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Green Poems for a Blue Planet
Martin Kiszko
Illustrations by Nick Park
ISBN 978-1-906593-55-1
230mm x 210mm
64 pages including many illustrations
Softback £9.99
Publication: 4 July 2010
Tiger Tiger burning bright,
Gone from forests of the night.
Who will listen to your plight
Tiger Tiger out of sight?
Witty, whimsical, thought-provoking and meant seriously despite their light-hearted tone, here are 50 poems highlighting the threat humankind poses to the future of the planet.
Written to be read aloud, Green Poems for a Blue Planet – after successful trial readings – are now published in book form, brilliantly illustrated by Nick Park of Aardman Animations.
Martin Kiszko is a composer and screen writer. He has composed over 200 scores for film and television and released eight albums with major European orchestras. His screenplays include the children’s fantasy Junkworld which is being developed in Hollywood as a feature film.
Martin says ‘I hope these poems provoke a thought, raise a smile, start a conversation, spark an idea, spur us into action, or simply turn on a few ‘green lights’.
Nick Park is a four-times Academy Award winning director, animator and writer. He is best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit.
Bristol Cranes
Thomas Rasche
ISBN: 978-1-906593-54-4
40pp
softback
colour photographs throughout
£5.99
Discover the cranes of Bristol! The cranes that can be seen on the quays of Bristol tell a fascinating story. Cranes featured in Bristol from the earliest days. They have changed with time, technology and with the growing city. There were there when the floating harbour was being constructed through the port's heyday and now just a remaining handful they stand witness to the city's great maritime past. Thomas Rasche takes you on a memorable journey of discovery.
Not All Came Back:
A Somerset Farmer’s son at Gallipoli
Anton Bantock
250 x 210mm
104pp with mono illustrations
ISBN: 978-1-906593-62-9
Softback
£9.99
Publication July 2010
Published by the Malago Society and Redcliffe Press Ltd
In the village of Bishopsworth, near Bristol in rural north Somerset, the traditional farming families followed the seasonal round. Farmers were still lesser gentry, well educated, sitting on the parish council, overseers of the poor, members of the local school board, reading lessons in church and dispensing charity. They played whist and organised tennis tournaments.
Meanwhile the carnage of the First World War trenches was stuck in the mud. Winston Churchill planned to invade Turkey via the Gallipoli peninsula. It was a disaster, with hundreds of thousands killed and wounded on both sides. One of the young men killed at Gallipoli was Sgt Major Sydney Hall, of Fillwood Farm, Bishopsworth. He had a promising engineering career ahead of him, and as for so many others, his family was left to grieve.
Amazingly, we can know him and his two worlds – genteel country life and life in the trenches – through the survival of the letters between him and his family and friends, and through the photographs of family, the farm and life in Bishopsworth in 1915. His diary and military pocket book have also come down to us.
Here is unfamiliar social history, and a unique insight into military history, told in archive photographs and the words of people with whom we can identify nearly a century later.
Take Flight:
Celebrating Aviation in the West of England since 1910
Andrew Kelly and Melanie Kelly
ISBN 978-0-955074-23-3
284mm x 220mm
320 pages with 300 mono and full colour photographs
Hardback
£40
Publication 5 July 2010
Published by Bristol Creative Projects
Distributed by Redcliffe Press Ltd
2010 marks the centenary of the founding of Bristol Aeroplane Company (BAC) by Bristol transport entrepreneur Sir George White. Take Flight: Celebrating Aviation in the West of England since 1910 tells the story of BAC and its associated companies from the earliest days to the present, and beyond. It is a story that encompasses the vision of the company founders, the bravery of the early pilots, globally significant engineering breakthroughs, the contributions of ordinary people in times of war and peace, and the future challenges that need to be faced today. The focus is on aircraft and aero-engines but the book also touches on many of the diverse products that were developed from the aerospace industry, including luxury cars, plastic-hulled boats, guided missiles, satellites and pre-fabricated buildings.
The book is aimed at the general reader. It seeks to explain the wonders of flight and the particular contributions made by BAC in easily understood terms. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully designed, it also aims to appeal to enthusiasts seeking a lasting memento of the first 100 years of West of England aviation.
