Search Results: Titles starting with C from Ariadne Books

London: Frederick Muller, 1946. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Fair. Frederick Muller, London, 1946. First edition. Book condition: very good with only minor shelf wear to head & tail of spine. Neat ink dedication to ffep dated Xmas 1949. Dust jacket condition: fair. Price clipped and split at rear hinge to about half its length from the top. Some slight loss at spine extremities with some creasing around the edges. Jacket somewhat soiled and slight colour fade to spine. The book was published to mark the centenary year of Scott, one of the greatest figures in English journalism. Scott was editor of the Manchester Guardian for 57 years from 1872 to 1929 and he raised it from being a purely local paper to one with an international standing. This volume assembles tributes from various colleagues andincludes a number of essays on various aspects of the paper under Scott's historic editorship. Other sections del with the Manchester Guardian after Scott and the measures taken to ensure that… Read More

London: Macmillan & Co, 1966. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Macmillan, London, 1966. First edition. Book condition: very good. Very minor shelf wear only. A little light creasing radiating out from the binding on first few pages - looks like a binding fault rather than any subsequent problem. Very faint line of tanning to endpapers. Very small area of superficial surface damage to p13 obliterating the initial 'w' in 'wheel', in first line of the poem The Ferris Wheel. Otherwise the book is very clean and unmarked. Dust jacket condition: very good and unclipped. A little shelf wear around the edges and some chipping to the head & tail of the spine and to the corners. Slight discolouration to rear. This is Ruth Fainlight's first collection of poems. Covering a period of seventeen years, they show a preoccupation with the themes of love, solitude, death and power. the potent image of the moon; and a progressive awareness of the symbolic quality of the material world. Read More

London: Macmillan, 1998. First edition, 1998. Hardback. 261pp. Dust jacket. As Dr Helen Wilkinson stands over the body of her husband Edward it is just as she imagined it so many times before. He looks calm, asleep almost, for his eyes are closed, his hands are folded neatly on top of the sheets. And yet something is not right: in her fantasies there was never so much blood. Book in very good condition. A little 'bruising' to top corners of boards. Some very minor creasing to extremities of top corners of first few pages. Otherwise, the book has a very clean and unread feel. Dust jacket very good and unclipped. Minor edge wear only.

New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1987. First edition. Hardback. Very good/Fine. Henry Holt & Co, New York, 1987. First US edition. Book condition: very good - a little bumping to upper corners and very slight indentation to upper edge of front board. Dust jacket condition: near fine and unclipped - a little colour fade to spine. This book is a result of over fifty hours of recorded interviews, the story of drunken brawls, abortions, affairs and of the tenderness that existed in spite of these turbulent times. George Tremlett was a longtime family friend and he persuaded Caitlin Thomas to set the record straight about her tortured relationship with one of the greatest poets of our time. Above all, this is the story of the meeting of two innocent souls - a love story, however sad.

New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1989. First edition. Hardback. Good/Very Good. First edition of US print. The book is in good condition with no dog-ears. The ffep does have a light vertical crease about an inch in from the edge and there is a little discolouration to the end papers - but it is pretty light. The book is square and tight and the boards are bright but again with a little discolouration around the top and bottom - mainly in the area of th spine and the adjacent front & back. It is a very sound book and comes with a very good jacket which suffers only from some light staining on the inner surface that matches with the discolouration on the book itself. Our suspicion is that it was slightly affected by a bit of damp at some stage -but this has not affected the pages or sructure in any way. I guess we don't need to say much about the subject!

Ipswich: The East Anglian Daily Times Co. Ltd., 1948. First edition, 1948. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper with a dedication:- "Bless you John, Percy Edwards, The Birdman." Hardback. 108pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. 18 illustrations by Leslie Moore. Percy Edwards was a naturalist of renown and an expert on bird calls. It is said that he knew the songs and calls of 153 birds which he could imitate perfectly - so much so that it is said he could call a heron down from the sky. Book in very good condition. A little very light toning and spotting to endpapers but otherwise very clean internally. Dust jacket good and unclipped. Generally a little soiled. Small area of loss to upper edge of front and chipping to extremities of spine. Small closed tear to upper edge of back.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. First English language edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. Book condition: very good. A little shelf wear with some slight pressure marks to lower edge of front board. Previous owner's name & date to ffep. Internally very clean. Dust jacket: good. Unclipped. Some edge wear and chipping to corners, small perforation to spine. Generally a little rubbed. This is the second volume to be published in English of one of the finest introductions to the medieval world. Lavishly illustrated with numerous accompanying maps and charts,it presents a synthesis of scholarly research and interpretation, translated and revised thoroughly for an English speaking readership. The first volume to be published in this series covered the period 1250 - 1520 and the third volume covered 950 - 1250. To be clear, we are only offering the volume covering 350 - 950 and not the full set. Each volume is complete in itself. The book… Read More

London: The Herbert Press, 1990. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. The Herbert Press, London, 1990. Book condition: very good. Minor shelf wear only. A band of toning between pages 8 and 9 where (presumably) a bookmark had been left between the pages - also faintly visible on p10. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket: very good. Unclipped and with very slight edge wear only. Camille Pissarro was at the hub of the impressionist movement. This book, based on a 1990 touring exhibition organized by the British South Bank Centre, surveys his work in all media. Profusely illustrated.

Oxford: The Inky Parrot Press (Design Department, Oxford Polytechnic), 1985. Limited edition (78/360), 1985. Signed by the illustrator. Hardback. 141pp. Decorated boards and endpapers. Original decorated slipcase. Original prospectus loosely inserted. Candide remains as socially and politically relevant as when it was first published in 1759 (and promptly banned). A delightful production from Inky Parrot. Illustrated throughout by Wilton Priestner. Book in near fine condition. Just a little colour fade to the spine and some very light soiling to boards. Slipcase also near fine with very slight wear and light soiling.

