Search Results: Titles starting with B from Cox and Budge Books

Basingstoke: Patula Books, 2006. First Paperback Edition. . Paperback. Very Good. First edition. Paperback. 23.5 × 15.5cm, 132pp. Signed directly to the title page by Julian Evans. This book goes into the practicalities of managing your woodland, written by Professor Julian Evans and sponsored by Woodlands. As well as being a handbook for the new owner, Badgers, Beeches and Blisters includes sections on sources of advice, tax information, a glossary, and a tree-species guide. One of our favourite features of the book is the line drawings illustrating many private woodland activities from camping to padlocking. These drawings are by John White and Julian's son, Stephen Evans. Condition: This copy is in very good condition with a little sunning around the spine.

Grottaferrata: Tipografia Italo-Orientale "S. Nilo, 1914. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition. Rebound in quality cloth with contrasting leather title label to spine.19.5 × 12cm, 266pp. An illustrated guide to the basilica of Saint Clement, a Latin Catholic minor basilica dedicated to Pope Clement I, located in Rome, Italy. Illustrated throughout, this copy was owned by folklorist Francesa Claremont, who has signed from San Clemente in 1923. Condition: This copy is in very good condition, with a little tanning to the pages.

Esher, Surrey: Penmiel Press, 1984. First, Limited Edition. . Full Leather. Very Good/Fair / Good. First edition, limited to 65 copies (this being no 51). Hardback in glassine wrap and card slipcase, bound in full leather by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, and on handmade paper by John Mason of Leicester. Untrimmed pages, with two woodcut devices by Edward Burrett. 21.5 × 16cm, 24pp. Signed by the publisher, Edward Burrett, directly to the limitation page. There is also a previous owner's gift inscription to the ffep which reads "John, In memory of your consecration at Saint Pauls Cathedral on March 25 1955, from Mark Gilley(?)" The John in this instance was John Klyberg, later Bishop of Fulham before being received into the Catholic Church and was made a Prelate of Honour by Pope John Paul II. The Beatitudes being eight sayings of Christ delivered during the Sermon on the Mount and recorded in the Gospel of St Matthew in the New Testament. Condition: The book itself is in very good… Read More

London: J M Dent, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First UK edition, first printing. Hardback, bound in the original brown cloth with gilt titling to spine. 25.5 × 16cm, 251pp. This work is a definitive critical exploration of the world of Beethoven's piano music. It presents detailed analyses of the technique and form of each of Beethoven's thirty-two published pianoforte sonatas, and discusses the composer's evolution from the Mozartian clarity of Op. 2, No. 2, to the final intricacies of the Hammerklavier. In addition, twelve essays deal with those all-important artistic considerations which, though impossible to analyze structurally, are what the author refers to as "the difference between competence and genius." Condition: A good solid copy, with a school's music prize label to the front pastedown.

London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 206pp. A study of Beethoven and his work specifically in the context of the social and political events of the very stirring times in which he lived. Frida Knight (1910-1996) was an English communist activist and author. She joined the Left Book Club, the Communist Party and drove an ambulance in the Spanish Civil War. She was in France in 1940 and was arrested after the German invasion. She escaped with author Rosemary Say in 1942 to work with the Free French in London. Condition: This copy is in very good condition, with a little wear to the wrapper's edges.

London: Oxford University Press, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 19 × 12.5cm, 186pp + plates. "There are still places in England where elemental nature dominates, and man appears hardly more than a speck". The author of this account of life in Eskdale, below Scafell, lives on a farm among the fells. He writes of the vagaries of Scafell's weather that can veer swiftly from sunshine and the beauty of coloured landscape to blinding cloud and bitter hail; of the changeless yet always changing fells themselves; of warm and eager life in the dale; of everyday work with the sheep that browse austerely; and of the risks and ardours of mountain rescue work. Condition: The book is in good plus condition, with foxing to the page edges but the main body of text in good clean order. The dustwrapper is a little worn to the edges and has been price-clipped. Overall, this copy is in strong readable condition.

Virginia Beach, VA.: 4th Dimension Press, 2010. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition, second printing. Paperback. 23 × 15cm, 261pp. Science and history writer, Andrew Collins, uncovers and explores, for the first time, catacombs, hewn chambers and cave tunnels that were first found in the 1800s but had subsequently been left unexplored and whose location was lost for 200 years. Beneath the pyramids of Egypt lies a lost underworld of catacombs, hewn chambers and cave tunnels. They are alluded to in ancient texts and Arab legends, but have been left unexplored until today. They have now been rediscovered and investigated for the first time by science and history writer, Andrew Collins. What exactly does this subterranean realm tell us about the pyramids, their relationship to the stars and the mythical origins of Egyptian civilisation? Lavishly illustrated with colour photos. Condition: This copy is in very good condition, with a little wear to the fore-edge.

