Search Results: Titles starting with R from Eastleach Books

Royal Automobile Club, nd c 1930. 2nd edition.. Paperback. Card wrappers, VG. 48pp, colour maps, b/w illustrations, a nice copy, covers a little rubbed, central map pages detatched, staples rusty. Motoring guide to the counties of Wiltshire & Dorset, nice period adverts from the Golden Age of car touring.

HMSO, 1945. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, G. 144pp, b/w illustrations throughout, covers detached & torn with loss to the edge of the upper cover. Well illustrated account of the RAF in North Africa & the Middle East.

Marlborough Fine Art New York Ltd, 1974. 1st edition.. Paperback. Large format paperback, VG. 38pp, b/w frontis, 11 colour & 17 colour illustrations, edges a little rubbed, otherwise a fine copy. Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings & works by the American born Pop Artist Ronald Brooks Kitaj [ 1932 - 2007 ].

Marlborough Fine Art New York Ltd, 1970. 1st edition.. Paperback. Large format paperback, VG. 14pp, colour & b/w illustrations, edges a little rubbed, otherwise a fine copy. Brochure for a series of screenprinted works by the American born Pop Artist Ronald Brooks Kitaj [ 1932 - 2007 ].

Marlborough Fine Art ( London ) Ltd, 1977. 1st edition.. Paperback. Large format paperback, VG. 44pp, colour & b/w illustrations, edges a little rubbed, otherwise a fine copy. Catalogue of an exhibition of works by the American born Pop Artist Ronald Brooks Kitaj [ 1932 - 2007 ].

University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2021. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, F. viii+277pp, b/w illustrations, inex, a fine copy. A critical study of the life & work of the American cartoonist Robert Crumb.

Spire Books, Reading, 2010. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation coth, dj, F/VG+. 347pp, b/w frontis, b/w illustrations throughout, index, a fine copy in a near fine dustjacket that is slightly scratched to the rear cover. A detailed study of the work of the early 19th century church architect Robert Dennis Chantrell [ 1793 - 1872 ] who is probably best remembered for designing Leeds Parish Church. The book contains a catalogue of his works.

Spire Books, Reading, 2010. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation coth, dj, F/VG+. 347pp, b/w frontis, b/w illustrations throughout, index, a fine copy in a near fine dustjacket that has a small scratch to the rear panel. A detailed study of the work of the early 19th century church architect Robert Dennis Chantrell [ 1793 - 1872 ] who is probably best remembered for designing Leeds Parish Church. The book contains a catalogue of his works.

Preston Corporation, 1954. 1st edition.. Paperback. Stapled card wrappers, VG. 32pp, 20 b/w illustrations, edges of the covers chipped & rubbed, Ex Libris Robert Bassett with his bookplate. Basic illustrated guide to the Smith collection which features Bow, Bristol, Chelsea, Derby Caughley, Pinxton, Swansea, Worcester & Longton Hall items

University of South Carolina Press, 1978. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, F. xxxii+121pp, b/w frontis, 2 b/w plates, a fine copy. Useful reprinting of the Medieval Romance of Tom a Lincolne based upon the edition of 1631. Written in around 1598, no copy earlier than the 6th edition of 1631 has survived.

Petri Prost, Lugduni ( Lyon ), 1643. 2nd edition.. Hardback. Full contemporary vellum, G. ht+tp+[xvi]+380+[48]+tp+[x]+288+[62]pp ( folio, in 6s - ¶4, é6 A-Ii4, á-ó6, ¶6, A-Aa6, †-†††††8 ) title page vignettes, title page for the first part of the work printed in red & black, complete with the half title for the first part, text complete despite there being stubs at ¶4 at the begining & ††††6 at the rear ( these are endpaper stubs ). vellum worn & grubby with the lower R corner of the upper panel rubbed with loss, backstrip worn with some loss & old vellum repairs, neat white ink Library numbers to the base of the spine, and an old inked 'Concil Sanchez' to the bottom fore edge, internally sound with occasional light foxing, some browning to the pages with a small marginal water stain to the index at the rear not affecting the text, early ink ownership inscription of Francisci Borelli to the… Read More

Jonathan Cape, 1987. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, VG+/VG. xvi+422pp, 24pp b/w plates, index, a large number of related newspaper clippings laid in, bookplate, dustjacket a little rubbed & scuffed. A biography of Richard Austen Butler [ 1902 - 1982 ] the prominent British Conservative politician. The Times obituary called him "the creator of the modern educational system, the key-figure in the revival of post-war Conservatism, arguably the most successful chancellor since the war and unquestionably a Home Secretary of reforming zeal."

Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Tempe, 1996. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, F. viii+133pp, a fine copy. MRTS vol 130. A critical guide to Rabelais' four works which collectively form Gargantua and Pantagruel.

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg - Oxford University Press, 1937. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, G/G. xiv+328pp, tables, index, dustjacket chipped & worn & stained along the spine, occasional underlining to the text, a good copy. Booksellers ticket of Adams & Co, Durban on the pastedown. Study of attitudes to race, historical & present, with regard to South Africa. The author was senior lecturer in psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Aldine Publishing Company, 1975. 1st US edition.. Hardback. CLoth, dj, F/VG. 345pp, index, fine copy in a near fine slightly rubbed dustjacket. Study of the underling reasons for Racial tensions & violence in Modern Society.

Duxbury Press, 1977. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, VG. xvi+399pp, index, spine sunned, otherwise a fine copy. A collection of reading from Key texts with analysis.

University of Rochester Press, 1992. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. xx+401pp, index, a nice fine copy in a fine dustjacket. New. Library of the History of Ideas Vol 8. A collection of 21 essays on the major cultural changes found bewteen the 15th & 19th centuries concerning, race, slavery, ethnicity, gender, human nature, compassion and humanity.

Routledge Kegan Paul, 1963. 2nd impression of 2nd ediiton.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG+. cxxx+767pp, folding frontis map, index, a nice fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Standard listing of approx 26000 Proverbs from around the world, taken from around 200 languages. ( as opposed to a list of racialy derogative proverbs ).

Routledge Kegan Paul, 1963. 2nd impression of 2nd ediiton.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG+. cxxx+767pp, folding frontis map, index, a fine copy in a near fine, slightly edge worn dustjacket. A standard listing of approx 26000 Proverbs from around the world, taken from around 200 languages. ( as opposed to a list of racialy derogative proverbs ).

Octopus, 1973. 1st edition.. Hardback. cloth, dj, F/F. 144pp, b/w & colour illustrations throughout, tables & a few maps, a nice fine copy. A large format book giving a general overview to the world of motor sport. Chapter cover land speed records, the early formula one races, the drivers etc...