London: Chatto & Windus, 2022. First edition. Hardback. xii, 386pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. In 1905 the young Ralph Vaughan Williams visited King's Lynn in Norfolk to find folk songs "from the mouths of the singers". He had started to collect in earnest just over a year before but was now obsessed with saving these indigenous tunes before they were lost forever. James 'Duggie' Carter, an old fisherman, performed "The Captain's Apprentice", a brutal tale of totrture sung to a most beautiful tune. This is the story of how this mysterious song 'opened a door to an entirely new world of melody, harmony and feeling' for Vaughan Williams. This book traces the contrasting lives of the well-to-do composer and a forgotten King's Lynn cabin boy who died at sea. While exploring her own connections to folk song, via a Hebridean ancestor, a Scottish ballad learnt as a child and memories of family sing-songs, Caroline Davison makes the unexpected… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1923. First edition. Hardback. Good/No dust jacket. William Heinemann, London, 1923. First edition of this collection. Book condition: good. A little wear to blue cloth boards. Corners slightly bumped. Endpapers toned. Occasional spotting here and there. No dust jacket. Sixteen stories by Galsworthy. 306 pages.

Guilford, Connecticut: The Lyons Press, 1988. Paperback. [1 - vi], vii - ix, [x - xii], 13 - 160pp. No jacket (as issued). A concise and readable handbook on how to care for any book of value. For collectors, librarians and curators, it represents an elegant summation of their responsibilities and techniques. Included in The care of Fine Books is a brief history of book construction methods and a discussion of the nature of fine books and their component materials, thorough advice on storage and handling of books, securing a collection against a fire, flood, theft or other mishap, and elementary cleaning and repair. Over 200 line illustrations by the author. Book in near fine condition with little evidence of use.

New York: Harper Collins, 2008. First US edition, 2008. Hardback. 626pp. Dust jacket. After the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak and rugged coastline. But no matter how far he walks, the painful memories of Helen's death do not diminish. On the forty-third day of his walk, at the base of a cliff, Lynley discovers the body of a young man who appears to have fallen to his death. The closest town, better known for its tourists and its surfing, seems an unlikely place for murder. However, it soon becomes apparent that a clever killer is at work. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good condition and unclipped. Minor edge wear only. A heavy book but no extra shipping costs to UK postcodes.

London: Faber & Faber, 2007. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Faber & Faber, London, 2007. First edition. Book condition: near fine and unread. Dust jacket condition: near fine and unclipped. A testament to the triumph of the individual in dire circumstances, and a novel of extraordinary imagination, range and emotional complexity. The Carhullan Army has the visionary intensity and quality of great dystopian fiction.

Rome: Istituto Poligrafico E Zecca Dello Stato, 1989. Paperback. 282pp. No jacket (as issued). Text in Italian. Beautifully illustrated catalogue of decorated papers. Book in very good condition. Just a little light soiling to covers and some extremely slight creasing to lower corners.

London: Printed for G & J Cary Engravers. No. 86 St. James's Street., 1822. Cary's Traveller's Companion, 1822. Engraved title; Contents, Advertisement leaf; 42 single page engraved county maps, hand coloured in outline. Lacking map of the county of Yorkshire. Cary's New Itinerary, Ninth Edition with Improvements. August 1821. Engraved title page; Dedication leaf; Advertisements 6pp; Table of contents with advertisement for globes to verso; Index 41pp; Circuits of the Judges [1pp]; Tables showing the immediate Route from the Metropolis to upwards of 9,000 Places etc [62pp] (numbered in two columns per page); Index to the Rivers & Navigable Canals [2]; Coach Directory [50pp]; List of The Stages Going From London to the circumjacent Villages &c. [7pp]; Packet Boats [1pp]; List of Provincial Stage Coaches [18pp]; Index of Places Which Occur In The Routes of The Provincial Coaches [3pp]; Cary's Improved Map of England (advertisement page) [1pp]; Six fold-out maps in… Read More

New York: Dutton, 1994. First printing, February 1994. Hardback. Unpaginated. Black cloth spine over white boards. Dust jacket. This captivating and unique book tells the tale of six feline couples head-over heels in love - six unforgettable love stories told through the cats' passionate correspondence. Book in very good condition. A little light soiling to boards and their lower edges. Ex libris plate of Ann Ridler to the front pastedown. Dust jacket very good. Generally lightly soiled. Spine somewhat faded.

London: Egmont, 2007. First edition. Hardback. Fine/No dust jacket issued.. Signed by the author.. Egmont, London, 2007. First edition, signed by the author. Book condition: near fine - just a very minor crease to tail of spine. No dust jacket issued. This is the fourth volume from Cat Royal in which Cat becomes an unlikely recruit for the British Navy, takes passage to America and unravels a fiendish plot to do away with Lord Francis, heir to a dukedom. From the grand Assembly Rooms of Bath to the wilds of a new frontier, Cat finds she is for once quite out of her death...

London: Griffith, Farren, Okeden & Welsh, 1887. Hardback. 159pp plus a 16 page Catalogue of Books for the Young at rear. Dark green boards with black illustration, highlighted in white and gilt to upper board and spine. No jacket. A charming little book.<br /> Illustrations by Harrison Weir. Book in good condition. A little wear to extremities of spine and some light marking to boards. Faint toning to endpapers. Slight cracking at gutter but binding sound. Internally clean and bright.

London: Dix Noonan webb, December 2017.. Softcover. Unpaginated. Auction catalogue from December 13th and 14th, 2017. Illustrated. Near fine.