Search Results: Authors starting with U from CHARLES BOSSOM

Greenhill Books. Very Good/Very Good. 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 3.2 x 17.1 x 24.8 Cm 1853672327 Dust jacket complete. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Maps, illustrations, plates. 360 pages clean and tight. A history of Waterloo and the 1815 campaign, which provides historical details of the fighting drawing on eye-witness testimonies recorded at the time. Also examines the battlefield of Wavre, the French retreat, and rearguard fighting at Namur. .

London: H. Grevel & Co.. Very Good/No DJ. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo No publishing date. Circa 1908-9. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt titling, slight fade to spine. No ownership inscription. [8]. 111pp. map & 30 line drawings by M. Ressel. Clean and tight. .

London: Barrie and Jenkins. Very Good/Very Good. 1990. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 0712634371 Dust jacket complete, unclipped in a clear protective sleeve. Illustrated cloth cover, bright titles. Illustrated end papers. Colour & b/w Illustrations. 200 pages clean and tight. In the twelfth century in towns all over Europe a radical transformation took place in the lives and status of women. Any woman who could escape to a town and remain there for a year and a day was granted freedom from her bonds with a feudal landlord: Town councils, concerned to develop trade and manufacture, tended to extend that freedom, and women began to take their place in business, banking and local politics. The subordinate status of women in the feudal scheme of things, under which they lacked virtually all personal rights and were often oppressed by tyrannical husbands or fathers, was transformed in the towns and contributed to the rise of a new urban middle class. Our perceptions of the… Read More

London: Humphrey - Milford Oxford University Press. Good +. 1931. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Blue cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. Small nick to top of spine, slide fade. Lower corners bumped. Bibliography, indexed, 356 pages clean and tight. "PREFACE. THIS work has been planned to meet the need for a book, written in easy language, which shall deal with the whole of French painting from the earliest times to the present day. All technical terms have been excluded where possible and explained where not. I have tried to describe, in few and simple words, what French painting stands for, the main characteristics of the chief painters, and the aims of the 'schools' with which they are associated. Sainte-Beuve believed that, to understand the work of an artist, it was necessary 'to follow him as far as possible into his home, and to study his everyday domestic habits'. With this in view, in the case of more important painters I have told the story of their… Read More

USA: Control Data . Very Good/Good. 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 0898935059 Dust jacket repaired tears, price clipped. Black cloth with bright titling on spine. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. 124 pages clean and tight. No other family of musical instruments has such a vast and varied repertoire as the keyboards or holds such universal appeal. This is due in part to the fact that they offer something to everyone: beginning student, virtuoso, and listener alike. They are equally suited to the performance of Bach chorales. Strauss waltzes, honky-tonk blues, hymns, and the most contemporary compositions. In Keyboard Instruments, Clive Unger-Hamilton explores the world of keyboards in depth and detail. He first analyses the three families of keyboard instruments - struck, plucked, and blown. He then explores five centuries of music written especially for keyboards. Finally, he lists the hundred most significant performers, from Oscar Peterson to Artur Rubinstein,… Read More

Oxford: Phaidon Press Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to 0714821772 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright titling on spine. No ownership marks.128 pages clean and tight. 128 pages (32 in full colour, 96 in two colours) 150 illustrations. Though threatened by video machines and expensive stereo equipment, the piano remains the most popular piece of musical furniture in the Western World. KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS is for all those who gave up too soon and regretted it; those who never started and wished they had; and those who discovered keyboard music through concerts or recordings and would like to know more. The book is divided into three parts: The Instruments, The Music and The Performers. Part I, a largely visual section, analyses the three families of keyboard instruments, plucked, struck and blown. Part II covers the repertoire of the instruments over 500 years, in eleven detailed essays, such as 'The English… Read More

Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons. Good. 1884. Hard Cover. 8vo Ex Middlesbrough Library Book. .

Viking. Very Good/Very Good. 1998. Hard Cover. 8vo 0670878626 Dust jaket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Illustrated end papers.+224 pages clean and tight. The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisioned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language. .

London: Anthony Blond. Good/Good. 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. Lge 8vo Dust jacket wear to edges, unclipped, repairs. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Photographs. xii, 831 pages clean and tight. When he jumped from the Orizaba into the Caribbean, a suicide at thirty-two, Hart Crane had acquired a brief, notoriety for week-long binges and homosexual adventures, but many of his contemporaries were inclined to dismiss his poems - particularly The Bridge - as magnificent failures. In the years since his death, Crane's place in American literature has been reconsidered, and Professor Unterecker's monumental biography, the product of ten years of research and interviews, bears out a more recent critical verdict, of R. W. B. Lewis, that "Hart Crane is one of the finest modern poets in our language, and one of the dozen-odd major poets in American history." .In addition to the personal recollections of Crane's… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz. Good. 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. 6.25" By 8.75" Tall Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Cover rubbed. Wear to extremities. Fine woodcuts. 300 pages clean and tight. .

London: Hamish Hamilton. Very Good/Good. 1992. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 371pp. Dust jacket is in a sleeve protector but has two closed tears. .

London: Hamish Hamilton. Very Good/Very Good. 2000. First Edition, First Impression. Hard Cover. 8vo 0241140978 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Maroon cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 212 pages clean and tight. .

London: Pinchin Johnson & Co Ltd. Very Good. 1937. Hard Cover. 8vo 10 plates in very good condition. .

London: Faber & Faber. Good/Very Good. 2003. Hard Cover. 8vo 0571216803 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine, slightly cocked. Evidence of a label being removed from ffep. No ownership marks. Colour illustrations on plates. 352 pages clean and tight. Slight darkening to page edges. Neatly written list of other books written onto to free end paper. As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting, thieving and raping their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their targets, to take cover when being shot at, to move tactically by fire and manoeuvre. And by the end of a six-year campaign they have not only proved themselves the toughest fighters in the army, they have also - at huge personal cost - created the modern notion of the infantryman. .

London: Faber & Faber. Very Good/Very Good. 2003. Hard Cover. 8vo 0571216803 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Slight bump. No ownership marks. Colour illustrations on plates. 352 pages clean and tight. Slight darkening to page edges.As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting, thieving and raping their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their targets, to take cover when being shot at, to move tactically by fire and manoeuvre. And by the end of a six-year campaign they have not only proved themselves the toughest fighters in the army, they have also - at huge personal cost - created the modern notion of the infantryman. .

London: John Lane The Bodley Head. Very Good. 1933. New Edition. Hard Cover. 6.25" By 9.5" XXI,499 and xiv,730 pages. Spines faded. Slight shelf wear to extremities. Bright gilt to front cover. Some marks on covers. Some mild foxing but generally clean. Tight binding. .

London: Apple Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1995. Reprint. Hard Cover. 8vo 1850764999 .

London: Faber & Faber Limited. Good. Fourth Impression. Hard Cover. 5.5 By 8" Tall Red cloth with blue illustration of the four pigs to the front and blue titles to the spine. Slight rubbing to corners and edges. No inscriptions. Black and white illustrations by Alec Buckels. 128 pages, clean and tightly bound. .

London: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1988. Second Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0001942638 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Illustrated boards. Illustrated end papers. 48 pages clean and tight. .