Search Results: Authors starting with S from David Ford Books

London: Sunday School Union Part 1 "To The Fall of the Israelite Monarchy", Part 2, "To The Restoration of Jerusalem". Hardcover book , 330pp, 6pp publishers advertising late. 2 b/w fold-out maps. Marbling to edges and end papers. Gilt to spine and front board. Boards and spine lightly bumped and rubbed., some pages loose but not detached. A Very Good copy. Pictures available.

Singapore, Singapore Art Museum,1994 Hardcover book, first edition in dyustjacket. 246 pages . Published to coincide with the exhibition held in Singapore in April-May 1994 to celebrate 40 years of the artists work reproduced here in full colour. No inscriptions. Pictures available.

Luzern: Offizin Mengis+Sticher, 1986 First edition, limited to 1000, copy no.345. HB. Orange-red cloth with gilt figure of Pan to front, and clear perspex-film dustjacket. Unpaginated quarto. Beautifully printed on white laid paper, consists of printed details of performances of serenades (mostly Mozart), conducted by Paul Sacher from 1944-1985, to the lion monument in Luzern, followed by reproductions of accomplished line drawings (some of lions, others of musicians including Sacher) with signatures and inscriptions around the images from the performers. Introductory text by Maria Strebi-Erni. Book is entirely in German. This copy belonged to the clarinettist Basil N. Tschaikov. A Fine copy. No inscriptions Pictures available.

Wiltshire: Waterton Press (Frith Publishing), 1999 First reprint of title originally published in 1998. HB. Laminated pictorial boards and same design dustjacket. 110pp, folio. With b&w photographs throughout from the Francis Frith collection (two per page and sometimes whole page), showing various places in Norfolk from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s. Introduction on Frith and the photography company he founded, and on Norfolk. The photos have detailed captions. Fine clean book in Very Good jacket which has light wear to edges and a few marks.

London: Hogarth Press, 1928 First edition. HB. Decorative cloth, no dustjacket. 144p, h: 22cms. 32 b/w photo plates. Beautifully written account of a journey among the Bakhtiari people. With an appendix on the route by Gladwyn Jebb. Good condition: ex library (remains of labels inside back cover and to front cover); bumped and scored covers with rubbed edges with small cloth split to spine; pages mostly clean, some yellowing and foxing.

London, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1934 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket, 317 pages. Light green, cloth covered boards with white dustjacket illustrated with a photograph of a gull. The jacket and front end-paper are drawn by Ben Nicholson. A life story of Shirin le Breton told with intervals of ten yearly periods. a Very Good clean copy without inscriptions. Very light foxing to half and title pages contents generally clean. The Jacket has slight edge wear with small loss to top and bottom of spine and front right corner. Pictures available.

London: Christy's c1948 A history of the house of Christy, and a history of hats. Hardcover book , unpaginated, with 9 page compendium of hat styles from 1773 to the present day (1948). Endpapers tanned, pictorial boards with corresponding pictorial dust jacket. A near Fine copy in VG+ dust jacket. Pictures available.

Mumbai: Bombay Natural History Society & Oxford University Press, 1998 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and colour photo dustjacket. 230pp. With 20 plates of mostly colour photos, and 70 excellent line drawings. Covers the Indian sub-continet (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan, with brief coverage of Sri Lanka and Myanmar. 153 representative native trees, with introduction on regions and habitats. Very Good+ in Fine protected jacket. Book would be Fine but has ink tick on flyleaf. Otherwise clean. Pictures available.

Canada: Pergamon Press 1986 Theory and Experiment. Proceedings of the International Seminar, 1985. Hardcover book, 1st ED, xi, 455pp, figures throughout. Laminate boards, heavily sunned to spine and 2cm strip along top and to spine sides of front and rear boards. Previous owners signature to fep. Still a VG+ copy. Pictures available

Digswell, Welwyn: Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Historical Trust, 1984 First edition. Supplement to the book, Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Honours and Awards, published eight years before: including new awards and new material based on further research. Paperback: white card wrappers, stapled, lettered in maroon, with regimental emblem of deer printed in maroon to front. 22pp, quarto. With fold-out centrespread of b&w photos of soldiers of the regiment in uniform. Very Good copy. Light marks to front wrapper. Clean pages but some small losses and tags to fore-edge of a couple of pages. Note: 1972 Roll of Honour for the same regiment is also listed by this seller.

Digswell, Welwyn: Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Historical Trust, 1972 First edition. Paperback book : white card wrappers, glued binding, lettered in navy blue with regimental emblem of deer printed in blue and white to front, and regimental badge to rear wrapper. 49pp, quarto. No illustrations. This includes a first supplement to the main roll of honour at the front of the book. Good+ copy. Wear to spine inckuding tear to top edge. Clean pages apart from some foxing (blotchy yellowing) to first page. Note: 1984 book of Honours for the same regiment is also listed by this seller.

