Search Results: Authors starting with M from Hessay Books

Reader's Digest, 1986. 64pp, illustrated softback covers with title neatly written to spine. Colour illustrations to each page. Original owner's name to flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. Wild flowers, trees and mushrooms to eat.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Dent, 1111. Presumed first Everyman edition of 1907. 669pp, brown cloth covered boards,with gilt flower decoration to the spine. Decorated endpapers and title pages. Internally clean. Essays on Foreign History, Political Controversy and Literary Criticism - Machiavelli, Johnson, Addison, Byron, Mme D'Arblay, Gladstone etc. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Blackie, 1975. A large heavy book of 451pp. A very clean copy. The priceclipped dustjacket has a couple of small chips to the top of the spine, but is otherwise complete. Black and white illustrations. Includes appendices with chronological lists of the secular and ecclesiastical Gothic Revival buildings in Scotland and Northern England. An important book - includes the economic background, aesthetic theory, early follies, and houses from Strawberry Hill to Abbotsford, and especially the developments in ecclesiastical and secular building in Scotland and the North of England. Includes an examination of the accounts for Robert Adam's work at Alnwick and James Wyatt's work at Auckland Castle.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Collins, 1111. Probably 1930s. Pocket sized Illustrated Popular Classics edition, with red cloth covered boards, a little faded to spine. 888pp. Frontispiece portrait and illustrated title page. Internally very clean. 12 essays - Milton, Pitt, Burleigh, Clive, Hastings, Walpole etc.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London, 1985. November 1985. Large format softback magazine, 63pp, with work by the above contributors. A clean copy.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Book Club Associates, 1977. 483pp, the edges browning a lvery little witrh age. Illustrated dustjacket with a little edgewear. Internally clean. Can John the builder and his wife Nora make their fortunes in Victorian London in the railway boom of the 1840s?. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Penguin Puffin, 1969. 217pp, illustrated covers with creases to corners and a little wear to spine. B + w illustrations. Child owner's name in pencil on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Helen Stratton.

Charles H Kelly, 1914. 75pp, blue cloth covered boards, with a crease to the front and faded to the spine, with gilt title and border. B + w plates. A mark to the foredge, otherwise internally clean. Esays on the author's father and grandfather, on Hollar's Ecce Homo, Blake's Death's Door and Rethel's Death the Avenger and Death the Friend. Rare.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962. 260pp, decorated softback covers, sun darkened to the spine. Internally very clean and tight The Muses Library edition of the anthology of lyrical and pastoral poems, edited from the edition of 1600 with additional poems from the edition of 1614.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

The National Labour Press Ltd, 1111. Undated, circa 1918. 80pp, blue cloth covered boards with gilt title, a little rubbed to the edge of the spine. Internally clean. The rare hardback first edition of an important book in the history of socialism after the First World War.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Fontana, 1983. 288pp, browning a little with age, softback covers with creases and a little wear. Original owner's initial to inner cover, otherwise internally clean - a good 'reading copy'. Thriller - Anna's long-lost son returns. Mass Market Paperback. Good.

Book Club Associates, 1977. 483pp, the edges browning a little with age. Illustrated dustjacket with a little edgewear. Internally clean. Can John the builder and his wife Nora make their fortunes in Victorian London?. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Gunsmoke BBC, 2008. 160pp, illustrated laminated hardback covers. Ex library - a couple of stamps, otherwise a clean copy. Classic Western, first published in 1937. A man hunting a hoard of Spanish pesos confronts the gunslingers of a wide-open town.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library.

George Allen & Unwin, 1917. FIrst reprint. 132 pp, green dustjacket, rather dusty, with loss to ends of spine and a couple of closed tears. A few light spots of foxing to foredge of book, which is rather grubby, but the pages are internally clean. Written during the First World War, the future Labour Party PM discusses pacifism and the problems of defence.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Fourth Estate, 1999. 304pp. Colour and b + w illustrations. A clean, unread copy. Kings, Queens and Emperors and the stories of their pets.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

Macmillan, 1898. 344pp, red cloth covered boards, a little bumped to corners. Original owner's name on flyleaf, otherwise clean. 3 biographical portraits of Henry of Guise, Agrippa D'Aubigne and Catherine of Navarre. Rare.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Deutsch, 1980. 137 pp, complete dustjacket. Very clean. A time travelling story which starts in a stately home. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

Jonanthan Cape, 2000. First edition. 373pp, the paper now browning a little with age. Complete illustrated dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The story of the discovery of Knossos and the Minoan civilization by Sir Arthur Evans. Comes with two reviews of the book, from the Literary Review and The Independent... First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1955. 335pp, dustjacket with one very short closed tear, no loss. B + w illustrations, including fold-out map at rear. A very clean copy. Includes fauna, agriculture, prehistoric archaeology and mediaeval Bristol.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Heinemann, 1928. Loeb dual text classical Library. 376pp, red cloth covered boards, a very little rubbed to the edges of the spine. Internally clean. English Introductions, Latin and English text of the poems of Catullus and Tibullus and the poem Pervigilium Veneris.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.