Search Results: Authors starting with S from Keel Row Books

Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2007, 2007. Hard Cover. Octavo, pp. xiv, 608. 7 maps, of which 1 double-page; 55 monochrome figures throughout text. Publishers' black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Clean and bright, with no annotation or inscriptions; dust-jacket very slightly surface scuffed to rear. The primary reference work on the subject. Second volume of the two-volume set, reflecting modern archaeological discoveries and fresh textual analysis; covers the period up to the sixth century empire of Justinian and his successors. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

Morpeth; Published on behalf of Morpeth Golf Club by Bridge Studios, 2006., 2006. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo, pp. [6], iv, 156. Numerous monochrome illustrations throughout. Publishers' maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, and club emblem to upper board, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A neat, attractive copy. Ex-library book with label removal marks to jacket at tail of spine and ffep and a single neat "Withdrawn" stamp facing title page; A hint of creasing to top edge of jacket. Centenary history of the Northumberland club, with lists of officials and trophy winners. Scarce.

London; Institution of Civil Engineers, 1934., 1934. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp 26. Large fold-out plate plus figure in text. Thick green paper-covered boards, with black titles to upper board. Covers lightly surface soiled with very minor loss to bumped upper corners and to spine tips. Stamp of the North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders to ffep; no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Updated lecture from Saner's delivery in 1912-13, following interesting engineering developments.

London; Macmillan, 2006., 2006. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo pp [6], 1-536, [1]. Publishers' tan cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Minor creasing to cover cloth at spine tips; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket faintly spine sunned. A Near Fine copy in like jacket. Sansom's haunting tale of espionage and adventure, set in Spain after the Civil War.

London; MacMillan, 2004., 2004. Hardcover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo, pp.503. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Map endpapers. Spine tips a little rubbed; slight foxing to fore-edge otherwise clean and bright and flat-signed by the Author to title page. Jacket slightly creased to edge. A very good cpoy in like jacket. The second story in the acclaimed Shardlake mystery series set in the reign of Henry VIII.

London; Hogarth Press, 1956., 1956. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 255, [1]. Publishers' bright tangerine cloth with gilt titles to spine, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Charles Mozley. Corners and spine tips very slightly bruised and textblock edge lightly foxed, otherwise a clean bright copy, with no annotation or inscriptions, Jacket a little nicked & creased to edge with very minor loss at spine tips. A Very Good copy in like jacket. 15 short stories including the title tale, featuring "a middle-aged bachelor who finds himself saddled with six Beauty Queens" (from jacket front flap). Obviously a fate worse than death...

London; William Heinemann, 1920., 1920. Hard Cover. New Impression (just 3 months after the First Edition). 16mo, pp. 95, [1]. Publishers' scarlet cloth with printed paper title labels to spine and upper board in unclipped orange dust-jacket. Spine lightly sunned and rubbed at tips; cloth and labels clean and bright. Endpapers a little toned, with "To love is to understand 28.8.20" boldly inscribed in year of publication to ffep. Minor foxing to uncut foredge otherwise contents clean. Jacket sunned, particularly to spine, with a few small nicks & creases, and minor loss at spine tips and corners. A Very Good copy in like jacket. Ann edition of 1,000 copies only containing 64 of Sassoon's Great War poems, 12 of which published here for the first time and the others selected from two previous volumes. Scarce in this condition, particularly so in the rare dust-jacket. Sassoon's realistic and compassionate poems about the experience of war established his reputation as one of the foremost poets of his… Read More

London; Walter E Skinner, 1933., 1933. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. 30 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Original limp red cloth with black titles, a little worn to corners. Minor rusting to staples otherwise a very clean copy. No inscriptions. Retains the more important folding Witwatersrand Goldfields property map drawn by A J Cleveley to rear pocket but lacks the geological sketch map. Very scarce publication of interest to historians of the Transvaal region.

Newcastle Upon Tyne; University of Newcastle Upon Tyne School of Education, 1970., 1970. Softcover. Printed card wallet containing facsimile documents - an archive teaching pack for students of the subject. Number 5 in the series. 28 Documents (complete) plus Introduction and Handbook pamphlets. Condition: Very Good. Scarce.

London; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008., 2008. Hard Cover. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, No 167 of a LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies only. Octavo. [10], 184 pp. Illustrations in text. Book Condition: Fine. Slipcase Condition: Fine. Laminated pictorial hardcover with simulated bite to top edge, housed in red slipcase with silver titles and footprint motifs. A very clean copy indeed which appears unread. Flatsigned by the Author to limitation leaf. An excellent example of the allegorical novel written from the perspective of an urban literary rat.

London; George Newnes Limited, 1951., 1951. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 248. Eight full page illustrations and vignette to title page by Bertram Prance. Publishers' grey cloth with maroon titles to spine and upper board and map endpapers by David Morton, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth lightly surface soiled, with minor wear at head of spine and corners very slightly bruised. Red top edge lightly sunned otherwise contents clean and bright, with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket nicked and creased with loss at head of spine (approx 2cm x 1cm max) and minor loss at tail of spine. A very good copy in like jacket. Sixth title in the popular Lone Pine series. Scarce title, especially in the equally elusive jacket.

