Search Results: Titles starting with T from David Ford Books

London: Collins Clear-Type Press A Collins Bumper Book. HB, pictorial boards, unpaginated. Boards rubbed and lose, cracked along spine folds. Prize plate to fep dated 1928, colour frontis by Agnes Richardson. Lightly foxed throughout wiith pencilled page number to top left of each page. A Good copy.

London, Penguin books Ltd, 2003 Hardcover book, first edition thus with dustjacket in presentation box with silver plated bookmark. Published to mark the centenary of the first publication of Beatrix Potter's Tailor of Gloucester story.. Book and box are in Fine condition. Minor wear to box. A nice commemorative addition to a collection. Pictures available.

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1952 First edition. Paperback book : printed thin card wrappers. 369pp, h: 26 cms. 33 b/w photo plates, 69 in-text line drawings & figures, 18 maps, some fold-out. Smithsonian Institution Institute of Social Anthopology Publication No.13. The culture of the rural Totonacapan region of Mexico. Very Good: wrappers have lightly creased and rubbed edges with v. small losses to lower spine. Pages clean, binding sound. Pictures available.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1968 First edition. Has 1963 in publishing details but this may be a typo as copyright of author is 1967. Hardcover book . Cloth and colour photo-illustrated dustjacket. 232pp + 18pp practical information printed on green paper. With 14 colour photos in plates and 59 b&w photos and 4 maps. A seasoned traveller's guide to Spain and its culture. Includes a chapter on the bullfight. A Good+ copy. Clean covers, pages and jacket apart from old tape residues showing to endpapers and their backs, and flaps of jacket. Jacket also has light wear to edges. Photos available.

London: Longmans, Green, 1958 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and pictorial dustjacket . 303pp. Signed by the author on flyleaf. Novel. Very Good in very Good protected jacket. Covers clean with light bumping; stains to top edge; rust impressions from paper-clips on prelims; otherwise clean pages. Jacket has light browning, small chips to corners and spine end, price label residue on fold-in. . Pictures available.

London: Orion Books, 2013 A Racing Thriller. First edition, first impression, 'a special edition signed by the author' : signature on title page. Hardcover book . Black cloth, silver titles and dustjacket. 245pp. Racing thriller by the famous jockey. Fine in Fine jacket. Pictures available.

London, Penguin books Ltd, 2002 Hardcover book, first edition thus with dustjacket in presentation box with silver plated bookmark. Published to mark the centenary of the first publication of Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit story.. Book and box are in Fine condition. Very light rubbing to box. A nice commemorative addition to a collection. Pictures available

London, Penguin books Ltd, 2003 Hardcover book, first edition thus with dustjacket in presentation box with silver plated bookmark. Published to mark the centenary of the first publication of Beatrix Potter's Squirrel Nutkin story.. Book and box are in Fine condition. Very light rubbing to box. A nice commemorative addition to a collection. Pictures available.

London: Frederick Warne & Co 1912 Small HB. Possibly 1st ED. 94pp, 15 colour plates plus illustrations in the text. Brown paper boards with colour illustration of fox pasted to front. Colour illustration to front pastedown of a list of 12 Peter Rabbit books (the last one on the list being Timmy Tiptoes), colour illustration to fep. Volume lacks spine although some of the webbing remains. Some spotting and rubbing to boards, small pencil tick marks to pastedown list, scuff mark to fep. Previous owner's pencilled name and address to reverse frontis. Some odd spotting throughout. Early impression of the 1st edition, c 1913. A good copy.

London: for Hatchard 1812 Quarter leather, marbled boards, gilt banding and lettering to spine. Rubbed and aged, loss to spine ends, gilt rubbed. Bookplate of Francis White Popham to front pastedown. Still a Good, tight copy.

London: J. Hatchard, 1812 Second edition. HB. Two volumes. Full leather, gilt spine titles and decorations in compartments, gilt decorative borders. Marbled endpapers and edges. H: 16.5cm. Vol. I: 205pp, with dedication to the Duches of Rutland and authors' preface. Vol.II: 235pp + errata page. Poems. Good condition overall. Pages are very good, clean, just the odd spot or small mark, and binding sound. The covers are, however, worn: the main boards are bright and clean, with rubbed edges, but half of the spine leather is detaching in Vol.II, and has the lower 2cm missing in vol.I.

