Book. Good. Paperback. Offprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An offprint of a publication by the Halifax Antiquarian Society dated December 6th, 1941..

Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press, 1952. Book. Illus. by Lamb, Lynton. Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good clean copy in d/w that has some minor loss to bottom edge and closed tear. 109pp...

London: Polity, 1988. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An illustrated account of the inventions and misinventions that have helped workers in the home from the time of the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the modern period. Price clipped otherwise complete and unmarked. 220pp.