Search Results: Authors starting with V from Blacket Books

London: Evelyn Adams & Mackay, 1969. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A very good copy in a good dustwrapper which is showing a little wear at the edges. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. Pp.vii,238. This diary and autobiography are both valuable source material for the industrial and social life of Victorian England.

Stowmarket, Suffolk: Whittet Books Ltd, 1998. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. A very good copy in laminated boards. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 224 pages. Many black and white illustrations. Map.

London: National Temperance Publication Depot, 1881. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. 12mo. A good copy in decorated brown cloth. Rear board has some wrinkling and is marked in a couple of places. Internally very good with no ownership inscription and little foxing. 104pp + 8pp adverts. As might be gathered from the publisher this is a rather disapproving history of the drinking of toasts. An uncommon title.

Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1997. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardback. A near fine copy in green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.clv,234. Two illustrations. This is an early 16th century work described as "a unique Middle Scots version of the Ludus Scaccorum, a moralising tale in Latin by one Jacobus de Cessolis a thirteenth-century Dominican from Lombardy---.

Oxford University Press, 1965. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A very good copy in a near very good dustwrapper which shows a little edge wear and which has one smallish closed tear on the rear panel. Ownership inscription. Pp.xi,234. 12 plates. 6 maps. This is a comprehensive picture of the Sierra Leone diamond industry during the years covered when the country experienced a major diamond rush.

Athens: Olkos Ltd., 1985. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardback. 4to. A very good copy in a dustwrapper which shows some wear to the spine, wear and tear to the edges and the trace of a smallish label having been removed from the front cover. Gift inscription. 263 pages. 166 maps including colour. The story of the mapping of the Aegean Sea or the Greek Archipelago.

Athens: Olkos Ltd., 1985. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardback. 4to. A very good copy in a good dustwrapper which shows some edge wear. 263 pages. 166 maps including colour. A comprehensive study of the mapping of the Aegean Sea.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is price-clipped but otherwise untorn. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. 236 pages. Numerous illustrations, many in colour. An account of an ascent of Everest by a new route on its Kangshung face.

London: Blandford Press, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardback. 4to. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. 144 pages. A book of photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken by Earl Leaf between 1950 and 1962.

London: Buckland and Brown, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good. Two Parts in one volume. A near fine copy in green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. A nice clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.xiv,[i],219; [ix],506. Illustrations, maps and plans, some in colour, all as called for. First published in two volumes in 1912.[Please note this is a very heavy volume which will require extra postage].

London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1931. First Edition . 4to. A good copy in a poor dustwrapper. A little foxing. 160pp. contains 51 plates of plans of different types of buildings in all parts of Europe and America.

Oxford University Press, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardback. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Pp.xv,[iii],304. "This book purposefully straddles the Union [of the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1603] in order to make possible the rediscovery of Scotland's refined and sophisticated Renaissance culture.

London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1992. First Edition . A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. 486pp. Illustrated.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1948. Fifth Impression . 4to. A good copy in a good dustwrapper. Some fading to boards. 655pp. Illustrated. Partly unopened. Arranged, rendered into English and Introduced by Edward MacCurdy.

London: Longmans Green & Co, 1891. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. Just about good in the original red cloth lettered in gilt. Spine a bit darkened with a little wear at ends. Some fading to front board at top. Hinges tender. Bookplate. Pp.x,263 + 16pp adverts. A lifetime's fishing in Scottish rivers. Uncommon in first edition.

London: John Murray, 1922. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. . A good copy in red cloth. Spine lettering dull. Lacks front free end-paper. Gift inscription on front fixed end-paper. Some edge foxing. Pp.vii,312. Short stories, mostly set in Angus.

Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1982. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Softback. A very good copy with marled turquoise covers with illustration of ship on front cover and title in white on front cover and on spine. 4 black and white full page illustrations. No inscriptions. 155 pages. The book includes two novellas and seven short stories.

London: Collins, 1940. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Anne Bullen. A very good copy in the original green cloth. In a very good dustwrapper which has a little wear and tear at the top of the spine. The wrapper is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. Gift inscriotion on front free end-paper. 253 pages. 20 black and white illustrations including frontispiece. The author's second book. Photographs available on request.

London: Collins, 1953. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Joyce Bruce. A very good copy. In a good plus dustwrapper which has minor edge chipping. The wrapper is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. Some fore-edge and end-paper foxing. 191 pages. 18 line drawings including frontispiece. Photograph available on request.

London: Collins, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Joyce Bruce. A very good copy in dark blue cloth lettered in silver. In a good price-clipped dustwrapper which has minor chipping and edge tears and some internal foxing. A little fore-edge foxing. No ownership inscription. 192 pages. 18 black and white illustrations. Photographs available on request.