Brockway, Lucile and George

Greece A Classical Tour With Extras.

Gollancz, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover, 192pp, complete dustjacket with a couple of short closed tears to spine. B + w photographs by the authors. Internally very clean. A guide round the important sites of Greece, with suggestions of places the authors have enjoyed. Still useful, but the prices now have a period charm!.. Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 13538

Catalogue: Travel

Brockway, Lucile and George

Greece A Classical Tour With Extras.

Gollancz, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ill.: Lucile and George Brockway. 192pp, dustjacket with edgewear. B + w photographs. A clean copy. A personal guide to the most important sites of Greece, and some of the secondary sites the authors have enjoyed... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 9041

Catalogue: Travel

Brockwell, Maurice W

Leonardo Da Vinci.

T C and E C Jack, First Edition. Hard Cover, One of the 'Masterpieces in Colour' series, probably c 1930. 80pp, green cloth covered boards. 8 colour illustrations. Greville Janner's bookplate, otherwise clean. A study of the life and art of the famous Renaissance artist.. Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 10918

Catalogue: Art & Antiques

Keywords: Italian Art, Art

Brodrick, Alan Houghton

Pillars Of Hercules The Iberian Scene.

Hutchinson, 1111. Hard Cover, Probably 1950s. 208pp, black cloth covered boards. 14 b + w plates. Occasional light spots of foxing, otherwise clean. Encounters with Spain, its history and people... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 4071

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel, Spain

Brody, Frances

Dying in the Wool A Kate Shackleton Mystery.

Piatkus, 2009. Soft Cover, First edition. 356pp. Colour illustrated soft covers by Helen Chapman, with a light crease to the spine. Internally clean and tight. The first Kate Shackleton detective story, set in Yorkshire - what happened to Kate's friend's mill owner father?.. Very Good.

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Book number: 16163

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Keywords: Murder, Mystery, Crime, Yorkshire

Brondsted, Johannes

The Vikings.

Penguin Pelican, 1965. Mass Market Paperback, translated by Kalle Skov. 347pp, the paper browning with age, illustrated blue and white covers.24 b + w illustrations. A clean, tight copy. A Pelican Original. The history, voyages, industries, beliefs, daily life etc of the Nordic Vikings from 800 to 1100... Very Good.

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Book number: 6734

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Norse, Viking, History

Bronte, Charlotte

Shirley Volume I and Volume 2.

Classics Book Club, 1947. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, Complete in 2 volumes,283pp and 288pp, with brown cloth covered boards, the titles a little rubbed. Internally clean and VG+. Set in the mill area of Yorkshire at the end of the Napoleonic wars... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6575

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Keywords: Luddite, Napoleonic Wars, mill, Yorkshire

Bronte, Charlotte

Shirley.

Dent, 1923. Hard Cover, Reprint of the first Everyman's Library edition, with an Introduction by May Sinclair. 511pp, red cloth covered boards with faded gilt flower ornament to the spine. Decorated endpapers and title pages. Internally very clean. Set at the time of the Luddite riots in the Napoleonic wars, first published in 1849... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 8630

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Keywords: Victorian Literature, English Literature, Haworth, Bronte

Bronte, Anne

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Folio Society, 1969. Hard Cover, Ill.: Julian Trevelyan. 378pp, including Introduction and author's Preface to the Second Edition. Blue cloth covered boards with black decorated leather spine. Complete slipcase with a little wear to the corners. 12 full page lithographic illustrations by Julian Trevelyan. Internally clean. A classic - Helen marries the dissolute Arthur Huntingdon... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 8632

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Keywords: English Literature, Bronte, Victorian Literature

Bronte, Charlotte

Villette.

Dean, 1960. Hard Cover, Circa 1960. Dean's Classics edition, for children. 247pp, the paper now browned with age, complete dustjacket with a little wear to the edges. Internally clean... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 12697

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Bronte, Emily

Wuthering Heights.

P R Gawthorn, Hard Cover, Probably 1950s. 254pp, red leatherette cloth covered boards. Colour frontispiece. A few tiny white marks to front board, a light mark on foredge, otherwise clean and VG. Russell Classics edition... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 9663

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Brook, Donald

A Pageant Of English Actors.

Rockliff, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, 286pp, red cloth boards, light damp marks to rear. B + w portraits of actors. Burbage, Garrick, Kean etc to Olivier. One red ink mark on foredge. Ex College library, so label to flyleaf and stamp to inner board, otherwise internally clean... Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 2264

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: actor, theatre, Garrick, Olivier

Brook, Donald

The Romance Of The English Theatre.

Rockliff, 1947. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, 208pp, pink cloth covered boards, faded to spine. B + w illustrations. Ex college reference library, so small stamps on foredge and title page, otherwise a clean copy. A history of the theatre and famous actors... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 3137

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: actor, Emlyn Williams, stage

Brooke, C N L and Postan, M M

Carte Nativorum A Peterborough Abbey Cartulary of the Fourteenth Century.

Oxford for the Northamptonshire Record Society, 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, A heavy book. Green cloth covered boards with gilt title. Ex university reference library - a bookplate to the inner board and a stamp to the flyleaves and title page, otherwise a very clean copy. Volume XX of the Publications of the Northamptonshire Record Society for the two years ended 31 December 1946. An Introduction and Notes of 65pp, and the latin text of the Charters with English explanations, Indices etc, of 261pp... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 8975

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Peterborough, Abbey, Charter, Medieval Records, History

Brooke, Rupert and Marsh, Edward

Rupert Brooke The Collected Poems.

Sidgwick & Jackson, 1926. Hard Cover, Reprint of the 1st edition. 160pp, brown cloth covered boards with one light mark to front. Sepia portraits. Flyleaf removed, otherwise internally very clean. Includes the Memoir by Edward Marsh... Very Good.

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Book number: 13095

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry