Search Results: Titles starting with T from Ariadne Books

England.: Printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd. , 1952. A limited edition of 350 copies, 100 of which were for the personal use of Edward Bawden at Christmas 1952. Softcover in original pictorial wrappers. Approx. 102 x 128mm. Inscribed at head of front wrapper: "Best wishes from C. & E.B. 1952". ""Take The Broom" is one of a set of six tales drawn in this size by Edward Bawden for his cjildren, Richard and Joanna, during 1944. For this publication it has been redrawn on lithographic plates by the author at the request of George Rainbird and Ruari Maclean, & printed in an edition of 350 copies. Nos 1 - 250 are being presented by GR and RMcL to their friends, and Nos. 251 - 350 are for the use of EB, at Christmas 1952. Printed in England by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd. The colours were Litho'd by Sheila Robinson." An attractive and very scarce item, beautifully illustrated by EB. Book in very good condition. A few minor spots and a little fade… Read More

London: G. G. Harrap & Co, 1913. First edition. Undated but published 1913. Hardback. Unpaginated. 275mm x 190mm approx. Full leather binding. Blind stamped design to front. Ornate gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Decorated endpapers. Lavishly illustrated. 8 tipped-in four-colour plates. Numerous other colour illustrations, some full-page, ornamentation and decoration throughout. Beautifully designed and executed. No jacket. Illustrations and decorations by Willy Pogany Near fine condition. Very slight rubbing to lower edges of boards towards the corners. Slight cracking to upper reaches of front hinge. Text block very sound and everything is firmly in place. Small and faint ink marks to Part III title page, which appear to be a minor production fault rather than later marking. A couple of pages have some small and faint soil marks. Free of inscriptions. A lovely, bright copy of what is arguably one of Pogany's most creative works.

England: F. Warne & Co, 1985. First edition in this format.. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Beatrix Potter. F. Warne & Co., England. 1985. First edition in this format. Book condition: near fine - very clean and unmarked copy. Dust jacket condition: near fine. Price clipped but only very minor shelf wear - mainly to upper edges. Very slight discolouration to a narrow band around the top of the jacket. Book approx 8.5" x 11.25" high. Glazed pictorial boards. This lovely collection of stories, beautifully reproduced and accompanied by the original colour illustrations, will give pleasure to children and adults alike.

London: Michael Joseph, 1991. Hardback. Good/Good. Michael Joseph, London, 1991. Book condition: good. A little edge wear with some rubbing to lower edges. Internally clean. Small red 'X' on ffep. Dust jacket condition: good. Unclipped and some light wear around the edges and a little chipping to corners. Traces of adhesive to front cover as if a label has been removed. Spine slightly faded. Enlightening, moving and funny, this portrait of the Home Front combines a mixture of memoir, anecdote and comment with a unique collection of colour and black & white photographs, many censored and previously unpublished.

London: G. G. Harrap & Co, 1911. First edition, 1911. Hardback. Unpaginated. 275mm x 190mm approx. Publisher's pale green cloth binding. Colour and gilt decoration to upper board and to spine, single colour design to lower board. Decorated endpapers. Lavishly illustrated. 16 tipped-in four-colour plates. Numerous other colour illustrations, some full-page, ornamentation and decoration throughout. Beautifully designed and executed. No jacket. Illustrations and decoration by Willy Pogany. Book in very good condition. Slight rubbing/wear to extremities of spine and points of lower corners. Very solid binding with everything firmly in place. Free of inscriptions. A very bright and clean copy of this lovely book.

Cambridge: The Golden Head Press, 1965. Limited edition 1965. Impression no 18 from a total print of 40 copies. This is one of 34 impressions on blue Natsume paper, each signed by the artist and numbered. Hardback. 11 unnumbered leaves. Yellow cloth covers with title printed in black to spine. Six illustrations by the artist. Near fine condition.

