Search Results: Authors starting with L from Blacket Books

New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1976. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. A very good copy. 447 pages. 20 illustrations. First published in 1869 this is a male view of how women should behave and an anti-female suffrage tract. It sets out to show the "folly and inexpediency" of woman suffrage "and the injury and deterioration which it would cause in her character".

London: Frederick Warne & Co.. Hardcover. Very Good. L.Leslie Brooke. Hardback.N.d. Possibly 1920s/1930s. A very good copy in publisher's green cloth with bevelled edges. Title in white and pictorial onlay to upper board. White cloth spine lettered in green. No inscriptions. Front and rear endpapers showing plan of the maze in Johnny Crow's Garden. Profusely illustrated in black and white and with 8 full page colour illustrations including frontispiece. Unpaginated. Protected in a removable cover.

Scottish Council (Development and Industry), 1961. First Edition . A good copy in blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. 796pp. Signed by L.A. Elgood who was Chairman of the Symposium. A substantial and detailed work on Scotland's natural resources.

Huddersfield: The Advertiser Press Ltd., 1964. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardback. A very good copy in a near very good dustwrapper. Not foxed. Small ownership label on title page. 398 pages. Numerous illustrations. Two double-sided folding transport maps loosely laid in at rear. Covers tram, bus and suburban railway.

Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 1953. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in dark green cloth lettered in gilt. Ownership inscription of a former Keeper of the Records of Scotland. Pp.lxxii,338. Frontispiece. Includes a Biographical Memoir ( of Robert Kerr Hannay H.M. Historiographer in Scotland) and Introduction by the editor.

London: Frederick Muller, 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. Pp.xvi,192. Frontispiece and 12 illustrations. Traces the life and work of Mason who was one of the great scholar-printers of the 20th century.

Melbourne: Georgian House, 1951. First Edition . A very good copy in a good dustwrapper. Gift inscription. Pp.xii,54. Profusely illustrated. A book of the author's experiences seeking to photograph lyrebirds in Sherbrooke Forest near Melbourne, Australia.

Edinburgh: Scottish Record Society, 1980. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Softback. A very good copy in light grey card covers. A clen copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.v,161. After an Introduction includes three Registers of households or population in the parish of Portpatrick taken in the years 1832, 1844 and 1846, followed by the 1852 census entries for Portpatrick. There is also an index of persons and an index of occupations.

London: Greenhill Books, 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardback. Small 4to. A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. Pp.xviii,564. More than 170 illustrations including 74 in colour.. Maps and plans. The definitive history of Napoleon's Imperial Guard.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1974. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. Pp.xii,186. Maps, tables and plates. An ethnographic account of the hitherto little known Berti people of North Darfur, Sudan.

Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1935. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A good copy in blue and silver cloth with photograph of Sir Douglas Haig laid on to upper board. Water stain at top of spine does not affect the book internally. No ownership inscription. 108 pages. An account of the speeches given at the various ceremonies.

London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1883. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A good copy in brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Patterned end-papers. No ownership inscription. Pp.vi,234. Recipes mainly collected from the manuscript books of the author's family and friends "several given by epicures well known in former days".

London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773. Second Edition Corrected . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. 4to. A near very good copy in a full leather binding with five raised bands on spine. Some wear at head of spine and board tips. Some marking to end-papers but otherwise a clean copy with no inscriptions and little foxing. Pp.lxxii,216.

London/Glasgow: Hamilton, Adams & Co/ Thomas D. Morison, 1889. New Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 318 pages. Substantial preface by the editor. Contains thirteen "tales" including "The Thrie Tailes of the Thrie Priests of Peblis, "The Battle of Harlaw" and "Sir John Barleycorn.

London: Bickers and Son, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in brown cloth attractively decorated in gilt and black on the spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Gift inscription dated Chritmas 1903 on front fixed end-paper. Browning to end-papers and half-title. 386 pages. 12 plates described as "in permanent photography from the Boydell Gallery" with tissue-guard to frontispiece.

West Kilbride Amenity Society, 1979. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is now protected in a clear, removable, sleeve. First published in 1896 this is one of a facsimile reprint of 200 copies, this copy being an unnumbered presentation copy from the publishers to the author's daughter. 250 pages. Illustrations.

London: The Studio, 1927. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 4to. A very good copy in green cloth lettered in gilt. In a fair dustwrapper which has some largeish chips and some staining at the foot of the rear panel. The wrapper is now protected in a clear, removable, sleeve. No ownership inscription. Pp.vii,48 + 90 plates at end including 8 in colour.

St Andrews: Alvie Publications, 1981. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to. A very good copy in a dustwrapper which is faded to the spine but which is otherwise very good. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. 136 pages. The social history of the Scottish Borders in old photographs.

Hawick: James Edgar, 1899. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Bevelled edges. A clean copy with no ownership inscription and very little foxing. Pp.xvi,374. Poetry, some in Scots, by a Borders poet from Lilliesleaf.

London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1928. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardbacks. A good two volume set in blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spines and upper boards. Some fading to the spines but the lettering remains readable. Top edges gilt. Internally very good. Ownership initials, date etc on front free end-paper of each volume. Not foxed. Vol. I,pp.xxiii,358. Vol.II,pp.viii,363. Numerous illustrations including colour. Maps (including folded) and genealogical charts as called for. Photographs available on request. Extra postage will be required for overseas orders.