Search Results: Titles starting with M from Bath and West Books (PBFA)

London: Julian Hartnoll, 1993. First Edition . Printed Card Wrappers. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mô. Four-sided, folded card brochure which accompanied the exhibition of Mô's works illustrating the I Ching, shown at Julian Hartnoll's London gallery, December 8th-22nd 1993. Contents: colour reproduction of one of the hexagrams; introduction by Hartnoll; catalogue of works: The eight trigrams and The first twenty-one hexagrams; brief CV/biography of Mô. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near fine with a few minor marks. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

Paris, France: Océanic Press, 1958. First Edition . Paperback. Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition of the first title published by Océanic Press. Original grey card wrappers with red and black lettering. Minor tanning and marking to wrappers with slight fading to spine. Red dot on spine has been inked over for some unfathomable reason. Spotting and soiling to page edges. Contents clean without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. Established in 1958 to rival The Olympia Press, Océanic Press only lasted two years but managed to publish twenty-one titles in that short time, this being their first. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

Manchester: Sherratt & Hughes, 1995. Facsimile . Printed Paper Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Facsimile reprint of the 1921 publication, reprinted to commemorate the BGWS 125th Anniversary in 1995. Buff printed paper wrappers. 137 pp; b/w photographs. A very good copy with a couple of minor marks to wraps and minor marking to page edges. Contents clean without inscriptions, foxing or other markings. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for, and insured.

London: The Hakluyt Society. First Edition Thus First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Vols I and II of the three volume set. Published 2001 and 2003 respectively. Fine copes in fine unclipped dust jackets with a couple of tiny marks, and minor creasing to some edges of the jackets but no chips or tears. Vol.II has a couple of tiny spots to the half-title page and a couple of minor marks to the page edges but both books are o/w clean, crisp, fresh and white without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. Illustrations and maps. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 2 Volumes. Heavy set. U.K. postage at default rate but overseas buyers may be asked for extra postage. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

Marshfield W. I., 1972. First Edition, First Impression . Printed Card Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Jones, Rosemary. Scarce local history of the market town of Marshfield in South Gloucestershire. Green card wrappers. Staple-bound. A clean copy without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. 31 pp. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Scarce. Includes history of the buildings, work, mummers, schools, social life, fairs, church, wild life, flowers, civil war, charities and celebrations, with charming illustrations by W.I. member Rosemary Jones and a double- page map in the centre.

London: Cassell, 1890. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Important children's book that was the first of its kind, the prototype for those multiple-choice books for children that allow them to direct the story and choose their own endings. In the Preface, author F. Bennett states: 'You will find in this book (which is quite unlike, and far superior to, every other book heretofore written) four pages marked "Page 1," then four pages marked "Page 2," then four pages marked "Page 3," and so on to the end. You may read any of the pages marked 1, then any of those marked 2, then any marked 3, till you come to the conclusion of the story in page 8.' Blue cloth printed with an illus. of a Jack and Jill story and titled in gilt. Slight forward lean to boards. Cloth lightly soiled with wear to edges, corners and spine tips. Contents clean with offsetting to front and back endpapers but without bookplates,… Read More

London: Effingham Wilson, 1908. Second Edition, Revised & Enlarged . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Scarce original edition of 'The Master Mariner's Legal Guide' by Albert Saunders. Ex-libris with stamps of the 'Bristol Ship-Lovers Society: The Captain Cockell Memorial Library' to endpapers. Bookseller's label for 'John Seager & Sons, Booksellers & Stationers of the East India Dock Road, London' to rear pastedown. xliv, 524 pp. 32 page 'Catalogue of Legal, Commercial and other Works Published and Sold by Effingham Wilson. . . To Which is Added a List of Telegraph Codes'. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. General wear including rubbed corners and spine tips, and a couple of small tears to spine cloth. Boards a little cocked. Age-toning and minor spotting to page edges. Endpapers and half-title paper browned. Gutters cracked in several places but this is a sewn binding and all is held firmly in place. 1910… Read More

London: Folio Society, 2021. First Edition, Third Impression Third Printing. Fine Binding. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Suart, Peter. A new copy in Folio Society wrapping, as received directly from the publisher. Carefully unwrapped to check for flaws, of which there are none. First Folio edition, third impression. xv, 375 pp. 13 colour illustrations by Peter Suart. Typeset in Joanna with Tooting Sans display. Printed on Abbey Wove paper at Gomer Press Ltd, Llandysul, Wales, and bound by them in cloth blocked with a design by the artist. 'The Devil has arrived in Moscow and, along with his demons and a large black cat, he carves a trail of chaos and destruction through Soviet society. Smuggled past the censors in 1967, and published more than 25 years after Mikhail Bulgakov's death, The Master and Margarita was an instant success. Its subversive message, dark humour and lyrical force combined to make it a beacon of optimism and freedom throughout Russia and the world.… Read More

Macmillan Press Ltd, 2000. First Edition Thus First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket which is clean and bright with minimal rubbing to edges and no chips or tears. Black boards clean, square and sharp. Contents clean, tight and white without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. ix, 226 pp; b/w ills. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Autobiography of Matheus Miller, a seventeenth century merchant in the German Imperial city of Augsbug. His story tells of his struggle to establish himself within a sharply critical family and a highly conservative community and in it he reveals his hopes and fears, his expectations and experiences, his values and actions. Miller created not only a window on early modern Europe but a mirror for the history of it. He exposed the workings of such global institutions as patriarchy, hierarchy, office, honour, community, friendship and confession in his own life and the… Read More

Edinburgh and Glasgow: William Hodge & Company, 1904. First Edition, First Impression . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ex British Library of Political Science with blind-stamp to upper board, library number to spine and a couple of internal 'Withdrawn' stamps. 455 pp; plates with 10 illustrations of medical measuring tools; tables; fold-out Medical Inspection - Schedule A record sheet; fold-out eye testing chart (Curry & Paxton). Red cloth gilt. General wear and soiling with bumped/rubbed corners and fraying spine tips. Cloth bubbling up along joints and edges. Paper age-toned. Spotting to prelims and page edges. Contents o/w clean without bookplates, inscriptions or markings other than library's. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for, and insured.

