Search Results: Titles starting with B from Aardvolk The Virtual Book Store

London, United Kingdom: Macmillan, 2008 339 pages. Original dustjacket not price clipped - on spine of d/j three very small indentations. Pictorial dustjacket. This is the 9th novel in the Fethering Mysteries series. As the title suggests - a body is found in the local bookies has all the mystery and intrigue of a Brett novel. Colin Dexter reviewing the book said: "Murder most enjoyable ... An author who never takes himself that seriously, and for whom any fictional murder can frequently form part of the entertainment industry."

Wales: Gwasg Carrech Gwalch, 2015 Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text pages. Slight wear to edges. This is the story of the Llandudno Town Band from 1900 with a Foreword by Gregory, Seventh Baron Mostyn. The history of the Llandudno Town Band's first 100 years is told through unprecedented access to the Band's archives and reveals the previously hidden story of the amateur musicians who became the very public face of Llandudno.

Boston, USA: Little, Brown and Company, 1955 Thirteenth and Centennial Edition. Completely Revised. 9th Printing. Rare edition. With an Index of Authors at the beginning of the book and a general Index at the back. Some age and shelf wear especially to dustjacket. Original dustjacket not price clipped. D/j in removable protective clear wrapper. D/j worn and torn around the edges. The boards have bumped corners. Inscription in blue ink on front endpaper. Otherwise no other internal markings, clean text pages. Tight copy. "This anniversary volume has been completely revised and edited by the editorial staff of the publishing house whose name has been connected with Bartlett's for the past ninety-two years. The section of anonymous work has been increased and reorganized for the reader's convenience. A general section includes quotations from songs, sayings, and political writings, while new selections from ballads, nursery rhymes, and foreign sayings and proverbs have been added.… Read More

Bourne End, United Kingdom: Etna Publishing, 1975 Collectible. Some shelf and age wear to the card wrapper - wrapper edges light rubbing with creases around edge and spine - internally the pages are in very good condition - clean pages with no internal markings.
First edition, no date on the front endpaper, but the drawings are dated 1975, unpaginated. The twelve b/w line drawings by Michael Bayley are secured in a paperback black card wrapper with cream writing - wrapper designed by David Howden. The drawings are of old surviving buildings in the Thames valley, with his handwritten captions, reproduced one per page. Contents: Foreword with a hand drawn map; The Old Manor House Mapledurham; Henley Church and the Red Lion; The Dog and Badger, Medmenham; The Guildhall and Red Lion, High Wycombe; Hurley Church; Marlow Bridge and Church; Cookham High Street; a riverside house, Maidenhead; Jesus Hospital, Bray; Oakley Court; The Cockpit, Eton; Church Street, Windsor.