Search Results: Authors starting with P from Byre Books

Oxford: Archaeopress/ British Archaeological Reports, 2003 BAR British Series 355. VG, no inscriptions. A very heavy book.

Oxonii: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1962 Reprint. In the series Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis. All text in Latin. Blue cloth, no inscriptions or annotation, VG, no DJ.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912 Third edition. The Roman comedy Andria, by Terence. Dark red cloth lightly worn, neat name to ffep, no other inscriptions or annotation, clean, tight and sound, good, no DJ.

Oxford: OUP, 1959 The text of the play is in Latin, with stage directions, notes and introduction in English. Light wear and slight sunning to decorative cloth boards, name to front paste-down, faint marks of occasional erased pencil annotation, tight and sound, good, no DJ.

Chatto & Windus London 1878 HB An early biography of the philosopher of the wilderness. Portrait frontis. and engraving of the house at Walden Pond. Brown cloth, worn and marked, finely decorated in gold to front and spine, decorative eps, small split to front gutter, small ownership labels to both front eps and ink inscription (1898) to frontis verso, some age mottling, one gathering loosening, still handsome, good. 271pp 0

Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc New York 1st edition, 1976 Volume 9 of the Macmillan Sky and Telescope Library series. Cover just a little marked, generally VG, no inscriptions, in good, slightly edge-worn DJ, not price-clipped. 467pp

Clydeside Glasgow 1992 PB Stories and poems from the Southside Writers Group, during Janet Paisley's time as writer-in-residence. VG 54pp 0

Glasgow: Paisleys Ltd 12th edition. Undated, but the price list appendix is dated 1951. A catalogue of tweed costumes, kilts, and accessories for women, men and children, drawn against appropriate backgrounds. Inserted in a pocket in the back cover is a price-list. Maroon boards with silver sword and shield decoration, VG.

Friends of the Whithorn Trust PB Undated, but contemporary. Translated from an anonymous Scots poem of the fifteenth century, this prose translation expands on the researches of the Whithorn Lectures. Stapled booklet, VG. 16pp 0

London: The Poetry Society, 2014 New poems by Steve Ely, Zaffar Kunial, Denise Riley, Warsan Shire and John Glenday, commissioned by The Poetry Society to mark the centenary of WW1. VG.

S Pande Allahabad 1st 1938 HB Short Indian plays. A card 'With the author's compliments' is loosely laid in. VG, no inscriptions, pages a little yellowed, in worn, marked, slightly chipped, good DJ. 134pp 0

London: Longman, 1973 Ex-lib, minimal marking (one stamp to ffep), clean, tight and sound, good, no DJ. A detailed study of all aspects of Roman life.

British Association for American Studies 1979 PB BAAS pamphlets in American Studies 1. Stapled booklet, some marks to pages, small marginal pencil markings, good. 48pp 0

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1961 In the "exploring poetry" series. Reprint. A charming anthology of poems for young children. Decorative boards lightly worn and marked, no inscriptions, slight foxing, generally VG no DJ.

Samuel French London 1922 PB Good. 79pp 0

Calgary: Consolidated Communications, 1990 An account of a week-long community festival in Canada. Light wear to illustrative covers, no inscriptions, VG.

Co-op Books Dublin 1980 PB In the Abbey/Peacock series of new Irish plays. Cover a little worn, internally VG. 62pp 0

Grand Rapids/Carlisle: William B Eerdmans Publishing/Paternoster Press, 1993 The Rutherford House translation of John Calvin's Reformation commentary. Light wear to illustrative covers, no inscriptions, VG.

Manchester: Abel Heywood & Sons Ltd Undated. The White House Plays No. 28. Stapled booklet, staples rusty, covers worn and marked, no inscriptions, good. 0

London: Edward Arnold, 1939 Mediaeval English short plays with the language modernised. Covers marked and worn, some grubby marks to pages, no inscriptions, good, no DJ.