B W Bourne (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Symposia of the Institute of Biology 1956; Good/No Dj. Ex-Medical Library, no marks in text but has medical library sticker, stamps, original card in pocket showing nine readers who checked book out 1957-1970; 129 pp.

PB. Condition: good, wraps (softcover). 339 lots. Slight bump top of rear cover. B&W illustrations (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 64 pages. David Lack "The numbers of bird species on islands" / H B Ginn "The use of annual ringing and nest record card totals, as indications of population levels" / W R P Bourne "Seabird Group, Interim Report 1968-69" (SL#83).

PB. Condition: very good, wraps (softcover). 599 lots. B&W illustrations (illustrator).

PB. 80pp With prices realized laid in. good, wraps (softcover) prices realized laid in. B&W illustrations (illustrator).

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st. full page with portrait of the Archibhop esinae seated in a throne-like chair. One page, suitable for framing Size: 11" x 16". B/w Engraving (illustrator).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition hardback, 1957, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage. Binding tight, no annotations or inscriptions - owner's name to front pastedown; text clean and clear throughout. Private copy, not ex library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 245 clean, unmarked pages; dj w/price clipped, in mylar; First Edition, First Printing. b/w Illus (illustrator). Signed & Inscribed By Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 67 pages, a Near Fine hardback, publisher's original dark blue leatherette binding with bright gold gilt lettering to the front cover. Appears unused and NOT FROM A LIBRARY, plus completely clean from any former owner markings.

Cloth. Condition: Gut. 122 Seiten Guter Zustand/ Good Ex-Library. Cover with small damage. ha1021101 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 300.

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Red Cloth. First Edition. Very Good+, No Dust Jacket. "Compiled Under The Direction Of The Committee On Scientific Method In The Social Sciences Of The Social Science Research Council." 822 Pages, Slightly Age-Toned At Edges. Five Words Underlined In Red Pencil On Pg.Ix Of The Table Of Contents.No Other Underlining Or Marking. Previous Owner's Name In Very Light Pencil On Front Endpaper. Covers Clean And Unmarked. Top Of Spine Frayed. Bottom Of Spine Shelfworn. A Solid, Tight Book.…

Condition: Sehr gut. First Edition. Octavo. XXI, Errata, 432 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher's cloth with lettering to spine. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. A rare book with A comprehensive view of territorial differences in Poor Law and Parochial Relief within the England and Scotland of the early 19th century. Chapters include details of Accounts, Allotments and Land and Gardens (".for occupation after hours as a mere amusement") Chapters include Costs of keeping in Workhouses / Allowances given to able-bodied without work being required / Allowances given at Liverpool to the aged and infirm / Bastardy - Chiefly caused in workhouses by the absence of the menas for necessary division of the sexes / Beer-Shops / Chapters on Emigration to Canada, to the United States, Emigrants from Lenham etc. Pauperism / Rents of Labourers Dwellings / Riots in Sussex / Causes of Riots at Brede and at Northiam / History of Poor-Laws at the City of Oxford (The Rev. H. Bishop's Report) / etc.…

First Edition. [Second World War Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.90 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the blue and white dust-jacket designed by Foss, priced at 7/6. Cloth spine faded, with toning to jacket spine. Rubbing and light chipping to jacket edges, with several large closed tears. Rare with the jacket. Very good.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A lovely signed first edition of this fascinating catalogue of Herefordshire church plate. First edition. Scarce. Author's presentation copy. Signed by both authors to the front endpapers. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. Illustrated with two photographic plates. Collated, complete. A resourceful catalogue of Herefordshire church plate, with an account of the plate held by each church in the region arranged alphabetically and an Index of parishes to the rear of the work. The idea for the work followed the theft of a chalice from a Shropshire church, which due to insufficient cataloguing, the vicar was unable to accurately describe. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. SIgned by both authors to the front endpapers. Externally, lovely condition with only minor bumping and rubbing, leading to very subtle loss of cloth to the spine head, and one or two marks. Internally, firmly bound. Very bright and clean. Near Fine. None (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. The very scarce first edition of this catalogue of Hereford church plate. The very scarce first edition of this catalogue of Herefordshire church plate, with an account of the plate held by each church in the region arranged alphabetically, beginning with Abdon, and concluding with Yockleton. With an Index of Parishes to the rear of the work.With a small, neat, stamp of the library of the Assay Office of Birmingham to the front free endpaper, and no further library markings. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Boards are bright and clean. Small library stamp to tail of front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Near Fine. None (illustrator). book.…

