Search Results: Titles starting with M from Ariadne Books

Cobham: Brooklands Books, c2003. Paperback. Very Good/No dust jacket issued.. Brooklands Books Ltd, Cobham, Surrey. Undated but presumed post 2003 as copyright page at rear advertises an MG T Series Restoration Guide by Malcolm Green in third edition format. Book condition: very good. Little evidence of use. Title page has a handwritten XPAG engine serial number at head of page. Light soiling to fore edge of text block. No jacket issued. Based upon text and illustrations copyrighted by the MG Car Company in 1952. Illustrated throughout with line drawings and diagrams.

Child Okeford: Words Press, 1988. Limited edition. Paper Wrapper. Very Good/No dust jacket issued.. Words Press, Child Okeford, 1988. Limited edition of 200. This being no 149. Condition: very good. Lilac paper wrapper a little faded around the edges. Slight creasing to upper corner which is present to all pages. Paper title label to front. Three poems by Sillitoe: Home, Dead Tree and Departure from Poppi, April 28th 1987.

Child Okeford: Words Press, 1988. Limited edition. Paper Wrapper. Very Good/No dust jacket issued.. Signed by the author.. Words Press, Child Okeford, 1988. Limited edition of 200. This being no 61 and signed by the author. Condition: very good. Lilac paper wrapper a little faded around the edges. Slight creasing to upper corner which is present to all pages. Paper title label to front. Three poems by Sillitoe: Home, Dead Tree and Departure from Poppi, April 28th 1987.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1984. First edition, 1984. Hardback. xii, 331pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Machine Dreams is a book of astonishing range and humanity. It is th chronicle of an American family, a story of inherited sorrow and the circular nature of love. Book condition very good. Some minor soiling to spine and light spotting to text block edges. Internally very clean. Dust jacket also in very good condition. Unclipped. Just a little edge wear and some discolouration to spine.

London: Macmillan Reference Books, 1995. First impression. Hardback. Very good/Very Good. Macmillan Reference Books, London, 1995. First impression of this second edition. Book condition: very good with only minimal signs of use. Dust jacket condition: very good, unclipped and just a little shelf wear around the edges. This is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to one of history's greatest conflicts. More than 1600 detailed entries - together with 15 specially commissioned maps and a series of front-by-front chronologies - cover every aspect of the war, from theatres, actions and operations to weapons, tactics and strategies. This new edition contains new entries for countries previously subsumed under more general entries.

Ontario: Corosae Vespes Press, 1999. Limited edition of 25 copies, this being number 22. Signed at the colophon by Matt Ceolin. Hardback. Unpaginated. Bound in Nepalese bark paper and book cloth on the spine. Printed label to spine. Cut-out silhouette of the Hatter to the upper board. Book printed on Somerset Book paper. colour and black & white illustrations are reproductions of original drawings by Matt Ceolin. No jacket. Endpapers with repeating tea cup design. Introduction by Dayana McCausland, President of the Lewis Carroll Society of Canada. While paying homage to Carroll's wit and wordplay Matt Ceolin has created something original. The book takes the form of the Hatter's journal, filled with sketches, thoughtful insights on everything from buttering bread to repairing watches and witty recipes. A very entertaining volume. Book in fine condition.

Paramus, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1999. Softcover. Very Good/No dust jacket issued.. Prentice Hall (Reward Books), Paramus, NJ. 1999. Book condition: very good with little sign of wear and no creasing to the spine. This book from the founders of the school of Wicca is a personal guide into the mysterious and enchanted world of white witchcraft. It is a prized posession of practising and aspiring witches, or those who simply desire to know more about the power that is within every one of us. The spells, potions and magic contained within are intended for positive, life-affirming purposes only. Contrary to popular belief, witches do not make pacts with the devil. They have something far more potent: unlimited cosmic power which can be used in an ethical way.

