Search Results: Authors starting with L from Virginia Bank Books

London. Constable. 1927. (9098) HEAVY HARDBACK. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. Before ordering please contact us direct for a postage quote. Good in navy cloth with gilt motif on front board, gilt lettering to spine and gilt to top edge of textblock. Ageing to front and bottom edges of textblock which appear to be uncut. Some foxing to a few pages mainly at front and rear. Previous owners signature stamp on front fly leaf. No d.w. A sound tight clean copy.

London. Macmillan. 1913. (6161) HEAVY Large format hardback. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. Before ordering please come to us direct for a postage quote. 412 pages. B.w. illustrations - 80 full page plates. V.g. in navy cloth with blind tooling on front board and spine, and with gilt illustration on front board, gilt lettering on spine and gilt to top edge of textblock. Slight wear to extremities. Pages uncut. Inscription and date (1920) on front fly-leaf. A tight sound clean copy.

Chatham. 1996. (5715) HEAVY large format paperback. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. Before ordering please contact us direct for a postage quote. 698 pages. B.w. illustrations. Fine in fine papercover. Ex shop stock - UNREAD BOOK. ISBN: 1-86176-010-8.

William Finley, Philadelphia. 1897. (10031) HEAVY HARDBACK. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. Before ordering please contact us direct for a postage quote. Half-bound black leather with greenish marbled paper panels on front and rear, gilt lining to boards and lettering and decoration to spine and matching marbled end-papers. Gilt to top edge of text-block and front and bottom pages uncut. Author's Edition limited to 500 copies of which this is No.36 and authors signature on half-title page. The book is in v.g. condition - both sound, tight and clean.

Little Brown. Reprinted 1994. (10104) HEAVY HARDBACK. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. 704 pages. B.w. illustrations. Maps. Fine in green boards with gilt lettering to spine, in a fine unclipped d.w. No markings or inscriptions.

Plateway Press. 2001. (10459) Hardback. 216 pages. Numerous b.w. and colour photographs. Maps. Fine in maroon boards with gilt lettering to spine. No markings or inscriptions. No d.w. A former bank managers love affair with the Indian railway system between the years 1970 - 1994.

London. Country Life. 1915. lst edn. (2306) Hardback. 272 pages plus publishers adverts. B.w. illustrations and colour at frontispiece. 2 fold-out maps at rear. Good in navy cloth with motif blind tooled on front and rear boards, with gilt lettering to faded spine. The book has been professionally rebacked and the original spine refixed - pieces missing from both top and bottom of original spine. New endpapers fitted to front and rear. No d.w. A sound tight clean copy.

Oxford. OUP. 1990. (4810) HEAVY hardback. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. Before ordering please contact us direct for a postage quote. B.w. illustrations. Fine in navy boards with gilt lettering to spine, in a fine d.w. Ex shop stock - unread book. Ranging from the Reformation to the present, this book shows how husbands and wives, and the lawyers who served their interests, contrived to use, adapt, circumvent and openly deceive the law in order to deal with marital breakdown. ISBN: 0-19-822651-9.

Norfolk Museum Service. 1983. (10690) Large format stapled paperback. 32 pages. B.w. and colour illustrations. Maps and site plans. V.g. in a v.g. papercover][. Inside front cover to the title page has been reinforced with archival tape. No markings or inscriptions.

Harper Press. 2008. (10617) Hardback. 386 pages. Coloured illustrations. Fine in navy boards with gilt lettering to spine, decorative coloured manuscript to the front and rear pastedowns and fly-leaves, in a fine unclipped d.w. No markings or inscriptions. A tight sound very clean copy.

Martingale/That Patchwork Place. 2002. (10796) Large format paperback. 144 pages. Colour photographs. Fine in a fine papercover. No markings or inscriptions. Appears unread. Choose from 14 projects that show you how to quilt straight-spine feathers, plus wreaths, curves and cables.

Lewes. Guild of Master Craftsman. 1999. (9703) Large format paperback. 104 pages. The 32 projects featured here have easy to follow instructions, accompanied by superb colour photographs. Fine in a fine paper cover. No markings or inscriptions. Appears unread.

Cape. 1943. (10921) Hardback. 256 pages. V.g. in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, top edge of textblock coloured red, slight ageing to front and bottom edges of textblock, in a good d.w. showing a little wear to edges. No markings or inscriptions. A tight sound clean copy. Here is the whole story from the days of the woad-stained Britons, through the great mixing of the races, Angle and Saxon, and Celt and Dane, through the long years of political development, the growth of self-government, of Parliament, of the Puritan tradition, down to the present time - seen through American eyes.

London. Angus and Robertson. 1972. (6166) Hardback. 314 pages. B.w. illustrations. V.g. with slight foxing on page edges and date stamp (22nd Mar. 1973) at bottom of front paste-down and number stamped on title page (may have been from a company/private library) in a v.g. price-clipped d.w. ISBN: 0-207-95454-2.

Thomas Nelson. Undated. (10246) Hardback. Acceptable in light brown cloth with blind motif on front board, gilt lettering and motif to spine and top edge of textblock light brown. Some foxing to front and bottom edges of textblock. Mostly b.w. illustrations and photographs, some in colour. Textblock clean and bright and the binding tight. No inscriptions. No d.w. A good reading copy.

London. Brown Partworks. 2001. (9201) HEAVY HARDBACK. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. Before ordering please contact us direct for a postage quote. 224 pages. B.w. illustrations. Coloured maps. Fine in illustrated boards in a fine unclipped d.w. No markings or inscriptions.

Ramsbury. Crowood Press. 1994. (9512) Hardback. 96 pages. B.w. illustrations and b.w. and colour photographs. Fine in green boards with gilt lettering to spine, in a fine unclipped faintly scuffed d.w. No markings or inscriptions.

London. OUP. Reprinted 1965. (8959) Hardback. 194 pages. Maps. V.g. in green boards with gilt lettering to spine, light foxing to edges of textblock, in a v.g. price clipped by publisher and repriced, spine faded d.w., with foxing to front edges and evidence of old pricing on rear cover. No inscriptions. A tight sound clean copy.

London. Hutchinson. Undated. Date of preface September 1929. (7255) Hardback. 286 pages. Coloured front-piece and 22 other illustrations and fold-out map at rear. V.g. in maroon cloth with gilt lettering on faded spine, fading extending slightly onto boards. Top edge of textblock dusty and slight foxing to edges of textblock. Previous owners name and date on front fly-leaf. No d.w. A sound tight clean copy.

American School of Needlework. 1997. (10973) Large format paperback. 116 pages. Numerous B.w. illustrations. Fine in a fine papercover. No markings or inscriptions. Full size patterns included. Unread book.