Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Hawkmoor Books Ltd

Longmans, 1959. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Previous owners inscriptions: No. Book Condition: Good. Jacket condition: Good. Published: 1959. Edition: 1st. Pages: 307. Description: Illustrates her life through photographs and lithographs. Includes a family tree of the British Monarchy.

Amberley, 2010. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Previous owners inscriptions: No. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket condition: Very Good. Published: 2010. 1st Edition: Yes. Pages: 159. Description: The amazing tale of Britain's first celebrity stalker. After her coronation in 1838, Queen Victoria was a frightened young woman. She was relentlessly pursued by a weird teenager, Edward, 'the Boy' Jones, who had an uncanny ability to sneak into Buckingham Palace without being detected. Once, he broke into her bedroom and stole her underwear, and at least twice he sat on the throne. 'If he had come into my bedroom, how frightened I would have been', the Queen wrote in her journal after the Boy Jones had been hauled out from underneath a sofa in her dressing room. This book tells the full story of the Boy Jones, one of the first celerity stalkers in history: his heady days as a media celebrity, and the long and bitter years as a Britain's galley slave, imprisoned… Read More

The Waverley Book Company Ltd. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-library: No. Previous owners inscriptions: No. Book Condition: Good. Some spotting to end papers and title page and leading edges. Jacket condition: No jacket. Published: Undated. 1st Edition: No. Pages: 392. Description: The Waverley Dumas. Events at the French court in the 1780's. Dramatizes an unsavory incident in the 1780s at the court of King Louis XVI of France involving the King's wife, Marie Antoinette. Her reputation was already tarnished by gossip and scandal, and her implication in a crime involving a stolen necklace became one of the major turning-points of public opinion against the monarchy, which eventually culminated in the French Revolution.

PUBLISH AMERICA, 2006. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Soft-cover book Condition: Very good. Jacket condition: No jacket, Covers a little creased Published : 2006 1st Edition: Yes. Pages: 245. Sir John Oglander, reputed to be involved in King Charles' escape attempts from Carisbrooke Castle on Isle of Wight, prior to the King's trial and execution in London in January 1649, wrote memoirs for his descendants, and was sometimes motivated to write in his own blood. Anne Jolliffe, rejected by her father, Walter, when her mother died giving birth to her, comes to live with him in Brading now that her uncle and aunt are both dead. She receives a stormy reception. Only Sir John Oglander is kind to her. Samuel Jarvis, her father's objectionable employer and landlord, wants her - but she is attracted to Paul Miller, who treats her with contempt. Sir John's and Paul's lives are increasingly endangered by their involvement in Royalist activities to help the king… Read More

CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED, 1898. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Previous owners inscriptions: No. Book Condition: Good+. Jacket condition: No jacket Published: 1898 Edition: Unstated Pages: 1148 Description: Well illustrated. Very heavy book. Leather spine and corners. Includes Papers, addresses, stories, poems and music. Additional postage outside UK.

JAPAGA, 1993. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Previous owners inscriptions: No. Book Condition: Good, very good except for marks inside covers. Jacket condition: No jacket. Published: 1993. 1st Edition: Unstated, but believed to be. Pages: 311. Description: The history of the European Marine Biology Symposia dates back to 1960 when a series of German marine biological symposia was initiated by Otto Kinne, Director of the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland. These Symposia attracted marine scientists from outside Germany and it was realized that European participation should be encouraged. In answers to a questionnaire sent out in 1965, 98% were in favour of European Marine Biology Symposium being held at regular intervals; 65% were against affiliation to any existing international bodies. As a result the first European Marine Biology Symposium was held on Helgoland in early Autumn 1966 (see Kinne, 1967). Such was the success of this meeting that Symposia have been held annually since 1966. To date they… Read More