Search Results: Authors starting with D from David Ford Books

London: D.C.Thomson & Co & John Leng & Co, 1952 Undated, but 1959 annual from cover picture (Korky the Cat in a canoe). Laminated colour pictorial boards. 126pp. Name & address neatly in ink to 'This belongs to ' panel opposite title page. Good. Covers clean and bright, some minor marks; light edgewear, small loss top spine, dent to lower back edge, split to spine paper at lower edge. A few small marginal tears, one page has larger tear to centre.

London: D.C.Thomson & Co & John Leng & Co, (1954) Colour pictorial boards, Korky the Cat to front, Desperate Dan to back. Undated but 1954 from known covers and contents. 127pp. 'This belongs to ' panel opposite title page has not been filled in. Good copy overall. Covers largely clean and bright though worn and rubbed to edges, and spine very faded. Pages well bound and largely clean with browned margins as usual. Some marginal tears, some of which have been repaired with old yellowed tape

London: D.C.Thomson, 1936 First issue of the Wizard Book for Boys, 1937, published in time for Christmas 1936. Undated apart from 25 December 1936 filled in on 'This book belongs to' panel. 125pp, quarto. Colour plate frontispiece, otherwise some red tinted images, mostly b&w. Illustrated stories and cartoon strips. Good condition overall. Covers have rubbed edges with abrasions, front image mostly clean and bright, back cover shows handling wear. Pages well held and mostly clean but tanned and with some marks to margins.

London: Headline Book Publishing PLC, 1994. First Edition A Theodora Braithwaite ecclesiastical whodunnit. Hardcover book , first edition, 216pp. A fine copy and dust jacket. Pictures available.

London: Headline Book Publishing, 1997. First Edition A murder mystery based at Gracemount Theological College, which is investigated by Theodora Braithwaite. First Edition, Hardcover book , 214pp. Marked in ink by previous owner to reverse half title page. A near fine copy and dust jacket. Bank details

London: Richard Bentley, 1836 First English edition. Full leather, gilt title and spine decorations, gilt tooled edges, marbled page edges and endpapers. Vol. 1: 548pp, Vol. 2: 520pp. H: 22cm. With 16 b&w engraved plates, as called for. Covers generally bright with minor scuffing to boards; rubbed edges; Vol. 2 has fraying to spine top and part of title label missing. Bindings sound. Light foxing and browning to ends, and to margins of plates (one or two plates have foxing over the image). Some creased corners. Book plate of Robert Carter Esq inside front covers. A Good+ set.

London: Popular Dogs, 1978 Second, revised edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket . 208p, h: 22 cms. B/w photos and line drawings. History of the breed, training, care, breeding, showing. Very Good in Very Good, price clipped, protected jacket.; light edge creasing to spine ends, a few small marks to pages; jacket lighty tanned, spine faded, light edge wear.

London: Jonathan Cape 1984 1st edition Hardcover book, 160pages with illustrations by . An autobiograhy of Dahl's early childhood.. A Fine copy in a near Fine dustjacket , Jacket slightly browned to very top of spine and is price clipped. No inscriptions. Pictures available.

London: Viking Penguin, 1998 First edition thus (previously published as The Great Automatic Grammatizator, one of the stories in this collection of thirteen) . HB. Grey paper-covered boards, and colour pictorial dustjacket by Brian Cairns. 279pp. Fine in Fine jacket, now in clear sleeve.

New York & London: Spon & Chamberlain, 1886 Eighth edition, revised and translated from Swedish by Dalhstrom. Slim Hardcover book . Black cloth with gilt title to spine and blind stamped decorations. 26pp plus index and publisher's catalogue. Decorative endpapers. Originally published in Stockholm by Teknologforeningen, a small guide to safety in boilers and prevention of explosions. Good condition: light marks and rubbing to covers. Most pages clean but browned, with a few handling marks; title page very browned. Pictures available.

New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold,1982 Hardcover, First Edition,with dustjacket. the Marine biology of the coastal zone.422 pages with many charts, diagrams and other illustrations. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. With the book plate of the author Bryan Sage. Pictures available.

Cambs: Fern House 1999 Recollections of post-war Vintage Motoring. Hardcover book, 1st ED, 147pp, 120 illustrations. A Fine copy in a Fine DJ. Pictures available.

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986 Hardcover book, First edition in dustjacket. 241 pages with illustrations. The autobiography of Harry Daley , London policeman and close friend of E.M. Forster. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. Slight tanning of pages. Pictures available.

London: Folio Society 2007 Hardcover book in slipcase. First edition in Folio. Translated by Francis Cary, Introductory essays by George Melly and Michael Prodger. with illustrations by Salvador Dali. ,23x32.5cms, xviii, 154 pages. Quarter leather pale blue moire silk sides. blue slipcase. Slipcase has colour pictorial front, Very, Very light handling to slipcase. A Fine copy in a near Fine slipcase. No inscriptions. Pictures available.

Oxford. Windgather Press, 2013 Hardcover book , first edition, 460 pages with dustjacket. A detailed exploration of gardens in the county of Norfolk from the 16th century to modern times. A near Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Previous owners name to front end-paper. Pictures available.

Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2013 Hardcover book, first edition . 460 pages with illustrations in dustjacket. a History of gardening and landscape architecture in the county of Norfolk and the Gardens that have survived. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Previous owner's inscription to fly leaf. Pictures available.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. 279 pages with illustrations. An investigation of one of the wonders of the ancient world. A Fine copy in a near Fine, slightly sunned dustjacket. Pictures available.

London: The MInerva Press, 1978 New edition by Minerva Press, a facsimile edition in 250 copies, of the title first published in 1908 by John Lane. Hardcover book . Green cloth with gilt title to spine, and dustjacket lettered in dark brown on brown paper, with printed images of holly leaves. Green tinted top page edges. 284pp. With 44 plates containing 175 b&w photos and line drawings of trees and leaves, as in the original. William Dallimore worked at Kew around the turn of the last century. A Fine clean copy, with price-clipped jacket. Pictures available.

London: Bloomsbury, 2013 First edition, first impression. Hardcover book , lettered in gilt, and colour pictorial dustjacket. 567pp. Pictorial endpapers. With colour and b&w illustrations in plates, plus 30maps. The British invasion of Afghanistan in 1839 and their eventual humiliating defeat. A Fine copy. in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. No inscriptions. Lovely copy. Pictures available.

Ipswich: Farming Press, 1997 First edition. HB. Colour photo-illustrated boards, and same design dustjacket. 138pp. With 16 pages of colour photos in plates, plus small line drawings at chapter headings. The author's long experiences of falconry with a variety of species of birds. A Fine copy.