2018, ISBN: 9780091797287

Paperback, Hardcover, First edition

London: Constable, 2001. 1st edition. Fine. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket xx + 204pp., col. pls., b/w ills., maps, index, Constable, 2001, 5, London: Souvenir Press, 1969. Fi… More...

London: Constable, 2001. 1st edition. Fine. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket xx + 204pp., col. pls., b/w ills., maps, index, Constable, 2001, 5, London: Souvenir Press, 1969. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. FIRST PRINTING of FIRST UK Edition. Original blue boards with gilt lettering spine. Excellent condition book that is clean, sharp corners, tight binding, no rubbing, tiny amount of fore-edge foxing but no foxing on any page faces, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages. The original dust wrapper has wear at spine ends with small loss, edge rubbing, splotchy light stain middle of spine and surrounding areas of front and rear panels, price-clipped flap corner. The book measures 222mm tall x 137mm, and has 157 pages, 22 b/w photos, 3 maps (1 2-page route diagram), 4 appendices. This UK edition has nearly twice as many photos as the USA first edition but is slightly smaller in size. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED., Souvenir Press, 1969, 3.5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Smithbooks [Dust Jacket states Crescent Books on rear flap but Smithbooks at bottom of the spine.], 1984. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. Format is approximately 8 inches by 12 inches. 288 pages. Illustrations (many in color). Appendix: Plant Lists, Mixes and Coverages, Index. Some front board weakness noted, and gently restrengthened with glue. Large, heavy book that will require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. The most comprehensive, practical and creative book ever produced for the serious indoor and outdoor gardener. More than 900 full-color photographs and more than 800 color drawings and garden plans. John Andrew Brookes, MBE (11 October 1933 - 16 March 2018) was a garden and landscape designer. He started designing gardens and landscapes in the late 1950s. He also taught and lectured about horticulture, landscape and interior design. Beginning as a Modernist and working with Dame Sylvia Crowe, Brenda Colvin, Geoffrey Jellicoe and other notable architects and landscape architects, Brookes came of age in the dawn of garden and landscape design for the middle classes in Britain and in the heyday of 1960s London. Brookes was influenced by painters such as Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson, and brought abstract and modernist principles to garden design. He espoused the concept that a garden's design should be based first and foremost on the needs of its occupants, taking it out of the realm of the grand garden traditions which were labor-intensive, expensive, and high maintenance. He is the author of over two dozen books, including Room Outside and John Brookes, Master Class, that have been translated into several languages and has taught and lectured in venues. The Complete Gardener is the most comprehensive, practical and creative book yet produced for the gardening enthusiast. Whether you are starting from scratch, remodeling an existing garden, enhancing your home with hanging baskets and window boxes or planning a focal point for a favorite room, this is the book for you. It is both practical manual and creative source-book, a unique blend of the art and science of gardening. In PART 1 John Brookes offers the outdoor gardener a wealth of information about planning, building, planting, and maintaining every conceivable type of garden, from country garden to city rooftop; from rock gardens and patios to pools and woodland glades. For the indoor gardener and creative homeowner, PART 2 is both a comprehensive guide to choosing, growing and caring for indoor plants, and a source-book of stylish ideas for arranging flowers, grouping plants and planning decorative room schemes. Starting with a stunning photographic guide to the color, texture, size and shape of plants, the author demonstrates and explains all the basic principles of successful plant display-from choosing containers and coordinating colors to constructing decorative features that will enhance any room, staircase or open space and bring the special, magical effect of the garden right into your home., Smithbooks [Dust Jacket states Crescent Books on rear flap but Smithbooks at bottom of the spine.], 1984, 2.5, Newton Abbot UK: Readers Union, 1973. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Phoebe Bullock. Readers Union edition printed one year after the first edition, this has same number of pages including same photos, but it is slightly smaller in size. Original black boards, gilt lettering spine. Nice clean condition but has usual age-tanning of pages, and a minor bump on edge of front cover. Original dust wrapper has wear at tips corners plus some old clear tape near middle of rear panel (not holding anything together -- no tears -- looks like it was placed there by accident). Book is SIGNED on title page by Peter Steele. No other previous owner marks or writing on any pages. Book measures 221mm tall x 133mm, and has 222 pages, 32 b/w photos, 3 maps, index. Author was one of the MDs on 1971 International Expedition to Everest (5 Americans, 2 Austrians, 8 Britons, 1 Frenchman, 1 German, 1 Indian, 1 Italian, 2 Japanese, 2 Norwegians, 2 Swiss). He tells of his personal & medical experiences. Among members were Naomi Uemura, Dougal Haston, Toni Hiebeler, Don Whillans, Pierre Mazeaud, & leader Norman Dyhrenfurth. Controversy. This expedition has been cited as an example that talent alone does not create a good team., Readers Union, 1973, 3, West Des Moines, IA: Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 1984. Revised Edition. Trade paperback. Good. Robert Swedberg (Photographer) and Harriett Swedbe. 