Non-fiction Books

1279 BROWN, HILTON

RUDYARD KIPLING - A New Appreciation

1945 HAMISH HAMILTON

HARDBACK

1ST EDITION. VERY Nr FINE IN A VERY GOOD- UNCLIPPED D/W. THE JACKET HAS A SMALL SECTION LOST TO THE TOP OF THE BACK PANEL. WITH A FOREWORD BY FRANK SWINNERTON AND ILLUSTRATED WITH 5 B+W PORTRAIT PHOTOS

 

2322 Brown, Kevin

The POX - The Life and Near Death of a Very Social Disease

2006 Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire.

Hardback

First edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dustwrapper is in fine condition and unclippedretaining the original £18.99 price at the front flap.
From almost the time when man first discovered the pleasures of sin, he has also experienced the torments of the Pox. This book uncovers the unwholesome history of syphilis and gonorrhoea, and their treatment, from the Renaissance to the antibiotic age.

 
 

428 BROWNE, R.

BEYOND THE CAPE OF HOPE

1965 JOHN MURRAY

HARDBACK

FINE, VERY GOOD

 
 

1459 BUCHAN, JOHN

MEMORY HOLD-THE-DOOR

1945 HODDER & STOUGHTON

HARDBACK

REPRINT. NO D/W. GREEN CLOTH BOARDS WITH BLIND MOTIF TO UPPER AND GILT TITLE ON SPINE. PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE AND 9 PLATES. EDGES SLIGHTLY RUBBED BUT GENERALLY VERY GOOD. JOHN BUCHAN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

 

431 BURGESS, ANTHONY

YOU`VE HAD YOUR TIME

1990 HEINEMANN

HARDBACK

VERY GOOD, VERY GOOD

 

990 BURGESS, ANTHONY

FLAME INTO BEING

1985 HEINEMANN

HARDBACK

UK 1st EDITION. THE LIFE AND WORK OF D.H. LAWRENCE. VERY GOOD+ BOOK & UNCLIPPED D/W.

 

182. Burgess, Anthony:

Private Pictures

Published by Jonathan Cape, London. 1980.

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. The dust wrapper is only lightly chipped at the tips with some surface marks to the dust wrapper otherwise fine. The book is clean and unmarked.
A collection of photographs by Daniel Angeli and Jean-Paul Dousset of stars off their guard including Jack Nicholson at "full moon" among others. With an introduction by Anthony Burgess.

 
1627 BURNFORD, SHEILA

THE FIELDS OF NOON

1964 HODDER AND STOUGHTON

HARDBACK

1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD IN A VERY GOOD PRICE CLIPPED D/W WHICH IS SLIGHTLY SMOKE STAINED TO THE SPINE. PREVIOUS OWNER NAME TO THE FRONT ENDPAPER. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL BOOK LOOKING AT THE AUTHORS FAVORITE PASSTIMES AND HOBBIES AND AN UNSENTIMENTAL APPRECIATION OF HER WORLD. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY.

 

1353 CADOGAN, MARY

WOMEN WITH WINGS: female flyers in fact and fiction

1992 MACMILLAN

HARDBACK

1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD + BOOK AND UNCLIPPED D/ W. A highly entertaining celebration of the achievements of female aviatrices from the 18th century balloonists to comic strip heroine's and today's astronauts.

 

  
 

1216 CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER

THE TROUBLE WITH AMERICANS

1971 RUPERT HART-DAVIS

HARDBACK

1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD+ IN LIKE UNCLIPPED D/W. "A WITTY AND PROVOCATIVE ONSLAUGHT ON AMERICA'S MOST CHERISHED ILLUSIONS" "NO ONE IS SPARED AS CAMPBELL'S BROADSWORD CRITIQUE TAKES IN THE MAFIA, THE MILITARY CASTE, BOMB-THROWING YOUNG RADICALS AND CORRUPT AND HYPOCRITICAL POLITICIANS".

 
 

434 CAMPBELL, PATRICK

A FEAST OF TRUE FANDANGLES

1979 W.H. ALLEN

HARDBACK

VERY GOOD, VERY GOOD

 
 

1496 CAMPBELL, VICE-ADMIRAL GORDON

BRAVE MEN ALL

1935 HODDER & STOUGHTON

HARDBACK

1ST EDITION. NO D/W. BLUE CLOTH VERY SLIGHTLY RUBBED AT THE TIPS. SOME LIGHT FOXING TO THE HALF-TITLE PAGE AND INDEX PAGES OTHERWISE VERY GOOD. THE FRONT ENDPAPER IS INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY GORDON CAMBELL. TALES OF GREAT COURAGE AT SEA IN PEACE-TIME.

 
1572 CAPSTICK, PETER HATHAWAY

DEATH IN THE LONG GRASS

1978 CASSELL

HARDBACK

1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD+ IN A LIKE UNCLIPPED D/W. A BIG GAME HUNTER'S ADVENTURES IN THE AFRICAN BUSH. B+W PHOTO ILLUSTRATED.

 

1053 CARR, MARION

CALL OF THE RUNNING TIDE

1983 SAILTRUST

HARDBACK

1st EDITION. PREVIOUS OWNER STICKER TO FRONT PASTEDOWN OTHERWISE FINE BOOK & WRAPPER. THE MEMOIRS OF A GIRL ALOFT IN THE DAYS OF TRADE.

 
 

1241 CARROLL, JOHN M.

THE STORY OF THE LASER

1965 SOUVENIR PRESS

HARDBACK

1ST UK EDITION. VERY GOOD+ BOOK IN VERY GOOD SLIGHTLY EDGEWORN & CHIPPED, UNCLIPPED D/W. DESCRIBES THE VARIOUS KINDS OF LASER, HOW THEY WORK. PROBLEMS WITH DEVELOPMENT OF LASER TECHNOLOGY, COOLING, ATMOSPHERIC DEFFUSION AND RESEARCH TO OVERCOME THESE DIFFICULTIES. PLUS DETAILED PLAN FOR CONSTRUCTION & OPERATION OF A SIMPLE LASER. ILLUSTRATED WITH B+W PHOTOS AND DIAGRAMS.