Paperback. Condition: Very good+. Fifth Printing. Very good+ with light cover wear and fading; text clean and free of marks. The classic first Bell Labs journal detailing the origins of Unix, the shell; C Programming Language; and Statistical Text Processing (spellchecking); originally published 1978, reprinted on account of its continued popularity.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 15 consecutive issues of The Motor Cycle magazine from the early part of 1948 bound into a single volume. Half bound in red waxed cloth over marbled paper boards with gilt titles on spine. Marbled edges. 4to. . Boards just a little rubbed and rounded on corners and spine ends, paper scuffed on rear join, front joint a little rubbed. Text block edges a little dust darkened. Internally the pages show some mild toning else neat, clean and tight. The Motor Cycle was a weekly magazine, commonly known as The Blue 'Un. Established in 1903, it was the first British magazine devoted to motor cycles and motorcycling. Renown for its focus on road tests and features on reader's bikes, it also covered motor cycling news and key issues and developments. Contributors often signed off with pseudonyms: that of the editor, Arthur Bourne was Torrens, as well as the famous Ixion (Canon B Davis). These issues from just after the second world war provide a fascinating insight into the world of motorcycling in the late 1940s.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Consecutive issues of The Motor Cycle magazine from the early part of 1947 bound into a single volume. Half bound in red waxed cloth over marbled paper boards with gilt titles on spine. Marbled edges. 4to. . Boards just a little rubbed and rounded on corners and spine ends front joint a little rubbed. Text block edges a little dust darkened. Internally the pages show some mild toning else neat, clean and tight. The Motor Cycle was a weekly magazine, commonly known as The Blue 'Un. Established in 1903, Motor Cycle was the first British magazine devoted to motor cycles and motorcycling. Known for its focus on road tests and features on reader's bikes, it also covered motor cycling news and key issues and developments. Contributors often signed off with pseudonyms: that of the editor, Arthur Bourne was Torrens, as well as the famous Ixion (Canon B Davis). These issues from just after the second world war provide a fascinating insight into the world of motorcycling in the late 1940s.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages 177-272, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Blue Bandits - Part 1 - Elusive thieves operate in the Franco-Italian villages on either side of the frontier in the French department of the Hautes Alpes and the Italian district of Monte Viso; How I Lost My Christmas Dinner - hilarious story of a Christmas spent with the Maori adherents of self-styled "prophet" Rua - article with photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 2 - photo-illustrated account of Harry A. Franck's visit to Quito and his tramp through Ecuador; The Last Voyage of H.M.S. "Drake" - a vivid glimpse of the perils of convoy work and the "price of Admiralty"; ; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 1; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 1of Airman Capt. T.W.White's adventures and daring escape; The Moonshiners - what happened when the author stumbled into a camp of Tennessee moonshiners; Photo of thousands of snakes at breeding time in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area; The Wonderland of the Arctic - description of a trip to Danish Greenland, with photos; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 3 - exploration and adventure in unknown New Guinea; Photo of German "Death Clock" constructed primarily of skulls and other bones; Two Balloonatics - an exciting balloon adventure from just before the war (WWI); Treasure Island - great photo-illustrated article about the remote South Pacific island of Nauru; The Mad Millionaire - how vast wealth came unexpectedly to a poor Mexican Indian, and the tragedy that ensued; The Sacred Mountain - photo-illustrated account of a picturesque Tibetan pilgrimage; The Resurrection of "Red" Wilson - an exciting story of the old days in the south-west, when the Apaches were still a terror in the land; Photo of a lakatoi (lakatois) New Guinea boat. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Robinson, T.H.; Gillett, F.; Horne, A.E.; Cleaver, Ralph; Brightwell, L.R.; Prater, Ernest; Tennant, Dudley; Webb, Arch.; Black, A. & M.; Soper, G.; Coller, Hy. (illustrator).…

Decorative Boards. Condition: Near Fine. 12 issues bound in 2, published between October 1910 - September 1911. [10], 376, iv, [32] ads ; [10], iv, [30] pp. Elegant half cream buckram over decorative boards with gilt-tooled lettering to spine. Uncut. Light discolouration to top of boards, leaves toned but clean throughout. Bookplates to paste-down of vol. 1 and small inscriptions in ink to rear endpapers. 'The Open Window' was a monthly illustrated magazine published in West & Central London, running for six months from October 1910, and then five months from April 1911. These 2 volumes contain the full 12 issues, the third issue containing Katherine Mansfield's first published work 'A Fairy Story'. Written contributions include: Edward Thomas, E. M. Forster, George Bourne, Katherine Mansfield, Maxwell Armfield, Douglas Goldring, W. H. Davies, Geoffrey Whitworth, Lord Dunsany, John Drinkwater, Walter de la Mare and Vivian Locke Ellis etc. Artworks contributors include: C . J. Holmes, John Sloane, Auguste Rodin, Maxwell Armfield, C. M. Gere, Jack B Yeats. Adverts and a pair of wraps bound in. 16mo.…