Search Results: Authors starting with C from Jacques Gander

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1964. Black cloth with gilt lettered spine, in illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge blue. 332 pages with 360 monchrome photograph illustrationss, plus figures on the text pages. 6.25 X 9.5 inches. Very good book, original owner's small blind stamp ex-libris roundel impressed to a few pages. In a very good priceclipped dustwrapper with publisher's price label affixed. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: The Baynard Press, 1920. Black cloth spine with blue cloth boards with grey title panels on the spine and also on the front board with brigade motif. Undated. Foreword by Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig.xii, 124 pages. Illustrated with photo plate portraits of Generals, and folding maps. 6.75 X 9 inches. A very good sound copy, Owner's name place and date, 1920, on the blank fly leaf.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Leicester, England: The Harborough Publishing Co. Ltd. By The aeromoddeller & Pallas Publishing, 1945. No date or edition details given. White cloth with gold lettering to the front cover, with colour plate illustration laid on.16 text pages with 16 colour plates of aircaft in flight.9 X 12 inches.Corners a little bumped, covers lightly soiled, A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Umberto Allemandi, 1996. Hardcover in dustwrapper 131 pages, 8.5 x 12.25 inches. this from teh dustwrapper: "Since the beginning of time, men have gazed at the heavens and wondered at the Prime Cause of the unleashed energy that with fiery flashes ignites woods and trees. It is easy to imagine the pride that filled the earliest human being after they had overcome their fear and succeeded in taming the flame they took from these fires in the wild; with what care they nurtured and fed it. From then onwards, those capable of creating fire knew they possessed a very precious tool. The conquest of energy by easily combustible wood, then flint stones, pyrites and fire steels, was the first great victory over the natural world". Unused copy still in shrinkwrap. Fine book in a fine dustwrapper. F/F. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. No date or edition details given, Pictorial cloth boards in tan dustwrapper with red lettering and coloured illustration pasted on to the centre of the front.The Diverting history of John Gilpin; The House that Jack Built; An Elergy on the Death of a Mad Dog; The Babes in the Wood; The Three Jovial Huntsmen; Sing a song for Sixpenxce; The Queen of Hearts; The Farmers Boy." All exhibited in beautiful Engravings many of which are printed in colour" Each song is paginanted seperately 8.5 X 9.25 inches. The book is very good, very clean both inside and outside with little evidence of use or wear, no inscriptions. The dustwrapper has slight wear to the corners and the foot of the spine, with the head of the spine is a bit torn and creased, the price "10/6 net" is intact.

London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1930. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and diving salmon decoration in gilt on the front. xii, 242 pages, illustrated with plates, 6 X 8.75 inches. A good copy with light browning and spotting to page edges Place name" Strondhu Banff" blind stamped on the front fre endpaper. No dustwrapper. First Edition.

Collins,London 1977. First Edition,Near fine in a near fine price clipped dustwrapper..

London: Collins, 1979. Near fine book in a near fine price-clipped dust wrapper.. First Edition.

London: Collins, 1979. Very good book in a very good price-clipped dust wrapper.. First Edition.

London: Collins, 1973. Fourth novel.near fine book in a near fine dust wrapper.. First Edition.

London: Collins, 1984. Very good book in a very good dustwrapper.. First Edition.

London: Piatkus Ltd., 1990. Very good book in a very good price-clipped dust wrapper with slight wear to corners and creasing to the head of the spine.. First Edition.

Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1867. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, and blindstamped decorated border to front and rear boards.xviii, 433 pages, engraved frontispiece. 5.5 X 7.75 inches. The book has been rebacked with the original back strip laid on, and the endpapers have also been replaced. A good copy, corners bumped with some wear to the cloth, spotting to the first few pages. There is some annotation here and there in the book and some of the index pages are coming loose. inscribed to William Armstrong "with the author's grateful regards 13 January 1868" (not signed).. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition.