Discover Bath on Foot: Walks and Quizzes
John Dennis and Robin Haward
Discover Bath on Foot: Walks and Quizzes contains seven walks which begin and end at the magnificent West Front of Bath Abbey. It has useful maps and many super photographs.
Carefully chosen for all the family, whether residents or visitors to Bath, these fascinating walks take you to the nooks and crannies as well as the more famous sights of this most popular and rewarding of cities.
Each walk lasts about an hour or two, depending on how fast you walk and how long you linger – and there is so much to linger over, so many fascinating facts to pick up. They ask questions all the time – fun questions to make you look at Bath in a slightly different way. Your guides, who know every inch of the city, provide the answers, with interesting snatches of history.
No matter how well you thought you knew Bath, we guarantee you’ll learn something new.
£4.99
ISBN: 978-1-906593-57-5
PUBLISHED
DISCOVERING HARBOURSIDE
A journey to the heart of Bristol
James Russell and Stephen Morris
ISBN 978-1-906593-31-5
210mm x 240mm
176 pages
40 full-page colour photographs by Stephen Morris
Softback
£14.95
PUBLISHED
The transformation of Bristol’s ancient harbour into the modern Harbourside – the latest chapter in a long and eventful story – is almost complete.
Discovering Harbourside tells this story, more a guide book for time-travellers than a conventional history. Starting with a re-enactment of John Cabot’s return to Bristol from Newfoundland in 1497, it brings Bristol’s port to life in new and entertaining ways, encouraging readers to look at the city around them and imagine moments, scenes and characters from the city’s past.
With one eye on the present and the other on the past, the author walks and cycles around the Floating Harbour and down the Avon, looking for clues and retelling stories – some familiar and others new. Did Bristol fishermen discover America before Columbus? What was life at sea like in the age of exploration? How did the Llandoger Trow get its name?
Pirates loom large, with an account of Blackbeard’s startling career and violent last battle, and so do more respectable sea captains, from Sir Woodes Rogers to Captain SG Smith, hero of the Atlantic convoys of World War II. There are disasters and triumphs, from the wreck of the Demerara to the return of the ss Great Britain.
Discovering Harbourside is both action-packed and thought-provoking. Bristol will never seem quite the same again.
James Russell has written for Geographical Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Countryman, BBC History Magazine, Somerset Life, the Bristol and Bath Magazines, Venue and other publications.
Redcliffe Press published Man-Made Eden, his unique and engaging history of orchards, in 2007, described by Mark Rowe, BBC Countryfile Magazine as ‘a hugely enjoyable read … well-researched and breezily written.’
Stephen Morris is a noted photographer who has published/provided photographs for/designed many Redcliffe books, including In Search for Bristol, a Bristol Eye, Off the Wall and the ‘Taste of’ series of regional food books.
Enville, Hagley and The Leasowes: Three great 18th-century gardens
Michael Symes and Sandy Haynes
Enville, Hagley and The Leasowes were the three great eighteenth-century landscape gardens of the West Midlands. They had much in common yet, viewed individually, had their own distinctive character.
The authors examine each to bring out its original appearance and reception by contemporary visitors, and the three are also considered as a trio – as they often were at the time – bound together by topography and a remarkable networking of those involved in their creation. An intriguing chapter discusses the history of the ferme ornee, which The Leasowes is traditionally considered to embody.
The gardens were not only local treasures, but stand out prominently in any survey of the eighteenth-century English garden, reflecting a development of the mid-century pictorial, building-studded landscape towards the romantic and ‘pictureque’ taste of the later years of the century.
This ground-breaking book contains much new material and previously unpublished illustrations.
Michael Symes is a garden historian based at Birkbeck, University of London. His principal interest is in eighteenth-century gardens in Britain and on the continent, on which he has written several books, such as The English Rococo Garden, in addition to more general works on garden sculpture and garden bridges.
Sandy Haynes is a garden historian and archivist to the Enville Estates where over the last 15 years she has established the archive from previously unsorted material. She has been a member of the West Midland Regional Committee of the National Trust and contributes to the Garden History MA course at the University of Bristol.
Historic Gardens Series: details of titles in Redcliffe's Historic Garden of England series, including Staffordshire, are on this website.
