Search Results: Authors starting with Q from CHARLES BOSSOM

Patrick Stephens Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1989. Hard Cover. 23.4 x 20.6 x 3.8 cm 0850599229 Dust jacket unclipped rubbed to top edge. Black cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Illustrations, photographs. 400 pages. No ownership marks. Clean and tight. From the Kaiser's army during the First World War to the 12 divisions of the modern Bundeswehr which stand in NATO's front line, this book examines practically every aspect of German army organization and equipment from 1900 to the present day. Never before has so much detail on the subject been presented within the covers of a single book, much of it otherwise unavailable except in German. The author describes the growth of German militarism from the Austro-Prussian War which brought unification to the country and the inevitable drift towards a major European war which was finally sparked off by the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. There is a chronology of the major events of the First World… Read More

London: Studio Vista. Very Good/Good. 1971. Hard Cover. 4to 0289701252 Dust jacket unclipped, closed tears, a little loss. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine, a little rubbed to edges. No ownership marks. Numerous colour annd b/w illustrations. 144 pages clean and tight. Product Dimensions: 30 x 22.4 x 2.8 cm. This is the first general work to be published which considers the entire history of English literature from the viewpoint of the book-collector, which is all the more surprising in that, although many homes do not possess antiques or objets d'art, almost every one contains books. People are becoming more aware of the interest and profit to be gained from old books, and the author has received a great number of inquiries from people who have discovered or rediscovered boxes of old volumes in their attics. The major auction houses regularly present book sales, and prices have risen dramatically; yet it is still possible for the poorest amateur to build a… Read More

Buckingham Palace, London,: The Queen's Gallery,. Very Good/Very Good. 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket complete, unclipped, some slight fading to dj.. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks.Numerous illustrations. 141 pages clean and tight. .

London: Horace Marshall & Son. Good. 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Original cloth, dark green cloth spinewith bright gilt titling. Covers a bit grubby and rubbed to edges. Previous owner's neat inscription on f. paste down Light foxing to end papers. 200 pages clean and tight. .

London: Thames and Hudson. Very Good/Very Good. 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8.5" By 10.25" Tall Dust jacket unclipped with very slight shelfwear to corners. Brown cloth with gold emblem of two dolphins to front and gold titles to spine. Slight shelfwear to corners. No inscriptins. 320 colour photographs and a map. 192 pages, clean brigth and tightly bound. .

Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton. Very Good/Very Good. 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Lge 8vo 0750906081 Dust jacket complete except price clipped. Black cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Colour & b/w Illustrations / Photographs. No ownership inscription. x, 182 pages clean and tight. Canal Walks of England and Wales provides a fascinating collection of walks along some of our most varied and interesting canals. Ranging from 2 miles to nearly 15 miles in length, the walks are readily accessible to everyone, from the hardened long-distance path walker to the afternoon stroller, the disabled and the very young. In all, nearly 90 walks are described: from the waterways that served central Birmingham, the route across the magnificent Pont Cysyllte aqueduct in the Vale of Llangollen and the recently opened 'green finger' of the Basingstoke Canal to the towpaths that cross the Pennine Hills and the peaceful pathways of rural Yorkshire. Each walk includes OS… Read More

Palgrave MacMillan. Very Good/Very Good. 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0333764595 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks.245 pages clean and tight.This definitive volume will alter our understanding of the literature of World War I. New critical approaches have, over the last two decades, redefined the term "war literature" and its cultural legacy. Consisting, in equal measure, of essays by male and female scholars (from several different countries), and devoted to both familiar and lesser-known works, this book presents the many faces of Great War literary study at the millennium. .

Aurum Press. Very Good/Very Good. 2002. First Edition, First Impression. Hard Cover. 185410862X Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Numerous photographs and illustrations. 192 pages clean and tight. This follow-up to "Tales of the Old Railwaymen" features ten more railwaymen - all in their eighties or even nineties - looking back on a lifetime working on the railways, with a wealth of tales. These are memories of a long-lost era before World War II, when you could still follow quaint professions like under-shunter, wielding your 7-foot-long wooden shunting pole, or French polisher - lovingly polishing the wood-veneered interiors of Great Western Railway carriages - and when railway clerks stood in rows at sloping wooden desks appending "Your humble, obedient servant" in quill-pen to the bottom of every company letter. Here are stories of the Midland and Great Northern Railway - known to its… Read More

David & Charles. Very Good/Very Good. 1998. Hard Cover. Sm 4to. Dimensions: 26.4 x 19.8 x 2 cm 0715305441 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks.Numerous photographs some in colour. 192 pages clean and tight. Steam trains hold a nostalgic appeal for a great many people. This collection of tales recounts the experiences of those who worked on the railway. Memories of engine drivers and firemen are included as well as the crucial men behind the scenes. .

Newton Abbot, Devon, UK: David & Charles. Very Good/Very Good. 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to 0715303473 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. Numerous Colour & b/w Illustrations. 192 pages clean and tight. .

UK: David & Charles. Very Good/Very Good. 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to 0715303473 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks.Numerous colour & b/w illustrations. 192 pages clean and tight. A celebration of all that is quirky about the way the British live, told through the words of a range of living eccentrics and some examples from the past. Figures include the former nun who now collects Lego sets, the car salesman who races lawnmowers and the inventor who rides a penny farthing. .

London: The Boy Scouts Association. Very Good. 1956. Soft Cover. 16mo 34 pages, b/w illustrations.. SMALL STAPLED BOOKLET. Neat name on reverse of cover. .