Search Results: Authors starting with R from Ariadne Books

London: Methuen Children's Books Ltd (First published 1928 by Librairie Garnier Freres, Paris)., 1978. Large format book with illustrated boards. Red cloth to spine. Gideon the duck wants to go to Africa. Coloured illustrations on every page. Very good. Corners a little bumped. Generally a little rubbed and light soiling. Internally very clean.

London: Harper Collins, 2006. First edition, 2006. Hardback. xiv, 609pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Beginning with what woods are and why they are so diverse, Oliver Rackham defines different types of tree-land, from woodlands to savanna, and uses a variety of evidence to show why British woodland exists as it does. This book explains how trees and woods behave, for example by how they coppice and pollard, how they are affected by storms and fire, the function of tree roots, the life and growth of trees and how and why they decay. The author reconstructs British woodland through the ages from the evolution of wildwood, through man's effect on the landscape, modern forestry and its legacy, and recent conservation efforts and their effects. Anyone studying woodlands will find this book offers invaluable advice on how to research woodlands and their history, through names, surveys, mapping and legal documents, archaeology, photographs and works of art. In addition, it explores the… Read More

London: Evans Brothers, 1939. First edition. Hardback. Good/No dust jacket.. Evans Brothers, London, 1939. First (and probably only) edition. Book condition: good. Generally light wear. Red boards slightly soiled and spine a little discoloured. Gilt to spine rather faded. Internally clean. Coloured maps as endpapers. Celebrating the achievements of Middlesex County Council in its first fifty years. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Introductory letter from the then Prime Minister (Neville Chamberlain). A fascinating historical document.

London: Constable, 1985. First edition, 1985. Hardback. 223pp. Dust jacket. This is the fifth in Sheila Radley's highly successful series of crime novels featuring Douglas Quantrill, his family and colleagues, and set in the Suffolk countryside. This is a story of love, yearning, terror, grief, bitterness and suspicion. Book in very good condition. Some toning to page edges and some very minor creasing to top edges of a few pages. Dust jacket very good. Unclipped. Minor shelf wear only. A little colour fade to the spine.

London: Constable, 1989. First edition, 1989. Hardback. 221pp. Dust jacket. A dark and gripping story that traces the descent of an upright husband and citizen into blunder, terror, nightmare, and murder. Book in good condition. Paper a little toned. Dust jacket very good and unclipped. Minor edge wear only.

York: Published and sold by the Booksellers, and by T. Wilson and R. Spence, Printers, High Ousegate, York., 1805. This new edition is a reprint of the first edition from 1769. Hardback. vii, 397pp. Portrait frontispiece and 3 fold-out plates. Rebacked in calf leather preserving original contemporary leather binding and original endpapers. The author works her way through soups, fish, game, meats, puddings and desserts before dealing with all manner of preservation techniques including pickling and salting etc. Book in good condition. Rebacked preserving original boards and endpapers. Some areas of wear to boards but still very sound. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Text block firmly bound. Some light spotting through first thirty or so pages, thereafter the pages are quite clean and bright. Overall, a very legible text block and the three fold-out plates are free of tears. A nice copy and very presentable.

London: Collins, 1977. First edition, seventh impression, 1977. (First published 1953). Hardback. xiv, 306pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. 'In this book Dr Ramsbottom entertains the reader with an erudite and richly factual yet comfortably humorous history of most of the exciting and interesting things discovered about fungi in ancient and modern times'. Illustrated with 84 colour photographs plus 58 black & white photographs. Jacket design by Clifford & Rosemary Ellis. Book in very good condition. Just a little faint spotting to text block edges (mostly top edge). Dust jacket very good and unclipped. Very slight crumpling at head of spine and around top corners. Slight colour fade to spine. Overall, a clean and bright copy.

London: Collins, 1972. Sixth impression, 1972 (First impression 1953). Hardback. xiv. 306pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. 84 colour photographs and 58 black & white photographs. Book in very good condition. Very slight bumping to bottom corners. Minor spotting to text block edges. Internally clean and bright. Dust jacket very good. Price clipped to allow for revised price sticker. Very slight fade to spine.

