david charles ltd newton abbot devon (266 results)

560pp. with illust. Ex-lib.; f.e.p. missing. VG/VG in sellophane sleeve.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Dust jacket complete but price clipped.Green cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. 216 pages clean and tight. The key to success with horses lies in understanding their unique and complex nature. In this fascinating book the author. o Explains exactly what makes horses `tick' o Unravels the mysteries of equine psychology o Provides detailed information on breeding, breaking and training. o Uses real life stories and anecdotes to illustrate her techniques. o Explains how to overcome problems simply and effectively. No horse owner should be without it! Size: 8vo.

Hard Cloth Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Numerous Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Dust jacket complete. Black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 224 pages clean and tight. During World War II the British Commandos and the United States Rangers brought the art of combined operations and of the sudden, lightning strike upon the enemy to a level of organisation never reached any previous war. But the Commandos and the Rangers were the inheritors of a long tradition; the history of strike forces made up of highly trained, highly professional crack troops is as old as that of war itself. In The Raiders Richard Garrett tells the stories of some of the most exciting of the raids carried out by these more-or-less irregular strike forces -- raids which have often had an effect upon the course of war out of all proportion to the numbers of men involved - and provides linking commentaries that put each raid in perspective and add up to a concise history of this little-studied branch of warfare. The stories range in time from the Peninsular War, and the remarkable exploits of a frigate's crew that held up the advance of an entire French army, to the 1970s and a special operation that used the most modern techniques and weaponry - the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport. In between we march with British troops who burned the White House in 1814, follow Canadian and British Commandos into the hell of Dieppe, take part in the D-day landings with the Rangers, and, in Vietnam, drop into a prisoner-of-war camp to rescue prisoners who were no longer there. This is a book that reveals the drama, horror and excitement of war at its moot personal as it traces the development of the military strategy that Winston Churchill memorably called `the butcher and bolt policy'. Size: 4to.

Soft cover. Condition: Book Very Good +. 311 pages incl index, notes and references & detailed bibliography. Page-edges lightly yellowed & foxed, small bump to back bottom corner o/w a very clean, very tidy copy.

Cloth Covered Boards/Hard Back. Condition: Book Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket is Near Fine. First Edition. 253 pages incluidng index and appendix. Dustjacket and book have slight wear to spine-ends, very slight wear to corners, book has minimal wear to edges. Excellent b/w photography. Top page-edges lightly foxed. Text is spotless. Very nice condition.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good. First Edition. xvi + 280 pages incl. index, bibliograpy & appendices. Smells very MUSTY and pages to text have a light wave. Dustjacket has some darkening to spine & rear with wear/small creases/nicks to spine-ends. Wear with rubbing to corners & a few small nicks & creases to edges. Book has light wear to spine-ends & boards' corners. With the exception of the musty smell, the contents is very clean & in nice condition with excellent B&W photographic illustrations & sound binding.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Paperback Edition. Easy-to-follow techniques to establish a non-confrontational relationship with your horse. 159pp, illustrated throughout with colour photographs. Cover has tiny creases to corners and minor surfaxe scuffing, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Hardback Edition. 220 x 150mm. pp. 424. English text. First hardback edition of 'Limestones and Caves of the Mendip Hills'. Black and white illustrations, including photographs, maps and plans. Bound in original light brown boards. Housed in pictorial dust jacket. Some light marking and bumping to book and dust jacket, with one very small chip to base of spine of dust jacket (2mm x 2mm). Binding strong. Not price-clipped. No ownership inscription or underlining.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st UK Paperback Edition. This volume is entitled "Men of Gallipoli ". there is light tanning to the text block, otherwise the covers and text block are square, tight and clean. This book is checked and photographed in the box as proof against in-transit damage. Book price includes 2nd class parcel post in UK only.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good. First Edition. 416 pages incl. index & bibliography. Darker blue background dustjacket has light colour fading to spine, light wear to spine-ends, corners and edges.Hardback binding has light wear to spine-ends. Minor darkening to page-edges o/w pages clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good. First Edition. 190 pages. Dustjacket has sight wear to top spine-end only, unclipped. Hardback binding has light wear to top spine-end and boards' corners. Pages clean, nice condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. Jacket is lightly marked, sunned and worn, with two or three small tears to the edges. Faint foxing on the page block. A few creased page corners. All text is clear, with sound binding. CM. Used.

