Search Results: Authors starting with V from CHARLES BOSSOM

London: The Garden Book Club. Very Good/Good. 1960. First Thus. Hard Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Dust jacket, darkened spine, foxing, unclipped price on flap. Green cloth covered boards with black titling on spine. No ownership inscription. viii, 142 pages, 24 photographs and 14 line drawings, clean and tight. From the dust jacket flap. "Gardens are more than places in which to grow plants. A plot of grass and a few borders do not make a garden of character. It is the extra touch, the added features, the design, which makes it different, individual, a place to be appreciated, explored and enjoyed. You may feel you do not possess an eye for design in the garden. This is a 'do-it-yourself' book. With the spice of features the garden becomes a place of beauty and interest. The cost can be negligible - the old stone sink, the stonemason's 'junk' the basis of an arch or a sundial, any old stones and bricks. Even a 'pocket… Read More

The Company . Very Good/Very Good. 1987. Hard Cover. 4to Dust jacket complete. 80 pages clean and tight. This history was originally published in 1962 to mark the 75th anniversary of The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company. It has now been updated and extended to celebrate the Company's 1987 Centennial. I can think of no better or more fitting means of conveying to all of the Company's management and staff, whether they are in the field or at Head Office, just how important people have been - and will continue to be - in the success of The Manufacturers wherever it operates. Any company that strives for lasting greatness, as The Manufacturers consistently does, cannot afford to deny due credit to its most vital resources. This history is therefore dedicated to the men and women, past and present, who in whatever manner or degree have contributed to the growth and success of The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company over the past one hundred years, and who will continue to… Read More

Torino, Italy: Carlo Clausen - Hans Rinck Succ.. Good/No DJ. 1907. Hard Cover. 4.5" By 6.5" Tall Seconda Edizone Italiana. Pictorial brown cloth, rubbed to edges, bumped. Green decorated end papers.Previous owner's inscription on half title. xxxvi,199 pages clean and tight. .

New York: Book Of The Month. Very Good/Very Good. 1994. Hard Cover. 6.5" By 9.5" Tall. Dust jacket complete. Brown cloth spine over boards. Bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 467 pages clean and tight. 0. Henry was in his lifetime-and possibly has been since his death-the most widely read writer in America. Like William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, he has been honored by having a prestigious literary award-the 0. Henry Short Story Prize-named after him. But his very popularity has often worked against him in assigning him a place in the pantheon of American literature. This collection brings together a considerable selection of the work that won 0. Henry his millions of readers and also seeks to extend the limits of what we think of when we say the words "an 0. Henry story." For 0. Henry has perennial freshness: there's the voice, which is as smart and funny as a Damon Runyon story. There are the characters: the plucky shopgirls and… Read More

London: Folio Society. Very Good. 1975. Hard Cover. 8vo Very good slipcase. Beige pictorial cloth with black titling on spine. 239 pages. Engravings by George Cruickshank. Clean and tight. .

London: Folio Society Edition. Very Good/No Slip Case. 1965. Second Impression. Hard Cover. 8vo Original cloth boards with gilt titling and decoration. A few marks. Decorated end papers. A few light spots to prelims. 181 pages clean and tight.Engravings by Frank Martin. .

London: T. Werner Laurie. Good/No DJ. 1948. Reprint. Hard Cover. 5" by 7.5" Tall Blue cloth wear to extremities. Silver title lettering to front and spine. Light foxing to page tips. Frontis plate. Photographs on plates. 323 pages. clean and tight. .

Viking. Very Good/Very Good. 1976. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0713907304 Dust jacket preice clipped, slight wear to edges, slight fading. Original cloth boards with bright silver titling on spine. No ownership marks.288 pages clean and tight. Racing in Britain today is a vastly different affair from that of the eighteenth century. Then racing was a tree, social event, the highlight of the entertainment calendar for the bulk of the local community. By the late nineteenth century most race meetings were highly commercial enterprises, requiring payment from all spectators, many of whom had travelled some distance to attend. Today the typical turf follower Prefers to view racing.isom ths.combLt of his-armchair ant-the spethas-*eme-toaely heavily upon sponsorship and,the Bttiing Levy-Board for its finances. This book attempts a social andsconomic analysis of the major changes in British flat racing, concentrating in particular on the period between 1830 and 1939. Four major themes… Read More

London: Blackie. Very Good. 1984. Illustrated Boards. 9.25" By 10.25" Tall 0216916062 All pop ups in working order but there is a piece missing from the lion's face in the second pop up. 4 bedtime lion stories with large pop-ups. .

London: Longmans, Green and Co. Good. 1922. Reprint. Hard Cover. 8vo Brown cloth clear titles but gilt is fading on spine. No inscription. Frontispiece. 358 pages clean and tight + publisher's pages. .