London: Orion Books, 2007. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Orion Books, London, 2007. Book condition: Very Good. Slight bumping at head of spine and a couple of small marks to text block edge. Dust jacket condition: Good. Jacket unclipped. Light shelf wear to head & tail of spine, corners and edges. Three scratches to front cover - all approx 4cms in length. Both powerful and moving, Exit Music not only marks the bittersweet conclusion to DI Rebus's time in the force but a searing commentary on money, power and murder.

London: Harper Collins, 2002. First edition, 2002. Hardback. 384pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. The old Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands is the area covered by Derek Ratcliffe in this volume. The book aims to tell the story of the whole region from the perspective of its natural history and from the personal viewpoint of the author. Derek Ratcliffe describes the Lakeland climate and geology, points to the key naturalist figures and societies, and explains the nature of estuaries, coastland and lowlands, the limestone foothills, and the lakeland dales and fells, Pennines and borders. He considers the conservation problems and measures taken, and assesses the future environmental prospects for the region. 43 colour plates and over 130 black & white photographs and line drawings. Jacket design by Robert Gillmor. Book and jacket both as new. Faint vertical crease to spine of book.

London: Collins, 2007. This is the 2007 first edition. Although the text is identical, it can be differentiated from the 2007 reprint - the most discernible differences being the rounder spine and the chequered rather than banded headband. Hardback. xxx, 385pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Galloway and the Borders has a rich diversity of wildlife and encompasses all the main habitats to be found in Britain. From salt marshes and shingle beaches, to rocky islands and seabird stations. It is a naturalists paradise and parts remain relatively undocumented. Derek Ratcliffe has produced a seminal natural history for Galloway and the Borders in this posthumously published volume. Having seen one of the most extensive programmes of re-forestation in Britain, and an enticing home to many birds of prey, this region is truly deserving of attention. Containing many sites of special scientific interest and nature reserves, the author explores the results of conservation in the region. Illustrated with… Read More

London: Harper Collins, 2002. First edition, 2002. Hardback. 384pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. The old Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands is the area covered by Derek Ratcliffe in this volume. The book aims to tell the story of the whole region from the perspective of its natural history and from the personal viewpoint of the author. Derek Ratcliffe describes the Lakeland climate and geology, points to the key naturalist figures and societies, and explains the nature of estuaries, coastland and lowlands, the limestone foothills, and the lakeland dales and fells, Pennines and borders. He considers the conservation problems and measures taken, and assesses the future environmental prospects for the region. 43 colour plates and over 130 black & white photographs and line drawings. Jacket design by Robert Gillmor. Book as new and unread. Dust jacket fine and unclipped. Extremely slight colour fade to spine.

London: Collins, 2007. This is the 2007 first edition. Although the text is identical, it can be differentiated from the 2007 reprint - the most discernible differences being the rounder spine and the chequered rather than banded headband. Hardback. xxx, 385pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Galloway and the Borders has a rich diversity of wildlife and encompasses all the main habitats to be found in Britain. From salt marshes and shingle beaches, to rocky islands and seabird stations. It is a naturalists paradise and parts remain relatively undocumented. Derek Ratcliffe has produced a seminal natural history for Galloway and the Borders in this posthumously published volume. Having seen one of the most extensive programmes of re-forestation in Britain, and an enticing home to many birds of prey, this region is truly deserving of attention. Containing many sites of special scientific interest and nature reserves, the author explores the results of conservation in the region. Illustrated with… Read More

