Search Results: Titles starting with K from Northgate Books

Guild Publishing London, 1987. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Bound in red cloth, with DW, decorative endpapers, 160pp, full of coloured illustrations. VG/VG

G P Putnam London (8th imp), 1928. Hardcover. Bound in maroon cloth, no DW, frontis portrait plus 20 illustrations , 459pp Good. Endpapers (only) are foxed. Spine and part of rear board are faded.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1933. 2nd. Imp. Decorative Binding . Half Cloth . Very Good. Professionally rebound in navy blue cloth and hamd-made marble paper (shapes and colours give an impression of black rock, white snow and pale blue ice), black leather label, b/w frontis photograph, " Kamet - The Last Few Feet ", 58 b/w photographs, 2 b/w maps and a folding map at end of book in brown and blue, " Trace Showing Route of Expedition to Kamet in 1920 ", 420pp. The book relates the story of the Kamet Expedition in 1931, the first time one of the 70 peaks over 25,000 ft. had been conquered. At the time most of these peaks were inaccessable as they were in either Tibet or Nepal, countries which did not admit climbers. Condition of the binding is "new", condition of text is vg.

London: BCA, 1976. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Bound in silver/blue cloth, with unclipped dw, 48 b/w photographs, 3 maps, 170pp. The story of the Karluk, the leading ship of Stefansson's Arctic Expedition of 1913-18 which was crushed and sunk in ice leaving the 25 sailors of the ship's crew stranded on the Arctic ice. Eleven of the crew died before rescue came.

London: Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co, 1858. Hardcover. Bound in navy blue cloth with blind tooled decoration on both boards and on the spine, titled in gold on spine and front board, gilded page edges, frontispiece (arms of the Keighleys of Keighley and Inskip), 4 b/w in-text illustrations including, "View of the Parish Church prior to 1805 ",211pp, 185 x 110mm. Has been re-backed in matching cloth, edges and ends of the spine are worn. Text is in good condition. An historical and topographicla sketch of the town, parish and environs of Keighley including Riddlesden, Marley, Hainworh and other parts of the parish of Bingley. Contains an interesting chapter on local customs including the rise of football as a competitor to bull-baiting and cock-fighting.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1924. First Edition . Quarter Cloth. G to Vg. Bound in quarter canvas-style, oatmeal coloured cloth, boards covered in grey paper, printed paper label, b/w frontis, " William Morris " at his desk, 16 b/w plates, 177pp. The author was a close colleague of Morris working with him as co-editor of the " Commonweal " and aiding his with his work on ancient manuscripts. " Nearly every Kelmscott Press book was either a work by Morris or one of his old farourites, long valued, whose production in decent-seeming form was an act of love ". An appendix to this book by Sydney C Cockerell provides the reader with, " an annotated list of the books printed at the Press ". Condition of the text is vg.

London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1972. Tenth Edition . Cloth. G to Vg. Bound in blue cloth with printed pale blue label, no dw, Revised to take account of " The Trade Marks ( Customs ) regulayions 1970 " but retaining details of the 1938 Act with cross-references to the texts, 807pp Small white marks on rear boards. Condition of text is vg.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1960. 2nd. Imp. . Cloth. G to Vg/Fair. Bound in black cloth, with unclipped dw, twenty five sermons, 256pp. New endpapers. DW has been repaired and is scuffed at its edge.

Canberra A.C T.: Australian War Memorial, 1943. Cloth. G to Vg/Fair. Bound in dark green cloth, stylised label on front board in khaki and green, with unclipped dw, mushroom coloured endpapers,coloured frontis plate, "Australian Jungle Fighters", 10 colouredplates, 18 monochrome plates, many in-text b/w photographs, drawings and cartoons, contains a chapter entitled, "Campaign in Papua", 204pp.

London: Blackie and Son, 1940. Cloth. G to Vg/Good. Bound in light blue cloth, with protected, clipped dw, b/w frontis, "There was no time for fear", 2 other b/w plates, 224pp. Slight browning to the endpapers (only)

London: Nick Hern Books, 1994. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Bound in black cloth, with dw, 43 photographic illustrations, 210pp. Text is in fine condition but the top edge of the front board has a small cent in it (0.25cm.)

London: Nelson. n.d. . Cloth. G to Vg. Bound in oatmeal coloured cloth,coloured picture of Kilhugh and Olwen in black cloth frame tipped on to front board, no dw, pale green/grey endpapers, coloured frontis, "When he demanded admission the grim porter refused", 7 coloured plates, 91pp.

London: The Daily Telegraph / Hodder and Stoughton, 1914. Good/No Jacket. Bound in cream cloth, frontis portrait of King Albert, 17 tipped-in full colour illustrations, 7 b/w plates, 188pp. Some foxing.

London: Thomas Nelson, 1899. Cloth. Good. Bound in light blue cloth, illustrated on spine with a picture of a foot soldier and on the front board with King Alfred (?) on a horse with a hawk on his raises hand, no dw, b/w frontis "We bent our knees to him and kissed his hand", title page vignette shows a Viking boat, 294pp. Wear marks on spine and boards, slight foxing to endpapers (only), condition of text is vg. School prize certificate inside front board.

London: Ward, Lock Co.. n.d. . Cloth. G to Vg/Fair. bound in blue cloth and colour illustrated shiny paper, with unclipped dw, coloured frontis plate, "King Arthur and the strange Knight fight upon foot", 16 coloured plates by Harry G Theaker, 128pp. DW has been extensively repaired rejoining a full length tear.

London: Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 1978. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Bound in red cloth, with unclipped dw, 5 family trees, 229pp.

London: The Heirloom Library, 1954. Cloth. G to Vg/G to Vg. R Tyndall. Bound in yellow cloth, printed with a black and red design on the boards and spine and with a printed red label, with unclipped dw, colour illustrated endpapers, coloured frontis, " Arthur rode forward confidently to meet Pellinore's challengs ", 7 coloured plates, 21 b/w illustrations, 255pp. This new version of an old story tells it in a very straightforward way. Faint foxing to page edges, dw has been repaired, gift dedication on fly leaf.

London: Nelson. n.d. (inscription dated 1931) . Hardcover. Good. Hardback, spine and boards covered in colour illustrated paper, no dw, coloured frontis, "Ride further off from me", 33 b/w illustrations, printed on thick paper, 96pp. Owner's details on front endpaper.

New York: Schocken Books, 1967. Softbacks. Very Good. H J Ford. Softback, 22 full-page b/w plates, 5 b/w in-text drawings, 174pp.

Routledge and Kegan Paul London, 1974. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Bound in brown cloth, with DW, map endpapers, 156pp VG / G