244 x 165mm
264pp
ISBN: 978-1-906593-53-7
Profusely illustrated with colour and black and white illustrations
Softback
£14.99
PUBLISHED
HISTORIC GARDENS OF SOMERSET
Timothy Mowl & Marion Mako
ISBN: 978-1-906593-56-8
304pp
Softback, with flaps
Profusely illustrated
£19.95
PUBLISHED
Somerset is still a county of deep-delved country lanes, textured manor houses and small market towns that remains agrarian and refreshingly old-fashioned. Rich in medieval deer parks, its period of greatest garden activity was the eighteenth century when a group of aesthetic rivals laid out circuits of exotic garden buildings in and around the Quantocks.
From the Italianate villa gardens of Bath to the lakeside grottoes built by Victorian industrialists at their factories around Frome, Somerset rewards exploration. In their search for lost gardens, some long forgotten, others unnoticed, Timothy Mowl and Marion Mako have visited over 100 sites.
Marion Mako is a freelance garden historian. This is her second book in the series; with Tim Mowl she co-authored Historic Gardens of Cheshire.
Tim Mowl is Professor of History of Architecture & Designed Landscapes at the University of Bristol, and is Director of the Institute for Garden and Landscape History.
ALSO PUBLISHED BY REDCLIFFE: Historic Gardens of Cheshire and Historic Gardens of Staffordshire.
Douglas Light Aero Engines: From Kingswood to Cathcart
Brian Thorby
This ground-breaking book tells of the contribution made by converted Douglas 
motorcycle engines to the development of private flying, in the golden age of civil aviation from 1923 to 1939.
The story begins in the early 1920s, with prize competitions in Britain and Germany designed to encourage the development of affordable light aircraft. Before the established aero-engine makers took this new market seriously, a major power source was the renowned twin-cylinder motorcycle units made by Douglas, of Kingswood, Bristol.
Later, from those Douglas works came Cyril G Pullin, a brilliant designer whose ideas put him among world leaders in rotary-winged aircraft development after he moved to G & J Weir at Cathcart in Glasgow in 1933. Another ex-Douglas engineer, forgotten until now, designed the innovative power units for these autogiros and helicopters. Back in Bristol, some amazing new air-cooled engines were being schemed, until the Kingswood Works were retooled for war work.
This profusely illustrated record of a remarkable period in aviation history charts the fortunes of Douglas and its successors, their engines and the aircraft they powered.
ISBN 978-1-906593-25-4
232pp
Profusely illustrated throughout
softback
Price £16.95
PUBLISHED
EARLY COMBINATION PADLOCKS
Jon Millington
With the help of over sixty illustrations, this book charts the development of combination padlocks during the first four centuries since their initial appearance in the 1420s. Sources in many different languages have been consulted to give as wide a picture as possible of these intriguing locks, showing how they were sometimes used in an emblematic or decorative way, as well as having an obvious role as security devices.
ISBN: 978-1-906593-48-3
120pp
Black and white illustrations
Paperback
£8.50
PUBLISHED
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL - A FAMILY HISTORY
William Evans 
A history of the University of the West of England which delves into UWE’s complex family tree and its deep roots in the Bristol community is just published.
With more than 60 b & w white illustrations and eight pages of colour. University of the West of England, Bristol – A Family History is by William Evans, one-time UWE solicitor and amateur local historian. It is a story of religion, politics, public spirit, self-interest and struggle. It focuses on issues such as how far education should be vocational, 'to prepare students to become skilled mechanics' and linked to the world of work; and how access to higher education has been widened. These are not only historical themes, but are reflected in current government thinking about the 'purpose' of universities. It also looks at religious mores and their influence on student life in the early 20th century.
Bill Evans says, “This story is indivisible from histories of Bristol itself -- as a community, a commercial city and regional capital. The challenges which the University and its predecessor institutions have faced mirror aspects of the city's own history. For those who care about Bristol, and the future of education, I hope this will be a thought-provoking read.
“I've been writing bits and pieces of this book over several years. Most of the work was from archives and secondary sources, including some recent events. But it was surprising how little has been written about how education developed in Bristol, and what influenced it: religious sectarianism, local politics, commercial self-interest, cultural aspiration, and a lot of pure accident.
