Search Results: Titles starting with A from BookMangos

Great Britian: Drive Publications Ltd, 1979. First edition. Very Good. A comprehensive guide to 700 cities and towns in Britian. clean;bumping to corner;chip to bottom front cover AB37

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995. First printing. Paperback. Near Fine. A gripping fiction tale of a scandel which goes to the very heart of the United States of Europe-the corrupt, bureaucratic, xenophobic Euro-superstate which has , in the last 30 years since the Aachen Referendum, almost snuffed out British national identity. A Thriller and a warning to us all. Clean;tight;one clip to back cover;minor chip;minor bumping AB33

London: His Majestys Stationary Office, 1951. Paperback. Very Good. A useful little paperback written at the invitation of the Treasury to help in improving official English. Very slight creasing to bottom front corner,felt tip mark in red on front cover, spine slightly creased. AB6

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

England: Yellow Jersey press, 2006. First printing. Fine/near fine. Accidental Angler takes us fishing from the London suburbs to Bhutan, Icelandic moonscapes,to the Seychelles - infact, anywhere fishing line leads. You'll battle titanic monsters on a tropical atoll and make believe sharks on the mushy-peas-and-gravy Wash not clipped;cloth cover;coloured photographs;slight curling to spine dj at top. First Edition AB31

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1962. First edition. Very Good/very good. Wallace Stevens had attained a place of importance in twentieth-century literature even before he died in 1955; he continues to serve as a model for younger poeets and the audience for his work is constantly increasing. At the same time, he remains something of an enigma: he has the reputation of being a difficult poet, a critic's poet. In this book the editors have gathered together examples of the attempt to read the enigma of Wallace Stevens, to explicate the difficulty - 19 essays covering a span of more than 40 years from 1920 to 1961. Green boardss with writing to spine and front cover.Some bumping and shelf wear.Dj mylar covered, some bumping to corners and top and bottom of spine. Foxed back cover. Contains a compliments card from the publishers. Nice tight binding and clean pages. First Edition AB55

London: British Museum Press, 1999. First printing. Near Fine/very good +. A gripping, lavishly illustrated history of Artic explorations and the search for the fabled Northwest Passage, a route that cut through the frozen north to link the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. clean;tight mylar cover, photographs of paintings;engravings;maps First Edition AB42

London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1930. First edition. Very Good/good. This volume contains Early Poems, Adamastor, and Satirical Fragments. Red boards with writing to spine, some marks and fading and bumping. Dj mylar covered. Torn in top left corner at front and back.Chipped and rubbed.Hand cut pages with some foxing. Nice tight binding. Price clipped. First Edition AB53

New York: Wiley, 1-06. Paperback. Very Good. A must have reference book for all disciples of the portable document format. Very little use comes with a cd rom. AB9

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: The English University Press, 1965. Second printing. Fine/fair. It covers the ground from the very beginning, along the usual paths of equations, factors, indices, and so on. foxing to edges;tear and chipping to dj;indentations to title page;not clipped. First Edition AB32

America: Random House, 1995. First printing. Paperback. Near Fine. The Time of Troubles has almost passed. However, not to Those who Walk in Shadows. clean;tight; AB37

Mitchell Beazley, 1983. Very Good/very good. Designed to enhance any trip to this great city. User marks & shelf wear First Edition AB7

New York: Capricorn Books, 1965. Second printing. Paperback. Fair. A stirring account of the birth of a new nation in the words of those who were there Tight;clean;creases and chipping to front cover; bumping to corners. AB33

London, 1974. Later printing. Paperback. Very Good. The effort to make the actions of the revolutionaries of 1789 comprehensible and to show that 'the Revolution was a foregone conclusion' forces de Tocqueville to paint a huge detailed portrait of the r�gime that was attacked. The depiction is of a society in decay. With characteristic irony he shows that the monarchy fell,not because it was backward, but because it was one of the most modern in Europe. Clean; bumping to bottom corner AB34

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1953. Second edition. Fine. Among many people and at many period, the desire to constructed monuments over their dead has been a prominent characteristic. We are bewildered by the enormous number of barrows almost all over Eurpope, while the number of habitation sites so far discovered in comparision is exceedingly small. clean;tight AB38

Edinburgh: The Porpoise Press, 1934. First printing. Very Good. The author provides an account of the political relations between England and Scotland during a hundred years (between the middle of the seventeenth and the middle of the eighteenth centuries), and this biography provides the necessary middle link between Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, and John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale. It places a wholly honest man of simple character between two men who were not so honest and quite as certainly not so ingenuous. It forms the last volume of the trilogy, Red boards with writing to spine. Some fading to spine. Owner bookplate inside front board. Some foxing to first blank pages but internally clean. Binding tight. AB53

London: Dent, 1976. Reprint. Fine/fine. The Athenian Constituition is the only surviving part of a collection of the constitutions of one hundred and fifty-eight states, compiled by students of the Lyceum under Aristotles supervision. clipped First Edition AB32