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1931. First edition, 1931. Hardback. [iv], vii, 203pp. plus publisher's ads at rear. Black cloth boards with red & gold lettering and designs to upper board and spine. Top edge tinted black. Dust jacket. Part poetry, part drama, part prose. Illustrations by Fred Lawson. Book in good condition. Boards a little rubbed and soiled. Some small chips to hinges, a little wear to extremities of spine. Remnants of a sticker to lower board. Slight toning to endpapers. Light spotting to endpapers and prelims. Small newspaper clipping glued to front fly leaf. Hand-written prayer to verso of p203. Dust jacket poor. Unclipped. Rubbed and soiled. Some loss to head of spine. Edge wear and corners chipped. Front separating from spine. Spine a little discoloured and remnants of a sticker. Some tape reinforcements(and remnants of same) to rear surfaces. jacket in a protective sleeve.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1941. First published September 1939 as "News of Persephone", reprinted April 1941 as "Grecian Glory". Signed and inscribed to the title page with reference to The Fund for The Starving Children of Greece. Hardback. ix, 224pp. Blue cloth boards. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. When this book was first published as "News of Persephone" it was welcomed as a worthy tribute to the beauty and vitality of Greece. The publishers decided to reissue the book in a cheaper edition, with unabridged text but with the illustrations sllghtly reduced in number, while the author donated her royalties to the Greek Red Cross. Black & white photographs. Book in very good condition. Some toning to endpapers. Not all pages opened. Dust jacket good. Unclipped. Generally rubbed and soiled. Some edge wear, extremities of spine chipped and a small closed tear to top edge of rear.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1930. First edition, 1930. Hardback. [iv], xiii, 94pp plus 8 pages of publisher's ads at rear. Red half morocco binding over red cloth with gilt to spine. Top edge tinted red. Mrs Ratcliffe's three act drama set in the Yorkshire Dales. "And the old woman began, first setting her stage, then introducing her characters that she had already taught me to know far better than I knew our neighbours. She would catch the different qualities of their voices; she would blow the hunting measures on the silver horn that had once belonged to Squire Dalmaine, until above the wailing of the wind I could hear the horses' hooves thudding up and down the dale. The old grandfather clock ticked in time to the flowing of her voice, and the evening would pass swiftly. Suddenly he would realise that the fire was tired, that the kitchen was becoming chilly, and that another day had heard its "Gone Away."" Colour frontispiece and eight full-page black… Read More

London & Bradford: Lund Humphries & Co Ltd, 1954. First edition, 1954. Limited edition of 999 copies, this being copy no 832. Hardback. 72pp. Brown cloth with gilt to upper board and spine. Pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket in protective sleeve. "Jingling Lane has been written for those Amateur Dramatic Societies who give up a few of their evenings to play readings. The dialect spoken by some of the characters is a modified form of the one used in Wensleydale, but it can be changed easily into expressive Lallans or the beautiful speech of the West Country." Illustrated by Cecile Walton. Book in fine condition. Dust jacket near fine. Unclipped. Just a little light edge wear.

London: William Collins, 2019. First edition, 2019. Hardback. 290pp. Dust jacket. This is a book about the things we often choose to hide: love affairs, grief, domestic strife, and the mess at the bottom of a handbag. Part memoir, part imagined history, in 'The Lost Properties of Love', Sophie Ratcliffe combines her own experience of childhood bereavement, a past lover and the reality of motherhood and marriage, with undiscovered stories about Tolstoy and trains, handbags and honeymoons, to reflect on the messiness of everyday life. An extended train journey frames the action as scenes in the author's real life collide with the stories of real and imaginary heroines. The author asks how we might find new ways of thinking about love and intimacy in the twenty-first century. Frank and painfully funny, this contemporary take on 'Brief Encounter' is a compelling look at the workings of the human heart. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket near fine and unclipped.

London: Collins, 2007. This is the 2007 first edition. Although the text is identical, it can be differentiated from the 2007 reprint - the most discernible differences being the rounder spine and the chequered rather than banded headband. Hardback. xxx, 385pp. Dust jacket. New and still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Galloway and the Borders has a rich diversity of wildlife and encompasses all the main habitats to be found in Britain. From salt marshes and shingle beaches, to rocky islands and seabird stations. It is a naturalists paradise and parts remain relatively undocumented. Derek Ratcliffe has produced a seminal natural history for Galloway and the Borders in this posthumously published volume. Having seen one of the most extensive programmes of re-forestation in Britain, and an enticing home to many birds of prey, this region is truly deserving of attention. Containing many sites of special scientific interest and nature reserves, the author explores the results of conservation in the… Read More

London: Collins, 2007. This is the 2007 reprint (first edition also 2007) and is virtually indistinguishable from the first edition - the most discernible differences are the flatter spine and the banded rather than chequered headband. Hardback. xxx, 385pp. Dust jacket. New and still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Galloway and the Borders has a rich diversity of wildlife and encompasses all the main habitats to be found in Britain. From salt marshes and shingle beaches, to rocky islands and seabird stations. It is a naturalists paradise and parts remain relatively undocumented. Derek Ratcliffe has produced a seminal natural history for Galloway and the Borders in this posthumously published volume. Having seen one of the most extensive programmes of re-forestation in Britain, and an enticing home to many birds of prey, this region is truly deserving of attention. Containing many sites of special scientific interest and nature reserves, the author explores the results of conservation in the region.… Read More