Search Results: Authors starting with P from Goldring Books

London: Collins, 2007. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from minor indentations to rear top edge) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The book offers tips on where you can spot some of the most interesting animals, birds, trees and flowers in the British Isles, how to identify them, and how they survive and thrive in different habitats. Arranged by month, each location contains visitor information, opening times, along with animal and plant profiles, and websites to find out more information, offering a practical guide to these spectacular habitats and extraordinary animals and plants. Lavishly illustrated and with maps. **** A HEAVY LARGE VOLUME OF NEARLY 1 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 16. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Little Brown, 2005. A Very Good unmarked copy with Very Good dustjacket which is not price clipped. 429 pages. Map endpapers and 4 maps. The author's two year journey through eleven countries in search of the tiger and to ask the question 'can the tiger be saved from extinction in the wild?'. She plunges into leech infested jungles and tick-filled forests, tracking tigers by jeep, by elephant and on foot. She also examines her fascination - both as a poet and as the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin - with nature, wildness and survival. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY BOOK OF 0.82 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 24. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Cape Goliard Press, 1970. A Near Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket. A large format volume unpaginated. Jim Dine is an American pop artist and Ron Padgett is an American poet. Drawings by Dine are accompanied by paragraphs by Padgett. B2F. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Gay and Bird, 1895. Volume iv only. Gilt titles and decoration on red cloth boards which have some wear to spine sides, head and tail and corner tips and some light bumping. Internally red endpapers and the words 'La Boheme' written on title page else very clean and unmarked. All edges gilt. A Good + copy. A large format volume printed on quality paper with numerous full page plates, many on heavier paper, and many illustrations and portraits in the text. Pages 735-976. Covers music in France, Frederick Chopin, Anton Dvorak, Michael Ivanovitch Glinka, Anton Rubinstein, Peter Ilitsch Tschaikowsky, Franz Liszt, Eduard Hagerup Grieg, Niels William Gade, Music in Russia, Poland, Scandinavia and Hungary, Henry Purcell, John Field, William Sterndale Bennett, Michael William Balfe, Arthur Seymour Sullivan, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Charles Villiers Stanford, Music in England, Music in America. **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.8 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH… Read More

London: Methuen, 1985. Gold title on yellow boards which have slight bumping to top corner tips else a near Fine uninscribed copy. Dustjacket is complete with a touch of wear to top of spine. A portrait of the Edwardians who set out for the tropics when the imperial sun stood at it's zenith, traders, soldiers, sportsmen, hunters, missionaries, pro-consuls et al and earnest young men enlisted to bear the white man's burden in steamy Asian jungle or African bush. Leonard Woolf is here in his role as a district officer in Ceylon, Joyce Carey struggles to administer 10,000 square miles of Nigeria, Lord Curzon plunges from triumpth to humiliation as Viceroy of India and many more. Bases largely on contemporary letters, diaries and memoirs. Pictorial endpapers and profusely illustrated by photographs and cartoons of the period. ***NOT EX LIB *** **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.0 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COSTS **** 3. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very… Read More

New York: Dover Publications, 1965. Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy which has a name to front endpaper. Introduction by Adolf K. Placzek, Columbia University. This is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by Isaac Ware in 1738 to which has been added a new introduction for this edition. Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) was one of the most celebrated architects of the Renaissance. The Four Books of Architecture offers a compendium of Palladio's art and of the ancient Roman structures which inspired him. The text is illustrated by over 200 magnificently engraved plates, showing edifices, either of Palladio's own design or reconstructed by him from classical ruins and contemporary accounts. PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A VERY LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.225 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 25. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

London: William Heinemann, 1999. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTINGThe author's FIRST NOVEL. Sub-titled 'Being the tale of a Whitby orphan boy's longing to navigate the broad seas' of advenrurous voyages aboard fighting ships; of commerce and the profits of greed; of a young man's loves, his losses, and a quest for tye truth. An historical novel set in England in the 1690's with the Dutch trade wars coming to a close but the struggles with the French for naval supremacy just beginning, It is the time of Newton, of advances in astronomy and the study of longitude. Matthew Stalbone longs to go to sea in command of his own sailing ship and studying the new science of navigation is his only means of escape from the Whitby coal wharves, but his dream of plying an honest trade is wrecked on the Essex shoals. Swept away to the Spanish Main, Matthew is plunged into a bloody life of pillage and prize money,… Read More

