Search Results: Authors starting with G from CHARLES BOSSOM

Oxford at Clarendon Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1949. Second Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo Dust jacket OUP 15/- net price on flap. Black cloth with bright gilt titlingon spine. Foxing to end papers and prelims. 159 pages clean and tight. THIS BOOK deals with the economic and social aspects of scientific discovery in the seventeenth century, and was first published in 1937. This second edition has been revised and brought up to date. Some press opinions of the First Edition. `It is rare to find a book that gives such a complete satisfaction as this one... It contains all the virtues, fascination of subject, lucidity of style and distinction of thought combined with a scrupulous and exact scholarship.'-Economic Review. 'It is packed with learning and wisdom, and is a valuable addition to the literature of this great period of English history.'-Times Literary Supplement. `It is a masterpiece both of sound and minute research and of good judgement and clear arrangement. It… Read More

London: J.M. Dent & Sons. Very Good. 1908. First Edition. A Political Dialogue. Original ble cloth, blind stamped design, gilt letters on spine which are bright. Lower corners bumped. Gilt page edges grubby. Name and date on paste down. Slight browning to end papers. Very clean and tight for age. .

London: A & C Black. Very Good. 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to Spine slight fade, bump to corners. Previous owner's inscription on half title. 216 pages clean and tight. .

London: Humphrey Milford Oxford Univ. Press. Good/No DJ. 1928. Reprint. Hard Cover. 16mo Colour illustrated boards. No ownership inscription. Colour frontis plate. Illustrated. 60 pages. .

London: Ebury Press. Very Good/Good. 1967. Reprint. Hard Cover. 5.25" By 8.5" Tall Dust jacket, creased and wear to edge, price clipped. .

London: Andre Deutsch. Very Good/Very Good. 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover. 5.25" By 8" Tall 0233977074 Dust wrapper not price clipped. Blue cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine. 115 pages clean and tight. .

Spur Books. Very Good. 1974. Card Cover. 5.5" By 8.5" Tall' 0902875507 177pp 8.5" x 5.5" illus. FOREWORD. The inns mentioned in this book are those that have given me pleasure on account of their history, their architecture or simply because of the good company I have enjoyed in them. I have tried to be as accurate as possible, but this is difficult when the subjects are for ever changing in appearance due to the efforts of the brewers or disappearing entirely due to the efforts of speculative builders. Even as I write the well-known Bell in Upminster is being demolished to make way for shops. The writer about inns is a thwarted man. He spends days searching for documents that, when found, provide little information of interest to the general reader. Unlike churches, very few inns have recorded histories. In some cases the brewers have been helpful, but I was astonished to learn that one firm had actually lost its records ! The final typescript version of… Read More

London: Christopher Johnson. Very Good/Fair. 1957. First Edition. Hard Cloth Cover. 8vo Dust jacket now in a clear protective sleeve, 1" loss to top of spine, rubbed, creased, tears, price clipped. Slightly faded gilt titling on spinr, green cloth slight wear to edges. No ownership marks. Frontis plate.183 pages clean and tight. Dr. G. F. Morton holds honours degrees of Cambridge, London and the Faculte de Rennes. He has made a life study of the psychology of the adolescent and has travelled three times round the world in an effort to bring together the youth of the Commonwealth. Here he tells the story of youth in search of the riot of adventure and the romance of history; a story written out of an experience of adventure and high-altitude camping in many lands, including Canada; a story testifying throughout to the author's deep conviction that youth can best be served by an experience of `nomadism' such as takes him away from the herd to face the testing of wild… Read More

London: Estates Gazette. Good/Good. 1937. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket unclipped , rubbed to edges, tears to top of spine. Original clothwith bright gilt titling on spine. Rubbed to edges of back cover. No ownership marks.Foxing to end papers. xx, 171 pages + 8 pages of catalogue. Useful for students learning an area of law, The Tithe Act, 1936 is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice. .

Oxford University Press. Good. 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo No jacket. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. B/w frontis plate, small tear at top gutter. Numerous Black & White plates and illustrations. xi[i], 211[1] pp, clean and tight. The author G A Sekon was the founding editor of "The Railway Magazine." .

