Search Results: Titles starting with U from Rickaro Books Ltd

Donington: Shaun Tyas , 2022. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. Horace Walpole (1717-97), the artistic son of Robert Walpole, the United Kingdom's first prime minister, began creating Strawberry Hill in Twickenham at the end of the 1740s. The house is now seen as the most significant, if not the very first, Gothic home made in Georgian Britain, though its contents were dispersed in a month-long auction in 1842. Peter Lindfield demonstrates that the villa emerged slowly from many unrealised or much-altered designs, plans and sketches, which survive today in the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University. These designs are here assessed and published together as a corpus for the first time. Fully illustrated with a bibliography and index. 224pp .

Florence: Lorenzo de' Medici Press, 2023. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine, new copy of this well-researched account of the friendship between Gertrude Bell and T. E. Lawrence. Offers an appreciation of the mutual affection and respect and occasionally the exasperation and disappointment that coloured the friendship. Illustrated with 37 B&W photographs plus the frontis..

London: Enitharmon Press, 2017. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy. By making detailed comparisons between their poems, Longley shows how the aesthetics of Thomas and Frost complement one another across the Atlantic. She argues, perhaps controversially, that we should think about Great War poetry from the perspective of Thomas as 'war poet' and critic of war poetry. And she suggests that to focus on Thomas is to open up poetic relations in the 'Anglo-Celtic' archipelago. 302pp..

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941. Ex-Library. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A good copy in original blue cloth, with gilt title to front board. This copy an ex-University of Wisconsin library copy with bookplate to inside of front board. A presentation inscription to scientist Marie Boas Hall (1919-2009) explaining that it was lost for a time from the library and replaced with another copy. A collection of essays on scientific topics. 123pp...

London: Rupert Hart Davies, 1959. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy of this early sea-going story from the master storyteller of the Aubrey-Maturin series. The tale of an ill fated ship on Anson's expedition that finally sinks on the coast of Chile. In d/w that has some minor fading to the spine as is usual in this edition. 256pp. This 1959 edition is reputed to have had a print run of 4,500 copies but elusive to find now in good condition, it was not published in the USA until 1995. Considered a successor to the Aubrey/Maturin partnership and indeed as Dean King states "the seed from which the Aubrey/Maturin series eventually sprang"..

London: Macmillan and Co, 1931. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A good copy, hardback with cream spine and marbled boards. Gilt writing to spine, with slight pull and wear to top of spine. Internally bright and sound. Limited to 1500 copies. A nice copy. 84pp..

London: Faber & Faber, 2005. Book. Fine. Boards. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy of the collected writings of Alan Bennett. 658pp. This copy is signed "Alan" on the title with the signature portrait drawing and a neat presentation inscription from him. A very nice copy of this entertaining volume..

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2019. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy 520pp + colour plates. Here are twenty-five peer-reviewed essays by leading historians exploring the distinctive aspects which the urban environment brought to late-medieval religious life. The essays are gathered in six sections ranging from liturgy, music and fabric, parish politics, the relationships between the religious orders and between them and the laity, the life of the church in smaller towns (different from the life in the cities and the villages), the role of the church in charity, and aspects of clerical devotion expressed in monumental sculpture and literature. There are 64 pages of colour plates, highlights of these being parishes in Norwich, stained glass at Long Melford in Suffolk and the cadaverous tomb of Bishop Fleming at Lincoln. The authors of the essays are: Amy Appleford, Caroline Barron, Julia Boffey, Gabriel Byng, James Clark, Justin Colson,… Read More

Donnington: Shaun Tyas, 2019. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Through a series of 10 essays, an examination of towers in an urban environment as expressions of wealth, power, status and urban pride. Also includes a comparative essay. Full index and a bibliography and printed in colour throughout. Continues the series begun with 'A House that Thieves Might Knock At', Tower Studies 1 & 2 (in a single combined volume), 208pp..

Plymstock, Devon: Peacock Press, 1942. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Printer. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A presentation copy from W.O. Reynolds. Reprinted From A Tract of 1594 In The Plymouth Museum, Devon. Green marbled paper covers with printed label affixed to cover reading: 'The Use of the Globe: The first Voyage of Sir Francis Drake unto the West and East Indies both Outward and Homeward.' Green linen spine. Signed presentation copy from the printer: 'With Best wishes. W.O Reynolds. Illustrated frontis and title page, some colour capital letters in green, blue and red. The colophon at rear reads: 'One hundred and twenty copies have been set and printed by W. O. Reynolds at the Peacock Press, Plymstock, Devon, and completed on the first day of November, 1942. The text has been taken from a Mercator tract, printed by John Windet in 1594, being the first published account of Sir Francis Drake's voyage around the world. This is… Read More