Search Results: Titles starting with A from BritoBooks

Automobile Association, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. AA Illustrated Road Book of Scotland with Gazetteer, Itineries, Maps & Town Plans. 1960 The Automobile Association hardcover, 1ST EDITION, as stated on publication page. Dust jckt suffers edge wear, but very good. Hardcover: dark blue cloth, gilt lettering front cover & spine, very good. Only mark internally that of previous owner on ffep. Pages starting to brown. Overall very nice copy, NOT MANY AROUND in this condition and of 1st edition. Hundreds of black & white illustrations and 36 pages of color road maps. Great travel reference guide. 288 pages of text.

Frederick Warne And Co. Hardcover. Very Good. Photogravures by Franz Hanfstaengl. 577 pages. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering spine, gilt decoration front cover. The South Volume. Book Condition: Very Good. No d/w. No date, assuming First Edition. 4 Photogravure plates, tissue-guarded frontispiece; Light foxing to end papers and edge pages. Hinges and binding excellent. Internally bright and sound;

Frederick Warne And Co. Hardcover. Very Good. Photogravures by Franz Hanfstaengl. 576 pages. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering spine, gilt decoration front cover. The Midland Volume. Book Condition: Very Good. No d/w. No date, assuming First Edition. 4 Photogravure plates, tissue-guarded frontispiece; Light foxing to end papers and edge pages. Hinges and binding excellent. Internally bright and sound;

Frederick Muller, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. Margaret Horder. Elsie Jeanette Oxenham. An Abbey champion. First U.K hardback printing . Frederick Muller 1946. VG boards with some marks to front board and light fading. Bright spine and colours. No jacket. Contents vg . No previous owner names or marks. Illustrated by Margaret Horder. Quite a rare title in nice condition.

Collins, 2004. Soft Cover. Fine. Garth Nix. Abhorsen. U.k uncorrected proof copy . Collins 2003. Fine glossy card covers as issued. No creases to edges or spine. Fine contents . No previous owner marks or names . The concluding book in this trilogy and hard to find in collectors condition.p

Head of Zeus, 2013. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT. Book as new, unread FINE/FINE condition. SIGNED, LINED & DATED BY AUTHOR TO THE TITLE PAGE. Book One of the Carnivia Trilogy. THE VICTIM: On the steps of Santa Maria della Salute lies the body of a woman, wearing the robes of a Catholic priest. In the eyes of the Church, she is an abomination. THE INVESTIGATOR: Captain Kat Tapo has matched the victim's tattoo to graffiti in an abandoned asylum. Now she's been ordered to close the case. THE HACKER: is a virtual Venice that holds the city's secrets. Only its reclusive creator can help Kat unearth the shocking truth.THE ABOMINATION has arrived.

Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown et Green et John Stacy, 1831. Hardcover. Very Good. Looks to be rebound, half leather, brown cloth boards, small approx 2" x 4". Binding and hinges very good. Very clean, very little foxing. Scuffing top/bottom spine, small tear in leather at top spine on front. 364 pages, marbled page edges. Contents: L'Histoire Des Egyptiens, Des Assryiens, Des Medes, Des Pheniciens, Des Scythes, Des Lydiens, et de Plusieurs autres peuples de l'Asie Mineure

Michael Joseph, 2021. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT. Book in unread FINE/FINE condition. SIGNED & NUMBERED (out of 1500) BY AUTHOR. Green sprayed page edges

Atlantic Books, 2012. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT. Book in unread FINE/FINE condition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR DIRECT TO TITLE PAGE.

Michael Joseph, 2007. Hardcover. As New. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, SIGNED, LINED & DATED BY AUTHOR DIRECT TO TITLE PAGE. . Debut crime thriller set in Glasgow. Book as new, unread, FINE/FINE condition. published June 2007. Synopsis 1984: It looked like a simple job. That was why they gave it to him. Guarding a woman - nameless and almost faceless after a savage acid attack - at a Glasgow hospital, PC Alan McAlpine has no idea that this simple job will haunt his career and change his life forever. 2006: Two decades later, Alan steps into Partickhill police station and back in time. Now a celebrated Detective Chief Inspector, McAlpine has been drafted in to lead the hunt for a man the press are calling 'the Crucifixion Killer'. Two women are already dead, their mutilated bodies laid with arms outstretched. With his distinguished reputation, McAlpine's team are confident their new DCI will lead them to the killer. But the obsession that was born in a hospital room twenty-two years earlier has… Read More

Doubleday, 2007. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT. Book as new, unread FINE/FINE condition. SIGNED, LINED, DATED & LOCATED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE. Book 1 of The War with the Mein.

