Search Results: Titles starting with B from Lansdowne Books

Folio Society, London, 2006. Fine Binding in mint condition. This copy is in a fine slipcase also in mint condition. Pages are clean, bright, tight, white and square encased neatly in green slip case in excellent condition. Decorations by John Minton are as per the first edition. Preface by Julian Barnes. Watercolours by Sophie MacCarthy.Elizabeth David's influence on culinary tastes and attitudes was nothing short of revolutionary, bringing the warmth, aromas and tastes of the Mediterranean into Britain s bleak post-war kitchen.Weight 1.1kg

Tenth edition with 45 fold-out colour maps and plans. Red cover with gilt lettering. Map endpapers. Two index ribbons, one red, one green. Page edges colored light blue. Book is in near fine condition with previous owner mark to endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked.

First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Pages clean with B&W illustrations throughout. Hardcover. with Dust Jacket and mylar protective cover, no names or marks inside. B&W Illustrations. Dust Jacket unclipped.The Corfu Trilogy #2 Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to My Family and Other Animals is based on his boyhood on Corfu, from 1933 to 1939. Originally published in 1969 but long out of print, Birds, Beasts and Relativesis filled with charming observations, amusing anecdotes, boyhood memories, and childlike wonder. Durrell's account of his early years as a keeper at Whipsnade Zoo are filled with the usual assortment of animal characters, including Albert the lion, Durrel's first charge, who had the habit of hiding behind bushes and leaping out at unsuspecting old ladies.

A near fine copy of the 1969 first edition, first issue. 256-page text in fine, tight, clean condition with no inscriptions. Dust jacket price-clipped and in fine condition and in protective mylar covering. An unusually difficult book to find in fine condition. This is the second instalment of 'The Corfu Trilogy' by Durrell

1st Edition. Hardcover with unclipped jacket light wear at top and bottom of spine panel . Dust jacket is now protected with a mylar cover. Light rubbing to Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. First book club edition. Through a vivid canvas layered with intrigue, conspiracy and murder, Rebecca West has created a story that is at once a family saga, a political thriller, a philosophical drama and a historical novel.Rebecca West's gripping psychological mystery—part thriller, part historical novel—The Birds Fall Down takes readers inside the intrigue of revolutionaries preparing to overthrow an empire. During early revolutionary stirrings in Russia, after an unexpected turn of events, Laura Rowan, the coddled granddaughter of an exiled British nobleman, becomes her grandfather's sole companion on a fateful train ride. In France, a young revolutionary approaches Laura and her grandfather with information that will turn her world upside down, and their travels… Read More

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a fine copy.Blanche was the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General of NSW, a wealthy middle class colonial official who garnered fame and admiration as an explorer, map-maker, artist, scholar, and eminent public figure.

First Edition first impression. Black cloth boards. Silver lettering to spine with pages clean and tight. Near fine original dust jacket unclipped. DJ now protected in our mylar sleeve. Overall a very nice copy.

The Bohemians at the Bulletin: illustrators, including Norman Lyndsay, who provided social and political commentary through black and white illustrations from the late 1880s.Full-page black & white drawings The Irish-Australian artist & writer describes his meetings with famous writers for the Bulletin, including Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson and Steele Rudd

Hardcover. 1st Edition.Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.Gastronomy is a wonderful starting point to study France and the French. As the retired school master from Provence says, "The religion of France is food. And wine, of course." And they put their money where their mouth is, spending a greater proportion of their income on food and drink than any other nation in the world. Literally hundreds of gastronomic fairs and festivals take place throughout the year all over France - a frog fair, an hommage to the sausage, to the turnip, to the quiche and the noble Camembert. What kind of person is a snail-fancier? Is there a brotherhood of sausage connoisseurs? How can you devote an entire weekend to the French fry? Peter Mayle finds out and brings to life the people who can get passionate about a frog's leg or a well-turned omelette. Over ten years ago he transformed our… Read More

pp. xxxix, (i), 279, (i). Frontispiece and 15 fabulous colour plates from H M Brock accompany these wonderful stories, head- and tail-pieces and end-papers all by Brock. Uncut pages slightly foxed and now in protective jacket.

Original green decorative cloth with gilt decoration & lettering. Contains twelve black & white illustrations. Book plate with original name plate and previous author's inscription. Very slight rubbing to extremities otherwise a very clean, tight copy. The journal of a sixteen year-old boy who went to sea from Yorkshire to Australia because of an "inflammation of the lungs". Tells of his time in Victoria and his return via American continent.

London: Gurney and Jackson, 1914. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition to which is added a supplement containing 180 figures of recently discovered flowering plants by John W Salter and the Ferns, Horsetails and Club-Mosses by John E Sowerby. Described with an introduction and a key to the natural orders By C. Pierpoint Johnson.Weight 1.6

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Signed limited edition of 1000 of which this is number 215. Illustrated with full-page sepia-toned plates by Frank Harding.

Well-preserved cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very good copy.