Search Results: Titles starting with I from Brogden Books

Leisure Books, 1980 12mo pp286 G- Memoir of undercover espionage in ww2 Germany and Scandinavia. General wear, a research copy.

Barcelona Campana 1976 softcover smaller 4to unpaginated approx pp 50 colour plates/map VG(one corner bend) A nice mid-'70s guide to the islands, well illustrated.

Bath: Brown Dog Books, 2015 smaller 8vo pp138 F Personal account of working on engineering contract and travelling in rural Canada. Dedicated and signed by author on title page.

Real Photographs 8vo pp23 bw plates VG Modern facsimile printing of the wartime booklet. A nice copy.

O Books, 2006 8vo pp x+198 bw plates F Mountaineer memoir of living with a severe injury, to disability travel to new adventures. Signed by author on title page.

Milano Fratelli Treves softcover folio pp28+pps advertising colour/bw plates bw maps G+ Large format high quality magazine, showing architecture, industry and art of Genoa. Includes much on shipping. The many pages of advertising are themselves interesting, some on a military theme such as a full page Cinzano advert, and in Art Nouveau style. Pages 11, 12, 13 and 14 are missing, with numbered pages ending at 32. Inserted loose is a card backed full page colour plate of the painting ''All'Argano'' by Giuseppe Pennasilico.

udated (c.1980) softcover 8vo pamphlet pp16 bw plates plan F This castle was home to the Pomeroy and then Seymour families. Now a ruin. Fine condition.

16mo unpaginated approx50 drawings F- Privately published guide. Liquid paper mark on front card binding, Fine text.

10mo 2nd Impression with amendments pp121 bw plates map index F-/G Includes some excellent bw plates of the time, and map folded in back pocket. A near Fine copy with one minor lower edge knock, in an edgeworn but still pleasing dustwrapper.

London: Batsford, 1983 smaller 4to cloth pp120 bw plates bibliography F/F- Photographs of wartime air force operations, in the air and on the ground. Mainly British, American and German, with some photos of other forces. Price clipped dustwrapper, a nice copy.

Cambridge University Press 1996 1st ed. large 8vo pp288 bw illustrations notes index ( ex-lib. ) VG-(text is VG+)/VG+ A work by a biologist and a moral philosopher, both UK university academic staff. Reiss was Vice-President of the Institute of Biology. Ex Cumbria County Libraries withdrawn stamped, with front endpaper removed at library. Book would be VG+, but for librarian tearing out the front endpaper, so VG- overall. Still a nice copy.

London Macmillan 1979 1st ed large 8vo pp304 bw plates index light gold,brown cloth (no dw) VG+ Autobiographical writings, with interesting personal stories, including in South Africa and Australia.

London Hodder and Stoughton 1937 6th ed.(1st1929) pp319 maps VG no dw. some spots The story of an early French yacht-circumnavigator, a tennis player also, as attested by press clipping in fep.

Kendal Titus Wilson April 1970 Bi-Centenary Edition card binding large 8vo pp32 bw plates VG In an attractive pictorial card binding, the text block is F. There is a brief Note concerning the edition by Richard Wordsworth.Well presented, with bright old monochrome photos.

London: Collins, 1989 large 8vo cloth pp225 VG/VG- Novel of the early 1960s New York art world. Ex Cumbria County Library withdrawn stamped, complete. A nice copy. [ Larger book, so possible extra postage overseas. ]

Hamish Hamilton, 1980 smaller 8vo cloth pp250 F-/fair+ Novel of British secrecy. Fine but for mouse biting to the dustwrapper edge with one nice to the cloth. A Fine text reading copy.

David & Charles, 1974 smaller 4to cloth pp215 bw plates maps tables glossary bibliography index VG-/G+ East India Company and Imperial forces, with much social commentary. [ Larger book, so extra airmail postage overseas. ]

Cambridge University Press, 2004 large 8vo cloth pp xiv+309 bw plates map notes bibliography glossary index F/VG History mainly during the British India era, also detail of previous origins, and some explanation of post-independence roles. Fine condition book, dustwrapper with a minor scrape to its gloss at front. Quite scarce. [ Possible extra airmail postage overseas. ]

8vo cloth pp195 bw diagrams G+/G+ Title page removed, ex-library withdrawn stamped. Wrapper '35s net' originally priced.

Allen & Unwin, 1977 8vo cloth pp221 references index F-/VG- Essays across the 1970s world, mainly featuring Western Europe. Text-block is Fine but for underlining in one essay. Name neatly written inside front. A nice copy.