Search Results: Titles starting with P from Ariadne Books

London & New York: Royal Academy of Arts and the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994. Softcover. 274pp plus unpaginated section listing Friends and Sponsors. This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450 - 1550" held at the Royal Academy 27th October 1994 - 22nd January 1995 before moving to The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York 15th February 1995 - 7th May 1995. The catalogue includes contributions by Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Lilian Armstrong, Giordana Mariani Canova, Federica Toniolo, William M. Voelkle & Roger S. Wieck. The book is profusely illustrated and is much, much, more than a mere exhibition catalogue. Book in very good condition. Just a little very light surface marking here and there and extremely slight creasing to tips of lower corners. Internally very clean and bright.

London: Osgood, McIlvane & Co, 1895. Hardback. Fair/No dust jacket.. Osgood, McIlvane & Co, London, 1895. Book condition: fair. Some shelf wear and corners bumped. A little fraying to head & tail of spine which is also a little creased. Some staining to boards. Gilt monogram decoration to front of ribbed green boards, gilt to spine and teg. Endpapers/prelims a little spotted. Owner's name in pencil to ffep. Frontispiece etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn with tissue guard which is a little spotted. Vol IV of The Wessex Novels series. Some weakening at gutters but still soundly bound.

Budapest: Helikon Kiado, 1986. Hardcover. 76, [8]pp. Text block bound in gold thread through five holes and loosely held in a fold-over case which fastens with a press stud. Case green with gilt decoration to front. No dust jacket. Dual language text with Latin and Hungarian versions of the poems on facing pages. Janus Pannonius (1434 - 1472) was a Croat-Hungarian Latinist poet. He became a diplomat and also Bishop of Pecs. He was the foremost poet of renaissance Hungary.

London: Constable, 2004. First edition. Hardback. As New/Fine. Constable, London, 2004. First edition. Book condition: near fine and unread. Dust jacket condition: near fine and with only very slight shelf wear at head and tail of spine. India 1922. A tiger has turned man-eater and is terrorizing the northern villages of the Princely State of Ranipur. Governor Sir George Jardine dispatches Joe Sandilands, war hero and Scotland yard detective, to join in a hunt for the beast as the guest of the maharajah. The weaponry with which Joe is issued raises his suspicions about the true nature of his trip...

London: Viking, 1989. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Viking, London, 1989. First edition. Book condition: very good with only the slightest shelf wear. Dust jacket: very good and unclipped. Slight edge wear. Andrew Motion's novel is a fresh and compassionate evocation of the painful transition from youth to adulthood.

New York: Garden City Publishing, 1941. Hardback. Good/No dust jacket.. Maxfield Parrish. Garden City Publishing Co Inc, New York, 1941. Book condition: good. Corners slightly bumped and a little shelf wear to head and tail of spine. A little light discolouration to an area of rear board adjacent to hinge. Colour illustration laid onto front board. Some tanning to endpapers and little toning to edges of pages. Four full page colour illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. The Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics is a popular anthology of English poetry, originally selected for publication by Francis Turner Palgrave in 1861. It was considerably revised, with input from Tennyson, about three decades later. Palgrave originally excluded all poems by poets then still alive.

Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2008. First edition. Hardback. Fine/No dust jacket issued.. Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 2008. First UK edition (originally published in Spain in 2005). Book condition: near fine and unread. No dust jacket (as published). A triumphant feat of the imagination. Set in 1914 in the heart of the Belgian Congo this is a gripping tale that ventures to the world's darkest places and beyond...(Translated from Catalan by Mara Faye Letham).

London: P. R. Stephensen, 1929. This is an unbound, unnumbered and unsigned copy and therefore probably surplus to the print run limited to the 50 signed copies privately printed for subscribers only by P. R. Stephensen June, 1929. Sepia portrait frontispiece, decorative title in blue & brown, printed on japon paper. Unbound and in nine gatherings, 8vo, contained in near contemporary dark green card portfolio with label to front. "This little bunch of fragments is offered as a bunch of pensees, anglice pansies; a handful of thoughts. Or, if you will have the other derivation of pansy, from panser, to dress or soothe a wound; these are my tender administrations to the mental and emotional wounds we suffer from. Or you can have heartsease if you like, since the modern heart could certainly do with it." Contains the poems "The Noble Englishman" and "Don't Look at Me" banned in the Secker edition. There was also a privately printed, paper bound edition of 500 copies… Read More

Paris: Edition des Cendres, 2012. Limited edition of 999 copies. Hardback. 'square' (25 x 25cms) 4to. 446pp. Original decorated boards. No jacket. Text in French. Gilded papers from Germany. Illustrated with many examples of gilded papers from both private and public collections. Such papers were used to cover both prestigious books, where they protected fine bindings, and much more humble productions such as almanacs. Profusely illustrated with many full-page colour illustrations of the original papers. Book in fine condition. Quite a heavy book but no additional shipping charges to UK post codes.

