Search Results: Titles starting with E from Rickaro Books Ltd

London: A. Brown and Sons, 1924. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Bound in original brown cloth with gilt titling, small evidence of pulls to top and base of spine and corners bumped. Photograph frontispiece and other photographic plates, 267pp. An interesting history of the early period of the county. Internally bright and sound..

London: Spring Books, 1970. Book. Very Good. Hardback. Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in very good d/w. A well researched account of percussion weapons. 190pp..

London: J.S. Virtue, 1898. Book. Illus. by Crane, Walter. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A very good clean copy, some rust marking where original staple binding now removed. Rebound in Holland boards with cream cloth spine, aeg. 32pp 5 tipped in colour plates and 3 full page plates with tissue guards and further text illustrations. 32pp + 12pp advertisements. Previous owner's name discreetly to half title. .

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2015. Book. Fine. Soft cover. New Edition. A fine new copy. The paperback edition. A major figure in Bede's famous history of the English Nation, this is the first book-length account of King Ecgfrith, written by one of the leading historians of the period. 320pp.

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2015. Book. Fine. Hardback. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. The hardback edition in cloth with no dustwrapper as issued. A major figure in Bede's famous history of the English Nation, this is the first book-length account of King Ecgfrith, written by one of the leading historians of the period. 320pp.

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2023. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A new copy. The sixteen papers in this richly illustrated volume are gathered in four main sections on 'The Material Church'; 'Religion and Devotion'; 'Church and Clergy'; and 'Education and Formation', preceded and concluded with essays celebrating the work and generosity of Professor Nicholas Orme, who has long made these subjects his special interest. Although the essays are concerned generally with England, there is some emphasis on the south-west, as is also the case with Nicholas Orme's own contribution to scholarship during his career at Exeter University, which has continued during his very active and productive retirement. 448pp..

Lincolnshire: Shaun Tyas, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardback. New Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A reconstruction of the life of Edward Cresy, author of the 'Encylopaedia of civil engineering'. A fine, new copy. xviii + 222pp. +54 plates on 36 pages of art paper..

Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2013. Book. Fine. Paperback. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy of this scholarly edition of Edward Thomas poetry. 332pp..

London: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy bound in black buckram. The Folcroft facsimile reprint which includes an important bibliography, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1927 first edition. An informative guide to the country poet slain in the First World War. 328pp..

London: Bloomsbury Books, 2015. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. 480pp..

Cardiff: University of Wales Press , 1972. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine copy of this essay on Edward Thomas, Number 16 of an edition limited to 750 copies. 82pp,.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in fine d/w. The reissue of a book first published in 1956. 256pp. Previous owners small label to fep..

London: Dent, 1937. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound in original green cloth, a good copy of this informative guide to the country poet slain in the First World War. 328pp.Pasted to inside of front board obituary of Eckert and other related cuttings..

London: Faber & Faber, 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near fine copy of the first edition of this volume on the writings of Edward Thomas. Small label of previous owner to fep. 183pp..

Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 2013. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A tour de force of fine printing at its best. A volume from Simon Lawrence at his Fleece Press. This is one of 240 copies of which just 220 are for sale. Much hand printing with wood engravings matched with colour and fine binding.113pp with engravings and tip ins & original prospectus laid inside..

London: Fairfax Hall at the Stourton Press, 1976. Book. Fine. Hardback. Signed by Author and Publisher. First Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy. Bound in green cloth covered boards with brown cloth spine. Limited to just 100 copies, this is number 71, signed by Basil Creighton and Fairfax Hall, 86pp..

Adecoar: Asociacion de Amigos del Palacio Ducal de Lerma, 2003. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A fine copy in original card copies of this illustrated guide to the Palacio Ducal de Lerma. Spanish text. Col illus, plans and maps throughout. 119pp.

Lichfield: Anne & Peter Stocham, 1997. Book. Fine. No Binding. First Thus. A fine clean as new copy. Four pages on grey card, printed to commemorate the unveiling of the staue of Dr Johnson's cat Hodge in Gough Square, London in 1997. The poem, and an essay on the back page by Herman W Liebert with an account of Dr Johnson's cats..

London: Richard Phillips, 1806. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A good copy in contemporary calf with wear to the spine and some scattered foxing. 312pp. with folding coloured plan frontispiece, 2 further folding plans and i full page + many line engravings in text. The title page dated 1806 with a Dedication dated 1809.Alfred Crocker (1742 - 1821) was the surveyor and printer master of the Bluecoat School, the mathematics school at Christ's Hospital especifically for training boys in naviagtion for the Royal Navy..

London: Handheld Press, 2022. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. John Llewelyn Rhys (1911-1940) was born in Abergavenny. He published The Flying Shadow in 1936 (also reissued by Handheld Press), and in 1939 published The World Owes Me A Living (filmed in 1945). Both were powerful novels about British aviation in the 1930s: the planes, the pilots, their need to be in the air, their skill and bravery, their hard-drinking lives, the long-distance record-breaking attempts, and death through accidents and taking one risk too many. In August 1940 Rhys died in an RAF training flight. His widow, the novelist Jane Oliver (author of Handheld's best-selling Business as Usual), assembled his last book for publication: a collection of short stories published in 1941 as England is My Village. It won the prestigious Hawthornden Prize in 1942, and in the same year Jane Oliver set up the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize in her late husband's memory:… Read More