Search Results: Authors starting with R from Hessay Books

Dover, 1971. An unabridged republication of the 1905 first edition, with a new Foreword by Mark Holloway. 404pp, uncluding Index. Dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt title. A very clean copy. The history of Robert Owen's new community at New Harmony in Indiana.. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket.

William Blackwood, 1975. Vol 317, no 1916. Soft covers. Internally clean. Includes R Hudson Smith Aftermath in Spain, about Spain in 1945, A poem by J C E Bowen to Edward Thomas, Historical Reflections on Capri, Malayan Beasts and Beasties, The Thorngrafton Find by Kathleen Fidler.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Numbers, 1986. 96pp, white card covers. A very clean, tight copy. Poems, including a passage from Beowulf translated by Heaney, and prose including Feinstein on Marina Tsvetayena.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

Fontana Flamingo, 1983. 528pp, edges browning a little with age, covers by Glynn Boyd Harte. The original owner has stapled a small article from Radio Times to the Contents page, light mark to top edge of first few pages, otherwise clean and tight. A journey down the Mississippi.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Dent, 1932. Everyman edition. 360pp, blue coth covered boards with a large light mark to the front. Internally very clean. Volume One covers includes the Introduction, and up to Chapter XXVIII of Book III.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

The Navarre Society, 1931. A heavy book of 462pp. Red cloth covered boards with gilt title, a little faded to the top edge and spine. Hand cut edges. Numerous b + w illustrations by Heath Robinson. Internally very clean. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by W Heath Robinson.

Dent, 1949. Everyman edition, with an Introduction by D B Wyndham Lewis. 360pp, light blue cloth covered boards with a little wear to the top of the spine. Faint traces of a previous owner's name stamp to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. Volume One of two, this volume covers from CH. I of Book I to CH XXVIII of Book III, How Friar John comfortheth Panurge in the doubtful matter of cuckoldry.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Pimlico, 1997. A tall paperback of 276pp. B + w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy. Victorian scientific travellers - botanists, scientists and collectors.. Mass Market Paperback. Fine.

Oxford, 1937. Edited and with Introduction and Notes in English by T B Rudmose-Brown. Biography, Analysis, Staging etc. French text of the play. 167pp, brown cloth soft covers. School label to inner cover, light pencil notes to the play, . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Didier, 1937. Preface, Biography, Text of the play and Notes in French, followed by a section of b + w illustrations. Edited by M and Mme Paul Crouzet. 124pp. beige cloth covered boards. Internally clean. Part of La Litterature Francaise Illustree series.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Hachette, 1884. Text of the play in French, with grammatical and explanatory notes in English by Jules Bue. 85pp. Green cloth covered boards. A couple of pencil notes, otherwise internally clean.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Croom Helm, 1977. 209pp. Complete dustjacket with one short closed tear to the edge. Internally very clean No. 4 in the Literary History of Germany series, this volume covers from Brockes and Hagedorn through Klopstock, Wieland and Lessing to the Sturm and Drang poets of the 1770s. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Abacus, 2004. 439pp, illustrated softback covers. A clean, tight copy. Thriller - in World War II everyone must take sides and Michael has to choose.. Mass Market Paperback. Fine.

Penguin, 1987. 190pp, illustrated softback covers with wear to the edges. Internally clean and tight. Crime, set in Suffolk- Angela Arrowsmith is in trouble.. Mass Market Paperback. Good.

Keyhole Crime, 1982. 222pp, the edges browning with age, illustrated softback covers. A felt tip mark to edge, otherwise internally clean and tight. Crime - a romantic novelist is murdered.. Mass Market Paperback. Good.

Harehills Press Ltd, 2002. A heavy book of 435pp. Illustrated softback covers without creases. B + w illustrations. Gift inscription signed by the author to Dame Fanny Waterman on the title page, otherwise a very clean, tight As New copy. The story of the author's father's Jewish grandparents who came from Lithuania to work in the harsh conditions of the tailoring industry in Leeds in the nineteenth century. Of their four sons, one is knighted and plays a crucial role in India in the Second World War and Independence, and another becomes a lawyer, gambles it all away and wanders the jungles of South America and the gambling dens of Mara Plata. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

Dalesman, 1949. 23pp, and three pages of period advertisements. Illustrated soft covers, the spine wearing a little at the ends. B + w illustrations and plan. Internally clean. The history and description of Bolton Abbey, more properly known as Bolton Priory, in Yorkshire, and a section of walks to places in the vicinity. One of the Dalesman Pocket Books series. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

English Universities Press, 1960. 272pp, dustjacket with tears to edges. Internally very clean. B + w illustrations. An introduction to Physical, historical and applied geology, with practical hints for fieldwork... Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Publishing Associates, 1995. 352pp, softback covers by Christopher Sutton. A light crease to the front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy. A political thriller, - should the death penalty be reintroduced?. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Ladybird, 1997. A 'Little Stories' book for children. Laminated illustrated boards. Colour illustrations on every page. A clean copy. The Pink Ballerina is chosen to be the Star Fairy Princess of the ballet class.. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Helena Owen.