Search Results: Authors starting with C from David Ford Books

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1887. First edition An examination of the more obscure words and phrases as used by Shakespeare, the meanings and origins. HB, 1st ed, xvi, 455pp, with advertising from publisher late. Inscription to title page. Browning early and late. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. Boards lightly rubbed, spine slightly bumped, stepped. A VG copy.

Cambridge: The University Press, 1937 First edition thus, of 200 copies printed for Private Disrtibution at Christmas 1937. Paperback book : buff card wrappers titled in black to front, thread bound. 22pp. Two essays in the style of P.G. Wodehouse, to whom the volume is dedicated: Bertie Wooster in Cambridge, and Mr Mulliner in the Combination Room. They had originally been published separately in The Cambridge Review. A Good+ copy, wirh clean wrappers lightly browned; heavy foxing to many of the pages. Pictures available.

London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1939 Academy Books re-issue A biography of Mrs Thrale and her relationship with Dr Johnson. HB, 334pp, with 12 b/w plates. V lightly foxed early and late. Boards and spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Dust jacket is chipped and browned with loss to spine base and some water marks. A VG copy with G DJ.

London, Collins, 2013 Hardcover First edition with dustjacket. A natural history of the British and irish species. A Fine book in a Fine Robert Gillmor dust jacket. No fading. Pictures available.

London, Marshall Brothers Ltd, 1923 Hardcover book , first edition, 63 pages with illustrations. No dustjacket. The authors thoughts and enquiries concerning the early Jewish settlers in Palestine, A Very Good book , no inscriptions, light tanning to pages, spine slightly sunned. Pictures available.

London: W. H. Allen, 1968 First UK edition (originally published in America in 1966). Hardcover book. Orange cloth with gilt titles to spine, and pictorial dustjacket by Barbara Walton. 288pp. Author's second novel, a crime thriller involving a threat to national security. A Fine, clean and bright copy, with minor creases to jacket spine and top edge. Pictures available.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1954 Hard cover book. Illustrated by Fred Wolff. A complete picture of space and space travel from 1949 when a V-2 rocket soared upward at 5,100 miles per hour. First Edition, x, 212pp, 64 black & white plates. Some light foxing early and late, minor wear to spine ends otherwise internally clean. Pictorial dust jacket has creasing and some small chips to all edges, rubbing to folds and general age wear. A Very Good copy in Good dust jacket. Pictures available.

London, George G. Harrap & Co Ltd. 1936 Hardcover, First edition , no dustjacket, 145 pages , illustrated and with True Distance Finder and Course Selector in pocket at rear. A Very Good copy in blue boards, foxing to first prelim pages otherwise clean without inscriptions.

London: George G. Harrap, 1936 First edition. HB. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and gilt and blind-stamped decorative sun (and compass?) motif to front, and pictorial dustjacket. 145pp, large quarto. With 23 b&w illustrations, including 2 photo plates. Also included in a pocket at the back cover is a card and perspex course selector/calculator. Charts to endpapers. Very Good in Fair to Good jacket, now in clear sleeve. Clean covers,jacket is worn with losses to edges

Johannesburg: Purnell 1969 Paintings, field sketches and field notes. HB, First Edition, 22.5x30cms, 248pp plus addenda and index. 80 colour plates. Some light spotting affecting some margins and a few plates. Slight rubbing to board edges. Dust jacket has some rubbing to folds and edges. A VG+ copy in VG+ DJ.

