Search Results: Authors starting with S from Northgate Books

Cambridge University Press Cambridge (reprint of 1928 edition with corrections), 1954. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Bound in maroon cloth, front board has gold embossed piccture of a she-wolf, gilded top edge, with DW, 14 pull-out maps, 6 pull-out tables, 987pp G to VG / G. Ex-library but with new endpapers

Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1954. 2nd. Imp. . Cloth. Very Good/G to Vg. Bound in raspberry coloured canvas-style cloth, with clipped protected dw, front board has a gold illustration, 13 pull-out maps,table of Legions and Commanders in the Second Punic War,3 pull-out plans, i table of Hellenic Dynasties, charts of the Spartocid and Attalid dynasties, 2 pull-out genealogical charts and 2 pull-out chronological charts, 840pp. Ex-library but with new endpapers.

SAGE Publications London (2nd ed), 1996. Softback, 273pp VG

Oxford: Clarendon House, 1917. Cloth. G to Vg. Bound in pale green cloth, no dw, 54 tables, 144pp. A report of the Institute for Research in Agricultural Economics.

London: John Murray, 1947. Cheap Edition, 5th,Imp . Cloth. Very Good/G to Vg. Bound in pale yellow cloth,with unclipped dw, front board has a picturein green of a man with a camel,frontis, 2page map, 6 b/w sketches, 290pp.

London: Readers Union / Jonathan Cape, 1957. Decorative Cloth . Very Good/No Jacket. Richard Albany. Professionally rebound in maroon cloth and hand-made marble paper, black leather label titled in gold, 32 plates, 55 in-text line drawings by Richard Albany, 437pp + 13pp index

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1979. Third Edition, 3rd, Imp. . Softback. G to Vg. Softback, 372pp.

Port Elizabeth: The Mohair Board, 1988. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Bound in cream coloured cloth, no DW, illustration of mohair sheep (in brown) on front board, frontis, 2 maps and 54 b/w illustrations, 168pp. Signed by author.

David and Charles Newton Abbot, 1972. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Bound in green cloth, with DW, 15 plates, 5 maps in text, 280pp VG / VG

London: Victor Gollancz, 1933. 2nd. Imp. Decorative Binding . Half Cloth . Very Good. Professionally rebound in navy blue cloth and hamd-made marble paper (shapes and colours give an impression of black rock, white snow and pale blue ice), black leather label, b/w frontis photograph, " Kamet - The Last Few Feet ", 58 b/w photographs, 2 b/w maps and a folding map at end of book in brown and blue, " Trace Showing Route of Expedition to Kamet in 1920 ", 420pp. The book relates the story of the Kamet Expedition in 1931, the first time one of the 70 peaks over 25,000 ft. had been conquered. At the time most of these peaks were inaccessable as they were in either Tibet or Nepal, countries which did not admit climbers. Condition of the binding is "new", condition of text is vg.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1919. Cloth. Good. Bound in green cloth, no dw, 352pp. The book concentrates on the chief centres of civilization in the Western World and examines the growth of humanity. The titles of some of the chapters reflect the book's study of the development of science and and its reactions on the other sides of national life, For example, " The Birth of Socialism ", " Mechanical Science and Invention ", " Biology and Evolution ", " Nationality and Imperialism " and " Schools for All". A little bubbling on boards (5%). Text is good and binding sound.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1940. First Edition . Cloth. G to Vg. A unique copy of this book, professionally bound in light blue cloth and hand-made marble paper (fine comb design in pale blue-greys of different shades, blue, ginger and white), hand tooled black leather label, Frontis (b/w) shows an ice cliffon the Brenva route. 23 other b/w photographic plates, map of the route taken over Mont Blanc, 299pp. Condition of binding is "new", condition of text and illustrations is g to vg.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1941. 2nd. Edition . Cloth. Good/Good. Bound in oatmeal coloured cloth, with dw. frontis and 3 other b/w plates, 229pp. Brown spots on both outside and inside of front board (only). Dw is clipped

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1946. First Edition of this publisher. . Cloth. Very Good. A unique copy of this interesting and beautifully illustrated book, Professionally rebound in navy blue cloth and hand made marble paper ( design with grey/blue and maroon detail ). Frontis plate, " An Outpost of the Forest ", 35 b/w plates (photographs by the author), 308pp. Condition of the binding is "new", condition of the text and illustrations is vg.

London: Methodist New Connection, 1883. Cloth. Good. Bouund in blue cloth with a lamp design in gold on the front cover, yellow endpapers, 144pp. Book has been resewn and replaced in its original binding but with replacement endpapers.

London: Ebury Press, 1974. Good/Good. Bound in blue cloth, 31 coloured illustrations, additional b/w diagrams in-text, 175pp. Ex-library but with new endpapers

New York: Park-Bernet Galleries, 1955. Softback. G to Vg. Softback catalogue to exhibition and sale, b/w frontis portrait of Henry Borneman, 32 b/w plates, 212pp.

Virtue, Spalding and Co London, 1875. Hardcover. Bound in pictorial green cloth, recently rebacked in matching cloht, new endpapers, 93 illustrations on wood from drawings by Alfred Rimmer, 174pp Good. Very faint foxing. Cloth wearing thin at corners of boards

Prague: Nakladatelstvi Politicke Literatury, 1965. Cloth. Very Good/G to Vg. Bound in white cloth, titled on spine and front board in black and red, with unclipped dw, two panoramic views on each set of endpapers, b/w frontis photograph showing a crowd of children releasing a cloud of balloons in a city square, 136 full page b/w photographs of life in Czechoslovakia and views of its countryside, villages and cities. Index for photographs is in Czech, Russian and English. DW has been repaired.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1857. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Bound in very dark blue/green cloth. Boards have a blind embossed frame design. Vol 1, 12 illustrations, 342pp; Vol 2, 8 illustrations, 367pp. Ex library but with new endpapers