Search Results: Authors starting with B from Ariadne Books

London: Book Club Associates, 1979. Hardback. Good/Good. Book Club Associates, London, 1979. Book condition: good. A little shelf wear and some light soiling to the text block edges. Internally clean. Dust jacket: good. Unclipped. Light edge wear and a little general rubbing/soiling. Sizzling star of screen and stage, Lauren Bacall tells her story with humour, sanity, warmth and vitality.

Munich: Georg D. W. Callwey, 1906. Fifth impression, 1906. Hardback. (195mm x 255mm approx) 124 pages. Gilt and black lettering to upper board. No jacket. Very nice edition of this ever-popular collection of short pieces. (Text in German). Book in good condition. Boards generally rubbed and some wear around edges and spine. Paper rather toned. Occasional fingering suggestions etc added to a small number of the pieces.

London: Folio Society, 1971. Hardback. Good/Slipcase in fair condition. Folio Society, London, 1971. Book condition: good. A little wear. Text block edge colour a little faded adjacent to spine. Internally clean. Original slipcase fair. Physically sound but a little soiled and discoloured in places. Francis Bacon is one of the great luminaries of English scholarship. The idea of history as subject in its own right hardly existed in the Middle Ages. Histories were written but were often the work of churchmen who were focused upon justifying the ways of God to man. Renaissance ideas of writing history were beginning to make an impact on English scholars before Bacon was born and he was the heir to their work. One could take the lofty view that Bacon never really checked the veracity of his secondary sources but that would rather miss the point of this fascinating book.

London: Macmillan, 1999. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Macmillan, London, 1999. Book condition: near fine and unread. Dust jacket condition: fine - unclipped and minimal shelf wear. This is Andrea Badenoch's second novel of psychological suspense with an urban bite. On a hot city night, Jaz and her closest friends have been toasting her birthday. Only her boyfriend, Fat Andy the amiable car thief, didn't show up for the celebrations. When Jaz gets back to their South London flat, she finds him dead on the bed with his throat cut...

London: Macmillan, 2002. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Macmillan, London, 2002. First edition. Book condition: near fine and unread. Dust jacket condition: near fine and unclipped. Minimal shelf wear around the edges. It's the summer of 1960 and the sun is blazing down on Glue Terrace, high above Newcastle's River Tyne. But for fifteen-year old Leslie the holidays are anything but carefree. And alongside his home, Leslie's childhood is also disappearing. A feckless mother, unpaid bills, eviction notices and murdered identical twins...

London: Profile Books, 2008. Paperback. Very good/No dust jacket issued.. Profile Books, London, 2008. First paperback edition. Book condition: very good and unread. No dust jacket. We spend much of our livesdealing with the gap between how things are and how we think they ought to be. Should we complain or persevere? Should we direct our dissatisfaction at others or take responsibility ourselves? And howshould we put these decisions into practice? This book offers a fascinating insight into this essential part of the human condition and will help answer those questions.

Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 2021. Hardcover. 120pp. Publisher's original green cloth binding. Gilt to spine. Lots of illustrations. Book in near fine condition and very clean internally. A small number of very small marks to boards.

London: The Riccardi Press (Medici Society Publications), 1914. Hardback. Good/Poor. The Riccardi Press Books (Medici Society Publications), London, 1914. First printed 1909. Book condition: good. Some light edge wear and slight bumping to corners. Very slight lean to spine. Pale blue boards clean with gilt titling to upper right edge. Gilt titles to spine. Endpapers slightly tanned, Silk page marker still in place. Top edge gilt. Produced on heavyweight paper. Dust jacket: poor. Physically fairly sound but covered in an adhesive backed sleeve protector. The print on the jacket is very hard to read with darkening and discolouration that could be this protective backing or the jacket or both. Some loss to head of spine and chipping to corners. Sticker to front says:- 'Boards £11:11s net per set of 13 vols, Parchment £21 net per set of 13 vols.' This is positioned just below a section of print on the jacket cover that describes this particular volume as part of a ten… Read More

London: Headline Book Publishing, 2002. First edition, signed by the author "To Dorothy with love" to the title page. Hardback. 3456pp. Black cloth boards with gilt to spine. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. George Baker is the quintessential English leading man. Probably most familiar as Chief Inspector Wexford in TV's The Ruth Rendell Mysteries. His acting career spanned more than fifty years and including myriad stage roles as well as countless appearances on big and small screen. Baker was actually born in Varna, Bulgaria where he spent his childhood and where he first decided to become an actor. This is his story of an eventful life, both on and off stage. Colour and black & white photographs. Book in very good condition. Pages a little toned and a very slight lean to the spine. Dust jacket very good. Unclipped. A little light edge wear.

