Search Results: Titles starting with F from Goldring Books

London: Fourth Estate, 1991. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. Dubious miracles and confused morals are the stuff of the twelve fables in this entrancing book. The adorable father Boniface achieves sanctity despite a life of exalted sensuality, Sesame O'Hare, a frustrated academic, finds her true calling when she hijacks the career of the illustrious poet A.T. Harrington, Edmund Ignatius MacHugh, the guiding light of the Shambla Seekers, has a Celtic epiphany which dazzles a wealthy American lady but fails to impress the disgruntled locals. Irresistibly funny and full of ticklish ironies, the author leads the reader a merry dance through a world whose hybrid inhabitants take liberties with accepted notions of sanity, intelligence and normality. C3A. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Gramercy, 1994. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket Aesop is said to have been a Phrygian slave who lived around 570 B.C. Some of his tales are believed to have been turned into verse by Socrates during his imprisonment and, later, in the second century A.D. by the Greek poet Babrius. In this form the fables were all well known in the Middle Ages. This edition was first published in 1909, and includes 23 of Edward Detmold's beautiful animal paintings as well as many of his black-and-white drawings and more than 300 of Aesop's very wise tales. Edward J. Detmold, who was born in 1883, was one of England's greatest book illustrators and with his twin brother Charles Maurice were drawing the animals in Regents Park Zoo and the Natural History Museum and at the age of 13 were the youngest artists ever to exhibit their work at the Royal Academy. 22. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Detmold, Edward J.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Strasbourg: Éditions Oberlin, 1965. SIGNÉ PAR L'AUTEUR AVEC DÉVOUEMENT. Livre bon. 133 pages. Table des Matières : i - lA Science a-t-elle tué la Foi; II - Comment Mener Ma Vie?; III - Le Mystére de l'Homme; IV - Le Passion de Dieu et le Salut par la Foi; V - Pourquoi la Bible?; VI - Communauté Militante; VII - Fin du Monde et But de Ma Vie. R7. Signed by Author. Première Édition. Couverture Souple. Très Bon/Bon. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Rivington Books and Andre Deutsch, 1979. A near Fine clean, tight copy which has a small name to front endpaper else unmarked with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 182 pages. 31 illustrations. 10 figures. 3 maps. The author is the Director of Operations and Chief Naturalist at Tiger Tops Jungle Lodge in Royal Chitawan National Park, Nepal. The book is the result of several thousand hours of observation and tracking and provides unique observations of the tiger in Nepal. C3C. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The authors are two distinguished scientists and science writers and here examine what modern biology can contribute to the debate and who are sensitive to the myriad ethical and religious arguments beyond the realm of science that swirl around abortion. They focus on one crucial question - when does a foetus acquire 'humanness' and argue that this begins with the possession of a highly developed cerebral cortex. Reviewing the latest advances in molecular biology, evolutionary biology, embryology, neurophysiology and neonatology, fields which all bear on this question. 107. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Simon and Schuster, 1990. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is price clipped. First UK edition. It took Kirk Kerkorian nearly 20 years to wheel and deal to the point wher all that remained of MGM was the faint meow of Leo the Lion. But the descent of that once regal movie powerhouse was occasioned by no small amount of glamour, humour and greed. In the book we are treated to the big picture of a world-class studio over the past 20 years: a time of mergers and junk bond offerings, corporate musical chairs (with Kerkorian the only constant), the selling off of the film library (twice) and the company back lot. Even the historic sets and wardrobes for many of the MGM classics went on the block. Meanwhile MGM produced a succssion of movies: some of them successful, some sleazy, too many of them flops. This is not only a bizarre drama of colourful characters propelled across an Alice-in-Wonderland landscape littered with dashed hopes and bitter betrayals, but also a powerful story of… Read More

