Search Results: Titles starting with T from Cox and Budge Books

London: Victor Gollancz, 1930. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good Plus. First UK edition. Hardback, bound in the original cloth with printed titling to spine. 22 × 14cm, 305pp. A man and his talking donkey take a young boy, Tal, on an adventure. The man has been chosen to tell a story on an occasion of great importance and it must be the very best story possible. The man has chosen Tal to travel with him, thinking that the boy will be able to help him choose the right story. Each day they travel through different lands and meet new characters, and each night the man shares a new story with Tal. He is expecting that, by journey's end, Tal will choose the best story. Condition: A good copy. There is some sunning to the boards but the contents remain in strong readable condition.

London: Ithaca Press, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 16cm, 204pp. This is the first full critical edition of a wotk from the classic T'ang ch'uan-ch'i corpus. It brings textual, historical, literary and exegetical study to bear on the famous Li Wa chuan, aiming both to illuminate the story itself, and to stimulate a more intensive way of reading T'ang fiction. A long introduction documents the story's textual transmission, details a new approach to the problem of its date and circumstances of composition, explores the symmetrical pattern and topical significance of its main themes, and follows its evolution in later periods and other literary forms. The text is freshly edited in two parallel versions from manuscript and printed sources. A new translation is supported by a detailed commentary, paying particular attention to the story's scriptural and literary resonances. It offers for the… Read More

London: Constable, 1910. First Edition. . Hardback. Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback bound in the original red cloth with gilt titling and printed design to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. 19.5 × 13cm, 265pp. A selection of lays, fables and tales from the old French, much to do with chivalry and knights, with some reference to King Arthur and Arthurian mythology. Condition: A fair to good copy. The cloth is a little rippled along the front gutter with one small scuff to the cloth, and is slightly faded to the spine. The contents, however, are in good, clean condition, with secure binding.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1887. First Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good. First thus. Hardback, bound in the original red cloth with printed titling and design to spine and upper board. 18.5 × 12.5cm, 283pp + ads. Published as No 45 in Morley's Universal Library, Tales of Terror and Wonder is a compendium of late-eighteenth / early-nineteenth-century Gothic ballads, and comprising the contents of two collections: the anonymous Tales of Terror (1801) and Matthew Lewis's collection, Tales of Wonder (1800). Condition: This copy is in very good condition for age, with a little tanning to the pages and light bumping to the corners.

London: Liverpool University Press, 1958. First Edition. . Hardback. Good Plus. First edition. Hardback, bound in tan cloth with printed titling to spine and upper board. 19 × 12.5cm, 272pp. An interesting insight into the value of tea in the 1950s. Printed for private circulation, this book gives an alphabetical listing of the tea companies operating in India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Africa and Indonesia, each one giving company details and the value of the company in quantity of tea held, estates, taxes etc. Condition: This copy is in good condition, with some light bumping to the covers.

London: The English Universities Press, 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First edition. Hardback bound in the original blue cloth. 18 × 11cm, 193pp. A thorough grounding into the grammar of Old English, with examples from the classic texts of Old English (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle etc). The author states that Old English, or Anglo-Saxon was the language from the time of the settlement of Britain, beginning in the fifth century, until about 1100. Condition: The spine is faded but otherwise this is a good, solid copy.

London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / OUP, 1949. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. First edition, second impression. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 220pp. Signed by Alexander Kelly to the ffep. From the library of Alexander Kelly (1929-1996), pianist and professor at the Royal College of Music. He gave his debut under Sir Thomas Beecham, and as a teacher his pupils included Peter Jacobs, David Owen Norris, Iain Burnside, and Jonathan Plowright. He married cellist Margaret Moncrieff, who also wrote two novels for the Chalet School series under the name Helen McClelland. This book provides a more enlightened understanding of fugal writing, primarily based on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Loosely inserted is a flyer for a concert at the Royal Academy of Music featuring the Harry Isaacs Trio, with some pencil annotation to the back. Condition: The book is in good condition, with clean pages and secure binding. The dustwrapper is dulled with wear to the head and tail of the spine.

