British library uk (170 résultats)

Softcover. Etat : Very Good.

Hardcover. Etat : As New in As New dust jacket. ".explores the influence of the Bauhaus and modernism on typography and book design." 159 pages; 9 x 9 1/2 ".

Glossy Hard Cover. Etat : As New with no dust jacket. Essays in honour of Peter Isaac, who founded Allenholme Press, delivered at the 19th Conference on the History of the British BookTrade, Worcester, July 2001. 224 pages.; 6 x 8 1/2 ".

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. PAPERBACK. VERY GOOD CONDITION **clean, solid,bright ; Looks new and unread, (gift quality) Shipped ** ** - Items shipped every week day! .Bright orange cover with blue motor race car careening toward viewwer covar art. ; 288 pages; Oppenheim was one of the greatest writers of spy fiction, known in his time as the Prince of Storytellers.; 1. Illustrated by Mary EVANS DJ COVER PICTURE (illustrateur).…

Pictorial Wrappers. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The stories in this collection will dredge up delight in crime fiction fans, as watery graves claim unsuspecting victims on the sands of an estuary and disembodied whispers penetrate the sleeping quarters of a ship's captain. How might a thief plot their escape from a floating crime scene? And what is to follow when murder victims, lost to the ocean floor, inevitably resurface? 1st edition, Paperback Original. Introduction by Martin Edwards. A few indents to cover else a near fine, tight copy. This British Library anthology collects the best mysteries set on choppy seas, along snaking rivers and even in the supposed safety of a swimming pool, including stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Forester, Phyllis Bentley, E.W. Hornung, William Hope Hodgson, Gwyn Evans, Andrew Garve, Edmund Crispin and R. Austin Freeman et al. 364 pages. Trade Paperback.…

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. No Dustjacket. Photo examples drawn from autograph fair copies and drafts, corrected proofs and private letters with descriptions and contexts. 80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Almsot 'as new' except for a top corner crease to the front cover.Otherwise very bright and clean and unmarked. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, or via the USPS Media Mail, in card sleeve. From $4.00 to $8.00 depending on exact weight etc. Those requiring Tracking in Canada will find postage considerably more. Tracking with all shipments to the USA. Image available. Postage, at cost, determined by final weight and destination. Size: 23cm. With B&W & Col.illus. (illustrateur). Book.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Etat : As New. First Printing. First printing. Paperback. [Originally published in UK by The Bodley Head, 1949). As new copy. Introduction by Martin Edwards. LOCKED ROOM / IMPOSSIBLE CRIME. Listed in "Locked Room Murders" by Robert Adey, #213. Ever since she drove her best friend's fiance to kill himself, Isabel Drew has been nicknamed Jezebel. She is domineering, arrogant, vain - and beautiful enough to get away with it. She is starring as a princess in a medieval pageant when her past catches up to her. On tiny slips of paper, threats appear, promising death to Isabel and those around her. Fearing she may be attacked, she invites the brilliant Inspector Cockrill to keep her safe after the performance. But her precautions come too late. During the first show, Isabel falls from her tower and is dead before she hits the ground. She was strangled, and the room she fell from was locked from the inside - a crime too daring to be possible. But Inspector Cockrill saw it all, and unraveling the impossible is his specialty. "This is a projection of the 'sealed room' mystery. The scene of the murder was bounded on one side by a stage, under the observation of several thousand pairs of eyes; and on the other by a locked door, with somebody sitting on guard on the other side of it. The murderer must have been within these confines. And the place is as bare as a biscuit box, so that there is nowhere where he can possibly have hidden, or remain hidden." from the introduction. Book.…

Softcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : N/A. 1st Edition. 48pp, illustrated throughout. Laminated stiff card covers. Slim 8vo. Some gentle edge wear to card covers else neat, clean, bright and tight.

Hardcover. Etat : As New in As New dust jacket. Bibliography of Lewis Carroll's contributions to the periodical press. 117 pages.; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 ".

Soft cover. Etat : As New. NEW Wonderful Cat Book Person Gift. Fresh tight strong clean bright. No markings. Illustrated (illustrateur).

Soft cover. Etat : Good. Good condition soft cover, some wear to cover and spine, internally clean and tidy, in a good readable condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : N/A. 1st Edition. 144pp. Illustrated. Pale blue endpapers. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (boards are strong, fresh and square, very slightly rounded at corners and spine ends). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring a previous owner's gift inscription on the front free endpapers. An exploration of some of the extraordinary wealth of medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts Small, square 4to. Color & B/w Illustration (illustrateur). …

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Good condition. Hard cover. Pages good. Cover good with the exception of wear/bumping to corners and spine ends. Slight creasing to jacket. Tiny piece missing at bottom corner and tiny tear to top of spine. Wear/bumping to edges, corners and spine ends. 288 pages.…

Softback. Etat : Near Fine. No dustjacket. Re-issue. This is a first printing of the British Library re-issue B format paperback (130 x 198 mm). Introduction by Martin Edwards. The title was originally published by Harper Brothers in 1931. Read once very carefully. The book also contains an early rare Inspector Bencolin short story - the Fourth Suspect. This was originally published in The Haverfordian in January 1927. SYNOPSIS: "This is the case. Alison has been murdered. His blazing body was seen running about the battlements of Castle Skull. And so a dark shadow looms over the Rhineland where Inspector Henri Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle have arrived from Paris. Entreated by the Belgian financier D'Aunay to investigate the gruesome and grimly theatrical death of actor Myron Alison, the pair find themselves at the imposing hilltop fortress of Schloss Schadel, in which a small group of suspects is still assembled." Packed weight 380gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.…

Soft cover. Etat : As New. 1st Edition. 1st ed, 1st prt. softcover- no DJ as issued. 80pp. Profusely illus in color/b/w.

