Search Results: Titles starting with F from Bensons Antiquarian Books

Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. The covers are clean, the jacket with some minor rubbing etc. Clean internally, no inscriptions

Windsor: Oxley & Son, Printers to His Majesty the King., 1910. Vellum. Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Vellum spine with pale olive green coloured cloth covers. The cloth colour is faded around the bottom outer corners of the covers. The text is complete, pretty clean and bright internally, a few minor marks in places, the page edges are uncut, some marking to the outer edges of the rear endpaper. Pages; (2), 61, (1). Small folio size- 294 by 230mm. Account of the family & descendants of William Fellowes of Eggesford 1660-1723, frontispiece of Fellowes.

Great Britain: Pomegranate, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hard back in very good+ condition; crisp and clean throughout, binding is tight, nearly as new. In very good dust jacket with minor rubbing to corners. 154 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

1968. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hard back in good condition. Title page and publishing details are missing, previous owner's label on front end paper, small mark on external page edges, otherwise clean throughout, binding is very good. In good dust jacket, with sunning to spine, some age-yellowing, minor marking and minor rubbing to edges. A decent reading copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York: The Viking Press, 1926. Hardcover. Good. Hard back in good condition. Some marking to covers, sunning to spine and cover edges. Inscription on front end paper, foxing to page edges and first and last couple of pages. 13 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Shrewsbury: L. Wilding, 1899. 1st Edition . Cloth. Good. Green cloth binding, the colour is faded on the spine, mark from a label at the base of the spine, a couple of small pinprick nicks near the title, the covers are fairly tidy. Browning to the endpapers, foxing to the first and last few sheets (one or two spots inbetween), in this copy the errata sheet is pasted over the list of Historians (early issue). With some of the errata corrected. Ex Belfast library, with neat pictorial bookplate on the endpaper, and neat low visibility blindstamp (without ink) at the top corner of the title and plates. Contains 24 sheets of photographic plates mostly of animals that have been shot and killed in the area and then stuffed and put in a case (maybe the title should have been the dead fauna of Shropshire). Pages; XII, 248, (6).

London: Boosey & Co, 1880. Decorative Cloth. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Smart looking red cloth with fine black decoration on the front cover, and with titling in the centre in blue and gilt, the covers are bright and tidy looking, light rubbing/marking. Hinges good, but overpulled internally. Text complete, light browning to the pages, youthful signature on the endpaper opposite the title.

London: Robert Hale , 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. The covers and jacket are in very good condition- only minor signs of use. Clean internally, no inscriptions, slight toning to the outer page edges. 188 pages, Private Stanley Whitehouse's account of D-Day.

London: Collins Crime Club, 1993. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Hardback in good+ condition. Ex-library, with stamps on first few pages, tape marks on end papers, otherwise clean, binding is good and secure. In very good dust jacket with minor creasing at edges, no library markings.Thriller. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with dust jacket. The covers are clean, the jacket likewise- with only very minor signs of use. Clean internally, no inscriptions. 246 pages. With publishers card.

London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1876. Cloth. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Green cloth binding, black decoration on the covers with crossed hammers, gilt hammers on the spine. Some rubbing and darkening to the cloth, a tidy looking binding. Unusual bookplate on the yellow endpaper. Colour frontispiece, and a couple of diagrams in the text, toning to the pages, a bit overpulled internally in places. Pages; IX, (1), 227, (3).

Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black hardcover with dust jacket. The book is in excellent condition, with similar condition dust jacket, both clean. Clean internally, no inscriptions. 290 pages. 8 sheets of photographic illustrations. The life of Jack Swaab in WW2, first as part of the 51st Highland Division, making troop commander & forward observation officer, received the Military Cross, and finished the war as adjutant of his regiment after being wounded. 290 pages, 8 sheets of photographic plates.

Stroud: Fonthill Media, 2012. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. The covers are clean, the jacket likewise. Clean internally, no inscriptions. Only slight signs of use. 256 pages. 'The first comprehensive account of aerial operations over the Aegean' 1943-1944.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with dust jacket. The covers are clean, the jacket likewise. Clean internally, no inscriptions, slight toning . Pages; 182, (4). Winston's memoirs, who flew Hellcats from the USS Cabot in WW2.

Barnsley: Leo Cooper / Pen & Sword Books, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. The covers are clean, the jacket likewise. Clean internally, no signatures or inscriptions. Pages; XXVII, 276. Memoirs of Lowry who after joining the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment was posted to NW India to fight Pathan bandits, followed by fighting the Japanese in the Arakan region of Burma.

Edinburgh: Serif Books, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hard back in good+ condition. Slight rubbing to cover edges, light crease on front board, front board is slightly bowed outwards. Browning to end papers, otherwise clean internally, binding is very good. In good dust jacket with some age browning, a few markings and some wear to edges. 53 pages. Signed by the author on the front end paper. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. The covers are clean, some creasing to the top of the rear jacket cover and small repaired nick to the top of the rear fore-edge of the jacket. Clean internally, no inscriptions. 160 pages. The story of the making of the Dam Busters, which featured a handful of Lancaster bombers stunningly photographed by Erwin Hillier and Gilbert Taylor, and skillfully flown by the RAF aircrews.

London: Osprey, 2016. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. The covers are clean, the jacket likewise- some wear to the jacket at the front cover fore-edge. Clean internally, no inscriptions. Original price on the bottom reverse of the jacket. The 2nd book on Finland in WW2 by Vesa Nenye (& Co), the first being the Winter War '39-4'0. This book covers the Continuation war ('41-'44) and the Lapland War ('44-'45), very well illustrated throughout. 336 pages.

Oxford: Casemate, 2013. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover in very good condition. The covers are clean- light signs of use. Clean internally, no inscriptions. 408 pages, 16 pages of black and white photographs. A history of Finland's role in WW2.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. The covers are clean, the jacket likewise- with light signs of use. Clean internally, no inscriptions. Pages; XI, 480. The history of the BEF's/Old Contemptibles role at the start of WW1.