privately printed uk (316 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. 175pp. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good-. First Edition. Wraps; 27pp; Covers sun-faded, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Information about the family of William Wordsworth. Illustrated.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. b/w drawngs, colored photos laid in, fold out floorplan (illustratore). 2nd Edition. blue stapled printed wraps; 48 pages, clean, unmarked. [ Barton Field Tarrant Hinton Dorset; A multi-period site with remains of a possible Bronze Age cemetery, Iron Age and Romano British settlement and a Roman Villa].

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1953, First Edition, Near Fine/Fair dj, 12mo., 79pp., red cloth hardcover, bright gold lettering on backstrip, quite chipped plain white dj wrapper, b&w ill's., binding tight, text unmarked.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Elisabeth Luard (illustratore). Illustrated by Elisabeth Luard. Signed & dedicated by author on title page.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. By a worker at the Supermarine factory. Black and white photos, detailed plans of factories etc. Informative text.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Wraps; 31pp; Clean, tight copy, VG+ condition. Account of the author's experience transporting six horses by boat. Contents: Part I: Outward Bound with Live Horses; Part II: Five Weeks with the Kiwis; Part III: Homeward Bound with Dead Sheep. Illustrated with photos. Published circa 1970.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. 260pp. Laminated, illustrated stiff card covers. 8vo. There's a little gentle edge wear to the card covers else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. A mystery thriller: Marcus's comfortable life is suddenly shattered and his whole family's safety is threatened. One evening, our for a quiet drink with his best mate, Marcus experiences such a horrifying ordeal and suffers a territying anger, to the extent that he is unable to distinguish between delusion and reality. And then it seems, it is all the result of a curse, put on him as a child, and now the race is on to retrace his childhood friends so that he can break the power of the curse before he and his family is destroyed.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Undated volume, circa 1997. 16pp, stapled booklet in laminated stiff card covers. 8vo. Gentle edge wear to card covers, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. A history of the church and parish of Saint Nicholas Parish Church in Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire. Title page states 1979 but the text has been revised and updated since then - the last entry in the list of vicars is for an appointment in 1996 and the cover illustration is dated 1993, so publication in the late 1990s likely.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. 22pp stapled booklet in stiff card covers. 12no. The card covers are worn and rubbed at edges and have a splattering of small spot marks all over the front panel and lightly on the back. Internally, barring some gently corner rubbing, neat, clean, bright and tight. Fred Sibbey (born 1915) spent lived his entire life in an around the Kent village of Hawkenbury, (near Tunbrdige Wells) as had generations of his family beforehand - when areas such as Tutty's Village and Pollards Row were still distinct. This slim booklet contains his recollections of the village and villagers through the decades, as well as following his family's history in the village: his great grandfather, William Brooker, ran one of the village's two grocery shops in the early part of the 19th century. With black and white illustrations, including some photographs of village life and scenes from the very early days of the 20th century. A touching and revealing reminiscence. We have many local history booklets, pamphlets and related materials in stock and can offer generous discounts to those ordering more than one item at time. Please inquire.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. 64pp stapled booklet with occasional black and white illustrations in text. Laminated stiff card covers. 8vo. Some gentle edge wear to card covers else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. 32pp stapled booklet, with two black and white plate illustrations, in light card, printed covers. 12mo. Covers are a little shelf worn, gently rubbed at edges and slightly sunned around the spine. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A memoir of the Frank Ezra Adcock (died 1968), native of Leicester and classical historian, sometime lecturer in the classics and dean and vice-principal of King's College, Cambridge, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History. In addition to his academic work - which extended to a series of BBC broadcasts, Adcock served as part of the Intelligence Division of the Royal Navy in the First World War and as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Cole, George T (illustratore). 120pp, with monochrome frontispiece and further sketched line drawings in text. Print light card wraps. 8vo. Covers a little rubbed at edges with some age discolouration. There is a mild brown mark on the title page else internally neat. clean, bright and tight.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. 44pp stapled booklet in stiff card covers. 8vo. Very slightly rubbed at spine ends, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In July 1803 the British Government passed Acts of Parliament to enable additional military forces to be raised for the defence and security of the nation. These Acts required men to be raised as volunteers or by ballot; these volume contains the names of some 2225 men raised for the counties of Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, which may be helpful for genealogical research.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint , 14pp stapled booklet in thin card covers. 8vo. Neat, clean, bright and tight. Signed compliments slip from the author loosely laid in, together with a leaflet on Army Research During the War with France and Following Years, 1793-1815, loosely laid in.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 192pp. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaper, 'Things will never be the same again. Jack Campbell. June 1999'. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, price unclipped. 8vo. Vigorous and articulate account of a career in politics which offers a fascinating glimpse into the behind-the-scenes activity of political campaigning. Signed Books, politics, public life.

