Search Results: Titles starting with A from Tarrington Books

London: Penguin Books, 1956. 1st Edition . Very Good Plus. 4.25 x 7 inches (11 x 18 cm). A few small spots to front cover, slight browning to page edges and margins, otherwise very clean throughout. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £9.95; USA £13.45; Oceania £13.65; Rest of World £12.20. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 4.25 x 7 inches (11 x 18 cm). Paperback. Printed pages: 256

London: Cambridge University Press, 1936. 1st Edition . Very Good Plus/Good. 6 x 8.75 inches (15 x 22 cm). Dust jacket: Slight loss to ends of spine, corners and top edge of front cover. Darkening to spine. A few light marks and slight creasing. Unclipped. Archival tape repairs to reverse. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Good Plus. Book: First printing. Green buckram binding. Light browning to page edges and endpapers, otherwise excellent. Includes a typed sheet of corrections from the author. Also includes an offprint by Gow taken from the Oxford Magazine: 'A.E. Housman at Oxford' (with stain to lower margin). Overall book condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 6 x 8.75 inches (15 x 22 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: xiii, 137

Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co., 1890. 4th Edition . Very Good Minus. 5.5 x 8.5 inches (14 x 21.5 cm). Quarter red cloth with marbled boards, rubbing to board edges, light wear to corners. Light foxing to endpapers, previous owner's name to front pastedown endpaper. Some light patches of foxing to text, outside margin of two pages in Soldiers Three have slight damage from a label (appears to be an original binding flaw). Original wraps priced at 1 Rupee are bound in with all issues, and have varying degrees of damage - most have small sections of loss to edges and/or corners, rear cover of Soldiers Three has a large section of loss, rear cover of Wee Willie Winkie has a hole to the centre. All issues are the fourth Indian edition published in 1890 (this includes Soldiers Three, despite it stating Second Indian Edition to the title page). This edition used the same sheets as the first English Edition, pagination is the same as the English edition but some of the ads are omitted. Each of these… Read More

Buenos Aires: ARS, Revista de Arte, 1963. 1st Edition . Very Good/Very Good. 9.25 x 12.5 inches (23.5 x 32 cm). Dust jacket: Crease to front flap of jacket. Original glassine jacket with slight wear to edges. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: A couple of small tape marks inside front cover. Numerous tipped in plates (one crease), very clean condition throughout. Overall book condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: Europe £14.00; USA £27.60; Oceania £28.90; Rest of World £24.15. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 9.25 x 12.5 inches (23.5 x 32 cm). Paperback

London: W.H. Allen , 1978. 1st Edition . Very Good/Very Good. 6.25 x 9.5 inches (16 x 24 cm). Signed by Author. Dust jacket: Light rubbing and shelf wear. Short tear to front flap. Price crossed out. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Blue cloth binding. Browning to pages, otherwise in very clean condition throughout. The author's second autobiography, written shortly before his death, when he was in his nineties. Included with the book is an original autograph letter, signed by Travers on Hotel Vanderbilt headed notepaper, dated 19 July 1928. The letter is addressed to a Mrs. Nathan thanking her for a wire prior to a play performance. It also references an Yvonne (possibly Yvonne Arnaud). Slight loss to top of letter, two small paper mounts to lower corners. . Overall book condition is Very Good. Size: 6.25 x 9.5 inches (16 x 24 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 195

London: Geographers' A-Z Map Company, 1990. 1st Edition . Near Fine/Good. 6.75 x 10 inches (17 x 25 cm). Signed by Author. Dust jacket: Front cover has a tear to upper corner and clight creasing, slight fading to edges of rear cover. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Good Plus. Book: Blue cloth binding. Excellent condition throughout. Inscribed and signed by Phyllis Pearsall to front free endpaper: 'For Darling Neil from his cherished intrepid sister (?), bless you, Phyllis (Pearsall, Mrs. A-Z), 7/10/90'. Also included is a paperback edition of Sarah Hartley's biography of Pearsall, 'Mrs. P's Journey' (unread copy with light browning to pages), plus a new and sealed facsimile of the 1938 London A-Z Atlas and Guide. Autobiography of the creator of the London A-Z street atlas, first printed in 1936 after Pearsall personally walked 3000 miles checking all 23,000 of the cities streets. A very rare signed copy, bundled with two… Read More

Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1970. 1st Edition . Very Good Plus. 9.75 x 7 inches (24.5 x 17.5 cm). Signed by Author. Landscape portfolio in maroon cloth with cream paper covered boards. Light browning to boards. Contains seven leaves of text (title, prefix and instructions), two reference cards and 121 tableau leaves. A little light browning to pages, otherwise in very clean condition throughout. Signed by Heinz Geiss to title page. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 9.75 x 7 inches (24.5 x 17.5 cm). Hardback

Sparkford, Somerset: Patrick Stephens Limited , 1997. 1st Edition . Fine/Very Good. 6.75 x 9.5 inches (17 x 24 cm). Dust jacket: Light rubbing. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Blue cloth binding. First class condition throughout. Overall book condition is Fine. ISBN: 1852605286. Size: 6.75 x 9.5 inches (17 x 24 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 192

Michigan: B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1957. 4th Edition . Very Good/Good. 6.25 x 9.25 inches (16 x 23.5 cm). Dust jacket: Wear to edges, fading to front cover and spine. Staining to spine. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Good. Book: Red cloth binding, leaning slightly. Light marking to page edges. Browning to endpapers, clean text throughout. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. A revised and enlarged edition of Owen's 1939 work 'Abraham to Allenby'. Scarce. Overall book condition is Very Good. Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches (16 x 23.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 429

Dordrecht: A Bluesse & File, 1805. 1st Edition . Fine. 3 x 5 inches (8 x 13 cm). Extremely rare early 19th Century educator. French language (although published in the Netherlands), discussing the nine parts of speech in a question and answer format. Bound in the original card wraps with printed decoration in green and black ink. Remarkable condition, no wear whatsoever and completely clean. Not on World Cat and no copy in the Dutch or French National Libraries. Overall condition is Fine. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £9.95; USA £13.45; Oceania £13.65; Rest of World £12.20. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 3 x 5 inches (8 x 13 cm). Paperback. Printed pages: 22

London: S. Sweet etc., 1824. 1st Edition . Very Good. 5.75 x 9 inches (14.5 x 23 cm). Original grey, paper covered boards. Slight chipping to spine but very solid binding with no cracking to hinges. Paper title label and private library label to spine. Page edges untrimmed. Clean pages with no foxing. A rare Regency law title in nice clean condition. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.75 x 9 inches (14.5 x 23 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. [8], 247, [1]

London: Chatto and Windus, 1879. 1st Edition . Very Good. 5.5 x 8.5 inches (14 x 21.5 cm). Slight wear to spine, internally in very clean condition, numerous illustrations and some interesting ads. Overall condition is Very Good. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £11.20; USA £18.10; Oceania £18.05; Rest of World £15.85. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches (14 x 21.5 cm). Paperback. Printed pages: xvi, 77, xxvi, [16]

London: Michael Joseph, 2015. 1st Edition . Very Good Plus. 6.25 x 8.75 inches (16 x 22 cm). Signed by Author. Cream boards with 'signed copy' label and a few light marks. Very light crease to half title page, otherwise in very clean condition throughout. Exclusive signed edition with an additional leaf before the title page signed by Dawn French. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. ISBN: 9780718159177. Size: 6.25 x 8.75 inches (16 x 22 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 376

London: Printed by John Nichols for Richard Bigland, 1791. 1st Edition . Very Good. 7.25 x 9.5 inches (18.5 x 24.5 cm). Library binding of half black leather with blue buckram boards. Pocket and stamps to front endpaper, stamp and inked number to verso of title page, no further library markings. A few spots of foxing, otherwise in very clean condition throughout. Four engraved plates (Fairford Church; Tomb of Roger Lygon and Katherine is Wife; Brass of Sir Edmond Tame & his Wives; Brass of John Tame and Alice his Wife [folding]). First edition, contains the text and plates relating to Fairford taken from Bigland's 'Historical, Monumental, and Genealogical Collections relative to the County of Gloucester Vol.1' issued in the same year. Scarce. ESTC: T218044. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 7.25 x 9.5 inches (18.5 x 24.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 4to. 39 + 4 plates