Southampton: Southampton Art Gallery, 1994. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. First edition. Card covers. 28 × 21cm, unpaginated. A slim book to accompany an exhibition of textile artist Beverly Semmes' work, held at Southampton, the Camden Arts Centre, and James Hockey Gallery in Farnham. Illustrated in colour. Condition: A good copy, with a little marking to the edges.

London: A & C Black, 1915. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fair. First edition. Hardback, bound in green cloth with printed titling and design. 19.5 × 13.5cm, 312pp. Illustrated with eighty-four photographs, this book contains a brief history of billiards and a guide to successful play, from strokes and break, fine stroke and follow-through effects, kiss strokes, swerve effects, "drop" cannons, etc etc. Condition: The cloth binding is in poor condition as it is heavily mottled. However, the contents are in much better condition with clean pages. The inner binding is sound with a little wear to the front hinge. The book remains in strong readable condition despite the ungainly appearance of the boards.

Salisbury: Anne Powell, 1990. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First edition. Paperback, 22 × 15.5cm, 59pp. A brief biography of poet Edward Wyndham Tennant, known to friends and family as Bim, and son of Edward Tennant (later Lord Glenconner) and Pamela Wyndham, later Viscountess Grey of Fallodon). The book records his childhood but concentrates mostly on his army career in the First World War in France and leading to his death at the Battle of the Somme in September 1916. The book contains examples of his poetry, a brief bibliography and is illustrated with photographs. Condition: This copy is in very good condition.

London: The Geological Society, 2013. First Edition. . Hardback. Very Good. First edition. Hardback in laminate boards. 25.5 × 18cm, vi [2], 373pp. This volume provides an overview of current research on fossil and modern dinoflagellates, as well as highlighting research areas for future collaboration, following the DINO9 International Conference in Liverpool. The volume is organized into four themes, with a review paper for each theme written by the key-note speaker. Each theme also includes a future research foci note following discussion during the conference. The contributions are organized into the following sections: environmental change, ecology/palaeoecology, life cycles and diversity, and stratigraphy and evolution. Also included are notes from two workshops: culture experiments and dinocysts as palaeoceanographic tracers. This volume will be of interest to both the biological and micropalaeontological communities. Condition: This copy is ex-library but in otherwise very good… Read More

New York: Mulholland Books, 2017. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First US edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24.5 × 15.5cm, 329pp. Signed and doodled to the half-title page. Sergeant William South has always avoided investigating murder. A passionate birdwatcher and quiet man, he has few relationships and prefers it that way. But when his only friend is found brutally beaten, South's detachment is tested. Not only is he bereft - it seems that there's a connection between the suspect and himself. For South has a secret. He knows the kind of rage that killed his friend. He knows the kind of man who could do it. He knows, because Sergeant William South himself is a murderer. Moving from the storm-lashed, bird-wheeling skies of the Kent Coast to the wordless war of the Troubles, The Birdwatcher is a crime novel of suspense, intelligence and powerful humanity about fathers and sons, grief and guilt and facing the darkness within. Condition: A very good copy,… Read More

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Good Plus. Second edition. Paperback in dustwrapper. 17.5 × 11cm, 301pp. Death Gregory has disappeared, abandoning his diaries in a seedy London hotel. Discovered by Lawrence Lucifer, they depict a clique of intellectuals living a life of squalid debauchery: struggling writers and artists consumed by loves, lusts, and a quest for innovation. But as they satisfy violent appetites of the flesh - and mind - their descent into darkness accelerates... Written when he was only 24, Lawrence Durrell described his controversial third novel as 'a two-fisted attack on literature by an angry young man of the thirties' in which he 'first heard the sound of my own voice.' First published in Paris in 1938, it was banned in Britain for nearly four decades due to its 'obscenity'. Condition: Very good condition, with a little crinkling to the bottom edge of the wrapper and at the the head of the spine, and a little… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1947. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First US edition. Hardback, bound in the original red cloth with printed titling and design to spine and upper board. 20.5 × 14cm, 324pp. Not signed but this copy comes from the Munger Africana Library and is blindstamped to the title page. Edwin Munger was a world-recognized authority on Africa and amassed a library of over 45,000 volumes on Sub-Saharan Africa. First published in 1937, "Black Hamlet" is a chronicle of physician Wulf Sachs' experiences psychoanalysing a man from a Johannesburg slum for two-and-a-half years. Originally an attempt to learn whether psychoanalysis was applicable across different cultures, Sachs' findings became so much more. "Black Hamlet" is a narrative reconstruction of one black South African's life as two worlds collide. Critically acclaimed when first published, this fascinating book will appeal to those with an interest in psychology and psychoanalysis.… Read More

