Search Results: Titles starting with I from Goldring Books

London: Little Brown, 1996. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. In the time its takes to get through Atlanta airport's luggage system, Peter Biddlecombe negotiates the perils of business life in 20 cities from Beirut to Budapest, all courtesy of another awe inspiring expense account. He is at his hilarious and thoughtful best, ostensibly developing contacts, striking deals and attending foreign delegations, but more often than not becoming an astute, informed commentator everywhere he goes. A marvellous travelogue by a perfect bon viveur and a hugely enjoyable alternative world tour. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Worcestershire: Fowler Wright, 1964. Gold title on green boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is foxing to fore edge else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has some foxing. The aim of this present study is to examine aspects of her spirituality and doctrine which have frequently been distorted and misrepresented, to provide matter for prayer and meditation, and illustrate how applicableto the daily life of every Christian is the method perfected by St. Therese in her own life, and recommended to the faithful by six successive popes. R4. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Virago Press, 2005. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Translated from the French by Penelope Dening. On 28 May 1996 twelve year old Sabine Dardenne was kidnapped by the man who turned out to be one of Belgium's most heinous paedophiles. She was his prisoner for eighty long days. 'The Dutroux Affair' shook the whole of Europe. Far from sensationalising the horror, her story, dignified and restrained, is ultimately uplifting. 22. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Stainer & Bell, 1976. A Fine uninscribed copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. The autobiography of a man who has been stage struck since the age of six when he saw his first pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Kilburn in 1897. Arriving from Vienna in 1895, 'Charley' immediately contracted diptheria and was packed off to hospital, emerging six weeks later restored to health and with a fluent Cockney and provides a memorable account of his early life. Although an avid theatre goer and already writing novels in his teens, it was not until 1925, at the age of thirty four, that he gate crashed into the theatrical world and enjoyed a long career as theatre manager, drama director for the Arts Council and theatre critic. We are told of his encounters with Tyrone Guthrie, Marie Rambert, Lewis Casson, Sybil Thorndike, et al and also see Bernard Shaw at work. 14. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Indiana: Ave Maria Press, 1979. A near Fine unmarked copy. The author lives in a cabin on a small piece of land that juts out into the Madawaska River near Combermere, Ontario, and from this vantage point she has achieved an all-important sense of distance from the turmoil of our constantly changing lives. From there she shares her vision of the place of the Church in the world today, observing the changes of the seasons and meditating on nature. **** NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY **** R8. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Milan: Fratelli Treves, 1904. Ottime condizioni. Mezzo cuoio e coperture marmorizzate. età al bordo della pagina. timbri a inchiostro alle prime tre pagine. Alcuni segni di sfregamento sulle coperture anteriori e posteriori. 280 pagine. Francesca da Rimini è una tragedia in versi e in cinque atti di Gabriele D'Annunzio scritta nel 1901. Racconta la storia di come Francesca da Rimini si innamora del fratello di suo marito nel 13 ° secolo. IN LINGUA ITALIANA It contains Francesca Da Rimini tragedia in cinque atti rappresentata per la prima volta a Roma dalla Compagnia di Eeonor Duse il di IX di Decembre nell'anno MCML. It does not contain part II - Parisina nor part III - Sigismondo Malatesta of the trilogy. D4E. Hard Cover. Molto Bene/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Fourth Estate, 2004. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. x + 288 pages. INCLUDES the original postcard accompanying the book, addressed to the Prime Minister. The author, a leading expert on globalisation, sets out the account of the greed and corruption, economic globalisation and external pressures which have caused Third World debt and provides a radical blueprint for addressing the crisis. She analyses the facts that 30 million people have HIV/AIDS and the world is letting them die, genocide is taking place in Africa, rainforests are disappearing and in Asia extremist organisations are gaining public support. Argued by Bob Geldof that 'Everyone should read this book' and praised by many such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu it is a compelling argument against an unjust international order. 22. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Cassell, 1963. First UK edition. Gold title on tan coloured boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally clean, uninscribed with a few pages having traces of being manually opened, having previously being unopened. Pictorial dustjacket has one small closed tear to top and is complete. Pictorial and map endpapers and 27 black and white photographs. The Australian correspondent's account of the life of an Aboriginal in the Northern Territory including his accounts of a tribal Medicine Man and worship of Aboriginal deities. C3A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Prion, 1999. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not priceclipped. 314 pages. Did you know that James Dean's first screen role wa in a Pepsi commercial? Or that Errol Flynn castrated sheep for a living before he came to Hollywood? That Stewart Granger's real name was James Stewart? Or that Harrison Ford was cast by accident while working as a carpenter on the set of Star Wars? Or that Bela Lugosi was born in Transylvania? Its all here in hundreds of hilarious and fascinating film lists. 1. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a few very minor spots to closed top edge with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 276 pages. 23 photographs. The autobiography of America's 'Queen of Disco' - a story of riches and fame, despair, and finally salvation. It charts her meteoric rise to stardom in the 1970's with a string o hit records and the song that has immortalized her 'I Will Survive', which became a number one gold seller. D4D. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Stanley Paul, 1978. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. Based on the three very successful Thames Television series Kitchen Garden, the book is a basic guide to the growing and cooking of vegetables and fruit. Follow Keith Fordyce's straightforward instructions and Claire Rayner's advice on imaginative recipes to easily grow enough produce for the family. NOT EX LIBRARY A1E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hampshire: Ashford Press, 1986. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. 500 pages. 31 illustrations and drawings and diagrams in the text. In this collection you are offered a unique opportunity to experience Nicolson's unpredictable and unconventional lifestyle at first hand, and it proves his long-held philosophy of life; the 'great globe itself' can be yours; that you can throw off the chains and sail into the sunset towards adventure and freedom. In the Log of the Maken Nicolson joins a Canadian and a Norwegian to sail the 'Maken' from England to Canada via the Panama Canal. In the 'Sea-Saint' he tells how he hitch hiked from the West Coast of Canada to the East, searched for and discovered a 30 foot bare hull yacht, built and rigged her - the 'Sea-Saint' (now known as St. Elisabeth) - and his subsequent paassage home, without a dollar to his name. Finally Nicolson concentrates on building his own yacht - the 'St. Mary'. For this new collected… Read More

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988. A near Fine uninscribed copy with a little dust marking to top edge with dustjacket which is price clipped. The golfer Ian Woosnam was the first golfer in the world to win more than a million pounds in a year and for 'Little Woosie' or 'The Toy Bulldog' as he is affectionately known winning 8 major trophies was an extraordinary triumph. In this collection of golfing stories he reveals his other side as a deep thinker about the game. **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.92 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** 22. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1973. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small name to front pastedown and a very small light mark to fore edge). Dustjacket has a little wear to edges and is not price clipped. xviii + 357 pages. In this provocative study, Professor Heilman probes the concepts that underlie contemporary drama and traces the struggle between tragedy and melodrama on the modern stage. Rejecting cliché and accepted attitudes, he shows how different dramatists look at individual character and at society, and how themes such as human weakness and perversity, destructive assaults on the community, modes of salvation, and the uses of money are dealt with by 20th century playwrights. **** NOT EX LIB **** D4A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Pandora, 1997. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page with dedication and dated 1997. First Edition, First Printing. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A wonderful and insightful collection of interviews with ten women which reveals the personal lives behind the public fame, or notoriety, as well as charting the progress of the most revolutionary social change of the late 20th century. The ten women interviewed are Erica Jong, Phyllis Chesler, Robin Morgan, Marilyn French, Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Naomi Wolf, Alice Walker, Kate Millett, Susan Faludi, Germaine Greer. The author was a senior lecturer at the University of South Australia and has her own radio programmes and is a best selling author of non fiction. A1D. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Fourth Estate, 2005. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 502 pages. 48 illustrations. After the death of his mother in childbirth, Eric Sykes was farmed out and left under the tender eye of a parrot that lived above his cot. Two years later, his father came to collect him. 'Neither he nor anyone else could understand what I was babbling about. Hardly surprising, as I'd never learned English, but spoke fluent parrot.' From this unpromising beginning he became one of Britain's best-loved comedy writers and performers. His witty autobiography is a captivating account of decades of British radio and television comedy, and its famous stars. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.07 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST. 15. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Century Business, 1992. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xxiv + 184 pages. Drawing on their own considerable experience as consultants, and a wealth of case studies in many of which they have taken part, the authors provide invaluable pointers to managers responsible for change: how to generate ideas for change; ways to develop a support culture; methods of using key individuals and 'Spark Groups'; and how to move beyond vision into implementation. **** NOT BOOK CLUB **** C3B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Buckingham: Barracuda, 1991. SIGNED BY AUTHOR with dedication half title page. A Fine unmarked copy. 144 pages. Photograph illustrations throughout. A chilling roll of dreadful deeds brings together the Frimley youth bludgeoned to death at Bracknell Fair, the Cookham farmer shot on his way back from market, the decapitated Wantage landlady, the Reading basketmaker who put paid to his nagging wife, the worried Reading father who poisoned his own offspring, plus many more dastardly crimes and accidental deaths. B2D. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Brockhampton Press, 1996. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards with Fine dustjacket. Books were made by hand in Western Europe for a thousand years, from the earliest days of Christianity - when monks wrote and decorated Bibles for the glory of God in their wind-swept monasteries at the far margins of the known world - to the high Renaissance, when the world was at Europe's feet, and the printing press enabled Martin Luther and other agents of the Reformation to split Europe into opposing camps within one generation. Generations of artists and cultures influenced the art of the illuminated manuscripts and are among the world's greatest masterpieces. This fascinating and exquisitely illustrated book examines the decorative techniques which captured some of the most important chronicles of history. 20B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Macdonald and Janes, 1979. First UK edition. A Fine unmarked copy with price clipped dustjacket. This enchanting day by day tour of the year is highlighted with verses and traditional sayings, homely recipes and esoteric and exotic facts, all lavishly illuminated with over 600 drawings and engravings, of which 350 are in full colour by Kate Greenaway and Eugene Grasset. **** NOT EX LIB 23. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Greenaway, Kate and Grasset, Eugene. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.