London: G. Putnam's Sons, 1932. First published in 1927, this is the first illustrated edition, 1932. Hardback. xiv, 279pp. Green cloth with gilt to upper board and spine. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Illustrations by C. F. Tunnicliffe. Introduction by Sir John Fortescue. Williamson's renowned novel won the Hawthornden Prize in 1928 and has never been out of print since. Twenty three illustrations by Tunnicliffe. Book in good condition. Extremities of spine a little rubbed. Some minor damp staining to lower regions. Crack at rear hinge but binding still holding firm throughout. Some slight toning to endpapers. Previous owner's name in pencil to ffep. Internally clean and bright. Dust jacket poor. Unclipped. Generally soiled and worn. Some areas of loss around the edges, to extremities of spine and to folds. Spine a little discoloured.

London: Folio Society, 1968. Hardback. 118pp. Orange cloth boards decorated in black. Top edge tinted orange. Slipcase. Translated by J. M. Cohen who also wrote the introduction. Lithographs by M. Lin-Desportes. Book in near fine condition. Tint to top edge a little faded. Slipcase very good. A little discolouration around the edges.

London: William Heinemann, 1920. Hardback. Good/No dust jacket. William Heinemann, London, 1920. First edition. Book condition: good. A little wear and colour fade to green cloth boards. Spine a little discoloured. Text block edges somewhat soiled and with occasional spotting. No dust jacket.

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1968. Softcover. Very Good/No dust jacket issued.. American Museum of Natural History, Volume 138: Article 4, New York, 1968. Condition: Very good. Blue card covers a little soiled and showing a little edge wear. Faint creasing at corners. Spine discoloured. Internally very clean. No jacket. Charles Vaurie was, at the time of writing, Curator, Department of Ornithology at The American Museum of Natural History. In the introduction, the author states: 'The present study is restricted to the living Cracidae and to forms that have become extinct recently, and is based chielfy on external morphology and geographical distribution. General habits, broad ecology, and isolating mechanisms were taken into consideration...'

Chagrin Falls, Ohio: Self-published, 1977. First edition. Hardback. Good/No dust jacket.. Signed by the author. Self-published, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 1977. Signed with a dedication by the author. Book condition: good. Some slight ruckling of last twenty pages or so with faint edge staining - indicative of some moisture damage. No foxing or mustiness. No dust jacket. The author's visit to China in 1973 with colour photographs by Alfred M. Rankin. An interesting little book and nicely produced.

London: George G. Harrap, 1939. First edition, 1939. Hardback. 284pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. 'Teamsman' continues the story Crichton Porteous began so well. Farmer's Creed. We learn more in the opening chapters of Mr Boone, the sturdy farmer in the Derbyshire hills who derived a philosophy of farming from Ruskin and Swift, and refused to insure hid property because he believed a man should depend upon himself. But there was a limit to what an ambitious farm labourer could learn from Mr Boone. Porteous left, and, after an unhappy interlude he found another job, - this time as a teamsman to a farmer very different to Mr Boone. Once more we make friends with a gallery of real characters - Mr Basil, the farmer; Hector the farm student; Old Tom and his son Abel; the two labourers; and, not least the team. Porteous had difficulties with this team. He had to learn their ways and their whims and temperament. Porteus describes the technique and the 'feel' of ploughing and… Read More

London: B. T. Batsford, 1971. First edition, 1971. Hardback. 144pp. Dust jacket. In this book the author deals examines the wide range of wood engraving techniques and their application for the printmaker. Each illustration has been chosen to show a specific technique which has been tried and proved. But each one is just a suggestion on which the reader can build their own creative approach. The author also deals with the types of wood required, tools and methods of cutting, transferring a design, engraving and printing presses etc. Clear diagrams of tools, photographs of processes and engravings - representative work from the eighteenth century to the modern day - combine to make a book which is both practical and stimulating. Book in very good condition. Dust jacket very good. Price clipped. A little rubbed and some light edge wear. Slight toning to internal surfaces around the edges.

