Search Results: Authors starting with C from White Eagle Books

London, HarperCollins, 1999. 1st Edition. 512 pages. Near fine hardback covers in a near fine pictorial dust jacket. Internally fine with numerous ills. A survey of Irish natual history.

1st Edition. 512 pages. Near fine hardback covers in a near fine pictorial dust jacket. Internally fine with numerous ills. A survey of Irish natural history.

London, Frederick Muller, 1959. 1st Edition, 2nd Imp. 254 pages. Very good plus grey cloth covers in a very good if slightly edge worn pictorial dust jacket. Internally fine with numerous black and white ills. Near inscription on verso the half title page.

Leo Cooper 1986. Ist edition. 181 pages. Very good orange cloth with title to spine. Very good plus complete pictorial dust wrapper. Contents very good. Numerous black and white ills.

Hamish Hamilton 1977. Ist Edition. 167pp. A very good hardback in a very good complete pictorial dust wrapper. Contents fine.

London, Lindsay Drummond, 1949. 1st Edition. 252 pages. Very good plus burgundy cloth covers with gilt design and titles to spine. Good but worn and repaired dust jacket. Wrapper chipped at heads of spine with minor loss. Internally very good with full page black and white ills.Uncommon.

London, Medical Publications Ltd, 1954. 1st edition. 244 pages. Very good lightly soiled green cloth with faded gilt title. Contents fine with plates and illustrations. Copy of J Oliver RAF police. Few cases have aroused more interest than that of John Reginald Halliday Christie, who was convicted of the murder of his wife at the Central Criminal court in June 1953. The preliminary investigations before the trial were not limited to the death of Mrs Christie but included the deaths of 3 other women found murdered in the same house and the identification of 2 female skeletons recovered from the garden. They also included the exhumation, at the request of the defence, of the victim of a previous murder. Christie was a confirmed necophilliac. This book describes in detail the medical and scientific investigations that step by step, assisted in the conviction of the murderer. Heavy book. Shipping charges will be over and above those quoted by ABE for certain countries.

David and Charles 1975. Ist edition. 190 pages. A near fine hardback in a near fine pictorial dust wrapper. Contents fine. Black and white ills.

Peter Owen 1956. 1st Edition. 185pp. Very good green cloth covers in a very good complete slighlty chipped dust wrapper. Contents fine. Black and white ills. Folding family tree.

Leo Cooper 1982. 1st Edition. 254pp. A fine hardback copy in a fine pictorial dust wrapper. Black and white ills. Contents fine.

Pen & Sword 2009. Ist Edition. 282pp. Fine hardback in a fine pictorial dust wrapper. Contents fine. Black and white ills.

Manchester, The Homing Pigeon Publishing Co, 1907. 1st Edition. 278 pages. Very good original red cloth covers with black titles and black pigeon design on the front board. Contents fine. Black and white plates. Scarce.

David and Charles 1972. Ist Edition. 512pp. A near fine hardback copy in a near fine pictorial dust wrapper. Contents fine. Black and white ills.

David and Charles 1972. Ist edition. 512 pages. A fine hardback copy in a fine pictorial dust wrapper. Contents fine, Blacka nd white ills. Heavy Book!

Michael Joseph 1954. 1st Edition. 510pp. Very good blue cloth with faded gilt title to spine. Hinges weak. Frontis of H R H Duchess of Kent. Map of Middle east on pastedowns. Contents good. Full page black and white ills, sketch maps.

London, The Bodley Head, 1943. 2nd Edition. 255 pages. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Illustrated with 32 plates in half-tone, 2 in colour and a map. The book is in very good condition in a good dust jacket. The jacket is edge worn, chipped with a little loss at the spine tips and corners and there are a number of closed tears. SIGNED and inscribed to R Ponsonby, 1943 on the front free end paper. Scarce signature.

London, The Travel Book Club, 1945. Reprint. 254 pages. Very good plus green cloth covers. No dust jacket. Contents fine. Black and white ills. The author's pre war travels on the island of cyprus. Scarce.

Calcutta, Thacker Spink & Co, 1944. 1st Edition. 86 pages. Very good grey cloth covers. Title to spine. Contents fine. Numerous full page black and white plates. Folding map. A scarce account of the 82 Anti-Tank Regiment, R.A who built a road from Bishenpur to Silchar near Imphal callec ""The Lampi"" area. Scarce.

William Kimber 1980. 1st Edition. 282pp. A near fine hardback copy in a near fine pictorial dust wrapper. Contents fine. Black and white ills.

Blackwell 1991. 1st Edition. 492 pages. Navy cloth boards with gilt title to spine in mint condition with a complete and vg dustwrapper. Text is clean and bright.