reading published by the author (10 results)

8vo. vii[i], 60pp, text figures, adverts. Original printed orange card wraps. Wraps soiled, random spotting.

Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition (as such). A Thesis (bib). submitted to the University oif Reading for the Degree of PhD. 1950. Many maps of Oxfordshire and some 17 estates. Tightly bound in VG consition - though light foxing of endpapers and cloth boards a little faded. See scans for contents - and Email foir more pictures and detail. Heavy - will require extra postage.

Glynn Gomersall (illustrator). ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2001). 2001 1st edition. Hardback issue. 8vo (155 x 218mm). Ppii,127,ad. Colour photographs, b/w illustrations. Laminated boards. Limited to 250 numbered hardback copies. Fine in dust-wrapper. Signed and numbered by the author (number 4 of 250 copies). Limited hardback edition. Baits for barbel, by a specialist inspired by the carp bait scene. A ground breaking book which is now hard to find. Guest chapters by Stuart Morgan, Dave Green, Martin Bowler, Pete Reading, Eric Oakes, Andrew Browne and Tony Miles. Chapters include: Making the change; Barbel baits the JB way; The High Protein theory; Flavours and additives; Bait preparation; Applying the bait; Location and presentation by Stuart Morgan; Guy Robb interviewed by John Baker; Publicity and commercialism; A trio from The Royalty by Dave Green; Martin Bowler; Pete Reading; Wild floodwater tactics by Eric Oakes; A question of confidence by Andrew Browne; Why JB Baits? by Tony Miles; Special baits for chub; I remember Peter Stone. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Small, thick Folio (29.5cm x 22cm).Pp615.Original vellum backed cloth boards.Covers a little marked but a very good copy of a very scarce work.

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 256, frontispiece, full-page illustrations in text, original cloth; corners worn, top of spine snagged and slightly defective.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 12mo. 96 pp. Dark burgundy cloth with gilt titling. Rubbing to cloth, bumping to corners. Spine sunned, slightly cocked. Some cracking to hinges but binding remains tight and sturdy. Light ink ownership signature to ffep. Some light soiling to margins of text. Laid in are two small (15x11 cm and 16x9 cm) prayer broadsheets, both creased and heavily worn from use. Illustrated frontis. Religious tract detailing the sufferings of Miss Lizzie O. Smith, an invalid since childhood due to a "violent cold which settled in her left eye." After being treated with bloodletting and calomel (mercury chloride), her illness continued to spread causing partial blindness, rigidness in the jaws and joints, and chronic pain, confining her to bed for over 30 years. By adopting the Methodist faith and practicing avid prayer, Smith is quoted as being "gloriously happy" and exemplified as a Christian martyr.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Calf-backed boards worn and rubbed. Heavy tanning and foxing throughout. Two erasure holes at title page but not obscuring printing. Small bookplates at front & rear endpapers. No paper label. Dampstain to upper corner of front flyleaf. Possibly rebound. 68pgs.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8 1/2 inches x 11 in., title-page; copyright page; dedication page; contents page; unpaginated; [54]pp. mimeograph or other type of copies of typed pages, with hand-numbered and signed limitation page at the end. Prints seventeen poems (1976-80), listed under four headings; some with William Faulkner, Yoknapatawpha, Oxford, Mississippi references. Stapled. The staples show light rust, upper pages corners show bumping, light, age-related tanning to outer covers, page edges. This copy also bears an additional, personal inscription, initialed by L. D. Brodsky, on the outer front cover: For [-] With All My Best Wishes For A Wonderful New Year, L. D. 1/6/80 Farmington, Mo. Scarce, limited, signed item, issued for the reading, and before the publication of the full, 1983, hardcover edition of the book. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. FABULOUS early visual dictionary, bi-lingual in English and German, self-published in the late nineteenth-century. Quarto measuring 8 in. x 11 in. Red cloth-covered boards, with black lettering and an elaborate bright gilt design to front board. Same design reproduced, in blind, on rear board. 247 pp. total. A few stray marks on an otherwise near-fine set of bright red boards. Begins with English and German (Fraktur) pronouncing dictionaries, followed by 171 pp. with 12 detailed drawings (except the first page, which has only 11), each within an arched border, measuring 1.75 in. x 1.75 in., totalling 2051. 46-page secion of full definitions, arranged by page number; Alphabetical List of Important Inventions; Vocabulary of Words Necessary to be Known in English and German Conversation, divided by topic -- for example, phrases necessary when dealing with Hotel personnel, the Laundress, etc. etc.; German Proverbs; and finally, several Alphabetical Scripts.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reading, Massachusetts: Published By the Author, E. Davies, 1873. Hard-to-find 1873 personal account of an Methodist evangelist, born and educated in England and then sent to Maine to convert the locals. Interesting view of mid-nineteenth century Maine, describing many camp-meetings, revivals in various locations throughout the state. Dark brown cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, advertisements for the author's other books on the endpapers, frontis portrait of the author, 239 pages plus an additional two pages of advertising. Covers a bit rubbed and edgeworn with some soil, spine slightly faded, minor chipping to the spine ends, two small holes in the front joint, good hinges, sound text block, dampstain to upper corner of endpapers and frontis, pages age-toned but clean with occasional light foxing, no names or other markings. . Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.