Search Results: Titles starting with B from Douglas Books

Heidelberg: Carl Winter's, 1926. 1st ed. . Hardcover. VG+/No Jacket (assume none issued). 18 Cms x 26.5 Cms. Carl Bezold died before completing the work and t.p. continues 'Nach dem Tode des Verfassers unter Mitwirkung von Adele Bezold zum Druck gebracht von Albrecht Gotze'. vii+343, small slipped in publisher's flier of later date; internally clean, tight and unmarked; covers generally clean and hardly worn but bottom front corner very slightly rubbed, spine somewhat dull and end slightly wrinkled

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1886. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. VG-Fine for Age. Black-lettered red cloth with large gilt lettering and illustration to front, no significant flaws. Red-printed and illustrated end-openings on light brownish paper promoting the series. f/piece with tissue guard + 160 (inc. prelims), 10 further ills. plates on 9 pp. inc. in pagination: a small (2 cm x 3 cm) early oval blue private lib. stamp top recto f/piece leaf is only marking, and quite inoffensive, otherwise clean and tight. A remarkably good copy. The author is better known as a highly eminent Egyptologist. This is revised from 1st 1884 ed. so presumably preferred edition. 13 cm x 16 cm

London: Chatto & Windus in association with Punch, 1964. 1st ed. . Yellow Cloth. Fine/Fine. 13 Cm x 20 Cm. William Hewison. 168 pp., 7 (I make it) senstive text ills. by Hewison. no obvious faults with either text, covers or jacket (will add protective sleeve when ordered). An interesting series of short essays, originally published in Punch covering the spectrum of immigrant groups in Britain in the early 1960s, from Poles to West Indians, South Asians and refugee Jews. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: H.K. Lewis. 1st Edition . Cloth. Good+/No Jacket (none Issued?). 14 Cm X 22 Cm. viii+71; vii+78, both with text figs, inc.photos; ex-Wellcome Institute Library, 'Snail Hosts' initially Royal Sanitary Institute Library with their label on fr. pastedown +loan sheet fr. free endpaper and a handwritten price (9/-) on t.p., both have Wellcome stamps verso t.p.s & ends of text+bar codes bottom fr. pastedown, lib.# labels remains bottom fr. cover of 'Background' & v.faint ghost same place 'Snail Hosts' which also has a sm. star lib.# label top fr. cover, 'Backround' has 2 British Medical Association stamps on t.p. & one on half-title, a few other odd sm. lib.#s; covers clean & unworn. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: University of London Press, 1937. 1st ed. . Dark Blue Cloth. VG/No Jacket. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. f/piece+xx+694 pp, 8 further photos on 6 pp. ex-pagination + numerous text figs 6 diagrams & 34 tables; small gilt address label top outer corner front pastedown otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked, covers clean and unworn, brown flecking to top edge and, slightly, to fore-edge also. An excellent copy of the 1st ed. of this influential mid-century British text on the topic. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down outside this range.

London: University of London Press, 1969. 5th or later Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to sp. anf front, no obvious faults. Top edge of text-block dark b;ue. f/piece + xx+ 708, 34 tables; clean, tight and unmarked. Unclipped jacket unworn and generally clean but white back has touch of edge-tanning and a few small marks (2 being red), will add protective sleeve when ordered. This is 4th printing of 2961 5th edition.Weighs 1.17 kg so may require additional postage outside UK. 14 cm x 22 cm

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958. 2nd impression (1st-1957) . Blue Cloth. VG-Fine/VG-Fine. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. viii+228, 10 figs; small sig. to front endpaper, faint brown strips to inner sides of endpapers offset from jacket wraparounds, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers - just a trivial thin hint of fading to spine ends; small top clip to front jacket wraparound, though price is present at bottom so reason for this unclear, otherwise exceptionally bright, clean and unworn (will add protective sleeve when ordered). Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: Walter Scott, 1891. 1st Edition . Maroon Textured Cloth. Good-VG. 13 Cm X 18.5 Cm. pub.list (Tolstoi's Works)+xiii+459+[4, pub.notices & series list], 20 'photomicrographs' in text; Wellcome Lib.stamps verso t.p. & end text, otherwise no internal marking, one gutter beginning tom open towards end but tightness unaffected; early round lib.no.label top inner fr.cover, label removal ghost bottom sp., covers otherwise clean and unworn but sl.sp.fading & hint of rubing at top. Very acceptable copy. Issued in the Contemporary Science' series ed.Havelock Ellis. Postage minimum £3.50 for UK sales of books under £10.

London: John Murray, 1903. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Good+. 17 Cms x 24.5 Cms. col.chromolitho.f/piece w.tissue guard+xx+605, 33 listed plates, 2 being chromolithos, one double page, 35 text ills, 4 'maps and charts' (2 unf. all in 2 or 3 colours); presentation and 'property' stamps of Royal Veterinary College fr. pastedown, Wellcome Inst.Lib. stamps verso t.p. & end text only, no further internal lib.provenance markings, endpapers and pastedowns quite heavily browned but remainder of text unaffected, v.sl.paper splitting to end gutters not affecting tightness of binding; covers clean but marred by a 3cm chip & split top fr. gutter, v.faint lib.label ghost bottom sp., otherwise only sl.corner bumping and sl.rubbing to parts of back joint. A monumental study. Over 1.8 kg nett. so allow for extra postage.

