Search Results: Authors starting with B from Daisyroots Books Ltd

Priestley, J.B.
Jenny Villiers : A Story of the Theatre (signed by J B Priestley)
The Macmillan Company of Canada 1947 1st edition SIGNED by the author. Hardback, no wrapper. Blue cloth with silver gilt lettering and cameo. 188 pp, Full author's signature with dedication on title page. Illus with woodcuts. Light rubbing on spine ends.
mon0000036384 FIC 1st £65.00

The Story of Wookey Hole in Fact, Fiction and PhotoThornycroft. L. B.Barnicotts Limited, Taunton, Somerset, 1948, 1st edition 1st impression, soft card wraps, GD, 147 pp, illustrated with b/w photographs, maps and drawings, cover price 2/6 net, covers have creasing and shelf wear, sellotape at spine head, feint owner's stamp mark on front end paper and some pen marks on pages, wire staple binding good, fold out map in the back has 3" tear in one corner and is foxed on the back. Includes maps of caves & district, the Dialect of Somerset. SCARCE copy. Local history, Somerset, Wookey Hole, Caves, Somerset dialect, Archaeology, Pre-historic man.42855 LOCAL HIST £36.50

Netherlands At War : 1940-1945Walter B MaassAbelard-Schuman, London, 1970. 1st UK edition, harbsck with wrapper, GD/gd. Ex-library. 264 pp. illus in the text in b/w. Library stickers. Lean on spine. General shelf wear. Reading copy. Scarce title.World War 2, Netherlands, Holland, Rotterdam. Arnham, Walcheren, resistance41563 WW2 £22.00

Norton Singles: Manx and Inter, and all side and overhead valve singles from 1927 to 1966 (Osprey Collector's Library)
BACON, Roy Hunt
ISBN: 9780850454857
Osprey Publishing Limited, London, 1988, hardback with dust wrapper, VG/vg, boards light brown/silver gilt, illustrated throughout from b/w photographs, 192 pp.
Boards clean and firm, gentle bumps to top fore-edge corners, no inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean and bright, pale foxing to end papers. Wrapper clean and crisp, rubs to edges, gentle bumps to corners, spine strip and section of back panel sunned (see scan), foxing to inside, price clipped.
TRANSPORT, ROAD, MOTORBIKES, NORTON SINGLES, MANX AND INTER, OVERHEAD AND SIDE, WARTIME, 500T, OFF ROAD, RACING, RECORDS, SPECIFICATIONS, TECHINICAL INFORMATION
46648 TRANSPORT/ROAD/MOTORBIKES £13.50

Electric Guitars: The Illustrated EncyclopediaBacon. Tony190477914XMerchant Book Company, Surrey, 2000, paperback VG+, an encyclpedia of electric guitars, makes and manufacturers and famous exponents, 318 pp, glossy colour /b/w photographs on every page of makes and models of guitar, promotional material, albums and key, influential guitarists, clean cover with flaps, not price clipped, not inscribed, clean and bright pages. A lovely book for the guitar enthusiast.43026 MUSIC/Instruments £40.00

Northern France
BAEDEKER, Karl
Karl Baedeker, Publishing, Leipsic, 1905, small softback with stiff card wraps, VG, decorated end papers, marbled edges, two silk bookmarks as placed by publisher, illustrated from 13 two tone maps and 40 plans, 423 pp.
No inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean, tanned, cracked spine between 'Money Table' and title page (see scan), top edge dust stained, maps intact and in good condition. Moderate shelf wear to wraps with white mark to front, rubs to edges and corners, spine strip lightly sunned, small impact marks to top edges of front and back panels. Nice tidy copy. Covers Northern France from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire: Excluding Paris and its Environs.
TRAVEL GUIDE, BAEDEKER, NORTHERN FRANCE, BELGIUM, ENGLISH CHANNEL, SUGGESTED ROUTES AND ATTRACTIONS, MODES OF TRAVEL, ACCOMODATION, MAPS, PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
hb 81 46066 TRAVEL GUIDE £26.50

the author, Sheffield. Hardcover. VeryGood. 1850 Sheffield: George Ridge, rebound, quarter bound in green leather with brown boards, spine with raised decorated bands and gilt lines and lettering. Copious notes on front endpapers, first four pages foxed, and first page of preface has ink marks.

