Search Results: Authors starting with S from BookMangos

London: Hutchinson and Co. ltd. Good/good. A striking romance of the french revolution, a gripping, thrilling tale, and at the same time it is a masterly sketch of the causes of that revolution a charming love story runs through this fine tale of terror. Red boards with writing to spine. Dustjacket torn badly and bumping to boards. Fine for a reading copy. First Edition AB12

London: W.H. Smith & Sons, 1979. First printing. Very Good +/very good +. This book is an illustrated chronology of the Second World War, with 620 illustrations and 84 maps, compiled by the authors, translated from the Italian by Hugh Young. 1 September 1939-2 September 1945: just six years, 2194 days of a gigantic war, fiercer and more destructive than any in history. Fifty-five million dead, three million missing: the comination of the world at stake. This illustrated work is the classified diary, day by day, front by front, of the military and political events of those years. It is a work that makes clear what happened then and much of what has happened since. Beyond all, the reader will find the 'human' facts, the misery and the glory of men involved in a tragedy that brought out the worst in them, yet which sometimes inspired them to remarkable acts of nobility, chivalry and brotherhood. Mylar cover; large and heavy book; post to be adjusted, red boards, some shelf wear. price clipped.clean… Read More

J Salmon, 1996. Revised. Fine/fine. The Lake District painted by A. Heaton Cooper, who studied at the Westminster School of Art. Cloth bound in cream with gold lettering to spine. First Edition AB2

London: The Womans Press, 1980. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good. Throughout the trilogy Cora Sandel movingly describes Alberta's struggles, but these are lifted by her determination to 'live', and by the tranquility and self-determination Alberta eventually wins for herself and her son. Tight;bumping to bottom front corner,slight chipping to spine. AB34

London: The Womans Press, 1980. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good. Alberta's parents have died. She has left Norway for the bohemian fringes of Paris where she isliving in poverty. Very tight clean pages;slight chipping to spine and edges AB34

London: Woman's Press Ltd, 1980. Second printing. Paperback. Fair. In Alberta and Jacob. Alberta is a adolescent ' in incipient 'revolt against the shabby gentility of her parents and the stultifying provincialism of her home in the ever-cold far north of Norway. Inrtelligent and imaginative, Alberta craves knowledge and more purposeful way of life. but is hampered by her felligs of inadequacy, inssigifcance and guilt. Loose pages 1-14 rest tight binding;some bumping and chipping to edges; AB34

London: Royal Historical Society, 1986. First printing. Fine. Private letters and official memoranda of Henry, Lord Hardinge written from India during the years 1884-7, during his tenure as Governor-General, to his wife, Emily Jane; to his stepson, Sir Walter Charles James; and to the latter's wife Sarah Caroline. Volume 32 of the Camden Fourth Series hardback, clothbound; AB54

Headline, 2009. First edition. Fine/fine. Spartacus meets Master and Commander in this swashbuckling adventure from this writer of historical fiction. Signed by the author. Blue boards with gold writing to spine.Very minor bump to top of spine.Clean and tight binding. First Edition AB7

california: Mc Graw Hill, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. Get better search results etc. from google. Slight bumping and curling to cover. Shelfwear. Nice tight binding and clean pages. AB23

Yorkshore: Pen and Ink Sword, 2008. Fine/fine. Operation Neptune was the codeword for the naval side of the overlord plan for the historic June 1944 landings in Normandy. This book describes the great events of June 1944. Vice admiral schofield was Captain of HMS Dryad the shore establishment which housed General Eisenhowers Supreme Allied Headquarters before the landing, so in a unique position as a participant and an observer. Black boards with writing to spine, Dj mylar covered.Very tight binding and clean pages. First Edition AB61

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, undated. Very Good. A useful little book with excercises throughout. Green cover.Some bumping and marks to covers. Pages clean and unused. Tight binding. AB29

London: Century Hutchinson, 1987. Reprint. Near Fine. Two cousins grow up in the 1860s on a lonely bible dominated farm in the arid mountain veldt. Em is fat, sweet and contented, a born housewife. Lyndall is clever, restless. beautiful .....and doomed user marks;material cover AB34

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1976. Second printing. Paperback. Good. Another delightful Charlie Brown book. Clean;chip to spine front cover and edge. AB34

London: Abelard-Schuman Ltd, 1974. First UK edition. Very Good/very good. The first authoritative biography of one of the most popular composers of the 20th Century, tracing George Gershwin's life from his birth as the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants to his tragic death at the age of 38. This book tells the story not only of an exceptional and fascinating man, but also of America in the twenties and thirties. White cloth boardfs with writing to spine. Bumping to top of spine. Dj mylar covered. Some shelfwear. Nice clean pages. First Edition AB51

Edinburgh: H.M.S.O., 1971. Paperback. Very Good. A guide to the diseases of sheep and to the care and training of sheepdogs. foxing,chipping;tear to cover on spine AB36

Texas: Greenleaf Book Group, 1955. First edition. Fine/fine. Through expert storytelling, Scott illuminates basic business concepts with unconventional linkages from explaining what African cattle and medieval heraldry can teach us about branding to discovering the keys to market differentiation by examining a coral reef. cloth cover,veryclean;tight;signed First Edition AB31

London: J.M.Dent Everyman's Library, 1965. Later printing. Very Good/fair. For all its liberty with historical facts, Ivanhoe of all Scotts novels probably produces the greatest sense of history. England awakening to a new liberty under the return of Richard the Lionheart, and it is within the keepingof romance that the Lionheart should himself return from crusading as a disguised knight. clean, gold lettering to spine of hard cover, clipping to top edge of dj First Edition AB19

New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. Fine/fine. this was his first novel and is set at the time of the Jacobite rising of 1745. it springs from his childhood recollections of tales of the Jacobites and his desire to preserve in writing many features of life both in the highlands and lowlands of scotland. Black boards with writing to spine. Dj mylar covered. A little foxing to the upper edge of the pages. price clipped. Nice tight binding and clean pages. This is a heavy book so post and packing to be adjusted accordingly. First Edition AB59

London: Jonathan Cape, 1937. Fourth printing. Very Good/very good. The Bedford Historical Series. Recreating everyday life in a seventeenth-century noble household, that of William, fifth Earl and Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire and at Bedford House in the Strand, London. This is something quite unusual in historical writing - a picture, astonishing in its detail and completenes. It posesses the unity and interest of biography and the fascination of social history, Blue cloth boards with writing to spine.Some bumping to top and bottom of spine and some staining to cover. Owner inscription. Dj mylar covered, some shelf wear.Pages foxed, but clean. First Edition AB51

Macmillan, 2008. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. A curiously brilliant nocturnal comedy about a boy who cannot sleep. An advanced reading copy. Slight shelf wear. AB8