Bantam Press. Very Good/Very Good. 2002. Hard Cover. 8vo 0593049756 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 320 pages Illustrated in colour and in monochrome. Clean and tight. A BBC documentary series, to be shown in autumn 2001, aims to recreate everyday life for soldiers in World War I. A group of volunteers has been recruited from the streets of Hull, exactly as the "Hull Pals" - the 10th battalion of the East Yorks Regiment - were recruited 85 years ago. They face life in a specially reconstructed trench in northern France under as many privations as can realistically be recreated according to the testimony of surviving World War I veterans and the official Regimental War Diary. The series has the official stamp of the Army, the Imperial War Museum and the British Legion. This companion book, based on extensive interviews with veterans as well as new research, vividly reconstructs the reality of war:… Read More

New York: G P Putnam's Sons. Very Good/Good. 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover. Obl Folio 0399111832 Dust jacket, closed tear, wear & minor loss to edges, unclipped price to flap. Blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. 128 pages clean and tight. In this series of fifty-three glowing paintings, which have never before been reproduced, an outstanding modern American artist captures the spirit and rugged beauty of the American ships-those of the Continental Navy, the vessels representing the individual Colonies, and the privateers-which served so gallantly against the British in the Revolutionary War. An invaluable contribution to America's tradition of marine art, these stunning paintings-based on original drafts, contemporary descriptions and sail plans of the ships-show not only faithful attention to detail, but also artistic mastery of the grace, verve, and vitality of these memorable vessels. In one particularly… Read More

London: Hutchinson. Very Good/No DJ. 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Original cloth covered boards with bright gilt and blue titling on spine. Slight wear to corners. Illustrated end papers. Name on verso of ffep. 352 pages clean and tight. .

London: Ward Lock. Very Good/Very Good. 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover. Obl 8vo 0706314689 DUST JACKET COMPLETE, UNCLIPPED. Green cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. Frontis plate, Numerous photographs and illustrations. 142 pages clean and tight. This fascinating book describes the development of passenger vehicles from the beginning of this century, covering many specialised types from long-distance coaches to armoured personnel carriers. With over 120 photographs plus accurate and detailed information on each vehicle, the book is a worthy companion to the Source Book of Commercial Vehicles by the same author. The jacket picture, reproduced by courtesy of Charles W. Banfield Ltd., shows a modern Leyland PSU3 coach alongside a beautifully restored AEC 'S'-type open top double-decker. .

Pimlico. Fine. 1998. Soft Cover. 0712665439 uncreased spine. 303 pages clean and tight. Bringing together Sigmund Freud, Osip Mandelstam, Lloyd George, Bertrand Russell, Isaac Rosenberg, Sigfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain -voices famous and unknown - Peter Vansittart takes us through the course of the Great War, juxtaposing letters from the trenches with music-hall songs, and the words of poets and politicians. Linking the public and the personal, the history with the myth, his rich and unorthodox anthology forms a moving image of everything that went into the War, and culminated in its 'scalding waste of spirit'. .

London: Hutchinson. Good/No DJ. 1944. First Ediition. Hard Cover. 8vo Red cloth, worn, with gilt titling on spine. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. 216 pages clean and tight. .

Robson Books Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 2004. Hard Cover. 8vo 1861056214 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth with bright giltr titling on spine. No ownership marks 266 pages clean and tight.. John Paul Jones (1747-92) was an argumentative, highly original Scottish seaman. At sea from the age of 12 he commanded slave ships and merchant ships until, following a murder charge, he fled to America. In the War of Independence he was the only rebel to land on English soil, attempting to fire Whitehaven Harbour, off Flamborough Head. With thousands watching, he captured an English flagship. In his adventurous career he was knighted by Louis XVI, made an Admiral by Catherine the Great, awarded the Congress Gold Medal for Valour by George Washington. In America he is often regarded as the founder of the US Navy. Controversies about this, and about his difficult, pugnacious nature, are the main themes of this story of adventure, violence, disappointments and triumphs in the era of the… Read More

Good. Hard Cover. Lge 8vo Moskau, 1938 Verlag Fur Fremsprachige Literatur. Very worn cover. German text. No ownership inscription. 242 pages. VORWORT Die zwei Jahrzehnte, die seit dem Siege der proletarischen Revolution in RuBland vergangen sind, sind die an Ereignissen reichsten in der Ge. schichte der Menschheit. Es ist daher unmoglich, in einem Buche von maBigem Umfang eine allseitige Analyse dieser Zeitspanne zu geben. Das Entscheidende, das prinzipiell Neue dieser Zeitspanne ist der Kampf der zwei Gesellschaftssysteme: des historisch uberlebten Kapita lismus and des aufsteigenden Sozialismus. Die Darstellung der vet schiedenen Etappen dieses Kampfes and der Oberlegenheit des Sowjetsystems uber den Kapitalismus bildet den Inhalt dieses Buches. Diese Darstellungsart bringt notwendigerweise eine gewisse Einseitigkeit mit rich. Die allgemeinen Entwicklungstendenzen des Kapitalismus: Konzentration der Produktion, Zen ralisation des Kapitais, Starkung der Monopole, ungleichmaBige… Read More

London: Ted Smart. Very Good/Very Good. 2000. Hard Cover. 4to 1856137341 This is a very heavy book which we can only supply to a UK address without an additional charge. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Illustrated board. No ownership inscription. Numerous Colour Photographs & Maps. 460 pages clean and tight. Product Dimensions: 25 x 19.6 x 4.2 cm .

Edinburgh & London: T. N. Foulis. Very Good/No DJ. Combined Volume . Hard Cover. 8vo 1st & 2nd series combined volume (1920 & 1921). Blue cloth spine over grey boards. Gilt titling on spine. Minor rubbing toedges. Clean and tight. Contributors include "John Buchan, Agnes Lindsay Carnegie, Agnes S Falconer, John Ferguson, Mabel, Christian Forbes, Alexander Gray, C M Grieve, Ian Hamilton, Isobel. W Hutchison, Violet Jacob, Roderick, Watson Kerr, Donald A Mackenzie, Charles Murray, Will H Ogilvie, William Ogilive, Robald Ross, Mary Symon, Lewis Spence, Lauchlan Maclean Watt" .