Illustrated 1952 lying

PUBLISHED BY GEORGE NEWNES IN 1952 AND ILLUSTRATED BY JOYCE MERCER AND ROSALIND M. TURVEY.  THE DUST COVER IS IN SURPRISINGLY GOOD CONDITION FOR ITS AGE WITH ONLY SLIGHT WEAR AND A VERY SMALL TEAR.  BOOK ITSELF HAS A PRESENTATION CERTIFICATE IN THE FRONT BUT IS IN VERY GOOD, CLEAN, NEAT CONDITION - 20.5CM X 14CM WITH 160 PAGES    REFER IMAGES Dust cover Book itself

In South Africa - Francis Brett Young (ILLUSTRATED in line and colour by Francois Krige) - William Heinemann - 1952 - 147pp Hard cover: good - Dust cover shows wear, devided at spine put still usable - Internally clean and tightly bound.      

Illustrated by James Holland. Condition of Book: Very good Dust Jacket & Condition: very good Publisher: First published Year of Publication: This Edition 1952 Other Information: Foxing and browning on the endpapers Weight: 400 g + 200 g packaging = 600 g Pages 92 cm Sizes: 24 X 19 cm

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery. Written with his characteristic warmth, respect and humour, Masters asks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap heap.A Life Discarded is a biographical detective story. In 2001, 148 tattered and mould-covered notebooks were discovered lying among broken bricks in a skip on a building site in Cambridge. Tens of thousands of pages were filled to the edges with urgent handwriting. They were a small part of an intimate, anonymous diary, starting in 1952 and ending half a century later, a few weeks before the books were thrown out. Over five years, the award-winning biographer Alexander Masters uncovers the identity and real history of their author, with an astounding final revelation.A Life Discarded is a true, shocking, poignant, often hilarious story of an ordinary life. The author of the diaries, known only as `I', is the tragicomic patron saint of everyone who feels their life should have been more successful. Part thrilling detective story, part love story, part social history, A Life Discarded is also an account of two writers' obsessions: of `I's need to record every second of life and of Masters' pursuit of this mysterious yet universal diarist. Features Summary Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery. Written with his characteristic warmth, respect and humour... Author Alexander Masters Publisher Fourth Estate Release date 20170223 Pages 272 ISBN 0-00-813081-7 ISBN 13 978-0-00-813081-7

  The Journal Of The Mountain Club of South Africa being Number fifty-four for the year 1951   Item Description: 1952. The Cape Town Section of the Mountain Club of South Africa, Cape Town, January 1952. First Edition. Very Good +. iv + 159 pp pp. Illustrated. Spine slightly browned. One diagonal crease in the rear wrapper. Bookseller Inventory # 05283 Tall  Stories  Price: R 65.00 Ordinary  postage  within  South  Africa: R 28.00

Winston Churchill, The Second World War Complete in all Six Volumes, First or Revised Editions Title: The Second World War - Six Volumes Publisher: Publisher: Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, 1948-54 Publication Date: 1948-54 Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Very Good, No Dust Jacket Editions: 1st Edition First edition (hardcover) in six volumes The Gathering Storm (1948) Their Finest Hour (1950) - New edition, revised, published 1950 The Grand Alliance (1950) The Hinge of Fate (1951) Closing the Ring (1952) Triumph and Tragedy (1954) Black cloth covers, spines lettered in gilt, with WINSTON | CHURCHILL, main title, roman numeral I-VI at head and CASSELL at foot. Top page edges of Volumes 3, 5 & 6 are stained dark red. 8vo.  All volumes are variously illustrated with many foldout maps and diagrams. Churchill's complete six volume classic memoirs on WWII, the period from the end of the First World War to July 1945. Churchill labelled the "moral of the work" as follows: "In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Goodwill".  The titles of the volumes are  The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; and Triumph and Tragedy. Volume I with author's paper slip note tipped-in after his preface. 6 volumes. Some illustrated with plates of facsimiles and maps (many of which are folding); charts and tables. The first volume of Winston Churchills six-volume memoirs as a statesman and leader during World War II, The Gathering Storm begins with his thoughts on World War I - and how its ending laid the foundations for the next global conflict. The second volume of Winston Churchills six-volume autobiographical account of World War II, Their Finest Hour picks up where The Gathering Storm left off - with the fall of France to Hitlers forces and Britains stand as the lone defender against the Nazi war machine. In this third volume of a six-volume series, Their Finest Hour, Winston Churchill draws upon thousands of personal memoranda, war correspondence, and internal government memos to describe the full entry of the US into World War II - adding considerable strength to British military operations and morale. At the onset of the fourth volume of Churchills eyewitness account of World War II,  The Grand Alliance, prospects are bleak for the Allies. The Japanese have captured Singapore and Burma in a series of bold offensives; meanwhile, aggressive U-boat attacks in the Atlantic were preventing American, British, and Dutch shipping vessels from supplying the war effort. Rommel was turning the tide toward Axis forces in North Africa. Meanwhile, Hitler was pushing inexorably toward Stalingrad. Churchill faced challenges in the field--and considerable criticism at home. The fifth in Winston Churchills six-volume account of World War II,  Closing the Ring, picks up at the dawn of a more optimistic time for the Allied forces. After considerable struggle, the balance has finally shifted toward the Allies - and in this volume Churchill documents the drive toward victory. In the final volume of the six-volume series The Second World War, titled  Triumph and Tragedy, the tide of war has turned in the Allies favor and Japan's surrender is imminent. Even so, the Allies find themselves powerless to halt the advance of Russia and lay the groundwork for lasting peace.  Churchill himself is seeing his time of leadership come to a close. All of Churchill’s revisions and “overtake corrections” were scrupulously entered by Cassell which, combined with two- and three-color textual maps and many finely printed folding maps, makes this English Edition aesthetically pleasing.  Condition:  The books are in very good condition, tightly bound, with foxing throughout. Specific photos available on request.  

This book deals mainly with the flowers of the lower lying areas, and gives a short overview of each family. Hardcover. English. Howard Timmins. 1980. 126 pp illustrated in colour. Good condition in hardcover with dw. Book No: 2501765

The Biology of the Cryptic Fauna of Forest with a special reference to the indigenous forest of SA, By R.F. Lawrence, Published by A.A. Balkema 1952, cloth hard cover, 1st edition, name inscription from previous owner, illustrated, 408 pages, good condition.  

Descripton:  William Heinemann Ltd.  Great Britain.  First edition, 1952.  Hard cover, no dust jacket.  Condition:  Overall good, with mionor foxing on page edges.  Foxing on the first and last few pages.  Cover has some marks on front and back, with slight bumping and minimal fraying to spine top and board edges.  Spine a little discoloured.  Beautifully illustrated with colour plates and black and white illustrations.  Owners name stamped and stuck to front pages.