The Railwaymen: The History of the National Union of RailwaymenBAGWELL, Philip S.George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1963, 1st Edition, hardback with dust wrapper, signed by the NUR President and Secretary. VG/vg, boards blue/gilt, top-edge blue, three appendices, colour frontispiece in addition to 16 b/w photographs, 725 pp.Boards clean and firm, gentle rubs to corners, sound square binding, pages clean and bright. Wrapper clean and crisp, bumps to rear edges and tail of spine, two small closed tears to rear top edge, closed tear and chip to lower section of spine tail, price not clipped, now protected by acid-free archive film.TRANSPORT, RAIL, RAILWAYMEN, BEFORE THE UNION, ITS FOUNDATION AND DEVELOPMENT, FIRST NATIONAL PROGRAMME, HEALTH AND WELFARE OF WORKERS, LABOUR PARTY, FIRST NATIONAL STRIKE, NATIONAL UNION OF RAILWAYMEN, THE WAR YEARS, LABOUR GOVERNMENT, TRANSPORT ACT 194745925 TRANSPORT/RAIL hb 73 £36.50

"Flickers in the Flames of the Furnace"
BAKER, Neville
Neville Baker,1984, softback, VG, nine appendices, illustrated from maps, floor plans of church and b/w photographs, 101 pp. No inscription or annotations, ex school-lib with stamps to inside of front and back covers, sound tight binding, page clean, very lightly tanned. Wraps clean and crisp, gentle rubs to edges and corners. The First Century of the Parish Church of St Andrew, Tudhoe, Grange, Spennymoor.
LOCAL HISTORY, NORTH EAST, SPENNYMOOR, PARISH CHURCH, ST ANDREW, FOUNDATIONS, 1884-1984, PARISHONERS, VICARS, CURATES
HB 80 45999 LOCAL HIST/NE £15.00

Feeling Persecuted
BALE, Anthony
ISBN: 9781861897619
Reaktion Books, London, 2010, hardback with dust wrapper, fine/fine, boards blue/gilt, lavender coloured end papers, illustrated from 39 b/w photographs, 254 pp. Boards clean and firm, no inscription or annotations, sound square binding, pages clean and bright, small impact mark to bottom edge of front board. Wrapper clean and crisp, bump to bottom edge of front panel, price unclipped. Christians, Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages.
HISTORY, MIDDLE AGES, MEDIEVAL TIMES, RELIGION, CHRISTIAN - JEWISH RELATIONS, VIOLENCE, PERSECUTION, IMPRISONMENT, DEPICTION IN THE ARTS, POETRY, DRAMA, VISUAL CULTURE, THEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY
46104 HISTORY hb 84 £21.50

Autopress Ltd 1970 hardback, plastic boards. 155 pp,. Gd. Page ends workshop soiled. A child has scribbled on a few of the pages but this does not affect the legibility of the text.

Autopress, 1967 revised edition,153 pp. Vg. Clean and sound copy. Covers: Austin A30, A35, A40 Farina, Austin Healey, Sprite, and MG Midget from 1951 onwards of 803cc, 948cc, 1098cc and 1275cc including van and estate versions.

Land Rover 2, 2A, 3 1959-77 Autobook 895
BALL, Kenneth
ISBN: 0851476635
Autobooks Ltd., Brighton, 1976, hardback with printed boards and clear plastic book sleeve, VG, illustrated throughout from technical drawings, 210 pp.
Boards clean and firm due to protective clear book sleeve, 4cm closed tear to top of back in addition to small chip, no inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, pages relatively clean for a motor manual, spots and stains to edges of text block and end papers, dust staining to top edge.
TRANSPORT, ROAD, CAR, VAN, LANDROVER SERIES 2, 2A AND 3, MECHANICAL INFORMATION, ENGINE TYPES AND VARIATIONS, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE, MAINTAINING PERFORMANCE, TECHNICAL DATA
46289 TRANSPORT/ROAD £26.50

