Search Results: Authors starting with B from Goldring Books

Stroud, Gloucestershie: The History Press, 2011. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of 240 pages. Colour illustrated throughout. In this book Britain's leading house historian uncovers the hidden stories and secrets of ordinary and extraordinary houses across the country. The wide range of houses, from workers' cottages to aristocratic mansions, offers a unique insight into our social and architectural history. Tudor farmhouses, Georgian town houses, modernist 20th century designs and converted factories all have a tale to tell. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY BOOK OF 1.1 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COSTS 25. First. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: W.W. Norton/Gallery Press, 1986. A near Fine unmarked copy. A large rectangular format volune of 186 pages. Introduction and text by Francis Wilson. Foreword by Bishop Desmond Tutu. Essays by twenty South African photographers prepared for the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa. The book is the collective effort of the contributing photographers. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.07 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 1. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1992. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found between 1947 and 1956 yet still 75 percent remain hidden from the outside world. The authors worked with the foremost scholars in biblical archaeology to uncover how and why and exposes the bitter struggle between scholars. They contend that the real reason is that the scrolls show a new account of the origin of christianity and an alternative New Testament. 40 photographic illustrations. Dustjacket complete. **** Not Book Club edition **** L. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: CollinsWillow, 1994. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with VG+ complete dustjacket. Using a unique approach to catching fish, the book will help you outwit your prey by understanding their behaviour and learning how to predict their movements. Every water, every fish caught and every event witnessed at the bankside yields clues to fish behaviour and therefore to the methods that are most likely to catch them. The author explains in detail how to train your eyes and mind to focus on what is happening on the surface and beneath the water to draw valuable conclusions. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs and colour drawings. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 0 .9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING **** 22. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Faber and Faber, 1948. Gilt title on blue cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Fourth impression March 1951 (first was 1948). The author, Donald Baillie, was Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of St. Andrews. Comprises: I - Christology at the Cross-Roads; II - Why the Jesus of History?; III - Why a Christology?; IV - Critique of Christologies; V - The Paradox of the Incarnation; VI - The Incarnation and the Trinity; VII - Why Atonement?; VIII - The Lamb of God; IX - Epilogue - The Body of Christ. **** NOT EX LIB **** R1. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. Yellow motif to front with yellow title on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. 254 pages. Translated from the French by Hamish Miles. Re-issued for the Academy Books series by Jonathan Cape from the 1936 first edition. Eminent work on the history and character of the Third French Republic by the noted French historian who died in 1936 as this translation was in the course of preparation. 4. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995. A Very Good+ copy with a name and date to front endpaper with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. Organised into easy-to-read categories, Pope John Paul's fresh and inspiring words address a range of important issues - spirituality in modern life, human rights and religious freedom, marriage and family, morality, peace, prayer, women's roles, poverty and many other concerns vital to Christian life and thought. R4. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1981. A near Fine unmarked copy with price clipped dustjacket. Foreword by General George Keegan, retired Chief, US Air Force Intelligence. The author has an impressive array of academic qualifications including a PhD in Earth and Planetary Sciences and a Diploma in Aeronautics and has worked with NASA. In this book he predicts that the next world war will start in space and that equipment has already been developed and is being tested. The most frightening part of this book lies in its informed examination of future developments, laser weapons and particle beam weapons are no longer in the realms of science fiction, they already exist. Illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams. A1F. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cheshire: Sigma Press, 1996. A near Fine unmarked copy. Included also is an unused postcard of Linhope Spout, Northumberland. 190 pages. Illustrated with maps and photographs. The walks in this book provide an excellent introduction to this lonely, wild countryside. Everyone is catered for - from weekend family groups to the experienced hill walker. Each of the 47 routes is full of interest, with details of the natural history, geology and archaeology of the area. Many of the walks follow old drove roads, smuggling routes and Roman roads which cross the hills. 50. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small crease to one corner tip) with no inscriptions. viii + 385 pages. The author develops a liberty theory of freedom of speech, disputing the dominant 'marketplace of ideas' theory of the First Amendment that maintains that the truth will be discovered through debate free from government interference. Baker's theory denies constitutional protection to commercial speech, yet calls for increased protection for a free press, as well as protection for a considerable range of value-based expressive action. These protective activities, Professor Baker maintains, are crucial for a process of non-violent, progressive change. Presenting a timely and cogent argument deeply rooted in Supreme Court decisions and American political history. 51. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Robert Hale, 1980. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page and dated 1980. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket. Oblong format. In a series of carefully planned chapters the reader is taken along the roads and rivers of Surrey and through its towns and villages, along the way farm houses, cottages, churches and stately homes are described by the author who contributes original material from many years of research into the history of the county's buildings. Profusely illustrated with the author's own drawings. 4. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Baker, John L.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. xiv + 386 pages. 36 illustrations. The first comprehensive biography of Radclyffe Hall, the writer whose lesbian novel 'The Well of Loneliness' was banned as obscene in a sensational court case in 1928. The book draws on much unpublished material as well as her poetry and novels. Ladye (Mabel Batten) and Una Troubridge, the wife of an admiral, formed with John, as Radclyffe liked to be called, an uneasy menage a trois, until Ladye's death in 1916, thereafter John and Una kept in touch with her through a medium. Hall saw herself as a man trapped in a woman's body. A fascinating picture of a remarkable woman and her world. 21. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 386 pages. 36 illustrations. The first comprehensive biography of Radclyffe Hall, the writer whose lesbian novel 'The Well of Loneliness' was banned as obscene in a sensational court case in 1928. The book draws on much unpublished material as well as her poetry and novels. Ladye (Mabel Batten) and Una Troubridge, the wife of an admiral, formed with John, as Radclyffe liked to be called, an uneasy menage a trois, until Ladye's death in 1916, thereafter John and Una kept in touch with her through a medium. Hall saw herself as a man trapped in a woman's body. A fascinating picture of a remarkable woman and her world. 21. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Collins, 2004. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of 288 pages. Illustrated throughout. Foreword by Lee Durrell. Nick Baker's fascination with the natural world began at an early age, inspired by Gerald and Lee Durrell's classic book The Amateur Naturalist. Spurred on by this he has become one of our most knowledgeable and widely travelled wildlife experts. The book is an up-to-date, practical introduction to observing, understanding and investigating the natural world around us. Fact packed. and brimming with practical tips and techniques, it offers a rich source of new ideas for more experienced naturalists, as well as sparking the natural curiosity of a whole new generation. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.12 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 22. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Gallery, 1989. A Fine unmarked copy which has a small address label to lower title page with Fine dustjacket. A large format volume of 64 pages. This lavishly illustrated biography tells the story of a star the like of whom we shall never see again. In a career that spanned almost 60 years, Bette Davis made more than 80 films, and not for nothing was she called the 'Queen of Hollywood'. 3. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first impression. xiv + 322 pages. 47 illustrations. In this searching and intimate autobiography, Joan Bakewell retraces the paths she has taken and reveals what lay behind the public image and the choices she made. Recreating her working-class roots, she vividly depicts her childhood in Stockport and the impact of the war, and relives her escape from the tensions at home to Cambridge University, where she was part of the stellar generation that included Peter Hall, Frederic Raphael and Claire Tomalin. She describes what it was like to make her BBC television debut during the Cuban missile crisis; to be the only woman on 'Late Night Line Up', with its eclectic roster of guests; and to be dubbed 'the thinking man's crumpet'. Here, too, is how it felt to see her affair with Harold Pinter transmuted into his play 'Betrayal'. B2D. First Edition.… Read More