London: Werner Laurie, c. 1930 New edition, undated, 1930s? Hardcover book . Black cloth with white titles, no dustjacket. 292pp. With colour plate at front, and 100 line drawings in text, including portraits of various astronomers. Worn and rubbed covers with cloth tear to spine, various small marks. Binding sound, pages have pencil underlinings and marginal notes in places, and some handling marks. Neat ink name to flyleaf. Horoscope details in pencil to back endpapers. A Very Good copy. Pictures available.

New York Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902 Perhaps a reprint of this English edition (copyright date by Scribner's given as 1892). Hardcover book . Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine and front. 403pp. With frontispiece reproducing engraving of portrait of Marie Therese Charlotte, Duchess of Angouleme, tissue-guarded. Good copy only: covers clean though with rubbed edges with abrasions and small cloth tears to spine ends. Pages clean with top closed edges dust darkened, though the binding is slack with title and one other page detached (all present). Owner's name and small label to prelims. Translated by James Davis. (Angouleme).

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1905-1906-1921 Hardcover books, first editions in dustjackets. Volume 1 . 726 pages.Chamberlayne's Pharonnida,England's Jubilee,Benlowes' Theophila, Katherine Philips and Patrick Hannay. Volume II . 611 pages. Marmion's Cupid and Psyche, Kynaston's Leoline and Sydanis, and Cynthiades. Poems of John Hall,Sidney Godolphin and Philip Ayres. Chalkhill's Thealma and Clearchus. Poems of Patrick Carey and William Hammond. Bosworth's Arcadius and Sepha . volume III. 551 pages containing John Cleveland, Thomas Stanley, Henry King, Thomas Flatman, Nathaniel Whiting. Each book is Very Good , bound in Dark blue buckram with previous owners name on each volume. Volumes I and III are slightly stretched to front hinges but bindings are firm. Dustjackets are Very Good with light handling wear and slight browning to Volume III. Heavy set may require extra postage. Pictures available.

London: Andre Deutsche 1986 An autobiography. HB, 1st ED, UK. Inscribed, dated (1990) and signed by the author to fep. xiv, 144pp, plus 12pp colour illustrations. A near Fine copy in Fine dust jacket.

Athens: Ekdotike Athenon, 1994 Reprint of 1983 edition, (perhaps the first English edition?). Hardcover book . Red cloth, lettered in gilt, and colour pictorial dustjacket. 572pp, large quarto. With over 360 illustrations, most of them colour photos, showing art and artefacts, buildings and place, as well as colour maps; the twentieth century section has more b&w photos. Near Fine book in Fine jacket. Light spotting to top page edges; bookplate inside front cover. Pictures available

USA: Mountaineers Books 2002 Hard Cover book. First Edition, large format, 224pp with colour and black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. A Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. Pictures available.

London & Toronto: J M Dent & Sons Ltd 1925 A book of poems with illustrations by Geo Mervyn Chambers. HB, 1st ED, 79pp, inscribed and signed by the author to fep. Pale cloth spine, tan boards. Tanned strip to front edge, minor rubbing to corners. Tanned strip to endpapers. A VG copy.

France: Editoys, 2005 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth spine and & pictorial boards. 143pp, h: 30cm. Colour photos throughout. Text in French with English translation. The superb collection of British and French Dinky toys owned by Gérard Dulin (a pseudonym) published here prior to a series of auction by Collectoys in France; every model and box photographed in colour with information captions. With introductions by Dulin & Salmon. Fine condition. Pictures available.

London: A.R.Mowbray, c.1909 Presumed First edition, undated but has original owner's name and date of Oct. 1909 on each flyleaf. Four volumes, complete, each one covering three months of the year. Hardcover books. Each book has brown cloth spines lettered in gilt, and grey paper-covered boards lettered and elaborately decorated in brown printed religious and floral motifs to front covers. Each 16 x 10 cm. Each month is paginated separately and has its own title page eg. Volume I has 63pp, 59pp and 63pp for January to March. Each saint has a life history, followed by his religious and moral example, and a Collect. A Good+ set. Pages very good, clean and well-bound, with a few brown spots to fore-edges and browning to endpapers. Covers have bright gilt but are rubbed to the edges and spines, with light browning to the front covers; Vol. 3 has the front cover paper torn and scuffed with loss. As well as original owner's name and date, Vol. 1 has 1929 and 1947 owners' names to flyleaf,… Read More