150, [2] pages. Illustrations (including a Color Section). Glossary of Terms. Bibliography. Meet the Authors. Cover has some wear and soiling. The chapters are: A Guide to Prices, The Victorian Age, The Dramatic Entrance, Step into My Parlor, Dinner is Served, The Heart of the Home, Climb into Bed, Sleep My Child, and Aunt Jessie's Attic. Provides illustrations, background information, and current auction prices for mirrors, chairs, bookcases, tables, beds, and cabinets produced in the late nineteenth century. This updated edition of Victorian Furniture Styles and Prices, Book I features hundreds of fine nineteenth century furnishings with accurate, up-to-the-minute [Note: for it's time] prices that dependably reflect the values collectors will encounter in today's Victorian antiques market. As with all of the collecting guides from the highly respected Swedberg writing team, diligent research by the authors has produced a highly informative, readable reference that collectors will turn to again and again. Background to Victorian decoration and furniture. Design of anything in a particular period will depend on the social and creative background to the period and in Victorian Britain there was a massive diversity in styles and a high output of furniture. The Victorians loved to show off their wealth and good taste and this was demonstrated by the interior design and decoration of their homes and the furniture they chose for it. The newly rich entrepreneurs wanted to be seen as equal to or better than the aristocracy and the new middle class wanted to show their success and status to their friends - these desires were manifested in the diversity of furniture styles and choices that were marketed to them. The business class chose furniture with a classical design, which was at odds with the furniture found in the average middle-class home or even those of many wealthy people. However these new designs were copied in a simplified and more economical fashion by other furniture manufacturers and produced on a large scale to sell to the mass market. The design of much Victorian furniture was widely based on older furniture designs. In the first part of Victoria's reign, many design styles were simply copies of earlier ones however in many cases. This period was characterized by more attention paid to surface decoration using gilting, mountings and inlays. Conversely, many later Victorian designs were more about structure and shape. Victorian Arts and Crafts furniture cannot be described as being of one single style but the designers shared a common philosophy of 'honesty' of construction and hand-crafted work with one person responsible for all stages of production. Japanese style furniture was a definite craze because in 1853 Japan reopened its borders and many artists becoming inspired by their unique and interesting aesthetic. Many thought leaders loved the simplicity, purity of form and strong affinity with nature in Japanese art and a group of British designers tried to capture the spirit of the east in their creations. Many furniture makers also started to use dark mahogany which was becoming widely available as the British empire expanded across the globe., Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 1984, 2.5, New York: The Free Press, 1977. Third printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Good. xiii, [1], 194 pages. Cover and edges have some wear and soiling. The former chief of Israeli intelligence, examining then current Arab attitudes toward Israel, indicates some hope for a Middle East peace, despite continuing Arab hostility and depending upon Israel's responses to Arab demands and proposals. More than half a century later, the conflicts remain unresolved. Yehoshafat Harkabi (born 1921, Haifa; died 26 August 1994, Jerusalem) was chief of Israeli military intelligence from 1955 until 1959 and afterwards a professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Harkabi had a good command of Arabic, a deep knowledge of Arab civilization and history, and a solid understanding of Islam. He developed from an uncompromising hardliner to supporter of a Palestinian state who recognized the PLO as a negotiations partner. In his most well-known work Israel's Fateful Hour, Harkabi described himself as a "Machiavellian dove" intent on searching "for a policy by which Israel can get the best possible settlement of the conflict in the Middle East" (1988, p. xx) - a policy that would include a Zionism "of quality and not of acreage" (p. 225). Harkabi was forced to resign as chief of Military Intelligence as a consequence of the 1959 Night of the Ducks. Following his military career, Harkabi served as a visiting professor at Princeton University and guest scholar at the Brookings Institution. He was Maurice Hexter professor and director of the Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations and Middle East Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Derived from a review in Commentary: Two complaints have become traditional when considering the writings of Yehoshafat Harkabi, probably Israel's most famous, possibly its most influential, commentator on the everlasting conflict with the Arabs. First, it is said, he finds what he is looking for. Second, he doesn't keep up with the times. These would be very serious criticisms if they could be substantiated, for Harkabi is not only a professor with a duty to describe reality truthfully. He is also a former chief of military intelligence whose advice was sought and sometimes followed by the Rabin government. Harkabi's latest book, in which he tries to distinguish what has changed in the ideological terms of the conflict recently from what has stayed the same, provides a chance to reexamine the old complaints against him and to decide to what extent one hopes that his ideas are also getting a hearing. Harkabi finds that in the speeches, books, articles, and debates of Arab intellectuals and politicians since the Six-Day War, conceptions about Israel have been "refined," and the vituperative language which he catalogued in his big work, Arab Attitudes to Israel (1968), has been moderated. This more subtle conceptualization and moderate language may or may not accompany a change in strategic goals. But Harkabi is intrigued most by an Arab school of