Search Results: Titles starting with A from Keel Row Books

London; MACK, 2020., 2020. Hard Cover. SIGNED Second edition. Landscape quarto, pp. [10],40 colour plates [6]. Bound in grey cloth over boards with black stamped titles to upper board and spine and colour photographic onlay to upper board; pale pink endpapers. A Fine copy with photographic bookplate to rear pastedown signed by Graham. New edition of Paul's Graham's iconic first book. Graham's pioneering use of colour in social documentary photography inspired a generation of contemporary photographers.

Newcastle Upon Tyne; Frank Graham, 1969., 1969. Softcover. Facsimile of 1819 original. Octavo. 8 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Stapled thin card wraps with pictorial advertisement to rear. A few fingermarks and light creases to covers and some pencil annotation; minor nick to lower edge of rear cover. Very clean internally with no inscriptions or annotation. Scarce pamphlet limited to 300 copies.

South Shields; George Nicholson, 1894., 1894. Hardcover. No publication date stated (1894). Quarto. 28 pp. Publishers' original purple pebbled cloth gilt titles to upper board. Five small woodcuts in text including "Racing Cut" by Thomas Bewick from the Newcastle Advertiser Dec. 8th 1798. Foxing to endpapers only and pencil annotation to text. Scarce volume featuring fascinating advertisements from newspapers local to the North East of England, showing the diverse nature and antiquarian value of this often-overlooked material. Covers subjects such as Eighteenth Century Nostrums, Place Names, Absconding Pitmen and Run-away Apprentices, and Powell The Fire Eater.

Birmingham; Ariel Motors Limited, 1954., 1954. Softcover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. 44 pp. 17 diagrams in text plus table of Lubrication Recommendations. Book Condition: Very Good. Pictorial card wraps. A little surface soiling to covers. The "Owner's Guide Addendum for 1955" loosely inserted plus an uncompleted guarantee for Varley Motor Cycle Batteries. Very clean internally with no annotation or inscriptions.

London; Blackie & Son Ltd., 1899., 1899. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. 384 pp. Eight illustrations (including frontis) by William Rainey and three plans; advertisements to rear.Book condition: Very Good. Original decorative red cloth with bevelled boards & gilt titles; illustrations to front & to spine. No dust-jacket (as issued). Surface rubbing / minor wear to corners & edges and to spine. Name & date handwritten to ffep; sporadic foxing, mainly to first few leaves.

Northwich; Ozit Morpheus Records and Books, 2004., 2004. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST EDITION. Softcover octavo, pp. 80. Illustrated throughout including many archive photographs. Stapled pictorial card wraps. Spine lightly rubbed at tips otherwise a clean copy; no annotation or inscriptions. Near Fine. Collection of writings about Captain Beefheart, his Magic Band and Frank Zappa. Scarce.

London; Collins, 1930., 1930. Hardcover. Undated early reprint circa 1930. Octavo. 276 pp. Colour frontispiece by A G H; advertisements to rear. Book Condition: Very Good. Publishers' orange cloth with black titles and black-stamped line drawings to spine and upper board, showing a girl with flowers and a sitting girl in a hat. Spine lightly sunned; lower board marked by areas of cloth stuck onto surface. Printed school prize plate tipped-in to ffep; no annotation or inscriptions. A few fingermarks and very light sporadic foxing and corner crease to frontispiece margin otherwise contents very clean.

Aberdeen & Inverness; Printed by D. Chalmers & Co. (Almanack) & K. Douglas (Supplement), 1835., 1835. Hard Cover. FIRST THUS. 12 mo bound in sixes, pp. 324, 108 Supplement. Contemporary full sheep with gilt titles and fillets to spine. Spine sunned with wear at tips, and boards rubbed with wear to corners. Annotation to endpapers in a contemporary hand, detailing post days, prices etc and numerical workings-out, and a little further annotation and marginal marking. A few leaves corner creased; pp. 171-260 ink-stained, largely to fore-edge margin. A well worn Good copy that sits easily in the hand. Pocket-sized reference book, the internet of its day, which includes calendars, tax tables, army lists, population figures, shipping companies, lists of civic and commercial notables and much more. The Supplement to the rear contains further information on the Northern counties of Scotland collated by K. Douglas.

Durham; Albert Richardson & Co., 1902., 1902. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST THUS. Softcover octavo, pp. 16, [4]. Printed thin grey card wraps. Covers lightly soiled with numerous creases and scored split through lower cover (approx 2 cm). Corner tips creased throughout otherwise contents clean; no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. The latest rules for colliery managers, including those on employment, accidents, wages, explosives and working conditions. Pegswood Colliery near Ashington in Northumberland operated until 1969, and in 1902 was owned by the Bentick West Hartley Colliery, managed by W. Ramsay.

London; Bantam Press, 2007, 2007. Hard Cover. SIGNED and dated FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp 414, [2]. Publisher's black paper covered boards in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A very good copy in like jacket. Bumping to head of spine with associated creasing to jacket. Signed and dated (02.07.07) by the Author without dedication to the title page. The first book in the Samuel Carver series.