Hard Back. Condizione: Book Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dustjacket. First Edition. 84 pages plus xv pages. Book in excellent condition.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. A collection of three slim booklets recording the memories of Westgate on Sea residents of their experiences and recollections of Westgate during the second world war. Undated but circa 2000-2005.Stapled booklets in paper wraps, with black and white illustrations. All three booklets have a little gentle edge wear to covers and slight shelf wear else are neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. The three booklets are: St Saviour's School. Westgate on Sea - Wartime Memories: The Pupil's Stories We Have a Story - Wartime Memories, and Wartime Memories of Westgate on Sea All three authored or edited by Dawn Crouch.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. Edwards, E A L (illustratore). 38pp stapled booklet in stiff card covers. Signed by the author, Archer Edwards, on the title page. 8vo. Card covers are a little shelf worn and faded, gently rubbed at edges with a mild crease over one corner. Internally neat, clean and tight.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. 50pp, with monochrome illustrations throughout, stapled booklet in glossy light card covers. 12mo. Some gently edge wear to card covers, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. An account of the establishment and development of the Lifeboat station and its lifeboats in the village of Moelfre on the north coast of Anglesey, and the role of the Anglsey Association for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), including accounts of shipwrecks and rescues.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. 42pp stapled booklet in printed card covers, illustrated in colour 8vo. Gentle edge wear to card covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A study of and tribute to the men from Kennington, the Kent village, who lost their lives during the first world war.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 3rd Edition. No date of publication stated, circa 1920. Publisher's green paper boards with white linen spine, 24mo (5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches), pp. 58 [59-60] + one leaf ads. Frontispiece and 12 other plates [13 total] as called for. Title page verso and dedication page were separated originally with a dull implement or unsteady hand, resulting in uneven top edges resembling a tear (see image for our best attempt at a close-up), otherwise GOOD with light shelf wear to the board tips.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Signed by the author on the title page. 24pp stapled booklet in printed stiff card wraps. 8vo. A little gentle edge wear to card covers else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Contains the text of an address delivered by David Silk on Siegfried Sassoon and Frist World War at the Imperial War Museum in London in 1998.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. 36pp stapled booklet in illustrated light card covers. 8vo. Covers are a little rubbed and toned on extreme edges and over spine. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A history of Glebe House in West Wickham, Kent, covering a period of some 400 years, with a focus on its transformation into a residence for the elderly during the later part of the 20th century. With 16th century origins it was originally a rectory and then a private residence. Bought by Colonel Chamberland and his wife in the 1920s the couple gifted much of the land to the local Old People's Welfare Committee in the 1960s. In 1970 Mrs Chamberlain sold the rest of the estate to Glebe Housing and Glebe House was first converted into accommodation for the elderly, with purpose built shelter housing in the grounds.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 50pp stapled booklet in pale blue stiff card covers. 8vo. Covers a little faded, slightly sunned over spine and gently rubbed at edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. We have many local history booklets, pamphlets and other ephemera in stock and can offer generous discounts to those ordering more than one item at a time. Please inquire.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. 64pp stapled booklet in laminated card covers. 8vo. Covers have a little edge wear and mildly marked on rear cover. A few pages have a mild crease over the lower corner else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. An anthology of verse and poetry from the Company of Poets, a network of practising writers from Devon and Cornwall.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. 32pp stapled booklet, in pink stiff card wraps. Signed and inscribed by Roger Faulkner on the title page, 'best wishes, to Jill, Roger'. 8vo. Very gentle edge wear to card covers, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. A collection of Faulkner's poetry, the third and final volume of his trilogy called Taxis to Tomorrow.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 208pp, plus a handful of black and white photographic plates and two fold-outs. Brown cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Free endpapers starting to tan, pages starting to age. Otherwise internally neat, clean and tight.