Search Results: Authors starting with A from Cox and Budge Books

London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1950. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First edition. Paperback. 18.5 × 12cm, 112pp. A series of speeches by Andrei Zhdanov, the Soviet politician and ideologue. Contents: On Literature: 1. Speech at the First All-Union Congress of Society Writers, 1944, 2. Report on the Journals "Zvezda" and "Leningrad", 1947. On Music: Concluding Speech at a Conference of Soviet Music Workers, 1948. On Philosophy: Speech at a Conference of Soviet Philosophical Workers, 1947. Condition: This copy is in very good condition, with some creasing to the spine and a neat previous owner's name to the front cover.

London: Richard Cohen Books / Metro, 1999. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. 20.5 × 14.5cm, 338pp. Al Alvarez, poet, critic, novelist, sportsman, and poker player, has for seventy years been hard to categorize. He is the author of the best-selling study of suicide, "The Savage God", and as poetry editor of the "Observer", he has known most of the leading poets of the second half of last century. For a time he was an influential critic and his anthology "The New Poetry" scandalised the literary community. Much of the liveliness of Alvarez's story is inspired by the ambiguous fate of being an English Jew. Although his family had been settled in London for more than two centuries, being Jewish always made them feel like outsiders. He went from Oundle, an English public school, to Oxford, where an academic career beckoned; instead he embarked on life as a freelance writer. Meanwhile he climbed mountains, played poker and wrote books… Read More

London: T Werner Laurie, 1927. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First edition. Hardback, bound in the original blue cloth with printed title and design to spine and upper boards. 22.5 × 15xcm, 224pp. The biographies of courtisans and artistic ladies from the nineteenth century, including Alphonsine Plessis (the real 'Lady of the Camellias'), Laura Bell, Emma Crouch, Rigolbolche, Rosalie Leon, Alice Ozy, La Barucci, and Hortense Schnieder. Illustrated with portraits. Condition: Whilst the book remains in strong readable condition, there is mottled fading along the fore-edge of both boards and along the top. But otherwise a solid copy.

Shaftesbury: Donhead, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. 24.5 × 17cm, 81pp. First published in 1927 by the Building Research Station, this volume provides a classification of lime and a complete review of its various uses in building construction and repair. This facsimile edition should be of interest and of practical value since the methods, terminology and practices detailed by Cowper are still valid today. A brief historical introduction to the subject is followed by a section on the process of lime burning which emphasizes the differences in behaviour of the various classes of limes. The results of research and tests to determine the most reliable and lasting limewashes and lime-based cold water paints are also detailed. In addition, the book provides useful information on the common problems occurring with lime plasters and how these can be solved. The classifications based and suggested applications in the book offer guidelines for the conservation practitioner. Condition:… Read More

London: Putnam, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Hardback, bound in the original blue cloth. 22 × 14cm, 450pp. Signed directly to the title page by H A Taylor. For four decades Fairey was one of the great names in British aviation and, although the organization no longer builds aircraft of its own design, the name continues in aeronautical spheres. During that long period from the 1914-18 war until well after the Second World War, Fairey's name was always associated with British naval aircraft - there was the long series of Fairey IIIs which served the Royal Naval Air Service and the Fleet Air Arm and which in its final form saw widescale service with the RAF before being developed into the Gordon and the Seal. The book contains a number of photographs and diagrams of the aircraft depicting their layout from different views, and there is also a complete listing of aircraft by constructor's numbers. Condition: A good solid copy, though there is some foxing to the… Read More

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First paperback edition. 22.5 × 14.5cm, 232pp. What do the comic book figures Static, Hardware, and Icon all have in common? Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans gives an answer that goes far beyond "tights and capes," an answer that lies within the mission Milestone Media, Inc., assumed in comic book culture. Milestone was the brainchild of four young black creators who wanted to part from the mainstream and do their stories their own way. This history of Milestone, a "creator-owned" publishing company, tells how success came to these mavericks in the 1990s and how comics culture was expanded and enriched as fans were captivated by this new genre. Milestone focused on the African American heroes in a town called Dakota. Quite soon these black action comics took a firm position in the controversies of race, gender, and corporate identity in contemporary America. Characters… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14cm, 217pp. Signed directly to the title page by A L Kennedy. A.L. Kennedy's fifth collection of short stories show us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. Her characters are perfectly ordinary people - whose marriages founder; who sit on their own in a cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; who risk sex in a hotel with an anonymous stranger or who order a luxurious meal as their lives fall apart - but the stories she weaves around them are truly remarkable. She reveals the sadness, violence, hurt and terror, but also the redemption and the love - and she does so with enormous human compassion and leaps of black humour. Condition: There is a little light tanning to the pages edges otherwise this copy is in very good condition.

