Bessie Michael (12 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Gray and brown cloth, spine panel lettered in gold foil. As issued. Glassine dust wrapper no longer present. Slipcase, printed paper covered boards, shows very slight shelf wear, nearly as issued. Each of the 50 selected volumes is shown, with facing-page commentary. Limited to 3,225 copies. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair / with Protective Cover. First American Edition. Fair condition for it's age. Yellowing on the pages, foxing on the FEP and BEP. D.j. has some edge wear, rubbing, corner chipping. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. ISSN 0143-2974. Contents include: Editorial: search room closures; County record office closures; News from the Cambridge group for the history of population and social structure; Person mobility in three West Riding parishes 1777-1812; Distance to church and registration experience; Notes and queries: age at baptism in the London parish of St Olave Old Jewry; birth baptism intervals in some Flintshire parishes; Local research in progress. Crisp cream illustrated covers with previous owner's details in top corner, sound stapled binding, clean pages. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 42012060151. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 64 pages. "Distance to church and registration Moira Long and Bessie Maltby "Personal Mobility in three West Riding parishes 1777-1812" / Roger Finlay experience" (SL#131).

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. Washington: Counterpoint, 1999. First edition. Hardcover binding. The New York Times Book Review : "As the authors of this brilliant history point out, the Great Game was a dry run for the cold war, avoiding outright conflict but marked by the same search for influence and the same displays of bravery and cussedness, though whether the story of the cold war will ever seem as exciting as this, I doubt. Tournament of Shadows is much more than a magesterial work of scholarship: it is an absorbing inquiry into men and motives that is one part le Carre, one part Indiana Jones. . . . New in new dustjacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. Washington: Counterpoint, 1999. First edition. Hardcover binding. The New York Times Book Review : "As the authors of this brilliant history point out, the Great Game was a dry run for the cold war, avoiding outright conflict but marked by the same search for influence and the same displays of bravery and cussedness, though whether the story of the cold war will ever seem as exciting as this, I doubt. Tournament of Shadows is much more than a magesterial work of scholarship: it is an absorbing inquiry into men and motives that is one part le Carre, one part Indiana Jones. . . . New in new dustjacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.

First edition (as stated upon copyright page). 247 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed; scuffing, nicks, and some creasing at edges with small chip at spine heel; soiling to white rear panel; front flap retains publisher's printed price at bottom right. Maroon cloth with bright silver stamping to spine and front board. Toning to text block edges; deckle fore-edge. Endpapers toned; past owner's ink signature on front pastedown; pencil underlining and marginalia amongst text with pencil notes on page 247 verso. Binding is firm.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Slipcase Acceptable. (Book Industry, Printing, Graphic Arts).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rose, Sir Francis (illustrator). Hardcover in dust jacket. Hint of foxing to top edge. Moderate edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket (now protected in removable archival mylar sleeve). Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked. Index. A sound and handsome copy, very neat. xxii,288pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. ROSE, Sir Francis (illustrator). First thus. 30th Anniversary edition, 288pp, light wear to unclipped dustjacket, unmarked.