HILAIRE BELLOC

The River of London

London, T.N.Foulis. 1912, 1st Edition. Cloth , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, Hardcover,cloth, title & author in gilt on front and spine. 16 very pleasant plates with tissue guards from original oil paintings by John Muirhead R.B.A. R.S.W. Wonderful colour. Frontis detatched with tissue guard, but all present and otherwise un damaged. Page edges tanned and book covers have a nice patina. A little foxing here and there.Top edge gilt. A really pleasing book by this author, becoming scarce. Good +/No Jacket.

West Wessex BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 682

Catalogue: Places

Keywords: Places

BELLOC, HILAIRE

The Road

Manchester, Charles W. Hobson for The British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co. 1923, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 230mm Tall. Book, 8 Illustrations, "The text is also elucidated by fifteen maps and diagrams." 218 pages. Front cover soiled and marked, less so the back. Very Good/No Jacket.

Andmeister BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 8110

Catalogue: Engineering

Keywords: Roads, Road-Making, Travel & Places

HILAIRE BELLOC

The Road

Manchester, The British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co. Ltd. 1923, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 218pp hardback, brown cloth with leather label gilt, illustrated, label rubbed, pencil ownership signature. Good.

Salsus BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 061600

Keywords: topography

BELLOC, HILAIRE

The Road

Manchester, Charles W. Hobson for The British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co Ltd. 1923. hardcover. Used, No jacket. Slightly worn cloth hardcover. Worn title on upper spine.Some marginalia in pencil, which does not obscure the text. Small abrasion on the foot of pages 8 and 9 where they appear to have previously been bonded together. Text is clear throughout. TH. Good/No Dust Jacket.

PsychoBabel BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 249959

Catalogue: Engineering & Construction

Belloc, Hilaire

The Road.

The British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co Ltd, 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ill.: Sydney R Jones. First edition. 218pp, including Index. Brown cloth covered boards, with a darker spine and a brown leather label with gilt title. Hand cut edges. Frontispiece, and b + w illustrations by Sydney R Jones. Previous owner's bookplate to the flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. The Road in General, - physical factors, origins and politics - and the History of the English Road from early times, and the future... Very Good /No Jacket.

Hessay BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 6829

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Keywords: Road, Travel, Transport, History of Travel

BELLOC Hilaire

The Road. [Sketches by Sydney R Jones.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Charles W Hobson for the British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co., Manchester,, 1923. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 7 plates and 15 maps and diagrams in the text; broad-weave cloth, buckram back with leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With small neat institutional stamp on front paste-down. This attractively produced work, published for the British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Company, is perhaps the scarcest of the author's studies of the history and development of the English road. Cahill 80.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 19586

Catalogue: Topography0

Keywords: topography, roads, turnpike roads, turnpikes, belloc, hilaire belloc, topography, roads, trackways, road

BELLOC, Hilaire

The road

Manchester, British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co.Ltd, 1923. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) . 1st edition, 1923, in buff cloth with light brown spine; black title panel with gilt. A few spots of foxing; binding tight; spine back-strip darkened, with wear to title panel Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_85776_jpg.jpg.

Cotswold Internet BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS307798I

BELLOC, HILAIRE

Robespierre. A Study. With a New Introduction

London, Nisbet & Co. 1927, First Thus. Hard, 8vo. Decorative, half bound leather, signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. First edition thus with a new introduction, text a reissue of the 1901 edition. Published London: Nisbet & Co. 1927, first printing. 8vo. decorated leather with raised bands, marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilting. Some scuff to the paper over boards, mild shelfwear, else very good, attractive copy. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued.

The Wild MuseProfessional seller

Book number: 006961

Catalogue: Literary & Modern First Editions

Keywords: Sangorski & Sutcliffe England & Europe

BELLOC, HILAIRE

Saulieu of the Morvan. The Tuilleries Brochures, Volume IV, Number 1, January 1932

Chicago, Ludowici-Celadon Company. 1932. Printed Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Ill.: Yerbury, F.R. (photographs). pp. 98-112; b&w photo-illustrations. The Brochures, a series of monographs on European architecture. Essay and photographs of buildings, views and architectural details in Saulieu, Cote d'Or, France, "Public Pump at Saulieu (Cote d"Or)" is accompanied by an architectural scale plan and elevation drawing. Clean throughout; tight binding; wrappers are age faded and rubbed along edges. Very Good.

Ultramarine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 004847

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: Saulieu Cote D'or Falaise Normandy France Burgundy Clos Vougeot de Ragny Chailley Touraine Vezelay Calvados France French Architecture Rural France Chateau Chateaux le Moriniere Chantecaille Houses Homes Buildings Architectuire Art-France, Belgium Yerbury

Belloc, Hilaire

Selected Cautionary Verses

Puffin - Penguin, 1971, reprint. Paperback, G+. 185pp, slightly browned, bookplate, b/w illustrations throughout, a nice copy. Paperback , no dustjacket. ISBN: 0140300678
¶ A selection taken from Belloc's seven books of verse for children, which begins with 'Jim'.

Eastleach BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 45656

Keywords: ISBN 0140300678, humour, childrens, poetry, poems 0140300678

BELLOC, HILAIRE

Selected Cautionary Verses

Puffin, 1950. 1st Thus. Paperback. Bentley, Nicolas. 67th book in Puffin Story Book series.Minor wear to covers. Spine darkened. Some light foxing to front cover. Pages slightly tanned. Close to VG in other respects. Good.

The Childrens BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 107941

Catalogue: Animals and Nature

Keywords: Satire Poetry

BELLOC, HILAIRE

Selected Cautionary Verses

Puffin, 1953. Reprint. Paperback. Bentley, Nicolas. Minor wear to covers. Pages slightly tanned. Very Good.

The Childrens BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 108389

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Satire Poetry

BELLOC, HILAIRE

Selected Cautionary Verses

Puffin, 1953. Paperback. Bentley, Nicolas. Light wear to covers. Pages strongly tanned. Good.

The Childrens BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 110715

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Satire

BELLOC Hilaire

Selected Cautionary Verses. Illustrated Edition with the original Pictures by B.T.B. and Nicolas Bentley. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST PENGUIN EDITION.

Penguin Books, [Harmondsworth],, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition thus, page-edges lightly browned as usual, small neat contemporary signature on half-title; original printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Penguin 1349.The Illustrated Album Edition was first published in 1940, as a Puffin Story Book in 1950, and here as a Penguin.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 37833

Catalogue: Penguin Books0

Keywords: penguins, penguin books, belloc, hilaire belloc

BELLOC, HILAIRE

Shadowed!

New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1929, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Chesterton, G. K. Used, Hardcover without jacket; first US edition. Boards are lightly marked; corners and spine ends worn; spine body less so. Page block and page edges are tanned. Small label on rear pastedown. Binding weak at pastedowns, though without issue in main body of volume - text and Chesterton's illustrations are clear. TS. Good.

PsychoBabel BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 498293

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Chesterton, G.K.