Haslemere; Jade Publishers, 1990., 1990. Softcover. Reprint. 189 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Pictorial card wraps, lightly sunned and creased to spine with minor shelfwear to edges. Name & address handwritten inside front cover otherwise very clean internally. Scarce.

Newton Abbot; David & Charles, 1973., 1973. Hard Cover. Revised Edition. Quarto, pp 238. Illustrated throughout including frontispiece of the Patrick Henry on trials in 1941, and diagrams and sections. Publishers' navy blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A clean,tight copy; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket very lightly toned to rear white panel, with a little minor creasing to edge. Overall a Very Good copy in like jacket. Comprehensive history of the quickly built wartime cargo ships, brought up-to-date accounting for losses, changes of ownership etc since the first publication in 1970.

London; Thames and Hudson, 1969., 1969. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 238. 49 monochrome photographs to plates, plus 17 figures within text. Publishers' red cloth with gilt titles to spine and publishers' gilt dolphin motif to upper board, in unclipped purple-and-white dust-jacket. Clean and crisp with no annotation or inscriptions. A Near Fine copy in like jacket. Aspects of Greek and Roman Life series. The first study of the subject to be published in English in nearly half a century, this study shows how the Romans adapted and used Greek knowledge, with chapters on practice in the Roman Army and the effectiveness of the cures.

Nuremberg; Anton Koberger, 1493., 1493. Original Nuremberg Chronicle leaf from the first (Latin) edition printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg, 1493. Folio (approx 15x12 inches) ; printed in 63 lines in gothic letter. Recto and verso decorated with several original woodcut illustrations of martyrs and saints. Minor worming to margin and light corner creasing, else fresh and clean. A very good example from the most noted book of the 15th century. The woodcut illustrations for this edition were executed by Michael Wolgemut, Willhelm Pleydemwurff and their workshop; Albrecht Durer, Koberger's godson, was apprenticed to Michael Wolgemut between 1486 and 1489 and it has been suggested by some scholars that he worked on the designs. The Latin edition appeared five months prior to a simultaneously planned edition in German.

London; Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1920., 1920. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Association copy. Quarto, pp. xiv, 376. Portrait frontispiece of the Author, and 28 plans, of which 2 fold-out. Original blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and titles with imperial eagle in black to upper board. Cover cloth rubbed to edge with very minor wear to corners and spine tips. From the library of Col Lancelot Robson of West Hartlepool, with his ownership inscription and address to front paste-down. Some toning to leaves, and foxing mainly to text-block edge and endpapers. A Very Good copy. Autobiographical work on the war at sea from the German perspective. Col Robson, the original owner of this volume, was the commander of the battery at Hartlepool during its bombardment by the German fleet on December 16th 1914; this was the first time that British civilians were in the line of enemy fire. The colonel was awarded the DSO for his actions, and made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George;… Read More

California; R James Bender Publishing, 1977., 1977. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. 180 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Pictorial cloth binding, surface scuffed, rubbed to edges and a little shaken. Internally very clean with no annotation or inscriptions. Bilingual German and English text with numerous archive portraits. Biographies and records of the 400 Knights Cross holders of the SS and Police. Scarce.

London; Constable, 1928., 1928. Hard Cover. FIRST BRITISH EDITION, limited to 1000 copies only. Vignette to title page, 8 plates and 14 illustrations within text by Donia Nachshen. White quarter paper parchment with paper-covered boards with an orange check design, repeated top edge of text-block. Spine lightly toned, scattered light foxing almost exclusively to text-block edge, otherwise contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Also published as "Dream Story", "Rhapsody" was later adapted for film by Stanley Kubrick under the title "Eyes Wide Shut". Schnitzler, the Austrian author and dramatist (1862-1931), was a controversial writer whose frank depictions of sexuality and strong stance against anti-semitism led to his works often being consigned to the flames in later Nazi book burning episodes. Illustrator Donia Naschen was a Ukrainian-born British artist who designed posters for the British war effort in the 1940s. Scarce.

California; Flesk Publications, 2005., 2005. Hard Cover. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto, pp. 47. Pencil & ink illustrations throughout. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and black motif to upper board in an unclipped, pictorial jacket; black endpapers. SIGNED and numbered 246 out of 500 copies. Very slight rubbing to corners and spine tips; dust-jacket shows areas of light sunning, mainly to spine, and unobtrusive scuffs to surface. Overall a very clean, neat copy with no annotations or inscriptions; Near Fine in a very good jacket. SIGNED and numbered, deluxe edition of Volume one of Schultz's collection of drawings which shows the evolution of his iconic illustrations, from conception to finished drawing.

Tubingen; Laupp'schen Buchhandlung, 1871., 1871. Hardcover. Octavo. Viii, 142 pp. 4 plates to rear. Book Condition: Very Good. Original textured cloth with gilt titles. Small repair to rear joint. Corners worn; remains of paper label to spine. Ex-library copy (Wellcome Institute) with the usual stamps but no pockets. Scarce.