firecrest publishing (30 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good +.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 2nd Edition. viii 181pp hardback, very good in a very good wrapper, ownership inscription to ffep.

Pictorial Boards. Etat : Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Two library stamps and v small remains of label. A 'Gunsmoke Western'.

hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good Jacket. Second Edition. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Etat : Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good (+). Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Signed by Tom Pendry (now Lord Pendry) to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small tear and creasing to upper rear edge and sunning to spine. 290pp. The author who was elected Speaker of the House of Commons in 1971 traces the development of the office from 1258 and compares, from the records of former Speakers, his definitions of the job with those of his predecessors. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 8.75 x 5.75 inches.

Laminated Boards. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Large Print. Part of Madeleine Henrey's autobiographical series. "An account of conflicts that I, as a bride, once innocently set in motion". Large print edition. Spine bumped and slanted, usual library markings, date stamp label removed from fep, some marking to page edges and dustwrapper laminated to boards, otherwise good copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Etat : Good. 1969. Second Edition. 380 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are bright and clear, with light tanning to text block edges. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper and paste-down, with a few small nicks and rub-markings along text block edge. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Plates are bright and clear, with slight tanning to edges. Boards have light shelf-wear with minor corner bumping and slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has light surface wear, with small tears and creasing to spine ends, edges and corners. Lightly tanned, with water marks down spine.

Etat : Good. 1969. First Published. 380 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

ix +181pp. First published 1924. VG in slightly faded and rubbed dw. ; some neat underlining here and there.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. This is a signed copy (with an inscription) by the author. A clean and tight hard-cover, presented in a worn unclipped dust wrapper. 1969 reprint. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Reprint in great condition - no inscriptions.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardback,79pp, with illustrations by Harold Blackburn. Revised reprint, originallt published as Colne Valley Cloth. Vg in VG DJ with some creasing and chipping to head of spine.

Hardcover. Etat : VG++/F/VG. y 2nd. Edition, 1st Imp. Revd & Enlged. HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd. Thus. Revised & enlarged. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1969 (1938) * Publisher: Firecrest Publishing Ltd. * Binding and cover condition: Dark blue-black cloth, gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Illustrated dust wrapper showing a print of Salisbury Grammar School in the close. Black titles to spine and face. Price clipped, showing no shelf price. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine (now re-inforced). Ina clear un-attached protective wrapper. VG * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. No annotations, small owners name and date in pen to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top and fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Several b/w photos, prints and line drawings within text throughout. * Pages: 370 pp. text. xvi pp. epilogue, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Novels have appeared from time to time about Cathedral Closes, but no book has yet attempted to trace the authentic life-history of a "close" from its first beginnings until the present day. Here gleaned from the archives of the cathedral, is the biography of a community over a period of 700 years, with its changing manners and customs, its domestic problems, its quarrels ? all its strength and its weakness. The close of Salisbury is one of the loveliest and most peaceful corners of England: now for the first time its stormy past has come to life. This second edition published some thirty years after the first has an epilogue produced by the author to bring it up to date. (1969).* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 2nd. revised and enlarged edition with NO MAJOR FAULTS. Slightly grubby dust jacket now re-inforced and in clear un-attached protective jacket.* 1969-01-01. n.

hardcover. Etat : Good. Signed. Signed. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1980. LARGE PRINT VERY GOOD, with a VERY GOOD dust-jacket with the tiniest of marks/scuffs/creases that are pretty hard to notice. Why on Amazon do many sellers not describe their actual book? Buy with confidence from an old established Bricks & Mortar Real Bookshop Maynard & Bradley in the centre of Leicester PBFA(now relapsed) and CAMBO members for many years. Why on Amazon do most sellers not describe their actual book? Buy with confidence and support a genuine Independent Bricks & Mortar Real Bookshop. We are Maynard & Bradley CAMBO & PBFA(now lapsed) members here in Leicester City Centre. Size: 150 x 230 mm. 257 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0851190499. ISBN/EAN: 9780851190495. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 15259.

Etat : Near Fine. Second edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 380pp. 8 plates. Original dark blue cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. First Edition, First Thus. BRAND NEW Copy. First published in 1944; this is a 1990 hardcover re-issue. A horsey yarn set in the 1940s, starring the irresponsible, irrepressable and ever so likeable Shorty, who, above all else, is always mindful of the welfare of his sixteen horses.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1969). (1801, 1903) 1969 reprint. Large 4to. Pplvi,322. B/w illustrations. Very good in rubbed dust-wrapper. ".including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, pageants, processions and pompous spectacles, illustrated by reproductions from ancient paintings in which are represented most of the popular diversions". First published in 1801, this is a facsimile reprint of the 1903 edition, revised by J.Charles Fox. .

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Small demy8vo, xxviii, 1170 p. Original red buckram, gilt, dark blue endpapers, top edge tinted yellow. Near fine tight copy in a near fine price intact d/j. Heavy book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Second Edition. "A picture of domestic life in a Cathedral Close for 700 years and the history of the Choristers for 900 years." Originally published in 1938 by Jonathan Cape.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Second Edition. bound in perfect blue buckram, with bright gilt title lettering to spine, this hardcover Second Edition is VG in Vg wrapper. 380pp with Prefaces, Introduction, 18 Chapters, Epilogue, Index and 8 Illustrations. Close to Fine condition.

Pictorial Boards. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Gunsmoke/Firecrest/Chivers edition. Originally published by Universal-Award House in 1973. One of a pair of killer bandits who have "robbed their boss and left their best buddies to die, naked in the desert, while they headed for Mexico with $90,000 in stolen gold" plans to murder his partner and claim the entire fortune. An uncommon edition. 155 pages. Some wear to corners/spine ends, rubbing, impressions. Size: Small octavo. Book.

Etat : Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. With remainder mark. (Choirs, England, School) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Cloth. Etat : Fine. Not Stated (illustrateur). A lovely 1969 edition of Joseph Strutt's classic historical account of English sports and other pastimes. A scarce new and enlarged edition of this work. First published in 1801.With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A lovely example of this extensive reference work which delves into various sports, games and festive activities popular among English people throughout history. Written by Joseph Strutt, an English engraver and antiquary.Illustrated with a frontispiece of Strutt and forty-one charming plates of engravings. Collated, complete.With a preface by twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter, both of whom were television presenters and best remembered as the cofounders of the 1955 Guinness Book of Records. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely. Dust wrapper is smart, with edge wear and a couple minor chips to the rear. Small closed tear to the front. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Fine. book.

Cloth. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrateur). A scarce 1969 edition of Strutt's popular 1801 volume on the history of sport and past times in England, in lovely condition. A new enlarged and revised edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. A fascinating work on the history of sports and other recreational activities in England, from the earliest period to the late 18th century, illustrated with 140 vignette engravings depicting these pastimes. Written by Joseph Strutt, an English businessman, philanthropist and social reformer who donated the land for England's first urban public park, Derby Arboretum. This scarce 1969 edition of the original 1801 text was enlarged and corrected by J. Charles Cox, and contains a preface by Norris and Ross McWhirter. In publisher's original cloth binding, with original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Dust wrapper is generally smart and bright except for sunning to the spine and upper extremities, and a little chipping to the upper extremities and folds of the flaps. Fine. book.

hardcover. Etat : Good. second edition No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Etat : New. In shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Reprint. xxviii, 1,170pp. Modest soiling to page edges, else fine, in a lightly spine-sunned, near fine dust jacket, with very minor edge wear.