thought that has its focus is on reducing Israel to its "natural dimensions." "This school," he writes, "shows a willingness to coexist with Israel in the 1949-1967 boundaries." Many of its exponents are Egyptians. They seem more "pragmatic," alive to the fact that the endless warfare keeps at least some of the Arabs in bondage. Yet it isn't clear how important or reliable Harkabi believes this trend of thought to be; he is worried that the studied vagueness of its advocates about the peace or non-war that will follow the end of the shooting may actually mean that they have the same goal in mind as the first schoolto wear Israel down, not to live with it. The best policy, Harkabi thinks, would be the one that combines a perception of the Arab strategy as in all likelihood fundamentally unchanged and hawkish, with a response to it that has dovish aspects but doesn't give anything away free. This "hawkish-dovish" response "tries to be stringently reality-oriented . . . recognizing both the harshness of the Arab position and the exigencies of international reality." It is sufficiently paradoxical to harmonize with the Jewish state's "existential predicament." The consequence is not that the Israelis must accede to the PLO's wish to replace the Jewish state with an Arab state. The consequence, for Harkabi, is that Israel, including its policy-makers, should accept without anxiety the idea that someday the Palestinians will form a state east of Israel, on territory including most of the West Bank, which is, after all, 99 percent Arab by population. This will be the Palestinian state, even if, as Harkabi would prefer, the PLO as it is now known will have little part in running it, and it will continue for a time to be called the kingdom of Jordan. In principle, Harkabi's "hawkish-dovish" policy has great attractions. It looks flexible, and a wise policy is almost always flexible. One wonders, however, whether his book wasn't originally addressed to the Labor government, and therefore whether it hasn't been outdated. The book was finished before the Likud unseated the Labor party, before Jimmy Carter staked his reputation on an early Middle East settlement, before President Sadat and King Hussein said they were ready to sign peace treaties with Israel, and before the American administration, desirous of seeing the PLO at the negotiating table, climbed down from its earlier condition that the covenant would have to be abrogatednow it seems that the PLO's accepting UN Resolution 242 will be enough for Washington. Does this mean Harkabi's analysis and recommendations have been superseded by events? Possibly but not necessarily., The Free Press, 1977, 2.5, London, UK: Hutchinson, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. New, unread, first British edition, first printing (opened only for signing) in flawless, new, mylar-protected dust jacket.Very scarce signed title, especially in this edition and condition. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M108 Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream always began in the same way. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather's lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake. The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, and her mother said, absurdly, "Don't look!" The dead man was Ismay's stepfather, Guy. Now, nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still live in the same house in Clapham. But it has been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother had lived upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy had drowned, had disappeared.Ismay worked in public relations, and Heather in catering. They got on well. They always had. They never discussed the changes to the house, still less what had happened that August day. . . But even lives as private as these, where secrets hang in the air like dust, intertwine with other worlds and other individuals. And, with painful inevitability, the truth will emerge. THE WATER'S LOVELY is a terrifically paced, richly drawn novel of suspense and psychological intrigue. New, unread, first British edition, first printing (opened only for signing) in flawless, new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M108, Hutchinson, 2006, 6<

2006, ISBN: 0091797284

Hardcover, First edition

[EAN: 9780091797287], Neubuch, [PU: Hutchinson, London, UK], Jacket, Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. New, unread, first British edition, first printing (opened only … More...

[EAN: 9780091797287], Neubuch, [PU: Hutchinson, London, UK], Jacket, Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. New, unread, first British edition, first printing (opened only for signing) in flawless, new, mylar-protected dust jacket.Very scarce signed title, especially in this edition and condition. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M108 Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream always began in the same way. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather's lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake. The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, and her mother said, absurdly, “Don't look!” The dead man was Ismay's stepfather, Guy. Now, nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still live in the same house in Clapham. But it has been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother had lived upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy had drowned, had disappeared.Ismay worked in public relations, and Heather in catering. They got on well. They always had. They never discussed the changes to the house, still less what had happened that August day. . . But even lives as private as these, where secrets hang in the air like dust, intertwine with other worlds and other individuals. And, with painful inevitability, the truth will emerge. THE WATER'S LOVELY is a terrifically paced, richly drawn novel of suspense and psychological intrigue. New, unread, first British edition, first printing (opened only for signing) in flawless, new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipp, Books<