Search Results: Authors starting with C from The Petersfield Bookshop

London: Simpkin Marshall Ltd. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. No date but c.1930 from a gift inscription inside. Boards very lightly marked. A few spots to page edges only. Size: Small Quarto. Category: Photography; .

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1899. First Edition. Blue Gilt Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. With illustrations and coloured frontispiece. Spine is very faded with some fraying to top and bottom of spine. First three pages have been creased, marks to back covers. Intrernally good, Heavy book may incur extra postage Size: Quarto. Category: Archaeology; 19th century; .

Tiverton: W. P. Authers, 1982. Second Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. This is the second edition with supplementary material. Category: Antiques & Collectibles; .

Chatto & Windus, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Blue cloth with dustwrapper. Light shelf wear with just some small nicks to wrapper. - This book examines naval history, and provides explanation, argument, and prediction for the future. Size: Octavo . 256 pages. Category: Military & Warfare; International relations; Ships & the Sea. ISBN: 0701117559. ISBN/EAN: 9780701117559. Dewey Code: 341.58. . 9780701117559

Birmingham: published for the Birmingham Natural History Society, 1971, 1971. First Edition. Original green cloth. Very Good Condition/Good. graph plotted maps to be used in conjunction with the 8 transparent overlays in pocket at end, large 4to., This is the first UK edition. Size: Large 4to.,. Dust Jacket has small closed tears, but otherwise complete and overall sound.. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Category: Natural History & Resources; 1970s; .

New York: Siglio Press, 2019. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Standard paperback binding with stiff folded covers. - "Over 16 years, beginning in 1965, John Cage compiled anecdotes, observations and koanlike tales, originally typing everything on an IBM Selectric and using chance methods to determine the formatting of texts that twist down each page. The Siglio edition preserves the graphic effects, but, more important, it gives a sense of the company he kept during these years--Marcel Duchamp, R. Buckminster Fuller, D.T. Suzuki--and of his passionate feeling about a world locked in a state of perpetual warfare. Cage has a reputation for being a Zen-inspired wit. He was also much more, an intensely engaged moral thinker." -Holland Cotter, New York Times\n\nNow available in an expanded paperback edition, Diary registers Cage's assessment of the times in which he lived as well as his often uncanny portents about the world we live in now. With a great sense of play as well as purpose, Cage… Read More

Nyeri, Kenya: The Mission Printing School, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition. Well illustrated with black and white photographs and with a couple of colour plates. Given at printed by members of the Akikuyu tribe at the mission. A comprehensive survey of the subject. This copy is a little rubbed and bumped and slightly loose in its covers, though in no dagner. Size: Octavo . Category: Travel & Places; Anthropology. .

Skirra, 1960. First Edition. Yellow Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Beautiful tipped in colour plates Size: Quarto. Category: Art & Design; .

Robert Hale, 1992. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). crease in the lamination of the dustwrapper. Category: Crime Fiction; .

London: Heinemann, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition. Tear to spine, some rubbing to covers and spine Size: Octavo. Category: Fiction; .

London: Victor Gallancz, 1969. Hardcover. Good Condition/Very Good. Some light foxing to endpapers, otherwise good. Comes from a smoking household. Size: Octavo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; .

London: George Bell & Sons, 1894. first. Green Cloth with gilt spine. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. George Cattermole. With illustrations by George Cattermole Size: Octavo (standard book size). Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges slightly foxed. Illustrator: George Cattermole. Category: Literature & Literary; Britain/UK; 19th century; Fiction. .

London: Falcon Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fine. Some small losses/tears to jacket. Bumping to corners. Internally good. Size: Octavo . Category: Fiction; .

V&A Publications, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. Small tear to back of dust wrapper Size: Octavo . Category: Art & Design; .

London: Andre Deutsch, 1988. Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. Inscribed on the half titles “To Sir Alec Guinness, Best wishes from Mel Calman” with a doodle of Calman’s signature character and stage curtains surrounding the page. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Category: Humour; Inscribed by Author. .

London: Secker & Warburg, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. a very presentable copy. Faint marks on front inside flap of jacket. Spotting to top edge. Size: Octavo . Category: Literature & Literary; .

Hamilton Publications, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/Fine. Signed by Author. Blue cloth with dustwrapper, illustrated in colour and black & white. Inscribed by the author on the endpaper. A little wear to the wrapper, otherwise as new. Size: Small Quarto. Category: Ships & the Sea; Signed by Author. ISBN: 090309410X. ISBN/EAN: 9780903094108. . 9780903094108

London: Iliffe. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A portfolio of aircraft photos by 'flight' cameramen, Size: Quarto. Category: Aviation; .

Hodder & Stoughton, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Dust Jacket has small closed tears, but otherwise complete and overall sound.. Category: Travel & Places; .

Longmans, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Fair. Size: Octavo (standard book size). has small tears to spine and covers, intrnally very good. Category: Medicine & Health; Genealogy & Local History. .