Search Results: Titles starting with I from CHARLES BOSSOM

Maidstone: George Mann. Very Good/Very Good. 1973. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket complete. Green cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Pp.332. Clean and tight. A Reprint of the 1843 First Edition of NELSONIAN REMINISCENCES. Leaves from Memory's Log by Lieutenant George Samuel Parsons R.N. George Parsons joined the Royal Navy in 1795 at the age of eleven, and was an impressionable midshipman of thirteen at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, which he describes in this book in telling detail. He subsequently served with Nelson at the Battle of the Nile, and at Naples, aboard the Foudroyant, where he encountered the fair Lady Hamilton. Later, he was for a while on the West Indies Station and was involved in action against the Dutch, and in the blockade of the island of Curacoa. His book is packed with anecdotes and graphic, first-hand descriptions of historical personalities and events, and it is full of first-class dialogue and excellent narrative. It… Read More

London: Walker Books Limited. Very Good/Very Good. 2000. New Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0744521513 Dust jacket unclipped. Green boards with bright gold titles to spine. No ownership markings. Numerous colour illustrations by Maurice Sendak. 160 pages clean and tightly bound. .

Stationery Office Books. Very Good/Very Good. 1981. Hard Cover. 8vo 0112903401 Dust jacketcomplete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 102 pages clean and tight. .

Cambridge: Pearson Publishing. Very Good. 2002. Reprint. Soft Cover. 1857497651 .

London: Moorland Publishing Company. Very Good/Very Good. 1981. First Edition. Hard Cloth Cover. 8vo 0861900189 Dust jacket complete, unclipped, now in clear protective sleeve. Red cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 152 pages clean and tight. An Illustrated History of Railway Preservation This book looks at the railway preservation activity in the context of Britain's railway heritage. It examines the growth and decline of the main line and private systems which produced both the need and the opportunity, first for static preservation and then for the dramatic rescues for which the Talyllyn Railway set the fashion in 1950. The book ranges from the early years of railways through the eras of growth and change and sees many parallels between the work of the early pioneers and the activities of the preservation movement. It describes the latter, not only in terms of location and equipment but also in practices, problems and achievements and in the process… Read More

Leeds: Richard Jackson. Good +/No DJ. 1891. Hard Cover. 4to Limited / Numbered / Edition. Limited edition No.187 of 200 sets. Original two-tone cloth. 2 volumes. 220 line drawings by J.A.Symington Pp. xvi, 312; 313-671, CLEAN AND TIGHT. Heavy books but will be despatched for the standard charge, no extra postage will be asked for. .

Woolpit Suffolk, UK: Images Publications. Very Good/Very Good. 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 094813416X Dust jacket complete but price clipped. Black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No Marks or Inscriptions. Full page colour & b/w photographs. 96 pages clean and tight. The Images of Suffolk are those of Constable and Gainsborough; soft undulating landscapes, tranquil waters, sleepy villages of thatched cottage and timber-framed manor house, beautiful churches, fifty miles of unspoilt coastline, and not least, of its people. All hide behind a veil of inherent modesty, inviting discovery ....... .

London: John Moxon. Good/No DJ. 1856. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Immortelles from Charles Dickens: By Charles Dickens, Ich. Compiled by Ich. Published by John Moxon, 1856. Blue cloth with gilt titling and decoration to upper cover and spine. Slightly rubbed to edges. Previous owner's book plate on f. paste down. A few light foxing spots. Section 97 - 104 bound out of order. all pages present. 195 pages tightly bound. .

New York: Southeby's. Very Good/Very Good. 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to .

R.S. Surtees Society. Very Good/Very Good. 1985. Hard Cover. 8vo 0948560002 No ownership marks. A superior copy. .

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK: Alastair Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4.5" By 6" Tall 1870567609 Dust jacket complete & unclipped. Boards. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. Poems & extracts from the work of the famous throughout the centuries . (Defoe, Drayton, Dickens, C Bax, J Agate, V Woolf, Shakespeare, W Morris, Tacitus, A Trollope, E Thomas, G Borrow, A Bennett, H G Wells, etc.. 56 pages clean and tight. .

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons Limited. Fair to Good. 1889. Hard Cover. 5.5" By 7.5" Tall' Original blue pictorial cloth rubbed and bumped. Spine frayed and torn. Contents mainly clean and tight. 359 pages plus catalogue pages. Frontispiece, Vignette, 30 engraved plates. An entertaining adventure yarn describing voyages and adventures from the African Gold Coast to Zanzibar .

London: Sinclair-Stevenson. Fine/Fine. 1991. First Edition, First Impression. Hard Cover. 8vo 1856190676 Inscribed By the Author INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE "TO ANNE WITH THANKS, HUNTER DAVIES". 308 pages with 16 colour photographs. Clean and tight. Hunter Davies sought to make sense of the miasma of contradictory statements that have been made about Columbus. He studied the Archives of the Indies in Spain, and Columbus family documents in Italy. From this research, he produced a biography of Columbus, which appears in chapters alternating with an account of his own present-day journey in his predecessor's steps. In Haiti he tracked down the exact location at which the "Santa Maria" was shipwrecked and the first settlement established in the New World. He went to the Bahamas, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela - and many other places. .

London: O. Anacker Limited. Good/WRAPS. Hard Cover. 12mo raps. Foxing spots mainly to prelims and page edges. 52 pages. .

London: Arts Council of Great Britain . Very Good +. Circa 1975-1982. An undated poem card. Cream card printed in red and black. .

London: Rivington, Percival & Co. Good. 1893. Hard Cover. 4to Maroon cloth with gilt titling and decorations on spine & upper cover. Bump to top of spine. Name on half title. Tissue guarded frontis. 50 Illustrations / Plates. xiii, 284 pages clean and tight. .

Blandford Press. Very Good +. 1988. Reprint. Card Cover. 6" By 9.25" Tall 0713723661 224pp. .

Lond1836: Darton and Harvey. Good/No DJ. Hard Cover. 12mo WAKEFIELD, Priscilla (Bell), 1751-1832. Instinct displayed exemplifying the extraordinary sagacity of various species of the animal creation. Faded embossed original cloth, bright gilt titling on spine. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. A little foxing. Frontis plate. Illustrated title page. xvi, 303 pages clean and tight. .

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Very Good +. 2005. Hard Cover. Pocket Sized 1851243356 .

Aerospace Publications. Very Good. 1995. Soft Cover. 4to .