Search Results: Authors starting with L from David Ford Books

London, Winchester Publications Limited, 1948 Hardcover Book ,first edition , no dustjacket . Blue boards with gilt arms and decoration to front. 256 pages illustrated with photographs and maps covering the history of this Public School. Colour frontis. A Very Good copy, no inscriptions front hinge slightly stretched but binding firm. Pictures available.

London, Welcome Historical Medical Museum: 1954 Published for The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum , New Series No. 6. HB, quarto,xxii, 345pp. Blue cloth cover with gilt Scots Pine to front, gilt lettering to spine. Frontis map, 9 plates, 140 text figures and 6 tables. Covers sunned to rear, spine and front edges, with minor rubbing to edges. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Internally clean and tight.. A Very Good copy. Pictures available.

London, Blackwell Scientific Publications,1976 Hardcover, First edition in Dustjacket, 445 pages, illustrated. The results of a year on Jamaica studying the ecology and systematics including the distribution, Habitats and habits of the islands bird life. A Fine copy in a near Fine jacket. with the book plate of the author and ecologist Bryan sage inside front cover.Jacket slightly sunned to spine . No other inscriptions and not price clipped. Pictures available.

Cambridge, Cambridge Bird Club, 1934 Hardcover, first edition118 pages, no dustjacket. The birds of Cambridgeshire with an account of the birds of the undrained Fen by H.C. Darby. A near Fine book with the previous owners name to front end paper. Pictures available.

London/ Munich, Prestel Verlag, 2015 Hardcover, first edition in dustjacket. 496 pages with many illustrations. Published to coincide with the exhibition on the Bauers at the Natural History Museum in London . A Fine copy without inscriptions in a Fine dustjackets. Pictures available. Please note this is a very heavy book and may require extra shipping costs.

London: Jane's, 1980 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 482pp. With 107 b&w photos and illustrations in plates & text, and 16 text figures. History of the Royal Marines and Commandos, and their roles in various 20th centuury conflicts, written by a former Royal Marine. Very Good in Very Good protected jacket. Jacket has light rubbing & minor creasing to edges.

London: The Medici Society, 1929 First edition. Hardcover book. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, with gilt crest to front cover, no dustjacket. Gilt top page edges. 47pp, quarto. With 24 tissue-guarded plates from sepia wash drawings by the author, with her verses printed opposite, mainly on themes of children and mothers. Foreword by HJC on the author, who had died in 1926. This is a Good copy due to the lower 2cm corner of each page margin stained brown- otherwise very good pages, with light rubbing to cover edges and a little foxing to closed page edges. Lovely illustrations. .Pictures available.

London: Bell and Daldy, 1862 Childrens' fiction. Translated from the German by Lady Maxwell Wallace. Slim HB, 125pp, with small b/w illustrations.Lacks frontis plate and rear endpaper. Advertising by the publisher late. Inscription to FEP. Very light foxing early and late. Vertical tear to rear end paper. Gilt lettering to front board. Boards and spine lighlty rubbed. Spine sunned. A G+ copy

Tralee: Churchill House Press, 2006 First edition. HB. Cloth and colour pictorial dustjacket. 269pp, large quarto. With over 175 colour reproductions in text and some full page plates, with detailed catalogue entires, of the works of art assembled at Glin Castle by Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin: these show great houses, landscapes, townscapes, gardens and some interiors in various parts of Ireland: Munster, Connact, Ulster, and Leinster. A Fine copy. Pictures available

Zurich & New York: Scalo, 1995 First edition, April 1995. HB. Maroon cloth lettered in silver on black panel to spine, and photo-illustrated dustjacket. Unpaginated folio. With Lagerfeld's b&w photographs throughout, many whole page and some double page, with introductory text, and accompanying texts by Lagerfeld to some of the photos. Models include Helena Bonham-Carter, Linda Evangelista and Emma Thompson, photographed in or against buidlings or landscape locations. Fine copy.

Milan, 5 Continents,2007 Hardcover, First English Edition, with dustjacket. The First artist from the old world to paint the landscape of the Americas from first-hand experience. 430 pages with all155 autograph paintings confirmed to date ,together with 57 drawings and 35 prints. a Superb volume,Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Very small bump to front top corner. This is a very heavy volume which may require extra postage. No inscriptions Pictures available.

Newport, Cross Publishing, 1994 softcover book , 207 pages with illustrations and plans. Tracing the History of the islands hostpitals from 1851 when there were just 33 doctors on the island. a Fine book without inscriptions. Pictures available.

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1983 First edition. HB. Blue cloth with gilt titles, and colour photo-illustrated dustjacket. 178pp. Illustrated with b&w photos in plates and 2 maps. The Giant Otter and other wildlife studied by the authors in Guyana. Fine copy. Pictures available.

London: Simon & Schuster, 1994 First edition. Signed and dedicated by Cleo Laine on title page , to Antony ' a great musician' (composer, pianist and conductor). HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 352pp. With b&w photos in plates. Autobiography of the jazz singer. Fine in Fine jacket, now in clear sleeve.

London: John Murray, 1989 First edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 242pp. With line drawings & figures in text. The power of smell and taste in humans, applied to food, wine (the author owns a winery) and sexual attraction. Very Good copy, with some very light creasing to jacket.

India: Ministry of Information 1982 Hb, 24x32cms, 120pp, 47 b&w paintings and sketches, 31 tipped-in colour plates. Revised edition. Purple cloth boards, very light wear. Creasing to fep. Dust jacket rubbed to folds, light creasing and chipping. A near Fine copy in VG+ DJ.

London: Conway Maritime Press 2011 Restoring the World's First Iron hulled warship. Hardcover book, 22x27cm, 224pp, Many colour and b&w illustrations throughout. Originally published in 1987 , this is the completely revised and updated edition, on this the world's first ocean going, iron hulled warship. A Fine copy in a Fine dw. No inscription, Pictures available.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1968 First edition. HB. Light blue cloth with gilt titles, and dustjacket which features, on the back, a drawing of the author by Don Bachardy. 185pp. Novel set in California, where the author lived. From the library of the late great Sid James, comedy actor, and collector of modern fiction. Other titles from his collection listed. Fine in Fine jacket, now protected in clear sleeve. Clean covers and pages; very light rubbing to jacket edges.

Robertsbridge: Pica Press, 1996 First edition. HB. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket. 271pp. With 24 superb colour plates of these beautiful birds painted by Martin Woodcock. Also with b&w drawings and distribution maps. Fine book in Fine protected jacket. No fading. very light crease to jacket.Pictures available.

Paris, Jeu de Paume, 1994 Softcover, First edition, 121 pages with many illustrations covering this artist's work . Published to coincide with an exhibition held at the Galerie nationale in 1994/5 A Fine copy without inscriptions. Pictures available