Search Results: Authors starting with L from CHARLES BOSSOM

London: Frederick Warne & Co. Good. Card Cover. 4.75" By 7.25" Tall No date Printed price on front cover 9d. Cover slight fading to edges and spine. 63 pages clean and tight. This book, by means of simple sketches and few words, aims to give a clear understanding of the qualities which are necessary to anyone who would draw animals with truth and life. .

Cambridge. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hard Cover. Sm 4to Blue cloth with gilt titling on spine. Bumped top corners. End papers Locations. Name on f. paste down. xxiii. 17 to 978 pages. ( Missing pages 1 - 16 don't appear to have been bound in.) Contents Preface; Introduction; Abbreviations used in the notes; Locations; Corrigenda; The Catalogue starting at page 17; Addenda; Index of Titles; General Index. This is a very heavy book but will be despatched for the default charge. No Air Mail outside Europe. .

London: Faber & Faber. Very Good/No DJ. 1947. Second Impression. Hard Cover. 8vo Pink cloth with gilt titling and illustration. Part of title rubbed on spine. Wear to edges. A few marks. Colour frontis plate. A few creased corners. 143 pages numerous photographs & illustrations on puppets and puppet theatres. All types of puppets covered - string, glove and shadow. .

London: Grayson & Grayson. Good/No DJ. 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 276 pages clean and tight. .

Aylesbury, United Kingdom: Buckinghamshire Bird Club. Very Good/Very Good. 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0907823122 Dust jacket unclipped. Green cloth with bright gilt lettering. Bumping to top corners. Previous owner's book plate on f. paste down. No inscription. Darw on rear paste down. 345 pages clean and tight. This book is the first comprehensive account of the birds of Buckinghamshire. It covers every species that has been recorded in the county to the end of 1991. Dot maps of breeding distribution are shown for most of the breeding species, and are the result of a six year survey of the county's breeding birds. Graphs of seasonal and annual occurrence are shown for many of the rarer species. Wildfowl counts are also displayed graphically. Reasons for changing populations are discussed using the results of the latest research, and give a picture of the altering conditions within the county. Introductory chapters include the history of birdwatching in… Read More

London: Leisure Circle Book Club . Very Good/Very Good. 1986. Reprint. Hard Cover. 8vo 0709060432 Leisure Circle Book Club Edition. Dust jacket complete, slight wear to edges. Black cloth with bright sgilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. Photographs / Illustrations / Maps. 218 pages clean and tight. .

London: Thames & Hudson. Good/Good. 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover. Large 4to Dust jacket is in a protective sleeve, rubbed at edges, price clipped. Mustard coloured cloth with bright gilt titles. Cloth hinges exposed between end papers. No inscription. 284 pages. With its splendid plates this volume catches and holds the wonderful diversity of Spain. And it does more. Francois Cali, who conceived the book pictorially, brings to it the eyes of an artist and poet - he sees the man mirrored in the landscape, the work of art in the troubled history that produced it. He has been well served by his photographers, while the introduction by Jaques Lafaye is a brilliant and sensitive evocation of Spain and its people. .

Very Good. 1997. 22.2 x 1.3 x 26 cm 0806995548 Paperback: 112 pages clean and tight. Numerous colour illustration. Turn ordinary objects into golden treasures. Full-color photos of gallery pieces from professional designers will inspire you. ."..Transform any conceivable object into one of refined beauty, style, and elegance....All you need is a bit of patience, the right materials, a few easy-to-use tools, and the inspiration of Jane LaFerla's "Gilding....Gilding will show you, step-by-step, how to surround your photographs with a small oval frame that's every bit as beautiful as the picture inside it, turn a flea-market lamp with mounted gold leafs on both base and shades thus transforming it into the focal point of a room; use silver or copper to transform an ordinary footstool into a family heirloom; astonish dinner guests with plates accented in gold, copper, or silver...is a unique crafts home reference book that will open a whole new area of… Read More

Sutton Publishing Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 075090061X Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Colour illustrated boards. No ownership marks. Numerous photographs. 224 pages clean and tight. A guide to every aspect of the 1914-18 war. An A-Z source guide to the battles, weapons, people, places and air combat. .

London: Methuen & Co Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to Dust jacket slightly grubby, slight shelf wear to edges. Black cloth covers with bright gilt titles to spine. 292 pages clean and tight. A very heavy book but will be posted for the default charge. No Air Mail available for this book. .

Stockholm: Bonniers Förlag. Good. 1937. Half Leather. 5" By 7.75" Tall Decorated leather spine lettering in gilt. Corners rubbed, Some wear to extremities. Marbled end papers. Previous owner's inscription on title page. 199 pages clean and tight.. .

London: Thames and Hudson. Very Good. 1992. Reprint. ILLUSTRATED CARD COVER. 8vo 0500202567 Illustrated card cover. No inscriptions. 212 illustrations, 22 in colour. 216 pages clean and tight. .

Yale University Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1999. Hard Cover. Dimensions: 19.7 x 2.5 x 26.7 cm 0300074212 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Ownership marks on ffep. Illustrated in colour and b/w. 384 pages clean and tight. This book examines the crucial period in the painter's career as he struggled to save his neck and recast his identity in the aftermath of the Reign of Terror. Burcharth assesses his works in the context of the larger cultural and social formations emerging in France concluding with an interpretation of the unfinished portrait of Juliette Recamier. .

London: J.A.Allen & Co Ltd. Very Good/No DJ. 1990. Hard Cover. 8vo 0851315100 Red cloth boards with bright gilt titling. No ownership marks. No.84. Illustrated. 424 pages clean and tight. .

London: W. H. Allen. Very Good. 1970. Reprint. Hard Cover. 8vo 0491002939 .

London: The Folio Society. Very Good/Slipcase. 1963. First Thus. Hard Cover. 8vo Red slip case in very good condition. Illustrated. Previous owner's ownership label on f. paste down. 181 PAGES CLEAN AND TIGHT .

London: The Folio Society. Very Good/Slipcase. 1963. First Thus. Hard Cover. 8vo Red slip case in very good condition. Illustrated. No ownership inscription. 181 PAGES CLEAN AND TIGHT .

John Murray. Very Good/Very Good. 1997. Hard Cover. 8vo 0719555922 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. x, 2Maps, 356 pages clean and tight. Plates. Besides throwing favourable light on the dictator himself, this account of Mussolini's relations with Britain shows that Italy was ready to become Britain's ally until Britain felt obliged to take a lead in economic sanctions against Italy for its invasion of Abyssinia in 1935. Mussolini despised Hitler and his anti-Semitism, yet felt surprised and antagonized by Britain's mobilization of the League of Nations over the Abyssinian affair. Thus, this book shows, Britain missed the opportunity to bring the Italians onto the Allied side, as it did again when Italy attempted to make a separate peace in 1943. .

London: W H Allen. Very Good/Very Good. 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Lge 8vo 1852271167 .

London: The Folio Society. Very Good. 1965. First Folio Edition. Hard Cover. 4to Patterned gey boards and green cloth spine. 61 illustrations clean and tight. No slipcase. No DJ as published. .