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Octopus/Gala Books, London, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Examining the geometric framework that underlies various aspects of nature, this book reveals the geometry that lies behind the mysteries of the Earth and includes sections on astronomy, landscape, the natural world, architecture, music, crop circles, mazes, religious buildings, prehistoric structures and art. Size: Large Octavo. 160 pages. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. White titles spine. Grey cloth; illustrated by colour & b/w. drawings with colour & b/w. photo's.. Includes bibliography & index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Art; Sacred Sites; Mind, Body, & Spirit; Architecture. ISBN: 1856752623. ISBN/EAN: 9781856752626. Dewey Code: 516. Inventory No: 5007. . 9781856752626

Unicorn Press, London, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. St. Edmund had been 30 years dead when they brought his remains to Bury 1100 years ago. His sometimes savage miracles and the many riots against his Abbey endowed the town not only with riches but with both neurosis and notoriety. Its central streets. unchanged to this day, were laid out by a couple of Norman abbots and modernised by the genteel taste of the 18th. century, the two periods of its greatest fame. A remarkable story of frivolity and conflict, brutality and charity, religious fervour and secular greed. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 168 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. in archive acetate film protection. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Gilt titles spine. black cloth; Colour, b/w. & monochrome illustrations;. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Genealogy &… Read More

Wayfarer, Westleton, Suffolk, 2003. First Edition. Brown Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illustrator: Willes, Olivia. gilt titles spine; dark blue e/p's; illustrated by b/w. photo's. & also by the author's drawings & colour paintings; jacket illusts. by the author; "While employed by the Cameroons Development Corporation (COC), the author, who finds herself drawn to hot, arid and sandy places, cherishes a seemingly impossible ambition to return to Europe via the Sahara when her contract ends. As the Fates would have it, a Dutch journalist materialises one day who has just traversed the Sahara in a southerly direction, alone, with a motor-cycle with sidecar. Travel of the kind envisaged was quite unusual at the time, something definitely unorthodox compared to the ways of the British colonials. The story proceeds stage by stage, involving the reader in the catastrophes, the moments of hilarity, the fatigue and despair, and the prevailing satisfaction for the author of… Read More

Longsands Museum Association, Saint Neots, Huntingdonshire , 1978. First Edition. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Near Fine Condition. Most of us have a natural curiosity about the place in which we live and would like to know something of its history, and it is hoped that this booklet will partially satisfy that curiosity. It is also intended as an encouragement to further study and references are given at the end of each chapter to books which contain more details. Most of these books can be consulted in the libraries at St. Neots and Huntingdon and some of them are also available on loan. Where possible other sources for study are also mentioned. Contents include: 'The First Settlers'; 'Romans & Anglo-Saxons'; 'The Normans & the Middle Ages'; 'Dissolution & New Growth'; 'The Nineteenth Century' & 'The Twentieth Century'. Loosely inserted is an interesting newspaper clipping from the 'Hunts Post' about the Cross Keys Hotel in… Read More

The Fine Art Society Limited, London, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Fair Condition. bound in olive boards with leather spine. The frontispiece is an original Samuel Palmer etching ("Christmas" or "Folding the Last Sheep") dating to 1850 but unpublished until its publication in this book. (the etching has often been removed by various cognoscenti making complete copies such as this fairly scarce). Further illustrated by 12 autotypes (including a photographic portrait print of Palmer) & 9 woodcuts of which 5 are on separate sheets & 4 within the text. Illustrated title page to the reverse of which has been glued a newspaper review of the book from a copy of 'The Spectator' (dated February 24, 1883) & also a short obituary of the artist Edward Calvert who died in that year. Samuel Palmer was one of the most original artists Britain has produced & first exhibited Turner-inspired works at the Royal Academy at the age of fourteen.. Palmer… Read More

Ward, Lock & Co, London, No date. Reprint. Red Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. black titles & border decs. title & spine, undated but one of Ward Lock's "Copyright Novels" series circa 1930's, spine has half-inch split at top, endpapers browned, 256 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Crime Fiction; Crime Fiction. Inventory No: CRM00042. .