London: John Davis, 1887. This is the long title as given on the title page: "The Chemists' and Dispensers' Vade Mecum: medical, chemical, and pharmecutical; or, things worth knowing in pharmacy, materia medica, and therapeutics, containing a key to dispensing difficulties which occur in physicians' prescriptions, with practical solutions by various members of the trade; also hints on prescribing, management of leeches, medicated lozenges, together with a large selection of useful formulary." Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine , gilt an dblack decoration to the front board, all edges red. xvi, 344 pages including ads at the rear of the book, also more adverts on the endpapers and some at the front of the book. 5 X 7.5 inches. Very good book,. Second Edition.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1960. Historical novel set more than three thousand years ago around Salisbury Plain and Stonehenge.Cover illustration by Val Biro,also on frontispiece.Very good book in a very good dustwrapper which is rubbed at the corners and has a little edge creasing. First Edition.

London: John Murray, 1918. Green cloth with black lettering,xxiv, 219 pages, plus adverts Illustrated with photographs on plates and a folding map of German East Africa at the end of the book. 5 X 7.5 inches. Externally the book is rubbed and browned on the spine and page edges, the top edge is dust soiled, a couple of small holes worn through at the rear side of the spine but on the whole a sound copy, all complete and clean througout, hinges sound and all illustrtaions present as called for, as is the folding map which is in good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.Ltd, 1887. Very good Ex University of Birmingham library copy, rebound in navy blue buckram with gilt lettered spine, new endpapers with cloth reinforced hinges. xvi, 325 pages. illustrated with 3 plates. 7.5 x 10 inches. A very good copy with a few library stamps here and there, and on the reverse of the plates.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1891. Finely bound in half leather by Hatchards of Picadilly. Dark blue morocco spine and corners, with gilt ruled borders.Five raised bands on the spine, gilt title lettering, and date, with sporting emblems decorating four compartments.Top edge gilt.Ochre cloth boards, and marbled endpapers.xiii,423 pages. With numerous illustrations by G.D.Giles,Frank Dadd and J.Stuart Allan.. 5.5 X 7.5 inches.There are some very few scuffs and rubbing to the leather here and there. Browning to fore edge, and some spotting to first and final pages with offsetting to endpapers. Original owner's ex libris leather gilt lettered label on the front pastedown.Very good copy, pages mostly very clean throughout, with a very sound and solid binding.. Second Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: George Newnes Ltd, 1913. Half leather binding, dark green leather spine and corners with gilt lettering to the spine, with gilt ruled divisions, green grained cloth boards, speckled page edges.Six issues bound in one volume. iv, 802 pages, with a title page and volume index.This volume of The Strand contains ;"To The South Pole, Capatin Scott's Own Story, Told from his Journals" This account of Scott's journey is in 4 episodes published in the four monthly editions from July to October 1913, they are illustrated with photographs by Herbert G. Ponting who was the photographer on the ill fated expedition, the photographs are all, with a few exceptions, published here for the first time, the final instalment is illustrated with photographs taken by Lieutenant Bowers, Dr. Wilson and by members of the search party who found the bodies of the expedition members. Also included is Chapter 6 of "The Poisoned Belt" by Conan Doyle, plus "How it Happened" by Conan… Read More

Bologna: Fratelli Masi, 1819. This seven volume Italian dictionary, here bound in four volumes. Published from 1819 to 1826 by Masi, Bologna. Bound in brown buckram with gilt lettered red leather title labels on the spines, and new endpapers. Volume one : Tome 1; xxiii, prelminary pages 238, A: 446 pages , Tome 2: 1820, B-C: 690 pages. Volume two: Tome 3:1821, D-F 704 pages, Tome 4: 1822, G-I, 464 pages. Volume three, Tome 5: 1823, K-M, 465-850 pages, N-R, 5-893 pages. Volume four: Tome 6: 1824, S 5-617 pages, Tome 7: 1826, T-Z 743 pages. 23 X 29 cms. Externally all four volumes have very good sound and solid bindings, in tough buckram cloth very clean tidy and make a very presentable set. Internally all original from 1819 to 1826, all fairly clean and in good order throughout with a bit of browning and spotting to the title pages. A heavy set which will require postage above the default, please contact us for a quote to your delivery destination.. First Edition. Buckram. Very Good/No Jacket.