Search Results: Titles starting with B from Andrew James Books

Secker & Warburg. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st English edition. Without dust jacket, minimal wear to boards, slight darkening to spine with blue titles. No inscription or markings free from foxing very clean and tight throughout. Gide was a strong supporter of the Soviet Union, here are a collection of short essays and speeches that he gave during the 1930's both praising the achievements of the Soviet Union but also recognising its failings and offering constructive criticism.

U.S.A.: Harper Collins, 2002. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket with very light shelf wear to head of spine. No inscription and internally very clean. Black ink mark to lower edge of text block otherwise fine. By the author of Brown Eyed Girl, continuing the 'Mustang Sally' Mysteries

W W Norton, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. With unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear to head of spine but free from nicks and tears. Large owners inscription to ffep otherwise clean throughout. The lives, sounds and innermost feelings of the Women that sang the Blues, from Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith to Tina Turner and Janis Joplin

William Heinemann, 1925. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing with good to very good unclipped dust jacket. Jacket has small chip to top front edge and lightly creased to top of spine with discolouration to spine and edges. Please note jacket colour is more yellow than shown in the photographs. Original blue boards with gilt titles to spine. No inscription and very clean throughout. The complete collection of Swinburne's work in Border Balladry.

HarperCollins, 1997. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st printing still in publishers plastic bag, although seams are split in places. Book consequently unread and undamaged

Knopf, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears. Some light water staining to reverse upper and lower edges of jacket not affecting the boards. Small bump to lower edge to front board. Clean throughout. The author's memoirs of his family centered on three generations of fathers and sons residing in Newfoundland. Intimate, captivating and deeply felt.

William Heinemann, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Without dust jacket, Light shelf wear to head and base of spine, spine has a small indentation below title. Foxing to edges of text block and occasionally to text, heavier to early and latter pages. With 19 black and white plates including frontispiece. The life of Balzac translated by James Scanlan, text in English

Granta, 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing, with unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears. very clean throughout. This startling debut about Georgia under Soviet rule and a boy born with the spirit of Stalin inside him is astute and intense with insight

Macmillan, 1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing in very good condition with good to very good unclipped dust jacket. Lightly rubbed to edges and with a couple of small tears to top front edge. Slight discolouration to jacket spine. Blue cloth boards with silver titles in very good condition and internally clean throughout. The life of Dr Barnardo founder of the Barnardo Homes for Children. The author concentrates on the climate of opinion, the social setting, the events and prejudices of the world that Barnardo challenged showing him in the context of his times, and she also gives authentic accounts of some of the real life children he helped.

International Mark Twain Society, 1936. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st ed, Signed and dedicated by the author to the front end paper otherwise clea. This card covers free from nicks and tears and crease free. Unusual mini biographies in that they are transcriptions of an interview that the author conducted with them. Authors include; J M Barrie, Lord Dunsany, Sir Austen Chamberlain, W W Jacobs, John Drinkwater, James Hilton, Lascelles Abercrombie, Mrs Joseph Conrad, Sir Philip Ben Greet and Fannie Hurst.

Very scarce edition, externally very good with green buckram boards with gilt title to front and spine and blind tooled art nouveau decoration. Internally clean though pages have considerable age toning due to inferior quality of paper used in publishing, some occasional chips to edges of pages but no loss of text. Basil was Collins second full length novel and received a mixed reception. Collins's literary friends gave good reviews and Dickens wrote 'the story contains admirable writing' and 'I have made Basil's acquaintance with great gratification.' The Athenaeum, however, called Basil 'a tale of criminality, almost revolting from its domestic horrors'

Ward Lock & Bowden. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. undated circa 1900. In good to very good condition. Full leather padded boards with gilt titles to front and spine. With some rubbing and handling marks in places. Gilt to all edges of text block with black end papers with gilt decoration. Gift inscription to front blank end paper and a small amount of foxing to pages prior to title page otherwise clean. Red border to pages. Illustrated with four full page engravings. A collection of the Reverend Dodd's favourite pieces from various works of Shakespeare.

John Murray, 2008. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing. No dust jacket (as published) gilt and white pictorial cloth boards. No inscription or markings very clean throughout. With exacting suspense, devious humour, and blisteringly original prose, Beautiful Children takes us on a disturbing trip into the heart of America and rushes head on towards an explosion of heartache, tragedy and redemption.

Orion, 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears, light shelf wear along lower front edge of jacket, clean throughout. Benedict's debut novel about a serial killer and set amongst the Academia of Cambridge University.

United Kingdom: Expert Books, 2008. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st thus an updated and revised version of 'The Armchair Book of The Garden' first published in 1983. In unclipped dust jacket, no inscription very clean throughout. A collection of gardening essays that can be dipped in and out of at will. A delight for any gardener.

American University in Cairo Press, 1988. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A good reading copy, lightly rubbed to edges and some label marks to covers with general handling wear. Owners name to half title otherwise clean throughout. Please note postal rates will be reduced.

Gollancz, 1988. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Covers and spine crease free but bumped to base of spine, Some marks to front cover and rear spine edge. Page edges faded otherwise clean. Dennis's work of non ficition in which he studies on a first hand basis the Black Communities of Britain in the 1980's

Pelham, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. With unclipped dust jacket, free from nicks and tears, no inscription very clean throughout. Please note additional postal charges will apply

Good to very good, Covers crease free with some light reading creases to spine, internall clean throughout though lightly faded to page edges.The final part of Plievier's Second World War trilogy, the previous two being Moscow and Stalingrad. A very well written and readable novel based on fact that describes the events leading to the end of World War II with the Allied and Soviet advance on Berlin and the panic in the higher echelons of the Nazi leadership.

reprint, light handling wear to covers, some creasing to spine and chipped to bottom of spine. Small split along lower front and rear spine edges but binding secure. Internally cleanIn 1935, Smith's novel Bessie Cotter about a prostitute's life on the streets of Chicago was judged indecent in England and the publisher fined the equivalent of $1,000. It was published a year earlier in the United States, and subsequently English language editions were published in France by the Obelisk Press