Maney Publishing, 2011. Softcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover copy in excellent condition. Covers clean and bright with uncreased spine and minimal rubbing. A few slightly dog-eared pages but contents clean and white without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. viii, 438 pp. Illustrations in colour and b/w.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

Maney Publishing, 2010. Softcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover copy in excellent condition. Blue card covers clean and bright with one small mark to uncreased spine and minimal rubbing. Previous owner's blind stamp to bottom corner of contents page but contents clean and white without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. viii, 533 pp. Illustrations in colour and b/w.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Heavy/oversize book. U.K. postage at default charge but overseas buyers may be asked for a little extra. Enquiries welcome. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

Maney Publishing, 2011. Softcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover copy in excellent condition. Covers clean and bright with uncreased spine and minimal rubbing. Contents clean and white without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. viii, 438 pp. Illustrations in colour and b/w.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2014. Softcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover copy in excellent condition. Covers clean and bright with uncreased spine and minimal rubbing. Previous owner's blind stamp to bottom corner of title page but contents clean and white without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. x, 170 pp.; b/w illustrations. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

London: Printed, and to be sold by B. Bragg, at the Blew-ball in Ave-mary-lane, 1706. First Edition, First Impression . Full Leather. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Bound in full calf. Original panelled calf relaid on later burgundy leather, recently rebacked in brown calf with five raised bands and new red leather gilt title label. Replacement endpapers which are lightly marked and partly cracked along hinges. Contents are browned and foxed throughout but this doesn't affect legibility. Early ink inscription of J Beaumont to bottom margin of title page. Pencil bookseller's inscription to ffep regarding the author/biographer George Cavendish who was gentleman-usher to Woolsey and one of his closest confidantes. Cavendish's biography of Woolsey was first published as 'The Negotiations of Cardinal Woolsey' in 1641. Cavendish is not named as author here. 'The Memoirs of Cardinal Woolsey' is followed by William Cecil's 'A Memorial Presented… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1901. Tenth Edition . Half Leather. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. From the family library of author Maxwell Laurie (brother of the publisher, Thomas Werner Laurie) and his wife Marjorie (daughter of the governor of Burma, Sir Herbert Thirkell White) with Laurie's 1905 inscription to front blank. Finely bound, early edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's (1887) collection of sixteen essays; the first eleven consisting of personal memories and portraits of family and friends, making this the nearest thing to an autobiography published by Stevenson. Bound in half brown leather with five raised bands, gilt titling and floral decoration to spine. Pretty brown and pink marbled boards, endpapers and page edges. Light wear to leather including a small tear to bottom corner of upper board. Contents clean without inscriptions or foxing. 299 pp. Additional photos available on request. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for,… Read More

Chilcompton, Bath: Chris Howell, 1984. First Edition, First Impression . Pictorial Card Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Wrappers clean and bright with minor scuffing, and rubbing to edges. Contents clean without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. 126 pp; illustrated throughout. Landscape format. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Stories and photographs from bygone days in Cheddar, Somerset. Self-published by Chilcompton author, Chris Howell. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

London: John Murray, 1901. Popular Edition 5th or later Printing. Leather. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Smiles wrote in his 1884 preface: "'I offer this book as a continuation of the memoirs of men of invention and industry published some years ago in the 'Lives of Engineers', 'Industrial Biography' and 'Self-Help'." Bound by Relfe Brothers in full black calf, faded to spine. Five raised bands to spine and six compartments, five with attractive gilt decoration, one with red leather and gilt label. General wear and rubbing to leather but still an attractive copy with gilt bright. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Stamp of 'Relfe Brothers Limited, London' to first blank. Relfe Brothers prize label - 'C' (Cadet) Company for Shooting 1904 -to front pastedown. On the second blank someone has inscribed a verse from Kingsley: 'Do the work that's nearest, though it's dull at whiles...'. Light spotting to front and… Read More

London: Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, 1960. First Edition, First Impression First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover in almost very good condition. Minor tanning to spine and edges; a tiny stain to spine and rubbing to spine tips. Contents clean and bright without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. 47 pp; b/w plates. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for, and insured.

London : Hartnoll & Eyre, 1974. First Edition . Printed Card Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Short, Frank; Watts, G. F.. Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of 'Mezzotints by Sir Frank Short after four paintings by G. F. Watts' held by Hartnoll & Eyre at their London gallery from 14th Feb to 1st March 1974. Fold out card catalogue of 50 items with asking prices, and two reproductions of 'Diana and Endymion' and 'Hope'. Front pocket contains two postcards of 'The Sorrowing Angel' and 'Love and Death'. These copies and other Hartnoll publications that we hold were acquired as overstock from the publisher. Light storage wear and marking to wrappers, contents clean. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.