Search Results: Authors starting with N from Eastleach Books

for Private Circulation, 1925. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth spind boards, VG. xvi+132pp, spine label a little worn, otherwise a fine copy. Signed card tipped in dated 21-07-1925 'with W J Wormell's Compliments'. Bookplate of Paul Morgan. Catalogue of a library which was sold by Sotheby's 3 years later in 1928. an uncommon book - no copies in th BL, Bodleian or NUC. Wormell lived in Coventry & was a Justice of the Peace there.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971. 1st edition.. Paperback. Card wrappers, G++. xx+108pp, 64pp b/w plates, text illustrations, index, spine a little creased, edges rubbed. A history of the Severn Valley railway, which runs from Hartlebury to Shrewsbury and is staffed by enthusiasts.

Schubertiade GmbH, 2006. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, VG+. 356pp, b/w illustrations, edges a little worn otherwise a fine copy. A programme for the 2006 Franz Schubert Festival which is an annual event & the largest devoted to the music of Schubert.

Sovetskii Pisatel, Moskva, 1957. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth spined boards, G+. 767pp, pages a tanned some more so than others due to the paper stock used, edges bumped, otherwise a nice copy. An anthology of short stories, by 46 Soviet era authors.

Sovetskii Pisatel, Moskva, 1961. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, VG. 468pp, pages a little tanned, otherwise a nice copy. An anthology of short stories, by 21 Soviet era authors.

Andre Deutsch, 1981. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG+. 399pp, spine of the dustjacket sunned, bookplate to the pastedown, otherwise a fine copy. Several contemporary reviews of the book are laid in. An account of a six month journey across the Asian continent after the Iranian Revolution. Naipaul travels from Iran, then on to Pakistan, Malaysia and ends in Indonesia, exploring areas where Islamic fundamentalism was growing.

Andre Deutsch, 1978. 3rd impression.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG. 174pp, price clipped dustjacket a little edge worn, otherwise a fine copy. The the second book of the author's 'India' trilogy.

Andre Deutsch, 1975. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG+. 253pp, rear panel of dustjacket spotted, otherwise a nice copy. Island set fiction.

Penguin, 1973. 2nd edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/G. 694pp, 2 b/w maps, 645pp b/w plates, index, a nice fine copy in an edge worn dustjacket. Rexine small octavo hardback edition. Standard guide to the best buildings in the country, originally researched by Pevsner & in print ever since.

Penguin, 1977. 3rd impression.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG/VG. 694pp, 2 b/w maps, 64pp b/w plates, index, ownership ames & address label to the endpaper, otherwise a near fine copy in a dustjacket that has been skillfully protected with sticky back plastic. Rexine small octavo hardback edition. Standard guide to the best buildings in the country, originally researched by Pevsner & in print ever since.

Shire Publications, 2004. 2nd impression.. Paperback. Card wrappers, F. 32pp, b/w illustrations throughout, a fine copy. Shire album 352. A short monograph on what it was to be in the Army in the mid 1800s.

Himalayan Books, New Delhi, 2002. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. 160pp, colour frontis, colour & b/w illustrations throughout, laid in at the rear is a mounted colour photocopy of several dignitaries planting a rose bush ( presumably in honour of Dr L M Singhvi ), one of those present is Archbishop Carey to whom the book is a presentation copy for, SIGNED by Singhvi with a dedication. A festschrift volume, in celebration of Laxmi Mall Singhvi's diplomatic career as High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom.

Thomas G Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1859. 1st edition.. Hardback. Half green morocco gilt, VG. 2 volumes [ of three ] lxxii+388pp, xviii+430pp, engraved frontis to each volume, total of 10 engraved plates, an attractive & unique set, bound specially for Henry Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie with his signature to the title page & 'Ducie' at the base of the spine, Ex Libris R E W Maddison with his bookplate, some rubbing to the leather, a nice set, sadly lacking volume III. Biography of John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee [ 1648 - 1689 ] the hero of the Jacobites who led them to Victory at the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689, although loosing his life on the field. Whilst a supporter of James VII he is suuposed to have persecuted the Covenanters. Ducie [ 1827 - 1921 ] Liberal peer & Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. Was LOrd Moreton from 1840.

published under the authority of The Minister for Overseas Development by the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments & Administrations, 1968. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, F. 12pp, 4 b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy. Descriptions of the plants of the Dipsacaceae, or teasle, family to be found in East Africa.

State University Of New York Press, 1991. 1st edition.. Hardback. Illustrated boards, F. x+263pp, index, a nice fine copy. new. Study of the literature of Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Burton and Browne in which the playfulness of the writer and their literature is examined and a definition of play is formulated as it was understood in the 17th century.

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876. 1st English edition.. Hardback. Cloth, G. xviii+403pp,214 b/w illustrations, cloth rubbed & worn and with a split to the lower hinge at the top of the spine, Ex Library with occasional ink stamp, a fair copy. Architectural tour of Holland, Germany & Denmark by a French municipal architect who wrote many books in a similar vein.

Phaidon, 1980. 1st UK edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG. 174pp, 131 colour & 63 b/w illustrations, a fine copy in a slightly edge worn dustjacket. Ex Libris the Archbishop of Canterbury with his signature to the half title. Laid in is a TLS from Archbishop Torkom Manoogia, the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, welcoming Archbishop Carey to the role of Archbishop of Canterbury. A well illustrated survey of the art treasures held by the Jerusalem Patriarchate of the Armenian Church. Armenial pilgrims bought many art treasures with them to donate to the church, and many are here illustrated for the first time.

Izd-vo vostochnoi lit-ry, Moskva, 1959. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, VG. 336pp, page margins yellowed, cloth a little grubby. Institut Narodov Azii ( Akademiia Nauk SSSR ) - Uchenye Zapiski vol 23. A collection of 11 essays on Japanese social history during the Tokugawa shogunate.

The Bookstack, Berkhampstead, 1988. 2nd edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG+. viii+120pp, 5 b/w plates, dustjacket very slightly worn, otherwise a fine copy. A facsimile reprint of the 1890 edition of Nash's work on the history of Berkhampstead in Hertfordshire.

J M Dent, 1953. 1st UK edition.. Hardback. Cloth, VG. xii+146pp, spine faded, otherwise a nice copy. Comic verse from the American author.