London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1967. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 21 × 14cm, 433pp. A seminal work by one of the most influential figures of the English folk revival of the 1950s, Folk Song in England (1967) is an expansive account of the development of English traditional song, from the very oldest, ritual verse, through epic balladry, to the development of lyrical song in the industrial era. In a unique and ambitious approach, Lloyd marries the tradition of folk-song scholarship, largely derived from Cecil Sharp, with the radical historiography of E. P. Thompson, and in so doing produces a work of exceptional insight. In particular, his defining of 'industrial folk song' reveals traditional verse as an ebullient, living expression of the working people, perfectly adaptable to reflect their ways and conditions of life. Condition: The book itself is in very good condition with a little dusting and a few… Read More

London: Collets Holdings Ltd, 1959. First Edition. . Paperback. Good. First edition. Paperback. 24.5 × 18.5cm, 12pp. The first issue of the second year of Recorded Folk Music, a slim magazine to review British and Folk music recordings. This issue has an article by Peter Kennedy on British Folk Music on Records, and A L Lloyd's Street Singers of the French Revolution. Condition: The covers are a bit grubby but the contents are in good condition.

London: Collets Holdings Ltd, 1958. First Edition. . Paperback. Good. First edition. Paperback. 21 × 18.5cm, pp13-24. The second issue of Recorded Folk Music, a slim magazine to review British and Folk music recordings. This issue has an essay on American Folk Song, and recommendations, and Jazz and Folk Music by Eric Hobsbawm. Condition: The covers are a bit grubby but the contents are in good condition.

London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1979. First Paperback Edition. . Paperback. Very Good. First paperback edition. 21.5 × 13.5cm, 224pp. The Ranters came into prominence after the defeat of the Levellers at Burford in 1649 had put a final end to the most serious political and military challenge to Cromwell from the left. With their direct appeal to the outcast urban poor, coupled with a fragrant and often blasphemous defiance of traditional Christian morality, the Ranter sect provide a striking illustration of the continuing radical political and theological opposition to the Cromwellian Commonwealth. This book contains the first full length study of this, the most radical of all the left wing sects that flourished in the English Revolution of the seventeenth century. It also includes studies of outstanding Leveller leaders (like John Lilburne, Richard Overton, and William Walwyn) as well as the first biographical portrait of the pamphleteer Laurence Clarkson, whose life provides a guide to… Read More

London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14.5cm, 313pp. "The history of British Labour is the history of the rise of the common people, of the long fight for wages, hours and conditions of work, democratic rights and social welfare, and of the growth of mass organisation and the idea of Socialism. The authors have traced the various clearly marked phases of this struggle from its inception nearly two hundred years ago to the time when Labour had finally emerged as a great independent force, millions strong. They have sought to explain the economic and social causes of the changes described, as the movement advanced by continually adapting itself to new conditions and new problems." Condition: The book itself is in strong solid condition, with some dusting to the page edges and a neat previous owner's name to the ffep. The dustwrapper is rather egdeworn, with rubbing to all edges, some… Read More

New York: Stein & Day, 1974. First Edition. . Hardback. Good/Good. First UK edition, hardback in dustwrapper. 23.5 × 16cm, 216pp. This copy has been signed by Leslie Fiedler to British playwright Arnold Wesker and his wife in Vassar in 1979. A work of speculative fiction. With Judeo-Christian overtones, this novel is set 500 years in the future has Jacob Mindyson, an archaeologist who specializes in the "Old Sciences" of the Twentieth century, translating the secret never-before discovered journal of a Jewish priest Eliezar ben Yaakov ha Kohen, Jesus' genetic father. Jacob's adventures take him from the handsome black goddess rulers of his native Gynocracy, to dalliance with a girl from the Ancient Hypsie cult, to an encounter with the Meta-Technicians (a robot clan in search of knowledge) through to the long buried scrolls whose message he is determined to record and save. Condition: The book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is a little tatty to the edges and… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First edition, hardback bound in the original blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. Top edge gilt. 24.5 × 16.5cm. xxv + 1005pp. This is a review copy with a slip from the Syndics of the University Press loosely inserted, and the ffep bears the signature of Arnold Geoffroy de Montmorency (as A G de Montmorency). He was owner and literary editor of the Contemporary Review, a current affairs and literary journal founded in 1866. Volume VIII from Cambridge's History of the British Empire, this volume dealing with the Empire in southern Africa beginning with the geographical environment, and then describing the native inhabitants, Africa in ancient and medieval times, foundation of the Cape Colony, the British occupation 1795-1806, slavery, constitutional development, the Jameson raid, the formation of the Union, the Germans in South-west Africa, and South Africa in the Great War. Please note, as this book was… Read More

