John P Evans (136 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Minor shelf/edge wear. Uncreased spine,binding tight.Contains small amount of highlighting ,book is in very good condition.CD INCLUDED.

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Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 11, No 6, pp. 1430-1435, 4to, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, else VG.

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hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Four 12mo, staple-bound paperback booklets (1978-1979 copyrights by the Board of Trustees or Publication Trust of the National Gallery of Art, Washington). Each 44-page (including the covers), color-illustrated booklet has the number 25 written in the upper cornet of the first interior page (except Booklet 1) but is otherwise clean, complete and securely bound. The wrappers are similarly at least VG although Booklet 1 does have a touch of edge wear. NO ex-library copies.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. First Edition. First Edition, trade paperback. Tiny corner wear to bottom spine otherwise unread smooth spine. Michael David Biegel (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 124 pages. James Fisher "The Fulmar population of Britain and Ireland, 1959" / P Hope Jones "Effects of consecutive, contrasting, winters on the bird population of an Anglesey pine plantation" / M P Harris "Age of return to the colony, age of breeding and adult survival of Manx Shearwaters" / I Newton and P R Evans "Weights of birds in winter" / John Hori "Moult migration of second-summer Shelduck" (SL#83).…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 170 pages. Hugh Allyn Hunt "Acme Rooms and sweet Marjorie Russell" / Edward Franklin "All that Sunday madness" / Giles Gordon "Two women, two eyes" / , Victor Manne Joshua's day" / , Paul Thompson "The last laugh" / J C Oates "Dying" / Jay Neugeboren The Zodiacs" / Sally Griffiths "Ferrets for friends" / , B E Evans "The answer obviously is no" / , P Allison "The fulfilling of the law" / Natalia Ginzburg "My job" / James Hurst "The summer of two figs" / , John E Dineen "The Gods of Rome". …

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Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Paperback Original. First Edition mass market paperback, 288 pages; spine creased and slanted, store stamped inside front cover, otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Born near Berwick-on-Tweed in the Scottish Borders, and the son of a Church of Scotland minister, Patrick Brydone served as a second lieutenant in the Seven Years' War, returning from Portugal in 1763. Hearing that other ex-soldiers were becoming guides to those wishing to explore Europe, he established a business as a travelling preceptor in Lausanne on Lake Geneva, showing both the intellectual rigour of what today we would call a scientist or polymath, and an ability to inspire curiosity and the continual search for knowledge in his charges.Publication of a book he wrote in the early 1770s about his travels in Sicily and Malta, when tutor to two sons of the gentry, was a huge success, being published in France, Germany and the USA in various editions. Subsequent commissions took him and his charges to Vienna, Berlin, Poland and Russia and in 1777 Brydone became the tutor to the two elder sons of Lord North, the British Prime Minister at the time. Two years later, North family patronage led to him being made Comptroller General of the Stamp Office, a useful sinecure for life.He married the thirty-three-year-old daughter of the principal of Edinburgh University in 1785 and set up home at Lennel House near Coldstream. At the age of seventy, Brydone had the good fortune to see his eldest daughter Mary married to Gilbert Elliot, heir to the earldom of Minto in Roxburghshire. Despite his eventual near blindness, he was to share many of the joys his grandchildren afforded the family. He died in June 1818. The first biography of this remarkable figure Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardback. Condition: New. Born near Berwick-on-Tweed in the Scottish Borders, and the son of a Church of Scotland minister, Patrick Brydone served as a second lieutenant in the Seven Years' War, returning from Portugal in 1763. Hearing that other ex-soldiers were becoming guides to those wishing to explore Europe, he established a business as a travelling preceptor in Lausanne on Lake Geneva, showing both the intellectual rigour of what today we would call a scientist or polymath, and an ability to inspire curiosity and the continual search for knowledge in his charges.Publication of a book he wrote in the early 1770s about his travels in Sicily and Malta, when tutor to two sons of the gentry, was a huge success, being published in France, Germany and the USA in various editions. Subsequent commissions took him and his charges to Vienna, Berlin, Poland and Russia and in 1777 Brydone became the tutor to the two elder sons of Lord North, the British Prime Minister at the time. Two years later, North family patronage led to him being made Comptroller General of the Stamp Office, a useful sinecure for life. He married the thirty-three-year-old daughter of the principal of Edinburgh University in 1785 and set up home at Lennel House near Coldstream. At the age of seventy, Brydone had the good fortune to see his eldest daughter Mary married to Gilbert Elliot, heir to the earldom of Minto in Roxburghshire. Despite his eventual near blindness, he was to share many of the joys his grandchildren afforded the family. He died in June 1818.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The Victorian Elliots in Peace and War by John P. Evans. Signed by author on full title page. Signature only. Hardcover published in 2012 by Amberley Publishing. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Good. The Rise of the Elliots of Minto begins as battles between Scottish clans and reivers across the EnglishScottish border continue. A Gilbert Elliot is helping a Campbell, the earl of Argyll, escape the clutches of the law. Soon afterwards, as a member of the Scottish Parliament, he prospers both socially and financially. Being made a baronet, he retires following the Treaty of Union, dying in 1718. A chronological account of the happenings of six generations of Elliots in the eighteenth century, and a dramatis personae of well over 100, completes the authors trilogy about the family commenced in 2011. Inheritance of the estate in Roxburghshire in the Borders by the second baronet is accompanied by his being made a judge, and by the expansion of his interests in music and rural affairs. Two of three successful marriages among his offspring were then to greatly influence the familys ascendancy from the gentry to the lower ranks of the aristocracy. Key to this was the eventual third baronet who became a politician and a literary patron, and his elder sister Eleanor who was to live the first part of her married life in America. Between them they had at least seventeen children, including an admiral, an army captain, the governor of New York, and a woman poet. A third union between the fourth baronets sister and William Eden, who was a friend of Pitt the Younger, government minister and diplomat at the time of the American War of Independence, cemented the familys association with the Eden family. Although a social history of the family and several biographies or essays about two or three senior Elliots exist, little has been revealed till now about the fascinating lives of its younger members or the family in the round. The Rise of the Elliots of Minto provides a warm and perceptive glimpse into the life of a far-from-rich aristocratic family, as well as a picture of what the populace at large endured. The lid is lifted a little further on both the conventional and non-conventional in eighteenth-century society, where adventure and death were partners. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: New. In English.

hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. 1st UK Edition. New copy picked straight from printer's box. Priority orders will be dispatched by Royal Mail TRACKED 24 or courier (particularly if over 2kg). Standard mail will be dispatched by Royal Mail TRACKED 48 (up to 2kg), heavier items by courier . Overseas orders will be dispatched by Royal Mail International.Tracked. PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR MY PRIVACY POLICY. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very good book in clean olive board covers with bright gilt titles to purple panel on spine; slight bumps to spine ends. Internally very good; owner's name to flyleaf; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page; copiously illustrated. C R Evans (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 254pp. Hardback, green board covers, DJ, VG, 1978 reprint of the 1965 edition with new material added, B&W illustrations, The author's memoir of his career with harness racing, as publicity chief of Vernon Downs and then head of publicity and public relations for the U.S. Trotting Association. John Mahaffy and Janet Schwerdt Hack (illustrator).…