London: Printed at The Ballantyne Press for The Vale Press, 1903. First edition, (March) 1903. 300 copies printed, 177 copies for sale and ten copies on vellum. This copy is one of those printed on handmade paper. Copies not numbered. Small 4to. [i - ii], iii - v, [vi], vii - lxxv, [lxxvi]pp plus the ten inserted leaves of illustrations. Original vellum binding with gilt stamped title to spine. Loosely inserted Special Notice (May 1903) relating to the winding up of The Vale Press and the announcement of "A Bibliography" to be printed and issued by Mr Ricketts (Notice printed in red). Book in very good condition. Upper cover has a stain but vellum otherwise quiet clean and bright. A little light marginal toning to a few leaves. Previous owner's signature (E. P. Williams) to front paste down. Only three of the loosely inserted tissue guards for the illustrations present. Watry. "The Vale Press", 2004, Delaware, Oak Knoll Press. pp 170 - 172 and 207 (re the Special Notice).

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. First UK edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2000. First UK edition. First published in France in 1998 as Le Theoreme du Perroquet. Book condition: near fine and unread. Very minor indentation to front cover (approx 1.5mm) and similar to leading edge of rear cover. Dust jacket condition: near fine and unclipped with only very minor shelf wear around the edges. This was a huge bestseller in France, where it was hailed as 'a beautiful book glorying in the great adventure of the human mind'. This is an enchanting novel which takes the reader on a delightful journey through the history of mathematics. Translated by Frank Wynne.

London: Bantam Press, 2001. First edition, 2001. Hardback. 192pp. Dust jacket. Mary Wesley's novels have given pleasure to many thousands of readers, and the West Country, where she made her home for fifty years has always been a source of inspiration. In "Part of the Scenery" she revisits scenes from her own life and celebrates the rugged beauty of the Cornish coast, the wide spaces of Dartmoor and the lush peace of Devon's green valleys and rivers. With the help of Kim Sayer's evocative photographs she shows us her own personal West Country. Book very good. Small amount of spotting to upper edge of text block. Dust jacket very good. Price clipped and with just a little light edge wear and some very small nicks. Some slight soiling. Spine very slightly faded.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1994. First edition. Book condition: near fine and unread. Dust jacket condition: near fine, unclipped and with only a very slight degree of shelf wear. This is a stunning story about passion and its consequences. The twin worlds of Jennifer and Peggy merge in a work of mystery, originality and extraordinary power. Impossible either to forget or to leave unfinished, this is one of Lesley Glaister's finest novels.

Hammersmith: Hammersmith Publishing Society, 1903. First edition, 1903. Hardcover. 34pp. Vellum spine with brown paper covered boards. Black titles to spine. This is the text of an Address given in the William Morris Labour Church, at Leek, the fifth of October, 1902. Book in good condition. Paper covering to boards slightly cockled and vellum spine soiled. Top edge a little soiled. Light foxing and soiling to endpapers and a small closed tear (10mm approx) to ffep. Some cracking at gutter but text block sound. Internally free of notes and annotations etc.

London: Collins, 2012. First edition, 2012. Hardback. xi, 465pp plus two pages of other New Naturalist titles at rear. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. The author explores how mankind and partridges have evolved together, both ultimately dependent on grasslands rather than forests. For thousands of years. both ate grass seeds and this continued until cereals largely replaced them. Hundreds of species of plant and insect that partridges and other birds eat thrived on farms for thousands of years until the dawn of pesticides. Since then the long decline in partridge abundance has been a barometer for biodiversity across the Northern Hemisphere. This is a complex and fascinating story, with a mix oh hunting, farming, predation, parasites, disease and climate change. The way these factors have interacted tells us a lot about how lesser-known species have fared and how they might be conserved in the future. The author stresses the importance of these conservation efforts, as farmers respond to the… Read More

Sutton, Surrey: Severn House Publishers Ltd, 2005. First edition, 2005. Hardback. 203pp. Dust jacket. Sir Digby Kirtling, self-made millionaire, is the prime suspect when his estate manager is found strangled in the grounds of Sir Digby's manor house. Then another murder takes place and Sir Digby is again the main suspect but there are doubts about his guilt...doubts that nearly cause the CSI, Sukey Reynolds, to become the third victim... Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket very good. Unclipped and with only the slightest edge wear.

London: Simon & Schuster, 2001. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Simon & Schuster, London, 2001. First edition. Book condition: near fine. Dust jacket condition: near fine & unclipped with only the merest shelf wear around the edges. Jon Courtenay Grimwood, author of the bestselling and highly-praised redRobe, begins a new series which is the SF equivalent of Laurence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, with the free city of El Iskandryia as much a character as any human.

London: Picador, 2022. Hardcover boxed set. First edition. New and still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

London: Picador, 2022. Hardcover boxed set. First edition. New and still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

London: Macmillan, 1999. First edition, 1999. Signed by the author to the title page. Hardback. vii, 356pp. Dark blue cloth boards. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Jenny Campbell had promised her husband Fraser that they would take a break from fostering. But the plight of a small boy found wandering the streets in his nightclothes proves impossible to ignore. The child refuses to speak and the police have no clues about his identity. One thing is clear - something, or someone, has left him terrified... Book in near fine condition. A little discolouration to text block edges. Dust jacket near fine. Unclipped. Just a little very light edge wear.