Thailand: Progress Publishing Co undated Hardcover book , 1st ED? Introduction dated 1963. 155pp. Some light rubbing to spine ends and corners. Previous owner's name to top fep. Dust jacket rubbed to all edges with some creasing and small tears. A Very Good copy in Good dust jacket. Pictures available.

London: Vinton and Co, 1900 First edition. Signed by the author with message to recipient, on second free endpaper. HB. Red pictorial cloth with gilt titles and motifs. Gilt top edge. 136pp. With coloured frontispiece (tissue guarded), and line drawings in plates by G.H. Jalland. Gilt bright to front, dulled to spine, but large waterstains (faded patches) to front and back corner areas of covers, spotting to endpapers. Many pages clean, intermittent blotchy browning and foxing, binding slack but holding. A Fair copy.

London: Macmillan, 1901 .First edition. Signed 'with the author's compliments' on flyleaf. Hardcover book . Pictorial cloth: dark blue/black cloth with gilt ship to front, decorative borders and spine. All edges gilt. 357pp. With 9 b&w illustrations in plates, and a folding map. History of the exploration and exploitation of the New World by the Spanish and other European nations. Fair to Good overall: front cover bright, spine and back slightly dulled. Binding slack at front, with one gathering loose. Most pages clean, some ink and other stains to front edges (on margins only), and occasional small handling marks, endpapers browned. Pictures available.

London, Chatto & Windus,1910 Hardcover, first edition , 46 pages, no dustjacket. Very nice red cloth covers with titles in gilt. Small previous owner'sownership label to front paste-down A near Fine copy . Very occaisional spotting. Pictures available.

London: John Tallis, c.1850 Probably a later edition, though no edition details given in this volume: Division 1 only. . The first edition was published by Tallis in London, c.1840. Hardcover book . Nice original blue cloth lettered in gilt with decorative gilt border to spine, and extensive blind-stamped decorations to front and back covers. Pale yellow endpapers. pictorial title page bearing engraving of Osborne House opposite tissue-guarded frontispeice engraving, followed by 14 more engravings of topographical views and buildings (all monochrome) with tissue guard separating each pair; followed by 7 engraved maps of the counties of Beds,Berks, Bucks,Cambs,Cheshire, Cornwall, and E & W., followed by the 158 pages of text. Finishing abruptly with Binham, Binsey, the text is an alphabetical gazeteer Gilt bright on covers, some fading and marking to cloth and bumped corners. Bindings firm. The plates do have some edge foxing and to the tissue guards. Pictures available.

Rochford, Paul-Leagas Publications. 1987 Hardcover book , First Edition, 182 pages with map and portrait. Signed with brief note by the author an ex Japanese prisoner of War. Detailing the horrors and brutalities suffered by the thousands of allied prisoners at the hands of the Japanese during World War Two. a Fine copy in a near Fine dustjacket. Very small cosed nick to top edge of jacket . Pictures available

London: Faraway Books 1981 First Edition A narrative of two years spent in the thirties, mostly under canvas, in the country districts of Boeotia, Epirus and Arcadia. HB, First Edition 344pp, 32 illustrations, 15 colour plates, maps. Previous owner has made pencil notes to margins. Dust jacket lightly rubbed to edges. A Very Good+ copy in Very Good dust jacket.

London: J Diprose 1858 Complete Edition by the American Horse Tamer. Reprinted from the American Edition. Small soft covers, 11x17cms, 36pp. Orange covers with portrait drawing to front cover. Rear cover shows advert for The Zebra Tam-ed. Covers rubbed to all edges with some loss to top corner and top edge. Spine has losses but item still tight. Pages tanned with some creasing. An interesting item in Good condition.

New York: Tudor Publishing Co, 1935 new edition Traces the complete history of tapestry from classic times, through the Renaissance and into our own time. HB, xvi, 275pp. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, three other colour illustrations. Ninety three b/w illustrations. Browning to front and back pastedown, front and back endpapers. Foxing early and late, with foxing to foredge and bottom edge. Front board is colour printed. Light bumping to spine. DJ is aged with some edgewear and creasing. Still a VG copy with a G+ DJ