Search Results: Titles starting with K from C L Hawley

London: Studio Vista. Paperback. 152pp. Lightly sunned. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1975.

Zaandam: Uitgave Verkade's Fabrieken. Hardback. 102pp. Text in Dutch. Beautiful album of illustrated cards and extensive text on houseplants. Dozens of cards, all neatly tipped in and all present. Colour frontis of a large tipped in illustration. Cloth to spine and illustrated papers to boards. Indexed. Integral black and white drawings throughout in addition to the beautiful cards. Large format: 295 by 235mm (11½ by 9¼ inches). A little faded and dusty externally with some faint marks to papers. A few minor knocks to the edges including a tiny crushed are to top edge of the front board. Internally very clean and neat, with all cards bright and crisp though the pages are a little foxed in places. Some foxing to prelims. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1928.

Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford,. Hardback. 316pp. Leaders in Philosophy series. Brown with gilt titles to spine has some faint spotting but is otherwise neat. Dust jacket has some rubbing and rolling to edges and some slight tanning; pencil note to rear inner dust jacket flap. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. 1936.

Pelican. Paperback. 230pp. Pages are tanned. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1984.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,. Hardback. xii, 244pp. Red boards with gilt titles are clean and neat. Pencil annotation throughout. Dust wrapper is clean but slightly rubbed and rolled to edges. Good+, sound copy in like dust wrapper . Hardback. 1986.

Allen & Unwin. Hardback. 345pp. Dust wrapper is slightly faded to spine and a little rubbed to top edge. Blue boards are very clean and sound. Very good copy . Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1972.

Clarendon Press,. Hardback. 196pp. First edition. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine is very clean and neat. Dust jacket is slightly rubbed with darkening to spine and the occasional surface mark. Very good copy in good+ dust jacket . Hardback. 1947.

London: Zeno,. Hardback. 221pp. Brown leatherette is very clean and sound but bumped to spine ends and with another bump to top edge. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1980.

London: George Allen & Unwin,. Hardback. 256pp. With a foreword by Prof G. Dawes Hicks. Blue cloth is very clean but slightly rubbed to spine ends. Binding is sound. Text is clean. Very good copy . Hardback. 1929.

London: Fourth Estate. Hardback. 448pp. Biography of the political philosopher. Tan boards with rose gilt titles and decoration to spine and very clean but bumped to corners. Dust wrapper is a little rubbed and rolled to edges. Good+, sound copy in like dust wrapper . Hardback. 1999.

London: Papermac,. Paperback. X, 500pp. Selection of black and white plates. Faded to spine. Slightly rubbed. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1973.

New York: Merrimack. Paperback. Facsimile edition of this little alphabet book less than 3 inches tall. A charming alphabet with an illustrated letter to every page. With lovely colour plates. Unpaginated. Hint of creasing to front. Pages are clean and crisp. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback.

Michael O'Mara. Hardback. 63pp. Illustrated descriptions of games for younger children such as Mulberry Bush and Hunt the Slipper. Colour illustrated throughout. Facsimile of the 1889 edition. Price clipped. Previous owners' address label untidily scribbled over to endpaper. Very clean and otherwise neat. Good+, sound copy in very good dust wrapper . Hardback.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hardback. Board books in slipcase. Fifteen traditional nursery rhymes accompanied by twenty-three previously unpublished watercolor illustrations are presented in three board books in a slipcase. Box is bumped to all corners. Book one has tiny are of loss to head of spine. All three books are slightly rubbed with volume three have more wear to the back at one corner. Volume I has a faint hint of baby teeth marks to front. All have clean and bright interiors. Good set . Hardback. 1987.

Sutton,. Hardback. 226pp. Biography of Katherine de Roet later Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster who was first the long time mistress and then third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the fourth son of King Edward III. Through her Beaufort descendants (her illegitimate children with John of Gaunt, legitimised after their eventual marriage) Katherine is the ancestor to Edward IV, Richard III and all the subsequent kings and queens of England as the twice great grandmother of both Henry VII and his wife Elizabeth of York. Through her eldest son John she is the twice great grandmother of Henry Tudor Later Henry VII and through her granddaughter, Cecily Neville who married Richard duke of York, she is the great grandmother of Edward IV and Richard III and great, great grandmother of the Princes in the Tower and their elder sister Elizabeth of York who married Henry VII and was the mother of Henry VIII. Small number of black and white plates. Scattered foxing to prelims and page… Read More

Secker & Warburg,. Paperback. 380pp. From the Complete Works of George Orwell, edited by Dr Peter Davison to restore Orwell's original intentions for the text. Other volumes in this series are available. Large format paperback designed with orange O to the front and with titles to front and spine in shades or red, orange and cream. Lightly rubbed to points. Some scattered, light foxing to closed page edges, the very edges of page margins and to the prelims and last pages. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1998.

Bristol Classical Press,. Paperback. 399pp. 13 essays from a variety of contributors across the range of Christian thought and practice, produced for the anniversary of Lux Mundi: A Series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation ed. by Charles Gore (1889). Clean and sound. Lightly rubbed. slightly sunned to spine. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1989.

Edinburgh: AK Press,. 319pp. Noam Chomsky in interview outlines his views on a range of issues including: World Bank, GATT, race, class, crime and gun control, media, democracy, health care etc. Slight crease to one corner. Near fine copy. . Paperback. 1994.

London:: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. Hardback. iv, 320pp. Includes 16 page Gothic tale by Mary Shelley; this is the first appearance in print of The Dream which is accompanied by an engraved illustration called Constance, painted by Louisa Sharpe and engraved by Charles Heath. There are over 40 other stories, poems etc in this literary collection including contributions by Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley and Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington who both went on to be editors of the journal in later years. Also includes an essay on the life ands works of Lord Byron, Half bound in maroon leather to spine and corners. Impressed bands with gilt decoration to spine. Marbled papers to boards. 17 engravings plus engraved vignette title and an engraved presentation page. Morocco is slightly faded to the spine and much rubbed to edges. Corners are slightly bumped. Marbled papers to the boards are surface scuffed and with some shelf wear. Joints and hinges are sound.… Read More

London: A. and C. Black,. Hardback. 240pp. Illustrated cloth binding. 73 colour plates, painted by W. Biscombe Gardner. Fold-out sketch map of Kent. 230 by 170mm (9 by 6¾ inches). Cloth illustrated: vines and hops draped over a square trellis features to both front and spine, with gilt titles to front and spine. Very attractive plates. Cloth is slightly fade anddrubbed ato points and edges. Bumped to one corner Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1907.