Search Results: Titles starting with Y from The Petersfield Bookshop

London: Bell, 1928. Revised and enlarged. Green Cloth Gilt. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Translated from the German By Robert W. Atlinson & Charles E. Curry.Photo frontispiece of Manfred Curry. Size: Quarto. light wear. slight marks to coves. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Britain/UK; 1920s; Ships & the Sea. .

1985. 2 Vols. Ashford Press, Southampton, 1985. Hardcover. Condition: very Good Facsimile of the First Edition. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and design to front and spine, in clear plastic wrapper. /w illustrations; . Condition as new. Large blue writing to frontispiece from previous owner 2-volume set (complete). Category: Ships & the Sea; Sports & Pastimes. .

Bilver, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Small crease to to and bottom of spine. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. slight fadeing to top and bottom of spine. Category: Travel & Places; .

1995. Category: Sports & Pastimes; .

University of Nebraska Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. fGreen cloth with dustwrapper, illustrated with b/w map on San Francisco. Previous owner's inscription on endpaper, otherwise and almost unread copy? A Year of Mud and Gold is a collection of over two hundred excerpts from letters and diaries of ordinary men and women caught up in the rapid transformation of San Francisco during its gold rush heyday, 1849-50. Together these accounts render a rich mosaic of San Francisco's metamorphosis from a small Mexican outpost into a rough-and-tumble boomtown filled with gamblers and prostitutes, evangelists and entrepreneurs-men, women, and children from all parts of the world, arriving in California with the dream of striking it rich. The correspondents come from a variety of economic and social backgrounds. Some are barely literate, while others write as well as the finest authors of nineteenth-century travel literature. Their writings address a… Read More

Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1976. Second Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. The poet Kathleen Raine had a lifelong interest in esoteric spirituality and a cutting intellect. This monograph is illustrated throughout with b/w photographs from the magical notebooks of W. B. Yeats and his contemporaries in The Golden Dawn. Size: Royal 8vo.. Category: Literature & Literary; Magic, Paranormal & Occult. .

Viking, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Category: Religion & Theology; .

London, No date. Presumed First. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Size: Octavo. Dust Jacket has large closed tears and associated wear. Dust Jacket un-clipped. slight rubbing to edges. Category: Medicine & Health; Britain/UK; 1950s; .

London: Cassell, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Fading to spine and general creasing/rubbing to jacket. Some water staining to rear. Boards lightly marked. Internally good and clean. Size: Octavo . Category: Biography & Autobiography; .

London: Constable, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. From the library of Sir Ronald Harwood. Comes from a smoking household.From the library of Sir Ronald Harwood. From a smoking household. “Inscribed for Ronny, with much affection” on the title page, with the author’s name crossed through and signed beneath. Very good in a very good jacket. Size: Octavo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; .

Buckingham: Barracuda Books Limited, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. Maroon "faux" leather with dustwrapper. Black and white illustrations. An almost unread copy. Size: Small Quarto. Category: Genealogy & Local History; .

London: Watkins, 1948. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Although 1948 is the only date given in the book, this is known to be the revised second edition. Blue cloth lightly faded at the top of the front board and uniformly on the spine, page edges a little browned. Size: Octavo . Category: Magic, Paranormal & Occult; Religion & Theology. .

Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1999. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Dust Wrapper has light shelf wear. Category: Religion & Theology; .

London: Longman & Co, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Decorative cloth with gilt lettering on covers and spine. This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Slight wear to spine. Moderately foxed throughout. slight wear to covers. Category: Travel & Places; United States; 19th century; .

London: Longman & Co, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Decorative cloth with gilt lettering on covers and spine This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Slight wear to spine. Moderately foxed throughout. slight wear to covers. Category: Travel & Places; United States; 19th century; .

Washington, D.C: Naval History & Heritage Command. Department of the Navy, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Standard paperback binding. Illustrated in black & white. Light shelf wear with some creasing to covers and joints. - You Cannot Surge Trust comprises four case studies in which naval historians from the U.S., Canada, Australia, and the U.K. explain how naval powers created a multinational, or "combined," framework of interoperability while under national rules of engagement. The four crises addressed are maritime interdiction operations during the First Gulf War (1990-1991), and later in 2001-2003 as part of Operation Enduring Freedom; naval operations off the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Operation Sharp Guard (1991-1996); and peacekeeping operations in East Timor during Operation Stabilise (1999-2000). Size: Octavo. 345 pages. Category: Ships & the Sea; British & Irish History; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 094527470X. ISBN/EAN: 9780945274704. Library of… Read More

London: The Dropmore Press, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. John O'Connor. Originally published in 1833 and reprinted here with illustrations. The book is bound with a green cloth back and boards covered in a patterned paper based on Cricket imagery. The dust jacket is lightly foxed but nowhere near as badly as other copies we have seen. The slipcase has one small split. No. 109 of 750. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Illustrator: John O'Connor. Category: Sports & Pastimes; .

Bohn, c.1864. Undated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Blind stamped Green Cloth. Spine has been neatly repaired rubbed and worn with minor bumps to corners. With 1200 woodcuts. Internally very good Size: Small Octavo. Category: Literature & Literary; 19th century; .

Horace Marshall, c.1901. First Edition. Half Leather. Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Gilt Black Leather Spine Size: Quarto. Category: Literature & Literary; .

London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. Reprint. Linen strip ,marbled boards. Fair Condition. Size: Small Octavo. some slight rubbing to spine. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. small bumps to covers. Category: Fiction; Britain/UK; 1920s; .