London: H.M.S.O./ Medical Research Council, 1935. 1st Edition . Green cl.spine & Boards. VG/No Jacket (none issued). 16.5 Cms x 24.5 Cms. 392=xii (M.R.C.list), num.tables & graphs; 'Norfolk County Council Public Health' stamp fr.free endpaper, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked;covers almost unworn and unmarked bar thin broken smudged strip of red and faint cup-ring fragment on front. Issued as M.R.C. Special Report 206.

London: Collins 'New Naturalist' series, 1971. 1st rep. of 3rd (1969) ed. . Green Cloth. VG(+)/Fine-. 14 Cms x 20.5 Cms. col.f/piece+xv+158, XXIV black & white ills on plates ex-pagination (5 with 2 images), 12 text diagrams; internally clean, tight and unmarked, covers clean and unworn but light fading to top sp., front top & bottom edges and a small patch of liught pigment loss to back by bottom spine; unclipped jacket in protective sleeve as acquired very near fine but top front edge slightlly folded over due to over-close protective sleeve. The first title issued in this admirable and popular series.

Evanston IL.: Northwestern University Press, 1995. 1st ed. . Paperback. VG-Fine. 15 Cms x 23 Cms. vi+318; v.faint traces of a few erased marginal pencil lines to one chapter, otherwise a fine copy in clean unworn covers, now sealed in 'envelope' type prot.wrapper, bookseller's price label to back.

Glasgow: The Strickland Press/ Bakunin Press, 1940. 1st ed. . Printed Paper. Fair. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. Issued as "The Word" Library Second Series No.1 71 pp.; contents clean, unmarked and unworn, printed cover fairly clean but spine detached with numerous tears/chips & creases along spine, verso front has Contents. Will be able to do some basic repairs when ordered. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Leicester: British Psychological Society, 1980. 1st British Edition . Printed Card. Good/very Good/No Jacket. 17.5 Cms x 24 Cms. i+38 cover edges v.sl. browning. Issued as a Supplement to the Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, Vol.33. Important document in the 'Burt affair', containing papers by Hearnshaw, Gillie, A.M. & A.D.B. Clarke, Kline, Blackman and Farr, first delivered as a guest lecture (by Hearnshaw, Burt's official biographer) and symposium held at the B.P.S. Annual Conference earlier in 1980. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down outside this range. SALE PRICE

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907. 1st Edition . Brown Cloth. Good+. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. xi+212, num.text figs (numbered by chapter) & 13 tables; sig.top t.p. 'L.Howard-Flanders 2-4-18', who has to be British aviation pioneer Richard Leonard Howard-Flanders, an engineer with Vickers Ltd (Aviation Department) at this time (thanks to Canada-based Stephen Priestley for this information), large blue stamps of City & Guilds College bottom t.p, & rear pastedown, label on fr. pastedown of The Lyon Playfair Library, Imperial College, with presentation label on facing free endpaper 'Presented by Mrs B. Halstead & family in memory of Douglas Ian Halstead' (this has futher details, he died in 1952 aged 28). sm.lib no.top this page and 2 more verso t.p.; over 2 pp. of notes (dated 12-12-18) on both sides of rear free endpaper and extending to top end pastedown+another sheet in same hand slipped in; main text clean, tight & unmarked, sl.splitting of paper to top & bottom… Read More

Woodbridge, Suffolk UK: The Boydell Press, 2015. 1st ed. . Dark Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine. 16 Cms x 24 Cms. xvi+414, 17 text ills (mixture of phot-portraits and contemporary magazine illustrations); virtually mint in similar jacket (will add protective sleeve when ordered). A detailed account of the lives eminent aristocratic family, particularly their political involvements, during the 1880s and 1890s.

New York & London: W. W. Norton, 1998. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. Fine/Fine. 16 Cms x 24 Cms. 509 pp., a virtualy mint copy in similar unclipped jacket. The only trivial flaw is a couple of small faint light smudges of indeterminate nature to front cover alongside mid-spine. Will add protective sleeve to jacket when ordered. Apaprently uncommon in UK. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

New York: The New Press, 1995. 1st ed. . Dark Pink boards, black cl.sp.. Fine/Fine. 13.5 Cm x 20.5 Cm. f/piece+xx+411, 13 further ills. no obvious flaws, unclipped jacket spine may be faded butcolour the same as central region of front so hard to be sure. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark, 1945. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG- for age/No Jacket. Red beveled edge cloth with round gilt logo to front and gilt on black sp. label, clean and unworn but top corner of sp. label damaged and slight sun-fading to sp. and fr. cover to sp. region and across top. viii + col. plate + 322 + 2 large unfolding maps/ ills. in rear pocket, numerous further ill. plates throughout ex-pagination, some col.; small round Birmingham Assay Office Library stamp bottom corner fr. end-paper but no other lib. marks, top edge a little dust darkened. 16 cm x 25 cm

Cambridge MA, (but London Humphrey Milfored, Oxford University Press verso series t.p.): Harvard University Press, 1927. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine for Age/No Jacket. Red cloth binding with gilt sp. lettering, near pristine. Harvard Economic Studies List (of which this is Vol. XXX)+ their t.p.+ xi + 240; faintest hint of edge-tanning otherwise clean, tight and unmarked, no indications of provenance. Scarce. 15.5 cm x 22 cm