Search Results: Authors starting with L from The Petersfield Bookshop

Selborne: Selborne, 1946. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. 24pp. pamphlet in card wraps Size: Small Octavo. Category: Travel & Places; Britain/UK; 1940s; Biography & Autobiography. .

Hampshire Count Council, no date. Hardcover. Good Condition. Pale blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine, illustrated. Size: Octavo (standard book size). All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Category: Travel & Places; .

Grenoble: Le Mercure Dauphinois, 2003. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Large format paperback binding, illustrated in colour and black & white. - C'est sous l'anonymat que Solidonius a inscrit son labeur dans l'unique souci d'apporter sa pierre à l'édifice hermétique. Si son existence reste inconnue, ses dix-huit illustrations, dessinées et peintes avec amour, offrent la gamme musicale que Pythagore révéla aux hommes à partir des sept planètes et de leurs métaux. Introduction de Henri La Croix-Haute. Size: Quarto. Text is in French. Category: Indigenous Cultures; French Language; Philosophy. ISBN: 2913826369. ISBN/EAN: 9782913826366. . 9782913826366

Grenoble: Le Mercure Dauphinois, 2003. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Text is in French. Category: Magic, Paranormal & Occult; French Language; .

Utrecht: Tableau, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Brown gilt tooled cloth with dustwrapper, illustrated in colour and black & white. Wrapper a little worn with a couple of small tears, but otherwise an excellent copy. Size: Quarto. 223 pages. Text is in Dutch. Category: Art & Design; Springer, Cornelis, 1817-1891; Dutch Language; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 9065220070. ISBN/EAN: 9789065220073. . 9789065220073

National Trust, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Size: Small Quarto. Category: Gardening; .

T & A D Poyser, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Quarto. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Category: Animals & Birds; .

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1995. Softcover. Fine Condition. Size: Octavo . Category: Philosophy; .

Princeton University, 2015. Second ompression. Hardcover. As New/As New. The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters―for individuals, communities, and nations. A remarkably ambitious history, The Work of the Dead offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century.The book draws on a vast range of sources―from mortuary archaeology, medical tracts, letters, songs, poems, and novels to painting and landscapes in order to recover the work that the dead do for the living: making human communities that connect… Read More

Tavistock, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Small nicks to dust wrappr. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Category: Sociology & Culture; .

George Routledge, 1866. Early Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Cloth). Good Condition. Newly rebound with green cloth spine (with original label) and marbled boards. With coloured illustrations by John Gilbert. Original, but faded, marbled decoration to edges and some light foxing throughout. Size: Small Octavo. Category: Children; .

C& J Ollier, 1818. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. First edition in two volumes, raised bands on spine with black label and gilt lettering contemporary leather, Category: Poetry; .

Methuen, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. A. Garth Jones. Green Decorative Gilt Cloth. Interesting illustrations by A. Garth Jones. Slight fraying top top and bottom of spine, corners a little bumped Size: Octavo (standard book size). Illustrator: A. Garth Jones. Category: Fiction; .

London: ward Lock, 1919. Decorative cloth. Fair Condition. A.E. Jackson. 48 coloured plates Loose page Size: Octavo (standard book size). torn spine. slight wear and bumps to corners. Illustrator: A.E. Jackson. Category: Children; Britain/UK; 1900-1920; .

Bene Factum Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Signed by Author. Size: Quarto. Category: Gardening; Signed by Author. .

First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Three first editions all warmly inscribed to the same person and with a small amateur photograph of the author laid into one of the books. Unfortunately the previous owner also covered and taped the jackets to the books, neatly, but irreversibly. Good clean copies. Category: Fiction; .

London: Studio Vista, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. A great graphical survey of graphic art and design in 1970 in Britain. This copy has a few nicks and some shelf wear to the jacket edges. Category: Art & Design; .

New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1930. First Edition. Green Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Previous owner's book-plate laid in. Category: Literature & Literary; 1930s; .

Larousse, 2001. reprint. Laminted Pictorial Boards. Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Preface de Patrick Poivre d'Arvor.Aide de plus 350 documents exceptionnels collectes dans le monde entier Size: Quarto. Text is in French. Category: Railways; French Language; .

Blantyre: The Society of Malawi, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Inscribed by Author. This copy is SIGNED with an inscription by the author across the title page. Some foxing to the endpapers and some chips to the jacket. Size: Folio. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Travel & Places. Inscribed by Author. .