Search Results: Titles starting with S from Bird's Books

London: W Foulsham & Co, 1955. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. London: W Foulsham & Co, 1955. First edition thus. Very Good. Undated circa 1955 Foulsham Henty Library series hardback. 8vo, blue cloth boards with titles in gilt, spine somewhat faded. 223pp illustrated with coloured frontispiece. A Tale of the Huguenot Wars 'carefully edited and abridged to meet the reading tastes of the Modern Boy'. Part of a series of adventures based on historical events.

London: Hutchinson Junior Books Ltd, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. Biro, Val. London: Hutchinson Junior Books Ltd, 1967. First edition. Good +. Biro, Val. First edition hardback picture book, illustrated by Val Biro of Gumdrop fame, unpaginated. Inner pages nice & clean. Outer boards have some shelfware to edges & top of spine, colours still bright. A story about a seal with a taste for adventure who wants to see the world.

Kent: Rene-Martin, 1998. First edition. Softcover. Good +. Slim paperback charting Sandgate’s history from its earliest mention in 1256 to 1998. 48pp illustrated throughout with photographs and a map. Small mark on front cover.

London: Walker Books, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. New/New. McKean. 8vo, pictorial boards with dust jacket, 79pp illustrated throughout by Mckean. A graphic novel within a novel.

London: The Bodley Head, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Very good +. Slim 8vo, pictorial dust jacket over terracotta cloth boards with gilt titles on spine, upper edge red. 128pp. Dust jacket not price clipped with some edge wear and a small piece absent. Very good + / near fine and clean inside. There has been an inscription on the front endpaper, which is barely visible & has been rubbed out by a previous owner. ‘ The Scapegoat … seemed to promise a tale which might combine the tantalizing excitements of a Myth or Dream with the absorbing interest of a vigorous realistic story…’. Intense, imaginative unease.

Glasgow: The Students Representative Councils of Scotland, 1880. Hardcover. Good. 4to , burgandy cloth boards with gilt titles and black thistle decoration on front. 274pp of music and lyrics, including index of songs and first lines. All edges red. Ex reference library with single discard stamp on front endpaper and handwritten library number on reverse of title page. Previous owner’s name written in pencil inside. undated circa 1880s. Edgewear and occasional marking inside.

'A medley of bird-children, kind wizards, kings in broom cupboards, butterflies, goats, kites and woodland creatures - flavoured with an unusual recipe for chocolate porridge' . A collections of stories and poems by the acclaimed author Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Shirley Hughes.

London: Hurst & Brackett, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London: Hurst & Brackett, 1898. First edition. Very Good. First Edition. 8vo, bound in green cloth with black titles on front & gilt titles on spine. A little edge wear & slightly cocked. 360pp + 16pp publisher's catalogue to rear. Satirical stories & possibly advice such as 'The Art of Making Up One's Mind' , 'On the Care and Management of Women', 'The Exceptional Merit Attaching to the Things We Meant to Do', 'The Inadvisability of Following Advice' etc. Generally in nice condition with a little minor foxing to the rear.

London: G. Balne, 1830. First edition. Good +. London: G Balne, 1830 First edition Good + 8vo, rebacked blue cloth with paper label on spine A bit of shelfware, tear to top of spine (1cm) Corners a little bumped Portrait frontispiece, each play with its own pagination & engraved illustration Plays include 'The Duenna', 'The Road to Ruin', 'The Honest Thieves', 'The Mourning Bride' etc & are a mix of comedies, farces, tragedies, operas & so on There is a contemporary handwritten index of the plays & authors at the end of the book Ex reference library with single stamp on front endpaper, pictorial bookplate on rear pastedown, blind stamp on title, first & last page No other obvious library markings, the inner book is clean apart from occasional foxing comensurate with age and in very good condition ***Over 1kg when packed & may require extra overseas postage***

Macdonald Publishers, Loanhead, 1980. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Macdonald Publishers, Loanhead, 1980. 1st Edition . Good. 8vo, 119pp. Ex reference library with minimal markings, sticker mark on spine & on reverse of title page, single stamp on title page.

Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1946. Softcover. 4to, illustrated card covers and endpapers. Covers slightly age toned. 142 pp, each work is illustrated by a full page plate with facing text. The prints are in a variety of styles / eras / artists (Munch, Nanteuil, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rembrant, Rounault, Redon, Blake, Manet, Klee, Ward etc.) and beautifully pictured.

Sevastopol contains three distinct narratives, each burrowing into a crucial turning point in a person's life: a young woman gives a melancholy account of her obsession with climbing Mount Everest; a Peruvian-Brazilian vanishes into the forest after staying in a musty, semi-abandoned inn somewhere in the haunted depths of the Brazilian countryside; a young playwright embarks on the production of a play about the city of Sevastopol and a Russian painter portraying Crimean War soldiers. Inspired by Tolstoy's The Sevastopol Sketches, Emilio Fraia masterfully weaves together these stories of yearning and loss, obsession and madness, failure and the desire to persist, in a restrained manner reminiscent of the prose of Anton Chekhov, Roberto Bolano, and Rachel Cusk.

Sewanee: The University of the South,, 1952. First edition. Softcover. Good +. Blue card covers with black titles, some rubbing and a couple of tears to spine. Articles on Gide, Yeats, Literature, poetry etc. new fiction and poems. Very good and clean inside.

London: Penguin, 1951. First edition thus. Softcover. Fair. First edition thus in the green ‘Mystery and Crime’ series Penguin, no.816. 221pp plus publisher’s catalogue at rear. Edge wear to spine and some grubbiness. Handwritten name and date on front.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1883. First edition. Very Good. 8vo, cloth covered boards with illustration on cover & gold titles on front and spine. All edges gilt. 348 pp with 4page publisher's catalogue at rear. Illustrated with frontis piece and other plates throughout text. Contents include stories of The Northmen in America, The Norse Sea Kings, Sebastion Cabot etc. Generally in very good condition with a wear to covers.

London: Oxford University Press, 1947. Hardcover. Fair. London: Oxford University Press , 1947. Fair. Two volumes combined in one book. Reprint. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles on spine Price handwritten on front end paper. 414pp with numerous illustrations & map on rear end papers. This covers Scottish history from pre Roman times to 1929. A bit shaken, binding cracked at front pastedown.

London: Folio Society, 2007. Hardcover. New/new. London: Folio Society, 2007. New/new. New & unopened, still in sealed shrinkwrap in blue slipcase. 8vo, illustrated. This explores time and timekeeping throughout history. Suitable as a gift.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, red cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. 598pp. A collection of essays and stories on a variety of subjects, including historical events, religious matters, scientific method applied to history, England and her Colonies, Irish matters, Education etc. We also have a couple of others from the series in stock.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1919. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, red cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. 556pp. A collection of essays and stories on a variety of subjects, including historical events, religious matters, On the Uses of a Landed Gentry, Sea Studies, etc. We also have a couple of others from the series in stock.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1883. A New Edition. Hardcover. Good. Complete in 4 volumes. 8vo, half leather with green boards. Gilt titles on spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. Two gift dedications on front free endpaper, one dated 1884 and the other 1932. Vol. I 662pp., vol II 598pp, vol III 558pp, vol IV 572pp. Some shelf wear, corners and spine rubbed, vol.s II and III missing spine labels. Generally good, nice and clean inside. Essays on a variety of subjects, church, Calvinism, Thomas Beckett, Sea Studies, On the Usees if a Landed Gentry, Society in Italy in the Last Days of the Roman Republic, Ireland Since the Union etc. **May require extra overseas postage.**