Biografia

The Worlds of John Aubrey, Being a further selection of Brief Lives, together with excerpts from his writings on antiquities, science and folklore

John Aubrey; selected and edited by Richard Barber · 1988 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.49 | ¥2,953)

The Folio Society, London, 1988. Revised Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. First printing in this edition. Clean sound slip-case, fresh covers, tight binding, clean pages and end-papers. Contains black and white plates and illustrations. Slip case as opposed to dus...

The Brownings, a biography compiled from contemporary sources

Joanna Richardson · 1986 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

The Folio Society, London, 1986. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. First printing in this edition. Clean sound slip-case, fresh illustrated covers, tight binding, clean pages and end-papers. Slip case as opposed to dust-jacket . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weig...

The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser, Vol. I. Life of Spenser, Essays

Edmund Spenser, edited by Rev. Alexander B Grosart et al. · 1882 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.27 | ¥6,751)

Private Circulation Only, 1882. Revised Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 100 Copies only. Title page Printed in red and black. Previous owner's bookplate on inside of front cover previous owner - (Bertram G Theobald, Brighton author of "Enter Francis Bac...

Bronte Society Transactions 1994, Volume 21, Part 3. ISSN 0309-7765

G D Hargreaves; Lori A Paige; ed. Edward Chitham; Rose Lovell-Smith · 1994 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Bronte Society, 1994. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Contents include: The Poems of Ellis Bell - the Version Printed in 1846 and the Manuscript Version; Charlotte Bronte and the Spasmodic School; Mildred Christian on the Lydia Robinso Affair; Qu'...

Lenin and Problems of Literature

Vladimir Shcherbina · 1974 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974. First Edition, Hardcover. Fair Condition/Good. Clean green covers with paler green lettering, sound binding. Previous owner's name on front end-paper and references to pages where passage margin markings and very brief notes have been made in...

Authorship: a Guide to Literary Technique

A Well-Known Author · 1922 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Leonard Parsons, London, 1922. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Blue dust-jacket is darkened and with shelf-wear at edges, blue boards with beige linen spine and spine-label with red lettering, sound binding except front free end-paper is missing, front free...

The Business Side of Writing

Lionel Garrett · 1936 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£3.50 (€4.20 | $4.62 | ¥738)

George G Harrap & Co Ltd, London, 1936. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Green covers are lightly marked and spine-ends and corners are lightly bumped, sound binding, clean pages and end-papers. No dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: und...

Model Exercise in Indexing and Precis Writing, being the Exercise at a recent Civil Service Examination fully worked out

Goodall Robinson · 1901 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

The Civil Service Press, 1901. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. The Civil Service Student's Examination Series. Red card covers. 40 pages. Crisp clean covers, sound stapled binding, clean pages and inside covers. No dust jacket, as published. Quant...

Words in the Making

GH Vallins · 1935 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

A & C Black Ltd, 1935. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. The How & Why Series No. 19. Edited by Gerald Bullett. Orange covers with black lettering and decoration are a little darkened, bumped corners, sound binding, clean pages and end-papers. No du...

The A B C of Authorship

Ursula Bloom · 1938 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Blackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow, 1938. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Darkened beige covers with green lettering are a little bowed, corners are lightly bumped, sound binding, previous owner's name and date of 1944 in pencil on inside of fro...

Indexing and Precis-Writing, For the Use of Students preparing for Civil Service and other Examinations

Goodall Robinson · 1900 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

The Civil Service Press, Edinburgh, 1900. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. The Civil Service Student's Series. Dark red covers with gilt lettering, lightly bumped corners, plain spine, clean darkened end-papers with paper beginning to crack over fr...

The Counting House Thomas Thompson of Hull 1754 - 1828 and His Family.

Robinson, Arthur R B · 1992 · Hessay Books

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.94 | ¥949)

Sessions, 1992. First Edition. Soft Cover, Ill.:. Ex-Library, 120pp. Professionally laminated illustrated soft card covers. B + w illustrations. Ex school library - a Dewey number to the spine, a bookplate to the inner board and a bar code to the flyleaf, otherwise internally ...

Triumphant Living: A Stewardship Report

BACKENSTOE, MARTIN JOHN (WRITTEN BY) · 1949 · Clausen Books

$13.00 (€11.80 | £9.84 | ¥2,076)

Kutztown, The Kutztown Publishing Co. 1949. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: William B. Cairns. Hardcover, Former owner's inked gift inscription on ffep, date (1949) inked on title page. Age spotting to gutter of front and back end pages, else clean and tight. Light she...

Mirror of China

LALOY, LOUIS; TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY CATHERINE ALISON PHILLIPS · 1936 · Clausen Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

NY, Alfred A. Knopf. 1936, First American Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library Hardcover, Retired library copy, usual stamps and markings, library label remnants and old stains to the end papers, some age toning; Dust jacket remnant tipped in at rear endpaper,...

Bristol Fashion

Hugh Redwood · 1948 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Latimer House Ltd, London, 1948. First Edition, Hardcover. Clipped dust-jacket has nicks and repairs at the edges and is rubbed on the folds, clean dark blue corners with gilt lettering, lightly rubbed at the corners, sound binding, previous owner's name at the front, clean pa...

Life of the Rev. W Sanderson, Primitive Methodist, also Primitive Methodist Connexion Slips for Robert Tomlinson and others.

C Kendall · 1875 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£86.00 (€103.08 | $113.61 | ¥18,142)

G Lamb, London, 1875. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Dark red covers with gilt decoration on front, plain spine and blind decoration on the rear, rubbed spine-ends and corners, previous owner's name and date of 1876 on front end-paper, sound bind...

R Frederick L Blunt, Bishop of Hull. A Memoir by his Son

A Stanley V Blunt · 1913 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

MacMillan and Co Limited, London, 1913. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Purple covers with gilt lettering, gilt lettering, sunned spine, lightly bumped corners, sound binding is a little skewed, foxing to prelims, tissue-protected frontis, clean p...

Things That Were

S Scott Cooper, Hon. Canon of Chester, introduction by F Brooks · 1923 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Christophers, London, 1923. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Autobiography from birth into 1838 to 1875 when the author became Vicar of Chester. Covers early life in Hull, Bridlington and Leeds, prep school at Rugby, Derby, Crimean War, Trinity Col...

A Brazilian Mystic, the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro

R B Cunninghame Graham · 1920 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.49 | ¥2,953)

William Heinemann, London, 1920. First Edition, Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-library copy with plate for Hexham Borough Library with withdrawn stamp on inside of front cover, reference number at base of spine and card wallet on inside of back cover. Firm red covers are uneven...

The Political Institutions of the Ancient Greeks

Hammond, Basil Edward · 1970 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.49 | ¥2,953)

Argonaut, Chicago, 1970. Reprint, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Pale blue lightly marked covers with gilt lettering on the spine, sound binding, clean pages and end-papers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight:...