London: Simon and Schuster, 2007. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 411 pages. On July 6 200, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic article 'What I didn't Find in Africa' appeared in the New York Times.A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his newspaper column that Ambassdor Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was a CIA operative. The public disclosure of that secret information spurred a federal investigation and led to the trial and conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, and the Wilsons' civil suit against top officials of the Bush administration. Valerie Wilson retired from the CIA in January 2006 and sets the record straight providing an extraordinary account of her training and experiences. As readers will see, the CIA still deems much of the detail of her story to be classified and parts… Read More

London: SPCK, 1950. Red title on black cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has large pieces missing from front and lower spine and has taped repairs. xv and 264 pages. The author is Marcus Fitzgerald Grain Donovan and was prepared at the request of the Church Union, it was popular with priests and teachers who wanted clear, definite doctrine that would hold the attention of intelligent children, and be the basis for much instruction on other occasions, and by other methods, than the Senior or Junior Catechism. R5. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Oldbourne , 1965. Silver title on light blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally clean and unmarked. Portrait of Madame Campan to frontispiece from a pastel by J. Boze 1786. 254 pages. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket has some wear and is price clipped. Jeanne Louise Genet, Madame Campan was first chamberwoman and a faithful defender of Marie Antoinette. B2C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Methuen, 1988. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A fantastic tale set in 17th century Siam, the Venice of the East, fabled land of lavish courts and dazzling wealth but Siam is now forced to emerge from it's isolation as foreign adventurers, opportunists and buccaneers approach, hungry for wealth and empire. An adventure story in the grand tradition of piracy, war, history, opportunity and a man's love for two women. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.99 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** NOT EX LIB **** D4A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: White Lion Publishers, 1976. Gold title and motif on grey boards very clean and unmarked VG+. Pictorial dustjacket is complete with a little shelf wear and with the price crossed through. A novel written under the author's real name who also used the pseudonym Leo Bruce. First published by Macmillan in 1955 this novel is the story of Antony Scaw, as told by his friend, whose orderly life is changed by forces which mark him down as rebellious and non conformist. It plots his life from childhood before the First World War and his marriage to "one of the Bright Young Things" up to the present where the stubbornly independent man sees society's revenge on him. It reflects, perhaps, the author's own experiences as a non conformist and as a homosexual, who was prosecuted in 1953 and imprisoned and warned that he should not write about this which forced him to go to Morocco to live and write. *** A SCARCE TITLE *** B2E. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over… Read More

New York: G.P. Puttnam's Sons, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good unmarked copy apart from a red line to top edge. Dustjacket is complete with a little wear to top edge. The award winning journalists present an extraordinary untold story of one of the greatest detective and espionage stories. Four days before Christmas, 1988 Pan Am flight 103 and its 259 passengers exploded in the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland. In the book they reveal not only the names of the people and organisations responsible for the bombing but also the web of lies and deception that for too long kept the investigators froom the truth. B2E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild, 2004. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. A rigorous work of philosophy which takes as its subject one of the most common forms of irrational behaviour in human beings. Self-deception has been much written about from a philosophical point of view, but, according to the author, has never been adequately explained or rebutted. Through cogent analysis of key texts, he demonstrates why so many previous attempts to dismiss the notion of self-deception as being ontologically impossible fall short of explaining away a form of irrationality that is familiar to most of us. He also considers the significance of Freud's theories for the phenomenon, where psychology might appear to be the most obvious tool for explaining it. 1. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Phoenix House, 1964. Gold title on brown cloth boards (bound by the Aldine Press) which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is some light foxing to top edge else very clean, tight and unmarked with no inscriptions. A Very Good+ copy. dustjacket has some taped repairs and has a protective cover fitted. The book is unique in architectural histories as it concentrates on the small domestic building, and is a lucid, profusely illustrated by the author, account of the development of the small family house in England from the early years of our history to the present. 23. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Henderson, Andrew. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. A Fine unmarked copy with no inscriptions with Fine dustjacket whic is price clipped. x + 209 pages. Genealogical chart. In this pioneering study of the Verney family, Professor Slater shows how a family of country gentry lived and behaved in a time of political and social crisis. Most of their energies were directed within the family, their concens with marriage and children, with relationships between members of the Verney clan, with managing their estates and property. They emerge as real people with passions and hatreds, made to live their lives by corrspondence when the head of the family was forced to live abroad as an exile and casualty of the political tumults. But their misfortunes have created a unique archive which allows the author to delve deep into the very heart of their personal lives, and to create an extraordinary collective portrait of a family in a time of troubles. 24. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