London: Gibson Square Books, 2018. First edition. Hardback. 256pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. When Tinker Bell followed Peter Pan to Hollywood in the 1950s, fairies vanished into the realm of child-lore. Yet in 1923 30-yea-old J.R.R. Tolkien's visit to his aunt's house (Bag's End) inspired a story about hedgerow fairies or 'Hobbits', and three years earlier Arthur Conan Doyle published the Cottingley fairy photographs. In Ireland, a generation before, family members had torched a woman to death thinking she was a fairy, while William Butler Yeats met a fairy queen in a coastal cave. Today British & Irish fairy interest has recovered its old lustre, and gathered here is the latest learning from leading folklorists and historians. A tidal-wave of new fairy sightings has been uncovered by the digitisation of British and Irish newspapers and ephemera, There are fairy sightings in urbanised locations and remote rural areas: characters and means to ward off evil fairies… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1931. First edition. Hardback. Good/Fair. William Heinemann, London, 1931. First edition. Book condition: good. Light wear to green cloth boards. Top edge tinted green, other two edges lightly spotted. Spotting to prelims and very light spotting sporadically throughout. Jacket condition: fair. Price clipped. Some edge wear, generally rubbed and soiled. Closed tear to fold at rear flap (approx 4.5cms). Corners chipped, also extremities of spine. Jacket in a protective sleeve. First novel in the third and final section of the Forsyte Saga Chronicles, the seventh of nine novels. Brilliant weaving together of several sub-plots all closely connected with the main theme. The kink between all of these activities is found in the character of Dinny Cherrell - the Maid in Waiting.

London: Fourth Estate, 2015. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Fourth Estate, London, 2015. First edition. Book condition: near fine. Dust jacket: near fine & unclipped. Set in Jersey in 1987 with the storm clouds gathering, Colin (a Mainlander married to an Islander) sits on a rock pondering his life. A web of characters is spun around a mystery in a fast-paced tale. Will Smith is a writer on the award-winning TV shows Veep and The Thick of It and spent his formative years in Jersey.

London: The Studio Ltd. , 1936. Hardback. 79pp. Illustrated boards with cloth spine.Step by step guide to the process of making lithographs. Tipped in black & white photographs plus some reproductions of lithographs. Ex library book so has been subjected to the usual vandalism of the librarians - traces of removed stickers and pockets plus stamps to various pages. Cloth to spine a little worn and with tears to extremities and a segment approximately half way along the length of the spine. A couple of patches of surface damage to upper board. Corners bumped. Still a very readable guide,

Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Paperback. Very good/No dust jacket issued.. Blackwell, Oxford, 2000 reprint, second edition. Book condition: very good. Just a little light creasing to spine. 'This is a commanding synthesis in which the changing structure of politics in the country as well as at Westminster supersedes a recital of ministries and legislation as the core of the subject.' (London Review of Books).

London: Century, 1991. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Century, London, 1991. First edition. Book condition: very good. Very slight shelf wear to head & tail of spine. Ever-so-slight lean to spine. Dust jacket condition: good. Unclipped, light shelf wear to edges and a couple of light creases to front. The Berlin Wall is demolished. Marx is dead. Try telling that to Ramon and his desperate men hiding in the jungle cradling their AK47s, dusting off the slabs of Semtex and dreaming of revolution. Len Deighton's brilliant novel takes us to the violent capital of Spanish Guiana in South America, and thence into the depths of the rain forest: the heart of darkness itself. This is a heavy book - no extra shipping costs to UK destinations.

London: Harper Collins, 1982. First edition, 1982. Hardback. 207pp. Dust jacket in publisher's Duraseal protector. This volume offers a synthesis of knowledge derived from living mammals studied in the field and covering all facets of mammalian life in the British Isles. The book is full of fascinating detail - of the shrews which scream in defence of territory to avoid fighting; of young rats that play to learn while adults play for fun; of vole plague populations which crash as a result of stress; of monogamy and parental care of the dog fox - but it also paints a broader picture of interdependence and conservation and the part played by man. Dr Harrison Matthews gives a general account of British mammals and the things influencing their numbers and distribution both now and in the past, examines aspects of their biology with emphasis on function and physiology, and concludes with an account of relationships with humans and the measures they have taken for their control and conservation.… Read More