London: Macmillan, 1966. Reprint. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Reprint. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13cm, 118pp. From the dustwrapper, "In this excellent contribution to scientific and educational scholarship, the author gives a fascinating account of the impact of the scientific revolution on the universities and their gradual adaptation to the new learning. He describes the development of scientific and technological teaching up to the present day, and makes a powerful case for the inclusion of technology in a liberal education, making suggestions towards a syllabus for such an education". The author was a noted naturalist and botanist, and was President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University of Belfast. Condition: The book is in very good condition, with a little foxing to the page edges. The dustwrapper has tanning to the spine, and a few areas of light spotting foxing and rubbing.

Paris: Various, 1922. Mixed Editions. . Hardback (rebound). Good Plus. Here are ten titles (in eleven volumes) by Andre Maurois (pseud. Emile Herzog). They are all different editions and by different publishers but have been uniformly rebound in either red or brown cloth with black title label to spine. All have French text, and all belonged to the same previous owner, folklorist and author Francesca Claremont, with her signature and date to the ffep. Some are the assumed first trade edition, some are reprints. 1. Les Silences du Colonel Bramble (Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1922). Reprint. Good condition, some tanning. 2. Ariel (Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1923). Reprint. Good condition, some tanning. Frontspiece by Maxine Dethomas. 3. Meipe ou La Deliverance (Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1926). Good condition, some tanning. 4. Bernard Quesnay (Gallimard, Paris, c1926). Good condition, some tanning. 5. La Vie de Disraeli (Gallimard, Paris, 1927). Frontis by D Maclise. Good condition, some tanning. 6. Quartre… Read More

London, Norwich etc: Various. Mixed Editions. . Soft cover. Fair to Very Good. Here are ten books, all companions to the Lectionary, book containing portions of the Bible appointed to be read on particular days of the year. All are paperbacks, in varying degrees of condition but all generally sound. 1. Companion to the Lectionary, Volume 1: Prefaces to the Lessons by David Calvert & John Stacey (Epworth Press, 1988). Faded to spine but contents very good. 2. Companion to the Lectionary, Volume 3: A New Collection of Prayers by Neil Dixon (Epworth Press, 1986). A reference copy, covers rubbed and with previous owner's annotations but still in good readable order. 3. Companion to the Lectionary, Volume 4: Prayers of Intercession by Christine Odell (Epworth Press, 1987). Slight rubbing to covers, otherwise good plus. 4. Companion to the Lectionary, Volume 5: All Together for Worship by Peter Sheasby (Epworth Press, 1994), Light wear to covers otherwise very good. 5. Companion to the Lectionary,… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14cm, 110pp. Signed directly to the title page by Adam Phillips. This book is a chronicle of the all-too-human terror that drives us into the arms of experts, and of how expertise, in the form of psychoanalysis, addresses our fears - in essence, turns our terror into meaning. Phillips takes up those topics about which psychoanalysis claims expertise - childhood, sexuality, love, development, dreams, art, the unconscious, unhappiness - and explores what Freud's description of the unconscious does to the idea of expertise, in life and in psychoanalysis itself. If we are not, as Freud's ideas tell us, masters of our own houses, then what kind of claims can we make for ourselves? These questions, so central to the human condition and to the state of psychoanalysis, resonate through this book as Phillips considers our notions of competence, of a… Read More

Tokyo: Gallery Mukai, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First edition. Hardback, leporello binding (ie opens out like an accordian). 29.5 × 21.5cm, unpaginated. A series of ten paintings by American artist Terry Winters, the book can be folded out to form one long line showing each of the paintings (titled Index I, Index II etc). Condition: The covers are sunned to the edges and with a little marking but the contents are in very good condition.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2008. First Thus. . Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition thus. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 16cm, 320pp. The Royal Welch Fusiliers were present at all Marlborough's great victories; they were one of the six Minden regiments; they fought throughout the Peninsula and were present at Wellington's final glorious victory at Waterloo. In The Great War their officers included the writer poets Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves; their 22 battalions fought not just on the Western Front but at Gallipoli, in Egypt, Palestine, Salonika, Mesopotamia and Italy. In WW2 they won battle honours from the Reichswald to Kohima. More recently they have served with distinction in the war against terror in the Middle East. Like so many famous regiments the RWF are no longer in the British Army's order of battle having been amalgamated into the Royal Regiment of Wales. But this fine book is the lasting memorial to a fiercely proud and greatly admired regiment.… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1937. First US Edition. . Hardback. Very Good/Fair. First US edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 21.5 × 14.5cm, 344pp. This copy has been signed and dedciated by John Van Druten in pencil to the ffep, "Vivian - for West Hampstead. John". Vivian was Vivian de Sola Pinta, a poet and literary critic, who was raised in Hampstead, as was John Van Druten (though specifically West Hampstead). A novel from the playwright John Van Druten. It is about two people, Blanche, a plump middle-age widow who loves the theatre and Glyn a self-centred young man with no money and pile of rejected plays. By chance they sit next to each other at the theatre, and at first he sees her as a threat to his freedom and independence but as he discovers her passion for theatre. Condition: The book itself is in very good condition with clean pages and secure binding. There are a few spots of foxing and a little dusting to the page edges but otherwise all is well.… Read More