Norwalk. Connecticut: Easton Press, 2010. Signed first edition from Easton Press. Full leather with gilt to boards and spine. Text block edges all gilt. New and still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1996. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Victor Gollancz, London, 1996. First edition. Book condition: near fine. Dust jacket condition: near fine. Unclipped and only the slightest shelf wear around the edges. This second adventure for Sam Turner is as impressively gripping as the first.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1935. Undated but circa 1935. Hardback. 32pp. Black boards with illustration to front. No jacket. Delightful silhouette illustrations throughout by Mary Baker. Book in very good condition. Some light scuffing to the boards and some minor pressure marks to lower edges. Ex libris plate of Ann Ridler to front pastedown. Some very faint and minor spotting.

London: Virago, 2009. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Virago, London, 2009. First edition. Book condition: near fine. Dust jacket condition: near fine and unclipped. All the Nice Girls, Joan Bakewell's first novel, captures the danger and the excitement of wartime Britain with a story of painful separations, illicit love and battles at sea and, above all, the poignancy of longing and loss.

London: W. & R. Chambers., 1904. First edition, 1904. Hardback. 313pp plus publisher's 30 page illustrated catalogue bound-in at rear. Original blue cloth binding with illustrations to front and to spine. Full page frontispiece in black & white with tissue guard. Five further full page black & white illustrations. No jacket. Book in good condition. Very slight lean to spine. Boards generally a little rubbed and soiled. Some wear to extremities of spine and to corners. Prize certificate from Hurst Lodge School to front pastedown dated 1904. A little spotting to text block edges and sporadic light spotting throughout.

London: W. & R. Chambers., 1904. First edition, 1904. Hardback. 313pp plus publisher's 30 page illustrated catalogue bound-in at rear. Original blue cloth binding with illustrations to front and to spine. Full page frontispiece in black & white with tissue guard. Five further full page black & white illustrations. No jacket. Book in good condition. Very slight lean to spine. Boards generally a little rubbed and soiled. Some wear to extremities of spine and to corners. Prize certificate from Hurst Lodge School to front pastedown dated 1904. A little spotting to text block edges and sporadic light spotting throughout.

Altrincham: John Sherratt & Son Ltd, 1970. First published 1876. This edition first published 1970. Hardback. xi, [xii], 338pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Foreward by E. L. Burney. The story of Jabez Clegg is one of the north country's best-loved novels. A tale of adventure, drama and romance. It tells of the orphan blue-coat boy from Chetham's College, who by strength of character rises from the humble home of which he is the adopted son to be successively apprentice and then master in his own right and a man of wealth and influence in the commercial life of Manchester. This is one of Mrs Linnaeus Banks' most successful stories; of a high moral tone and with an authentic background of eighteenth-century Manchester. It brings to life not only prospering commercial development in Manchester but the misery and tragedy of those to whom fate has dealt an unkind hand. Frontis. photograph of Mrs Linnaeus Banks. Book in good condition. A little toning & light soiling to text… Read More

London: Picador, 2002. Second impression. Hardback. Very good/Good. Picador, London, 2002. Second impression. Book condition: Very good. Very slight wear only, upper front corner slightly bumped and with an unread feeling. Dust jacket: Good. Unclipped. Light edge wear, some creasing to lower edge of rear and a small closed tear to rear at fold. Written in Banville's almost painfully beautiful prose, Shroud is a novel which is not afraid to ask deep questions, nor to answer them empathically. A rich and rewarding work.

London: Folio Society, 2004. Hardback. Fine/Slipcase in very good condition. John Vernon Lord. Folio Society London, 2004. Book condition: all three volumes in near fine and unread condition. Original decorated slipcase in very good condition. A beautifully produced set. Quite heavy but no additional shipping costs to UK destinations.

London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Undated. Undated, copyright page declares 125th thousand. Original publication date of The Wheels of Time 1908. Hardback. 62pp plus 2 pages of publisher's ads at rear. Blue cloth boards with gilt to spine and gilt design to upper board representing the Chariot of the Sun copied from a Greek Vase from Apullia dated 460 BC. No jacket. Florence Barclay did not take up writing until ill health left her bedridden for a period during her forties. This was her first romance novel. Book in good condition. Boards generally rubbed and soiled. Previous owner's name in ink to ffep.

London: Blackie & Son Ltd, c1942. First published in 1940 this is an early reprint undated but circa 1942. Price on jacket is 2/6 net. Hardback. Unpaginated. Approx 140mm x 110mm. Usual chequered design to the boards with pictorial onlay. Decorated end papers. Dust jacket. Twenty-four colour plates plus black & white line drawings. Book in very good condition. Light crease to spine which is also slightly faded. Internally very clean and bright. Dust jacket very good. Unclipped. Generally lightly soiled and spine a little discoloured. Very slight edge wear.