Search Results: Titles starting with C from Chesil Books

Christopher Mendez. Soft cover. Very Good/Not relevant. Oorthuys, Hannah (designer). Christopher Mendez, London, exhibition from 23 November - 9 December 1977; 8vo, 155 x 235mm; pp32 opening with an Introduction to Kolbe (1759-1835, Berlin and his work and listing and illustrating 76 prints in the exhibition; slight dust marking by the stapled spine but a very good copy; price list loosely inserted.

Hardcover. Good/Fair. Seago, Edward. Collins, London, 1946; 190 x 250mm; pp 134; four colour and 64 monochrome plates; slightly cocked and with some wear and tears on the jacket, now protected by a transparent sleeve, but overall in decent condition. ... ... ... ... ... The work is a collection of linked essays on Britain's landscape heritage, complemented with images by a painter of such material.

Soft cover. Very Good/Not relevant. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995; pictorial card wrappers depicting an industrial scene; 8vo, 130 x 295mm; pp xxxii, 499; contents a little browned as not uncommonly but otherwise in very good condition. ... ... ... ... ... A very good abridged version onf Marx's famous work for those who need something a little shorter than the full volumes of over 2,000 pages or around 10% of the weight. The abridged version draws from all three volumes of the original.

Hardcover. Good/Good. Foreign Languages Publishing House, three volumes, complete, 1959, 1957, 1959; large 8vo, 155 x 225mm, pp xii, 807, [xi], 546, xi, 923; a few full page plates including a portrait of Marx and reproductions of early title pages and a note from Marx to Engels thanking him for his work; volumes in good or better condition although bound in the usual rather dreary black plastic with dull gold lettering; dust wrappers also better than commonly found but with a little browning and the head of volume II a little torn and otherwise with some light fraying; pages very clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Good. Raynal, Didier. Marches de France, La Ciotat, 1952; small 8vo, 140 x 190mm, pp 99; thin card pictorial wrappers with stab sitiched book block; pages largely unopened, paper browned and edges somewhat frayed as in the nature of such publications, staples a little rusted, but in reasonable state overall; 10 woodcut plates by Didier Raynal. ... The book is a collection of writings, mostly in French but with a few also in English, on the subject of peace and international amity and cooperation and something which therefore speaks well to the situation over half a century later. ... NOTE that as the volume is light the cost of carriage will be reduced from the default postage rates shown.

Hardcover. Good. Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1925; 4to, 232 x 292mm; pp xxxiv, 148; purple cloth, titled gilt on the front cover and spine; spine now faded and with some irregular light fading of the front and more so the back covers, purple being notoriously fugitive; 18 full page photographs and seve line illustrations, the latter mainly in the text; internally in good conditin throughout. ... ... ... The works is a comprehensive and well illustrated account of the castle and its architecture and history. Dunottar is the ruine, mediaeval castle set on a rocky headland high above the North Sea and just south of Stonehaven. During the Commonwealth, it was the hiding place for the Honours of Scotland.

Soft cover. Very Good. Sotheby, London and Florence, 1973; 170 x 240mm; pp [v], 169; profusely illustrated as usual with monochrome and colour plates and printed on coated stock; text principally Italian but with English translations briefly identifying each lot; brown card wrappers, very good condition throughout. ... ... ... ... ... This sale was held from Tuesday 22 May 1973 to Thursday 24 May, immediately followed by the two day sale of the contents of the Villa Dell'Ombrellino, the estate of Violet Trefusis who had died the previous year - see item 001170.

T B Peterson & Brothers. Soft cover. Good. Laurence Witten, Monroe or Southport, CT, US, 1975, 1977, being two of Witten's fine catalogues of books; each catalogue is 215 x 275mm and varies from pp 68 to 140 each; the catalogue descriptions are typically carefully written and comprehensive in scope and the catalogues are well illustrated; apart from some silverfish nibbling on the spines theyl are in very good condition. ... The titles are: "Six: One Hundred Important Books and Manuscripts", "Seven: Sixteenth Century Printed Books", The books offered for sale include a Boccaccio collection, books on vellum, early printing, illuminated and text manuscripts, fine illustrated books, literary and scientific material, Judaica, bindings, women, humanism, occult, alchemy, horology and more. ...

Soft cover. Very Good/Not relevant. H P Kraus, New York, [1960]; 180 x 250mm, pp203; grey wrappers, very good or better condition; profusely illustrated and extremely well catalogued, as one would expect from this book dealer. ... ... ... ... ... ... The catalogue offers 410 16th century printings arranged topographically as indicated. The descriptions of the 410 items offered and priced run to 100pp while a further 94pp hold images of many of the items listed. The images, with rare exceptions, are printed to the size of the originals and reproduce all the letter press and/or woodcuts of a given page. There are indexes of subjects and of persons and there is a 4pp census of copies recorded in the Union Catalogue, Library of Congress, loosely inserted. The catalogue is an outstanding reference work for the period specified.... ... ... ... This is part one of the series of two catalogues covering the period. Part 2, published later, covers France, Italy and Spain. Read More

Soft cover. Good. Laurence Witten, Southport, CT, US, 1982; 215 x 275mm; Catalogue Ten "Incunabula, Manuscripts, Early Illustrated Books, Early Graphics and Bindings", pp80. 1979; Catalogue Thirteen "Icunabula" pp40, 1980; Catalogue Sixteen, pp 96, 1982; all items well illustrated throughout; slight dust marking and with some wear on the spine of catalogue 10 but otherwise a very good copies of these useful reference work on incunabulae; many books are listed and described and there are indexes of printers and publishers and of authors and a note on locations.

