Search Results: Titles starting with V from David Ford Books

Abergavenny: Delbury Books, 2002 First edition. HB. Pale green paper-covered boards lettered in dark green and illustrated with b&w line drawings, no dustjacket (probably as issued). 128pp, quarto. With 140 line drawings by M.C. Stinchcombe, and accompanying text by Barbara Knight. Good+. Clean coves with frayed lower spine, dent to lower edge, and price on back inked out. Gift inscription, quite large, on flyleaf. Pages otherwise clean.

London: Laurence King publishing Ltd. 2018 Hardcover book, First edition , no dustjacket. 259 pages illustrated in colour. The make-up imagery of Val Garland featuring many of the top models including Kate Moss. This book is part of a small collection owned or given in memory of Steven Robinson, fashion designer and a driving force behind John Galliano's period as the top designer at Christian Dior. Following his death in Paris in 2007 the House of Dior described Steven as one of the great unsung talents of the fashion world. A superb book of images from one of the great make-up artists of the day. A Fine copy. Not signed. Pictures available.

London: John Murray 1954 'In a valley of this restless mind....'. Hardcover book , 1st ED, 286pp. Very light bumping to spine ends. Foxing to endpapers, foredge, and odd spots to margins, previous owner's pencilled signature to fep. Dust jacket darkened, rubbed and creased to edges, spotted to rear, some very light chipping top rear. A VG copy in G+ DJ. Pictures available.

London: Little, Brown and Company, 2003 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth, and colour photo-illustrated dustjacket. 335pp. With colour photos in plates, and a map. The author attempted to follow the Draa River from source to sea, travelling by camel and on foot. Fine copy.

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd 1947 The third volume of the Adventure series, First Edition no dustjacket. Hb, 341pp with illustrations by Stuart Tresilian. Pictorial boards, light bumping to corners and spine ends. A VG copy no inscriptions.

Lancashire: Ronam Publications 1970 Softcover book , paperback, first edition, 12.5x20cms, 52pp, 4 drawings. Some light use marks to rear. A Very Good copy. Pictures available.

London, A Zwemmer Ltd, 1977 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. illustrated. 289 pages of text with 160 photographic plates. Vol XVI in the Studies in Architecture series. A re-examination of Sir John Vanbrugh's life and projects including Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket

London: Michael Joseph 1969, 1971,1972 Hardcover Book 3 volumes of autobiography. 1st edition. A very nice three volume set of H. E. Bates's autobiography. Very Good in Very Good near Fine dust jackets. Slight dust darkening to top closed page edges . book Volume 1 has slight sunning to spine. No inscriptions and none of the jackets are priceclipped. A Very nice set. Pictures available.

London: Jarrolds, 1935 First edition. Signed by the editor on title page: D. Whitelaw, Savage Club. HB. Red cloth, with gilt titles to spine, no dustjacket. xi, 288pp, plus publisher's catalogue. With 33 b&w photos and illustrations in plates and text, including frontispiece. Memoirs of the music hall manager and musician, who knew Dan Leno, Marie Lloyd and other greats. Includes performing and fundraising for troops in France in the First World War, with some photos of this. A Very Good copy. Pages very good and well-bound, with light browning to closed edges and leaves at ends. Covers have bright gilt but are dull with some light marks, fading to spine cloth and small bumps to edges. Photos available.

Isle of Bute: Dove Publishing, 2007 Second edition, updated with models since first pub. in 1999. Hardcover book . Red cloth with silver titles, and colour photo-illustrated dustjacket. 384pp, small oblong format. With photos of each model in Vauxhall's long history of car making, mostly colour, opposite detailed text including specifications, plus introductory text. Fine copy, with very light rubbing to jacket edges. Pictures available.

Moreton in the Marsh, Lesley Holmes, 2003 Hardcover, First edition with dustjacket. A collection of sketches and watercolours of this lovely city. a Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. No inscriptions .

London: Grafton Books (Collins), 1988 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and pictorial dustjacket. 435pp. Fully illustrated in colour plates and b & w photos & line drawings throughout, & location map. History, narrative and guide book in one. Very Good+ in Fine protected jacket, light rubbing to cover edges.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1961. First Penguin edition. Paperback: orange and white card wrappers lettered in black and white, with image by Osbert Lancaster to front wrapper. 156pp. A Fine clean copy, with no inscriptions, square and well-bound, with some very light edge wear to wrappers, and the usual light tanning to page margins and edges.

Paris: Les Éditions de la Lucarne, 1925 First edition, copy no.97 of 200 numbered copies on Pur Fil Lafuma paper. Hardcover book . French text. Attractive rebinding in blue leather spine and corners, over marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine with gilt border lines. Top page edges gilt. Decorative printed endpapers. The original brown card wrappers have been bound in. (It was originally published as a soft cover). 122pp. With b&w photo of author as frontispiece, opposite information on his military record in the First World War (he had fought at Verdun and was killed in October 1918). A Very Good copy: fine and clean inside, with original owner's details on top margin of and one platfront wrapper). Covers clean and bright, with some small rubs to leather in places.Lovely copy . Pictures available.

Somerset, Somerset Venacular Building Research Group, 1996 Softcover, First edition, 107 pages with many illustrations, drawings plans and diagrams showing the development and history of this Somerset village. the research was undertaken under the overall co-ordination of Mick Aston. A Fine copy. Pictures available.

UK: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2001 First edition. Paperback: pictorial card wrappers. 93pp. Introduction by Heaton then 8 articles by various contributors. With 2 b&w photos and 2 musical score extracts in text. This copy came from the library of the LPO clarinettist Basil N. Tschaikov, who was the editor in chief of this journal. Near fine copy.

London: John Murray, 1920 Reprint of third (1919) edition, Jan.1920. HB. Blue-green cloth, titles printed on paper labels to spine and front, no dustjacket (probably as issued). 117pp, octavo. With photo portrait of the author as frontispiece. William Hodgson died on the first day of the Somme; a Lieutenant in the 9th Devons. Very Good. Clean covers with light rubbing to edges, browned spine label with small loss just over surname. Tanning to page edges and heavy browning to back of photo.

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1887 Hardcover book, first edition, 344 pages with all illustrations,Panoramas and maps as called for. Top edge gilt. Engraved title page by John G. Millais Colour plate of Snow Bunting slightly foxed to edges. Green cloth binding slightly dull will faded spine and a very small rubbed hole to edge of spine, corners lightly bumped. No inscriptions. Pictures available.

Sydney: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1972 First edition. Hardcover book . Colour photo-illustrated cloth boards and same design dustjacket . 107pp. With full page colour photos throughout, detailed texts opposite each, introductory text on motoring history in Australia. Very Good in Very Good jacket, now in clear sleeve. Pictures available.

London: John Lehman, 1948 First UK edition of novel first published in 1947 in America. Hardcover book . Dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and pictorial dustjacket by Edward Bawden. 256pp. Bellow's second novel. Very Good in Very Good jacket, now in clear sleeve. Clean covers, slight dulling to gilt; top page edges darkened, fine spotting, foxing spots to fore-edges of last few page edges; owner's name and date (1948) in ink to flyleaf, neatly written. Jacket front and spine bright, back has light surface marks and some creasing to lower margins; light rubbing to corners. Pictures available.