Search Results: Titles starting with G from Goldring Books

London: John Long, 1935. Gilt title on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear apart from a very small mark to top corner edge. Internally there is a little light foxing else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. 16 illustrations. An excellent biography of the Italian poet, soldier and fascist. **** NOT EX LIB **** 4. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Salt Lake City, Utah: Franklin Quest, 1987. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with a few very minor small indentations with complete dustjacket which has a little wear to top and fading to spine. Written in conjunction with Kurt Hanks and Gerreld L. Pulsipher with a foreword by Hyrum W. Smith. The book provides practical tools to use in your personal search for control and fulfillment and help to solve problems more effectively, make better decisions and more accurately predict behavious and outcomes. Whether dealing with business or personal relationships, it utilises your 'belief window' and 'The Control Model', that set governing principles and ideas that influence you. 22. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hutchinson, 1966. Gold title on brown cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean and unmarked with a little dust marking to top edge. A near Fine copy. Dustjacket has a little wear to top. Portrait endpapers. The book comprises biographies of five men, concentrating on the influence that they had on their children. The men are Thomas Seward, George Crabbe the elder, Charles Burney, Richard Edgeworth and George Mitford. The children are Anna Seward, known as the Swan of Lichfield and a poet, George Crabbe the younger and his brother, Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth the author and Mary Russell Mitford. B2B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Bloomsbury, 1990. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. An informative, entertaining and celebratory guide to art galleries and museums and the unexpected art that is displayed. Arranged by region with contact details, showing chosen paintings and a little of the history of the buildings. A supplement to the television art series Gallery which Farson devised and which was presented by George Melly. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.922 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** NOT EX LIB **** 22. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976. Gold title on brown boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there are some minor light marks to fore edge. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has a small repaired closed tear to to and is price clipped. The well known author has lived in Oaksey in Wiltshire for 35 years and kept this diary from April 1974 to March 1975 and recorded her daily preoccupations and village life, and in this delightful cameo she has captured the charm and the changes of the village. Illustrated by Delia Delderfield. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** NOT BOOK CLUB **** C3D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Delderfield, Delia. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First US Edition, First Printing. Set in 1523, mysterious and grisly murders are occurring among the hangmen of London, and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey has only two people to turn to : his beloved nephew, Benjamin Daunbey, and Daunbey's faithful servant, Roger Shallot, who reluctantly agree to go to London to unmask a blackmailer and end the macabre murders. They enter the murky Tudor underworld, the ghastly world of the Gallowsmen, and at the same time they must confront the mystery of the princes of the Tower of London. **** NOT EX LIB **** D4E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford: Isis, 1992. FIRST LARGE PRINT EDITION. A Fine unmarked copy with pictorial laminated boards. Translated from the Swedish, it is an attempt to provide a few glimpses of the actress as a person, her thoughts and ideas, and includes material from her letters, her most active period in the 1930's and from her more silent years in the 1940's. Includes a filmography and black and white illustrations. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2A. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Eyre Methuen, 1974. A near Fine copy with inscription to half title page. Coloured pictorial dustjacket is also near Fine and is price clipped. The gardening historian editor has here compiled a miscellany of prose and verse reflecting his love of plants and gardens. Arranged in ten chapters with contibutions across the ages including William Morris, Samuel Johnson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Karel Capek, Francis Bacon, Vita Sackville-West et al and many plant hunters. A splendid collection. C3A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Souvenir Press, 1988. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards. In this lighthearted but superbly informative book Dr. Stefan Buczacki, familiar to BBC radio 4 listeners, pinpoints the strengths and weaknesses of the opposing forces and shows you how, with guile, compromise and persuasion, you can reach a truce with Nature and achieve a garden that is neither a chemical desert nor a havoc of rank disorder but the pleasant, harmonious garden of your dreams. S. First. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Grant, Shona. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1978. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket.which is price clipped. A comprehensive account of the life of Emile Zola and his novels for English readers. Contains 44 illustrations. . PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.18 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST A1B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: B.T. Batsford / Royal Horticultural Society, 1978. A Fine copy with an inscription to front endpaper with VG+ dustjacket. The fourth volume in the series is a uniquely detailed, comprehensive guide covering more than 160 gardens of outstanding interest which are open to the public in the south eastern counties. 