Search Results: Titles starting with F from Ariadne Books

London: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1979. First UK edition, 1979. Signed by the author to the title page. Paperback. xiv, 194pp. Translated by Arthur Boyars and Simon Franklin. Two black & white photographs of the author at the front of the book. Book in near fine condition. A little discolouration to the covers. The book has an unread feel and is free of creasing to the spine.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999. First edition, 1999. Hardback. 326pp. Dustjacket. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has a rare gift. So when a businessman asks her to recreate a face from a skull, it seems like a routine job. Until the skull begins to reveal its shocking identity. And then it's too late for Eve to walk out. Book in very good condition. A little toning to page edges. Dust jacket near fine and unclipped.

London: Century, 1996. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Both book and dust jacket are in near fine condition with hardly any sign of use. A very slight degree of tanning to the pages. There wouldn't be any trouble if only you had a wife," Lady Boynton had said. To a mild-mannered Gervaise this was a new idea and the longer he thought about it, the more delightful it seemed...But Flavia Cameron was not what Lady Boynton had in mind. Perceptive and poignant, funny and touching, Facing The Music is a welcome new novel from the author of A Price For Everything.

London: Macmillan, 1998. First edition, 1998. Hardback. 261pp. Dust jacket. After two months' sick leave, DI Mike Croft had hoped for a simple case to ease himself back into the job. But it is not to be, for a serial rapist is stalking the streets of Norwich, targettng young blonde women. At first it seems each attack is identical. But then the forensic reports come in and Mike is faced with an even more horrifying scenario. Book in near fine condition and with an unread feel. Dust jacket very good and unclipped. Just a hint of edge wear and slight colour fade to spine.

London: Blackie & Son Ltd, c1942. First published in 1940 this is an early reprint undated but circa 1942. Price on jacket is 2/6 net. Hardback. Unpaginated. Approx 140mm x 110mm. Usual chequered design to the boards with pictorial onlay. Decorated end papers. Dust jacket. Twenty-four colour plates plus black & white line drawings. Book in very good condition. Light crease to spine which is also slightly faded. Internally very clean and bright. Dust jacket very good. Unclipped. Generally lightly soiled and spine a little discoloured. Very slight edge wear.

London : T. C. & E. C. Jack Ltd., 1906. 1906 T.C. & E.C. Jack. Hardback. xi, 116pp. Beige boards with pictorial onlay to upper board. No jacket. Eight full colour illustrations (including frontispiece) by Olive Allen. Contains a retelling of some of Hans Andersen's best known stories:- The Snow Queen, Big Claus and Little Claus, Thumbelina, The Tinder Box, The Little Match Girl and the Red Shoes. Book in good condition. Boards generally a little rubbed and soiled with some light bumping to corners. Some discolouration to endpapers. Gift inscription to ffep with date of Christmas 1921. Some light toning to prelims etc. Occasional light creasing and very slight and sporadic soiling/spotting.

Melbourne: Ramsay, 1926. De-luxe edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies - this being no 915. Folio. [11], 166pp. List of subscribers at end. Pale blue cloth lettered and decorated in yellow. No jacket. This is one of the copies Muir describes as 'unsigned and bound in a cheaper binding with col. instead of gilt lettering &c, suggesting that they may have bound up later and sold as remainders'. Top edge not gilt and no tissue guards to the illustrations. In the chronological biography of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite compiled by Michael Organ it is speculated that only 600 true de-luxe editions were bound and signed and that this was possibly due to lower than expected sales and led to a further 400 copies being bound more cheaply in pale blue covers and without the tissue guards. Altogether a fabulous book. 51 hand-tipped plates of which 19 (including the fronitspiece) are coloured. Black & white vignette and numerous text illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good condition. Boards… Read More

London: Jonatahn Cape and The Book Society, 1954. This edition issued on first publication by The Book Society in association with Jonathan Cape, 1954. Hardback. 257pp. Red cloth with black design to upper board and black with gilt to spine. Top edge tinted red. Dustjacket. This story is essentially a contest - moral, not physical - between the talented but irresponsible Sultan of Namua, and Morland, a Government official whose high principles rest on egotism. The background is a romantic principality in a Pacific island during a savage insurrection. The novel offers a comedy of many shades - with irony predominating - in a landscape of many colours. Book in very good condition. Book Society ex libris plate to front paste down. Light bumping to corners. Very faint toning to endpapers. Dust jacket good. Unclipped. Generally rubbed and soiled. Spine discoloured. Corners chipped and reinforced with tape to rear surface.

London: Century, 2005. First edition, 2005. Hardback. 390pp. Dust jacket. A walk in the woods takes a sinister turn for police chief Jeffrey Tolliver and medical examiner Sara Linton when they stumble across the body of a young girl. All the initial evidence indicates that she was, literally, scared to death. But as Sara embarks on the autopsy, something even more horrifying comes to light. Book in very good condition. Light toning to page edges. Dust jacket very good. Unclipped. Minor edge wear only.

London: Hutchinson, 1996. First edition. Hardback. Very good/Very Good. Hutchinson,London, 1996. First edition. Book condition: very good with little sign of use. Dust jacket condition: very good, unclipped and with just a little shelf wear around the edges and the occasional light mark. People often remarked that Rhodri MacNeal resembled his hawks, with his keen gold-brown eyes and his narrow, high-bridged nose. As a fighter pilot in Vietnam he'd experienced the hardest sort of flying a man could do...but it wasn't until he found the falcons that he knew what flight was all about. And it wasn't until he met India Blake that he knew what true pasion was.

