Search Results: Authors starting with F from Pegasus Book Orphanage

Neville Spearman 1975 hard cover Good condition, minor foxing on top edge Was there a time when Black and White shared the spiritual knowledge of initiation and protected each other's lives because of The Brotherhood of the Spirit?

Macmillan, London - first US edition 1981 hardcover, 9.25" x 6", and dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. Binding is firm. Library stamps on edges. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Black cloth-bound boards with silver type to spine, 12 b/w illustrations, map, list of abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index. History of Austrian National Socialism from 1880s to the German takeover in 1938, and social composition of Austrian Nazis.

Brooks / Cole Publishing Co, California 1989 hardcover, 7½" x 9½ Book in VERY GOOD condition This book is intended for use in upper-level undergraduate courses in psychology and education, and can be appreciated by readers of varying levels of expertise, from first and second year psychology majors to beginning graduate students.

Faber and Faber Limited, London 1955 Hard cover in unclipped dust jacket Considering this book is over 65 years old, it's not doing badly. Complete dustjacket with a little shelfwear to top and small hole in front, some foxing to side edge, but text clean and binding firm. The nature and meaning of existence

Mike Roberts, Berkeley, California undated stapled softcover, 5¾" x 9", with printed card covers Booklet in VERY GOOD condition The first San Francicso Cable Car made its maiden run in 1873; a duplicate of the original vehicle was built from the original plans a hundred years later, and put into service on Hyde Street. This booklet, with its 32 photographs and route maps, follows the history of San Francicso Cable Cars with detailed descriptions of the operational mechanics up to more recent times.

The Macmillan Company, New York 1947 Hardcover, 19cms x 13cms, with dust jacket Dust jacket has small tear at base of spine. Book in GOOD condition This is one of the Home Garden Handbooks. Like its companion volumes in the series, it is planned to give, in as few words as possible, the information needed to enable you to succeed with one important garden task - growing the finest gladiolus, for cut flowers, for garden effects, and to get good bulbs for another season's planting.

Ernest Benn, Bouverie House, Fleet Street, London 1927 Hardcover, 22cms x 15cms, lacking jacket Previous owner's signature to endpaper. Book in GOOD condition Frontispiece illustration of Louis XIV under tissue

Michael Joseph, London 1959 Hardcover with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket Are schooldays the happiest days of life? This book does not attempt to argue the matter. It simply presents certain aspects of school life during the last two or three hundred years. The author here presents some of the less desirable features of English school history; the kind of reception given to new boys in the nineteenth century; the schoolboys of Lewisham who invoked Black Magic as an aid to robbery; the Great Rebellion at Rugby in which the headmaster's door was blown off its hinges by gunpowder etc etc. All the material is taken from published personal accounts or official histories. The subject has rarely been explored more amusingly than here.

Elsevier Publishing Co. 1961 Hard Cover VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Previous owner's stamp to ffep. Many, many b&w photographs, plans and sketches. Bibliography

Sidgwick & Jackson, London - first edition 1971 hardcover, 8" x 5", and dust jacket Author's (a judge) first novel, a diabolical crime piece. LOOSELY INSERTED: signed letter from Margaret Drabble dated Jan 2002 giving family details. Jacket has sun-fading to spine. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket. Red cloth-bound boards with gold type to spine. SIGNED BY AUTHOR & dated 16/4/71 on ffep. The author is father of Margaret Drabble & A S Byatt, & the signed inscription above is "with brotherly affection" to his sister in Australia (with same surname).

Iliffe Books, London 1964 hardcover, 11 3/4" x 9" (lacks jacket) Book in VERY GOOD condition Brown cloth-bound boards with gold type to blue spine label, 115 b&w photographs, 100s of cross sectional drawings, elevations, cutaway views, layouts, plans, diagrams etc glossary, index. Thirty-five nuclear projects from around the world are detailed - reactors, accelerators, radioactive laboratories, etc. The physics of nuclear fission, radioactivity in medicine, irradiation of food, health hazards, safety precautions, and the architectural opportunity of nuclear fission - all comprehensively covered here. One creased page. Ours is an ex-library copy with stamps, stickers, etc.

