Search Results: Authors starting with R from Blacket Books

London: James Nisbet & Co. Hardcover. Good. Hardback. Nd. Early edition. A good copy in publisher's green cloth with illustrated upper board and spine. The white lettering on the upper board is a bit rubbed. Previous owner's name on front fixed end-paper. Lacks front free endpaper. 6 black and white illustrations. Foxing to page ends and also browning to 16 page catalogue at the rear of the book. 408 pages. Preface by the author.

Edinburgh: William Paterson. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. Nd. c. 1870? A very good copy in dark blue cloth decorated in gilt. Bevelled edges. Consists of eight double-page steel engravings taken from "The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland" by Billings together with eight pages of text. Some foxing but the plates are quite clean. Lengthy and interesting pencilled note on front end-paper concerning the "Baronial Antiquities". Uncommon.

London: Nicholas Kaye, 1961. Revised Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. Prize label on front end-paper. 303 pages. A little ink underlining. This is a history of the football league and its clubs with final league tables etc.

Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1913. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. A good copy in grey cloth lettered in gilt on spine. 275pp. Not so much a book of tales as a book about persons who travelled to Scotland and wrote about their experiences.

Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1892. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. A very good copy in maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Some browning to end-papers. Pp.viii,200 + 24pp. adverts. Frontispiece. Chapters on agriculture, manufactures, fisheries, taxation, revenue, trade, commerce, weights and measures.

Royal Troon Golf Club, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hardback. 4to. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. Pp.viii,224. Numerous illustrations, many in colour. The history of a championship golf course.

London: The Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1969. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good copy in a very good, price-clipped, dustwrapper (which is slightly too short for the book). A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 182 pages. Portrait frontispiece. This is the first detailed study of the life and work of a member of the 18th century Edinburgh medical school who "has long been accorded a significant place in the history of neurology.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardback. A very good copy in a near very good dustwrapper which is a little soiled. No ownership inscription. 262 pages. The author's second novel.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. First Edition . A very good copy in a good, slightly chipped, dustwrapper. 198pp. 11 statistical tables. A study of self-government in Northern Ireland up to 1964.

Edinburgh: W & R Chambers for the Supreme Council for Scotland Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, 1958. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. A very good copy in the original cloth. No ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.vi,114. Coloured frontispiece. Errata slip tipped-in. This is a history of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in the practice of freemasonry.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1934. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. A very good copy in a quarter vellum binding. The title and an illustration appear on a glacine wrapper which covers the non-vellum part of the upper board. Pp.viii,122. A previous owner has written in ink on the half-title "Israfel is the Mahomedan angel of music who will play the trumpet at the Last Judgement". A volume of religious poetry.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. A good plus copy in a good dustwrapper. The book shows a little discolouration to the spine and fading at the foot of the spine where there is a chip in the wrapper. There is a little edge wear and tear to the wrapper and a smallish faded water stain at the foot of the rear panel. 184 pages. A gentle Indian novel. Photo on request.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1862. First Edition . A near vg copy in original green cloth lettered in gilt. Gift inscription on half-title. 526pp +adverts. Contains several essays on art and sculpture together with two essays on India ("Our Indian Empire", 72pp and "India: its Castes and Creeds, 100pp.), an essay on "The National Life of China", 84pp, and various others.

Navy Records Society, 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A near very good copy in cream and black cloth lettered in gilt. Boards a little marked. No ownership inscription. Moderate edge and end-paper foxing. Pp.xxii,501. Frontispiece. Blake fought at sea for the Commonwealth during the English Civil War.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1950. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A very good copy in pink card covers which are slightly faded at the spine. 4 black and white illustrations including frontispiece. 36 pages.

Sark Ornithological Committee, 1974. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A very good copy in green card covers illustrated on upper cover. Minor tears at foot of spine. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. Pp.v,82. Folding map of the island. Bibliography. Index.

Carmarthen: The Druid Press, 1948. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A very good copy in black cloth lettered in gilt on the upper board. In a good, price-clipped, dustwrapper which has minor chipping at top of the spine and a two inch closed edge tear. No ownership inscription or other internal marking. 168 pages. 14 illustrations. A miscellany of British mountaineering experiences mainly in the Highlands of Scotland but also including chapters on Wales.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1980. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. 351pp.

The Whitefriars Press, 1923. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A good plus copy in the original cloth lettered in gilt and with gilt arms of school on upper board. Minor tears at head of spine and some fading to spine. Bookplate. Pp.xvi,632 + 48 pages of portraits at end of all but ten of those whose names are on the Roll of Honour. Includes biographies of those included in the Roll of Honour, summaries of service of Old Tonbridgians, Honours awarded etc.

London: Faber & Faber, 1971. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good copy in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. 312pp. Illustrated. This is a memoir by Ezra Pound's daughter which recounts her strange upbringing and the close relationship which grew between her and her father.