Search Results: Titles starting with M from Lansdowne Books

MORBIHAN - Bretagne Editions Alépée & Cie - Paris Collection "Les documents de France"
Printed on high quality papier. Photos B/W et couleurs, Fold out Map, Place Ribbon, Inset card Gaston Villager Paul ?huel President du Conseil General
Etat : très correct (petites taches sur la couverture, trace d'arrachage d'une étiquette en 1ère page)
Couverture rigide
Dimensions :940 grDepartemental du Tourisme

Bound in red half morocco, titles and elaborate tooling to spine gilt, raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Very clean, tight copy With illustrations by S.L.Fildes. A handsomely bound copy. The author's final work, it remained unfinished at the time of his death, in June 1870, and has prompted much speculation as to the resolution of the mystery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ Norman Lindsay (illustrator). 1954 Reprint. The text is illustrated with both coloured and black-and-white drawings by the author, some full page, some half page and some three-quarter page. Pale coloured boards with dark blue coloured illustration and titles to the front panel and dark blue coloured titles to the spine. The famous children's story of a Christmas pudding that seemed to have a life of its own, and other adventures of the friends Bunyip Bluegum, Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. A nice copy. Illustrator: Norman Lindsay. Inscription of previous owner. No other annotations.

First impression, not price-clipped. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, dust jacket now in protective mylar. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Subjects: Li, Cunxin 1961-. Ballet dancers. Defectors. Genre: Biography. Language: EnglishSynopsis:An extraordinary memoir of a peasant boy raised in rural Maoist China who was plucked from his village to study ballet and went on to become one of the greatest dancers of his generation. In 1961, three years of Mao's Great Leap Forward-along with three years of poor harvests-had left a rural China suffering terribly from disease and deprivation. Li Cunxin, his parents' sixth son, lived in a small house with twenty of his relatives and, along with the rest of his family, subsisted for years on the verge of starvation. But when he was eleven years old, Madame Mao decided to revive the Peking Dance Academy, and sent her men into the countryside searching for children to attend. Chosen on the basis of his physique alone, Li… Read More

Hardcover in orange illustratred laminate boards, in matching glossy jacket protected in Mylar covering. Full-page color photos throughout with facing recipes and Index. Book and jacket as new: bright, tight, sharp and unmarked.

Hardcover. Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing. Ivory/light blue/light green pictorial spine with red and blue text. Near Fine Dust jacket in protective Mylar covering.

1st Edition. Near fine hardback purple cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Dust jacket in protective mylar. Physical description: . Subjects: Melba, Nellie Dame 1861-1931. Melba, Nellie Dame. Opera Singing Melba, Dame Nellie Biographies. Opera - Singers. Singers - Biography. Singers Australia; Biography. 1 Kg.

Cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front cover with pages clean and tight. Unclipped DJ slight rubbing to top edge now protected in our mylar sleeve. Overall a very nice copy. This fascinating exploration accounts the development of the riverside village that John Batman founded in 1835, through to the present-day metropolis it has become. Beautifully illustrated throughout, including numerous coloured plates, and a view from Collins and Swanston Streets depicted in sepia on the back endpaper. Scottish born Agnes Paton Bell moved to Melbourne and was delighted by its scenery and history. She also wrote "Early Caulfield". In original cloth binding with coloured decorative unclipped dustwrapper.

Revised edition with Maps, Index, Contents and Preface. A comprehensive edition with extensive references.

Hardback Near Fine. Near Fine in unclipped dust jacket. This book is beautifully illustrated by the award-winning artist, Bagram Ibatoulline. This lovely first printing of this award-winning book is protected in a Brodart cover.

British first edition, first printing. Published by Collins in 1981. Virtually no wear to jacket. Jacket is unclipped. Covers are clean and bright with mylar protective cover. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in good condition with faint toning to front endpaper. The tiny island paradise of Zenkali is turned upside down when a civil war breaks out, and the island is invaded not only by the British Military, but by the world press and a fanatical group of conservationists - and all because of a silly bird.

Navy blue boards with gilt spine lettering, price clipped illustrated dust wrapper now in protective mylar designed by Osbert Lancaster. Pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.Gift inscription on inside front board."Commemorating Plum's 90th birthday, issued this tenth Bertie-Jeeves novel which finally resolves the Bassett-Spode romance."

Fine Hardcover in slipcase. Blue and brown cloth with gilt decorations in a fine brown slipcase. Illustrated
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love and marries - and there he dies suddenly. Jealous of his marriage, racked by suspicion at the hints in Ambrose's letters, and grief-stricken by his death, Philip prepares to meet his cousin's widow with hatred in his heart.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine in protective mylar. First Edition, First Printing Illustrated with both colour and b/w photographs. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.