Search Results: Titles starting with F from Bookbarrow

North-South Books, Switzerland, 1987. First U.K. Edition. Laminated Boards. Near Fine/N/A. Illustrator: Wilkon, Jozef. black titles spine; colour illust. front cover & further col. ills on most pages throughout; "The rich, greedy farmer, Luke, thlnks he can cheat his poor but generous neighbour, Mark, by paying back a debt in money from the moon. But the money from the moon is just a joke to Luke, so he little dreams that Mark will really be paid ... This striking picture book, with its delightfully whimsical illustrations, has all the elements of a classic moral tale."; unpaginated. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrator: Wilkon, Jozef. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; Children. ISBN: 0200729055. ISBN/EAN: 9780200729055. Inventory No: CHD00199. . 9780200729055

Harrap, London, 1943. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Day is a well-known sportsman with many books to his credit, and a farmer. In WW II, he vistied more than 100 farms and rode over 1200 miles on horseback to talk to other farmers on how they wanted to live after the war. The journey with his horse through Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridge, Norfolk and Suffolk gives a living picture of East Anglian farming in war-time Britain. Third Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 253 pages. minor marking to rear cover. Bookseller's stamp (small) to front end-paper; previous owner's signature in ink inside front cover. Silver titles spine. some bumping to outer bottom corners. illustrated by b/w. photo's.. Includes index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Farming & Rural Life; East Anglia; Country Life; Horse Riding; England; Genealogy & Local History. Inventory No: 4929. .

Century/Hutchinson, London, 1987. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. This practical guide is an introduction to an ancient and potent Chinese art, which aims to minimise problems and maximise good fortune in the home and business environment. Feng shui - literally 'wind' and 'water' - evolved into a refined art from the simple observation that people are affected for good or ill by their surroundings: the layout and orientation of workplaces and homes. The Chinese have long observed that some surroundings are better or luckier than others. Every hill, building, hall, window and corner and the ways in which they face wind and water have an effect. So if you change your surroundings, you can change your life. The goal of feng shui is complete harmony, with the natural order which, when achieved, will bring prosperity, health and happiness. First Thus. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 169 pages. minor marking to covers. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. no Dust… Read More

Thorsons/HarperCollins, London, 1995. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good Condition. Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practice which finds auspicious sites for buildings and also pinpoints locations within buildings which are most suitable for particular activities. This workbook details the applications of Feng Shui in an easy-to-follow practical way. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 224 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. no Dust Jacket as published.. Black titles spine. Multiple copies available this title. illustrated by b/w. drawings, diagrams & photo's.. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Magic, Paranormal & Occult; Geomancy; Feng Shui; Body, Mind & Spirit; Philosophy. ISBN: 085030959X. ISBN/EAN: 9780850309591. Dewey Code: 133.333. Inventory No: 4290. . 9780850309591

Terence Dalton Ltd, Lavenham, Suffolk, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Map end-papers in green & white. The Great Ouse river rises in Northamptonshire, skirts a mile or so of the Oxfordshire border before beginning its journey through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, the Isle of Ely and Norfolk to the Wash. It flows through towns such as Buckingham, Bedford, Huntingdon, Ely and Kings Lynn. Its tributaries, with such delightful names as the Wissey, the Kym and the Lark, add the counties of East and West Suffolk, Essex and Hertfordshire. They also connect towns such as Leighton Buzzard, Cambridge, Bury St. Edmunds and Thetford with the main river. Whilst the river as a whole covers such a wide area it is as a Fenland river with extensive drainage and water conservation systems that the Great Ouse is usually considered. Rodney Tibbs has written "Fenland River" not so much as a guide book, in which role it is… Read More

Cambridge University Press, London, 1980. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Ewart Oakeshott. gilt titles on dark brown panel spine; illustrated by b/w. drawings throughout; "in this book Sybil Marshall transcribes the recollections of her parents in their own dialect. William Henry Edwards, her father, died in 1940, at the age of eighty. Mrs Edwards is still alive. Between them the Edwardses look back on a hundred years of life in the Fens. They speak in their own direct and vigorous way, richly figurative and often sardonically humorous, of the people and times they have known. The Fens are still markedly different from other parts of England, less accessible, less spoilt, and a little daunting to the outsider. The character of the land has produced its own way of life. Mr Edwards was by turns turf-cutter, boat-owner along the waterways, windmill proprietor, drainage superintendent and small farmer. So he and his wife saw each truly Fenland occupation from the… Read More

Trevor A. Bevis, March, Cambridgeshire, 1969. First Edition. Laminated Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illustrator: Photo's & Drawings. an illustrated booklet privately published by the author & illustrated by photographs & drawings depicting various structures in East Anglia including Castle Rising, Castle Acre, Tattershall Castle, Boston, Stretham Old Engine, Peckover House, Wisbech & Fenland Museum, & a History of the Wisbech Castles; Library hardback binding with 'withdrawn' stamp on fep. & ref. No. to spine & first page; 33 pages. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrator: Photo's & Drawings. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Genealogy & Local History; East Anglia; The Fens; Norfolk; England; Architecture. Inventory No: TOP00045. .

