Search Results: Authors starting with C from Jacket and Cloth

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1939. Hardcover. See description. ALDIN, Cecil. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. DESCRIPTION: Beige boards with lettering to spine. Authors inscription and signature to ffep. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin - 30 illustrations Book Condition: Fair: Wear and light soiling to cloth boards. Wear to corners and spine ends with minor chipping to cloth. Foxing to front and rear endpapers. Lightly toned pages with occasional mark or spot to page margins. DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 227. Size: 8vo 22cm by 16cm. BOOK RESUME: Selection of drawings of dogs from Cecil Aldin with accompanying text by Patrick Chalmers.

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1933. Hardcover. See description. 1st Thus. Limited edition of Sandhurst Edition. DESCRIPTION: A limited edition of 1,354 copies compiled by Churchill from the Abridged and Revised Edition, illustrated with maps. Contains a reset text in which Churchill selected various chapters from his 1931 Abridged and Revised volume. Bound in red cloth with black titles to spine. Seven maps and a folding facsimile letter, with additional maps in text Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Lightly sunned spine with minor marks and light soiling. Very minor sunning to upper edge of boards. Tightly bound throughout with toned intact endpapers and strong hinges. Prev owners name to ffep. Light spotting to prelims and initial front and rear pages. No annotation or underlining to text or margins. Toned text block edges with spotting and red stain seeping on to page margins. All fold out maps remain neatly folded with no creases… Read More

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1933. Hardcover. See description. 2nd cheap edition. Originally published 1899. DESCRIPTION: Purple cloth with black titles to spine Language: English. Book Condition: Fair: Wear to lightly turned corners, edges and spine. Rubbed cloth. Cracked front endpaper but front hinges remains strong. Lightly toned unmarked pages. DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages xi, 381. Size: 8vo 22cm by 14cm.

London: Cassell & Co Ltd, 1961. Hardcover. See description. 1st Thus. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Originally published as a part of Churchill's great four volume work; 'A History of the English Speaking People' - Vol.4. DESCRIPTION: Black and white illustrated DJ over red cloth. Gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with black and white photographs and six maps Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Sharp corners, edges and spine ends. Faded upper front cover and spine from DJ. Sunned upper edge. Tightly bound with very lightly toned intact endpapers and very strong hinges. Lightly toned unmarked pages and text block edges. DJ Condition: Very Good: Light wear to upper and lower edges with minor chipping to corners. Light creasing to fold over edges. Unclipped. Pages xiv, 111. Size: 8vo 22cm by 14cm.

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1942. Hardcover. See description. Originally published 1930. DESCRIPTION: Light brown DJ with red and black titles to front and spine. Blue cloth Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Sharp corners, edges and spine ends. Tightly bound with lightly toned and lightly spotted intact endpapers and strong hinges. Lightly toned pages with toned and finely spotted text block edge. DJ Condition: Good: Wear, creasing and chipping to upper and lower edges. Toned spine. Minor tears to upper spine edges and upper corners. Minor marks to front. Unclipped Pages 392. Size: 8vo 22cm by 14cm.

London: Frederick Muller, 1958. Hardcover. See description. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Red leather, gilt lettering to spine. Gilt pages edges on all sides, decorative endpapers, 24 Illustrations Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Clean bright leather boards with minor wear at top and bottom of spine and corners. Very tight binding. Clean intact endpapers with clean unmarked pages. DJ Condition: Na. Pages (x), 220. AUTHOR: The author tells of one of the great engineering achievements in communications, the laying of the submarine cable, from the first crude attempts in 1858 to the development of the telephone cable in 1956. He covers the pioneering days of Cyrus Field, Morse, the scientists, Lord Kelvin, Oliver Heaviside when fabulous fortunes depended on what was little better than a thread beneath the ocean, to todays scientific frontiers within the laboratory.

Birkenhead: H. C. Robinson, 1890. Hardcover. See description. DESCRIPTION: Original red cloth. Frontis Language: English. Book Condition: Fair: Heavy wear and colour loss to cover edges and spine. Chipping to spine cloth on rear spine edge. Tightly bound with firm hinges. Lightly toned pages with occasional minor marks and spots. Soiled margins to rear endpapers. DJ Condition: Na. Pages 189. Size: 18mo 16.5cm by 11cm.

London: Edward Arnold, 1896. Hardcover. See description. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Decorative blue cloth with gilt illustration to front and spine. Rough cut pages with gilt top edge to pages Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Clean cloth with lightly tarnished gilt to spine and front. Tightly bound with cracked upper front endpaper and surface cracking to remainder of front and rear endpaper. Light foxing to title fly page and last page. Lightly toned pages with minor pencil marks against a few poems. DJ Condition: Na. Pages xxii, 440pp, appendix.

London: Longman Brown & Co, 1852. Hardcover. See description. First Edition. Inscribed by Author. DESCRIPTION: Original green blind-stamped cloth Language: English. Book Condition: Good+: Wear to boards and chipping. Damp staining and loss of cloth. Small amount of wear to corners. Clean intact endpapers, tight binding and clean pages. Author presentation inscription to title page with small library stamp. DJ Condition: Na. Pages [xvi], 304pp, advert leaf.