Search Results: Titles starting with B from David Ford Books

Wantage, Aviation Workshop, Paperback book , 32 pages no date . Colour schemes and profiles of the various forces equipped with the Hawk trainer /ground attack aircraft. A Fine copy. Pictures available.

New York: Random House, 1938 First American edition. Translated from French by Merle S. Haas. HB. Red pictorial cloth , no dustjacket. Unpaginated, h: 28cm. Illustrated in colour by the author throughout. Ex -school library (label inside back cover and small stamps); boards bright with frayed spine ends & corners, tape residues round spine. Endpapers have pencil scribbles and label residues; pages mostly bright and clean, with some edge tears, tape repairs and small handling marks. A Good copy.

New York: Random House, 1935 First American edition. Translated from French by Merle S. Haas. HB. Tan pictorial cloth , no dustjacket. 48pp, h: 28cm. Illustrated in colour by the author throughout. Ex -school library (label inside back cover and stamp to top closed edges); boards rubbed with frayed spine ends & corners, largely clean, a few light marks. Pages mostly bright, through a few have tears (quite large to two pages) with old tape residues where once repaired, and others have small handling marks; hinges cracked and a few pages are pulling away from threads in part. A Fair copy.

London/ New York, teNeues Publishing Company, 2009 Hardcover book, First edition in Dustjacket. Signed and warmly dedicated by Roxanne Lowit . This book is part of a small collection owned or given in memory of Steven Robinson, fashion designer and a a driving force behind John Galliano's period as the top designer at Christian Dior. This book is dedicated to Steven Robinsons parents. Following his death in Paris in 2007 the House of Christian Dior described Steven as one of the great unsung talents of the fashion world. A superb book of images from one of the great fashion photographers of modern times. A massive volume of colour photographs by the photographer of John Galliano's collections at Christian Dior. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Pictures available.

Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1998 First edition. Signed by the author at How Hill in the Broads on title page (no recipient named, just 'with very best wishes.'). Paperback: laminated card wrappers with b&w photo to front. 126pp. With b&w photos throughout, with detailed captions, and introduction. Includes chapters on wherries and life at How Hill. Very Good copy, clean apart from very small spots to inside edges of wrappers and closed fore-edges.

London, The Institute of Certified Grocers, 1924 Hardcover book, second edition, 106 pages with illustrations. No dustjacket. With charming Fold out coloured disections of a pig. Showing,1 External Parts of the Body . II Skeleton . III .Circulation. IV Muscular System and V Section of Body and Contents. Complete except the first two blank endpapers have been removed. these probably had a previous owners name on them. The text and contents are not affected and are complete. A Good copy. Pictures available

Manchester: G.W. Bacon, c.1900 Undated but from style and contents probably c.1900. HB. Purple cloth covers, lettered in gilt to spine and front, protecting large coloured folding map printed on paper laid onto linen, with marbled paper front and back once folded. Folds out to 25 sections. Scale of 2 miles to one inch. Folded size: 23 x 19 cm, opening out to 115 x 92 cm. Attractively printed in various colours, (pink, orange, green and yellow), with a panel devoted to geology map, as well as text panels at sides for Index-Gazetteer. Copyright John Bartholomew. Good+ condition overall: the map is very good, bright and mostly clean, with slight browning to margins, some small dark brown marks to lower margin; the back of linen is grubby and marked. The cloth covers are fair, worn and with faded and marked margins, and with frayed cloth to spine; gilt to front is still bright. Other Bacon maps of various counties published at same time in same format available.

Manchester: G.W. Bacon, c.1900 Undated but from style and contents probably c.1900. HB. Purple cloth covers, lettered in gilt to spine and front, protecting large coloured folding map printed on paper laid onto linen, with marbled paper front and back once folded. Folds out to 25 sections. Scale of 2 miles to one inch. Folded size: 23 x 19 cm, opening out to 115 x 92 cm. Attractively printed in various colours, with a panel devoted to geology map, as well as text panels at sides for Index-Gazetteer. Copyright John Bartholomew. Very Good condition, the map is bright and clean, with slight slight browning to margins, and the folds are clean and sturdy. The cloth covers have some fading and browning around spine, with some fraying to cloth at edges.

Manchester: G.W. Bacon, c.1900 Undated but from style and contents probably c.1900. HB. Purple cloth covers, lettered in gilt to spine and front, protecting large coloured folding map printed on paper laid onto linen, with marbled paper front and back once folded. Folds out to 24 sections. Scale of 3 miles to one inch. Folded size: 24.5 x 21 cm, opening out to 95 x 120 cm. Attractively printed in various colours, (pink, yellow, light orange and green), with a panel devoted to geology map, as well as text panels at sides for Index-Gazetteer. Good condition overall: the map is very good, bright and clean, with slight browning to margins, and the folds are clean and sturdy; there are some light marks to back of linen. The cloth covers are fair only as spine panel is largely lost but the front is very good and with bright gilt of title; creases to back. Other Bacon maps of various counties published at same time in same format available.

London. Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. In dust jacket. 245 pages, with illustrations. Quentin Bell is an art critic , he looks into what makes bad art and good art, through a collection of essays and reflections on a subject close to his heart, and talks of how bad art can become good. Do you understand that? A Very good copy without inscriptions in a Fine dustjacket. Slight foxing to closed page edges. Pictures available.

London, Collins, 1975 Hardcover book, in dustjacket. A detailed study of this secretive mammal written by the foremost expert on the subject. Well illustrated .Fine copy without any inscriptions in a Fine but price-clipped dustjacket. Lovely copy. Pictures available.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954 First edition. HB. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket by Ralph Thompson. 232pp. With line drawings in text by Thompson. Durrell's animal catching adventures in the Cameroon. Very Good in Good+ protected jacket. Fade to spine top of cloth; endpapers browned (offset from jacket). Jacket has general age toning/darkening from handling, browned edges, various small tears, small losses top spine.

Eire: Cló Dolmen Áth Cliath, 1964 New edition, of work first published in 1941. Entirely in Irish language. Hardcover book . Red paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt, and pictorial dustjacket by Sean O'Sullivan. 111pp. With sketch maps to endpapers. Myles na gCopaleen was the pen-name in the Irish Times, of Brian O'Nolan, who also wrote as Flann O'Brien. A near Fine copy of a nicely produced little book; clean pages and jacket, light spotting to top closed page edges and some offset browning from jacket to endpapers; owner's small name stamp to flyleaf margin; jacket price-clipped. Pictures available.

Crowborough: Field Publishing, 1998 First edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 140pp. With 4pp of b&w photos in plates. Unusual history of test cricket, looking at how each of the nine countries have developed. Fine in Very Good jacket, which has light wear and rubbing to edges, with minor closed tear back lower edge .

London: William Reeves, c.1892 First edition, undated but 1890s from contents. HB. Green cloth over bevelled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. 307pp + publisher's catalogue. No illustrations. Michael William Balfe, 1808-1870 (born in Ireland) was in his lifetime the most famous operatic composer in Britain. Reeves specialised in music publishing. Good condition: most pages are clean, though leaves at ends and catalogue pages are browned, closed edges also browned. Binding slack at internal hinges though holding. Covers have bright gilt though corners bumped and abraded, general handling marks.

London: Granta Publications, 1999. Hardcover book 2nd impression xxvi, 726pages, 12 maps. Nationalism, War and the Great Powers. A survey of Balkan history since the early 19th century, which provides the essential background to recent terrible events in this war-torn area. . A near Fine copy and un-clipped dust jacket. No inscriptions. Jacket spine sunned. Pictures available.

London: John Baker, 1964 New edition, reset, the first thus. With prefatory note by M.S. HB. Red cloth, lettered in silver to spine and with silver publisher's motif to front, and the dustjacket on grey paper with black lettering and red decorative border.. Top page edges red. 37pp. The timing of this edition, as noted on the jacket, was related to contemporary debates about capital punishment. A nicely produced little book in Fine condition, in a Very Good jacket, which has some spots and light stain marks to front,. Photos available.

London: Museum Press, 1957 First edition, limited to 250, copy no 79, Signed by the author to half-title. HB. Orange cloth with gilt titles, and dustjacket in yellow and maroon reproducing line drawings by Munnings. 176pp. Yellow top edges. With many b&w reproductions of sketches by Munnings in plates and text, including full text and drawings for A Tale of a Certain Man and His Pigs. Good in Very Good jacket, now in clear sleeve. Clean covers and pages, apart from 2 pages which have biro scribble: over text but readability unaffected. Owner's name to flyleaf. Jacket has rubbed edges with very small losses, slight fade to spine colour.

London: Histories & Mysteries of Man Ltd 1989 Egyptian Research Account, First Memoir. With chapters by Petrie. Hardcover book , 23.5x31cms, iv, 44pp text, 58 plates to rear plus 3 other plates. Red simulated leather binding, gilt to front and spine. A fine copy. Pictures available.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1970 The Scottish Courtly Love Lyric 1400-1570. An anthology based on Part IV of the Bannatyne MS (1568), bringing together some of the best lyrics of courtly love written by Scottish poets and musicians during the course of the 15th and early 16th centuries. HB, lxxix, 147pp. A VG+ copy with like DJ.