“What struck me most were the individuals, not many well-known, who pushed for and brought about change – for all sorts of reasons, often nothing to do with education – which they could do because of a lack of civic leadership and planning until after the 1939-45 war. I never thought I'd come across Henry VIII, Charles Dickens, Prince Albert, Florence Nightingale, Brunel, Gladstone and a couple of famous modern artists as well as the usual local suspects.”
This is a lively and sometimes acerbic commentary on the history of Bristol's newer, and larger, university that will be thought-provoking and entertaining.
Softback: ISBN 978-1-906593-50-6 £20
Hardback: ISBN 978-1-906593-38-4 £30
208 pages with more than 60 black & white and 10 colour illustrations
Further information: William Evans, UWE, Coldharbour Lane,
Bristol BS16 1QY.
Tel: 0117 328 2456; or e-mail: william.evans@uwe.ac.uk
THE BRISTOL BOYS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRISTOL'S CHAMPION BOXERS
Jack Allen
Astonishingly, the city of Bristol can claim to be the birthplace of five world boxing champions – all 
from the ‘golden age’ of bare-knuckle fighting. From the late eighteenth century to the early nineteenth, boxing was the most popular sport in England. Crowds of up to 40,000 flocked to watch these illegal contests. Venues were often changed at short notice to avoid being closed down by the magistrates.
Boxers such as Bristol’s Jem Belcher, Henry Pearce and Tom Cribb were folk heroes for all sectors of society from the poorest to the richest. City ‘swells’ bet incredible sums of money on the outcome of these bloody encounters, actively sponsored by future monarchs George IV and William IV. Lord Byron was an enthusiastic amateur fighter.
Bristol’s Hatchet Inn and the Fives Court in Little Market Street, London were popular venues, while the Tom Cribb public house in Panton Street, London celebrates that boxer’s residence there. The Rose and Crown pub in Wick, Gloucestershire, has a Gully Room in honour of John Gully, born there in 1783.
Author Jack Allen recalls many of the pulsating encounters which often lasted more than an hour, leaving the combatants battered and swollen, their features barely recognisable Terms in usage today, such as ‘coming up to scratch’ and ‘throwing in the towel’ owe their origins to those brutal contests two hundred years ago.
‘We shouldn’t let our squeamishness detract from the great achievements of “the Bristol boys”, says the author, ‘and perhaps it is time they were officially recognised by a statue or plaque as a reminder of their courage and the glory they brought to their home city.’
978-1-906593-39-1
64pp
Softback
£10
A Small Corner of Bristol
Life Stories from the Ashton Gate Area
John Holland, Pat Hooper, Martin Howard
The ‘small corner’ in question is a cluster of four short roads which form a triangle on the south-west edge of Bristol. The immediate area is predominantly residential, the houses in the main being constructed in the early years of the twentieth century as the city expanded. Many of the residents have lived in the area – and in some cases, the same property – for many years. As well as raising their families, going out to work, to the shops, nearby pubs and the park, they are witnesses to the many changes that have taken place in their local community over the years.
This book is a celebration of everyday life. It is based on interviews with 25 people who live, or lived, in this corner of Bristol and who therefore know the area well. Their stories, structured through a series of themes, provide a glimpse life in a suburban community from the 1930s to the present day. The final chapter details the history of Clift House – an imposing residence, demolished early last century, but living on in local street names.
The book is illustrated with family snaps and other photographs, original drawings and maps of the area.
ISBN 978-1-906593-41-4
220 x 155mm
176 pp
Black and white photographs
Softback
£9.95
To order, please contact:John Holland, 19 Frayne Road Bristol BS3 1RU
email: smallcornerofbristol@googlemail.com
Watercolour Diaries of a Victorian Lady
Travels at home and abroad: Ellen Maria Carter
Edited by Martin Bryan-Brown
Left Victoria by the 9.0 o’clock. Ellen Grimes set me off. Had a beautiful crossing from Newhaven to Dieppe and no one ill.
Thus begins the continental travels on 27 June 1892, of an independent-minded, artistic and adventurous young English lady, Ellen Maria Carter.
Born in Birmingham, the seventh of nine children, ‘Nellie’ was a daughter of Empire. A homesick boarder at school in Bristol, she went to finishing school in Switzerland and at 18, dutifully entered the social life of middle-class Victorian England.
