Search Results: Authors starting with A from Hessay Books

Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1996. 138pp, illustrated softback covers. A clean, Near Fine copy. The teachings of the Vedic philosophy of ancient India.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Catholic Truth Society, 1958. A pamphlet of 16pp, with illustrated paper covers, now creased. Internally clean. A factory worker's journey to conversion to the Roman Catholic faith.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Blackburn: Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, 1111. Probably 1960s. 14pp. Blue soft card covers. A clean copy. Short descriptions of the windows, including those by Mr and Mrs B Dean Walmsley and their donors, the portraits including one of Elizabeth I by Federigo Zuccaro, the War Memorial etc. in Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Burnley, Lancashire.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

William Blackwood, 1978. Soft covers. Internally clean. Includes A L Rowse on the poetry of John Betjeman, cricket writer by Gerald Pawle, Typhoon Country by James Harper etc.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Judie Abbott, 1972. 32pp, illustrated card covers, a little rubbed to the bottom edge. Full page colour illustrations, and b + w diagrams. Signed by the author on the title page, otherwise internallyclean. The author was a singer on cruise ships, such as QE2, who needed a lot of evening dresses - and shows you how to make them using a swimsuit for a base.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Leading Edge, 1986. 162pp, laminated illustrated card covers with a couple of light creases. B + w illustrations. Internally clean and tight. The run-down of the Settle-Carlisle railway, and the fight to save it. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Macdonald, 1989. 96pp, priceclipped dustjacket is otherwise complete. B + w drawings. Previous owner's name stamp on flyleaf, otherwise clean. Amazing stories of the love lives of great writers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by David Smith.

Thunder Bay Press, 2004. Long format. A heavy book of 144pp. Illustrated boards, with a matching complete dustjacket, a little creased to the edges. Internally clean. Each page has a historic photograph of a Milwaukee building, facing a colour photograph of how it is today, with explanatory notes. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Indigo, 1997. 224pp, illustrated softback covers wirth a couple of light creases.Internally clean and tight. A comic thrller - why is someone following Guy, the nondescript civil sevant?. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996. 277pp. Dustjacket with a portion of loss to the corner of the back is otherwise clean. Internally very clean. What if the poet John Milton had created his own colony in America.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good.

Thames & Hudson, 1981. Large format. 192pp, complete dustjacket. Many illustrations in colour and b + w. A very clean copy. From The Tower of London to Buckingham Palace.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

SPCK, 2006. 149pp, illustrated softback covers. B + w illustrations by Monica Capoferri. A couple of pages have wrinkling to the edges, otherwise internally clean. The lives of three great Northern saints and what they have to teach us today, by the former Vicar of Lindisfarne.. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Monica Capoferri.

Doubleday Anchor, 1959. Edited and with an Introduction by Elizabeth Stevenson. 381pp, softback covers designed by Leonard Baskin. A couple of light marks to the foredge, otherwise internally clean and tight. A chronological selection from all Adams writings.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Quercus, 2009. 323pp the paper beginning to tan a very little to the edges. Complete illustrated dustjacket. A very clean copy. The lives of the Martin brothers - William the inventor, Richard who fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo, Jonathan the hellfire preacher who set fire to York Minster and John the apocalyptic painter - set in the industrial, political and artistic ferment of nineteenth century Britain. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

C Law and Scatcherd and Letterman, 1808. Third edition, corrected by the author. 380pp, leather back board present but lacks the front board. Lacks the frontispiece illustration, but the other five engraved illustrations are present. Loss to the corner of the title page, and a couple of marginal tears to the plates but otherwise internally clean - a good 'working copy'. Includes biographical sketches, military history, curious particulars, commerce etc. 'adapted to the capacities of young people of both sexes'.. Full-Leather. Fair. Illus. by R T Austin.

Kestrel Books, 1978. Science tests by Max Hooper. 108p, complete dustjacket. Attractive colour and b + w illustrations.Original owner's name to flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. The changes in a number of familiar country scenes, noted over 24 hours.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. Illus. by David Goddard.

Collins, 1966. Evergreen edition. 160pp, illustrated dustjacket with one closed tear to edge.. B + w photographs. Gift inscription on flyleaf, a couple of very light spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. The rescue and rearing of Elsa the Lioness, set in Kenya.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Penguin Pelican, 1965. 266pp,the paper browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers. Previous owner's name to inner cover, otherwise internally clean and tight. A readable and authoritative introduction to psychology. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Putnam's, 1920. 191pp, hand cut foredge, brown boards, a little rubbed to the corners, with cloth spine. 12 B + w cartoons. Original owner's name on flyleaf, a few light spots of foxing, otherwise internally clean. Moral stories.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Low.

Folio Society, 1967. Edited and with an Introduction by John Hampden. 158pp. Marbled paper with brown cloth coverd spine. B + w wood engraved illustrations by Richard Shirley Smith. Previous owner's bookplate to the inner board, otherwise a clean copy. A selection of the essays from The Spectator, concerning Sir Roger de Coverley. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Richard Shirley Smith.