London; John Murray, 1852., 1852. Hardcover. Octavo. xxiii, [1], 359 pp, [1], 32 (advertisements). Illustrations in text. Book Condition: Good. Recased using original boards by Remnant and Edmonds with original spine and calf title label laid-on. Marbled cloth with blind-ruled panels to boards; gilt flag motif to upper board. Pink endpapers with original retailer's ticket to front pastedown (Mitchell of Old Bond Street). Original spine sunned with several splits and 2-inch loss at head; loss to title label to two edges. Boards edge rubbed and upper corners bumped; inner hinges split. Bookplates and handwritten name & address of former owner to front pastedown & ffep (Edward Ellice and R H Walton). Some offsetting; a little minor corner-creasing to leaves and foxing & toning, mainly to textblock edge. Scarce.

London; Troughton & Simms, 138 Fleet Street, 1852., 1852. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [iv], 74, [2], 16. 56 figures in text. Sympathetically rebacked retaining original green boards with scrolled and ruled borders in blind, and gilt titles to upper board. New plain black endpapers. Boards lightly sunned and soiled with bruised corners. Ownership inscription to title page dated 1861; a little scattered foxing & small stain to upper margin p.66. A Very Good copy. Comprehensive summary of the workings and applications of the refracting telescope, including chapters on stands and instructions on setting up. The "Catalogue of Instruments Made by Troughton and Simms" of Fleet Street includes opera glasses, sextants, theodolites, barometers and a host of other optical and mathematical instruments. Scarce.

London; Secker & Warburg, 1978., 1978. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. x, 196. Publishers' black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Boards a little surface scuffed; contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket slightly spine sunned with a few3 nicks & creases to edge. A Very Good copy in like jacket. An analysis of the art of acting by the English director with wide experience in three continents. Includes exercises to improve technique.

London; Macmillan New Writing, 2009, 2009. Hard Cover. SIGNED and numbered FIRST EDITION. Octavo. [10], 280 pp. Pictorial boards, no dust-jacket as issued. A very good copy with just a very slight ripple to edge of text block. No. 246 of 250 numbered copies of the first edition signed by the Author to the limitation page and with red fingerprint. Published by Macmillan New Writing in association with Goldsboro Books. The author's debut crime novel.

London; Hodder & Stoughton, [1914]., 1914. Hard Cover. FIRST THUS. Quarto, pp. half-title, vi, [2], 234, [2]. 20 colour tipped-in plates by Hugh Thomson, plate leaves with illustrated borders and captioned pictorial tissue guards. Decorative red cloth with gilt titles, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board. Spine lightly sunned. Free endpapers toned as usual; a little scattered foxing mainly to text-block edge. No annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. An excellent example of the handsome illustrated edition, with Thomson's distinctive exquisite plates. Heavyweight, so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

Hornsea; PS Artbooks, 2011., 2011. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION THUS. Small quarto, pp. 288. Illustrated throughout in colour cartoon-strip. Publisher's royal blue pictorial boards with white titles to spine; colour pictorial endpapers. Slight bruising to corner and spine tips, otherwise a clean, neat copy. Very good condition. Part of the Collected Works series. Volume One covering issues 1 - 5, Fall 1948 - June/July 1949. Foreword by Barry Forshaw and featuring the work of Leonard Starr, Charles Sultan and Pete Riss, amongst others. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

Milwaukie; Dark Horse Books, 2013., 2013. Hard Cover. FIRST THUS. Small quarto, pp. 218, [6] adverts. Colour cartoon strip illustrations throughout. Publisher's black faux leather binding with red titles to spine and upper board in an unclipped pictorial jacket; pictorial endpapers. An extremely clean, neat copy with no annotations or inscriptions. Overall a Fine copy in like jacket. Part of the Dark Horse Archives series. Volume 2 covering issues #5 - #8. Foreword by Bruce Jones and featuring the work of Jon L. Blummer, Bob Lubbers and John Celardo, amongst others. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

London; Folio Society, 2016., 2016. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo, pp. [8], 339. Monochrome frontispiece and further illustrations throughout by Harry Brockway. Publisher's brown cloth with silhouettes blocked in blue and black to boards, with blue and gilt titles to upper board and spine. Russet endpapers, black ribbon page-marker and brown upper edges. A clean, neat copy; Fine condition. Part of the Folio Collectable series, which were published without slipcases. This American classic is brought to life with striking engravings by Harry Brockway.

London; Constable and Company Limited, 1911., 1911. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo. xvi, 343 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the late Lieutenant J W Brooke with tissue-guard, plus numerous photographic illustrations throughout, some full page. Two folding maps in colour to rear. Book Condition: Very Good. Original pictorial green cloth with gilt titles to spine and black to upper board. Top edge gilt. Newspaper obituary of J W Brooke loosely inserted. Edges rubbed with small nick at head of spine; spine sunned. A slightly shaken copy with inner front hinge cracked but holding. Blindstamped "Presentation Copy" roundel to title page. Scattered light foxing; free endpapers toned. Based on the travel diary and journals of John Weston Brooke, who explored river systems in China and Tibet in the early years of the twentieth century, before his murder by Lolo tribesmen in 1908. Subject matter includes lively descriptions of the land and its people, hunting parties and natural history. Fergusson also… Read More

London & Glasgow; Blackie & Son Ltd, 1935., 1935. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. 176 pp. Colour frontispiece plus 10 plates by J Morton Sale. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Good. Publishers' grey cloth with titles and decoration in green to spine and upper board. Unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine lightly toned; top edge a little dusty and light foxing to foredge. Name & date tidily inscribed to ffep otherwise contents clean and bright. Jacket spine sunned and surface soiled with nicks & creases to edge. Tales of Mr Goodenough and his neighbours in Sunny Row, near the frontiers of Fairyland. Scarce title, particularly in jacket.