Search Results: Authors starting with T from Chilton Books

Lavenham: Privately printed, 2013.. One of 50 copies printed for private circulation for family and friends, with wood engravings by Yvonne Skargon. Pp.48, wood engravings of flora and fauna throughout, inscribed by the author "To Douglas & Margaret with love from Betty May 2nd 2013" to half title page. Dark grey cloth spine with patterned paper covered boards, title label to front and spine. VG.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973.. First edition. "This is the first complete record of the unique Borley Rectory hauntings, detailing all the evidence that is known about this notorious haunted house...The illustrations include many hitherto unpublished photographs, including some of the principal actors in this remarkable drama. The authors take into account all previously published and unpublished material and have been able to add new information of their own about the most famous haunted house in the world." Pp.240, 29 black & white plates + 2 maps and 3 plans, a few small spots to closed top page edges. Orange cloth, dustwrapper has minor wear to top edge. VG/VG..

London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1929.. Love, Religion, and Politics at the Court of an Egyptian King. (With a Preface by Theodore Reinach). Pp.xiv/322, 16 black & white plates + 17 illustrations in the text, spotting to closed page edges. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, sunning to spine. G+.

Amstelaedami [Amsterdam] : Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios 1734 .. A very good modern half calf binding. 16mo. 4.75" x 2.75" x 1.0". [38pp.]/pp. 616/[25pp. - Index] + engraved frontis. Brown calf spine and corners over marbled boards. Spine with 4 raised bands and red leather title label: "Taciti Opera". Frontis (engraved by I. Schenk) trimmed along leading edge. Printed title page. Clean Latin text throughout. VG

New York: Scribner Poetry. 1997.. rep. "A collection of over one hundred inspirational poems. Covers the breadth of life's experiences, from the quiet pleasure of observing children at play to a man's struggle with his god". Pp 128, gift inscription to title page. P/b. VG.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1926.. Rep. Ex college library. Pp.84/4(ads), colour frontis by Wily Pogany, college inkstamps to front endpapers and title page, small closed tear to title page, list of works by Tagore pasted to inside rear board. Blue cloth, gilt title to front and spine, black mark to spine. G+.

Burnham-on-Crouch: The Crouch Press, nd.. Maldon can boast of being a most ancient borough, nearly as old as Colchester. ...The burgesses of Maldon are mentioned in the Domesday Book and in 1171 Henry II granted the first borough charter that was given to an Essex town." Pp.28, sketch plan of Maldon and District + 11 black & white drawings and double page illustration of many features of Historic Maldon to centre pages. Pbk. VG.

Geneva: WCC, 1986.. 1st.ed. "When we say that God is rice,...we take rice as the symbol of God's gift of life. The provocative title is actually the title of the first essay in the book which explores how the gospel calls us to live in harmony with natute and neighbour, to secure just social organizations and be open to renewall." Pp, 82, some b/w illustrations. P/b. VG.

Tel Aviv: Tal Communication/Jerusalem Post, 1989.. Revised edition. Distributed in cooperation with The Jerusalem Post. A study of the international media's coverage of the uprising (Intifada) in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. 27.5cms x 21cms. Pp.71, black & white photos, illustrations and cartoons occasionly throughout. Stiff card covers, edges slightly rubbed. VG.

Durham N.C: Chapel Hill / The University of North Carolina Press, 1962.. 1st edition. "Somewhat less familiar to students of Elizabethan drama and particularly Shakespeare's history plays are certain sixteenth-century commonplaces concerning the nature of states, including England...Dr Talbert's book begins with a discussion of these political commonplaces and focuses upon the writings of Sir Thomas Smith, Richard Hooker, Sir Philip Sidney, and authors of 'seditious' tracts and Elizabethan pageants." Pp.xii/244, occasional light spotting mainly affecting closed page edges. Blue cloth, dustwrapper rubbed with edge wear and spotting to inner flaps. G+/Good.

Harmondsworth: Penguin /Puffin, nd. (c.1947).. 1st edition. Children's nature book. The birds in this book are designed to cut out and make up in three different ways. As simple flat silhouettes, as folded solid figures, or with a little more skill by curving the paper to make them more realistic and by creating background settings using bark, pebbles or shells. 18cms x 22cms. Pp.30, outlines to ready to cut out with pre-coloured illustration to reverse or outlines to paint yourself, rust-marks from staples. Illustrated card covers detached with small losses at staple detachment, soiled with old prce sticker to lower front. Scarce. Good.

London: Longmans,Green,and Co.,1929.. Pp.12/110,slight toning to endpapers. Red cloth, gilt title to spine,uneven fading to boards. G.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989.. 1st ed. "In this book the beauty and drama of the Lakes is captured in a magnificent display of landscape photography, which is complemented by a revealing text describing the history, geography, traditions and literary connections of this exceptional region." Pp.160 with colour photographs throughout. P/b with illustrated cover. G+.

Ross-shire: Christian Focus Publications. 1983.. Contains 31 brief articles, based on Scripture passages. Presenting the comforts and the challenges of the gospel, these articles are intended to stimulate and encourage the Christian in his journey through this world". Pp 64, discreet owners inkstamp to verso front cover. Pbk. VG.

1978.. These sermons and meditations by the late Rev. James A. Tallach have, for the most part, been gleaned from the pages of the Free Presbyterian Magazine, and are representative of labours in the Gospel, in Winnipeg, London, Kames and Stornoway". Pp 117, portrait to frontis. P/b. G+.

Edinburgh: Banner Of Truth Trust, 1974.. 1st ed. Biographical vignettes of George Muller, Isobel Kuhn, Billy Bray, David Brainerd, and Robert Annan. Pp.135. Red cloth, d/w. VG/VG.

Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995.. ...brings together texts by theorists whose work has become central to this metadiscipline, among them Barthes, Derrida, Kristeva, Foucault, Lacan, Irifaray, Levinas, Cixous, Althusser, Lyotard and Adorno....includes useful explanatory and reference material.." Pp.501, clean text throughout. Pbk. VG.

London: Butterworths & Co., 1972.. 1st ed. Nursing in Depth Series. Pp. 9/93. P/b. VG.

London: Longmans, Green. 1956.. 1st ed. "John Bunyan, man of the people......we can hardly imagine the non-existence of Grace Abounding and The Pilgrim's Progress, so important a place have they won in the English cultural heritage". Pp 40, portrait to frontis. P/b. G+.

London : Printed by T. W. for J. Crook and J. Baker, and are to be sold at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard 1653. Original full leather binding, boards detached. 4to. [10pp.]/pp.304/pp.307 - 418/[8pp.] . Allegorical frontis by: "W. Hollar fecit Londini.' Trimmed and laid down (just touching the date). Title-page in red & black with printer's vignette of a ship under sail. Next 2 leaves (Dedication) trimmed along leading edge (affecting first letter of each line). Otherwise, clear English text, with marginal references. G. ** Description of Engraved Allegorical Frontis by Wenceslaus Hollar : "The title is over a doorway, at the top of a flight of stairs leading into a classical temple resembling St. Peter's, Rome. Moses seated to left on steps leading inside a church, holding the stone tablets of law, his left arm raised; a female figure standing behind him, holding a mirror, pointing towards a Latin inscription above the door; lettered with 'The / Holy / History,' above, in space surrounded… Read More