Hamish Hamilton, 2005. Soft Cover. Fine. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Book in unread, FINE condition. SHORT-LISTED FOR 2005 BOOKER PRIZE and Orange Prize 2006.

Usborne, 2021. Soft Cover. Fine. EXCLUSIVE WATERSTONES EDITION WITH RED SPAYED EDGES.

Macmillan New Writing, 2006. Hardcover. As New. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, SIGNED & DATED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE. Book as new, unread, FINE/FINE condition. The boy arrived on a Sunday morning in the midst of a great deal of din and clamour. As the rickshaw skidded into the broadavenued lane in front of the Sengupta residence, something truly extraordinary happened. The arrival of the young boy in an upper middle class Bengali household triggers a gripping story of love, desire, and renunciation. Set in two different cities, New Delhi and Varanasi, "Across The Mystic Shore" explores the entwining lives of four women forced to confront their past decisions in order to understand their present delusions and insecurities.

Jonathan Cape, 1950. Soft Cover. Good. An exceptionally rare first edition copy of this Hemingway post war novel set in Venice. This is the advance proof copy of the Jonathan Cape UK 1st actually issued ahead of the US 1st. Marked First Published 1950. The 254 page volume is tightly bound in illustrated wrappers that model the hardcover first edition dust wrapper. The contents are clean and unmarked. The wrappers are bright and complete although with rubbing to corners and spine and a split where the front flap joins. Unclipped. This is a very rare item for the Hemingway collector. The book does not state "proof" or "advance reading copy" or anything of that kind; but that is what it is. The English edition was published on September 4, 1950, preceding the American edition by three days. This advance copy is described in the Hemingway bibliography by Audre Hanneman in a note to the entry on the first English edition, A44a.

Jonathan Cape, 2020. Soft Cover. Fine. UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF. Book in unread FINE condition. Due publication February 2020. The story of an Irish theatre legend and a daughter's search for the truth

Macmillan New Writing, 2009. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, SIGNED, STAMPED (fingerprint) and NUMBERED *(37 out of 250) BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE. No jckt as published. Book in unread, FINE condition. Product Description: Katrina Marino is about to become America's most infamous murder victim. This is Katrina's story, and the story of her killer. It is also the story of Katrina's neighbours, those who witnessed her murder and did nothing: the terrified Vietnam draftee; the woman who thinks she's killed a child, and her husband who will risk everything for the truth; the former soldier planning suicide and the man who saves him. And others whose lives are touched by the crime: the elderly teacher whose past is catching up with him; the amateur blackmailer who's about to find out just what sort of people he's been threatening; the corrupt cop who believes he is God's 'red right hand'. Shocking and compassionate, angry and gripping, "Acts of Violence" is a sprawling, cinematic… Read More

Harper Voyager, 2021. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT. Book in unread FINE condition, no jacket as published. SIGNED & NUMBERED(out of 2000) BY AUTHOR. Green sprayed page edges. May attract additional overseas post

Gollancz, 2009. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, SIGN, LINE & DATED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE.. Book as new, unread FINE/FINE condition. Synopsis: The Adamantine Palace lies at the centre of an empire that grew out of ashes. Once dragons ruled the world and man was little more than prey. Then a way of subduing the dragons alchemicly was discovered and now the dragons are bred to be little more than mounts for knights and highly valued tokens in the diplomatic power-players that underpin the rule of the competing aristocratic houses. The Empire has grown fat. And now one man wants it for himself. A man prepared to poison the king just as he has poisoned his own father. A man prepared to murder his lover and bed her daughter. A man fit to be king? But uknown to him there are flames on the way. A single dragon has gone missing. And even one dragon on the loose, unsubdued, returned to its full intelligence, its full fury, could spell disaster for the Empire. But because of the actions of one… Read More

Gollancz, 2013. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT. Book in unread FINE/FINE condition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR DIRECT TO THE TITLE PAGE.