London: John Murray, 1818. 2nd Edition . Very Good Plus. 5.5 x 8.5 inches (13.5 x 21.5 cm). Recent half speckled leather bindings with maroon cloth boards. Spines with five raised bands, leather title labels, gilt decorated compartments. Blue speckled page edges, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontis to Volume I, linen-backed fold-out map to Volume II. Light browning to half title page, frontis and final page of text in Volume I. Volume II has light browning to half title page and final page and also a few light marks to final page. Text is very clean throughout both volumes. Includes songs and music plus a vocabulary and grammar of the Tongan language. An excellent example. . Overall condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches (13.5 x 21.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. lvi, 444; 344, [148] (Grammar)

Preston: C.W. Whitehead. Privately Printed, 1909. 1st Edition . Very Good. 5.75 x 8.75 inches (14.5 x 22.5 cm). Green buckram binding. 40pp plus 49 card pages of photographs. Pages have rippled slightly. Light foxing to text, otherwise in very clean condition throughout. Privately printed work, the author's own copy which comes with correspondence relating to attempts to get the work published. Photo on plate 11 has been amended by hand to indicate items detailed in description. A very rare item from the pioneering days of radiology. No copy in the British Library. WorldCat only locates one copy worldwide, at Cambridge University Library. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches (14.5 x 22.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 40 + 49 plates

London: Penguin Books Limited, 1954. 1st Edition . Near Fine/Near Fine. 4.75 x 7.25 inches (12 x 18.5 cm). Dust jacket: Spine very slightly browned and has slight rubbing to foot. No wear. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Near Fine. Book: Illustrated paper covered boards. Light foxing to page edges, very light foxing to endpapers, otherwise excellent. Overall book condition is Near Fine. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £11.20; USA £18.10; Oceania £18.05; Rest of World £15.85. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 4.75 x 7.25 inches (12 x 18.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 36, 16 plates

Athens: Archaeological Services of Greece / Ministry of Culture and Science, 1971-1973. 1st Edition . Very Good. 8.5 x 11.25 inches (21.5 x 29 cm). Signed by Author. Complete two volume set. Card covers with slight browning and a few light marks. Creasing to edges of covers of main volume. Occasional pencilled margin markings, text is otherwise very clean throughout. From the private collection of renowned British archaeologist Sinclair Hood who was a participant in this congress, submitting the paper 'Late Bronze Age Destructions at Knossos'. Signed by Hood to front cover of the main volume (as MSF Hood). The indices volume includes photos of all congress participants. Very scarce. Overall condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: Europe £16.05; USA £30.20; Oceania £32.85; Rest of World £27.05. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1917. Reprint . Very Good. 4.5 x 6.75 inches (11 x 17 cm). Macmillan's Pocket Kipling edition. Limp full red calf leather binding with gilt motif to front cover and gilt decoration to spine. All edges gilt, silk page marker. A few small marks to covers. Very slight foxing to endpapers, very clean text throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper (dated 1918). Overall condition is Very Good. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £11.20; USA £18.10; Oceania £18.05; Rest of World £15.85. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 4.5 x 6.75 inches (11 x 17 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 301

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1864. 1st Edition . Very Good Plus. 6 x 8.75 inches (15 x 22 cm). Signed by Author. Brown cloth binding with bevelled board edges. Slight rubbing and marking to spine, endpapers replaced. Good solid binding. Page edges untrimmed. A few pencilled notes and margin markings, otherwise very clean throughout. Inscribed and signed by the author to leading blank: 'Dr. Whiteford Greenock, with the kindest regards of J.Y. Simpson'. In 1847 Simpson was the first to demonstrate the use of chloroform as an anesthetic. One of the appendices in this work is a patient's account of amputation prior to anaesthetics. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: Europe £14.00; USA £27.60; Oceania £28.90; Rest of World £24.15. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 6 x 8.75 inches (15 x… Read More