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Good. What have the following got in common: a crocodile journalist, Joan Collins, a judge, a thinly disguised prime minister, a less thinly disguised American president, Rambo, a collection of rampant automobiles, and a most peculiar television set? The answer is that they all appear, in the worst possible light, in Gerald Scarfe's Seven Deadly Sins. Pride, Greed, Anger, Gluttony, Sloth, Envy parade before our startled eyes. And then there is Lust ... The Seven Deadly Sins will never be quite the same again, after they have been illuminated and dissected with Gerald Scarfe's savage wit. Or will they? Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. unpaginated. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is fully intact, no tears or chips, but carries signs of wear to top and bottom edges, corners etc.. Price clipped inside book. Gilt titles spine. red cloth. Quantity… Read More

Faber & Faber, London, 1944. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Near Fine/Good. gilt titles spine; deckled outer edge; illustrated by b/w. photo's.; "this book is the first to be published in England, giving an account of the Swedish folk High Schools or People's Colleges. It is the outcome of the author's investigations in Sweden just before the outbreak of war. More recently, she has had the advantage of assistance from the Royal Board of Education in Stockholm and from personal friends in Sweden, in bringing the matter fully up to date by the inclusion of recent statistics. The author makes clear the relevance of the Swedish experiments to the future of adult education in England. She discusses the merits of the residential system compared with the system of evening classes, draws comparisons between the Swedish colleges and the nine institutions existing for similar purposes in England, and makes suggestions for our post-war development. From the study of the Swedish colleges,… Read More

Collins, London, 1923. First Edition. Softcover (Suede). Good Condition. From the compiler's introduction: "The ages suggested for the Scholars of this little School were ten to fourteen. These are long, long years of youth, equal to ten of the older, twenty of the aged: not only in effectiveness, but also in the sensation of time. Therefore it was not easy to choose the all-appropriate from our great and various literature. Something there might always be for fourteen to tolerate and yet for ten to hope to achieve. I have taken some poems for their happy, courageous, and honourable thought, some for the very poetry of poetry. The size of the book was, of course, limited; there would have been matter, from the stores of past and present, for fifty such books." Patterned brown end papers; Gilt titles to spine & front with blind-stamped design to front (of horses ploughing field with sky & reins in gilt.) Sepia frontis. photogravure of Alice Meynell from a studio portrait… Read More

The Shoe Lane Publishing Coy.,, London, No date. First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Near Fine/N/A. Illustrator: Micklewright, G.P. circa 1910, red cloth spine, bright front cover colour illust. (early Micklewright) & rear cover col. illust.advert. for Nestle's Milk (in the style of Attwell), col. illust. frontis., 16 stories by various authors illust. by b/w. drawings & 3 further early Micklewright col. illust. plates that, by their strong lines & bold use of colour (espec. in "Sheila to the Rescue"), foreshadow his later work on Edgar Rice Burroughs dustjackets, pages browning a little at edges but an unmarked & unusually bright copy with only a suggestion of wear at the corners & top, 158 pages, this is a heavy book which, together with protective wrapping, takes its weight above the 1kg. standard quoted rate for post & packing so extra shipping charges may be requested. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrator: Micklewright,… Read More

Aquarian Press, The, Wellingborough, Northants, 1987. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. cover photo. by Howard Bartrop; For over half a century psychical researchers have tried. to explain so-called paranormal events in what they believed to be a scientific manner. The results so far have been inconclusive and confusing. The reason, Lawrence L.eShan argues in this important and timely book, is that parapsychologists have actually failed to take into account the real insights into the nature of the physical universe offered by twentieth-century science. With elegance and clarity Dr L.eShan shows that we live in a multi-tracked universe. What is impossible and 'paranormal' on one track is perfectly possible and normal on another. From this he goes on to suggest new and effective ways of understanding telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychic healing, and other psi phenomena: Above all, L.eShan eloquently defines the human focus of paranormal events, which in his view… Read More

Collins, London, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Harnessing recent developments in computer technology, this New Naturalist volume uses the most up-to-date and accurate maps, diagrams and photographs to analyse the diverse landscapes of Scotland. Most people share an enthusiasm for beautiful and breathtaking scenery, explored variously through the physical challenge of climbing to the top of the tallest mountains or the joy of viewing the work of a painter; but while easy to admire from a distance, such landscapes are usually difficult to explain in words. Peter Friend highlights the many famous and much loved natural landscapes of Scotland, ranging from the rolling, agricultural lowlands of the east to the wild and rugged mountains of the west, from the whitewashed villages of Galloway to the traditional fishing ports of the east. He provides detailed explanations for the wide variety of natural events and processes that have caused such an exciting range of surroundings.… Read More

W W Norton & Co Inc,, New York & London, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Introduction by Cleveland Amory; illustrated title pages; blue boards with blue cloth spine; Paul Watson is the Founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Co-Founding Director Greenpeace Foundation. Whales and seals are being hunted to extinction. Paul Watson, a young Canadian conservationist, is determined to stop that, even it costs him his life. Three times, on the ice floes off Labrador, he threw himself between baby harp seals and their killers. He sprayed the pups with harmless red dye, rendering their white pelts commercially useless. He was beaten, nearly drowned, jailed. Against Soviet and Japanese whalers, he raced his kamikaze inflatable dinghy to a blocking position between harpooner and whale. Then, with his own boat, the Sea Shepherd, supported by Cleveland Arnory's Fund for Animals, Watson rammed the pirate whaler Sierra off Portugal. The Sea Shepherd was… Read More

