Search Results: Authors starting with N from CHARLES BOSSOM

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Very Good +/Very Good +. 1972. Hardcover. 6.5" By 9.5" Tall pp xv+270, illustrated with b/w plates, line drawings and maps. An encyclopaedia of rail preservation and a Who's Who of surviving steam engines. Unprice-clipped d/w in a sleeve protector.Black cloth with bright gilt lettering on the spine. .

Edinburgh: The Pentland Press Limited. Very Good +. 2000. Soft Cover. 6" By 8.25" Tall 1858218225 Reg is the delightful story of a yong country gentleman growing up on the late Victorian era, learning about farming, hunting, shooting, fishing, and other country pursuits. Although a fictitious tale, Reg paints a picture of upper class life in Britain at the turn of the century. 203 pages. No inscription. Clean and tight. .

London: Cambridge University Press. Good +/Good. 1928. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket unclipted. Browned and rubbed to spine ends, corners and edges with closed tears to edges. Blue illustrated border to front with black lettering to spine and front. Blue cloth with black titles to spine. Very slighty rubbed to spine ends, corners and edges. Previous owner's name and date to upper ffep. 891 pages, clean and tightly bound. .

London: St Michael. Very Good. 1979. Card Cover. 8.5" By 11.75" Tall Describes 15 famous voyages from the days of Magellan to the 20th century. 200 pages clean and tight. .

London: Arthur Barker Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. 5.25" By 8" Tall' 0213001624 Dust wrapper, small closed tears & slightly grubby to top edge, unclipped. Grey Cloth with bright gilt title lettering to spine. Top corners bumped. This book gives information on medallions and all fascination that these sculptured pieces of art create, war medals and their historicall association, ancient coins of the Greeks and Romans, Oriental coinage and British Coins. 143 pages clean and tight. .

Castle Howard Estate Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover. Sq 4to 0950254525 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original blue cloth boards with bright gilt titling. No ownership inscription. 38 pages. Clean and tight. 15 miles from York lies Castle Howard, the first architeL. creation of Sir John Vanbrugh. Commissioned by Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, this dramatic palace has been open to the public ever since it was built some 250 years ago. Many thousands of visitors each year enjoy the House, which the family still occupies, with its vast grounds, formal gardens, fountains, lakes, domed Temple of the Four Winds and, Hawksmoor's work of genius, the Mausoleum. In 1782 John Carr of York built the Stable Court, which now houses the famous Costume Galleries founded in 1965 by George Howard, the present owner of Castle Howard. They contain the largest private collection of 18th to 20th century costume in Britain, a selection being displayed in life-like… Read More

London: Andre Deutsch. Very Good/Good. 1972. Reprint. Hard Cover. 5.5" By 8.25" Tall 0233964495 Dust jacket unclipped with slightly discoloured spine and upper front cover. In a protective sleeve. Blue cloth with bright silver lettering to spine. Very slight shelfwear to spine top and tail and book edges. No inscriptions. Numerous black and white line illustrations.129 pages, clean bright and tight. .

London: Oswald Wolff. Very Good/Fair to Good. 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0854960643 Dust jacket worn rubbed to edges with a little loss. Price clipped.Original cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. 288 pages clean and tight. A series of twelve literary essays. Although Switzerland is only a small nation, she can look back on a long and fascinating history. The Swiss Confederation can be described as the end product of prevailing common sense which welded together four distinctly different ethnic and linguistic groups and safeguarded their independent cultural development. So while there is no truly "Swiss" literature, one can speak with Professor Calgari of "The four Literatures of Switzerland", of which the German-language sector naturally is predominant, as German is the mother tongue of about 70 per cent of the Swiss population. This volume tries to do justice to all facets of the intriguing Swiss literary scene, its diversity and its common… Read More

London: Constable & Co. Good/Good. 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo .

London: Cassell & Company Ltd. Very Good/No DJ. Special Edition. Hard Cover. Lge 8vo Bright gilt decorative cloth boards.Bright gilt titling. Gilt to all page edges. 6.5" x 9". Not dated. A few foxing spots. With a series of portraits plates and numerous illustrations. Clean and bright. .

UK: Justice of Peace. Very Good/Very Good. 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0900500085 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. \red cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 206 pages clean and tight. "A Tree of Law and Order" is a fascinating collection of pieces gathered together from various sources to show the gradual development of, and the inter-locking nature between, the allied services relating to Law and Order. In her anthology, Mrs. Beryl Naunton's aim has been to provide an over-all picture-from her vantage point of a magistrate, as a county alderman, and as a member of a police authority, and as a member of the public. Some extracts she has selected run to a number of pages; others consist of a few sentences-but the whole constitutes an admirable pot pourri showing the evolutionary nature-over the centuries -of law and order in England. The book will be found of absorbing interest, and one to which the reader will turn time and… Read More

London: Barker. Very Good/Good. 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0213167832 Dust jacket torn, rubbed, unclipped. Red cloth, gilt lettering. No inscription.151 pages clean and tight. .

