Search Results: Biographies and Family Histories from Rickaro Books Ltd

London: Gollancz, 1963. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A nice copy, in fine condition with fine d/w. A significant account of T E Lawrence with introduction by David Garnett. 128pp. Original booksellers invoice laid in from 1964..

London: Gollancz, 1963. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy of this significant account of T E Lawrence with introduction by David Garnett. Previous owners name to inside front board.128pp..

London: Gollancz, 1963. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy of this significant account of T E Lawrence with introduction by David Garnett. In a very good price clipped d/w. Previous owners name to inside front board..

La Haye: Etienne Foulque, Marchand Libraire pres de la Cour, 1695. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Contemporary full calf with decorative gilt spine, five raised bands. Two colour title page, a short history of England from King Egbert up to the reign of William and Mary. A tactile little volume in good, crisp condition. Early previous owner's name to front paste-down, 'Martin Bowes'. [10]-525p..

London: Bodley Head, 1987. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The actress tells her life of both comedy and tragedy. Signed, inscribed and dated on the fep. D/w non price clipped, sunned to spine. 199pp.

London: Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1866. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good, interesting copy in original blue cloth with gilt arms to front board and gilt title to spine. Re-spined with original cloth laid on. This copy owned by a contemporary of Broke, Michael Lane, who writes that he was a Midshipman in the Meleager at the time of the Shannon/Chesapeake action. a page is inserted in his hand commenting on the book and a further one on his own career in the Royal Navy, Lane also adds corrections in the text. This is the elusive original edition of this significant work on Philip Broke who captained the Shannon in the famous engagement with the Chesapeake. 488pp + illustrations + 8pp advertisements to rear. Bookplate of Andrew David, Lieutenant Commander Royal Navy to fep. Altogether a fascinating copy..

Sutton: Aeroplane Monthly, 1982. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A very good copy of the magazine containing the article by George T. Foden "Strange Encounter being an illustrated memoir of being at Mountbatten with T.E. Lawrence..

Lincoln: Lincolnshire Library Service, 1977. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy of this biography and booklist. 32pp..

London: Sunday Times, 2003. Magazine. Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. In this article Philip Norman meets Anthony Buckeridge at 90 years of age, creator of the Linbury Court pupil John Christopher Timothy Jennings. Well illustrated including a full page image of Buckeridge as a school boy together with his friends Val Guest and H. W. Slate. Contained in a complete issue of the Sunday Times magazine. .

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2019. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In this, the first biography of William Sancroft since 1821, the author provides a succinct and readable account of a remarkable life (1617-93), full of drama and crisis, set within the context of a crucial period in the development of the English religious tradition. The book is provided with twenty colour plates and the text includes many extensive quotations from the lively pen of Sancroft himself. He endured the loss of a Cambridge fellowship in the Commonwealth, but later became Master of his former college, Emmanuel. He witnessed the destruction of his cathedral in the Great Fire of London in 1666, when he was Dean of St Paul's, but he then helped Sir Christopher Wren to rebuild it. He was incarcerated in the Tower of London by James II in 1688, but still felt unable to crown his successors, William III and Mary II. Finally, having contributed greatly to the character of the… Read More

London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2014. Book. Fine. Paperback. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. 152pp..

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2019. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Temple Moore (1856-1920) was one of the greatest British church architects of his day, designing a series of fine and varied buildings between about 1890 and the First World War. A devout High Churchman, he worked primarily for Anglo-Catholic clients who sought to express their faith in beautiful buildings suitable for liturgical settings. Like his mentor, George Gilbert Scott junior, Moore turned away from the extravagancies of the Victorian Gothic Revival and developed an architecture that depended, not on lavish ornament and colour, but on line and proportion. He carried out a number of significant secular works as well, many of them of considerable distinction. With the aid of specially-taken new colour photographs and specially-drawn distribution maps (there are 199 illustrations), this book is a must-have supplement to the author's earlier book (also published by Shaun Tyas), which had been printed in… Read More

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2019. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Temple Moore (1856-1920) was one of the greatest British church architects of his day, designing a series of fine and varied buildings between about 1890 and the First World War. A devout High Churchman, he worked primarily for Anglo-Catholic clients who sought to express their faith in beautiful buildings suitable for liturgical settings. Like his mentor, George Gilbert Scott junior, Moore turned away from the extravagancies of the Victorian Gothic Revival and developed an architecture that depended, not on lavish ornament and colour, but on line and proportion. He carried out a number of significant secular works as well, many of them of considerable distinction. With the aid of specially-taken new colour photographs and specially-drawn distribution maps (there are 199 illustrations), this book is a must-have supplement to the author's earlier book (also published by Shaun Tyas),… Read More

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2019. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Temple Moore (1856-1920) was one of the greatest British church architects of his day, designing a series of fine and varied buildings between about 1890 and the First World War. A devout High Churchman, he worked primarily for Anglo-Catholic clients who sought to express their faith in beautiful buildings suitable for liturgical settings. Like his mentor, George Gilbert Scott junior, Moore turned away from the extravagancies of the Victorian Gothic Revival and developed an architecture that depended, not on lavish ornament and colour, but on line and proportion. He carried out a number of significant secular works as well, many of them of considerable distinction. With the aid of specially-taken new colour photographs and specially-drawn distribution maps (there are 199 illustrations), this book is a must-have supplement to the author's earlier book (also published by Shaun Tyas),… Read More

Ilkley: Great Northern, 2010. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine as new copy in fine d/w. A well illustrated account of the life and writings of Arthur Ransome. 160pp..

Donnington: Shaun Tyas, 2013. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. Joseph Moxon was born in Wakefield in 1627. After a period in Holland with his father and brother he established himself in London as a printer, publisher, type-founder and maker of scientific instruments and globes including pocket globes and the Castlemaine (or English) globe. He became Hydrographer to King Charles II in 1662. He was well known in Restoration London and acquainted with Pepys, Hooke, Halley and Evelyn. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1678. He published some 80 books, many of great importance. Some are splendid examples of publishing skills. In his later years he himself wrote and published two remarkable books, The Mechanick Exercises, Volumes I and II. The first deals with smithing, carpentry, joinery, and woodturning; the second with all aspects of printing. They gave accurate accounts of these crafts so breaking the traditions of secrecy in… Read More

Crediton: Pinocchio Press, 2017. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy, a reissue with illustrations of the autobiography of York printer and historian Thomas Gent. 216pp..

London: Jonathan Cape, 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in very good d/w. 368pp Neat inscription to fep. .

Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy of this edition, text in French. Malcolm Brown wrote the Introduction. 174pp..

Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998. Book. Fine. Paperback. Signed by the Author. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy of this edition, text in French. Malcolm Brown wrote the Introduction. 174pp. Presentation inscription by the author..