Search Results: Titles starting with B from Abbey Bookshop

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. First edition. Near Fine. Large 8vo., original blue cloth spine, blue boards, paper titling-piece to spine, with 24 plates. The author's autobiography illustrated with photographs and her own drawings and watercolours. a few marks to lower board

London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., original red cloth, with fifty-four black and white illustrations. Written by a "Swedish masseuse and beauty culturist", this handbook covers, among many other things, massage, hair treatments, manicure, blemishes and plastic surgery. Scarce spine lightly faded, a few small light stains to the cloth

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1908. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., original brick-red cloth. Edited with textual foot-notes, index of proper names, and alphabetical glossary. ex-library copy with sticker to spine and some stamps

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Large 8vo., original red cloth. Revised with introduction and notes by R.W. Chambers. remnants of dust jacket loosely inserted, a little wear to head and tail of spine, neat ownership inscription

London and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896. First edition. Very Good +. DAVIES (Lucien). 8vo., original pictorial brown cloth, frontispiece and 11 plates and numerous illustrations in the text. From the Badminton Library series. pages unopened, some light foxing, mostly to page edges

London: Harrison and Co., 1794. First edition. Good. 8vo., contemporary half roan, marbled boards. spine and extremities badly worn, joints cracked

London: Longman, Brown and Green, 1844. First edition. Very Good. Sm. folio, near contemporary half burgundy morocco. Blair's world chronology, composed of a little over sixty long tables, in which he dates Creation somewhere between 4004 and 4105 BC. lightly rubbed at extremiities, some gatherings coming loose

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1918. Seventh impression. Very Good. 8vo., original blind-stamped blue cloth, with numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. "The purpose of this Collection is to put before children, and young people, poems which are good in themselves, and especially fitted to live, as Theocritus says, 'on the lips of the young.'" cloth marked and rubbed in places, spine dulled

London: Strahan and Company, 1882. First edition. Good. 8vo., original red cloth heavily decorated in black and gilt, with numerous illustrations. Scarce spine faded, bookplate to front pastedown, bookblock has come loose from binding

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1945. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., original blue buckram. First American edition of Waugh's most accomplished novel. spine faded, cloth lightly spotted