Search Results: Titles starting with D from CHARLES BOSSOM

London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd. Very Good. N.D.Original blue cloth gilt titles. Slightly rubbed at extremities. .

London: D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to 0851164994 Dust jacket complete except price clipped. Original cloth covered boards with bright titling. Illustrated end papers. No ownership inscription. Red Rory, Danny Longlegs, Jack Flash and countless other legendary names from the golden years of comic adventure stories. From the snowcapped peaks of The Scottish Highlands to the wild frontiers of The American West, Dandy and Beano's heroes could be found in swashbuckling tales and thrilling yarns. Now they're back, in a single book. . . Great Stories From The First Fifty Years. .

Wien: VERLAG VON ANTON SCHROLL & CO. Good/Fair. 1936. Hard Cover. 4to Dust jacket torn and chpped, now in a protective sleeve. Colour & b/w plates. Text in German. .

Osprey Publishing. Very Good/Very Good. 2004. Hard Cover. 4to 18.8 x 3 x 25.7 cm 1841767794 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Numerous photographs. 288 pages clean and tight. Published to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, 'The D-Day Companion' book brings together the perspectives and opinions of leading military historians from both sides of the Atlantic. Operation Overlord saw the Allied Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery pit their wits against Hitler in a bold bid to liberate continental Europe. Featuring a foreword by Major Richard Winters, real-life commander of Easy Company as featured in Stephen E Ambrose's 'Band of Brothers', this is a unique and incisive examination of the momentous events that surrounded June 6, 1944. Each chapter of this new book focuses on a different aspect of the D-Day landings, from the build-up to the attack to the experiences of the… Read More

London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0283993162 Dust jacket complete except price clipped. Black cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription.Maps. xi, 385 pages clean and tight. Twenty very different battles are studied in this book, ranging from Zama in 202 BC to Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Each battle is set in its historical background with an outline of the action, and in the final chapter the author offers some general conclusions on the nature of warfare. .

London: Spring Books. Very Good/Good. 1967. Third Impression. Hard Cover. This is a very heavy book but it will be supplied at the default p & p to addresses within the UK. Revised edition. Dust jacket is in a protective sleeve, closed tears and edge wear. Blue cloth with bright gilt lettering to spine. Slightly rubbed to lower edge. No inscription. 80 pages plus plates clean and tight. This handsomelly illustrated book provides a survey of maps printed from copper plates or wood blocks between the 15th and 18th centuries. The 86 reproductions, 12 in full colour, serves as a specimen book to illustrate the development of map-design and decoration. The introduction describes the techniques used for engraving & printing, the history of the map trade, the development of symbols, lettering, decoration and colouring of maps, some problems in the dating and study of engraved maps, their mortality, and the history of map collecting. .

London: J.M.Dent & Sons. Very Good/Very Good. 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine. Slight bumping to top corners. Dust wrapper slight shelf wear at top. 191 pages clean and tight. .

Peterborough: Printed for Earl Fitzwilliam. Very Good. 1973. First Edition. Illustrated Card Covers. 7.5" X 9" Tall Soft cover. White card covers, slightly curled. Printed for Earl Fitzwilliam, to Commemorate the Centenary of The Peterborough Museum Society in 1971. Introduction and Indexes to the Poems in Manuscript, by Margaret Grainger. 80pp. clean and tight. .

Shrewsbury: Airlife. Very Good/Very Good. 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 1853103829 pp xii 140 including index plus 12 pages of photographs and two maps in the text. Light brown cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine. Desert Eagles tells the story of two American pilots who served in P-40 Kittyhawk fighter/bomber squadrons in the desert air force in 1942 before, during and after the Battle of El Alamein. Both pilots, Hal Marting and Ed Miluck, had come to Britain in 1941 as volunteers of the American Eagle Squadrons. Both men kept diaries of their Middle Fa,,t experiences and it is on these first-hand accounts that the book is based. Hal Marting was shot down on the day the Battle of El Alamein began, captured and taken by the Germans to Athens. There he escaped and with the help of the Greek Resistance evaded recapture, being taken across the Aegean Sea to Turkey and journeying from there back to Cairo by train. The two pilots were reunited in Cairo on 31… Read More

