Resultados da Pesquisa: Títulos que começam com P de Andrew James Books

Penguin, 1984. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Some handling wear to covers and light rubbing to edges. Spine crease free and internally clean though pages have faded.

Secker & Warburg, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket, removed label mark to inside front flap which also hs a crease top to bottom otherwise fine. No inscription very clean throughout. Baracana, one of the last neglected slivers of Empire is about to be declared independent. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has the plans for transfer prepared, but the discovery of the body of a murdered American on the island threatens to disrupt the smoothly calculated process. Chief Superintendent of the Yard, Owen Smith, is sent out to help the local force clear it up with the minimum of fuss. But murder begets murder and Smith finds that his enquiries lead him from this small island to the heights of a Canadian monument of modern technology. Reduced postal rates apply

William Morrow & Co, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing with unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears, no inscription clean throughout. A masterful easy to grasp overview of science's answers to the great questions as we understand them today; the origin of life on planet earth, the sources of human behaviour, the acquisition of language, the human thought process, the existence of extra terrestrial life. Please note additional postal charges will apply

South Africa: Bureau for Information, 1986. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Scarce pamphlet produced by the South African Bureau for Information containing an excerpt from an address by the State President of South Africa P W Botha in the South African Parliament in 1986. 12pp

Spine crease free, diagonal crease to upper fore edge of rear cover. Highlighting to a couple of lines in the introduction and to a couple of pages of the notes at the rear of the book. The main body of the text is clean throughout.A comprehensive study of Lesbianism in 17th Century Britain compiled from an examination of a wealth of new legal medical and erotic source material, together with re-readings of classics of English literature.Donoghue uncovers the astonishing range of lesbian and bi-sexual identities described in British texts between 1668 and 1801.

John Wiley & Sons, 1998. Hardcover. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears, no inscription or highlighting etc, very clean throughout. Overseas buyers please note additional postal charges will apply.

W W Norton & Co Inc, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing virtually as new, With unclipped dust jacket, no inscription clean throughout. The murky world of Harpur and Iles, where chaos is king and ambiguity its handmaiden. A cast composed of the undeniably amoral, but oh so colourfully drawn with dialogue as good as it gets. The Elmore Leonard of British Crime Writers.

SPCK. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Undated edition circa 1880's. Paper covered card boards, slightly discoloured and rubbed to edges. Paper split to head of spine. Front hinge cracked and spine a little shaky. Endpapers discoloured, text clean throughout. The title story os a Christmas tale for children and the book includes an additional Christmas Mumming Play to the rear. Delightfully illustrated by Gordon Browne. Reduced postal rates apply.

New English Library, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket, with slight fade to spine, no inscription clean throughout with slight tanning to page edges. The mysterious story of the Missing Peking Man which is based firmly on known facts. Between 1928 and 1937 fragments of human bone were found in a cave near Peking belonging to a person over 500,000 year of age. WHen China was threatened by the Second World War the bones were carefully packed into cases for shipping to the United States for safe keeping. They never arrived and there whereabouts were unknown until a $50,000 reward was offered for information.

Penguin, 1950. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st issue. Covers crease free, light crease to spine. Owners name to half title and label abrasion mark to rear cover. An anthology of poetry from some of the greatest poets of the first half of the twentieth century. Please note postal rates will be reduced following purchase.

Pen & Sword Military, 2008. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Virtually as new other than unobtrusive abrasion to top of title page where the previous owners small label has been removed. Otherwise jacket free from nicks and tears and very clean throughout.

title continued "embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities towns stations industries and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey" Condition: externally fair to good, missing cloth to lower part of back strip with some marks and stains and rubbing to corners. Internally very good apart from tear to top corner of page 173/4 and owners stamp to front end paper. The History of the Pennsylvania Railroad , Profusely illustrated with contemporary engravings of rolling stock, stations, early city and rural scenes along the route, with 2 maps to rear. Non UK buyers please note additional shipping costs will be required.

Pergamon, 1984. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Covers and spine crease free, owners name to front end paper otherwise clean, slight fade to edges. The Book provides training in problem solving and decision making for potential managers in a series of exercises.

David and Charles, 2005. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Reprint. Without dust jacket as published, Laminated boards with a minute chip to laminate to head of spine. No inscription but price blacked out to ffep otherwise internally fine. Whether you are a beginner or a more experienced photographer, this title removes the mystery of exposing film, providing the know-how needed to expose pictures with precision and confidence, even without automatic light meters. Working with snow, backlighting and extreme contrast are covered. Please note additional postal charges will apply

Indian Central Cotton Committee. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Undated circa 1946. Signed by the author to the ffep. In fair to good condition, green cloth boards with gilt titles to front. faded to spine and spine is chipped in three places and partial split along edge. with rubbing to corners. Spine a little shaky and gutter is cracked at the Preface. With graphs and tables and one black and white plate.

London Phrenological Institution, 1905. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In good to very good condition, red cloth boards with black edging and gilt titles to front. Some discolouration to board edges. Small stamp of Gall-Spurz-Combe, East Sheen, (presumably something to do with the author of the Definitions of Mental Faculties) to the front end paper, otherwise clean apart from the hand written entries by Stackpool O'Dell. A fully completed example of this booklet with 30 hand written pages to the rear, giving the character and advice for the future for one rather wayward youth, a William Barclay. This example certainly gives the implication that O'Dell may well have had the benefit of the Fathers opinion (or rather lack of it) of his Son before compiling his report. The results are certainly disparaging and recommend banishment abroad to work on the plantations should the callow youth not buckle down immediately to some sort of profession. Fascinating reading.

Mosby Inc, 1998. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Laminated boards, no jacket, no inscription very clean throughout almost as new. Please note this book weighs over 2.5 kg and additional postal charges will apply. (UK + £5.50)

London: Harper Collins, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing Clipped dust jacket with partial fade free from nicks and tears, no inscription, clean throughout.

G Morrish, 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. In very good condition tan buckram boards with black tooled titles and gilt pictorial vignette to front and gilt titles and black decoration to spine. No inscription, blank end papers slightly foxed otherwise clean throughout. An informative guide to life in the Biblical Lands for boys and girls with titles on Tombs, Feasts, Law Breakers, Wells, Tents, Caves, Beds, Lamps, Marriages, and Rewards. With four full page illustrations and further line drawings to the text. Publishers advertisements to the rear.

John Atwood, 1892. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Red boards with gilt titles to front slightly faded to spine very clean throughout. Eccentric self published diatribe by an eighty year old ex fisherman from Cape Cod. Semi biography but largely religious particularly pro creationism.