Authors starting with P from Kalligraphia

Athens: Promithevtiki. Very Good++/Near Fine. 1987. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Well illustrated in colour, 397pp including Index. An excellent cookery book for those who read Greek! Previous owner's names to title page and verso of title page. One small foxing spot to front free end paper, otherwise a clean and Very Good++ copy in a Near Fine dust-jacket; jacket is in loose protective cover. . ... more information

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Dorchester: The Friary Press/Longmans. Fine.. 1970. 5th Revised Edition. Paperback. Frontispiece and 18 other full-page plates, plus numerous line drawings. 96pp. Here is embroidery that a moderate needlewoman can do. Chapters include 'Embroidering the Theme'; 'Workbags and Cushions'; 'Felt Work'; 'The Dorset Crosswheel Button'; and 'Home Dyeing'. Decorative stiff card covers in red and white with black lettering. A nice clean copy in Fine condition. . ... more information

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London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good+/Very Good+. 1967. First Edition. Hardback. This is a most unusual first novel. Isaak van Veldt, a giant of a man, has killed his sweetheart in Antwerp. He escapes from the city and flees to North Wales. Here, on a mountainside, he begins a new life. But things begin to go wrong, and eventually, with the next generation, tradedy returns. But as the wheel comes full circle, Isaak's regeneration is completed. The story balances Isaak's amost mystical ... more information

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Israel : Massada. Very Good+/Very Good. 1979. First Edition. Hardback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Illustrated with many lovely colour photographs. 12 + 84 + 16 pages. Uzi Paz, one of Israel's most famous naturalists, has compiled a lavish album of Holy Land flora. This small region contains over 1,400 species of wild flowers and a representative selection of 84 species are depicted in this book. Flora are described according to season and geographical location. Dust-jacket has rub... more information

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Newton Abbot: David & Charles. Very Good/Very Good. 1992. First Edition. Hardback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 0715398687 Well illustrated in colour and black-and-white. The book contains beautiful colour features on periods and collectibles of particular interest. 256 pages including Bibliography and Index. Here ia a book aimed at those collectors on a limited budget who want to increase their knowledge and awareness of the rich range of everyday antiques - furniture, photograph... more information

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London: Croom Helm. Very Good/Very Good+. 1981. First Edition. Hardback. 0709902476 Illustrated with photographs. 179pp including Bibliography and Index. Here Perry illustrates the adaptation of various species of life in the mountain environment, from 3,000 feet on the Scottish Cairngorms to the 29,000 feet of Everest, as well as many intermediate ranges including the Alps, Ethiopian Mountains and the Hindu Kush. A clean copy in Very Good condition in a Very Good+ dust-jacket; jacket is in loose p... more information

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London: Edward Arnold. Very Good+.. 1998. 13th Impression. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0713163917 Illustrated with 12 plates and many text figures. x + 260 pages including References and Index. This is an introduction to wave and tidally dominated landforms, including beaches, cliffs, dunes, estuaries, mudflats and salt-marshes. Each landform is described through detailed account of specific examples taken from many regions of the world. Stiff card covers, with own... more information

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Viking. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1993. First Edition. Hardback. Well illustrated with 29 telling plates and 7 pages of maps. 256pp including Epilogue and Index. Greek life since the Axis Occupation and the Civil War has been dominated by the memory of those years - periods of progress and democracy have been interspersed with periods of dictatorship and civil conflict. This book explores how it is impossible to understand the Greek present without reference to this recent past, and how the attitude of ... more information

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Edinburgh: H.M.S.O., 1961. Illustrated with 27 text figures, frontispiece and 7 other full-page plates including 2 fold-out plates. 104pp including References, and 'Geological Survey Maps and Memoirs relating to the Northern Highlands'. The Northern Highlands of Scotland is the region which lies west of the Great Glen and its seaward continuations, the Moray Firth and the Firth of Lorne. Scotland beyond the Great Glen is composed mainly of Palaeozoic and Archaean rocks on which rest fragments of Mesozoic... more information

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Exeter: A. Wheaton. Very Good.. Hardback. No date, but Preface dated May 1903, presumed first edition. Well illustrated with drawings and photographs. 263pp. 20 chapters including, for example, 'St. Winifred and Frederick of Crediton'; 'Captain John Oxenham'; 'Sir Joshua Reynolds'; 'Devonshire Artists'; 'Bishop Patterson'; 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge'; and 'Child of Plymstock'. Red cloth boards with black lettering, spine faded but not lettering. Corners bumped and small chip to cloth on spine. So... more information

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London: J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd. Very Good+/Very Good. 1961. 4th (Revised) Edition. Hardback. With an atlas of 20 sectional maps in colour edited by John Bartholomew. xvi + 238 pages including Bibliography and Index. A practical and historical guide - with 11 tours fully described. Sections also on an Outline of Irish History, an Irish Glossary and Notes on the Irish Language. A Very Good+ copy in a Very Good dust-jacket; jacket is in loose protective cover. . ... more information

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Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 1983. Academic Journal Offprint from Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, Volume 105, pp119-125 including References. Illustrated with several figures and 3 tables. The purpose of this paper is to describe the detailed development of landslide morphology over the past 100 years, and to assess the current and future status of landslide activity in the Reserve. Protected by red paper wraps. In Fine condition.. Reprint. Paperback. Fine.. ... more information

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Heraclion. Very Good.. 1957. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Illustrated with photographs and 2 fold-out plans. 165pp. Includes a brief history of the Museum of Heraclion, of the excavations in Crete, and of the Cretan Civilization. Paper covers, slightly larger than the book itself, have a few tiny closed tears to edges. Contents clean and overall a Very Good copy. . ... more information

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Isle of Wight County Council. Very Good.. 1980. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0906328098 Isle of Wight County Museum Service, Natural History Series No. 1. 41pp including References and Index. Introduction contains sections on for example: Geography, Geology, Climate, Woodland, and Wetlands. 'Notes on Certain Species' follows the Atlas. With many coverage maps. Stiff card covers with colour picture of 'Cepaea hortensis'. A nice copy i... more information

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Oxford: Clarendon Press. Very Good.. 1917. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall xvipp + 423pp including Index. Contains 20 lectures, for example, 'Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion'; 'Kant and the Idea of Intrinsic Value'; 'The 19th Century Duel between Idealism and Naturalism'; 'Ethical Man: the Religion of Humanity'; 'Idealism and Pan-Psychism'; 'The Lower Pantheism and the Doctrine of Degrees of Truth'; 'The Idea of Creation'; 'Teleology as Cosmic P... more information

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London: Macmillan. Good++/Good++. 1971. First UK Edition. Hardback. 333125134 Beautifully illustrated in black-and-white by Susan Jeffers. 135pp including an explanation of characters in the story and Glossary. The story of Dionysos, child of Zeus and Semele, princess of Thebes, is one of the lesser-known myths of the Classical pantheon. Here is a racy modern retelling of his legend, fast-paced and joyous as the god himself. Dust-jacket is price-clipped, has a couple of small tears on rear panel r... more information

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