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications,. Very Good/Very Good. 1990. First Edition, First Printing . Hard Cover. 4to - 8.5" By 11" Tall Includes info on preparing copy for typesetting, preparing art and photos for reproduction, colour reproduction, printing and paper. Glossary. 159 pages. Preparing Copy for Typesetting; Copyfitting and Mark-Up Aids; Column Depth Chart; Character Count Chart; Decimal Conversion Chart; Proofreader's Marks; Step-By-Step Copyfitting Methods; Clear Copy Mark-Up for Designers; How to Write Standard Style Sheets; Capturing Your Own Keystrokes: Preparing Art and Photos for Reproduction: Camera Formats and Film Sizes; How to Buy Photography; Cropping, Sizing and Scaling; Evaluating Black-and-White Prints; Understanding Halftone Reproduction; Colour Halftones and Duotones; In-House Special Effects; Art Prep for Specialty Processes: Colour Reproduction: Evaluating Colour Transparencies; Basic Colour Separation Methods; Realizing Prepress Colour… Read More

London: Metheun. Very Good/Good. 1964. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust wrapper slight wear to extremities, not price clipped. Name on ffep. 320 pages clean and tight. .

London: Grant Richards. Good. 1899. First Edition. Hard Cover. 5" by 7.25" Tall Leather spine and cloth covered boards. Leather spine has been rebacked with some pieces of leather missing at top and tail. Corners rubbed. Wear to extremities. Gilt lettering on spine. Marbled page edges. Internally clean with exception of light foxing throughout and some marks on end papers. 330 pages .

Lavenham, Suffolk, UK: Eastland Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0903214032 Dust jacket complete but unclipped, sl. wear to edges. No Marks or Inscriptions. Green cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. The Dunlop Book of the World Cup traces the history of this coveted trophy since the inception of the competition. The possibility of a World Cup tournament was aired at the inaugural meeting of the Federation Internationale de Football Associations in May 1904, but the first competition was not played until 1930 at Montevideo in Uruguay. Once again, David Guiney has written a highly entertaining series of short stories - more than 300 in all - covering the years from 1930 to the memorable festival of football at Mexico City in 1970. Anecdotes concerning the loss of the actual Cup itself, Bobby Moore's detention after an allegation of shop-lifting in Mexico, the three-day war between Honduras and El Salvador, and the dramatic final between England… Read More

Knowledge Publications, (Purnell & Sons) . Very Good. 1966. Wraps. Folio First UK edition. 10¾" x 14" (275mm x 355mm). Eight pages of text and 16 full colour plates; bound in colour illustrated white light card folded to give flaps. Clean and tight/ .

London: George Allen & Unwin. Very Good/Good. 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0049420771 Dust jacket some loss to edges, closed tears. Original cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. Previous owner's book plate on frontis. Frontis plate. 207 pages clean and tight. This picture of daily life in England, painted by Andre Parreaux, depicts the period between 1760 and 1810, from the accession of George III until, showing signs of definite and permanent insanity, he was forced to concede the regency to his son. The beginning of the reign was marked by the end of the Seven Years' War, a war which added Canada and part of Louisiana to the British possessions, wi ich were soon to be robbed of the `thirteen colonies' by the war of American Independence. Then, for more than twenty years, apart from the truce of the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, the French wars raged through Europe. In this tense atmosphere English life changed in the space of forty years more than it… Read More

London: Michael Joseph. Very Good/Very Good. 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. 5" By 6.25" Tall 0718133331 Colour decorations & illustrations on every page. As Daisy knits, she creates a magical world of the imagination, a firelit, sunlit, brightly lit world where her flights of fancy become whimsical reality. The exquisite, richly detailed and humorous watercolour and gouache paintings illustrate an enchanting poem about Daisy - a character who is as captivating and charming as she is lovable. .

London: Sidgwick & Jackson. Very Good/Good. 1955. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Translated by James Cameron.With a map & 32 b&w photographs. pp213. Blue cloth with bright silver lettering on spine. Slight shelf wear to dustwrapper at extremities, not price-clipped dust.The Ogowe-Congo Mission in search of Pygmy tribes. .

London: Nelson. Very Good/Very Good. 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket price clipped. Blue cloth with black titles to spine. Previous owner's ownership label to FFEP reverse. 120 pages clean and tightly bound. .

Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Very Good. 1909. Hard Cover. 6.25" By 9.25" Tall Vellan spine over green paper covered boards. Bumped corners. 74 pages clean and tight. .

Oxford at Clarendon Press. Good +. 1912. Hard Cover. 6.75" By 9.75" Tall Original blue cloth with bright lettering on spine. Slight wear to covers & spine. viii, 577pp. Book plate on f paste down. Clean and tight. Very heavy book will be despatched in the UK for the default charge. .