Search Results: Titles starting with B from Blacket Books

London: Methuen Children's Books, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. A very good copy. A nice clean copy with no ownership inscription or other marking. Unpaginated. Colour illustrations throughout.

London: Ernest Nister. Hardcover. Good. Oblong 8vo. Nd. Late 19th century. A good copy in thick card covers. Illustrated upper board. Gift inscription. 8 thick card pages of fine colour illustrations depicting nursery rhymes with uncoloured end-paper illustrations.

Edinburgh / London: Olver & Boyd / G & W.B. Whittaker, 1824. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A good copy in a rather worn half-leather binding with marbled boards. Five raised bands on spine. Most of title piece on spine lacking. Some end-paper foxing. Lacks half-title. No ownership inscription. Pp.vii,444. Described by the author as "a compilation ----of the literature of different epochs.". Chapters on Witchcraft, Steam-Engines, Character of Luther, Moscow, Miss Baillie's Songs and many others show the wide range of this book.

The Pentland Press, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper which is now protected in a clear, removable, sleeve. 299 pages. Illustrations. Maps. A trawl through various episodes of Lochaber's history.

London: Cassell, 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. C.H. Chapman. A very good copy in blue cloth lettered in red. In a good dustwrapper which has smallish chips at the top of the spine and which is rather soiled on the rear panel. Ownership inscription on front end-paper. Light edge foxing. 224 pages. Colour frontispiece and four black and white illustrations.

Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1927. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 4to. A good copy. Ownership inscription. Pp.x,187. Colour frontispiece and 6 other colour plates. 34 black and white illustrations. 4 charts.

London: Grant Richards, 1900. Reprint . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. 32mo. A good copy in light green cloth lined and lettered in dark green. Top edge gilt. No ownership inscription. Pp.xii,151. Illustrated end-papers. This is no. III in the Dumpy Books for Children series.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in a very good, price-clipped, dustwrapper. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.xx,257. 24 plates. 19 figures. The book's theme is the evolution and story of the Scottish Highland bagpipe. It is described as "a fascinating full-length history of one of the world's most interesting and ancient musical instruments.

Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardback. Oblong 4to. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is complete and untorn. 152 pages. Fascinating photographs, from the late 19th century onwards, from the Scottish Ethnological Archive.

London: Curlew Press. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardback. Nd [1954]. A very good copy in a near very good dustwrapper which shows just a little edge wear and tear. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. 116 pages. 4 illustrations including tipped-in frontispiece portrait of Bell. Loosely inserted are two typed letters from the author to two nieces of Bell, one of which discusses an illustration of Bell's family group in the book.

Chicago: Ziff-Davis, 1943. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardback. A very good copy in a good dustwrapper which shows some edge chipping and tears. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. 340 pages. The story of an extraordinary Balkan life.

London: Hutchinson, 1968. First Edition . A very good copy in what would be a very good dustwrapper but for fading to the title lettering on spine. 228pp. 18 illustrations. 2 maps. The story of the British volunteers who went out to assist the Serbs, Turks or Russians during the crisis period of the Eastern Question from 1876 to 1878.

Manchester: Henry Gray, 1884. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. Small 4to. A very good copy in blue cloth lettered in gilt on upper board. Light yellow end-papers. No ownership inscription. 160 pages. Includes a contemporary account of the battle and a list of Craven men who fought at the battle.

London: Castle Press, 1948. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Arthur Wragg. Hardback. A very good copy in a good dustwrapper. The wrapper shows moderate edge wear and tear. Neat ownership inscription on verso of front free end-paper. Not foxed. 63 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout.

London: Macmillan, 1874. First Edition . A good copy in dark green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. A little marked on rear board. 205pp + 56pp catalogue. Explores the influence the ballads and songs of Scotland have exerted on the character of the Scottish people.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1921. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. A near very good copy in red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and in black on the upper board. A little scuffing to lower board. No ownership inscription. A little edge foxing. 205 pages. A book of poetry much of it set in the Latin Quarter of Paris.

Quetta Pakistan: Nisa Traders, 1980. Reprint . Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardbacks in blue cloth lettered in gilt.. Volume I is a good copy in a good dustwrapper. Volume II is a very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. No ownership inscription or other internal marking. Vol. I, 595 pages. Four pages have been torn horizontally and rather poorly repaired with sellotape. Vol. II,590 pages. First published in 1906 when Balochistan was under British rule this is a valuable study of a province of south-western Pakistan. Quite scarce, this second Pakistani edition ran to only 500 copies.

Oxford University Press, 1915. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A good copy in the original boards with gilt coat of arms on the upper board. Part of the leather title piece on the spine is missing including some lettering. Top edge gilt. Label of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue on front fixed end-paper. Pp.vi,[ii],392. 3 illustrations (one folding). Bamff is an estate near Alyth in Perthshire and the Ramsays of Bamff have held lands there since 1232. Includes an index of persons mentioned in the Charters giving the names of 270 families, almost all of them belonging to Forfarshire or Perthshire. There is also an index of places.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1945. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardback. A very good copy in blue cloth lettered in silver in a good, price-clipped, dustwrapper which has a smallish chip. No ownership inscription and not foxed. 103 pages. A comedy of English manners.

Printed at the University Press, Oxford, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. Folio. A very good copy in the original brown cloth. Limited edition of 200 copies on hand-made paper. No ownership inscription. A little foxing. 118 pages. Colour frontispiece, tailpiece and 4 pages of plates at end of book. "Some of the story" of the Bank of England and a tree which grew in its grounds.