Search Results: Authors starting with E from CHARLES BOSSOM

London: Constable. Good. 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover. No dust jacket. Original cloth with bright titling on spine. A few light foxing spots mainly on end papers. No ownership marks. viii, 112 pages. : ill. ; 19 cm. Illustrated in b/w. Previously published in Punch Magazine, these humorous four-line rhymes and drawings are aimed at historical and contemporary figures. Clean and tight. .

London: Estates Gazette. Good/No DJ. 1921. Second Edition Revised. Hard Cover. 8vo Green cloth with bright gilt titling on spine, slight wear to boards. Noo ownership inscription. xix, 416 pages clean and tight. ASIN: B00088HIMW .

London: Country Life/George Newnes (The Country Life Library). Good. 1908. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. 5.75" By 9.25" Tall Bright blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Blind stamped to upper cover. Slightlt rubbed to corners. Rubbed to edges of spine. Some light foxing spots mainly to prelims and page edges other than this clean and tight. Frontis plate. 128 plates. xiv,500 pages. .

London: Hutchinson. Good/Good. 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0091316804 Dust jacket stained, unclipped, wear to edges. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Photographs on plates. 239 pages clean and tight. In 1978 the Leicestershire County Cricket Club will complete one hundred seasons since the Club was reformed in March 1879 and to celebrate its centenary the Club have commissioned this book which is essentially a continuation of E. E. Snow's A History of Leicestershire Cricket published in 1949. Few county cricket clubs can match the success or indeed, the enthusiasm of Leicestershire over the past twenty-five years. Most recently, under the inspired captaincy of Ray Illingworth, Leicestershire have won almost every honour in the game and Eric Snow's colourful history of the period 1949 to 1977 provides a marvellous tribute to the administrators as well as the players who have given such pleasure to the Club's… Read More

London: The Religious Tract Society. Fair to Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall no date Circa 1870 RTS UK. 2 previous owner's deatils on ffep. 80 pages + 16 pages of adverts 'ninepenny series' with coloured frontispiece & woodgravings. Pictorial cloth, slighted faded and rubbed. Contents clean and tight. .

London: The Religious Tract Society. Fair to Good. Hard Cover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall no date Circa 1870 RTS UK. 80 pages + 16 pages of adverts 'ninepenny series' with coloured frontispiece & woodgravings. Pictorial cloth, slighted faded and water stains. Contents clean and tight. .

London: Blandford Press. Very Good/Fair. 1969. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. 6" By 9" Tall Fully and beautifully illustrated with colour plates. Illustrated cover. Dust wrapper closed tears repaired to front with sellotape. 128 pages. Name liquid papered out on ffep. Contents clean and tight. .

London: Michael Joseph. Very Good/Good. 1954. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket unclipped, chunks missing to edges, now in clear protective sleeve. . Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 223 pages clean and tight. .

London: Treasure Press. Very Good. 1984. Reprint. Hard Cover. 6" By 8.25" Tall 0907812546 No inscriptions. 96 pages clean and tight. From the back cover "A dog can be many best friend - but only if ft is happy healthy and well-cared-for. This helpful guide, illustrated with photographs of the best-known breeds, tells you all you need to know about owning a dog. Before you choose a dog you should think about the place where you live and how a dog would fit into your life. Then, when you buy your dog, you must be ready to take the trouble to train, feed and look after it properly All your trouble will be amply repaid by the fun and companionship you will get in return!" .

London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good. 1969. Reprint. Card Cover. 8vo . Illustrated card cover. Previous owner's inscription to inside card cover, blotted out with correcting fluid. 434 pages clean and tightly bound. .

London: Odhams Press Limited. Very Good/No DJ. Hard Cover. 4.5" By 7" Tall Blue cloth with gilt titling on spine, embossed title on upper cover. No ownership inscription. Frontispiece. A few foxing spots but generally clean and tight. 320 pages including index. .

London: Spink & Son Ltd. Good. 1969. First Edition. Illustrated Card Cover. 8vo Stiff pictorial wraps. Colour frontis and black & white photographic plates. Index 114 pages clean and tight. .

