Search Results: Authors starting with C from Beth's Books

This book contains a series of essays originally published in the Manchester Guardian. This edition was released exclusively for members of the Readers Union in 1959.It is in good condition, with a plastic cover over the dust jacket.Carefully packaged and shipped from Australia.

Published by The Lang Publishing Company Ltd, 1973. 95 pagesA simple introduction to a rare form of psychic healing. It discusses the partnership between the author George Chapman, a medium, and William Lang, a surgeon who died in 1937 but continued to treat patients for 40 years afterwards. The book includes accounts of people who have been treated in this way, as well as explanations of treatment on the spirit body, and biographies of Lang and Chapman. Includes a foreword by the queen of Romania.This book is in good condition, with some shelf wear to cover, and browning of pages at edges. The spine is in good order, all pages are intact and there are no annotations to the text. Inside front cover there are brown markings where adhesive tape has been removed, and a black ink mark. There is also a stamp in blue ink placed by a previous bookseller. Please refer to photos for details. A good reading copy of this classic volume on psychic healing.Ready for immediate shipment from Australia, carefully… Read More

The wizard Mauryl Gestaurien cast his greatest spell to create Tristen. Armed with a book of spells he can't read and a magic sword bearing the words "Truth" on one side and "Illusion" on the other, Tristen rides into battle for Cefwyn against the Shadow spawned by Hasufin, Mauryl's greatest enemy.This paperback is in good used condition with the usual wear to cover and some tanning of pages. Please see photos.

Part of the Company Wars series, this book can also be enjoyed as a stand alone novel. Loki is a mercenary ship and bounty hunter. Bet Yeager is a killer elite Earth Company Marine whose side lost. Now she is forced to escape aboard Loki, surrounded by enemies and hunting her old comrades. And the fighting skills she must use to survive may be her death warrant. A gritty, rough, fast paced, superbly envisioned view of military "grunts in space" - engineers, officers, a secret mission and an old hand on the edge.This is the first British paperback edition, published by Hodder & Stoughton as part of their New English Library. In good used condition, with cover wear such as creasing and small corner bends, also tanning of pages.

Part of the "Craft Series", this slim volume provides valuable advice for commercial cake production, as it was in the 1940's. Includes chapters on Small Things that Constitute the Whole, Block and Round Cakes, Special Lines, Pound and Small Cakes, Season Cakes an Seasonal Display, Costings and Policy.95 pages, 21 cm square. Published by Maclaren & Sons and printed by The Garden City Press at Letchworth, Herts., England.In very good condition given it age, with signs of wear to cover and tanning to pages. Title on cover and spine is faded. Binding is tight. Annotation inside back cover in blue ink, but otherwise free from markings.This is an undated volume, but presumably was published about 1940.

No. 5 in the Ure Smith Miniature Series, a compact volume of 72 pages. It includes suggestions for a range of menus to fit occasions such as A Dinner Party to Impress, Men's Dinner, Invitatons on Impulse and Some Picnic Meals. Printed on heavy paper with colour illustrations. It is in good used condition overall, with all pages intact. Binding is cracked at three quarters of the way through, pages 48-49 ( see photo). Cover has scuffing and wear at corners and the spine is loosened at the top edge, with tears to paper covers where they meet the spine. Ink stain on front cover (approximately 2 cm by 1 cm). White mark to back cover where surface has been worn away. Previous price marked in black ink on front flyleaf but no other notations or inscriptions. The pages are yellowed with scuffing along side edges, and there is a 3.5 cm tear at page 30. Text is clear. The author is a poet, university lecturer and music critic, as well as a distinguished cook and "civilised human being" who has created a book… Read More

This book is written for the complete beginner in painting. It is written for the person who would like to paint but has no idea how to begin....The author is a former scientific researcher who became interested in the problems of creative expression through painting and after WWII established a program of teaching painting to hospital patients as a form of art therapy. It includes practical advice on making a start, types of paints and pigments, oil painting, watercolours, art as representation, and colours.Published in 1953 as Penguin Handbook PH 22. 221 pages. It is in reasonable used condition with soiling and wear to cover including creasing at corners and some rubbing and fading to spine. Binding is firm and all pages are intact. There are a couple of painty fingerprints on front cover. Pages are foxed and tanned but free from annotations.Carefully packaged and ready for immediate shipment from Sydney, Australia, with tracking.

'Called Back' is an 1883 mystery novel written by Englishman Frederick John Fargus under the pseudonym Hugh Conway. A best seller in its day, It is now considered to be a classic of the mystery genre.This seemingly scarce edition was published by Rand, McNally & Company in Chicago (undated). It has dark blue boards with a floral art nouveau motif in paler blue on the cover and spine, with embossed cream flowers and titling. 288 pages. No jacket.In good condition generally, with some soiling, scuffing and bumping to cover. Front corners are bent. Good firm binding. There is a little yellowing to pages but they are otherwise clean. No internal markings. Please see photos for more details.

Follow the authors' sound and sensible advice and have better teeth, better health, and fewer visits to the dentist. Includes delicious recipes that show how to make puddings, cakes, biscuits and snacks using fresh android fruits. Includes tips for pregnant women and babies and children. Written by a practising dentist, this is a uniquely entertaining, captivating and stimulating book.Published by Pan Books in 1985, this is a reprint of the 1983 original. 205 pages. This book is in good condition with signs of wear to cover including soiling and creasing. Upper left corner of back cover has a series of small tears (3 cm in total). Pages are tanned with age spotting to endpapers and first and lat few pages. No markings or annotations. and binding is firm.Carefully packaged for shipment from Sydney, Australia.