London: Collins. Very Good/Very Good. 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket price unclipped. These books are guides to the living Britain, covering the whole country, England,Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Each is a guide to a well-defined district, planned to give you the fundamental facts about its scenery, its monuments, its buildings, its natural history, its people and their work and characteristics. The districts are portrayed by well-known authors and specialists, among them W. G. Hoskins, Leo Walmslcy, R. H. Mottram, and Geoffrey Grigson (who is the General Editor). The portraits are married to carefully selected photographs, including some pages in colour. Tours, too, are suggested (and illustrated by road maps, drawings and notes) to enable you to explore each district in a short time by car or bicycle. Each book begins with a coloured title-page by an artist such as Kenneth Rowntree or Barbara Jones, and ends with a detailed gazetteer. A coloured relief… Read More

London: Simpkin & Marshall,. Very Good. 1899. Ninth Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Inscribed By Author Designed as a text-book for students preparing for the various examinations in pharmacy.. Illustrated cloth. Slight fade to spine. Bright gilt titiing and illustration. Nick to ffep. 284, xi, pages including index clean and tight .

Good. 1783. Full Leather. 12mo Second Edition. Worn and damaged binding. Improved and enlarged edition. Printed for the author by S Bladon. Tear in margin of folding plate. 191 pages generally clean and tight .

London: London Missionary Society. Good/No DJ. 1909. First Ediition. Hard Cover. 8vo green cloth, spine faded, white titling on upper cover. No ownership inscription. Frontis plate, xvi, 380 pages clean and tight. Controversial book about helping Christian missionaries preaching the Christian religion in Islamic countries. .

Columbia. Very Good/Good. 1955. Hard Cover. 4to The continued growth of Soviet industry depends in large part on whether output per man can be increased in the future as it has been in the past. Here for the first time is a careful analysis of how the efficiency of the Soviet worker measures up to that of his American counterpart. Industries considered include extractive, heavy manufacturing, and consumer goods. Much of the information comes from Soviet technical journals not fully exploited before. Part I discusses the productivity concepts employed and the problems involved in statistical comparisons. A careful analysis is made of the significance and the limitations of the productivity concept, of Soviet statistics and their comparability with American statistics. The industries are presented in Part II, with figures on productivity in the two countries. Separate chapters describe coal mining, iron-ore mining, crude oil and natural gas, iron and steel, machinery, cotton textile… Read More

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co,. Good/No DJ. 1915. First Thus. Hard Cover. 8vo No date, owner's inscription on ffep dated 1915. Blue boards with brown binding. Darkened spine chipped titling label. Minor marking to covers. Slight bump to upper corners. Book plate to f. paste down. A very few spots. 88 pages clean and tight. .

Anaya Publishers Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1994. Hard Cover. 4to 1854700324 Dust jacket complete except price clipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Illustrated end papers. No ownership marks. 224pp., numerous coloured & plain illustrations. Cean and tight. .

London: Collins & Brown,. Very Good/Very Good. 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to 1843401606 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Colour laminated boards. No ownership marks. 256pp, numerous colour & b/w illustrations. 256 pages clean and tight. Exotic, mysterious, elusive, Japan's geisha have fascinated and allured westerners from Puccini to Madonna, from Picasso to Arthur Golden. But just who are the geisha? This work delves into their lives and history, with detailed coverage of their rigorous training, their sumptuous costumes and the fantastically intricate world of tradition in which the geisha live and work. Geisha bureaucrats and ribald male geisha are just some of the unexpected denizens of this often misunderstood world in which nothing (including the vexed question of prostitution) is quite what it seems. The book details the minute gradations of geisha rank, clothing and makeup, and the subtle changes of geisha appearance through the round of seasonal events.… Read More

London: Abbey. Good/Good. Hard Cover. 8vo No date circa 1960s. Dust jacket tears, some loss to edge. Original cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Slightly darkened pages. Illustrated. 261 pages. Mary Gallati, author of the outstandingly successful Hostess Dinner Book, requires no introduction to everyone who values good food exquisitely cooked and presented. As the daughter of Mario of the Caprice, the world-famous London restaurateur, and as an author and T.V. broadcaster on the culinary art in her own right, Miss Gallati is superbly well equipped to advise on this, perhaps the most civilised of human pleasures. In Mary Gallati's Good Cooking Companion her flair for finding the unusual dish, the delectable sauce, the extra mouth-watering flavour, has found its fullest expression. Yet this book, which has taken three years to compile and perfect, differs in an even greater respect from all other cookery guides. In addition to covering an encyclopaedic range… Read More

National Gallery Trustees. Good. 1950. Hard Cover. 8vo .