Search Results: Authors starting with P from Hessay Books

Milford, 1918. 2nd edition. 144pp, brown cloth boards with centre inset illustration. Colour frontispiece and sepia illustrations. Internally clean. A biography of the missionary to Uganda in the late nineteenth century.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Ernest Prater.

Cassell, 1928. 215pp, grey cloth covered boards, rubbed to edges. Sunday School prize label. Colour frontispiece illustration has been re-attached with tape, one of the b + w illustrations missing, otherwise inrternally clean. School adventure for girls.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Elizabeth Earnshaw.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987. 195pp, softback covers with a photograph of Hardy. Internally very clean and tight. Hardy's life and career, and studies of the major and minor novels, short stories and poems.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

T Werner Laurie Ltd, 1930. Second impression of the first edition, with an Introduction by Alfed Noyes. 754pp, orange boards with a very little wear to the ends of the spine. Frontispiece photograph of the author. Original owner's bookplate to the flyleaf, a couple of light spots of foxing to the foredge, otherwise internally clean. 10 short stories, including 'Eliza'.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library.

T Werner Laurie Ltd, 1111. 1920s? 'Shilling Reprint'. Page edges browning with age, loss to one margin. Plain boards with a portion of loss to the top of the spine. B + w illustrations.Bookseller's stamp, no flyleaf. A charlady speaks. Rare.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Nelson, 1965. Colour illustrated boards, a little rubbed to edges. Colour and b + w photographs of parrots. School ownership stamp to title page, otherwise clean. Part of the 'See How They Grow' series , for children.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Collyan.

Nelson, 1965. Colour illustrated boards, a little rubbed to edges. Colour and b + w photographs of tits. School ownership stamp to title page, a couple of child paw marks to margins, otherwise clean. Part of the 'See How They Grow' series , for children.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Guy Dhuit.

Nelson, 1964. Colour illustrated boards. Colour and b + w photographs of guinea pigs. School ownership stamp to title page, otherwise clean. Part of the 'See How They Grow' series, for children.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Antoinette Barrere.

Nelson, 1964. Colour illustrated boards. Colour and b + w photographs of tortoises. School ownership stamp to title page, otherwise clean. Part of the 'See How They Grow' series, for children.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Antoinette Barrere.

Nelson, 1966. Colour illustrated boards. Colour and b + w photographs of doves. School ownership stamp to title page, otherwise clean. Part of the 'See How They Grow' series , for children.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Antoinette Barrere.

Nelson, 1966. Colour illustrated boards. Colour and b + w photographs of pigs. School ownership stamp to title page, otherwise clean. Part of the 'See How They Grow' series , for children.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Guy Dhuit.

Dent, 1971. Everyman edition 345pp, including Index. Illustrated softback covers. A few light spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean and tight. The most famous English poetry anthology, first published in 1906... Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Bracken Books, 1989. Facsmile edition of the first edition of 1876. 332pp, the paper browning a little with age. Complete dustjacket, a little wrinkled to the edges. 48 b + w illustrations. A clean copy. The history of England from the last days of the Romans to the Norman invasion and the slow and gradual process of becoming one kingdom.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Methuen, 1995. 2nd reprint. 280 pp, complete dustjacket. A very clean copy. The first novel by Monty Python's Michael Palin.. Hard Cover. As New/Fine.

Cape, 1995. 190pp, complete dustjacket. Ex library, evidenced only by stamp on flyleaf and title page, no label or pocket and otherwise internally clean. Gregory Swift is haunted by the Blitz on London.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. Ex-Library.

Hertfordshire Record Society, 1985. 216pp, complete dustjacket. Frontispiece illustration. A couple of marks to the foredge, otherwise internally very clean. The churchwardens' accounts, mainly post Reformation, for money spent on the church or on charity etc, for the parishes of Ashwell, Baldock, Knebworth. Saint Peters, Stevenage and partly for Barkworth, with an Introduction and Notes etc.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine.

Silhouette Special Edition, 2000. 1st UK edition. 249pp, illustrated softback covers. A very clean, tight copy. He was rich, powerful - and tempted by his new employee.. Mass Market Paperback. Fine.

Hamlyn, 1983. 2nd impression of 1st edition. 256pp, laminated illustrated boards. B + w illustrations. A clean copy. 27 scary stories.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Ivan Lapper.

Skeffington, 1946. 4th edition. 112pp, complete dustjacket with a couple of closed tears. 15 b + w photographs by Messrs Abraham of Keswick. Internally very clean. Secret tracks, lakeland ghosts etc.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Secker & Warburg, 1959. 1st edition. 288pp, complete dustjacket, a little rubbed to the corners. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, sellotape offet marks to the inner boards, one small mark to the foredge, otherwise internally clean - a good 'reading copy'. In solitary confinement, the author traces the story of his life, growning up in the Humgarian Calvinsit nobility, life under Communism and work as a journalist, work for SOE in the War. life in jail, the big 'purge' trials etc.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good.