A true Victorian, Nellie was also an indefatigable (and often seasick) traveller for whom the discomforts of a stomach upset or a stuffy railway carriage were always recompensed by a sight of snow on the Alps, a concert at a mountain lake or a parcel of oysters.
Ups and downs, good and bad, Nellie’s day-to-day life in England and her travels, both home and abroad, she recorded in her diaries, sometimes in French but mostly in English, in which she noted the particularities, thoughts and excitements of a remarkable life. And next to her diaries were her Winsor and Newtons – the watercolour pads that she filled with the landscapes in which she holidayed, hiked and explored.
This book is but a small part of Nellie’s legacy, edited by her grandson Martin Bryan-Brown who has collected excerpts from her life in England (350 ‘social calls’ in 1881), sketches of her wardrobe and after an introductory history, diaries and sketches from six years Nellie spent travelling at home and abroad.
It is a life that seems both uncomfortably mannered and wonderfully free, a time before television and autobahns when European travel, and travel in England, was an adventure worth capturing in minute and beautiful detail – a feat that Nellie’s curious mind and paintbox has captured perfectly.
ISBN 978-1-906593-36-0
210mm x 270mm
112 pp
Full colour illustrations throughout
Softback
£14.50
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The Theatre of Cornwall
Alan M. Kent
This ground-breaking study shows that through the centuries Cornwall has had one of the most complex theatrical cultures in West Europe and can lay claim to being the pre-eminent ‘Celtic’ theatrical territory. Cornish theatre has retained a lasting continuity. It has always been community-based, populist and highly political.
Alan Kent takes us from Brythonic theatre’s origins in the rituals of antiquity to the present-day world of the Minack Theatre and Piran Round, and companies such as Kneehigh and Mundic Nation. Within this wide span, he considers lost performances and texts, medieval cycle dramas, Saints’ plays, Christmas dramas, music hall, melodrama, opera, and the way that Cornwall and the Cornish themselves have been perceived in the stage.
The book evaluates writers from Radolphus Tun and Samuel Foote to Donald R. Rawe and Nick Darke, along the way questioning established myths and reviewing significant theatrical institutions, performers, designers and directors. Drawing on Cornwall’s distinctiveness, as well as theatrical theory, the author shows how dramas have been reproduced and reinterpreted throughout history.
Written by one of Cornwall’s most respected poets and playwrights, The Theatre of Cornwall not only charts the history of theatre in Cornwall, but also addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of theatre. It is essential reading for anyone interested in European cultural history, but also offers a unique insight into the theatre of the Atlantic arc.
Dr Alan M. Kent is Lecturer in Literature at the Open University in the South-West of Britain and Visiting Lecturer in Celtic Literatures a the University of Coruna, Galicia. He has written widely on the literary and cultural history of Cornwall, including for Redcliffe Press The Literature of Cornwall: Identity, Difference 1000-2000. His other work includes Ordinalia: The Cornish Mystery Play Cycle – A Verse Translation and Looking at the Mermaid: A Reader in Cornish Literature. His play Oogly es Sin was nominated for a Sony Award and his new play The Tin Violin toured Britain in 2008.
ISBN 978-1-904537-99-1
230 x 153mm
960pp (provisional extent)
Softback
Price to be confirmed
Publication September 2010
Bristol’s 100 Best Buildings
Mike Jenner
270 x 210mm
160pp
ISBN: 978-1-906593-61-2
Lavishly illustrated in full colour
Softback
£17.95 (provisional)
Publication October 2010
Architect Mike Jenner sets himself a seemingly impossible task: to choose Bristol’s 100 ‘best’ buildings from the Middle Ages to the present day. We can all admire St Mary Redcliffe church and John Wood’s Corn Street masterpiece. But, having chosen an obvious handful of great buildings, how does one then go on to rate the Georgian elegance of the city’s great terraces and squares against the polychromatic exuberance of Bristol Byzantine? How decide which is ‘better’: the imposing Arts and Crafts Downleaze, tile-hung and multi-gabled, or the 1930s Connell Ward & Lucas’s severe Concrete House in Brentry? Or choose between the delicious Art Nouveau frontage of a former teashop on College Green and the calm and repose of a seventeeth-century almshouse on St Michael’s Hill?