MacMillan, London, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/Fair. Illustrator: Donald Maxwell. contents list & index of first lines of verses at front of book; illustrated by 24 tipped in engraved colour plates from the topographical paintings of artist Donald Maxwell showing Sussex landscapes & seascapes; Maxwell trained in London at the Clapham School of Art, the Slade School of Fine Art, and the Royal College of Art. Among others he wrote & illustrated several books on the sights of Southern England & had a further connection with the poems in this volume as his mother was related to Rudyard Kipling. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 95 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears, and is foxed here and there; now in archive acetate film protection. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Gilt titles spine & front. This is NOT a perfect copy: there… Read More

Blackie And Son Limited, London, 1944. Presumed First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. black titles front & spine with Victorian pictorial decorations to both in white & black over brown covers; undated but Sunday School prize label on fep. gives Christmas 1920; b/w. frontis. illust. & one other; a tale from 'Fisherman Grim' by the same author; some foxing inside covers; 78 pages. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; 1900-1920; Children. Inventory No: CHD00290. .

Jonathan Cape, London, 1936. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Fair. Travellers' Library edition; translated with introduction & notes by George Calderon. Tchekoff had that fine comedic spirit which relishes the incon¬gruity between the actual disorder of the world and the underlying order. Seeking as he did to throw our eyes outward from the individual destiny, to discover its relation to surround¬ing Life, he habitually mingled tragedy (which is Life seen close at hand) with comedy (which is Life seen from a distance). His plays are tragedies with the texture of comedies. Tchekoff wrote five important plays – Ivanof; Uncle Vanya; The Seagull; The Three Sisters; and The Cherry Orchard. The rest are one-act farces. The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard were chosen for this volume as representing him at two extremes. The Seagull is easy, entrainant, not much unlike a Western play; The Cherry Orchard is difficult, rebarbatif and very… Read More

Rider/Random House, London, 1991. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good Condition. The Seat of the Soul has sold millions of copies around the globe and is a #1 New York Times bestseller; foreword by the author; this iconic book encourages you to become the authority in your own life. It will change the way you see the world, interact with other people, and understand your own actions and motivations. In it, Gary Zukav takes you on a penetrating exploration of the new phase that humanity has entered: one where harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life become more important than the ability to manipulate and control. Using his scientist's eye and philosopher's heart, Zukav shows us how to participate fully in this evolution, enlivening our everyday activities and all our relationships with meaning and purpose. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 255 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. no Dust Jacket as published.. Includes index.… Read More

The Field Studies Council,, London, 1966. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Booklet Academic Journal Offprint reprinted from Field Studies Vol. 2, No. 3 (July, 1966 pages 303 to 330); green card covers with green cloth spine; The Dale district while not as rich as some more southerly localities, provides in a limited area a number of easily accessible shores whose range of environmental conditions ensures the presence of a varied algal flora. The authors have become familiar with these shores during a number of visits since Dale Fort Field Centre opened in I947. The local algae have also received attention from numerous other botanists including those who, in I953, attended the field meeting of the British Phycological Society held at the Fort. A list of species has been built up which is now longer than it was when Miss E. Mary Thomas (I953) produced the preliminary list which has proved of much value to students of marine biology at Dale. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

A & C Black, London, 1936. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/Good. black titles front on biege card covers with brown cloth spine; illustrated throughout by b/w. photo's. & drawings; "this volume supplements the first book which has been printed over and over again. In these pages the military and domestic architecture from Norman times to the present day is dealt with more fully. It contains 30 pages of illustrations accompanied by descriptive notes which explain the development of the various styles of architecture due to the requirements of the periods dealt with."; a few marks to D/J. & some foxing inside covers; internally clean; 32 pages. We also have for sale the other two volumes in this series. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Architecture; Military Architecture; Domestic Architecture; Buildings; Britain/UK; History. Inventory No: CFT00013. .

Orient Longman Ltd, Bombay, India, 1982. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Very Good. Dr. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was an Italian physician, teacher, and innovator, acclaimed for her eponymous educational method that builds on the way children naturally learn. She opened the first Montessori school, the Casa dei Bambini, in Rome in 1907, and today there are more than 22,000 throughout the world. Before anything else, this book is a description of the child, seen with the exactness of a scientist and the empathy of a warm heart. From this understanding grew the way of teaching based on collaborating with the needs and powers of a child and the removing of obstacles to this growth that has come to be known as the Montessori Method. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. viii + 239. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Gilt titles spine. brown cloth. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Education; Montessori Method; Montessori… Read More