Arms and Armour Press, London - first UK edition ISBN:0853685398 1982 Hardcover, 9¼" x 6", with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Dark-blue cloth-bound boards with gold type to spine, many tables and charts, sources, further reading, and index. James Dunnigan explains, evaluates and dispels a few of the myths that surround the military, using concise, non-technical language, and aided by unique statistical charts he covers all facets of the subject from the world's weapons, armed forces and tactics through the complexities of the military mind, to such fundamentals of warfare as logistics, intelligence and attrition. This is not a stodgy academic treatise, but a highly-readable, lively and witty analysis.

Author (?), Sorrento, Australia 1962 softcover, 8.5" X 5.5" and William Buckley ('The Wild White Man') who lived with local Aborigines for 30 years. Original bookseller's sticker to inside cover. Book in VERY GOOD condition Oversized outer wrapper, photographic frontispiece, 7 b/w photographs. A history of the Mornington Peninsula (beside Port Phillip Bay) with particular emphasis on Sorrento, Portsea & Rye areas. Covers southern-most settlement on Australian mailand, 1803,

Prentice-Hall, New Jersey 1989 hardcover, 7" x 9½", with illustrated board covers Short scratch on rear cover. Book in AS NEW condition. The issue of human rights (which may have nothing to do with justice or fairness) is drawn on here to analyze not only the collective human rights of a society to be free from the threat of crime, but also the human rights of those persons accused of crime. This book explores the relationship between human nature and human rights, and the human rights position of contemporary criminology.

John Gifford Ltd, London - 1973 hardcover, 5¾" x 8¾", with dust jacket Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped dust jacket The Bull Terrier had quite a blood-and-thunder background. But his main characteristics - steadfastness and fearlessness - are today combined with his wonderful temperament and love of children … and his ability as a guard of home and person is well-known. The chapters here on the history of the breed are fascinating, while those on breeding, feeding, dog management and showing are invaluable to the dog exhibitor and everday owner alike. Over 50 photographs.

Arthur Barker Limited, London 1968 hardcover, 9 1/2" x 7 1/2", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library review copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode & pocket. VERY GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket Black cloth-bound boards with gold type to spine, 86 b&w photographs, index. In 1783 the first actual aerial voyage by man was made in France in a balloon designed by the famous Montgolfier brothers. A century later, in 1900, Count von Zeppelin launched a cigar-shaped giant that was 400 feet long; the first of the mammoth airships. After his successes, people began to believe the dirigible, not the airplane, was the future of air transportation. This is the story of the great silver airships that roamed the skies in a glorious age that came to an end with the tragic explosion of the luxurious 'Hindenburg'.

Hutchinson, Great Portland Street, London 1965 hardcover, 5¼" x 8", with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Map endpapers ('Chesapeake Bay'). Here is the true story of sailing ships on Chesapeake Bay a hundred years ago; of John Talbot and his two-masted trading schooner 'Albatross', and the voyage he made through the Great Storm of 1904.

World Publishing Co, publishers, Cleveland undated (1951?) hardcover, 6½" x 9½", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped dust jacket. The art of enameling on metal has been embraced recently by the amateur hoibbyist as well as the professional artist. The various methods and techniques of making enamels are explained step-by-step in this book. Clear, explicit drawings and illustrations accompany the text. From making a simple tray, the author proceeds to the execution of more complex designs in Limoges, cloisonne, champleve, and other less familiar techniques. Over 125 illustrations, some in colour, including works by contemporary artists.

Random House, New York 1991 Hardcover with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering and usual stamps, stickers, with barcode. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket Here is keenly observed travel writing at its best. Shrewd and enchanting, it's a must read for all armchair adventurers and for anyone who has ever wondered what life is like on those specks on the map that bear such names as Truk and Yap and Palau. A beautfully written book.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London - first edition 1970 hardcover, 8.75" x 5.75", & dust jacket Minor wear to jacket edges. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Red cloth-bound boards with gold type to spine, map, bibliography,chronological table, language family map, glossary, index. Chairman Mao's thoughts on education; the part played by the Cultural Revolution; obstacles to language reform & social structure.