Search Results: Authors starting with Q from David Ford Books

London, Avicenna Press, 2004 Hardcover, First Edition in dustjacket. Signed by the author to title page- no dedication. The authors personal view of life after settling in a North Norfolk village- Cley next the Sea . His views on the local population and their lives. A Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket- unclipped but with a sunned spine. Pictures available.

London, Collins, 1945. HB, 1st ED, with dust jacket, 268 pp. A story of Djuna the junior sleuth and his dog champ. Green cloth covers with black titles, no inscriptions. The dust jacket price clipped with minor rubbing to spine ends, white scratch mark to front of jacket. A very good copy in a very good jacket.

London: Cox and Baylis, 1817 First edition thus, published by subscription. HB. Half-leather and marbled boards, gilt title to spine. 47pp. H: 26cm. Nicely printed on laid paper. List of subscribers then the text of each of the three Royal charters, granted in 1598, 1609 and 1675. The text is interleaved with blank pages and there are various blank pages; the names of the Treasurer and Secretary of the subscription have been inscribed in copperplate after the first two charters. Owner's ex-libris inside front cover. Spine leather and corners have been relaid- boards are otherwise very rubbed but clean. Binding is sound; pages are clean with a few light marks and edge browning; but text has been corrected neatly in places in old pen, and some passages underlined or marked in the margin. A Very Good copy.

London: Collins, 1941 Hardcover, first edition in dustjacket. 296 pages with illustrations.Centered on Byron's life after leaving England but also encompassing the whole romantic movement at the time. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. Light tanning to page edges. No inscriptions. The jacket is lightly worn around the edges with small losses to top and bottom of jacket spine. Pictures available.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1976 Author's observations on the philosophy and history of clothes constituting a serious examination of current theories whilst managing to remain consistently entertaining. HB, 239p, with many illustrations and 4 colour plates. End papers have some staining. Boards and spine lightly bumped . Dust jacket is Vg with rubbing and wear with small loss to rear corners A VG copy with VG DJ. No inscriptions and not price clipped.

Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2014-15 First editions, fourth and second impressions. Book Vol. 1 is 2014; Vol. 2 is 2015. Two volumes in Osprey's Men at Arms series. Paperbacks: colour pictorial card wrappers reproducing paintings of soldiers. Each volume is 48pp, quarto, and each is illustrated with 8 pages of colour paintings of uniformed combatants by Stephen Walsh, as well as with b&w photos in the text throughout, and a map. Fine copies. Photos available.

London: Histories & Mysteries of Man Ltd 1989 Egyptian Research Account, First Memoir. With chapters by Petrie. Hardcover book , 23.5x31cms, iv, 44pp text, 58 plates to rear plus 3 other plates. Red simulated leather binding, gilt to front and spine. A fine copy. Pictures available.

London, B.T. Batsford Limited, 1936 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. 120 pages plus publisher's catalogue. Illustrated from photographs by Robert M. Adam and with the classic Brian Cook dustjacket in full colour. A Very Good, near fine book in a Very Good unclipped dustjacket Bright and clean with just a hint of rubbing to the top of jacket spine. No inscriptions, Pictures available.

London: Cambridge University Press, 1925 First reprint, in same year as first edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 240pp. Hand-cut page edges. Almost all of the text had been given as lectures by the author at Cambridge. Mainly concerning Dickens, but also Thackeray, Disraeli, Mrs Gaskell and Trollope, as well as Victorian contexts. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Light browning to closed page edges, name and date to front endpaper. Jacket has light browning (to grey paper), and small losses to edges. Pictures available

New Jersey, Model Craftsman Publishing Corp.,1968 1979 Hardcover book , First edition in dustjacket. 92 pages, illustratedA History of the North Jersey Rapid Transit Company. A Fine copy in a Very Good price-clipped dustjacket. Light edge wear to jacket. No inscriptions Pictures available.

London, Yale university Press, 2003 Hardcover book , First edition in dustjacket, 333 pages well illustrated with many in colour. An exploration of British Medieval houses from the humble cottage to the grand houses. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. No inscriptions and not price clipped. Lovely copy. Pictures available.

Sevenoaks: J. Salmon, c.1925 Presumed first edition. Undated but probably 1920s from contents. Paperback: brown thin card wrappers, lettered in dark brown with pasted on plate to front; stapled, oblong format, unpaginated. Consists of 15 colour reproductions (one per page) of watercolour views of Cambridge (mostly the colleges) by Quinton, and title page (no text accompanying). Good condition overall . Wrappers poor: browned with spots and marks, small chip loss to front illustration. Title page spotted (tiny pin size spots), a couple of marginal (paint?) marks; staples rusty with centre pages detached (present, with some spotting to gutters).