London: Little, Brown & Co, 2005. Signed First edition.. Hardback. As New/Fine. Little, Brown, London, 2005. First edition signed by the author. Hardback. 310pp. Dust jacket. Ten seconds from the Sun has the pace and hallmark of a classic tragedy, reaching back into the mythology of childhood and revealing it as an avenging nemesis. Russell Celyn Jones has made visible a psychological landscape with such illuminating brilliance, it will stay with you fro ever. Book condition: near fine and unread. Dust jacket condition: near fine and unclipped with only the slightest shelf wear around the edges.

London: Little, Brown & Co, 2005. Little, Brown, London, 2005. First edition signed by the author with the dedication "For Peter". Hardback. 310pp. Dust jacket. Ten seconds from the Sun has the pace and hallmark of a classic tragedy, reaching back into the mythology of childhood and revealing it as an avenging nemesis. Russell Celyn Jones has made visible a psychological landscape with such illuminating brilliance, it will stay with you for ever. Book condition: near fine and unread. Dust jacket condition: near fine and unclipped with only the slightest shelf wear around the edges.

London: Quercus, 2006. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Good. Quercus, London. First edition 2006. Book condition: near fine. Dust jacket condition: good & unclipped. A little shelfwear to edges - especially head and tail of spine. Crease to rear (approx 2cms) close to spine fold which has almost become a closed tear but remains intact. This novel was Stef Penney's acclaimed debut novel. She deftly weaves adventure, suspense, revelations and humour into an exhilarating thriller, a panoramic historical romance, a keen murder mystery and ultimately, with the sheer scope and quality of her storytelling, a brilliantly readable book.

London: Conran Octopus Ltd, 1996. First edition, 1996. Hardback. 288pp. Original black boards with blue print to upper board and spine. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. In this personal and campaigning book, Terence Conran argued the case for design as much more than the superficial application of styling. It should be intrinsic to the development of newe technologies and to the success of one product over another. As the pre-eminent arbiter of taste in post-war Britain, Conran was uniquely placed to offer a passionate view of the role of design and the designer. A fascinating text full of information and anecdote, and a stimulating visual gallery of key designs of the twentieth century. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket very good and unclipped. A heavy book but no additional shipping costs to UK post codes.

London: Collins, 2013. First edition, 2013. Hardback. xiv, 461pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. A fascinating overview of these small seabirds whose graceful flight and command of the air are among their most attractive features. Most of the five species of terns breeding in Britain & Ireland today are under intensive management, involving protection from predators, human interference, egg-collecting, land-use changes and a range of issues relating to climate change. If these protective measures were abandoned the the number of terns would inevitably decline, with the very real possibility that several species would end up on the endangered list. Drawing on extensive research, the authors focus on migrations, food and feeding ecology, as well as breeding biology and behaviour. Importantly, they highlight conservation issues and prospects, and what this means for the future of terns. Front cover designed by Robert Gillmor. Book as new and unread. Dust jacket near fine and unclipped. Quite a… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 2005. Signed limited edition of 1000, published 2005. Hardback. 320pp. Black cloth boards. Dust jacket and limited edition slipcase. London is living through dark times and Magnus Malachi, magician, is closely guarding his moneyspinner - Tersias, a blind boy who can see into the future. As Tersias's powers become known, others who seek to use them are drawn from the shadows. They seek Tersias but is he a force for good or evil? A gripping adventure of night chases, double-crossings and weird magic from the author of Shadowmancer and Wormwood. Book as new and still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap.

London: Faber & Faber, 2005. Signed limited edition, 2005. Number 942 of 1000. Hardback. 320pp. Black cloth boards. Dust jacket and limited edition slipcase. London is living through dark times and Magnus Malachi, magician, is closely guarding his moneyspinner - Tersias, a blind boy who can see into the future. As Tersias's powers become known, others who seek to use them are drawn from the shadows. They seek Tersias but is he a force for good or evil? A gripping adventure of night chases, double-crossings and weird magic from the author of Shadowmancer and Wormwood. Book in near fine condition and unread. Dust jacket near fine with only very minor edge wear and a tiny chip to bottom corner of rear. Slipcase near fine.