London: T. Nelson, 1892. First UK edition. Gilt title block and ornate decoration in gilt and black with female painter figure to spine, gilt title with black embossed classical decoration and ruling to front, on brown bevelled cloth boards. Boards are very clean with only some minor faint marks with pictorials very bright. There is only very slight wear to spine head and tail. Internally there is an inscription 'From Matron' to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. Overall a Very Good and well kept copy. Portrait plates of each artist are tissue guarded. 348 pages and publisher's catalogue. The author is Sarah Knowles Bolton (1841-1916) formerly Sarah Elizabeth Knowles, an American and leader of the Temperance Crusade movement who wrote biographies and travelled to Europe. **** A SCARCE THOMAS NELSON EDITION **** 1. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Gay and Bird, 1895. Volume iv only. Gilt titles and decoration on red cloth boards which have some wear to spine sides, head and tail and corner tips and some light bumping. Internally red endpapers and the words 'La Boheme' written on title page else very clean and unmarked. All edges gilt. A Good + copy. A large format volume printed on quality paper with numerous full page plates, many on heavier paper, and many illustrations and portraits in the text. Pages 735-976. Covers music in France, Frederick Chopin, Anton Dvorak, Michael Ivanovitch Glinka, Anton Rubinstein, Peter Ilitsch Tschaikowsky, Franz Liszt, Eduard Hagerup Grieg, Niels William Gade, Music in Russia, Poland, Scandinavia and Hungary, Henry Purcell, John Field, William Sterndale Bennett, Michael William Balfe, Arthur Seymour Sullivan, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Charles Villiers Stanford, Music in England, Music in America. **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.8 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH… Read More

London: Harper Collins, 2002. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from age toning to closed edges) with Dustjacket which is price clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 465 pages, 39 illustrations and 1 map. Michael Faraday is one of the giants of the history of science. No less remarkable than his discoveries in electricity, magnetism and other fields is his own story. A self-made, self-educated man, his public life was underpinned by his devout membership of a small Christian sect, whose rigid attitudes shadowed him at every turn, culminating in crises that tested his resolve as a scientist, his faith as a Christian and even the balance of his mind. Yet this son of a blacksmith became the greayest scientist of his day, and the central figure of an extraordinary scientific renaissance in London. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.92 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST L. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Italy: Collana Di Ricerca Storica Schiapparelli, 1980. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. TEXT IN ITALIAN. Special numbered edition 7030. Edizione speciale numerata per i Sigg. Farmacisti 7030. A history of pharmacies and pharmacists in the Valle d'Aosta, Piedmont. 96 pages with 91 illustrations in colour and 46 in black and white. 96 pagine con 91 illustrazione a colori e 46 in biamco e nero. **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.0 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 20A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

London: Robert Hale, 1986. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. 175 pages. 22 line illustrations by Joan Bill. 59 photographs. In this charming and affectionate study, the respected countryside historian Sir William Addison examines the role of the farmhouse in English rural life. Much of the Englishness of the landscape is defined by rustic dwellings, constructed in a variety of individual styles. The hardy brick and flint farmhouses of East Anglia contrast with the timber-framed cruck constructions of the West Midlands, and the austere stone slab and slatework of Cumbria bears no similarity to the dainty cob and thatch cottages of the affluent south. Weatherboarding on Essex farmhouses characterizes the region just as chalk-mud walling is typical of the houses of Wiltshire. From Roman times to the present Addison traces the development of these distinctive buildings, describing the characteristics of each. **** NOT EX LIB **** D4B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by… Read More