Search Results: Authors starting with B from C L Hawley

London: Eyre Methuen. Hardback. 227pp. Translated by Daphne Woodward. Small selection of black and white plates. Occasional integral drawing. Brown boards with gilt titles to spine are very clean and neat. Dust wrapper is slightly rubbed. Very good copy in good+ dust wrapper . Hardback. 1981.

Blackie. Paperback. 128pp. Blackie's English Texts series. Talwin Morris design in black on blue limp cloth. Slightly darkened to spine. Tanned to endpapers. Foxed to closed page edges. Lightly rubbed. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback.

Blackie. Paperback. 128pp. Blackie's English Texts series. Talwin Morris design in black on blue limp cloth. Slightly darkened to spine. Tanned to endpapers. Foxed to closed page edges. Lightly rubbed. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback.

The Philosophy Press. Paperback. 106pp. A selection of short articles. Lightly rubbed. Unevenly sunned. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1999.

Phillimore. Hardback. 128pp. Sixth edition, reprint. Darwen County History series. Illustrated throughout in black and white including drawings to the wider margins of the text as well as full page photographs and maps. Covers Roman and Anglo-Saxon Lancashire, Medieval Lancashire, the families of Stanley and Molyneux, Catholics, Puritans, Jacobites, the Civil War, the port of Liverpool, the textile trade, canals and railways, industrial history, political representation, Lancashire and the Corn Laws, the Lancashire coast, etc. Blue boards with gilt titles to spine are clean and neat. Dust wrapper is slightly faded with occasional minor mark Near fine, bright copy in very good dust wrapper . Hardback. Reprint. 1982.

Phillimore. Hardback. 128pp. Sixth edition, reprint. Darwen County History series. Illustrated throughout in black and white including drawings to the wider margins of the text as well as full page photographs and maps. Covers Roman and Anglo-Saxon Lancashire, Medieval Lancashire, the families of Stanley and Molyneux, Catholics, Puritans, Jacobites, the Civil War, the port of Liverpool, the textile trade, canals and railways, industrial history, political representation, Lancashire and the Corn Laws, the Lancashire coast, etc. Blue boards with gilt titles to spine are clean and neat. Dust wrapper is slightly faded with some toning to white edges and some faint dust and finger marks. Very good copy in good+ dust jacket . Hardback. Reprint. 1982.

Egmont. Paperback. 336pp. Very clean, bright and neat. Very good copy . Paperback. 2017.

London:: Heinemann,. Hardback. Inscribed by Enid Bagnold to Lady Diana Cooper, "For Diana/ With love/ from/ Enid/ 1978". From the library of historian John Julius Norwich, son of Lady Diana Cooper. First edition of this play on its own. It had been published as Call me Jacky with three other plays in 1970. In 1976 under the title A Matter of Gravity it was performed on Broadway starring Katharine Hepburn and with Christopher Reeve making his debut, have previously premiered also as Call Me Jacky at The Oxford Playhouse in 1967, starring Sybil Thorndike. Bagnold is best known for her novel National Velvet. Black boards with gilt titles to spine are very clean and neat with just a hint of rubbing to tips of corners and slight softeneing to spine ends. Faint scattering of foxing to closed page edges. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1978.

William Heinemann. Hardback. 328pp. First edition. Novel. Dust wrapper is designed and illustrated by Cecil Beaton. Pale blue boards with dark blue titles are slightly tanned to very edges. Cream illustrated dust wrapper is tanned and has some slight foxing. Closed tears to spine and rear of dust wrapper. Tiny errata paste down to 'Also by Enid Bagnold' on a prelim. Good+, sound copy in good dust wrapper . Hardback. First Edition. 1951.

London: Jonathan Cape,. Hardback. 258pp. An investigation into why the contents of the majority of the scrolls discovered between 1947 and 1956 remain concealed from the public and scholars alike. Together with an assessment of the implications of material both published and unpublished. Map and three sections of black and white plates. Very clean and bright. Lightly rubbed Very good copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. 1992.

London: Chatto and Windus. Hardback. 244pp. First edition. With two portraits including one by Girolamo Nerli. A mixture of biography and critical essays written by Robert Louis Stevenson's lifelong friend H. Bellyse Baildon. Many were originally for a German audience (written in English) to establish Stevenson's reputation as a serious writer not just a teller of adventurous tales, collected here after his death. Black cloth over bevelled boards and with gilt titles to spine is clean but slightly scuffed with more pronounced wear to the head of the spine. Ffep has been removed and an amateur repair (fairly neat and strong) has glued into the gutter securing the front board to the first prelim. Some light foxing to prelims. Text is clean and binding remains sound. Good copy . Hardback. 1901.

Robet Hale. Hardback. 288p. Black and white illustrations throughout. Indexed. Blue boards with gilt titles to spine are very clean but sunned to the top edge. Dust jacket is clean but lightly sunned. Good+, sound copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. 1982.

Burke Publishing. Paperback. Charmingly illustrated in colour by Priscilla Thornycroft beginning with a map of the Island of Catania as a frontis opposition an illustrated title page, and then further illustrations throughout. Landscape format: 250 by 180mm (9¾ by 7 inches). Lightly rubbed to edges. Short split to tail of spine. Some very light creasing near the corners. Very clean and bright. Good+, sound copy . Paperback.

Newnes. Paperback. 48pp. Black and white frontis and further illustrations throughout. Children's biography of prison reformer Elizabeth Fry from the Newnes Women of Renown series. Hint of dustiness to the outside and a slight scratch to the front. Untidy child's name and address to the half -title page else internally very clean. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1953.

Newnes. Paperback. 48pp. Black and white frontis and further illustrations throughout. Children's biography of Charlotte Brontë from the Newnes Women of Renown series. Hint of dustiness to the outside. Internally very clean. Very neat. Very good copy . Paperback. 1953.

Faber and Faber. Hardback. 158pp. With biography essay by John Baillie. Black and white frontis. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine is a little faded but clean and sound. Previous ownership marks including an ex libris stamp in red to the endpapers. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1957.

Libraire Larousse. Hardback. xxii, 626pp. Text in French Red cloth with white titles and banding to front and spine. Cloth is faded to spine. Rubbed to points. Binding is sound. . 1947.

London: Methuen,. Hardback. 105pp. Several small areas of wear where the board is exposed. Pages uncut. Previous owner's name to endpaper. No dw. Good, sound copy. . Hardcover. Sixth edition.. 1925.

Little, Brown and company. Hardback. Historical fiction. Signed and inscribed by Beryl Bainbridge to the title page. The novel is set in Georgian, literary London and focuses on the relationship between Samuel Johnson and Hester Threale and her daughter 'Queeney'. Reprint. 242pp. Yellow ribbon bookmark. Illustrated endpapers. Long-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize. Pages are tanned else very clean and neat. Very good copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. 2001.

New York: Augustus M. Kelley. Hardback. 76pp. Very clean and neat. Dust wrapper is price clipped and slightly faded to spine. Near fine, bright copy in good+ dust wrapper . Hardback. 1969.