Search Results: Authors starting with A from Angel Lane Books

London: Victor Gollancz / Left Book Club, 1938. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. UK 1st edition, 1st impression Left Book Club Edition with red covers and logo.Pages browning, but no inscriptions or marks

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1980. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. UK 1st edition 1st impression VG in G unclipped dustwrapper (would be VG but small cut in spine). Classic book on a rare bird with detailed observations and details about how to undertake such studies. illustrated with b&w plates. Nice tight copy

UK: Allen Lane, 1980. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. UK 1st VG dustwrapper has small nick to top, slight edge rubbing

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1986. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The complete 2-Volume autobiography of China's last Emperor, Pu Yi, in VG condition, with matching unclipped dustjackets in VG condition. Both Volumes are stated 3rd Printings (1986), printed in China by the official Government-sanctioned printing agency for non-Chinese language publications. The story of China's last Monarch translated by WJF Jenner. B&W illustrations throughout.

London: Panther/ Triad, 1985. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Salwowski, Mark. Panther/Triad edition 2nd print 1985. 157 pages. Good condition paperback; as expected for age. Cards, pages, and binding are presentable, slight water stain to page edges. Minor issues may exist such as shelf wear, light foxing and tanning. No inscriptions. Memorable artwork.

Edinburgh / Oakland: AK Press, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback VG no inscriptions. Finest single volume history of European anarchism is finally available in English in Paul Sharkey's elegant translation. Drawing on decades of research, Alexandre Skirda traces anarchism as a major political movement and ideology across the 19th and 20th centuries. Critical and engaged, he offers biting and incisive portraits of the major thinkers and, more crucially, the organizations they inspired, influenced, came out of, and were spurned by. Opinionated and witty, he is equally at home skewering the actions of the early anarchist Victor Serge as he is the Paris chief of police who organized undercover "anarchist bombers" in an attempt to infiltrate and discredit the movement. Skirda argues that the core problem for anarchists has been to create a revolutionary movement and envision a future society in which the… Read More

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1966. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. UK 1st edition 1st printing VG in VG unclipped protected dustwrapper. Exlib with usual stamps markings and labels to board/ fep. Good tght copy of illustrated journeys to USA, USSR, S America - Bokhara, Samarkand, Stamboul, Macchu Picchu, Petra etc

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1963. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Good octavo hardback book 1963 reprint of 1952 edition. 16 colour plates and 142 pages of drawings. Beige boards are slighty grubby with slight water mark, but not affecting pages inside. Nice historical, pictorial representations of some traditional national costumes, with additional pages on ancient and English costume. No inscriptions.

Virago, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. UK 1996 VG condition no inscriptions or markings.

London: D.C.Thomson & Co Ltd, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Stiff Card Covers illustrated with cartoon chess board. VG 1999 This is the First Edition. This is Scottish Life as imagined every Sunday in " The Sunday Post " .

1972. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 736 pages, plus 70 pages of adverts at the front and rear, plus tab pages [18] which also contain adverts, illustrations and maps throughout First Edition, small tear on rear spine/ cover, but a nice clean and tight copy, in good++ condition, red cloth with gilt and black text. Full of information on British and worldwide organisations and individuals.

Icon Books, 1999. 3rd Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. UK 2002 reprint VG condition no inscriptions or markings. Prize winning graphic novel illustrator.

London: Star Books, 1977. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st UK edition 1977 157 pages. Good condition paperback; as expected for age. Cards, pages, and binding are presentable. Minor issues shelf wear, light foxing and tanning. cut across top edge. Memorable artwork. Weird horror stories edited by Mike Ashley

1914. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. 1st edition 1914 - 155 pp. bound in brick red cloth with silver title and illustrations. Cloth a little sunned and marked, some foxing, but a sound copy. No dust wrapper.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 2004 paperback authorised version. VG condition no inscriptions or markings

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Alfred A. Knopf, 1923., 1923. 1st edition, 2nd printing 292pp, V Good condition, hardcover, no dust jacket. Navy blue cloth boards lightly worn.Red spine label rubbed at the edges, red dyed top edgesand small areas spotted. No inscriptions, some tanning to endpapers, otherwise contents clean, no tears or creases, no markings. The entire story is indeed written as an epic poem.The Sphinx and the Chimaera. Part One: Ulug Beg an Epic Poem, Comic in Intention, in VII Cantos : Being the History of the Origin, Progress, and Explosion of a Superstition.

New York: New American Library, 1975. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A good condition paperback sticker on rear cover partially removed. Revised and updated edition.