Glossy Pictorial Boards. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Colour Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. "How to be a successful hostess - or host? This problem faces most people at some time or another, especially today with the ever-increasing cost of entertaining in a restaurant. This book covers every aspect of modern home entertaining to make it both practical and enjoyable." Please email for further details Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good. Third Edition. 224 pages. Cream/white dustjacket has light wear to spine-ends, edges corners. Dark green has light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. B&W photographic illustrations. Very clean pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good hardcover. Bookseller's reference copy (Henry Sotheran Ltd.) with their stamps on the page block and endpapers. "Reference only" pencilled on the reverse of the BEP. Original price sticker on the front flap. Shelfworn jacket with two or three nicks to the edges. Minor bump to one leading board corner. Light tanning on the pastedowns. All text and illustrations are clear. CM. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover with lightly bumped upper leading corners. Three minor scores on face edge of front board. Dust jacket has creased and lightly tanned upper edge and some superficial scores and light creases at front. Remains of price-sticker on front inside flap. Minor gap in binding at pages 64-65. Pages are clean, and text remains clear throughout. T. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£4.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 200pp, illustrated. A history and exploration of the film and entertainment life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous creation and the actors who have portrayed Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. A fairly scarce book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First paperback edition, first impression. Edge wear, chipping and short closed tears to top and bottom of jacket and spine, jacket slightly over size for book, corners rubbed, not price clipped (£4.25), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a reasonable copy. 270pp. An account of the shipwrecks discovered off the Devon coast. Richard James Vincent Larn, OBE (b. 1931) is a retired Chief Petty Officer in the Royal Navy, a businessman and maritime history writer who is widely regarded as one of Britain's leading historic shipwreck experts.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Ex library with usual stamps and defects. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some slight yellowing to back jacket, but overall jacket fresh and unfaded. Not price clipped (£1.75), no personal inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall lightly read for ex library. 148pp, illustrated. The Armagh rail disaster happened on 12th June 1889 near Armagh, Ulster, Ireland, when a crowded Sunday school excursion train had to negotiate a steep incline, the steam locomotive was unable to complete the climb and the train stalled. The train crew decided to divide the train and take forward the front portion, leaving the rear portion on the running line. The rear portion was inadequately braked and ran back down the gradient, colliding with a following train. Eighty people were killed and 260 injured, about a third of them children. It was the worst rail disaster in the UK in the nineteenth century, and remains Ireland's worst railway disaster ever. To this day it is the fourth worst railway accident to happen in the United Kingdom. At the time it was the worst rail disaster in Europe and led directly to various safety measures becoming legal requirements for railways in the United Kingdom. This was important both for the measures introduced and for the move away from voluntarism and towards more direct state intervention in such matters.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First published in 1962, this is a new impression of 1973. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£4.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 251pp, illustrated, maps. Based on original research by Scottish social historian Dr Archibald Richard Burdon Haldane (1900-82), and making use of significant archive resources, this book provides an insight into the provision of basic communication routes that were to be fundamental to the social and economic development of the Highlands. The book begins with a brief history of such roads as existed in the Highlands prior to 1800 and continues with the problems presented by the ambitious plans of Thomas Telford and his colleagues to link east and west, north and south of the Highlands, together with the Islands, for ease of communication and the development of the region. In due course, this work overcame the obstacles and eventually created the Scotland of today.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£3.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 163pp, illustrated. A history of the creation and public usage of London's Royal Parks.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 167 pages, black and white illustrations, book in near fine condition (top edge slightly spotted) with very good dust-wrapper ( not price clipped, revised price label applied, spine slightly faded, edges creased).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good ++. First Edition. 136 pages incl bibliography. Dustjacket has moderate wear with light rubs to spine-ends, edges and corners, 2 edge nicks. Hardback binding has light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners and lower edges with a light knock to bottom front corner and bottom front edge. Light surface wear to other edges. B&W and colour photographic illustrations. Pages very clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Minor edgewear to the jacket (unclipped). Hardcover spine ends are a little bumped. Faint marks on the page block. The binding is sound and all text is clear. CM. Used.

1st Edition. Hb in Dw 237pp mono illustrations and line drawings A Vg/Vg copy.

Hb in Dw 257pp illustrations A Vg/Vg copy.

1st Edition. Hb in Dw 112pp Coloured frotisplate and plates to text in mono A Vg/Vg copy.

Hb In Dw 208pp Illustrations and Maps A Vg/Vg Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by Sally Maltby (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£14.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 128pp, lavishly illustrated. A collection of country recipes and a glimpse into the lives of the inhabitants of Ambridge, the village of BBC Radio's soap opera 'The Archers'. The recipes reflect not only the differing life styles of the characters, but also the changing of the seasons, country festivals, and feast days.I particularly liked 'The Brownies Summer Picnic' and Linda's feasts at Ambridge Hall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Revised Edition. First published in 1961, this is a new and enlarged edition of 1972. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, not price clipped (£3.50), previous owner's name to ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 250pp, illustrated. For about two hundred years a village made four wheeled vehicle, called a wagon to distinguish it from the cart with only two wheels, was a common sight in many parts of the English countryside. It was used for carrying the hay and corn harvest from the fields and for transporting grain and other produce to market. Factory made boat and barge wagons had appeared, but the village wheelwrights built their wagons to last more than one farmer's lifetime and it is some tribute to their craftsmanship that the author of this book was able to find examples of traditional wagons in every district of the country in which they had been used. This book is based on a survey of nearly 600 wagons. Dr John Geraint Jenkins (1929-2009), expert on country crafts and life, took up his first museum post at Leicester in 1952, moving soon afterwards to the Museum of English Rural Life at Reading where he undertook the research that led to this, his first major publication.