Changing fashion adds to the dilemma. The author includes the Robinson Building, Bristol’s first ‘skyscraper’ which had a mixed press in the 1960s and yet is now beginning to earn grudging acclaim and is a candidate for listed protection. He also – although only just – finds room for The Council House on College Green which he generally dislikes but admires for its Lutyens-inspired end pavilions and impeccable craftsmanship.
This is, of course, a very personal choice, and the point of this entertaining and controversial book is to get people looking, talking and arguing about Bristol’s built environment. Mike Jenner reminds us that, outside London, Bristol has a far wider, and more varied, range of building types from all periods than any other town or city in the country. Only by cherishing the best of the past can we hope to encourage excellence in the future.
The author’s sparkling commentaries are beautifully complemented by Stephen Morris’s superlative photography.
Sir George Oatley: Architect of Bristol
Sarah Whittingham 
The name of Sir George Oatley (1863-1950) will always be synonymous with that of his Gothic masterpiece, the Wills Memorial Building for the University of Bristol. And yet the full career of Bristol’s most significant twentieth-century architect – and designer of the tower which challenges Brunel’s Clifton Suspension Bridge as a city icon – is largely unknown today.
Much of this can be attributed to Oatley’s modesty and strong dislike of publicity – he very reluctantly accepted a knighthood – but his never working for a London practice is a factor, and he was unlucky in his timing, with his career interrupted by two world wars. By some, Oatley was seen as having a limited outlook, but the ‘Gothic’ tag obscured an open-mindedness and sense of fitness for purpose which saw him working in a range of styles.
This first biography is the result of ten years’ research, including the study of thousands of previously unexamined letters and drawings. It includes a full catalogue of works that greatly increases our knowledge of the many and varied buildings Oatley designed during his long career. Buildings discussed, in addition to the Wills Memorial Building of 1925, include Bristol Homeoepathic Hospital, the H H Wills Physics Laboratory and St Monica Home of Rest as well as many less familiar.
Oatley’s work from the late nineteenth-century was carried out against the background of philanthropy by the great Bristol nonconformist families -- the Frys, Robinsons and of course the Wills tobacco family, for whom he carried out many commissions. His arts-and-crafts houses bring to mind Charles Voysey, not least in the attention to detail; and he was actively involved in the social housing movement in Bristol, notably in the Shirehampton Garden Suburb.
In essence, Oatley was a Bristol architect who practised quietly, conscientiously and successfully in the place of his birth, serving his clients and his God. The buildings he designed – houses, hospitals, banks, factories, offices, churches and chapels – and in particular those for its university, transformed the face of the city.
Sarah Whittingham’s biography and wide-ranging and meticulously illustrated survey of Oatley’s work will enable a reassessment that will surely re-establish his reputation as one of the most important architects of his time.
270 x 210mm
448pp (provisional)
ISBN: 978-1-904573-92-2
Lavishly illustrated in full colour
Softback
Price t.b.c
Publication September 2010
Sailing Pilots of the Bristol Channel
This new printing of Peter Stuckey’s classic book on the sailing pilot cutters of the Bristol Channel is a response to public demand.
The author tells of the pilots, westernmen, ‘men-in-the-boats’ and apprentices from first-hand accounts, with vivid descriptions of the rigours of their daily life afloat and their often incredible feats of seamanship. Generations of men and boats from Bristol, Newport, Barry, Cardiff and Swansea are all commemorated.
In their day they ranged far and wide seeking ‘downalong’ for ships to pilot from Bristol to Liverpool, off the south coast of Ireland and from fifty miles south-east of Land’s End to Start Point in the English Channel. This is their remarkable story, from the earliest days of the Bristol Channel pilotage service to their replacement by steam cutters in the early twentieth century.
There are chapters on the craft themselves, how and by whom they were built, along with descriptive appendices on the surprising number of cutters still in commission as prized yachts, museum preservation projects and the growing number of ship’s modellers recreating classic craft like the Cariad and Marguerite.
There is an additional profile of RB Boatbuilding Ltd of Bristol which has built replicas of sailing pilot cutters.
There are 66 archive photographs and diagrams.
£27.95
220 x 210mm
184pp
ISBN: 978-1-906593-64-3
Softback
Reprint due September 2010