Search Results: Authors starting with K from Blacket Books

London: Student Christian Movement, 1928. Second Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hardback. A very good copy in a dustwrapper which has some edge chips. 224 pages. A study of 20th century British rule in India and the Indian National Movement. Foreword by the Earl of Ronaldshay.

London: British School at Rome, 1968. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. A very good copy in green cloth. Three (rather attractive) stamps of the Glasgow Archaeological Society but no other markings. 218 pages + 32 plates at end. 39 figures. A study of the antiquities of the territories of which Veii was the capital. This is Volume XXXVI (new series Volume XXIII) of "The Papers of the British School at Rome".

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardback. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Pp.xix,402. Numerous figures in text. Deals with the principles of computer-aided design.

New York: Springer, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. 4to. A very good copy in laminated boards. Neat ownership inscription (of a fomer Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University) on front fixed end-paper. Pp.xiii,241. Numerous illustrations.

Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1769. Second Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A good copy in a full leather binding. Rebacked with five raised bands to spine which is lettered in gilt. Ex libris plate of Robert Maxtone Graham. Browning to edges of end-papers. Pp.vi,[1],465. A useful reference to the law of the time arranged in the form of a dictionary.

Hildesheim and New York: Georg Olms, 1970. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardbacks. A very good three volume set in blue cloth lettered in gilt, being a facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1762. Pp.xiv,x,417; [iv],463; [iv],406 + index. Introduction by Robert Voitle which desribes the work as "essentially a compendium of mid-eighteenth century British ideas and attitudes on literature, human nature, and morals---." A clean set without ownership inscription or other internal marking. This edition forms part of the publisher's Anglistica and Americana series.

1910. 11th Revised Edition . A very good copy in a good, virtually complete, dustwrapper with a smallish stain on spine. 364pp. 36 maps. 45 plans.

London: Griffith and Farran, 1883. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A good copy in red cloth lettered in gilt. Pp. [vi],154 + 32pp adverts dated 5/82. Lacks rear blank end-paper. Scarce.

London: Universal Books Ltd., 1989. A near fine copy in a similar dustwrapper. 62pp. Colour illustrations throughout. An attractive, cheap copy of this well-known book.

London: Frederick Warne & Co. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. Nd. Probably 1920's - 1940's based on the address of the printers, Edmund Evans, Ltd. A very good copy in pictorial boards (three girls looking over a gate) with dark green cloth spine lettered in black. A touch of wear to board tips. Pictorial end-papers. A nice clean copy internally with no ownership inscription and little foxing. 56 pages. Attractive colour illustrations throughout.

Edinburgh: Scottish Arts Council, 1970. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A very good copy in paper covers. 86pp. 31 plates. An exhibition catalogue.

London: William Reeves, 1910. First Edition . A very good copy in original green cloth lettered in gilt. 658pp. Over 200 illustrations and plates. Includes a 97pp bibliography of music and archaeology. This is the second volume of a two volume work, the first volume being concerned with modern orchestral instruments. This volume includes indices to the two volumes. The text of each volume, however, seems to stand alone.

Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1976. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A very good copy in blue card covers lettered in yellow. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. 24 pages. This is no. 360 of 500 numbered copies. Next to a passage dealing with the relationship between poetic minds there is a pencilled side-note: "& KR & TS!" which must have been written either by Raine or the recipient of this copy who was the Scottish poet, Tom Scott.

Published By the Author, 1979. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A very good copy. Card covers. Pp.vii,147. Map. Illustrations. Traces the life of the people of Gigha, an island in the Inner Hebrides, through the centuries.

Edinburgh: Lothian Regional Council. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. Softback. 4to. Nd. c.1976. A good copy. 196 pages. Maps. Figures. This is the Report of a study into the distribution of plant communities in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. Nd. but ownership inscription on front end-paper is dated 1921. A near very good copy in green cloth lettered in black with a polar bear vignette on front board. Spine slightly faded but lettering clear. Not foxed. 255 pages. 4 illustrations. The story of a year spent on Mission work at St. Antoine's children's orphange in Labrador.

Karachi: Pakistan Herald Press, 1965. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardback. A very good copy in brown cloth lettered in gilt. In a near very good dustwrapper which has minor edge tears. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. Pp.x,[4],310. Illustrated. A book about Parsee history, religion and philosophy by an ex-Mayor of Karachi.

Nantucket: Mill Hill Press, 1984. First USA Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is a little darkened on the spine. Former owner's name and address label on front end-paper. Pp.xxvi,260. 236 illustrations.

Greenwood Press, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in red cloth lettered in silver. A lovely clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.x,227. Illustrations. Tables. The author was Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University. This must be the definitive book on the subject.

Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardback. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. 361 pages. 10 illustrations. "This Regius Chair was the only one of its type in Britain for almost 50 years and was established during the Peninsular War.