Search Results: Titles starting with P from The Petersfield Bookshop

London: Hogarth, 1978. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Small chips to top of DJ spine. Some marking to edge of pages. Size: Octavo. Category: Military & Warfare; .

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1932. Hardcover. Good Condition. From the library of Max Robertson who was a well known sports commentator and the first presenter of BBC's Panorama; he is best remembered for his forty years of tennis coverage on BBC Radio. Quarter paper binding with cream spine and blue boards, with paper label. Covers and spine slightly soiled, foxed and rubbed. Discolouration to both free endpapers. Robertson's bookplate to end paper and opposite his pen written note saying this book was a 20th birthday present and that the author (de Lucchi) was his godmother, which is below another pen inscription to Robertson, as given to him. Size: Small Octavo. Category: Poetry; Television; Tennis; Sports & Pastimes. .

London: Oxford, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Category: Philosophy; .

York: Wilton, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. inscribed by author Size: Octavo (standard book size). Category: Biography & Autobiography; Britain/UK; Modern; .

London: Hatton & Company,, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 16 coloured plates and numerous other reproductions, 4to., blue cloth gilt, Size: Quarto. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. faded and worn covers. Category: Ships & the Sea; Art & Design. .

V&A, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/Fine. This richly illustrated account based upon the mulitfarious collections of the V&A Museum seeks to redress the balance by exploring the wider history of painting from The Middle Ages to the present day. 166 colour plates , 1 black and white illustration. Price clipped Size: Quarto. Category: Art & Design; .

London: Studio Books, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A linen cloth spine which has become somewhat foxed, and stiff illustrated boards on a 22pp book with a further 20 leaves of full colour images of Bratby's paintings. This copy has some foxing spots to the cloth spine and it lightly rubbed along the edges of the boards. No jacket as issued. Size: Small Quarto. Category: Art & Design; .

London: National Maritme Museum/ Sothebys, 1990. First Edition. Navy Gilt Cloth. Fine Condition/Fine. Willem van de Velde the elder and his son Willem van de Velde the younger were the most accomplished and successful of all marine artists. They worked as a team first in Holland ans from 1672 onwards in England where they were commissioned by Charles the Second to paint sea battles. These volumes are are a catalogue raisonne of the paintings and grisailles of these celebrated artists. Encased in a pristine slipcase. Very heavy volumes may incur extra postage Size: Quarto. Category: Art & Design; .

London, United Kingdom: Royal Academy of Arts, 2016. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Standard paperback binding, illustrated in colour. PLEASE NOTE that this volume is quite heavy and may incur extra postage costs. - The Impressionists were among the first to portray gardens directly from life, focusing on their colour and form rather than using them as a background for historical, religious and literary themes. This book explores the symbiotic relationship that developed during the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth between artists and gardens, focusing on Monet and the creation of his garden at Giverny. Beautifully illustrated with masterpieces by Monet, his fellow Impressionists and such painters as Bonnard, Sargent, Klee, Kandinsky, Klimt, Matisse and Nolde, Painting the Modern Garden traces the effects of artistic movements and social and political influences on the garden in modern art. Size: Quarto. 328 pages. Category: Art & Design;… Read More

John Stillman, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Fine. Beautiful paintings, signed by The Author. With foreword by Trevor Chamberlain ROI RSMA. Small crease to endpaper Size: Quarto. Category: Art & Design; .

V&A, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. This book carefully traces the main currents of Islamic art, focusing in detail on some of its great masterpieces and techniques illustrated from the superb collections of the V&A Museum. In wonderful colour Size: Quarto. Category: Art & Design; .

Rio De Janeiro: Instituto Nacional Do Livro, 1953. Very Good Condition. Red cloth with original paper covers bound in. Illustrated in black and white. Red ink stamps to Title and flyleaf, slight toning to text Size: Octavo. Text is in Italian. Category: Archaeology; Italian Language; .

Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 2003. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. The jacket has a little flat creasing and a small nick at the top of the front panel. Size: Folio. Category: Art & Design; History. .

Canterbury: Cross and Jackman, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. One of a limited edition of 300. Foxed at the page edges and endpapers. Spine faded. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Category: History; .

Skeffington, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Fraying to spine, corners bumped, two small stains Size: Small Octavo. Category: Military & Warfare; .

Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992. First Edition. Light Blue Cloth With Balck silver Label to spine. Fine Condition/Near Fine. Palma is first recorded in Venice in 1510, but had probably already been there for some timeTitian. After the deaths of Bellini and Giorgione, and the removal from Venice of Sebastiano del Piombo, Lorenzo Lotto and Previtali, before long Palma found himself, after Titian, the leading painter in Venice, much in demand until his early death at the age of 48.With coloured and black and white illustartions. Heavy book may incur extra postage Size: Quarto. Category: Art & Design; .

Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser Verlag AG, 1994. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Paperback binding, illustrated in black and white - Die PalAkologie hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten eine dynamische Entwicklung erfahren. Im Vordergrund palAkologischer Forschung stehen heute nicht mehr nur die Rekonstruktion der abiotischen Umwelt, sondern vor allem die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen verschiedenen Organismen und zwischen diesen Organismen und ihrer Umwelt bei der Strukturierung von Lebensgemeinschaften in der geologischen Vergangenheit. Das vorliegende Lehrbuch gibt eine klare, verstAndliche und hervorragend illustrierte Einfuhrung in das breite Spektrum der PalAkologie. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die heute in der PalAkologie angewandten Methoden. Sie werden ausfuhrlich beschrieben und anhand zahlreicher Fallbeispiele aus der Literatur veranschaulicht. PalAkologie ist das erste deutschsprachige Lehrbuch, das die uberwiegend englische Originalliteratur zu dieser Thematik zusammenfaAt. Es richtet sich an… Read More

Buenos Aires: Editorial Guarania, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. A scarce book about travels through Argentina, "travel and adventure during the formative years of modern Argentina," according to the blurb at least. Jacket is complete if a little soiled. Top edge dusty. Size: Octavo . Category: Travel & Places; .

Longman Brown, green, 1851-1852. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. George Cruickshank. Half calf with marbled sides, gilt tooling and black label to spine. Rubbing to spine and boards other titles:- 2, Ranke's History of The Popes 1851, 3 Gladstone on Church and State, 4, Wison , George, Electricity and The Electric Telegraph 1852, 6, The Chemistry of The Stars , lacks title page, 1852, George Cruikshank illustrations. Pencil writing to endpaper. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Previous owner's book-plate laid in. Illustrator: George Cruickshank. Category: History; .

Verso, 2004. New Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Cloth). Almost as New/As New. Green cloth backstrip, black paper covered boards, with dustwrapper. Illustrated in black and white. - "I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far more than most drinkers. All my life I have seen only troubled times, extreme divisions in society, and immense destruction; I have joined in these troubles. My method will be very simple. I will tell of what I have loved; and, in this light, everything else will become evident... Over the years, more than half the people I knew well had sojourned one or several times in the prisons of various countries; many, no doubt, for political reasons, but all the same a greater number for common law offenses or crimes. So I met mainly rebels or the poor. Our only manifestations, which remained rather rare and bried in the first years, were meant to be completely unacceptable; at first, especially by their form and, later, as they acquired depth, especially by their… Read More