Blackie & Son, London, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: W. R. S. Scott. grey end-papers; bound in blue cloth with pictorial front cover & spine in black, white & brown; gilt titles front & spine; monochrome frontis. illustration by W. R. S. Scott with five more throughout; loosely inserted summary of the plot: "Vic and Lu were the motherless daughters of an Australian farmer, who kept the ferry at the Blue River ford. When their father was away, the girls ran off with the wool wagons, to save them from being fired by bushrangers; Vic also endeavouring to save a box containing her father's money, but taking by mistake a similar box, filled with valuable papers belonging to a friend who was under a cloud. Unfortunately, she lost the box, and, lacking his papers, her friend had to undergo much inconvenience and hardship - though the worst of the happenings fell to Vic, who needed all her courage to face the… Read More

Aurum Press, London, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. In the early 1960s, Charles Moseley and his wife purchased a run-down cottage in a remote Cambridgeshire hamlet (Reach). Their new home was no picture book English village. The people, earning a hard living from their small farms and ancient machinery, treated the Moseleys kindly but with condescension. Thirty years later, Dr. Moseley has written a warm, enchanting, eloquent account of how this dour place won his loyalty and, ultimately, his love. He describes the troubles and triumphs of restoring his cottage, the satisfaction of growing his own food, and the gradual mastering of ancient skills. The book, titled “A Field Full of Folk: A Village Elegy”, is a record of an East Anglian village community and an evocation of a way of life that, within a single generation, has vanished from the English countryside Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

HarperCollins (Harper Collins), 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. The Firebird's Vengeance is the stunning conclusion to the Isavalta trilogy. You will pay for this, screamed the Firebird. Life and blood and realm I will have from you. Thirty years ago the Empress of Isavalta imprisoned the terrible Firebird in a cage wrought with gold, magic and blood. She succeeded in saving her realm, but at a harsh price: the life of her loyal sorcerer, Avanasy. Now, with the Empress's death, the Firebird has been freed, and its desire for revenge is unquenchable. Avanasy's daughter, Bridget, is warned by the Vixen, a great spirit-power, of the Firebird 's coming attack. But the Vixen also brings other, equally disturbing news: that Anna, the daughter Bridget buried as an infant nine years ago, is in fact still alive. Bridget is torn between her duty to defend her adopted homeland and her desperate longing to find her child. But she is not the only one with an interest in… Read More

Paper Tiger Productions, London, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/N/A. Illustrator: Miller, Ron. black titles spine; colour illustrations throughout; "from pulp fiction to cyberpunk sctence fiction writing has always abounded with vivid, powerful women - Amazonians, alien queens, slayers of monsters, brilliant scientists and ethereal beings. Ron Miller's portraits evoke a colourful pictorial history of these multi-faceted heroines, while Pamela Sargent's incisive text provides an absorbing anaJysis from the beginnings of genre to the present day, from H. G. Wells's Weena, to Edgar Rice Burroughs's Oian the Beautiful and Isaac Asimov's Or Susan Calvin."; including index - 112 pages. A FAIRLY HEAVY BOOK WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrator: Miller, Ron. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Art & Design; Modern; Women & Feminism. ISBN: 1855854627.… Read More

M. H. Gill and Son Ltd, Dublin, Ireland, undated. Edition Unstated. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Very Good Condition. Text in English & Irish Gaelic; contents list to front; a small but thorough introduction to the grammar of the Irish Gaelic language. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 84 pages. Text is in English & Irish. Pages browned with age. no Dust Jacket as published.. Black titles front (with decorative borders). grey card covers. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Language & Linguistics; Gaelic Languages; Irish Gaelic; Irish Language; Ireland; English & Irish Language; Reference. Inventory No: 4607. .

The Aquarian Press, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, 1985. Second Impression. Paperback. Near Fine Condition. Safe effective techniques for experiencing the Inner Worlds. A collection of simple magical rituals culled from a variety of traditions, to enable those new to occult practices to experience interior realities with confidence and in complete safety. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 96 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. no Dust Jacket as published.. Yellow titles spine & front. illustrated by b/w. drawings. Includes index & a short list of suppliers of occult materials. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Magic, Paranormal & Occult; Ritual Magic; Occult Sciences; Magick; New Age & Alternative. ISBN: 0850303141. ISBN/EAN: 9780850303148. Inventory No: 4205. . 9780850303148

