Search Results: Authors starting with B from Nikki Green Books

Leeds: Taylor Brothers, 1897. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, pp129 + 4 pages advertisements to rear complete with 9 full page collotype illustrations from photographs taken by Jacob Lowndes. Hardcover no dust jacket. Original light blue cloth binding with gilt titles and dark blue designin very good condition with a little shelf wear to top & tail of spine. Inside previous owners name to ffe paper, all other pages in very good clean condition with a very few spot of foxing in a tight binding. An excellent copy.

London: Trubner and Co, 1876. Hardcover. Poor. Large 8vo, iv + pp156 plus 7 pages index. Hardcover no dust jacket. Original binding of brown leather spine over marbled boards in poor condition with both boards only partially attached (back board almost loose) spine missing exposing text block. Marbled paper covering boards half missing, leather tips of boards worn and rubbed with one missing. Inside pages 3-6 loose but present, all other pages in surprisingly good clean condition with no foxing, aging etc...A good reading copy of this scarce book.

London: John Van Voorst, 1884. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1884-1886. 8vo, vii + pp281 complete with map frontis and 7 b/w. photographic plates to rear of book. Hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers green cloth with gilt lettering and design to spine in good condition with some wear and rubbing and shelf wear to head/foot of spine and tips of boards and a little old water damage to back board. Inside all pages and plates in lovely clean and bright condition with tight binding.

London: The Whittington Press & William Heinemann, 1978. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited Edition of 150 copies ,this copy No.91, signed by author on limitation page. Small Slim 8vo, pp22 plus portrait frontispiece of author. Hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers binding of red cloth spine over Whittington marbled paper covered boards with gilt titles to spine and front board in near fine condition. Inside near fine. An excellent Signed Limited Edition.

C. Arthur Pearson, 1912. (first edition hardback with pictorial boards) sm 8vo, 125pp. Board covers in very good condition, the spine however is badly chipped and worn. Some foxing along fore-edge but inside it's a lovely clean tight copy. Including games such as "the inquisitive banana" and "Tinkle Tinkle"- classics all.

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. *1st Edition * Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh & London, 1966. 4to, xix +262pp. plus 11 b/w and colour plates with maps and woodcuts throughout. Hardcover, with Dust jacket in protective sleeve . DJ has a small tear to top front edge but otherwise in very good condition. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine are in very good condition. Inside near fine. A very good copy

London: British Ornithologists' Union, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. British Ornithologists' Union. 1927, 8vo, pp213 complete with fold-out map to rear and 9 plates. Hardcover no dust jacket.Rebound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in very good/near fine condition. Inside near fine. An excellent copy .

Folio Society, 2009. Limited Edition . Hardcover in slipcase. Near Fine. Folio Society. Limited Edition of 2750. Facsimile of the King Henry's Personal Map, reproduced from Cotton MS Augustus in the British Library and printed on Neobond by Beacon Press for the Folio Society, 2009. Accompanied by a specially commissioned commentary by Peter Barber. Map is housed in a splendid blue buckram covered box decorated in gilt. The box is in near fine condition. The map is in near fine condition. Accompanying Commentary 8vo, pp158, illustrated in colour throughout. Hardcover in slipcase. The slipcase is in near fine condition. Paper covered decorative boards of commentary are near fine condition, inside near fine. An excellent rarely seen set

Sm 4to, 263pp with 37 b/w plates. Hardcover no dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in very good condition showing minimal signs of wear around edges. Inside the contents are in near fine condition including original soft cover card covers bound in. There are a couple of minor marks to fore edge otherwise a lovely copy.

glasgow : David Robertson,, 1839. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 1st Edition, 1839. Sm 4to, lxxxiv + pp206 plus 20 b/w engravings with tissue guards. Hard cover No dust jacket.Brown cloth binding is discoloured and faded significantly , however the binding is in sound condition showing wear around edges and spine. Inside there is some minor foxing throughout , more significant in middle pages. A good copy of this rare edition.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, undated, Circa 1925. 8vo, 320pp with 11 full page colour illustrations plus frontispiece by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Hardcover, No Dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with illustrated front cover are marked and have the remnants of a couple of stickers on front board, the spine is discoloured and there is some wear around the edges and spine. Inside previous owner's bookplate on FFE and an inscription dated 1926, otherwise a nice copy of this very early edition of a children's classic

London: Charles Gilpin,, 1848. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, xii + pp87 plus colour frontispiece. Hardcover no dust jacket. Full dark green leather binding with gilt designs to edges of boards and gilt titles and 5 raised bands to spine in very good condition. Inside in very good condition with a little spotting to end papers. All pages with full edges gilt. An excellent 1st Edition. Scarce.

London & Edinburgh : W. & R. Chambers. Hardcover. Good/Hardcover. undated circa 1905, probable 1st. Slim Landscape 4to, pp48 with 24 color plates with corresponding verse on opposite page. Hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers binding of pictorial paper covered boards with cloth spine in good condition with some wear to edges of boards and top & tail of spine with some rubbing to boards. Inside hinges starting to crack but binding holding nicely, all pages, but for the odd finger mark in very good clean condition.

Paris, Raoul Solar, 1953. Soft cover. Fair. Paris, Raoul Solar, 1953. 8vo, 147pp, with 4 b/w photographic plates. Softcover. Part of spine is missing and front cover is detached but present. The covers are marked and torn. Inside, pages are yellowed with age but all pages are unmarked and complete.

London: Taylor & Francis 1936-1939, 1936. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, vol i pp408 +xxxvi with folding map at rear. vol ii pp274 + xxviii again with folding map at rear. Ex - Library. Hardcover , no dust jackets . The binding on both vols are in reasonable condition with some fraying and chipping to spine , I assume where library stickers were attached. Both vols have sunned spines the fading on vol ii being more pronounced. Inside library stamps to title , content and first pages of both vols, otherwise contents in very good clean condition.

London: Witherby, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. H F & G Witherby, 1954 revised edition. 8vo, 217pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Unclipped DJ has some marks, nicks and small tears around edges. Green cloth boards are in very good condition with some fading to gilt on spine. Inside near fine.

Amsterdam & New York: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum & Da Capo Press, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Amsterdam and De Capo Press, New York. 1970. Facsimile reprint of the 1565 edition. 8vo. pp xxiii plus pp191 with a table of the special matters to the rear. Hardcover no dust jacket. The English Experience No.234. STC No.234. Bound in original publisher's red cloth with black label to cover and spine with lettering in gilt. The binding is in very good/near fine condition. Inside a near fine copy.

London: Robert Culley, 1901. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Sm 8vo, pp64 with illustrated frontis plus 8 pages advertisements to rear. Hardcover no dust jacket. Pictorial red cloth binding with bevelled edges in very good condition with a little shelf wear to top and tail of spine and tips. Inside ffe paper torn out, all pages with full edge gilt in very good, clean condition. Scarce.

Small 8vo. 208pp with 16 colour plates and b/w illustrations throughout the text. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Blue decorative boards in very good condition with minimal wear around edges and spine . Inside a lovely clean copy.

Berkeley, California: University of California, 1962. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 1962, 1st Edition. 2 volume set. 4to. Hardcovers , No slipcases. Vol I- 608pp. Vol II- 412pp containing all b/w illustrations. Vol I green cloth in very good condition with minimal wear around edges and spine. Vol II in good condition with an old water stain to front board. Inside Vol I , near fine, Vol ll some discolouration to FFE , otherwise near fine.