Search Results: Titles starting with A from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

Croydon: ARCAS Academy of Recorded Crafts, Arts and Sciences, Ltd. N.d. [1944]. Folio. 52 pp. Folio size measuring 34cm x 21.5cm. Red cloth spine over brown paper wrappers. Paper covers edgeworn. Frontis portrait. Illustrative figures. Seven lessons in voice-throwing. VG . Very Good. Wraps. First Edition. 1944.

Hull: Hull University Press 1987. 8vo. x, 50 pp. Paper covers with lettering and illustration to front. Covers slightly grubbied. Internally clean. Part of the Hull University Philip Larkin Memorial Series. 0859585611 . Very Good. Paper Covers. 1987.

London: Mansell / Cassell 1991. 8vo. x. 198 pp., some illustration 072012171X . Near Fine. Soft Cover. 1991.

London: Henry J. Drane, Ye Olde Saint Bride's Presse [1902]. 12mo. 80, iv pp. Red cloth binding with white lettering to front board and spine. Rubbing to lettering & head and foot of spine, corners bruised. Foxing to endpapers. Scarce. Copac records just BL & NLS . Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 1902.

London: ADAM International Review 1953. 8vo.Magazine / Journal. ii, 80, iv pp. Paper covers. Offsetting and slight spotting to covers; internally clean. Memorial issue of the long-running literary monthly magazine in English and French, ADAM (standing for Arts, Drama, Architecture and Music), after the death of poet Dylan Thomas. Includes some of his juvenalia, two chapters from his unfinished novel 'Adventures in the Skin Trade', as well as contributions from Igor Stravinsky, Edith Sitwell, Augustus John and many others paying tribute. . Very Good. Paper Covers. 1953.

Belgium: RENAISSANCE DU LIVRE 2003. 4to. The less common English Text version of this very popular regional cookery book. 2804608468 . Very Good. Hard Cover. First Edition in English. 2003.

London: Routledge 2004. 8vo. xxxvii, 368 pp. Hardcover in illustrated jacket, not price clipped. Minor crinkling to jacket edge, a few pencil annotations in the margins, otherwise all in near fine condition. . Very Good. Hardcover. 2004.

London: Collins 1939. 8vo. 416 pp. Publisher's hardback in pictorial dust wrapper. Spotting to fore-edge. Clean copy. No ownership names. In a remainder binding. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1939.

Lyon: Chez Iean Giri, & Bart. Riviere 1668. 16mo. 3 vols. [xxii], 558, [18]; [x], 432, [34]; [xii], 402, [74], [26] pp. Engraved title in volume 1 and Portrait in 3. First 2 vols. are tan brown calf, 3rd vol. is dark speckled calf; all have all edges speckled red, gilt-decorated board edges, raised bands with gilt lettering, gilt decoration and title labels to spine, and gilt device with Order of the Garter motto on boards. History of the French Royal House of Savoy, in French, with the last 83 or so pages of vol. 3 being a list of knights in the court of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy . It's a married set - the third volume is differently bound, but they are all still first editions of the text, and have evidently been together for a long time. These are copies from the library of Gordon Castle in Moray, Scotland, and on the front pastedown bear the bookplate of Cosmo, 3rd Duke of Gordon (1720-52); the majority of the castle's contents were sold in 1938, likely including this set. All… Read More

London: Richard Bentley 1837. 8vo. In 3 volumes. vi, 318; 311; 307 pp. Paper-covered spines over marbled boards with title labels to spines. New endpapers. Faint marks to spines. All internally clean. Bindings firm. . Very Good. Boards. First Edition. 1837.

London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd. 1923. 8vo. First UK Edition. ix, 482 pp. Blue hardback with gilt lettering to spine. Slight rubbing to extremities, offsetting to endpapers, internally clean. Bookplate to ffep. . Very Good. Hardcover. First UK Edition. 1923.

South Yarra: John Currey, O'Neil Publishers 1982. 4to. xii, 185 pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Small dent to front board. Jacket bright. Very clean copy. No ownership names. Full-page photographic plates throughout. Scarce. 0859020657 . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1982.

Oldham: W. E. Clegg 1896. 8vo. In 3 volumes complete. Subscribers' edition. xxxi, 272; viii, 293; viii, 294 pp. Publisher's original olive-green cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Top edge gilt. Bookplate to front pastedowns. Spotting to fore-edges. Cloth clean. All internally clean. Frontis portrait. Illustrations by F. W. Jackson. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1896.

2001. Small Oblong 4to. Unpaginated [54 pp.]. Softcover. Very light marking to covers and minor curling to top right corner. Internally clean. Signed by the artist. 50 works are included. . Near Fine. Softcover. 2001.

Paris: Chez Buisson 1789 / 1790. 8vo. Two volumes. xvi, 446; xv, 464 pp. Speckled calf. Decorative gilt spines with maroon leather title labels. Marbled endpapers. Damage to boards with stripping & wear to calf. Corners worn. Head and tail-pieces. With four folding plates and two folding diagrams. Bindings firm. Attractive gilt spines. Good to VG condition. . Good. Speckled Calf. 1789.

Paris: Chez Buisson 1790. 8vo. Two volumes. xxiv, 440; xii, 434 pp. Speckled calf. Decorative gilt spines with maroon leather title labels. Marbled endpapers. Some damage to boards with stripping to calf. Two folding plates at rear of vol. 1 and one folding plate in vol. 2. Bindings firm. Attractive gilt spines. Good to VG condition. . Good. Speckled Calf. 1790.

N.p.: Daily Mail Publishing Co. 1899. 4to.Pamphlet. 4 pp. Original folded printed pamphlet. Measures 20cm x 32cm. Slightly edgeworn with short tears. Portrait of Kipling to front cover. Facsimile text of poem on 2 pages with full-page illustration by R. Caton Woodville. 'The whole proceeds from the sale of this poem will be devoted by the 'Daily Mail' in the name of Rudyard Kipling, to the benefit of the wives and children of the reservists.' . Very Good. Paper Covers. First Edition. 1899.

N.p.: Daily Mail Publishing Co. 1899. 4to.Pamphlet. 4 pp. Original folded printed pamphlet. Measures 20cm x 32cm. Slightly edgeworn with short tears. Cover spotted and marked. Portrait of Kipling to front cover. Facsimile text of poem on 2 pages with full-page illustration by R. Caton Woodville. 'The whole proceeds from the sale of this poem will be devoted by the 'Daily Mail' in the name of Rudyard Kipling, to the benefit of the wives and children of the reservists.' . Good. Paper Covers. First Edition. 1899.

London: John Milne [1901]. 12mo. vii, 183 pp. Cloth spine with original illustrated boards. Rubbing to extremities and general discolouration. Small losses to a few corners of boards. Publisher's stamp to title page and light creasing to corner of pages, though internally clean and bright. Includes chapters on training of the soldier, the strategy of the war and the despatches of the generals. . Good. Original Boards. Ninth Edition. 1901.

Yokohama: Yokohama Museum of Art 1997. 4to.Exhibition Catalogue. Japanese and English language. 181 pp. Softcovers. A few light marks to boards but otherwise all in near fine condition. Essays and a selection of colour and black and white photography, including from Larry Clark, Wolfgang Tillmans, Hirakawa Noritoshi, among many others. From the 1997 exhibition of the same name at Yokohama Museum of Art. . Near Fine. Soft Cover. 1997.