256 pages. 7 colour and 21 black and white photographs, 15 line drawings, 17 garden plans, 4 maps. 13. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lo2002: Constable, 1841. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Millicent Pluke, the devoted wife of Detective Inspector Montague Pluke, stumbles across a woman's body by Devil's Dump, a pool in a remote North Yorkshire moorland stream. Her discovery means Pluke must steel himself not to hunt forgotten horse troughs - the great passion of his life - but instead to track down a murderer. As his enquiries intensify, Pluke suspects the ruined Trough House may provide important clues and when he discovers the body has previously been buried but flushed from its well-hidden grave by the ferocious St. Margaret's Day flood, his knowledge of moorland folklore becomes vital to the investigation. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues, 1973. Gilt titles on blue faux leather boards which have just light wear to spine. Internally there is a small name and address label to front endpaper and some Hebrew words written above the printed Hebrew text else a very clean, tight copy. Text in English and Hebrew. 500 pages. The volume is called Petach Teshuvah translated as The Gate of Repentance and strives to transpose the rich heritage of Jewish penitential worship into a modern key. R1. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Bloomsbury, 2003. FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. The American author's FIRST NOVEL and winner of the 2003 CILIP Carnegie Medal award for children's writing. It was inspired by an infamous murder case in the 1900's where a 19 year old pregnant girl was drowned and her boyfriend was tried and executed, and in this novel the author weaves the tale of Mattie with that of the murder victim, who is staying at the hotel where Mattie works. 106. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Simon & Schuster Books For Young People, 1989. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped.The book takes us inside the powerful hierarchy of the Mormon faith, where history is sacred, faith is never meant to be questioned, and spies are commonplace. The story begins in 1985 with the death by bombing of the wife of one of the Salt Lake City Mormon community's most prosperous businessmen and another bombing kills her husband's former business partner. Rumours of corporate fraud, mafia hit men, and religious death squads sweep the city as a third bomb leaves an eccentric document dealer gravely injured. Was the discovery of documents that throw the very foundations of the Mormon Church into question the cause ? Or was the collapse of Coordinated Financial Services the cause ? 45 illustrations. 21. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Sampson Low,Marston, 1866. Gilt title with coloured floral decoration on green cloth boards which have some light marks and a touch of wear to spine tail and corner tips. Internally there is a neat contemporary name and address to front endpaper, light foxing to closed edges and to some pages but generally a clean, tight copy. Not dated but possibly 1866 (first UK edition was 1865 in two volumes). 400 pages. The author is shown on the front board as Mrs. Whitney, and on the title page as 'The Author of Faith Gartney's Girlhood', but is in fact Mrs. Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (1824-1906), a popular American children's author, writing mainly for young girls. This book is set in New England and is centred around Dr. Gayworth and his women-folk A1C. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Longmans, Green, 1897. Gilt titles to front and spine with bevelled boards on blue cloth which have some light marks to back, a small nick to base of spine. Internally there is some staining to to top margins of a few pages else clean, tight and unmarked. New edition printed from American plates at the Aberdeen University Press. iv + 412 pages 'The Sport of Fools' plate to frontispiece dated 1893 tissue guarded and illustrated title page. B2D. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Butterworths, 1961. Gilt title on green cloth boards which, apart from a small single bump at base, are clean and unmarked with no wear, Internally there is a neat signature to fep else clean and unmarked VG+. A very comprehensive work which sets out the geography of Russia at the beginning of the 1959-1965 seven year plan and covers territorial and economic growth, aims of the communist party, evolution of Marxist-Leninist theories and their application to economic planning, population, transport, agriculture, industry, economic planning regions, foreign trade, economic race with the USA et al. 4. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Lutterworth Press, 1959. Blue title on brown cloth boards which have a little wear to spine head and tail. Internally ther is a small name to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked.303 pages. 97 photographs. 47 maps and diagrams. Coloured endpapers of the Old Testament Palestine and the New Testament Palestine and coloured fold-out Simplified Geologicl Map. 1. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Church Literature Association/Society of Sainys Peter and Paul, 1984. A clean, tight and unmarked copy which has some fading to front and a few minor light marks to back cover. Blind embossed stamp to half title page. xxii + 244 pages. George Anthony Denison was a figure of national importance, with a national reputation. He was a priest of the 19th century Church of England, the storm centre of one High Church court case and cause celebre over eucharistic doctrine, and a vigorous participant in every Victorian Church controversy; he impinged on the eminent worthies of his time in Church and State. Denison was a stern but loving parish priest, a quarrelsome neighbour adored by his wife and an extended gentry family. R6. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.