Search Results: Authors starting with T from David Ford Books

London: Hodder & Stoughton 1931 Being an account of the work of the destroyers, flotilla-leaders, torpedo-boats and patrol boats in the Great War. Hardcover book , first edition, no dw, 451pp, colour frontis and many other illustrations. Blue cloth, rubbed to corners and worn with wear to spine. Endpapers browned, hinges slightly cracked, previous owner's signature top fep. Some foxing to foredge but internally clean. A Good copy.

Barnsley, Pen & Sword 2009 Hardcover book , First Edition with dustjacket . The fate of those that did not get evacuated from France in 1940. Illustrated , 168 pages. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. No inscriptions and not price clipped. Pictures available.

Surry, Oxford Publishing Co, 2000 Hartdcover book, reprint in dustjacket with many photographs plans and diagrams of this famous class of locomotives. A Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket with slight handling marks. Pictures available.

London: Historical Publications, 2005 First edition. HB. Cloth and colour pictorial dustjacket showing a painting of W.G. Grace going in to bat.. 192pp, quarto. With 140 b&w photos and illustrations in the text. Detailed history of how London pioneered various sports contests or defined their rules. Includes rowing, cricket, cycling and boxing. Fine in Fine jacket. Photos available.

London, Cassell,Petter Galpin & Co., 1882 Hardcover, First Edition UK. Previously published in Paris. 448 pages plus publisher's catalogue. A Victorian review of the ocean world with many illustrations , eight full page and many others in the text. a Very Good copy in dark red decorative cloth, ( gold shrimp and seaweed) with light rubbing and fraying to spine ends, All page edges gilt, tissue guard to frontis is torn but still present. no inscriptions . pictures available.

London: Michael Joseph, 1997 First edition. HB. Cloth, and colour photo-illustrated dustjacket. 215pp. With line drawings in text by Jean Nicol Tangye. Anthology published the year after Derek Tangye died, on life at Minack farm in Cornwall. Fine in Very Good jacket, which has lightly colour faded spine with small mark at spine edge.

Middlesborough: The North-Eastern Daily Gazette, 1910 First edition. Probably signed and inscribed by one of the editors on front wrapper: 'To dear Lucy from Eileen, Xmas 1910'. An anthology of prose and poetry, with illustrations. Paperback book : cream paper wrappers, lettered in gold to front with decorative border; stapled quarto, 96pp. With line drawings and b&w photos. Contriobutions by 18 authors and artists, including The Baroness Good condition. Pages generally very good light handling wear to edges. Signed and dedicated from Eileen on cover. Pictures available.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1965 Reprinted in two volumes with corrections. A comprehensive account of the natural and semi-natural vegetation of the country, with an ample physical and historical background, fully illustrated with maps, charts, diagrams, and photographs. Hardcovers 18x26cm,930pp, 162 plates ,418 photographs , 179 text figures. Geen cloth with gilt line drawings to front boards, white dust jackets with photographic illustrations to front.Books are Very Good with foxing to darkened top page edges. No inscriptions, Dustjackets are price clipped but with minimal wear slight rubbing to some edges. a very nice set.

New York, Phaidon Press, 2004 Hardcover, First Edition in dustjacket. 160 pages well illustrated with photographic essays depicting contemporary dance. A Fine copy in a near Fine dustjacket, no inscriptions . Pictures available.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1938 First reprint of book first published in 1935. Translated and arranged with some additional matter by Smith and Bone. Tarrasch had died in 1934. HB. Black cloth, gilt titles and bands, no dustjacket. 423pp. With chess board diagrams throughout. Good condition. Light marks to generally bright covers, some rubbing to edges and to spine ends. Foxed endpapers and closed edges. Neat small name inside front cover.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1953 First edition. Hardcover book.. Cloth with yellow Gollancz dustjacket. 408pp. Novel set in post-war Japan, as a soldier returns to a society changing fast. Written in English. Very Good in Good+ protected jacket. Bright covers, bumped spine ends and corners, browned & spotted closed edges, pages clean, a few spots to prelims and address stamp to back endpapers. Jacket has tanned spine, tanning along edges. A few spots and marks to front, rubbed and creased edges with tiny tears and chips. Pictures available.

London: H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd 1981 1st ed Hardcover, First Edition with dustjacket. Signed by the author. The Swallow's life-cycle. Hb, 96pp, 2 colour plates and 19 line drawings by Alan Harris. This copy belonged to the renowned bird artist Martin Woodcock with his Signature to endpaper. A Fine copy in Fine dw.

London: Little, Brown and Company, 2003 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth, and colour photo-illustrated dustjacket. 335pp. With colour photos in plates, and a map. The author attempted to follow the Draa River from source to sea, travelling by camel and on foot. Fine copy.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985 Hardcovers, Reprints with dustjackets. Sixteen of the Seventeen volume set. From Volume 1a Roman Britain to English History 1914-1945. The Missing volume is the Consolidated Index volume although each of the 16 volumes does have it's own index. All volumes are Fine or near Fine with only the lightest of handling wear to the uniform jackets and in most cases none at all , Very light sunning to some dustjackets but still a very nice collection. Do ask if you require any further information.Pictures available. A very heavy set so may require extra postage/shipping.

Robertsbridge: Pica Press, Yale, 1998 First edition. HB. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket. 600pp. With 43 excellent colour plate painted by Ber van Perlo. Also with b&w drawings and distribution maps in species accounts. Fine in Fine dustjacket. A few light foxing spots to top closed page edges. No inscriptions . Lovely book. Pictures available.

London, Yale University Press, 1997 Hardcover, First edition with dustjacket.Signed and dedicated by the authors with brief inscription to front end-paper. 295 pages with 257 annotated illustrations, mostly in colour, selected from six centuries of artistic response to the poem. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. No other inscriptions . Pictures available.

Ilfracombe, Devon: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1963 First edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 224pp. With 5 b&w photos in plates. Based on the author's experiences as a teacher at girls' grammar schools. Very Good+ in Very Good+ protected jacket. Light tanning to page edges and endpapers. Jacket clean and bright.

Barnsley, Pen & Sword 2018 Hardcover book , First Edition with dustjacket . The sufferings of Japanese prisoners of war. Illustrated ,208 pages. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. No inscriptions and not price clipped. Pictures available.

London, Heinemann, 1957. Hardcover book , First edition in Dustjacket.467 pages with many illustrations.Covering many topics from Ceramics to atomic energy. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket . Front board dented along bottom edge, Dustwrapper worn with creases and edge rubbing and small corner losses. Pictures available.

London: D. Wilson & G. Nicol et al, 1776 First edition. HB. Full contemporary or near contemporary leather, gilt title to black leather label on spine, and gilt border lines to spine. border lines to spine. Unpaginated octavo, 22 x 13.5cm. All the pages fold out concertina style, horizontally, with a map on each side of the page. Prelim pages (also folding) consist of title page bearing engraving and dedication to the Duke of Argyll, then Index of the Cities, Towns and Villages on the Great Roads, then A List of the Stages of the Great Roads, then 61 engraved maps of the roads showing towns and villages, topographical features, distances etc. Plate 1 is the road from Edinburgh to Berwick upon Tweed. The pages of this copy are in very good , clean and unfoxed condition, and well-bound. There is light l browning to front edges of the maps. The road maps are all present but please note that there was also a general map of Scotland, which this copy lacks. The covers are worn, rubbed abd scuffed,… Read More