Search Results: Authors starting with I from David Ford Books

London: Greenhill Books, 1993 A study of the story of Rourke's Drift, with the aid of contemporary eye witness accounts and archaeological surveys which seek to find the truth. Hardcover book , 22x27.5cm, 167pages, colour illustrations, b/w illustrations and photographs throughout. A fine copy and Dustjacket. No inscriptions, Pictures available

London: Stanley Paul, 1960 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 175pp with illustrations. The story of one of the great middle-distance runners and the breaking of the then world record for the mile in 1957 at the White City in London. A Very Good clean copy without inscriptions in a Very Good dustjacket. Light handling wear to jacket with small piece nicked to top front. Pictures available.

Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1979 New Collectors' edition for subscribers, based on the 1965 New York edition, with a new frontispiece for this edition by Alan E. Cober, and publisher's preface. HB. Full grey leather with gilt decorations to front, back and spine, all edges gilt. Maroon textured paper endpapers and silk marker, printed on cream paper. 325pp, quarto. With colour and b&w woodcuts by Matheson in plates and text. Introduction by John Gassner. A Fine copy.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1907 Hardcover book , first edition in dustjacket. 247 pages with illustrations in colour from paintings by Stanley Inchbold . with some account of other cities and historical sites in Portugal. Dark red cloth with gilt coat of arms and title to front cover. Very Good - no dustjacket, no inscriptions, very minor handling wear, No inscriptions. Pictures available.

London: Mitchell Beazley, 1991 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and photo-illustrated dustjacket. 180pp, large quarto. With colour photos throughout, many whole page. The furnishing, style and utensils of a traditional country kitchen, including American, Spanish and French kitchens, as well as recipes, and the kitchen garden. Fine in Very Good jacket, which has a little light wear to edges. Pictures available.

London: Elliot Stock, 1898 Third edition, revised and augmented. Hardcover book. Grey cloth with stamped titles, sundial and weather vane motifs. Hand cut edges. 233pp. With folding cloud chart as frontispiece (b & w photos), and one diagram in plate. Arranged by theme (eg seasons, cloud, wind, rain, also birds , insects..) Very Good. Clean covers, spine lightly rubbed with a few creases to cloth, some foxing, esp. to prelims, browned endpapers, browned edges with some brittleness and nicks to cut edges.

London Macmillan 2002 Hardcover Second Impression with Dustjacket. The Strange and Inventive life of Robert Hooke 1635-1703. Scientist. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Small mark to page block edge.

London, George Philip & Son, c1900 Hardcover book , Fifth Edition , slim book ,no dustjacket, blue covers with title in gilt to front. 52 pages with maps, charts and diagrams. 'Illustrating all the shortest sea methods of the practical branches of navigation and nautical astronomy.' A Very Good copy with general handling wear to covers. Pictures available

London, Country Life Limited, 1934 Hardcover, First edition , no dustjacket. 115 pages with colour frontis and 40 b & W plates illustrating room colour designs and colour of the period. Basil Ionides was a British architect and interior designed best know for his work on the Savoy. A Very Good book, the odd light foxing spot but generally a nice clean copy. Pictures available.

Xanthi: H.K. Kambouridis 1982 Pictures and Documents out of its History. Hb, 29x22cms, xv, 125pp, text in Greek and English, illustrations of documents only in Greek. Brown cloth boards, no dust jacket. A VG+ copy.

Dublin: Maritime Institute of Ireland, 1982 Reprint of book first published in 1966: the imprint gives the new printer as F.B.S. of Philadelphia, USA. Paperback: laminated white card wrappers, stapled, bearing b&w photo illustration and lettered in black. 52pp. With b&w photos and illustrations in text. The Easter Rising of 1916 seen in the context of the role of the German navy (mostly submarines) and Irish maritime history. A scarce item. Good condition. Pages are clean, though staples rusty. Wrappers have light brown stains, and a written note to back.

London: Robert Hale, 1969 Reprint of 1964 new edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 334pp. With 49 b&w photos in plates, and a folding map of the county at end. The County Books series by Hale. This copy belonged to the Northamptonshire author Raymond Howe: it has a prize inscription to him on the flyleaf for a literature competition in 1970. A Fine bright copy.

Staplehurst: Spellmount, 2000 First edition, first impression. Hardcover book . Cloth, and pictorial dustjacket. 223pp. Large quarto. Well illustrated throughout with colour and historic b&w photos in the text. The Irish Guards were founded in 1900; includes detailed accounts of their service in various wars. With introductory note by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Fine copy. Photos available.

London: Collins 1938 Anecdotes of famous statesmen and other celebrities. HB, 1st ED, 352pp. From the library of Sir David Napley, solicitor (1915-1994) whose clients included the M.P. Jeremy Thorpe, Maria Aitken and the family of Roberto Calvi. Signed by Sir David Napley to fep. With his wife's inscription to half title. Covers have some bumping and a few areas where the cloth is raised. Light spotting to endpapers. Dust jacket lightly rubbed to all edges, sunning to rear and a few chips to ends and corners. A Good copy in Good dust ajcket.

London: William Heinemann, 1905 First edition. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards with gilt decoration and title to front and spine ,57 pages of text. Coloured frontispiece with 49 colour plates tipped in from watercolours by Arthur Rackham,at the rear as called for,. Each plate has a tilted guard leaf. Green endpapers . All the plates are clean and in Fine condition. Some foxing, heavy in places to title page and to text pages. The book binding is tight and firm but with some rubbing to top and bottom of spine and short splits along top of spine edge. rear corners slightly bumped. Book plate to front paste-down. A Very Good copy.

London: Grafton & Co, 1951 First edition. HB. Black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, no dustjacket. Pages: xix (introduction), 398pp. Bird books are listed under various categories, each with a brief description of contents: by subject (eg early works to 1800; Ecology; Song); Regions of Britain; bird families; plus indexes of authors, subjects, species and places. A Good+ copy. Pages very good but with faded cloth to spine and some light marks.

London: George Allen & Unwin 1952 With action photographs by Lloyd Arnold, drawings by S. Fleishman. HB, 1st ED, quarto, xiii, 157pp, 2pp advertising to rear, illustrations throughout. Light sunning to board edges. Dust jacket price clipped, spine has loss to both ends and chip to centre. Heavily rubbed to all folds. Some minor chipping. A Very Good copy in still Good+ dust jacket.

Italy: Edizioni il Polifilo 1975 nelle vedute di Gasparo Galliari dedicate a amalia di Beauharnais Viceregina d'Italia. HB, 26x39cms, 38pp introduction, text and notes. 12 double page full colour plates. Text in Italian. Half dk blue leather, gilt to spine, aeg, with blue paper boards and blue slipcase. Slipcase hass ome tanning and light rubbing. a Fine copy in VG slipcase.

London. Methuen & Co. 1966 Hard Cover book . First Edition. In dust jacket. 254 pages.This book is a selection of stories, essays and verses that Christopher Isherwood has written in the course of nearly forty years.A Fine book in a Fine un-clipped dustjacket. Slight darkening to top closed page edges. No inscriptions. Pictures available.

London: Chatto & Windus, 2000 First edition, first impression. HB. Cloth and photo-illustrated dustjacket. xxxvii (Introduction by the editor), 388pp. Isherwood began Lost Years in 1971, but did not publish it, using various sources to recall his difficult and dissipated years after the War in California, New York and London. With detailed notes and a biographical glossary of people mentioned. Fine copy. Slight lean to spine.