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

London, United Kingdom: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994 This revised edition published by Sinclair-Stevenson 1994 (first published in UK in 1985 by Rivelin Grapheme Press). 47pp. Some age and shelf wear. Back cover has large white book store label at lower end but not covering any writing. Half title page has green ink stamp of book store name in right top corner. Both front and back cover has some soiling. Clean text pages. This collection is devoted entirely to cats. The poems are accomplished, delivered with Lykiard's acknowledged verve, and make a fine contribution to the love of the cat.

New York, N.Y., USA: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926 With seventy-four illustrations by photographic reproduction and seventy-four drawings. Published by Doubleday, Page. Illustrated throughout. Hardback. First Edition. American Edition. No dustjacket was issued with this edition. Blue boards. Age and self wear - spine is sun damaged - Binding good - no pages missing - clean text pages, no markings on pages. Front and back frontispages have yellow spotting - light spotting to half title page, title page, letter from Archbishop and contents page. Inside back cover has a brown envelop glued to it (where map of the Great Western Railway was stored - this map is missing). Inscription to previous owner on bottom corner of first frontispage written in black ink ("To Donald from Mr & Mrs Tomlinson, Christmas 1940"). British Cathedrals, fine photos and drawings with detailed essays, includes: Cathedrals and how to understand their architecture, and a special map showing the… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1987 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY for the hardback and paperback editions. Prepublication first edition. [Probable publication date 3 August 1987.] Green soft cover. 69pp. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Gross is a well-known English poet and novelist who writes for both teenagers and adults. His poetry collection The Wasting Game was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. This title is now out of print in both hard and paperback editions.

London, United Kingdom: Hutchinson, 1982 [First published in this collection 1980. Reprinted in paperback 1982.] This edition is now out of print. 412 pages with index. Some age and shelf wear; spine creased. Name of previous owner in blue ink on inside cover at top left hand corner. Otherwise no other markings, clean text pages. This collection was put together by the author. Ewart says in the Introduction "This collection is a collection - and not a selection - of my poems. This is not because I consider them all equally good but because I have aimed at completeness." Philip Larkin writing in Quarto said "The most remarkable phenomenon in the English poetic scene during the last ten years has been the advent, or perhaps I should say the irruption, of Gavin Ewart". Ewart (1916-1995) was a prolific British poet known for his witty and sometimes unsettling treatments of unlikely subjects. He uses the rhythms and recurrent obsessions of demotic forms - limericks in particular -… Read More

London, United Kingdom: John Lane, 1899 Second Edition. 305pp. Green boards with gilt decoration. Dustjacket was not issued with this edition. B/w illustration of author protected by tissue paper. Name of previous owner on first front endpaper in ink. Pages rough cut and are beginning to spot on every page. Otherwise no other markings on text pages. Boards have some minor age and shelf wear - spine top and tail bumped with minor tearing. 147 poems in this collection - for example: Wordsworth's Grave; Shelley's Centenary; England and Her Colonies; The Raven's Shadow; To a Seabird; To Lord Tennyson; Bryon the Voluptuary; The Sovereign Poet; The Ruin Abbey; The Riddle of the Thames; Peace and War; The Tomb of Burns; Estrangement; The Lost Eden; The Captive's Dream; To Thomas Bailey Aldrich; etc.

New York, USA: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925 No dustjacket. Some age and shelf wear especially to the boards - edges and corners of the boards rubbed and bumped. Spine sun damaged - spin also has a dark round spot (approx. 1 inch) just over the author's first name. Back and front boards have some slight age spots. Sewing of the inside front and back covers lose. No internal markings, clean text pages. Jazz Age romance and sequel to Meherin's popular novel, Chickie, which served as the basis for the First National Picture starring Dorothy Mackaill.

London, U.K. : Thames and Hudson, 1981 328 pages with 353 illustrations: 85 in colour, 268 photographs, drawings and maps in b/w; with index, sources of illustrations and select bibliography. Some age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped - dj edges and corners worn - slight tanning to the dj's front and back flaps. Slight water damage to the lower edges of the back board of the book. Otherwise tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. " Professor Barraclough's book is not written specifically for Christians or for non-Christians; it takes Christianity as a historical fact and uses the resources of modern research to trace the way in which it has moulded men and events. The thirteen authors, all leading historians in their fields, have interpreted Christianity in its widest sense, exploring the religious life of ordinary people as well as the rituals of cardinals and kings."

London, U.K. : Guild Publishing, 1988 This book club edition by arrangement with Phoebe Phillips Editions and George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. Original dustjacket - not price clipped - Dj edges and corners slightly worn. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Preface by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Illustrated throughout - b/w and colour; list of the kings & queens of the period; 13 pages of maps. This "tells the story of the last hundred years of the dynasty founded by Henry II in 1154 - it begins in 1377 with the accession to the throne of Richard II and ends in 1485 with the death on Bosworth Field of the enigmatic Richard III. More than 100 short essays, lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white, provide background information on the people and politics, manners, mores and customs of a formative epoch in English and European history.

Cary, N.C., USA: Oxford University Press, 1996 Colour and b/w illustrations/plates. Some age and shelf wear. Slight white spotting to lower right corner of back cover. Slight creasing on front cover at spine edge. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Contents - COLUMNS: I Am I-To Myself-And at the Same Time You-To Others by Laszlo F. Foldenyi translated by Michael Blumenthal; After History? by Joan Wallach Scott. ARTICLE : Drugs: In the Care of the Self by Richard J. DeGrandpre and Ed White. SERIATIM SYMPOSIUM Countertransference and the Humanities: Intersubjectivity and Nonverbal Interactive Processes: My Love Affair with Romanesque Art by Alexandra Murray Harrison. LITTLE REVIEWS: Roger Shattuck; Helen Vendler; Joseph Vining; James L. Wescoat; Michael Wilson; Alex de Waal; Margaret C. Jacob; Caroline Walker Bynum; The Editors. SYMPOSIUM Experimental Scholarship: Dialogical Introduction by Hugh Kenner; Greil Marcus; OK; or, Handel with Care by Marc Shell; There by Cole… Read More