Search Results: Titles starting with S from Goldring Books

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1986. A Fine unmarked copy. 128 pages. 142 illustrations, 30 in full colour. Dancing intensifies awareness, so that the dancer begins to understand how the universe is made up of infinite patterns of motion around a still centre. A primordial element of religious tradition, all over the world, the dance was a vital part of Early Christian worship, and survives in the whirling orbiting movements of the Dervishes in Turkey. In images ranging from Botticelli's dancing angels to the dance patterns of the South Seas, this book evokes one of man's oldest and profoundest impulses: to act out the movements of the powers that he senses within himself and within the world. 2. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1951. A Very Good unmarked copy with dustjacket which has two repaired closed tears to front and is not price clipped. A story of adventure, physical and spiritual set around a boy's club in the West of England but it's implications stretch beyond that world to the basic problems of human conduct. SCARCE B2A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Quercus, 2008. An As New copy in and As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. a large format volume of 256 pages lavishly colur illustrated. Journeys to sacred places or shrines undertaken as acts of veneration or penance have been a feature of religious observance from the earliest times. Ancient religions had holy sites, temples and groves, such as Delphi and Dodona in Greece, where oracles and their priestesses were reputed to be able to tell the future. Even older is Stonehenge - whose original religious purpose is still shrouded in mystery - and the Pyramids of Giza, defying all attempts to fathom their mysteries. During the medieval period Christian pilgrimage - to Jerusalem, Rome, Constantinople and Santiago de Compostela - was a sacred obligation and a trial of faith. On the other side o the Eurasian landmass, the Golden Temple and the Dome of the Rock became two of the holiest sites of the Sikh and Islamic faiths, with pilgrimage to Mecca, or… Read More

London: Longmans, 1966. Gold title on blue boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there is some light foxing to top and fore edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket is also VG+. x + 83 pages. These lectures were delivered from notes and His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, President of the World Council of Churches has rewritten them for publication. They preach an involvement with this world to a fatal exclusion of the reality of the other. **** NOT EX LIB **** R1. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Bellew Publishing, 1992. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A collection representing the high noon of classic Western writing by authors - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Crane, Clarence E. Mulford, James Hall, Frank Harris, Bret Harte, Jack London, Alfred Henry Lewis, O. Henry, Jack Schaefer, Stewart Edward White, Owen Wister, Zane Grey, Richard Harding Davis. *** NOT EX LIB *** C3D. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Collins, 1980. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with VG+ price clipped dustjacket. The book is about Rachel Saint, a missionary and the Auca Indians of the Amazon jungle in Eastern Ecuador. It tells far more than her missionary work but tells the story of a young girl who at 17 had a vision and how a primitive tribe grew to love her, it is a story of great courage in the face of terrifying danger. She knew that her brother and four companions had been killed by the tribe and that no white man nor Indian had ever made contact with them in their whole violent history, she knew that they had so little regard for life that they killed their wives and children on a casual whim. But she went fearlessly to live with them and taught them the meaning of love and how to live in peace. Map endpapers and numerous photographs by John Wright. 24. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford: Blackwell, 1997. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy apart from a small name and date to half title page. 225 pages. Comprises the author's introduction and his plays Saint Oscar; The White, the Gold and the Gangrene; Disappearances; God's Locusts. Eagleton sees in Wilde's works 'a kind of secret compact' between artistic and theoretical experiment. A similar compact emerges in these startling dramas of post colonial Ireland. Saint Oscar, is about Oscar Wilde; The White, the Gold and the Gangrene is based on the life and tragic death of James Connolly; God's Locusts was written to commemorate the Great Famine. 51. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Glasgow: Catholic Truth Society of Scotland, 1955. Stapled paper with portrait of Saint Pius X to front. Published by the Catholic Truth Society of Scotland Motherwell Diocesan Branch. Not dated but presumed to be mid 1950's. " In 1951, I had the honour of being allowed to publish a short work for the Beatification of Pope Pius X. The Motherwell Diocesan Council of the Catholic Truth Society of Scotland has again honoured me with the commission to produce another pamphlet for his Canonization". Scarce R6. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1946. Spine âge obscurci. Deuxième édition. 338 pages. Tables des Matières: Sources et Méthode; 1 - La Plus Grande Sainte des Temps Moderne; 2 - Petitesse; 3 - Primauté de L'Amour; 4 - Confiance et Abandon; 5 - Fidélité dans les Petites Choses; 6 - Via Mariale; 7 - L'Ange du Sacerdoce; 8 - Les Dons du Saint Esprit; 9 - Un Nouvel Age de Spiritualité. R7. Couverture Souple. Bon/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Collins, 1982. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. Foreword by Lord Home. An excellent work on the salmon, where the author eschews remedies for frostbite and descriptions of the latest gadgets in favour of entertainment, provides a lucid explanation of the salmon's mysterious life cycle, an exemplary account of how to cook one, an incisive guide to the complexities of the salmon fly and accounts of fishing in remote parts of the world, frequented only by geologists, ornithologists and salmon fishermen. 36 illustrations. **** NOT EX LIB **** 23. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Harvill Press, 1955. Gold title on green boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers and light foxing to top edge else clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has some light foxing and is not price clipped. Translated by Marjorie Villiers. Second impression 1955 (first was also 1955). The author has described the various Religious Orders as he has observed them personally and therefore with particular attention to France. For the convenience of the reader, additional information on other countries (particularly the British Isles and the United States) is given in an appendix. Illustrations by the author. R1. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Frossard, Andre . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Hutchinson, 1956. Gold title on green boards which have mark to front and light bumping to two corner tips but no wear. Internally the front and rear hinges are cracked but still tight else a clean unmarked copy. 376 pages. 132 illustrations. Line drawings by the author; photographs by the author, his wife and others. A comprehensive work on sea anging A1D. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Frederick Muller, 1962. Gold title on black boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and free from inscription. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket is not price clipped. Translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald. A novel of Lazaro Bertone, a patriotic Roman who donned the famous 'Red Shirt' and fought with Garibaldi for national unity, but when unity was achieved he, like others, were banished. He finds himself a schoolmaster in Sardinia, in the 'Barbagia', the wildest and most uncivilised part of the island, where few people know what a school is and his is a struggle against ignorance, ancient prejudice and thoughtless cruelty. A fascinating, unusual and at times humorous story, impressively told by an author who has a scholarly knowledge of Sardinia. NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY B2E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Macmillan, 1984. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. x + 152 pages. Between 1946 and 1981 approximately 4,000 pages of Sartre's biographical discourse have been published - almost 2 million words. The average reader rarely associates Sartre's name with biography, but Sartre spent thirty years of his life engaged in oneway or another in writing the biographies of several poets, novelists and dramatists, and one painter. Towards the end of his life Sartre declared that of all the books that he had written those which came closest to his literary ideal were his biographies of Genet and Flaubert. Manifestly, Sartre's existential biographies are a network of contradictions which epitomise the contradictory nature of literature in the society in which we live. This book is an attempt to explain some of these contradictions. **** NOT EX LIBRARY *** 24. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Simon & Schuster, 1997. A Very Good copy with some light foxing to closed edges else clean and unmarked with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. A novel set in World War 2 where Rob Stallard leaves war-torn London for a Florida airbase along with a group of RAF pilot cadets. He quickly develops a great passion and talent for flying, despite the tough, rigorous conditions, but is not so happy when he encounters US cadet James Theodore Benson III, socialite, sportsman, womaniser and son of a senator. A powerful and moving account of allies who struggle to understand each other. 2. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Thomas Nelson Gilt title blocks with gilt sailing ship pictorial to spine and boy on horse pictorial to front on green cloth boards. Boards are clean with just a few minor marks to front and back and no wear. Internally there is a coloured decorative prize bookplate and light foxing to closed edges else clean, tight and unmarked. 317 pages with 5 coloured plates by various illustrators and coloured illustrated extra title page. Not dated but circa 1900's. First published in 1876. Uniform with the Kingston Library series. A children's adventure story featuring a sailing journey, mutinous threats, shipwreck, capture by Arabs and many escapes from danger. A1C. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Headline, 2000. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. Here, told for the first time, is the captivating story of the flower shop and the intriguing tales of the men and women who worked in them from Victorian times to the present. With stunning period drawings, photographs and illustrations, it is a magnificent and lasting tribute to the splendours of the flower shop. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.0 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COSTS **** 2. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Peter Pauper Press, 1957. A Very Good unmarked copy. Boards have a little wear to edges with a small separation to lower front spine side. Dustjacket has wear to edges and a small tear. Illustrated with wood engravings by Boyd Hanna specifically for this volume. The present text is derived chiefly from The Gospel of Buddha, a compilation by Paul Carus from many source-books of Buddhist teachings, including Beale. R1. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Hanna, Boyd. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Atlantic Books, 2002. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. xii + 363 pages. 30 illustrations. Newspaper and magazine gossip is one of the great, uncelebrated British obsessions, much denounced and much devoured. This is the first book to relate the history of gossip in both the British and American press over the last three centuries.In this invigorating account we meet gossip luminaries such as Daniel Defoe; Joseph Addison and Richard Steele who founded the Tatler and the Spectator; Walter Winchell, whose whose column in New York was first to expose Frank Sinatra's Mafia links; and Tom Driberg, author for many years of the William Hickey column in the Daily Express. The book shows how gossip columns have often functioned as a prism through which we construct a warts-and-all picture of our times. **** NOT EX LIB **** L. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Robert Hale, 2006. First Edition First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. An historical novel of the notorious Sir Max Talgarth, who it was said could conquer any woman, married or single, with his arrogant good looks and devastating charm, and there was no gentleman that he could not best on the duelling field with either pistol or sword. Against this fomidable foe Miss Charlotte Wyndham was equipped only with her pen and the determination that it would prove mightier than the warm kisses or the cold steel of this infuriating man she had every reason to despise. But as she launched her literary attack on Sir Max's infamous activities, there was one thing she had not guarded against - Cupid's arrows. C3D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.