Phillimore & Co Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1975. Hard Cover. 8vo 0850332281 Dust jacket complete. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Neat name on half title. Frontis portrait plate. .109 pages clean and tight, Henry Michell's diary offers new insights into 19th-century Horsham. His attitudes and aspirations show the Victorian middle-class environment in which he lived. His interests ranged over the major issues of as well as upon subject matter of more immediate relevance to Sussex. The book will thus be of interest to historians and to a reading public that enjoys social history and biographical literature. The scope of the diary and Michell's life embraces the Corn Law controversy, the railway 'mania', the American Civil War, Parliamentary reform, and the Great Exhibition of 1851. .

London: Fig Tree / Penguin Books. New Condition/New Condition. 2009. First Edition, First Impression. Wraps. 8vo 1905490410 416 pages. In the first year of the 20th Century, a young Englishman returns home from the Boer War. Disillusioned with Empire and fearful for the soul of Albion, he sets out on a pilgrimage into the West Country, determined to identify the key elements of the English character that they may be forever preserved. In the present day, a young London entrepreneur, owner of the 'cultural consultancy' Authenticity™, defines his contemporaries through their consumer choices with bewildering accuracy, wallows in money and contemplates his growing sense of dissatisfaction. His father, meanwhile, a junior minister in a failing government, is sent to Africa to deal with the continent's latest tin pot despot. He is as confident of success as he is ambitious of what that success will mean for his career. Unfailingly relevant, politically astute,… Read More

London: John Lane The Bodley Head. Good/No DJ. 1939. Hard Cover. 8vo Original cloth boards slight bump to top corners. Slightly rubbed. Neat inscription on ffep. Frontis plate.Illustrated. xiii, 623 clean and tight. "PREFACE: - THIS book was written entirely in prison, except for the postscript and certain minor changes, from June 1934 to February 1 c935. The primary object in writing these pages was to occupy myself with a definite, task, so necessary in the long solitudes of gaol life, as well as to review past events in India, with which I had been connected, to enable myself to think clearly about them. I began the task in a mood of self-questioning and, to a large extent, this persisted throughout. I was not writing deliberately for an audience, but if I thought of an audience, it was one of my own countrymen and countrywomen. For foreign readers I would have probably written differently, or with a different emphasis, stressing certain aspects which have been slurred over in… Read More

London: Heinemann. Very Good +/Very Good. First UK Edition. 8vo 0434702889 Unclipped Dust wrapper. No inscription. Black cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine. 306 pages, fine in fine unclipped dustwrapper. No ancient document has exerted such mystical powers over its owners - and the public - as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Discovered in caves in the Judean desert by Bedouins in the late 1940s, these remnants of a past civilization have been at the heart of religious, scholarly and political disputes ever since. But the true significance of the scrolls, and why they have been suppressed for nearly fifty years, is a story that Neil Silberman, archaeologist and writer, tells in its entirety for the first time. This is a many-layered story of ancient oppression and modern suppression. It makes powerful, passionate reading. Neil Silberman brilliantly follows two threads in The Hidden Scrolls. The first is the ancient story: who produced the scrolls? when? in what circumstances? He… Read More

Hadden Best & Co. Ltd. Very Good/No DJ. 1959. Hard Cover. Narrow 4to Red cloth covered boards, slightly dull gilt titling on spine. Parish Council's inscription on end papers. xxvii, 292 pages clean and tight. .

Sylvan Press. Good. 1943. Second Impression. Hard Cover. 5.5" By 8.5" Tall' Original cloth with illustration in red on front cover. Red lettering. Mark on front cover. Corners slightly bumped. Slightly grubby end papers. Odd foxing spot. 47 pages + 1 advert. .

London: Ernest Benn Limited. Fair / Poor. 1930. Hard Cover. 8vo Fifteenth Impression, Original blue cloth faded titles. Badly rubbed especially edges, needs rebinding. Colour frontis plate plus 7 further b/w plates as called for. 31 pages clean and tight. .

Surrey, UK: PRO Publications. Very Good/Very Good. 2000. Hard Cover. Lge 4to 1873162820 Heavy book but no additional postage will be asked for. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Blue cloth with bright silver titling. Illustrated end papers. No ownership inscription. 255 pages clean and tight. The most daring missions and campaigns of the 2nd World War are vividly brought to life. Each is given a section featuring dramatic air camera photographs and colour paintings, most previously unpublished. .