Search Results: Titles starting with D from Wadard Books PBFA

London: Howard Baker the Greyfriars Press, 1971 This St. Jim's saga by Martin Clifford (aka Frank Richards) contains the complete collection of the D'Arcy the Runawat series of stories. Foxed to foredge otherwise very good throughout.

DFDS, 1991 Ship development through 125 years from Paddle Steamer to Ro/Ro Ship. A big heavy 503pp well illustrated in black and white.

Kendal: World Ship Society, 1995 A history of the Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Company Ltd and associated shipping companies. 148pp illustrated in black and white.

London: Elliot Stock, 1875 The design of this work is to give a meditation on some aspect of Christian Holiness for every day of the year. Brown cloth with black and gilt decoration and beveled edges. 380 pages with some random foxing. Front internal hinge is broken with tape marks to front paste down and endpaper.

London, 1945 VE-DAY! - IT'S OVER IN THE WEST. Other news of the day included - Norway awaits Allied landings - Dutch patriots to keep arms - Goebbels, wife and children found poisoned in Berlin - Channel Islanders await first telephone call from Britain together with the famous strip cartoons Buck Ryan, Belinda, Garth and of course Jane, just waiting to get out of her uniform!!

London: Phaidon, 2003 The life and work of Salvador Dali. 48 pages with good full plate colour reproductions.

London: Picador, 1998 Vastly and vividly peopled, the novel creates a Bosch-like vision of God-haunted pilgrims and predators coverging on Jerusalem. 500pp. Signed by the author to the half title.

Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: Geirge Allen, 1885 Originally published in 1823, A humorous tale written principally by a Lady of Ninety and embellished with 18 hand coloured engravings.

This 1885 edition, edited and with additional verses by John Ruskin and with 22 woodcuts, the additional illustrations by Kate Greenaway. The woodcuts facsimiled by W.H.Hooper from the originals are crafted with exemplary care and admirable skill.
20pp.
Size 190x120mm

London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1924 Covers the full range of dancing, both social and spectacular for entertainment, from elemental folk dancing to the sophistication of the ballet. Interesting and well illustrated. 75 plates supplement the texts. Some soiling to cover board otherwise very good throughout.

London: Faber and Faber, 1935 An entertainment of the Imagination. 413 pages. Cover green cloth, extremities and spine sunned and lightly rubbed.

London: Frederick Warne, 1946 Two friends and their adventures and escapes in the wild, wild, countryside.

Rungsted, Denmark: Dannebrog Rederi AS, 1993 Centenary history of the famous Danish shipping company founded in 1883. Full details of the fleet starting with the first three ships delivered in 1883/4, and named Christiansborg, Frederiksborg and Amalienborg. 208pp illustrated in colour and black and white.

Dartford Kent: Perry Son & Lack, 1933 The first major collection of historical material published on Dartford since John Dunkin in 1844. xiv 727pp illustrated in black and white with a colour frontis.

Culverstone Green, Kent: DWS Print Services, 1998 An intricate tapestry of social, military and personal history that blends together to tell a unique story, and a fitting memorial to all the Dartfordians who paid the ultimate sacrifice 1914-1918. 224pp illustrated in black and white. Signed by the author.

Dartford Kent: Snowden Bros., 1911 Covers in addition the Parishes of Bexley, Crayford, Erith, Eynsford, Farningham, Fawkham, Green hithe, Horton Kirby, Longfield, Southfleet, Stone, Sutton-at-Hone, Swanscombe and Wilmington. 216pp with interesting advertisements fore and aft. Folding map. Some time recently rebound in red cloth hardcover.

Dartford Kent: Dartford Borough Council, 1991 Just a few hundred yards from Dartford centre stands an imposing Tudor building known locally - but quite erroneously - as The Priory. This building represents the West Gatehouse, and all that is left abover ground of the extensive Manor House complex built for Henry VIII between 1541 and 1544 occupying a site of some twelve acres. 60pp illustrated in black and white.

Dartford Kent: Perry Son & Lack, 1933 The first volume in a series of historical notes written and collected by the author ably assisted by Ernest Youens and Alfred Cumberland. xiv, 727pp illustrated in black and white. A key book (no pun intended) for any Kentish collection.

London: Collins, 2009 400pp+2. Illustrated in colour throughout.

Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1980 358pp. Good clean copy.

Berlin: Argon Verlag GmbH, 1999 151pp of evocative black and white photographs reproduced in high fidelity. German language text.