New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1969. A Fine unmarked copy. 189 pages. Although published for libraries this copy is NOT EX LIBRARY. First published in 1927. Comprises: Introduction; The Present Revival of the Paris Stage; M. Luigi Pirandello and the Enigma of Personality; M. H.-R. Lenormand and the Play of Psych-Analysis; M. Jean-Jacques Bernard and the Theory of Silence; M. Jean Sarment and the New Romance; The Satirical Plays of M. Jules Romains; M. Paul Géraldy and the Play of Sex; The Productions of M. Georges Pitoeff. B2E. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harmony, 1995. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 325 pages. Illustrated throughout. Rock and Roll is a profoundly American art form, the musical expression of revolutionary changes in popular culture and values, a Dionysian eruption that hit the white-bread fifties like a hurricane. It was a force destined to shake up subsequent decades and transform American culture. The book is a full-scale salute to rock by a preeminent rock critic and musician, which illuminates the roots of rock and explores the 'rock and roll culture' that surrounds the music. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.23 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 15. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: B.T. Batsford, 1979. A near Fine copy which has a gift inscription to front pastedown with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of 192 pages. The author's historical commentaries and quotations from contemporary writers set the scene for each of the 82 ballads and explain any otherwise obscure allusions. The book is lavishly illustrated with contemporary paintings, engravings, woodcuts, ballad sheets and photographs, and is completed with 50 tunes. Index of first lines, titles and tunes of songs. A1F. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Bloomsbury, 2007. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First printing. The book offer ten new commandments for coping with the stresses, strains and pressures of modern life. Its a book that looks through the inner eye in search of psychological truth - the truth from which we are made and live. It explores the energy and texture of human experience - emotional, mental, visceral, spiritual. B2B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Constable, 1981. A near Fine uninscribed copy with just a touch of dustmarking to top edge with a dustjacket which is price clipped. A companion volume to the editor's Anthology of Erotic Verse and spans the centuries from the Arabian Nights to modern authors with 60 extracts of works presented. 11. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1955. Gold title on red cloth boards which are clean with some minor marks but no wear. Internally there is a small name to front pastedown else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has age darkening to spine and minimal wear. vii + 178 pages. These Bampton Lectures provide a valuable historical study which should help towards clarification of thought on the problems of the relationship betwee Church and State. Comprises: Biblical Conceptions of Church and State; The Pre-Constantinian Church; The Constantinian Revolution and the Christian Roman Empire; Byzantine Theocracy; The Western Church and the Post-Roman World; The Medieval Attempt at Papal Theocracy; The Break-up of the Medieval World; TReformation Ecclesiology and the State; Epilogue; Index. R1. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: W.H. Allen, 1979. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. TRUE FIRST EDITION. 171 pages. Lady Lettice Patch is what you'd call a plump person. Since the death of Sir Bertie, she's done very little but eat and trundle out torrid prose. So it's off, then, to Slivers Health Farm to fight the flab. She unites joyously with Dame Agatha Tatters, ravishing Flower Fowler (nipples like steeples) and other ballooning females. Not to mention the lads - paunchy Flab Pottle, Windsor Shag and fading pop-idol, Kid Lips. The battle of the bulge is fought under the stern supervision of the Slivers staff with their strict discipline and motley proclivities. All are greedy for food, sex or both, and there's enough at Slivers to satisfy the most ravenous appetite. B2C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1993. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 272 pages. 43 photographs. The writer, fashion guru, painter, poet-performer and media personality recounts her life story in which nothing is held back, witty, sexy, totally honest and reveals a funny, talented and generous woman. 43 photographs. D4D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1970. Gold title with blind embossed train motif on brown cloth with pictorial slightly chipped dustjacket which is complete G+. A children's story by the American chidren's writer of railroads told from the point of view of Higgins who is a dog - part German Shepherd part Airedale, part Labrador and part hound. 12. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Bill McPheeters. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1973. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a few small spots to top edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 187 pages. Many of us suffer from 'nerves' at one time or another, but what is meant by 'nerves', and what is a 'nervous breakdown'? Dr. Parr explains in non-technical language how the mind works. The central nervous system, the instincts and how they are tamed, the emotional development of a child, anxiety and depression and forms of neurosis, with the general lines of treatment, are all simply discussed. With its clear explanations, and avoidance of jargon, this book gives a basic understanding of the functioning of the mind. C3C. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Viking, 2002. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xix + 503 pages. 40 illustrations. Shortly after university and a spell at the Foreign Office and having decided not to become a spy, Matthew Parris applied to London Transport for an apprenticeship as a diesel fitter and was turned down. He decided to try his luck as a Conservative Party candidate - buoyed by an award from the RSPCA - presented by an incredulous Mrs. Thatcher - for rescuing a drowning dog from the River Thames, Parris beat Peter Lilley and Michael Howard to stand for the West Derbyshire constituency, and spent seven years in the House of Commons. His book is a surprising and eccentric story, sometimes funny and always entertaining, of a life lived in and around politics, by a writer once described by Alan Clark as the political commentator with 'the clearest pen and the most fastidious sense of quality'. Later they fell out, Parris accusing Clark of falling asleep in the Commons… Read More

New York: William Morrow, 2002. STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A near Fine unmarked copy which has one very small bump to lower front board. Dustjacket has a little creasing to top and is not price clipped. An historical novel set at the time of the American Civil War and the death of a lowly man of the cloth in London attracts an unaccountable amount of attention. The Union's representative to Britain, the son and grandson of US presidents, seeks to block Confederate agents acquiring warships for their navy. Major Abel Jones pursues a monstrous killer who may be a Confederate agent or a ghost from his bloody past in India or both. 14. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Partridge Press, 1988. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of 186 pages. Photograph and period illustrations. The Illustrated London News has been covering the game of rugby football for over a century, and in that time both the sport and the ways of capturing it pictorially, have witnessed change and continuity. This book is a record of this intriguing blend of change and continuity, taken from the pages of the world's first newspaper with pictures, The Illustrated London News. **** NOT EX LIB **** PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.03 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 23. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.