Maidenhead: Thames Valley Press, 1971. First printed in 1855 with a second edition in 1873, this facsimile edition published in 1971. vi, 147pp. Hardback. Green cloth boards with gilt to spine. Top edge gilt. Dust jacket. Salvin & Brodrick's Falconry in the British Isles is claimed by Harting in his Bibiotheca Accipiraria as "the best modern book in English on the art and practice of falconry". Both authors were falconers of experience. One interesting aspect of their book is their enlightened attitude towards conservation. Like all old books on falconry allowances must be made by the reader for the somewhat out of date methods sometimes employed. Like most things, changes and improvements have been made and a beginner in falconry should bear this in mind. Nevertheless the book not only contains much of interest but also some extremely worthwhile advice. 24 colour plates Book condition very good. Minor wear only. Slight bumping to corners. very clean internally. Dust jacket very… Read More

London: John Gifford Ltd, 1970. First published in 1960. This is a ninth impression from 1970. Hardback. 206pp. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket. Written in an easy and readable style, this is a perfect book for those with a specific interest in falconry and to all with a general interest in birds and their training. Avoiding obscure language, the author goes through every stage leading to the mastery of this ancient art. Experience alone brings perfection, but all the material aid a book can provide is contained here. Illustrated with black & white photographs and diagrams. Book condition very good. A little light soiling to text block edges. Dust jacket good. Unclipped. Generally a little rubbed and soiled with some edge wear. A little chipping to corners and some wear to extremities of spine. Spine a little faded and some toning to internal surfaces. Jacket in a protective sleeve.

London: Harper Collins, 2016. First edition, 2016. xi, 594pp. Hardback. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Falcons have been a source of inspiration to writers, artists, historians and naturalists alike, captivating our imagination throughout the ages. In a much anticipated volume on Britain's most fascinating group of birds, Richard Sale draws on a wealth of experience and research, providing a comprehensive natural of the four British breeding falcons - the Peregrine, Kestrel, Hobby and Merlin. The book takes each species in turn, exploring its form, habitat, breeding biology and status, along with a chapter on the hunting techniques of each species. The author addresses the current population concerns for three of the four species, providing an overview of recent conservation efforts and the devastating effects of climate change and an increasing human population. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs and diagrams etc. Front cover illustration by Robert Gillmor. Book in fine… Read More

London: W. H. Allen, 1964. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. W. H. Allen, London, 1964. Book condition: very good. Minor shelf wear only. Dust jacket condition: good. Price clipped. Spine a little discoloured. Some light shelf wear/rubbing. A little chipping to head and tail of spine. Some light soiling here and there. Jacket in a protective sleeve. Sillitoe's first collection of poetry since The Rats. A collection marked by pleasingly exact observations, by bold use of natural speech rhythms, and the sensitive eye which sees 'Leaves burn into a swarm of flies' in the poem Autumn Nightfire.

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1890. New edition.. Hardback. Fair/No dust jacket.. Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1890. New edition. Book condition: fair. Maroon cloth covered boards with silver titles and silver design to front. Boards generally rubbed and worn, corners bumped, some chipping to edges. Endpapers/prelims have (for some odd reason) a few arithmetical calculations in ink. Front free end paper missing and tape reinforcement at hinge to rear of frontispiece. Tissue guard to frontis tanned. Internally clean. Publisher's ads to rear pages. No jacket. Illustrated with line drawings to text.

Bungay: C. Brightly, and T. Kinnersley, circa 1808. Undated but circa 1808. 8vo in fours. [iii], viii, [i], xl, 376pp plus colour plates. Modern quarter calf gilt over marbled boards. New endpapers. Fifty four hand-coloured plates at rear. Very good. Some spotting, offsetting and dust-soiling.

London: Faber & Faber, 1950. 6th impression.. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Faber & Faber, London, 1950 6th impression. Book condition: very good. Extremely slight shelf wear. Slight spotting here and there and some tanning to endpapers. Previous owner's name to ffep. Dust jacket condition: very good. Unclipped and with only very slight shelf wear around the edges. Spine a little discoloured. This was Eliot's second verse play, first produced at the westminster Theatre in 1939 and revived at the Mercury Theatre in 1946.

Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2015. First edition. Hardback. Near fine/Near fine. Amberley Publishing, Stroud, 2015. First edition. Book condition: near fine. Dust jacket: near fine and unclipped. Following the recent discovery of Richard III's skeleton. Professor Michael Hicks reassesses the family ties and entrails of his wayward and violent family. Many thousands of descendants of Richard's siblings survive, some more interested in their lineage than others, and the book concludes with an analysis of Richard's DNA and his 'family' as it exists today.

London: Chatto & Windus, 2000. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Both the book and its dust jacket are in near fine condition. The book looks unread and the jacket has just a very small amount of shelf wear mostly around the head and tail of the spine. When William Hazlitt published his "book of love" in 1823, scandal rocked the literary world. He had chosen as the object of his grand Romantic passion a mere serving maid – and she had disillusioned him by proving just as tawdry as all the rest. Anne Haverty in this magnificent work of imaginative empathy, rescues Sarah Walker, the victim of Hazlitt's unfortunate obsession from silence and obscurity, letting her tell her side of the story.

London: Collins, 1981. First edition 1981. Hardback. 178pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Farming and wildlife affect each other in many, often subtle, ways. many developments in farming practice have been harmful to wild plants and animals. As the land is made to yield more, so rare species become rarer or even extinct, and even more common ones are beginning to be absent from large parts of the country. This provocative book argues that wild species are actually beneficial to the land as a whole - without them its productivity will fall and farming will ultimately suffer. The main changes in farming practice and their environmental effects are dealt with systematically. The book also discusses arable cropping, grassland management, animal husbandry, hedgerow removal, land drainage and pesticide use. Also considered are the care of the soil and its inhabitants, possible damage to livestock by diseases of wild animals and the effects of hunting and shooting. Prof. Mellanby writes with an… Read More