Search Results: Authors starting with G from Virginia Bank Books

Conway Maritime. 1989. (10453) HEAVY Hardback. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. 254 pages. The contributors are well known authorities and so detailed and accurate information is the keynote of all the articles - fully supported by numerous b.w. photographs, plans and tables. Fine in black boards with gilt lettering to spine, in a near fine unclipped d.w. No markings or inscriptions.

London. Chatham. 1997. lst edn. (8005) HEAVY large format hardback. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. Before ordering please contact us direct for a postage quote. 192 pages. B.w. illustrations. Trafalgar, the most famous and most strategically significant victory in the age of sail, was not an isolated event. Rather it was the culmination of a campaign that began as soon as war was resumed in May 1803 and aimed ultimately at the invasion of Great Britain. To this end Napoleon attempted by ruse and elaborately disguised manoeuvres to bring his scattered and blockaded squadrons together for long enough to give him command of the Channel, which he fondly believed was all that was necessary to ensure a successful landing..... Fine in teal boards with gilt lettering to spine, in a fine d.w. Ex shop stock. Unread book. ISBN: 1-86176-028-0.

London. Chatham. 1998. lst edn. (8004) HEAVY large format hardback. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. Before ordering please contact us direct for a postage quote. 192 pages. B.w. illustrations. Regarded by many at the time as an unnecessary conflict, the War of 1812 was provoked by mutual misunderstandings and prosecuted without conviction on either side. It was also a war of surprises: the hitherto omnipotent Royal Navy suffered a series of humiliating losses at sea, while the American invasion of Canada, regarded as merely 'a matter of marching', was defeated by a makeshift force of colonial militia, native Indians and a handful of regulars. But in almost every aspect, it was a naval war, even the Canadian campaign or the burning of Washington depending entirely on seapower. The United States went to war under the slogan 'Free Trade and Sailors' Rights', but at the peace had gained concessions on neither issue..... Fine in teal boards with gilt lettering… Read More

Ian Allan. 2005. (10484) Landscape format Hardback. 80 pages. Colour photographs throughout. Fine in fine illustrated glazed boards. No markings or inscriptions. No d.w.

Sceptre. 2006. An Official Publication of the Cloud Appreciation Society. (10510) Hardback. 320 pages. B.w. and colour photographs. Fine in silver boards with silver lettering to spine, in a fine unclipped d.w. No markings or inscriptions.

London. Lund Humphries. Circa 1946. (5710) Hardback. 247 pages. B.w. portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, Colonel-in-Chief, at frontis piece. V.g. in navy cloth with gilt title and badge on front board and faded gilt lettering on spine. Foxing to page edges. Rear board slightly warped. No d.w. No inscriptions. A Register of Officers who have served on a Regular Commission in the Regiment since its formation on the 19th December, 1755, until the end of the War on 15th August, 1945.

Seeley. 1900. Eighth edition. (10213) Hardback. 312 pages. Tissue-guarded portrait of Lord Raglan at frontispiece plus 8 other b.w. illustrations. Bound in maroon leather with gilt motif of Kings College London on front board, gilt lining to edges of front and rear boards and gilt labels on maroon cloth fixed to leather spine with 5 raised bands. Faded marbling to edges of text block, marbled end-papers and decorative prize label of Kings College fixed to front paste-down. This book has been rebound (rebacked in matching leather) with new gilt titling to spine. A sound tight clean copy.

Basingstoke. Macmillan. 1996. (8949) Paperback. 216 pages. Near fine in a near fine slightly scuffed papercover. No markings or inscriptions. Appears unread.

The History Press. 2013. (10133) Paperback. 256 pages. B.w. and colour illustrations. Fine in a fine papercover. No markings or inscriptions. Unread book.

Skipton. Dalesman. Reprinted 1996. (9066) Paperback. 34 walks with maps. Fine in a fine papercover. No markings or inscriptions. Ex shop stock. Unread book.