Soft cover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : No DJ as Issued. 1st Ed, 1st Prt. A fabulous book about CAT ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGH THE AGES. 111pp. A celebration of feline wit, intelligence, aloofness & charm. Profusely illus in color.

Cloth(Hrdcvr). Etat : VG/VG. London, UK: British Library. VG/VG. (1990). . Cloth(Hrdcvr). Covers agriculture and husbandry; trade and commerce; industry and crafts and the professions. . 8vo., 124pp. . Black&White/Color Illus. (illustrateur).

Softcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : N/A. 64pp; illustrated throughout with colour photographs. Pictorial laminated light card covers. 8vo. Light wear to covers. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Very good condition soft cover, internally clean and tidy, in a good readable condition.

Paperback. Etat : Near fine. 9 x 11 in. Paper wraps. Lavish plates. Condition is NEAR FINE ; like near new on all points. Art. Stax.

cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 248 pages with 40 b/w illustrations. with The Publishing Pathways Series Cumulative Index. Part of the Publishing Pathways Series. Reading, and the manifold signs of reading, have become one of the most dynamic areas of research in book history. The reader as consumer and owner, as well as participant in the construction of new meanings, is the subject of these original essays. Specialists in literature, art history and book history investigate the annotations, marginal marks, extra-illustration and other forms of evidence left by readers. Through an examination of the book as a physical object, the contributors provide a range of intriguing insights into the ways in which this internalized and ephemeral activity can be understood in the context of book-trade history.…

Soft cover. Etat : As New. A lovely clean fresh copy that APPEARS NEW AND UNREAD! Iain Fenlon is a British musicologist and cultural historian whose scholarly work has focused extensively on music in Renaissance Italy, bringing to this field a combination of deep archival research, broad cultural historical awareness, and an ability to situate musical culture within its wider social, political, and intellectual contexts. He has been associated with the University of Cambridge and has established himself as one of the leading authorities on Italian Renaissance music and its relationship to the broader cultural life of the period, producing a body of scholarship that has been influential in shaping how musicologists and historians understand the role of music in early modern Italian society. Music Print and Culture in Early Sixteenth Century Italy derives from the Panizzi Lectures, a prestigious series delivered at the British Library in London that invites distinguished scholars to present original research on subjects related to the history of the book, manuscript culture, and the broader history of written and printed communication. The lecture series is named in honor of Antonio Panizzi, the nineteenth century librarian and scholar who played a transformative role in developing the collections and intellectual resources of the British Museum Library, and the association with this legacy gives the lectures and their published versions a particular connection to the history of the book and the material culture of textual and musical transmission. The subject of the lectures and resulting publication sits at the intersection of musicology, book history, and Renaissance cultural history, examining how the development of music printing in early sixteenth century Italy transformed the production, distribution, and consumption of musical culture during one of the most dynamic and consequential periods in the history of Western music. The early sixteenth century was a period of extraordinary musical creativity and cultural vitality in Italy, encompassing the flowering of the frottola and madrigal traditions, the activity of major composers working at the courts and chapels of the Italian states, and the emergence of Venice as the dominant center of music printing in Europe. The development of music printing technology and the commercial music publishing industry in Venice, associated above all with the pioneering work of Ottaviano Petrucci who produced the first printed polyphonic music books in the first decade of the sixteenth century, represents a transformation in musical culture of fundamental importance, making musical works available in multiple identical copies to a wider audience than manuscript transmission could ever have reached and creating new commercial and cultural relationships between composers, publishers, patrons, and the consuming public for printed music. Fenlon examines how print culture shaped and was shaped by the broader musical and intellectual life of the period, addressing questions about patronage, the social circulation of musical repertoire, the relationship between printed and manuscript sources, and the ways in which the materiality of the printed music book itself carried cultural meaning and reflected the values and aspirations of those who produced and consumed it. The analytical framework draws on both musicological expertise and the methods of book history and material culture studies, reflecting the genuinely interdisciplinary character of the subject and the breadth of Fenlon's scholarly formation and interests. The Panizzi Lectures format, which typically results in a relatively compact published volume derived from a series of public lectures rather than an exhaustive monograph, gives the published work a focused and essayistic quality that makes it accessible to readers beyond the immediate specialist audience while still engaging seriously with the scholarly questions at its heart.…

Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. Hardcover. Item still in shrinkwrap. AF.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. The Lindisfarne Gospels: A Masterpiece of Book Painting by Janet Backhouse. The British Library, 2000 — Third Printing. Book Condition / Dust Jacket Condition • Book: Near Fine; Clean, tight, and well-preserved hardcover with only light handling wear. Pictorial boards remain glossy and attractive, beautifully colored endpapers, crisp unmarked and untoned pages, binding is square and tight. No dust jacket, presumably as issued given the pictorial boards' appearance. (see photos) In The Lindisfarne Gospels: A Masterpiece of Book Painting, Janet Backhouse offers a richly informed study of one of the greatest treasures of early medieval manuscript art. Focusing on the history, artistry, symbolism, and craftsmanship of the Lindisfarne Gospels, the book is an appealing reference for readers interested in illuminated manuscripts, medieval art, book history, and Christian heritage.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Tiny date written on cover page, otherwise unmarked.

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Softcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : N/A. Unpaginated. Pictorial laminated light card covers. 4to. Slight crease at front joint. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

Soft Cover. Etat : As New. First Editiion. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softback.

Softcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : N/A. 154pp. Pictorial laminated light card covers. 4to. Lender applied semi-rigid protective plastic. Shelf number label taped on spine; light chipping to edges and wear to covers. Lender's rubber stamp on top and fore text block edges. Lender's stamps, security device and markings inside covers and early front prelim pages otherwise internally, neat, clean, bright and tight. …