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First paperback edition. 22.5 × 14.5cm, 232pp. What do the comic book figures Static, Hardware, and Icon all have in common? Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans gives an answer that goes far beyond "tights and capes," an answer that lies within the mission Milestone Media, Inc., assumed in comic book culture. Milestone was the brainchild of four young black creators who wanted to part from the mainstream and do their stories their own way. This history of Milestone, a "creator-owned" publishing company, tells how success came to these mavericks in the 1990s and how comics culture was expanded and enriched as fans were captivated by this new genre. Milestone focused on the African American heroes in a town called Dakota. Quite soon these black action comics took a firm position in the controversies of race, gender, and corporate identity in contemporary America. Characters… Read More

London: The Bush Theatre, 2001. First Edition Thus. . Paperback. Good Plus. First edition thus. Paperback with spiral bound spine. 21 × 15cm, 93pp. This is a publication of Adam Rapp's play Blackbird by The Bush Theatre in West London after it played there in 2001, which was also the American playwright's British debut. It's Christmas Eve: a Desert Storm veteran with a herniated disk and a 19-year-old runaway heroin addict share the holiday in a filthy, rundown squat on New York's Canal Street. This unusual love story is grimly compelling, mixing gritty honesty with remarkable generosity and compassion, striking a delicate balance between the sweet and difficult moments in human interaction. Condition: Very good condition, with a little marking to the covers.

New York: Scribners, 1986. First US Edition. . Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First US edition, first printing hardback in dustwrapper. 23.5 × 15.5cm, 198pp. Signed directly to the ffep by Robert Barnard. In the Soho studio of Bodies magazine are found four corpses: a photographer, his assistant, an actress-student and a young bodybuilder. Perry Trethowan of London's CID can't discern a motive for the murders and soon finds himself involved in the seedy world of competitive body-building and a sinister operation behind Bodies magazine. Condition: A good solid copy, there are a few spots of foxing to the page edges but otherwise a clean copy.

London: Duckworth, 1922. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good Plus. First edition, first printing. Hardback, bound in brown cloth with printed titling to spine and upper board. 19.5 × 12.5cm, 320pp. An early novel from Shaw Desmond, the Irish author, poet, founder of the International Institute for Psychical Research in 1934, and author of many works on the afterlife. Condition: This copy is in good plus condition. The book has a little light bumping to the corners and some light tanning to the pages but remaining in strong readable condition.

London: Duckworth & Co, 1908. First UK Edition. . Hardback. Very Good. First UK edition, first printing. Hardback bound in the original green cloth with gilt titling to spine. 19 × 12.5cm, 426pp. In The Bond, American author Neith Boyce employs a thin veneer of fiction to document her own marriage and open-minded relationship. Teresa, a sculptress, struggles to balance her artistic pursuits with her duties as a wife and mother, while her husband, Basil, finds his progressive beliefs about monogamy and sex severely tested when his wife becomes attracted to another man. A fascinating tale of one couples attempt to rewrite the rules of marriage. Condition: This copy is in very good condition for age. There is some age-toning to the pages and light bumping to the spine ends but otherwise a very solid copy.

London: Alexander Ouseley, 1935. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Hardback, bound in the original green cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board. 25.5 x18.5cm, 448pp. This book contains hundreds of photographic portraits of dogs, and Stanley West has added notes about the breeds throughout. There are also some chapters on dog care and a section of show points for the various breeds, which describes the ideal head, ear, body properties, gait, hind, tail, coat etc, this section is arranged alphabetically from Alsatian to the Irish Wolfhound, and this is followed by general information about showing, buying pups, quarantine and so on. Condition: A good solid copy. There is light foxing to the endpapers, and a few small spots of foxing to the spine but otherwise a decent copy. **PLEASE NOTE: As this is a heavy book, postage may have to be increased for overseas (non-UK) buyers, or decreased where appropriate. Please see the COX AND BUDGE BOOKS website for full… Read More