Harper & Row, New York, 1975. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. foreword by Aldous Huxley; "The central fact of all Krishnamurti's teachings, as Aldous Huxley stresses in his foreword, is that for each individual reader the central human problem can be solved in only one way - for and by himself; that it is through self-knowledge, not through belief in someone else's symbols, that a man comes to the eternal reality, in which his being is grounded. What, then, is it that Krishnamurti offers? Not self-discipline; not prayer; not yoga. There is, Krishnamurti claims, a transcendent spontaneity of life, a 'creative Reality' as he calls it, which reveals itself as immanent only when the perceiver's mind is in a state of 'alert passivity', of 'choiceless awareness'. We cannot imagine a book more needed at the present time. Krishnamurti is, in fact, asking for sanity in a world in which most of us are at least mad nor' nor' east. If his voice can… Read More

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/N/A. Annual cover illustrations in colour & b/w. illustrations throughout; the museum syndicates annual report detailing exhibitions & acquisitions during the year in the departments dealing with Antiquities; Applied Arts; Coins; Medals; Manuscripts; Books; Paintings; Drawings & Prints and also listing the staff, publications, business, etc. of the museum; 70 pages. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Type: Annual. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; East Anglia; Antiques; Antiques & Collectibles. ISBN: 0904454312. ISBN/EAN: 9780904454314. Inventory No: ART00149. . 9780904454314

Heinemann, London, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Burgess considered D. H. Lawrence to be one of the pillars of English literature and indeed a Modernist writer whose work had changed the face of the novel in the early 20th century. Flame into Being was first published in 1985 to mark the centenary of Lawrence's birth and gave Burgess the chance to write a celebratory but also a brilliant (and short) introduction to the major books in Lawrence's oeuvre. It is a beautifully written, entertaining and thoroughly accessible gateway to D. H. Lawrence aimed at both the general reader and students. Between his death and the outbreak of the Second World War Lawrence was remembered as a doubtful prophet but almost totally ignored as a writer. He had written a dirty book and had his exhibition of dirty paintings raided by the police; the brilliance of Sons and Lovers and Women in Love had either not been acknowledged or had been occluded'. Flame… Read More

Mirananda, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/N/A. Ideas are the product of knowledge stored in the brain; they arise from a material process & are always limited & subject to the chain of cause & effect; their ‘intelligenceÂ’ is limited by the material process, it is not holistic. Krishnamurti affirms that when the true nature of this activity in the psyche is clearly observed & understood, the thinking process ceases to be dominant; its function is found to be relative & subordinate, serving manÂ’s needs only at a functional level. Such understanding is pure intelligence free from causality; the meaningless thought processes of ‘selfÂ’-evaluation & related psychological fears, anxieties, insecurity, hatred & violence have ceased. “Intelligence has no cause.” “Intelligence is absolute security.” “Love has no… Read More

Virago Press Ltd, London, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Signed by Author. Signed by the author on the title page. A wildly inventive exploration of the mother-daughter relationship: "Freddy, a gawky, passionate, and plain adolescent, is on the run, convinced of having murdered the mother we all desire, and hate. Through Freddy's fantasies - or are they realities? - we begin a journey that takes us back, through the nineteenth, the eighteenth, the sixteenth centuries, and then beyond time into the interior of imagination. Story follows story, born of the flesh and blood of family, dead bodies and holy communion. The passage is not easy: disappointment, humiliation and danger wait for innocence in bloody rooms. But after fracture comes repair, after cold comes heat, after violence comes peace, after obliteration comes life. The instinct for survival thrives in secret places:in rebellion, in a desperate split of self, in the thirst for… Read More

Servire Publishers, Wassenaar, Netherlands, 1974. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. titles & contents list to front. 'The eagle in its flight does not leave a mark; the scientist does. Inquiring into this question of freedom there must be, not only scientific observation, but also the flight of the eagle that does not leave a mark. Question: What do you want us here in this world to do? 'Krishnamurti: I don't want anything, that's first. Second: Live, live in this world, This world is so marvellously beautiful. It is our world, our earth to live upon, but we do not live, we are narrow, we are separate, we are anxious, we are frightened human beings, and therefore we do not live, we have no relationship, we are isolated, despairing human beings. We do not know what it means to life in that ecstatic, blissful sense. 'I say one can live that way only when one knows how to be free from all stupidities of one's life. To be free from them is only possible in becoming aware… Read More

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Sybil J. Roles. Titles & preface to front; this is Volume four of a five volume set of illustrations of Flora of the British Isles drawn by Sybil J. Roles. These volumes illustrate the Clapham-Tutin-Warburg Flora of the British Isles. The drawings assist users of the Flora to recognise species by supplying a visual supplement to the text. They are from fresh specimens and deliberately aim to give an impression of the living plant. As the compilers of the Flora put it, 'The intention is to provide a visual impression so as to assist with the appreciation of the technical descriptions given in Flora of the British Isles and the Excursion Flora'. The degree to which the illustrations planned to supplement the Flora itself greatly increases their value. We also have for sale a copy of volume three. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.… Read More