London: Clarendon Press, Oxford. Very Good. 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12 Mo 260pp. Faded brown cloth. Soiled and faded. Previous owner's details on front paste down. 256 pages clean and tight. .

London: Private for Private Circulation By Messrs. Hatchard. Very Good/No DJ. 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo Original boards. 23 pages clean and tight. CONTENTS. A LAMENT ON THE SELLING OF THE COOKER AND THEE. N. V. 1 A THOUGHT INSPIRED BY THE FIRST DAY'S CUBBING, 1926 2 A SONNET TO BICYCLE POLO . 3 ODE TO A `SENSITIVE COW' 4 THE BACHELOR ESTABLISHMENT 5 A SONNET ON 'FIVES 6 HENRY, LEAVE ME HERE A LITTLE WHILE 7 ALCAICS 9 SAFFICS 9 HAIL TO THEE, BLYTHE HUMBER 10 AH 1 WHAT CAN AIL THEE, ANGRY PETE 11 WOODLIFF, THE HONEST FOOL, FORGOT THE DOOR 13 AH! NOBLE KISS, I GRIEVE INDEED THY FATE . 14 OH! DESOLATE LONDON, HOW TIRED AND HOW WEARY 18 WHEN SHALL WE TWO, AS BROTHERS HAND IN HAND 21 OH! DETESTABLE TRUMPETER ANDREWS 22 NOW AS I LIE IN PAIN UPON MY BED 23 .

London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. Very Good/Good. 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket in clear protective sleeve. rubbed and creased to edges, tiny tears with a tiny piece missing from back, price clipped. Red cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. Previous owners pencil details on ffep. Frontis plate. 212 pages clean and tight. E. L. Roberts counts himself a lucky man. Born in the heart of the country, his whole life has been spent off the beaten track in remote places as widely diverse as the Outer Hebrides and the East Coast marshes. And, as he himself asks, what greater gift could any true countryman ask? This book is the result of his many years as a practising naturalist during which he has watched all of the common and most of the rarer birds and beasts in their native haunts. Roberts is the most companionable of observers, and as we accompany him through wood and meadow, over moor and marsh, on beetling cliff and lonely shore, we encounter more than the fur and… Read More

Very Good. Reprint. Card Cover. Reprinted from 'Field Studies', Vol. I, No. 3 pp 65 -84 (1961) Clean and tight. .

London: Oxford University Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0198691254 Dust jacket price clipped. Red cloth with bright gilt lettering to spine. No inscriptions. 312 pages with 13 additional map pages. Clean, bright and tight. .

London: BCA [by arrangement with Oxford University Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1992. Reprint. Hard Cover. 4to 0192129880 BCA EDITION. Heavy book but will be posted for the standard charge within the UK. Dust jacket complete. Black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. Slight bump to top corners. No ownership inscription. Numerous Colour & b/w Illustrations / Photographs / 13 Maps. 322 pages clean and tight. When the Oxford Literary Guide first appeared, it was described by The Times as the `finest reference book of its kind' and the Scotsman as `a lovely book in which to dip and dream'. The reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement reported that he had road-tested the book on a journey from London `to the depths of Herefordshire, which normally takes under four hours, and did not arrive for four days'. Listing hundreds of places in Britain and Ireland, the Illustrated Literary Guide gives details of their connections with the lives of famous writers. The many… Read More

Routledge. Fine. 1976. Soft Cover. 0415045835 Uncreased spine. It doesn't look like it has been previously read. `Marxism and Literary Criticism is amazingly comprehensive for its brief format. Eagleton has been able to sum up the main areas of Marxist criticism in the West today.' |I Times Literary Supplement .

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1967. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Maroon cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Owerniship inscription on f. paste down. Frontis plate. Illustrations. Plates. 306 pages clean and tight. This handy reference book provides the serious student of marine biology with the means of identifying the extraordinary variety of living creatures to be found on the British and Irish coasts, without the need for searching through large specialised monographs or papers scattered in zoological journals. It has been written to encourage observation of the habits and structure of the living animal in its natural surroundings, supplemented by closer study in the laboratory, with special attention to characters of systematic importance, and to give preliminary training in systematic work. The keys in this book should enable the collector to trace an animal at least to its genus; and in the process he will… Read More