London: Chapman & Hall, 1920. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Half Leather. Very Good. First edition, first impression. Hardback, rebound in half-leather with five raised spines, contrasting leather title label and gilt decoration to spine. New endpapers, speckled page edges. 19.5 × 12.5cm, 250pp. Norman Douglas' second novel. This is a fantasy based on Breton folklore and set in a mythical city in Brittany in the late Roman era, and where Norman Douglas presents an allegory of goodness pitted against beauty. Condition: Very good condition, with some tanning to the pages and sun-fading to the leather spine but in very good order nevertheless.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1969. First Thus. . Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition thus. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13cm, 303pp. A reissue of an early T H White title, originally published under his pseudonym of James Aston. It centres around a group of very English residents who are wintering in the Hotel Santo Biagio in Positano, Italy, in quest of the sun, a husband, or an Income Tax rebate... Condition: The book itself is in good condition, with some foxing to the page edges but the main body of text clean and with secure binding. The dustwrapper is worn to the edges with some tanning but has not been price-clipped.

London: Paladin, 1987. First Paperback Edition. . Paperback. Good Plus. First edition, first printing. Paperback. 19.5 × 12.5 cm, 592pp. This now classic book outlines Britain's system of land organisation, describes the present owners of rural land in the United Kingdom and looks at the impact of their activities on the rest of society. The author examines the effectiveness of the present legal framework in protecting the ordinary citizen's interests in the countryside, examines areas of conflict between landowners and the rest of society and discusses ideas for reconciling these conflicts. Condition: This copy is in good condition. The spine has some light creasing and the pages are tanned but remaining in strong readable condition.

London: Little, Brown, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 18.5cm, 414pp. This Other Eden is a captivating narrative of seven great gardens, beautiful canvases that represent not just pleasure grounds but a country's evolution. Showpieces of grand design, they are also barometers of social change; lasting reflections of intellectual endeavour, of religion and philosophy, science and technology, art and literature. From Robert Cecil's garden at Hatfield House, conceived by the famous botanist and plant-collector John Tradescant, who travelled widely to seek out unusual specimens, to Capability Brown, who 'improved' upon nature to create the archetypal English parkland; from Joseph Paxton, whose engineering feats at Chatsworth mirrored the great Victorian age of technology, to Getrude Jekyll, who turned back to nature and designed the English cottage garden renowned the world over. Condition: A very good… Read More

London: Frank Palmer, 1912. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. First edition. Paperback, with yapp edges, printed design to front. 17 × 11.5cm, 96pp. A charming small book with a line or two from Thoreau's writings for each day of the year. For example: January 1st "What is the use of going right over the old track again?... You must make tracks into the unknown", and July 11th "The laws of Nature are science; but in an enlightened moment; they are morality and modes of divine life". Condition: Good condition for age, but with some wear. The paper covers are creased to the edges and a little bashed to the spine. The contents are in strong readable condition, with light tanning.

New York: Vantage Press, 1991. First Edition. . Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First US edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 21 × 14cm, 189pp. In Three Female Myths of the 20th Century: Garbo, Callas, Navratilova, Dr Iris Bunsch presents a New Age overview of three dazzling media icons who resisted the image manufacturers by refusing to be pigeonholed into the traditional, normative life-styles approved for women. Garbo, Callas, Navratilova - each was forced to become their own Pygmalion, creating herself out of the natural resources of body, mind, and soul. A provocative, challenging journey from the sound stages of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to the prompter's box at the Metropolitan Opera, and finally to the baselines of Wimbledon. Stripped of folkloric ornamentation, this is a perceptive reassessment of three spectacular careers, written by an international scholar and dedicated feminist. Condition: This copy is in very good condition. There is a hint of fading to the spine and a… Read More