Search Results: Authors starting with M from Rickaro Books Ltd

London: Michael Joseph, 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A fine copy of these classic accounts of the First World War. B&W illus throughout. Published to mark the 70th anniversary of the Armistice. 346pp..

London: Birkbeck College, University of London, 1948. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A good copy in original pale green cover. Previous owner's name neatly to cover. 28pp. An inter-faculy lecture delivered on 17th March 1948..

Oakville: Mosale Press/Valley Editions, 1995. Book. Fine. Paperback. Third Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine as new copy of this collection of poems dedicated to TE Lawrence and first published in 1982. 70pp..

London: Martin Secker, 1925. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Limited/Numbered. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An exceptional copy of this work by Arthur Machen. In a near fine dustwrapper and with the red cloth bright and clean. This is Number 132 of just 250 copies signed by Machen. Overall bright and clean with no marking. Arthur Machen was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the late nineteenth early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. 189pp..

London: Duckworth & Co, 1917. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A very good copy in original grey boards, toning to paper as is the case with the first edition. Advertisement for Wright's Coal Tar Soap to last page. A fascinating novella, the time is the First World War, set around the atrocities of the German invasion, with fear of the unknown. Arthur Machen was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the late nineteenth early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. 192pp.

Cheltenham: The History Press, 2019. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A fine new copy. Captain Scott's expedition to the Antarctic, the most famous story of exploration in the world, played out on the great ice stage in the south. Oriana Wilson, wife of Scott's best friend and fellow explorer Dr Edward Wilson, was watching from the wings. She is the missing link between many of the notable polar names of the time and was allowed into a man's world at a time when the British suffragettes were marching. Oriana is the lens through which their secrets are revealed. What really happened both in the Antarctic and at home? Why did Scott's Terra Nova expedition nearly end in mutiny before it had even begun? Were the explorers' diaries as 'heroic' as they appeared to be? Only Oriana can tell. She began as a dutiful housewife but emerged as a scientist and collector in her own right, and was the first white woman to venture into the jungles of Darwin, Australia. Edward Wilson… Read More

Babson Park: Babson Institute, 1955. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in maroon cloth with "Isaac Newton" in gilt to front board. An edition limited to 450 copies. 91pp..

Newtown: The Gregynog Press, 1934. Book. Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A good copy in original Holland boards with oatmeal cloth spine and paper title label. Number 32 of just 250 copies. Mark to front board. Decorative bookplate of Ellen Evans to inside of front board and to the blank front inner page is a cutting by Harold Bloom on Don Quixote. Internally bright and clean.136pp.

Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2008. Book. As New. Soft cover. 5th or later Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An as new copy in the Oxford World's Classics series..

London: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1959. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A good copy of the journal, in original paper covers. Some minor wear to spine. Contains the article on the Portraiture of Robert Boyle FRS..

London: Maggs Bros Ltd, 1985. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near fine copy in original card covers of this important catalogue of TE Lawrence related items offered for sale by Maggs in 1985. 43pp..

Bradford: T. Inkersley, 1823. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A fair copy, in original Holland boards, wear to spine. 237pp, + 1 page advertisement. Includes a list of subscribers. Tiny label of a Bradford bookseller S. Waterhouse to front pastedown..

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1957. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A King Penguin on this popular subject. A fine clean copy in a clean d/w with wear to top edge. Illustrated throughout with gold coloured reproductions of brasses and with an Introduction by former Master of the Armouries, Sir James Mann. 40pp plus 32 plates..

Oxford: Printed by John Johnson for The Society of Antiquaries, 1938. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. A fine copy of the offprint this significant article from Archaelogia Vol LXXXVII. Relating the important collection of 15th century armour preserved in the Sanctuary of the Madonna delle Grazia near Mantua. They were placed there as votive offerings and thus saved. Bound in original blue printed covers, illustrated with photographs. pp. 311-351..

London: 4th Estate, 2012. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Ninth Impression. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. The second title in the acclaimed Thomas Cromwell trilogy.412pp. .

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1911. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in original green cloth. Private institutional bookplate to inside of front board. 379pp..

Bradford: G.F. Sewell, 1880. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The three volumes, in original cloth bindings, with gilt decoration to front boards. 204pp, + 254pp + 242pp + advertisements. Each volume with engraved frontispiece. From the library of the local historian George Redmonds with his decorative bookplate to fep of each volume..

Bradford: G.F. Sewell, 1880. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The three volumes, in original cloth bindings, with gilt decoration to front boards. 204pp, + 254pp + 242pp + advertisements. Each volume with engraved frontispiece. From the library of the local historian George Redmonds with his decorative bookplate to fep of each volume..

Donington: Shaun Tyas Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. A scholarly guide to art of the later medieval period. 192pp..

Londres (London), 1782. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. A delightful small volume, bound in contemporary calf with gold line to edge of boards, the spine has some wear but a sound copy, Marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece 196pp. Not withstanding the place of publication, text in French. Written by Charles de Villette (1736-1793), who was by all accounts a turbulent character Following a military career, having been appointed Marshal General of Cavalry he embarked on a more worldly life and quickly gained a scandalous reputation. His mother, Thérèse Cordier de Launay, aunt of the Marquis de Sade, introduced him to Voltaire,.