Search Results: Authors starting with P from BookMangos

New York: Wiley, 1-06. Paperback. Very Good. A must have reference book for all disciples of the portable document format. Very little use comes with a cd rom. AB9

Burns Oates, 1949 and 1952. Very Good/very good. These are the first two of a set of 4 volumes continuing the story of the churches progress from the conversion of constantine, to the council of constantinople in AD 382. Both volumes black boards with writing to spine. The Djs are mylar covered, not price clipped.Some bumping and rubbing and small nicks, but overall very nice. Clean pages and tight binding. Heavy 2 books so p&p to be adjusted accordingly. First Edition AB62

London: Faber and Faber, 2008. First published. Very Good/very good. This is a story of a man who foreshadowed the Nazis in his combination of mysticism and genocidal violence and he explains Ungerns strange religous beliefs and the culture of Mongolia of which the adventurer became for a brief period the absolute ruler. Brown boards with writing to spine. Minor shelf wear. Tight binding and clean pages. Not price clipped. First Edition AB66

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1978. First edition. Near Fine/fine. The extraordinary story of the great Russian dancer, who became the focus of a worldwide crusade to see him released from the Soviet Union, who tells his life: as a small boy in war-torn Russia; as a student coming late to the Kirov school in Leningrad; as a son, a lover, a husband; as one of the leading dancers in the world - then unknown (because unseen) outside the USSR; as a Jew; as a cause celebre; as a man. This is not only the frankest - and perhaps most human - autobiography by a dancer ever written; it is also by far the most revealing account we have had of the demoralized state of ballet inside the Soviet Union. hardback, clothbound; mylar dust jacket; personal bookplate, many illustrations First Edition AB54

London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. First published. Very Good/very good. In this extensively researched biography, Derek Parker probes the forces which maintained and even enhanced the astrologers standing in society under the stuarts. Blue boards with writing to spine. Some bumping to corners.Nice tight binding and clean pages. Dj mylar covered, a little rubbed and bumped. Not price clipped. First Edition AB60

London: Pelham Books, 1987. first published. Very Good/very good. A comprehensive guide for the layman to the law relating to country sports and the conservation and protection of wildlife.it explains all aspects of the law in england, wales and scotland. Green boards with writing to spine. Dj mylar covered. minor shelf wear. Heavy book so post and packing to be adjusted accordingly. First Edition AB68

London: Michael O'Mara, 2007. Very Good. A fun mix of nostalgia and reference, featuring all the mnemonics you will ever need to know. Pretty boards cream and black. Minimal bumping. Nice tight binding and clean pages. AB24

Utah: Gibbs M Smith, 1984. First edition. Very Good/very good. This is a work of double affection, for the novelist D H Lawrence and for Oaxaca, the small Mexican City where Lawrence spent the winter of 1924-25. A superb piece of investigative reporting. Maroon boards with writing to spine and front cover in blue. Minor bumping and shelfwear. Dj mylar covered and some bumping to corners. First Edition AB59

London: Hamlyn, 1969. second impression. Very Good/very good. A very interesting book on all the different mythologies, art and folklore of Africa with all its diversities. Brown boards with gold writing to spine and gilt illustration on front cover. Dj minor shelfwear. This is a large book so the p&p will be adjusted accordingly. First Edition AB27

Shrewsbury: Quiller, 2009. Paperback. Very Good. A tribute to a group of men and women who do and bear much on our behalf, and to a charity that has achieved so much in nurturing and developing the connection between them and the society from which they spring and which they serve. Minor shelf wear. Very tight binding and clean pages. AB28

London: Michael Joseph, 1971. Very Good/good. This is a biography of this famous hungarian by his wife, a very candid memoir. It also contains unpublished shaw/pascal correspondence. Brown boards with gold writing to spine, some bumping to corners. Dj shelf wear and slight bumping.Nice tight binding and clean pages. First Edition AB26

Paris: Bibliotheque des Arts, 1970. First edition. Very Good +. Large book; posted to be adjustedbeige cloth boards with writing to spine. minor bumping. dj not price clipped, but rubbed and bumped and a little dirty.bottom edge of pages dented.all individual plates. AB72

London: Bloomsbury, 2007. Near Fine/near fine. The story of an ordinary mans extraordinary life.In vivd detail he describes daily life in the trenches the terror of being under intense artillery fire and going over the top. Maroon boards with writing to spine.Dj not price clipped. Tight binding and clean pages. First Edition AB65

London: faber and faber, 2009. First published. Fine/fine. trotsky was the charismatic intellectual of the russian revolution and a brilliant writer and orator, but then by the time of the second world war he was a powerless exile in Mexico. This book reconstructs a famous state crime and offers a panoramic view of trotskys life and of russia in revolution. red boards with writing to spine, some bumping to top and bottom of spine.Nice tight binding and clean pages. Dj slight shelf wear. A heavy book so paost and packing may be adjusted accordingly. First Edition AB60

London: Sampson Low Marston and Company, 1905. Hardback. Very good. details of how we got our translations of the bible, using sources, manuscripts and versions. It studies Wycliffes,Tyndales versions. Salmon coloured boards with writing to spine and front and back. Some bumping to corners and shelf wear. nice tight binding and clean pages although some yellowing and foxing. owner inscribed. AB80

London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1890. Very Good. An impartial history of facts relating to study of the bible. Brown boards with gold writing to spine and cover. Bumping to corners. Some marks on cover. Inside is an owner list of people, nurses and army personnel.Also some pencil markings throughout. Nice tight binding. AB23

Niarobi: Heinemann, 1976. First edition. Fine/good. An eventful history ofthe building and expansion of the railways and harbours in East Africa published in a single photographic volume. The East African Railways has a fine collection of locomotives that are a tribute to the companies that built them and the men who maintain them. Some creasing to edges of dj, tight binding, shelf use. foreword by David Shepherd. Black and White photographs. maps. First Edition AB19

Octopus Books, 1973. First UK edition. Very Good +/very good +. The image makers is a rare and imaginative look at the flesh and fantasy of Hollywood. This is a magnificent collection of glamour portraits taken by Hollywood's finest still photographers. First Edition AB2

Dorset: The Oakwood Press, 1979. Paperback. Very Good. A history of the line in Hampshire. Blue and White cover, slight rubbing and wear. Nice tight binding and clean pages. AB15

London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. First Published. Very Good/very good. Octavio Paz is one of the leading poets of Latin America. This is a volume of his poetry and a selection of his work written over a period of fifteen years. He was Mexican Ambassador to India in 1968 and was asked to send a poem to the cultural committee of the olympic games just after a student demonstration in Mexico city had beenbroken up by the police and many students were killed. In answer he resigned from his embassy and sent a poem of protest to the committee. brown boards with writing to the spine. Nice tight binding. Dj mylar covered. Minor shelf wear. Some foxing to the back inside cover. Not price clipped. First Edition AB57