London: The Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1943. Green titles on beige cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges and a few spots sporadically to some pages else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket is age darkened and has a few spots and is complete. 94 pages. Foreword by E. Joy Hodgkin (Mrs. Henry T. Hodgkin). The Fellowship of Reconciliation is, as its name must suggest, a society of men and women who see the world society, and their own place in it, in terms of the message of the New Testament. In December 1914 some 130 people met at Cambridge, under a twofold constraint. They were called of Christ to make their protest against the war, in which as Christians they could have no part. They clearly saw that Christian pacifism could never be a simple, albeit absolute, repudiation of war; it must be a positive acceptance of the way of costly fellowship. While not attempting to frame a statement which would have binding force, they… Read More

London: Viking, 1998. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. 504 pages. 110 illustrations and 2 maps. First UK edition. In 1698 when Elias Ball sailed into the harbour at Charleston, South Carolina, he was just 22 years old and had travelled 3,500 miles from his home in England, a journey of some 6 weeks, to claim his inheritance - part of a plantation and 25 slaves. Elias and his progeny built a slave dynasty that lasted for 167 years, buying more than a dozen plantations along the Cooper River near Charleston, and selling 'Carolina Gold' (rice). The family had assembled close to 4,000 slaves before 1865, when Union troops arrived from the North on the lawns of the Ball estates to force emancipation. The author, a direct descendant of Elias, has written a magnificent history using the copious plantation records of his family, supplemented by both black and white folklore and interviews with the descendants of the slaves themselves, uncovering the story of the people… Read More

London: James Nisbet Black titles with coloured ship pictorials to spine and front on red cloth boards. Boards have some light marks to back else unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a coloured decorative prize bookplate to front pastedown and foxing to closed edges and sporadic foxing to some page edges else clean, tight and unmarked. Not dated nor edition stated but probably a late 1890's edition of the work first published in 1885. 256 pages and 16 page publisher's catalogue. 30 illustrations by M. Dudley. One of Robert Michael Ballantyne's (1825-1894) scarcer novels. An attractive copy in very good condition. A1B. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Dudley, M. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Fourth Estate, 2008. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First printing. viii + 278 pages. Illustrations in the text. For almost half a century J.G. Ballard has been one of this country's most important writers. In this revelatory autobiography, bookended by time spent in Shanghai - the city of his childhood and internment in a World War II prison camp, and setting of his novel Empire of the Sun - he charts the course of his remarkable life. L. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.