Hardcover. Good/Good. Sotheby & Co., London,1963; 4to, illustrated with 88 plates, 15 in colour; green paper boards printed in black with a pictorial dust wrapper; the wrapper is somewhat dust marked and with a small tear in the back but the item itself is in good to very good condition. ... ... ... ... ... The René Fribourg collection was sold by Sotheby's over VII sales, between June and October 1963, of which this is number V. The series began with European Porcelain, Part 1.

Hardcover. Good. Sotheby catalogue for a sale on 6 October 1966; 188 x 252mm; pp 203 listing 184 lots, extensively illustrated and with a few images in colour; standard green boards with pictorial dust wrapper; wrapper somewhat dust marked or a little frayed at the edges but otherwise the item in very good condition; loosely inserted is the sale list showing prices achieved and the buyers' names, together with some minor items of relevance such as newspaper cuttings.

Soft cover. Good. Laurence Witten, Southport, CT, US, 1983 and 1984; catalogues 15 "Illustrated and Ornamented Books 1468-1979, pp 112; 19, "Italy Part I, Libri in Volgare Italiano", pp 64; and 20 "Fine Books in Vernacular Languages, French - English - German - Spanish", pp 80; each catalogue is 215 x 275mm; each is in very good condition apart from some light dust marking on the covers; each catalogue is well illustrated with catalogue 20 having several images in colour.

Hardcover. Very Good. Sotheby catalogue for a sale on 27 April 1978; 185 x 250mm; pp 179 plus some Sotheby notes listing 160 lots, extensively illustrated, occasionally in colour; standard green boards with pictorial dust wrapper; wrapper slightly dust marked but otherwise the item in very good condition; loosely inserted are the estimate sale list showing prices anticipated and actually achieved.

Soft cover. Good/Not relevant. William H Robinson Ltd., Pall Mall, London, SW1, 1933, catalogue 41; 185 x 245mm, pp116, listing 459 items and ending with a copy of the first edition of Robert Beverley's "The History and Present State of Virginia, in four parts ... " then offered at £21.00. Stab stitched binding, pictorial card covers, staples rusted and covers somewhat dust stained, some underlining of the text but internally firm and sound.

Colnaghi, P & D. Soft cover. Very Good/Not relevant. Colnaghi, Old Bond Street, London W1; Catalogue Spring 1979; folio, 200 x 270mm; unpaginated but listing 139 prints, generally one or two to a page and all illustrated; card covers, the front carrying an image of one of the prints listed; occasional dust marking on the back cover but overall in very good condition; price list loosely inserted.

Soft cover. Good. Milne, Tannahill & Methven, Perth, 1918; 175 x 245mm; pp 137; lavender paper wrappers, now faded on the outside to pinkish-brown; wrappers somewhat frayed in places on the edges and with two 2cm pieces missing at the head and the foot; faded handwritten note of presentation to E G de Montmorency on the front cover, signed D.R.P. and most likely D Rhys Phillips, the unanimously elected Hon. Secretary; corners slightly dog eared internally but otherwise firm and generally clean. Photographic frontispiece of (the then late) Miss Sophia Morrison, Secretary of the Manx Society. Preface by E T John. ... ... ... This is the formal report of the first meeting of what was to become the Celtic Congress). Convened by the Welsh Nationalist MP for East Denbighshire, Edward John, and held during the Birkenhead Eisteddfod, the aim was to bring together Celts and to present relevant papers from prominent representative of the different Celtic nations or communities. The papers were given by T… Read More

Soft cover. Good. HMSO, Meteorological Office, London, 1950; 8vo, 153 x 240mm; pp 32; blue thin card pictorial covers, stab stitched; 12 photographic plates; covers a little dust marked and the binding staples rusted but otherwise a good or better copy. ... ... ... ... ... The book was published as the handbook for an exhibition at the Science Museum, South Kensington, March-June 1950. ... ... ... As the booklet is light in weight, a discount will be given on default carriage costs.

London: Little Brown, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Large 8vo, xxvii, 547; includes ten maps and ten diagrams or tables; very good copy in dust wrapper. The author is a journalist and lecturer who at the point of publication had specialised in Chinese affairs for over 40 years, including having lived and worked in China, and was well respected as a writer and commentator on the region. Even now China is not well known to the outside world and Wilson's book sets the superpower growth of China into useful economic and social context and considers what is happening in the country and in its relations with other countries.

Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Oxford University Press, London, Kuala Lumpur and Australis, British Commonwealth Edition, [1984?]; 8vo, 165 x 240mm; pp 348; red cloth, spine gilt, pictorial dust wrapper; very good copy. ... ... ... ... ... Originally published as "Man Himself Must Choose", in 1976;Topynbee is the economic historian while Ikeda is the Buddhist philosopher and now Honorary President of the Intgernational Buddish Lay Organisation, Soka Gakkei, dedicated to pursuing worldwide education, culture and peace.The dialogue, carried out both conversationally and through exchanging written comment, ranges from persoal matters such as suicide or euthanisal through to discussion of global matters such as population growth, pollution, dwindling natural resources and proposed solutions ranging from liberal change to the risks of becoming subject to totalitarian regimes.