London: Frederick Warne, 1909 Undated edition, though probably 1909 from pencil printer's date on back pastedown. HB. Pictorial cloth on bevelled boards in shades of brown and buff, gilt decorations to spine. Quarto. Paginated in individual stories. Eight stories, including The Diverting History of John Gilpin, The House that Jack Built, Babes in the Wood and Queen of Hearts. With engravings throughout in plates and text by E.Evans after drawings by Randolph Caldecott, many in colour. Fair condition overall. Covers largely clean and bright with a few small marks and light rubbing to edges. Front internal hinge split with flyleaf loosening though binding holding. Most page faces clean with some light browning or spotting; 10 or so pages have tears,

London: Frederick Warne, c.1910 Undated edition, though probably c.1910. HB. Pictorial cloth on bevelled boards in shades of brown and buff, gilt decorations to spine. Oblong quarto. Paginated in individual stories. Nine stories, including Hey Diddle Diddle, A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go and the Great Panjandrum Himself. With engravings throughout in plates and text after drawings by Randolph Caldecott, many in colour. Very Good condition overall. Covers largely clean and bright with some browning and rubbing to edges. Front internal hinge split though binding sound. Most pages clean with some light browning or spotting; One page has a large tear without loss.

London, Grayson & Grayson, 1935 Hardcover book with dustjacket No 9 in the Grayson books series of Signed Limited first editions. Signed by A Calder-Marshall. Number 188/285 . A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Very light foxing to prelim pages.. Pictures available.

Glasgow & Edinburg: WM Hodge, 1910 First edition. Soft cover book : cloth covered card wrappers with cloth spine. 825p, folio, h: 33cms. Proceedings of the arbitration hearing in Edinburgh between the Caledonian Railway Company and its employees on the proposed cuts in wages or increase in hours worked. Includes full testimony and questions, stock and locomotive capacity details of rhe railway company, with fold-out tables. Worn and rubbed wrappers with losses to spine labels, split to binding at front though generally sound for such a heavy volume, pages clean with some light creasing. A Good+ copy. Pictures available.

London: Frederick Muller, 1959 First UK edition HB. Blue cloth with gilt titles, and dustjacket lettered in yellow, red, blue and white on black. 319pp. Novel about a teacher in an American high school. From the library of the late Sid James, comedy actor, and collector of modern fiction. Other titles from his collection listed. Very Good in Good+ jacket, now protected in clear sleeve. Spine ends of covers a little browned. Pages clean, one has marginal creases. Jacket bright and clean but rubbed to edges with small losses (mostly to top spine).

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907 First edition. HB. Red cloth with elaborate gilt decorations to spine, gilt borders and crest to front. Top page edges gilt. 169pp, followed by 511 plates of b&w photos and illustrations; octavo. Adverts at end for other volumes in 'The Spanish series' by this publisher. Very Good condition. Clean covers with bright gilt, a little browning to red of spine, nick to top spine cloth. Clean pages, creases to a few pages of the contents list with small edge loss.

Norwich: Jarrold and Sons, 1939 First edition. HB. Red-brown cloth, with gilt title to spine, no dustjacket. ix, 65pp. Well printed on laid paper. With 13 b&w photos and illustrations in plates and text and a pedigree of persons on patents and leases, including frontispiece (two are folding, the pedigree and photo of a petititon to Charles II). History from the granting of the first patent for a lighthouse on Hunstanton cliff (at the mouth of the Wash in Norfolk) by Charles II, to the fourth by George III, and later history. A Very Good copy. Light marks to covers, gilt bright. Some foxing and light browning to closed fore-edges and leaves at ends, but still a nice copy.

London: Jonathan Cape 1992 Hardcover book, 1st ED UK, 86pp. Translated by William Weaver. 3 stories, written before the author's death, which were to be part of a series of stories about the five senses. A Fine copy in a Fine but price clipped dustjacket. Pictures available

London, Merlin Press Ltd, 1963 Hardcover book, first edition thus, dustjacket and 267 pages with five maps. A study of local medieval history and government. A Very Good copy without inscriptions in a Very Good unclipped dustjacket. Pictures available.

Lavenham, Terence Dalton Ltd, 1972 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and colour pictorial wraparound dustjacket from painting by Gordon L Harvey. 164pp, quarto. With b&w photos and illustrations in text throughout. Maps to endpapers. A Good copy in a good only jacket. Book clean without inscription but with darkening to cover edges. Dustwrapper has some edge wear with some nicks and tears to corners. Pictures available.