Search Results: Titles starting with G from Hessay Books

Manchester City Art Galleries, 1974. A large format exhibition catalogue of 67pp, with illustrated softback covers. Colour and b + w illustrations. A few small light spots of foxing to the covers, but internally clean. Text by Bernard Dorival to the catalogue of the Exhibition held in Manchester 4 June to 28 July 1974.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Nelson, 1964. Colour illustrated boards. Colour and b + w photographs of guinea pigs. School ownership stamp to title page, otherwise clean. Part of the 'See How They Grow' series, for children.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Antoinette Barrere.

Sceptre, 1986. Translated by Guy Daniels. 527pp, the paper browning a litttle with age. Illustrated softback covers with creases to the front. B + w photographs. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean and tight. The autobiography of the famous Russian opera diva, who rose from poverty in Stalinist Russia to stardom and to know the most famous men in Russia, such as Kruschev, Rostropovich, Brezhnev, Yevtushenko and Solzhenitsyn, but who defected to the West in 1973.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Art Galleries Committee of The Corporation of Manchester , 1968. 28pp, decorated card covers. A clean copy. Short Introduction and 20 photographic plates of women's costumes from 1800 to 1835 - the age of Jane Austen and Walter Scott... Soft Cover. Fine.

Art Galleries Committee of The Corporation of Manchester , 1953. 28pp, decorated card covers. A clean copy. Short Introduction and 20 photographic plates of late Victorian women's costumes, with descriptions.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Art Galleries Committee of The Corporation of Manchester , 1963. 30pp, decorated card covers. A clean copy. Short Introduction and 20 photographic plates of women's costumes for sport, with descriptions.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

Art Galleries Committee of The Corporation of Manchester , 1971. 28pp, decorated card covers. A clean copy. Short Introduction and 20 photographic plates of women's costumes from 1740 to 1800.. Soft Cover. Fine.

Art Galleries Committee of The Corporation of Manchester , 1969. 28pp, decorated card covers. A clean copy. Short Introduction and 20 photographic plates of women's costumes from 1770 to 1886.. Soft Cover. Fine.

Herbert Jenkins, 1111. Wartime edition. 188pp, orange cloth covered boards, faded to spine. Internally clean. The judge is killed in court - a case for Inspector Cranston.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Ward Lock & Co, 1111. Mid - late C19th. 415pp, green cloth covered boards with floral design, the binding now very shaky. Gift inscription on flyleaf, a few marginal marks - a good 'reading copy' of a rare novel.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Alison & Secker & Warburg, 1985. 153pp, priceclipped dustjacket by Philip Mann is otherwise complete. A clean copy. Marx's daughter, a duchess, and a young man, on a vantage point in heaven comment on anarchist activities in the 1960s. The author's first book.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Collins, 1990. 191pp, complete dustjacket with a couple of short closed tears to edges. A clean copy. A judge is seriously injured - a case for DCI Taff Roberts.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Collins, 1990. 173pp. Complete dustjacket illustrated by David O'Connor. Original owner's name on the flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. Space adventure.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine.

Seeley Service & Co, 1111. Probably circa 1930. 188pp. Green cloth covered boards, a little bumped to one corner. B + w photographs. The previous owner has attached a (removeable) photograph they took of little owls to the flyleaf, attached a colour photograph to the front cover of the book, and has attached a clear plastic jacket to the book with tape. The book is internally clean. How to understand the needs of different birds, attract them to your garden and care for them. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Maney, 1999. 69pp, illustrated soft covers. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. Articles include the Indian gardening tradition and the Sajjan Niwas Bagh, Jaipur, Education for lady gardeners in Ireland, The making of a socialist Arcadia arboriculture and horticulture in the London Borough of Bermondsey after the Great War, and Benjamin Bond Hopkins at Painshill.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

Parragon, 1998. Large format. 256pp. Illustrated laminated boards with matching dustjacket with one closed tear. Many colour illustrations. Internally very clean. Subtle and spectacular colour effects in the garden. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good.

Stanley Paul, 1961. 184pp. Priceclipped dustjacket with small portion of loss to back. Internally very clean. Includes bulbs, bonsai, cactus, begonias, flowering and foliage plants.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Dent, 1949. Everyman edition, with an Introduction by D B Wyndham Lewis. 360pp, light blue cloth covered boards with a little wear to the top of the spine. Faint traces of a previous owner's name stamp to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. Volume One of two, this volume covers from CH. I of Book I to CH XXVIII of Book III, How Friar John comfortheth Panurge in the doubtful matter of cuckoldry.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Weidenfeld, 1976. 191pp, complete dustjacket in plastic sleeve. Ex library - but only evidenced by a stamp to the back of the title page and no other stamps or slips etc. and otherwise internally clean. Based on the Yorkshire TV series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. Ex-Library.

Hamish Hamilton, 1990. 374pp, complete dustjacket in protective plastic cover. Ex library, so flyleaf removed, stamps to ttitle page, otherwise a clean 'reading copy'. A novel set around the Spanish Civil War. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Ex-Library.