R Kesteven (52 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bumped at the head and heel of the spine. Jacket lightly rubbed with moderate edgewear. NOT ex-library.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. First Thus. Light shelfwear and rubbing to outer wraps, ink stamps to inner covers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bumped at the head and heel of the spine. Jacket with light edgewear in a mylar protector.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Paperback in good condition.

Stiff Paper Covers. Condition: Good. Branfield, Peter (illustrator). 106 pages. Illustrated with drawings. Size: 5 x 7.50. British Royalty.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A clean, unmarked, VG+ copy.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good, paperback. Generally clean, bright and tight. Slight marks but otherwise in good condition. 94 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Paperback in good condition.

Paperbound. Condition: In quite good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Octavo, [20cm/8in], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 96. Fully illustrated with pen & ink drawings by Peter Branfield. , The Spanish Armada was a Habsburg Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from Corunna in late May 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England. Medina Sidonia was an aristocrat without naval command experience but was made commander by King Philip II. The aim was to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I and her establishment of Protestantism in England, to stop English interference in the Spanish Netherlands and to stop the harm caused by English and Dutch privateering ships that interfered with Spanish interests in the Americas.

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

Condition: Fair. 1961. First Edition. 55 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper-covered boards with black cloth spine. Boards and pages are bound at the top edge. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Slight gutter cracking. Binding is firm. Tape marks to pastedowns and endpapers. Previous owner's inscription to inside front cover. Boards have some edge wear, with slight bumping to corners, while spine ends are moderately crushed and rubbed. Slightly scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Tape marks to edges of front board. Mild foxing.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Branfield, Peter (illustrator). Black mark on front cover, one page has a word written in top margin. Covers have light wear, are a bit faded along the edges. Usual library marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good for year, paperback. Generally clean, bright and tight. Some marks and age tanning but otherwise in very good condition. Slight fading to cover. 96 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Some loss from spine head, light stain on bottom fore edge corner of a few pages, a few pages dog-eared, front and rear endpapers faintly foxed. Binding tight and square. 1890 Hard Cover. viii, 384 pp. Color frontispiece of an arctic aurora, monochrome plates, and hundreds of black-and-white illustrations in text. A collection of scientific articles contributed by numerous authors, including: The Northern Lights; The Mathematics of Plants; How the Wind Changes; Dreams; Why the Sea is Salt; The Anatomy of a Lobster; Rust; A Glass of Wine; Voyages in Cloudland; The Chemistry of Water; Nuggets and Quartz; The Sun Our Fire, Light, and Life; A Fish in the Water; A Microscopical Biography; Firing a Shot; What is 'Power'?; History Out of Refuse Heaps; What Is in the Interior of the Earth?; How Sunshine Warms the Earth; What Are the Stars Made Of?; The Protective Colours of Animals; Great Sea Reptiles; Shooting Stars; Continental Islands, and How They Were Formed; Teeth; How the River Severn Cut through Wenlock Edge; Moles and Mole-Hills; The Mariner's Compass; Spiders' Webs; Glaciers; Diamonds; The History of a Hen's Egg; Growth; The Magic Lantern; A Primrose; A Cannon Shot; Why the Rain Falls; The Story of a Volcano as Told in History; Can Science Conquer Rust?; How the Airs Were Discovered; What is 'Work'?; The Hand; How Glaciers Move; Dust; A Piece of Rock Salt; Protective Mimicry in Animals; The Physics of Music; Touch; Animal Colonies and Co-operation; Colour-Blindness; Oceanic Islands and Their History; Modern Explosives; The Gravel on the Garden Path; A Peat-Bog; A Piece of Iceland Spar; Polar Ice; Rubies and Sapphires; Weather Telegraphy; Lodgers and Boarders in Lower Life.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good, paperback. Generally clean, bright and tight. Slight marks but otherwise in very good condition. 84 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Series: Studies in English History 102p slim paperback with green cover, nice clean copy, school bookplate, some illustrations, hardly used Language: English.

Stiff Paper Wrappers. Condition: Good-. Branfield, Peter (illustrator). Top of spine has tooth mark damage. Fourth printing of the 1968 edition. Size: 5 1/8 x 7 1/8. Book.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN:

Condition: vg. vg Knight Books 1979? edition paperback title page missing In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Soft cover. Condition: VG++. First Edition. In the English History series concentrating on key moments. Card covers, 94pp inc index, with b/w illustrations. Covers have only the lightest shelfwear and very slightly sunned spine. But book looks basically unread. Ref:114833.

Stiff Paper Wrappers. Condition: Fine. Branfield, Peter (illustrator). Fourth printing of the 1968 edition. Size: 5 1/8 x 7 1/8. Book.

Stiff Paper Wrappers. Condition: Fine. Branfield, Peter (illustrator). Fourth printing of the 1968 edition. Size: 5 1/8 x 7 1/8. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. PETER BRANFIELD (illustrator). * PUBLISHER : CHATTO & WINDUS * YEAR : 1968 * ISBN : N/A * No OF PAGES : 84 * CONDITION : USED - GOOD * OTHER: THE COVER IS RUBBED AND CREASED WITH FADING AND BUMPING ALONG THE EDGES AND CORNERS. THE SPINE IS WORN WITH BUMPING AT BOTH ENDS. THE BINDING IS FIRM. THE PAGES ARE LIGHTLY TANNED, THOUGH REMAIN CLEAR AND CRISP. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN:

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. book clean and tight. DJ: slight edge wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition softback, 1968. Original pictorial wrappers spine uniformly faded. Grammar school stamp on the blank flyleaf. Pages clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated. 95 pages.

Heavy Card Covers. Condition: Near Fine. An excellent copy of this book. No creases to the spine or the covers. Very clean covers and pages. 96 tight pages inc. index. Neat school stamp to ffep. This book appears unread. Size: 8in x 5in. Book.