London: Sheed & Ward, 1952. First Edition, Second Impression. . Hardback. Very Good/Good. First edition, second impression. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13.5cm, 148pp. A collection of monthly meditations by Ronald Knox, originally appearing in The Sunday Times. in his preface, Knox writes "Many of these lightning meditations were written during the war, when one's friends seemed to need comfort rather than admonition. We still need comfort, and may yet need it more; let us have the oil and wine of the Samaritan." Condition: The book is in very good condition, with some light bumping to the boards. The dustwrapper is complete but a bit rubbed to the edges and faded to the spine.

Nottingham: Spokesman Books, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 151pp. From the dustwrapper, "Roy Medvedev is a prolific writer on matters of social concern, but also a valuable guide to the literary controversies which have broken out among the Russian intelligentsia. This book is of particular interest to students of Solzhenitsyn but it takes into account a number of other important writers as well. It also enters a resonant defence of the detente and some perceptive remarks on international politics. In these pages, Roy Medvedev consolidates his reputation as an independent socialist thinker of the first rank." Condition: The book is in very good condition, with a very slight lean to the spine. The dustwrapper has a little wear to the top edge but is otherwise good.

London: Arch. S. A. Journal Committee, 1948. First Edition. . Spiral Bound. Good. First edition. Spiral bound with card covers. 20.5 × 16cm. 32pp + ads. This is the third issue of the Architectural Students Association's journal, Plan. It contains articles and illustrations architecture and design, in this issue there is writing on the MARS architecture, scale in English architecture, and new methods in structure, etc as well as news and book reviews, and ends with contemporary advertisements for architectural goods and the like. Condition: The covers are rather grubby, the contents are in good order. Previous owner's name to inside cover (John Kay, architect, author and founder of the William Morris Society).

Athens: Irinna S.A., 1990. First Edition. . Paperback. Very Good. First edition, limited to 2000 copies. Large paperback. 29 × 21cm, unpaginated. Text in English and Greek. Signed, dated and dedicated by Stathis A Arfanis to the dedication page. This is the discography of Greek conductor, pianist, and composer Dimitri Mitropoulos. The author states his intention is to record "all the existing recordings of Mitropoulos, thus assisting the listener to pinpoint and study them, . and is of use to music lovers, collectors and researchers". The introduction is in Greek and English, the main body of the discography is in English only. Condition: This copy is in very good condition.

London: Hutchinson, 2006. First Edition. . Paperback. Very Good. First edition, paperback. 21.5 × 13.5cm, 65pp. Signed and dedicated by Dannie Abse to the title page. Dannie Abse's distinctiveness as a poet lies in his clarity. His distinction lies in his imaginative and feeling responses to a variety of different worlds - work as a doctor, the experience of life in Wales and North London, the mysterious nature of creativity, the Jewish and bardic traditions. His new collection draws on all these strands and is divided between personal experience and more general reflections, often prompted by an urgent awareness of the passing of time, counterpointed with transcendent moments of joy in ordinary things. Condition: Very good condition, with a little age-toning to the pages.

Milan: Electa, 1993. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First edition. Stiff card covers. 28 × 25cm, 134pp. This is a profusely illustrated catalogue which accompanied a retrospective exhibition of the work of Francis Bacon. Along with the illustrations, there are several essays on Bacon's work: David Sylvester, 'Bacon's Course', David Mellor, 'Francis Bacon: Affinities, Contexts and the British Visual Tradition', Gilles Deleuze, 'The Logic of Sensation', Lorenza Trucchi, 'The Delirium of the Body', and Daniela Palazzoli, 'Bacon, Photography and the Invisible Man'. Condition: There is some minor wear to the covers and a little shelfwear to the page edges but otherwise a good solid copy. **PLEASE NOTE: As this is a heavy book, postage may have to be increased for overseas (non-UK) buyers, or decreased where appropriate. Please see the COX AND BUDGE BOOKS website for full shipping details or drop us an email**