Search Results: Titles starting with M from Church Street Books

London: Methuen, 1958. Herbert brings back the Earl of Caraway, a character from one of his earlier novels ("Number Nine"). DJ designed by Thelwell. Blue covers with red lettering to spine, 283pp. Book has dusty top cover and page edges and mild bumping to head and foot of spine. But text bloc is clean and tight. Intact DJ has general light wear and a couple of very small closed tears. Overall a decent copy. Ref:093041. First Edition. Cloth. VG/VG-. 13.5cmx20.5cm.

London: Fourth Estate, 2006. Author's first novel, set during seige of Leningrad in WWII. Uncorrected proof, 231pp. Looks unread, no obvious faults. Ref:071676. Uncorrected Publisher's Proof. Card Covers. VG++/N/a. 14.5x21cm.

Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1977. "The magic of people, places and things of my everday life" seen through Pearson's b/w and colour photographs, many from the Philippines. Book tight and clean but with some scuffing to extremities.Half-cm "NO" neatly written on bottom left of front cover. Ref:06577. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. G++/N/a. Illus. by John Pearson. 28x21.5cm.

Loughborough: Ladybird Books, 1982. Ladybird series 621. Paper-covered boards, 52pp, with colour illustrations. Very light wear and bumping to cover extrems, but no serious faults. Previous owner's neat name on ffep and title page. No DJ. Ref:114649. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. VG+/N/a. Illus. by Peter Robinson. 12x18cm.

London: David Marlowe, 1948. Foreword by Christmas Humphreys. Blue covers with gilt, 146pp, advert and newspaper cutting slipped in. Covers have modest bumping to extrems, slightly dulled spine lettering. Foxing to prelims and dusty page edges. Unclipped DJ has light wear to edges and extrems, a couple of small nicks at head and foot of spine and a 1cm, closed (repaired) trear at fot of rear.But overall a very sound and internally clean copy. Ref:093585. Reprint. Cloth. VG/VG-. 13x19cm.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1948. Left-wing thinkers from Thomas Paine to H G Wells. First edition in red covers with gold lettering to spine. Books is sound with minor bumping to extremities. DJ has been damaged by water, has several tears and a section missing from top of rear. Title has faded from spine, but front cover is mostly intact. Ref:06651. First Edition. Cloth. G++/fair+. 14.5x22.5cm.

London: Hutchinson, 1996. Life story of an amazing horse trainer. Red covers with gold lettering to spine. Book clean and tight, but sunned at edges, page edges slightly tanned and spine top and foot bumped. DJ intact but bumped with nicks from general wear. Ref:06620. First Edition. Cloth. Good+/G+. 16cmx24cm.

London: William Heinemann, 1929. Very early - and new - impression (September 1929, first published in June 1929) of Green's first published novel. Black covers with gilt lettering and rules to spine, blind-stamped Heinemann device on lower rear board, 354pp. Very light rubbing to fore corners of front cover, cover edges and page edges dusty. Foxing to prelims and page edges, otherwise book is clean and tight as is text bloc. No DJ. Ref:082549. New Impression. Cloth. VG/N/a. 13cmx19cm.

London: Watts & Co., 1937. First edition. Khaki covers with black lettering and illustrations on spine and upper cover, 242pp plus 6pp of adverts. Covers have just very modest shelfwear and virtually no wear. Light foxing to dusty page edges and prelims, otherwise internally very clean and tight. Unclipped DJ has light general shelfwear, a couple of light marks and lightly-sunned spine. Overall a very decent copy. Ref:125049. First Edition. Buckram. VG/VG. 11x16.5cm.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1965. Novel set in a desert state of south-western USA where the church's authority is undermined by a rattlesnake-obsessed settler. Blue covers with silver lettering to spine, 192pp. Mild spotting to page edges, otherwise book has no obvious faults. DJ (designed by margaret Gordon) is a little grubby on white rear, otherwise showing just minor wear with attractive blue/black/yellow front. A nice copy. Ref:071062. First Edition. Cloth. VG+/VG. 14x20.5cm.

London and New York: Tavistock Publications, 1982. Examinaton of the skills and style demanded of social work managers. 202pp (inc index). Some sunning to spine, otherwise in very good condition. Ref:07833. P/back. P/back. VG+/N/a. 13.5x21.5cm.

London: Cassell, 1996. Psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists and educationalists contribute to a broad view of manging children with problems. 128pp (inc index). Spine slightly faded, otherwise only very minor sgns of use. Ref:07850. First P/back Edition. Card Covers. VG++/N/a. 17cmx24.5cm.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994. Life of the unconventional career diplomat. A couple of minor scratches to the rear of the DJ are the only marks on a virtually faultless copy. Heavy book (517pp) which will require extra postage. Ref:06661. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/VG++. 16x24cm.

London: The Stationery Office, 1996. Published for MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food), official document takes detailed look at broad science of nutrition. Perfect-bound card covers, 166pp inc index. Book has no obvious faults. Possibly unread. Ref:104312. Tenth Edition. Card Covers. VG++/n/a. 15x21cm.

Manchester / London: The Textile Institute / Butterworths, 1964. Red covers with gilt, 241pp inc index, with b/w illustrations. Covers have no wear. Light stain on fore edge of ffep and dusty, lightly foxed top page edges, otherwise book has no obvious faults. No DJ. REf:104282. Second Edition. Buckram. VG++/N/a. 14x22cm.

London: L Reeve, 1897. Brown covers with gilt, 383pp inc index with 20 full-page colour plates inc tissue-guarded frontis. Decorated endpapers and rough-cut edges. Covers have moderate bumping to extrems, but limited wear, with a couple of light marks. Prelims and dusty page edges heavily foxed and previous owner's sticker on front pastedown. Spine a little discoloured. Binding slightly strained in places, otherwise internally clean and tight. Ref:103909. Second Edition. Buckram. VG-/N/a. 13x17cm.

London: HMSO (His Majesty's Stationery Office), 1937. Army orders for cavalry, issued by the War Office, covering everything from riding and tack to moving animals by train and camel transport. Red covers with black lettering, blind-stamped rules, 262pp inc index, with b/w illustrations, some of them fold-out. Covers have just very light wear, page edges a little grubby, prelims discoloured, otherwise internally clean and tight and overall a VG copy. Ref:093273. First Edition. Cloth. VG/N/a. 12cmx18.5cm.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1988. Manual of techniques and hardware written with a background of 60 years in the sport. Green covers with gilt, 182pp inc index, with b/w illustrations (90 photographs and 26 line drawings). Book has no obvious faults in DJ, which is similar, but price-clipped. Ref:093495. Reprint. Cloth. VG++/VG+. 16x24cm.

Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1976. Thirty-six poems by the former Chinese leader. Card covers in original illustrated wraps, 53pp inc translators' note on the verse form. Frontis portrait of the author and fold-out poem in original Chinese calligraphy. Covers have very little wear, but yellowing edges, spine and page edges. Internally very clean and tight. Ref:124989. First English Edition. Card Wraps. VG+/VG+. 13x21cm.

London: Ward, Lock & Co Red covers with gilt title and decoration on spine and upper board, bevelled edges, 354pp with several full-page colour illustrations. ND but looks 1890s. Covers have modest wear to most extrems, moreso to head and foot of spine, which is faded. Several light marks on covers. Page edges foxed and dusty and edges and margins heavily yellowed, as are prelims. pp113-4 detached with a corner missing; pp95-6 torn but all present. Ref:104510. Author's Copyright Edition. Buckram. G-/N/a. 12.5x19cm.