London. Anness (Select Editions). 2001. (9498) Large format paperback. 128 pages. Covers 90 different knots, bends, hitches, loops and plaits described in colour photographs. Fine in a fine papercover. No markings or inscriptions. Appears unread.

Basil Blackwell. 1991. (10824) Hardback. 283 pages. Near fine in black boards with silver lettering to spine, previous owners bookplate on front pastedown, in a near fine unclipped d.w. No other markings or inscriptions.

Guinness Publishing. Reprinted 1999. (10563) Large format paperback. 186 pages. 50 B.w. illustrations. Fine in a fine papercover. No markings or inscriptions. Appears unread. An absorbing and diverting survey of naval incompetence from Roman times to the Falklands War.

Woodbridge. Antique Collectors' Club. 1999. lst edn. (4597) HEAVY large format hardback. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. Please contact us direct for a postage quote. 399 pages. B.w. and colour illustrations. Fine in navy cloth with gilt to front board and spine, in a fine d.w. Ex shop stock. Unread book. Was £45.00. The major portion of this book gives details of some 350 British manufacturers of ironstone-type wares, their working periods and basic marks. Many of these firms and partnerships have not previously been noted or researched. The three appendices include lists of manufacturers' initial marks and trade names, the registered ironstone shapes and the British ironstone manufacturers working in 1885 and 1900. ISBN: 1-85149-278-X.

USA. Random House. 1993. (4759) Large format paperback. 549 pages. B.w. illustrations. Maps. Fine in a near-fine papercover. Ex shop stock - unread book. A comprehensive and thorough single-volume history of the USAAF in World War II. ISBN: 0-375-75047-9.

Woodbridge. Garden Art Press/Antique Collectors' Club. 1994 reprint. (5575) HEAVY large format hardback. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. Before ordering please contact us direct for a postage quote. 200 pages. Of the 200 b.w. and 32 colour illustrations over 100 are fine detailed drawings and sketches by the author. Fine in olive green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine, in a fine d.w. Ex shop stock - UNREAD BOOK. ISBN: 1-870673-01-8.

Woodbridge. Garden Art Press/Antique Collectors' Club. 1996. (4579) HEAVY large format hardback. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. Before ordering please contact us direct for a postage quote. 248 pages. B.w. illustrations. Fine in olive cloth with gilt lettering on front board and spine, in a fine d.w. Ex shop stock. Unread book. This celebrated body of work has long been out of print, yet the comprehensive coverage of major aspects of modern landscape design, practice and philosophy is as relevant today as when the three volumes of studies appeared (1960, 1966, 1970). Geoffrey Jellicoe's purpose has been to study the influences of the past and present on the way we regard the 'shaping of the land to accommodate the innumerable activities of the modern world', and the fourteen selected studies in this volume have both an historical and contemporary bias. As with the previous two volumes, Jellicoe clarifies and emphasises his conceptual and practical ideas with a… Read More

Woodbridge. Garden Art Press/Antique Collectors' Club. 1995. (5574) HEAVY large format hardback. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. Before ordering please contact us direct for a postage quote. 269 pages. 45 b.w. illustrations. Fine in olive green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine, in a fine d.w. Ex shop stock - UNREAD BOOK. ISBN: 1-870673-07-7.

Gresham. Undated. (10963) HEAVY Hardback. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. Paginated in sections of 64, 64, 64 and 56 pages. Many colour paintings by Ernest W. Haslehurst, R.B.A. V.g. in white cloth with dark green lettering and red motif and lining on front board, and dark green lettering and 4 faded red motifs to spine. Ageing to edges of textblock and faint foxing to a few pages at front and rear. No markings or inscriptions. No d.w. A tight sound clean copy.

London. Constable. 1924. (6644) HEAVY hardback. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. Before ordering please contact us direct for a postage quote. 589 pages. V.g. in green cloth with blind tooling at corners on front and rear boards, gilt to sunned spine, and gilt to top edge of textblock. Pages uncut. Sound tight clean copy.