Search Results: Authors starting with W from Hessay Books

Pitman, 1934. Large format. A heavy book of 208pp with black cloth covered boards, now rubbed and with a very small loss to the spine. 108 b + w photographs, and 4 fold out maps of air routes. Internally very clean. The author commanded the Squadron of the RAF in the Sudan.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Basil Jackson Publications, 1967. 164pp plus Index. Illustrated soft covers with one scrape mark to back. Fold-out Map. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's name to inner cover, otherwise internally clean and tight.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Hamlyn, 1972. B + w iIllustrations. 360 pp, green cloth boards.Very clean. Includes stories by Robert Bateman, Neil Rogers, Ida Melbourne, Frances Towers, Peter Grey, Jane Davis etc.. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Reg Gray.

Cassell, 1920. Popular Edition. 246pp, blue boards with impressed design, with a little wear to the top of the spine. Previous owner's name in pencil on inner board, otherwise internally clean. Romance - will Viola renounce her love for John?. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Oxford Galaxy, 1961. 413pp, illustrated softback covers. The gutter is cracking in the centre, but holding well, and there is biro marking to one of the essays, otherwise clean - a good 'reading copy'. 26 essays by various experts on aspects of Chaucer's work.. Soft Cover. Good.

Sadler's Wells Theatre, 1968. Large format. 67pp. A clean copy. Preface, cast list, and text in the english translation by Frederick Jameson, revised by Norman Feasey and Gordon Kember.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

Salvation Army, 1111. Circa 1964. 84pp, dark red boards, dustjacket with a little wear to the edges. B + w photographs. Name noted on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean and VG. The early days of the Salvation Army in New Zealand. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. 370pp, complete dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The autobiography of the man who was taken hostage and how he survived his imprisonment, almost four years of which were in solitary confinement. Growing up in Styal, work in the Church Army, the dangerous years as advisor to the archbishop in Idi Amin's Uganda, his work with religious communities in Rome and as special envoy for the Archbishop of Canterbury.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Pro Lingua Associates, 2004. 92pp, illustrated softback covers. B + w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy. A guide to the history, language, culture and practical aspects of living in Greece. . First Edition. Soft Cover. As New.

Reprint Society, 1946. 224pp, black cloth covered boards with leather label, b + w illustrations. Internally clean. The story of Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Williams and Norgate, 1910. 317 pp, green cloth covered boards with gilt title, sun darkened to the spine. Sepia illustrations, including a tipped in frontispiece photograph of the author. Damp mark to the top of the inner boards, otherwise internally clean. Lucy Bethia Walford, nee Colquohoun 1845 - 1915 wrote more than 45 best selling novels and stories, and is said to have been Queen Victoria's favourite novelist. Her recollections include growing up in Scotland, Edinburgh society in the 1850s etc.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Morrow, 1979. 1st USA edition. 218pp, complete dustjacket, a little rubbed to edges. B + w illustrations. Internally very clean. The standard work on the introduction of Talking Pictures to the cinema in the 1920s.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

CPAG, 1997. 308pp, illustrated softback covers. A very clean copy. Essays published by the Child Poverty Action Group on how poverty was created in the 1980s and 1990s, its effects, and how it should be combatted.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

Reprint Society, 1958. 318pp, yellow cloth covered boards with a couple of small marks, black leather label. Previous owner's name and address on flyleaf, one small nick to margin of one page, otherwise internally clean. Wartime adventure.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Collins, 1956. 320pp, dustjacket with wear to edges and a little loss. Internally clean. Set in India.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Collins Fontana, 1977. 223pp, the paper browning with age, illustrated softback covers, rubbed to edges. Internally clean and tight. Ash kills a man and goes on the run in the Canadian forest.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Wesleyan Methodist Missioary Society, 1922. Second edition. 144pp, green card covers with one light crease. B + w photographs. Internally very clean. History, everyday life and religion, and a book list. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Oxford, 1947. Pocket size World's Classics edition. 468pp, blue cloth covered boards with faded gilt title. Internally clean. Classic English short stories from Scott, Lamb, Disraeli, Poe, Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope, Meredith, Brett Harte, Stevenson, Gissing etc.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Partridge, 1111. 64pp, the paper browning a little with age, plus illustrated publisher's catalogue. Red cloth covered boards, with a coloured illustration. B + w engraved frontispiece illustration. Pencil Sunday School gift inscription to the flyleaf, dated 1908, oherwise internally clean. Jessie goes to Sunday School and reforms her drunken father.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Penguin Pelican, 1954. Revised second edition. 192pp, the paper browning a little with age, blue and white softback covers. Internally clean. The biology of sex and sexual impulses, romantic love, marriage and divorce, homosexuality etc.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.