Search Results: Titles starting with C from Hessay Books

Flamingo, 1991. 334pp, softback covers, creased to spine. B + w illustrations. Internally clean and tight. The definitve biography of the author and academic.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

HMSO, 1970. 86pp, yellow soft covers. Original owner's name to title page, otherwise clean. Structure, recruitment, training, efficiency, the use of manpower and conditions of service etc. in the Civil Service. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Spain, 1979. 4th edition. Text in Spanish. Laminated covers. Colour and b + w illustrations. Original owner's name stamp on title, otherwise Fine. Map. The history and monumnets of Caceres in Spain.. Pictorial Cover. Fine.

HarperCollins, 1999. 101pp, complete dustjacket. A very clean copy. The first book, written at the age of 14, by the author who later became famous for the Maturin sea stories.. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

Doubleday, 1952. 17th printing of the First Edition, dated May 2 1952. 498pp, dark blue cloth boards with silver anchor to the spine. Colour illustrated dustjacket is priceclipped and has a portion of loss to the base of the spine. A gift inscription to the back of the flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. The story of Willie Keith and the mutiny on the destroyer-minesweeper Caine in World War II.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Dent, 1946. Everyman edition, with an Introduction by John Hadfield. 280pp, red cloth covered boards with impressed series logo, a very little faded to the spine. A clean copy. The story of Rosie, the barmaid.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Reprint Society, 1962. 190pp, yellow boards with brown spine, dustjacket with previous owner's name on inner flap. B + w photographs and maps. An African Treasure Hunt in Mozambique. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Warne, 1111. Probably 1890s. 385 pp, gilt edges, frontispiece portrait of the author, attractive green cloth boards with gilt decoration. Light foxing, one gutter springing a little, and gift inscription otherwise VG. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Royal Historical Society, 1993. A heavy book of 475pp. Red coloured boards, a little rubbed to the spine. Map of their London holdings. A very clean copy. Introduction, with Biographical Background, Landed Estates and Cartularies, MSS etc and the text of the cartularies in modern English with details of the land holdings etc of the London merchants John Pyal (died 1375) mainly in Northamptonshire and Adam Fraunceys (died 1382) in Essex and Middlesex.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Jonathan Cape and The Book Society, 1945. 220pp, grey cloth boards. Unused bookplate on flyleaf, small spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise a clean copy. Set in India between the wars.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

National Children's Home , 1943. 6 cards, each side containing a calendar for each month and quotation from Winston Churchill surrounded by a colour illustrated border by Mr John Buchanan, a crippled artist without hands. Card covers measuring approximately 18cm x 12cm, the front one illustrated with the national flowers, and with ribbon ties to the top. Gift inscription to the inner cover, otherwise clean. Very Rare.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by John Buchanan.

Epworth Press, 1943. 48pp, with stapled softback covers, with a couple of marks. Internally clean. A play for 13 women characters mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, set in the early church at the time of Paul.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Continuum, 2003. 192pp, complete dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The autobiography of the controversial former bishop of Durham, who held unorthodox views on the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection and opposed Mrs Thatrcher at the time of the Miner's Strike.. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

Cambridge, 2009. A very heavy book of 836p. Complete dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. With over 700 entries, both long and short, this encyclopedia gathers together the full range of present knowledge and leading scholarship on Handel's life and music. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Fine.

Batsford, 1942. 2nd, revised, edition. 120pp, illustrated dustjacket with a little wear to edges. Colour and b + w illustrations, endpaper maps. Small light spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. The history of the university and town, and a guide to the buildings.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Cambridge, 1989. 1st paperback edition. 384pp, colour illustrated laminated softback covers.B + w illustrations. Foreword by the Duke of Edinburgh. An illustrated anthology of prose and poetry describing life at the University of Cambridge through the ages.One light crease to corner, otherwise a clean, tight copy.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Cambridge, 1983. Revised second edition. Blue soft covers, in plastic cover. 76pp. A couple of light school stamps, otherwise internally clean. Stage 13 - 16 of the Cambridge Latin Course.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Cambridge, 1943. 145pp,dustjacket with tear to edge and loss to bottom half of spine. B + w illustrations. Gift inscription, and poem, to flyleaf, a couple of passages marked to first chapter, otherwise clean. Comes with newspaper obituary of the author. The history of Cambridge University. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Batsford, 1945. 3rd edition, revised. 120pp, blue cloth covered boards, faded to spine and edges. Colour frontispiece and b + w illustrations, endpaper maps. Previous owner's name, otherwise internally clean. A history of the university. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Robinson, 1992. 418pp, illustrated covers a little rubbed to edges. Internally very clean, tight,and Near Fine. Heroic adventures from the age of the Knights of the Round Table. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.