John Bevis (165 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 217 pp. Dark teal boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. Illustrated with 36 line drawings from Punch Magazine. This collection contains: Animals by Gerald Durrell; Art by Bevis Hillier; Business by Robert Heller; Communications by David Taylor; Drink by Cyril Ray; Films by Alexander Walker; Food by Clement Freud; Law and Crime by Fenton Bresler; Literature by Anthony Burgess; Medicine by Richard Gordon; Men's Fashion by John Taylor; The Military by Alun Chalfont; Music by Alan Blyth; Playtime by Nigel Dempster; Politics by Paul Johnson; Pop Culture by Kenneth Robinson; Sport by Ian Wooldridge; Theatre by Sheridan Morley; Travel by Alan Whicker; Women's Fashion by Ann Ryan; and Young World by Benny Green. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Condition: New. pp. 160 24 Illus.

Paperback. Condition: New. 'An eccentric homage and passionate clarion call' - TLS'A hymn of praise to the palaces of delight that should grace every street corner. Absolutely exquisite.' Ian McMillan John Bevis is a writer and book-lover on an eccentric quest: to obtain a membership card from every library authority in England. In a ten-year mission criss-crossing the country - from Solihull to Slough, from Cleveland to Cornwall - he enrols at libraries of all shapes and sizes: monuments to Art Deco or Brutalism; a converted corset factory; one even shaped like a pork pie. With the architectural eye of Pevsner and the eavesdropping ear of Bill Bryson, he engages us at every step with anecdotes and aperçus about the role of the public library in our national life, while ruing its decline in the age of austerity. As interested in the people he finds as he is in the buildings and their history, he is a humane, witty and erudite guide. The result is a book to be treasured by anyone who has ever used a library.…

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Condition: New. pp. 160.

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Paperback. Condition: New. 'An eccentric homage and passionate clarion call' - TLS'A hymn of praise to the palaces of delight that should grace every street corner. Absolutely exquisite.' Ian McMillan John Bevis is a writer and book-lover on an eccentric quest: to obtain a membership card from every library authority in England. In a ten-year mission criss-crossing the country - from Solihull to Slough, from Cleveland to Cornwall - he enrols at libraries of all shapes and sizes: monuments to Art Deco or Brutalism; a converted corset factory; one even shaped like a pork pie. With the architectural eye of Pevsner and the eavesdropping ear of Bill Bryson, he engages us at every step with anecdotes and aperçus about the role of the public library in our national life, while ruing its decline in the age of austerity. As interested in the people he finds as he is in the buildings and their history, he is a humane, witty and erudite guide. The result is a book to be treasured by anyone who has ever used a library.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In 1892 Richard and Cherry Kearton took the first ever photograph of a bird's nest with eggs. This new and definitive study concerns itself with the lives and partnership of the Keartons, especially their role in the history of nature photography; their attitudes to and interaction with nature; and the status of invention in their work. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An eccentric homage and passionate clarion call TLS'A hymn of praise to the palaces of delight that should grace every street corner. Absolutely exquisite.' Ian McMillanJohn Bevis is a writer and book-lover on an eccentric quest: to obtain a membership card from every library authority in England.In a ten-year mission criss-crossing the country from Solihull to Slough, from Cleveland to Cornwall he enrols at libraries of all shapes and sizes: monuments to Art Deco or Brutalism; a converted corset factory; one even shaped like a pork pie.With the architectural eye of Pevsner and the eavesdropping ear of Bill Bryson, he engages us at every step with anecdotes and apercus about the role of the public library in our national life, while ruing its decline in the age of austerity.As interested in the people he finds as he is in the buildings and their history, he is a humane, witty and erudite guide. The result is a book to be treasured by anyone who has ever used a library. A writer and book-lovers eccentric quest: to obtain a membership card from every library authority in England Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Eric Parkers 'Surrey Naturalist' (1952) is the source of the poetry in this collection: using those same words, detached from their original context, would allow me to build new meanings from locally-sourced materials. This would be a way of by-passing the selectiveness of my memories, the bias of my experiences, the taint of hindsight. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…