Wallpapers - 17th Century to Present DayJoanna Banham1851703705Studio Editions, London, 1991, near fine large format softback, unpaginated, 390x280 mm, containing introductory text plus forty full colour plates. Superb condition. ARTS, DESIGN, INTERIOR DESIGN, DECORATING, POSTER ART45796 ART/design large box £25.00

Berwick-on-Tweed Illustrated,1894-1994BANKIER, Linda Anne 0952673800Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Council, Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1995, softback with stiff card wraps, NF, illustrated throughout from b/w photographs, 46 pp.No inscription or annotations, binding sound, pages clean and bright. Wraps clean and crisp, light bump to top edge and spine head.LOCAL HISTORY, NE, BERWICK-ON-TWEED, ILLUSTRATED, WORKING AND SOCIAL LIFE, COMMUNITY, TRADE AND COMMERCE44777 hb 40 LOCAL HIS/NE £16.50

Birds of The British Isles By David Bannerman and Illustrated by George Lodge Volume 7 ( VII) 1st Edition 1958 Published by Oliver and Boyd 27 colour plates with tissue paper. The entire volumeis devoted to thirty two species of dabbling or surface-feeding ducks and diving ducks. Book with green boards is in excellent condition. . The Jacket has not been price clipped at 63s. Net. Jacket has an inside repairs to top of spine with small nicks tear on the top back. and on bottom of spine Some small staining to spine with slight staining rubbing marks to back. A very nice copy. Can be viewed in our high street shop.

Birds of The British Isles By David Bannerman and Illustrated by George Lodge Volume 6 ( VI ) 1st Edition 1957 Published by Oliver and Boyd 26 colour plates with tissue paper. The volume is devoted to Storks spoonbills ibises herons egrets and second part to swans shell ducks Book with green boards is in excellent condition. . The Jacket has not been price clipped at 63s. Net . Slight chips bottom of cover spine with some discolour of spine A very nice copy. Can be viewed in our high street shop.

BANNERMAN, Helen
The Story of Little Black Sam**
Chatto & Windus, London, 1950, spiral bound hardback with printed card boards, GD, illustrated throughout from colour drawings by the author, 58 pp.
Appreciable shelf wear to book (see scans), boards edge worn, annotations to both boards, grubby, front and back boards coming away from spiral binding, no inscription, further annotations throughout text block, pages tanned and marked, edges rubbed and dust stained. Readable copy.
CHILDREN'S COLLECTABLE, HARDBACK, HELEN BANNERMAN, 'LITTLE BLACK SAM**'
46240 CHILD'S COLL £21.50

BANNERMAN, MarkLust to Kill (Linford Western Library - Large Print)ISBN: 1843954540F.A. Thorpe Publishing, Anstey, Leicestershire, 2003, paperback, VG, 248 pp.Ex-lib, usual stamps, section of front free endpaper torn away, several initials and pen marks on inside of both covers, binding sound, pages clean and bright, light marks on leading edge. Wrapper clean and crisp, protected by plastic slip over book cover.FICTION, WESTERN, LARGE PRINT, LINFORD WESTERN LIBRARY, MARK BANNERMAN44726 hb 39 FIC/WESTERN/LARGE PRINT £10.00

Birds of the Maltese Archipelago
BANNERMAN, D. A. & VELLA-GAFFIERO, J. A.
Museums Department, Valletta, Malta, 1976, hardback with dust wrapper, VG/vg, boards maroon/gilt, maroon end papers, red and white end bands, one appendix, illustrated from one fold-out map and a colour frontispiece in addition to b/w line drawings and colour plates throughout, 550 pp.
Boards clean and firm, no inscription, neat annotation in purple pen on back free end paper, sound tight binding, pages clean and bright, top edge dust stained with light foxing, bottom fore-edge corner of text block grubby. Wrapper clean and crisp, tanned, rubs and several short closed tears to edges, price not clipped, now protected by acid-free archive film. Heavy book - UK mainland delivery only.
NATURAL HISTORY, ORNITHOLOGY, BIRDS, MALTA, BIRD GROUPS, DESCRIPTION, IDENTIFICATION, GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, MIGRATION ROUTES, BREEDING, ILLUSTRATED, SPECIES INDICES IN ENGLISH, SCIENTIFIC, MALTESE, ITALIAN.
hb 79 46041 NATURAL HISTORY/BIRDS £16.50