London: Harper Collins, 1982. First edition, 1982. From the library of Eric Hosking with his Bookplate. Hardback. 207pp. Dust jacket in publisher's Duraseal protector. This volume offers a synthesis of knowledge derived from living mammals studied in the field and covering all facets of mammalian life in the British Isles. The book is full of fascinating detail - of the shrews which scream in defence of territory to avoid fighting; of young rats that play to learn while adults play for fun; of vole plague populations which crash as a result of stress; of monogamy and parental care of the dog fox - but it also paints a broader picture of interdependence and conservation and the part played by man. Dr Harrison Matthews gives a general account of British mammals and the things influencing their numbers and distribution both now and in the past, examines aspects of their biology with emphasis on function and physiology, and concludes with an account of relationships with humans and the measures they… Read More

London: Methuen & Co, 1961. First English translation. Hardback. Good/Good. Wilhelm Eigener. Methuen & Co Ltd, London, 1961. First English translation. First published by Politikens Forlag in 1956. Book condition: good. A little wear to boards and corners a little bumped. Internally very clean. Dust jacket: good. Price clipped. Generally a little rubbed and soiled. Slight edge wear and some chipping to corners. Slight loss to head of spine. Over 1,000 mammals are mentioned with more than 300 of them illustrated in full colour. The seventeen orders of mammals, Primates, Ungulates, Elephants etc are each given a general introduction, as are many families and sub-families. This is a book for the interestd layman as well as the general zoologist. It also offers a good introduction to the study of mammals.

London: Harper Collins, 1971. First edition, 1971. Hardback. xx, 364pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve (not Duraseal). This is a fascinating and authoritative survey of the complex interrelationships of bird and human life in this country. Dr Murton begins with an outline of the earliest evidence of the impact of birds on man, and vice versa and of the ecological considerations involved. He then proceeds to describe in detail how men and birds affect each other in these islands - in food production, farming, forestry, horticulture, fishery, urban conditions and hygiene, sport and industry. He concludes with an account of the conservation issues involved - the need to preserve unique habitats and to protect bird life, beside the demands of crop protection and control of 'problem birds'. This is a book which anyone interested in either our birds or our environment will find absorbing. Illustrated with black & white photographs and text figure. Book in near fine condition. Small patch of… Read More

London: Harper Collins, 1971. First edition, 1971. Hardback. xx, 364pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve (not Duraseal). This is a fascinating and authoritative survey of the complex interrelationships of bird and human life in this country. Dr Murton begins with an outline of the earliest evidence of the impact of birds on man, and vice versa and of the ecological considerations involved. He then proceeds to describe in detail how men and birds affect each other in these islands - in food production, farming, forestry, horticulture, fishery, urban conditions and hygiene, sport and industry. He concludes with an account of the conservation issues involved - the need to preserve unique habitats and to protect bird life, beside the demands of crop protection and control of 'problem birds'. This is a book which anyone interested in either our birds or our environment will find absorbing. Illustrated with black & white photographs and text figure. Book in very good condition. Minor spotting… Read More

London: Harvill Secker, 2010. First British edition, 2010, second impression. Hardback. 362pp. Dust jacket. One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they find the victim of a savage murder lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, they uncover a crime unprecedented in Swedish history. Book and dust jacket both in near fine condition (jacket unclipped).

London: Profile Books, 2007. First edition, 2007. Hardback. 145pp. Dust jacket. A mysterious depiction of masked revelers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver's old professor at Cambridge. On this cold winter's night, as they sip whisky by the fire, the picture's eerie secret is revealed by the ageing don. the dark art of the Venetian scene, instead of imitating life, has the power to entrap it. To stare into the painting is to play dangerously with unsees demons, to become victim of its macabre beauty. With masterly skill and elegance, Susan hill conjures an atmosphere of inexplicable fear. Book in near fine condition. Some light marking to leading edges of boards. Dust jacket very good and unclipped. Minor edge wear only.