Search Results: Titles starting with T from Lansdowne Books

London, John Murray, 1950. First edition, xii, 346pp, with double-paged map, 24 illustrations, wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, index, original cloth with slightly damaged dust jacket in mylar. Uneven bottom edges from when the uncut edges were separated.Very good condition.

Near Fine condition Near fine dust-jacket now in protective mylar.
WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL!Kate DiCamillo introduces a hero for all time!Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and, ultimately, into each other's lives. And what happens then? As Kate DiCamillo would say: Reader, it is your destiny to find out.From the master storyteller who brought us BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE comes another classic, a fairy tale full of quirky, unforgettable characters, featuring twenty-four stunning black-and-white illustrations by Timothy Basil Ering, in an elegant design that pays tribute to the best in… Read More

First American edition, first printing. Hardbound. Jacket unclipped with original publisher's price of $7.95 intact. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Orange cloth boards with delightful handout pages. A tight, clean, bright copy.

Ivory pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and red; gilt back. Pages clean and tight and bright. A very good copy in publisher's board slip-case with coloured title-vignette, numerous coloured illustrations (a number double- or full-page) in the text, and coloured endpaper maps. With the co-operation of several hampers of food and a covered boat, the three men (not forgetting the dog) set out on a hilarious voyage of mishaps up the Thames. When not falling in the river and getting lost in Hampton Court Maze, Jerome K. Jerome finds time to express his ideas on the world around many of which have acquired a deeper fascination since the day at the end of the 19th century when this excursion was so lightly undertaken.

First Edition; First Printing. Green cloth boards with pages clean and tight withgood dust jacket now protected in mylar.

Toi & Moi by Paul Geraldy, Paris 1947; Limited Edition no.1384 printed on Velin Chiffon Paper with frontispiece and thirty-three colour illustrations by Georges Lepape. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Text is in French. Leather boards with gilt title and raised bands on the spine. Marbled endpages. Shelf wear on leather edges [see photos ] with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.Toi et Moi was Le Févre's first book, a collection of sentimental poems concerned with the psychological aspects of love. Wrappers. Fine in original glassine overwraps Illustrated by Georges Lepape. 1 vols. 8vo Number 3381 of 2500 copies on velin from an edition of 3500.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Cloth boards with pages clean, tight and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Slipcase is clean and solid. Overall a near fine copy. Colour illustrations throughout. A lovely copy of this anthology of accounts of Christmas spent abroad. With contributions by Tolstoy, Washington Irving, Noel Coward, Shelley, Paul Theroux, Richard Burton, Dostoevsky, Alice B Toklas, Rommel, Solzhenitsyn, and many others. A lovely Christmas Gift

First Folio Society edition. Hardback binding in publisher's original British racing green buckram covered boards, printed archive sepia photographs to the front side, gilt back, photographic end sheets. Near Fine condition in slip case. Includes bibliographical references and index.Subjects:Frith, Francis, 1822-1898 Travel Great BritainGreat Britain History 19th centuryGreat Britain Social life and customs 19th centuryLiterary journeys Great BritainPhotography, Artistic

Part of a Two volumes set. See Volume Two. Numerous B/W pictures, drawings, maps in separate folders. Introduction by Robin Bidwell.

Ali Bey el Abbassi was a Spanish explorer, soldier, and spy in the early 19th century. This volume encompasses his travels in North Africa and the Middle East in the early nineteenth century.