Search Results: Titles starting with A from JimsOldBooks

Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex: Desert Island Books, 2004. A very good clean tight copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper of this hard-cover book. Deals with Aberdeen Football Club's successful 1954-55 season when they won the Scottish League Cup in 1956. 160pp, some b&w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto, Ontario: Dundurn Press, 1994. A crease to lower corner of back cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Contains seventeen essays by various authors on aspects of First Nations (Iroquois and Algonquin) history in what is now Ontario from the mid sixteenth century up to the present. 448pp, some b&w illustrations, maps and tables.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1985. Some fading to spine, minor scuffing to outer corners of cover, a fold to first two pages, a handwritten note re one of the contributors on page vii, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Contains papers originally given at the First National Conference of Aboriginal Writers which was held in Perth in 1983, namely "Aboriginal Writing: a Personal View" by Jack Davis, "White Forms, Aboriginal Content" by Colin Johnson, "Black Policies" by Kevin Gilbert, "The Politics of Aboriginal Literature" by Bruce McGuinness and Dennis Walker, "The Role of Research" by Faith Bandler, "Black Theatre" by Gerry Bostock, "Aboriginal Poetry and White Criticism" by Cliff Watego, and "Traditional Aboriginal Oral Literature" by Catherine Berndt. 112pp.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

St Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 1994. Paperback edition. A bookseller's ink stamp (from Alice Springs) on title page, also some numbers in ink. Otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover book dealing with the treatment of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia from the arrival of the First Fleet to the mid 1990s. 275pp, some b&w illustrations.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hutchinson & Co Ltd, 1971. Second Impression from December 1971. Ex library copy with Cheshire County Library ink stamp on title page, but no other stamps or labels. Minor creasing to edges of price-clipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, brown sellotape marks inside boards and on endpapers, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book by the author of ''The Hills is Lonely''. This one deals with her 1920s childhood in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, where her father ran a grocers shop. 192pp, b&w drawings at chapter heads.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Hall, Douglas. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1970. Some creasing and wear to the edges of the slightly grubby but unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of red boards, otherwise a good tight copy of this slim hard-cover book. A long poem in ten sections and various styles and metres by the author. Part of the publisher's "Phoenix Living Poets" series. 46pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bicester, Oxfordshire: Speechmark Publishing, 2001. Includes CD. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Deals with the Accent Method of Voice-Therapy, a holistic therapy technique designed to coordinate breath, voicing, and articulation and to enhance overall communication. Designed originally in Scandinavia as a treatment for stammerers , but used in treating patients with other voice disorders. Now also used to develop vocal skills in singers. 176pp, b&w diagrams.. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Longmans, 1969. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the 3,600 mile journey from Port Barrow, Alaska to Spitzbergen undertaken by the author and three companions (with thirty-four huskies). This was the first surface crossing of the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking 476 days. 209pp, 24pp b&w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Little Brown, 1997. Some yellowing to the pages, otherwise a good clean tight copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper of this hard-cover crime story. 282pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1954. Creasing and quite a few tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper (original price 6/6), with some bits missing at the top end of the spine and top corner of front panel. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of red boards, also some bowing; original owner's presentation label (undated) on f/ep, some yellowing to the outer pages, but otherwise not too bad. A story, written for older boys, dealing with a young merchant naval officer on a decrepit tanker sailing around the Caribbean. 259pp, colour frontispiece, 6 b&w drawings.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Illus. by Johnston, Robert . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Bantam Press, 1996. A good clean tight copy in similar unclipped dustwrapper of this hard-cover novel. The story deals with a solitary misfit who, after finding his old school reports, decides to take revenge on his old teachers. 254pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Andrew Dakers Limited, 1945. Some small tears along the edges of the unclipped dustwrapper, previous owner's gift message on f/ep, and some pencil markings in the text. Otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book in which the author looks at the decline of Christianity in the twentieth century which he blames on Industrialism and Socialism, with their emphasis on the collective, rather than the Individual. This is the second (1945) impression, the book having been originally printed the previous year. 222pp.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1948. No dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue cloth-covered boards, some fading to the gilt titles on the spine, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Privately printed at Oxford University Press, the book contains a list of all the published writings by Alexander Hamilton Thompson, most of which were published in historical and archaeological periodicals. 49pp, b&w frontispiece with tissue-guard.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. No dustwrapper, bumping to spine ends and corners of red-and-black cloth-covered boards, original owner's name and date (July 1929) on f/ep, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Based on a manuscript written in the 1840s by a James Tucker, the book deals with convict life in Australia in the early nineteenth century. 349pp, 5 b&w illustrations of original manuscript.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Gloucester: Thornhill Press, 1975. Minor creasing to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to the spine ends of the orange boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover collection of stories involving the four children of the title, their mysterious uncle, and various criminals whose plans they manage to foil. Published in the 1970s, but the style seems a bit old-fashioned even for then. 165pp, some small b&w drawings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Coverley-Price, Victor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Ochtertyre, Perthshire: Grace Note Publications, 2008. Includes CD. Very slight scuffing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Contains the long Gaelic poem "Aeolus agus am Balg", for which the author won the bardic crown at the 1938 Mod in Glasgow; with English translation on facing pages by Bill Innes. The accompanying CD has the poem read by Bill Innes with music by Sandy Stanage. 80pp, some b&w illustrations.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hambledon and London, 2003. A good clean tight copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper, of this hard-cover book. Deals with the life and reign of the Anglo-Saxon king Aethelred the Unready (c966-1016). 263pp (about a third of the book is notes to the text), 8pp b&w illustrations.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Adventurers Club, 1959. Adventurers Club edition. Some creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, a couple of scratches to front panel and a scuff-mark to back, minor bumping to spine ends of green boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in 1958, this is a later, undated "Adventurers Club" edition, probably from a year or so later. The author's account, as told to a Roland Goodchild, of his travels in Baluchistan (now part of Pakistan) and Afghanistan in pursuit of a Baluchi gang who were stealing weapons and ammunition from British military depots. At the time (the end of WW2), the author was working with the Special Investigations Branch of the British Army. 190pp... Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edinburgh: W P Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1889. No dustwrapper, some wear to spine ends and bumping to corners of brown cloth-covered boards, original owner's Sunday School prize message dated 1891 on f/ep, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles on spine and black titles and decoration on front board still bright, of this hard-cover book. The story of Sir Walter Raleigh, written for young readers (at the time: the language would be too difficult for children nowadays). 216pp plus 16pp adverts, 4 b&w illustrations.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Oxford: George Ronald, 1953. Creasing and tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spune ends of brown boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in 1942, this is a later "Revised Edition" from 1953. The author's account of his time in Africa (Kenya mostly, but also West Africa) where he worked in forestry. Quite a lot on Native customs. 159pp, 48 b&w illustrations.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.