Search Results: Authors starting with V from David Ford Books

London, Andre Deutsch Limited, 1984 Hardcover book. First edition in dustjacket. 189 pages Two personal narrative pieces that are both about the process of writing. Very Good in near Fine dustjacket. Slight darkening to top page edgesand pages slightly tanned. No inscriptions. Dustjacket is not clipped . Very slight sunning to spine. Pictures available.

London: Asia Publishing House 1962 Statistics and Records of Test Cricket from 1876-77 to 1960-61. HB, 1st ED, xv, 156pp plus 12 illustrations. Boards badly sunned/faded. Dust jacket has some light chipping, darkening to rear. A G+ copy in G+ DJ.

London: Thames & Hudson, 2000 First edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 256pp. With 37 line drawing illustrations in text, and various tables. Records the building of a sustainable, green, easy to maintain and relatively inexpensive, house in Southwell in the Midlands. Very Good in near Fine protected jacket. Light rubbing to cover edges; owner's name on flyleaf (an architect). Jacket has tiny chip to one corner, and v. light wear to edges. Pictures available

Quidenham, The Erskine Press, 2004 Hardcover Book , first edition in dustjacket. 163 pages with illustrations . The story of the Dambusters and in particular Guy Gibson who lead the raid on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe dams in the German Ruhr Valley. Written in part by Eve Gibson prior to her death. Jan van den Driesschen with his wife tended Gibso's and Squadron Leader J.B.Warwick's grave for many years following their deaths in a Mosquito ,near Steeenbergen Holland whilst returning from a raid in September 1944 . A Fine copy without inscriptions in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. Pictures available.

Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1945 First English edition. With Signed letter from author to a British MP pasted to front endpaper (sending the book). Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 254pp. With b&w photos in plates. Various contributions to a symposium, edited by Van Helsingden. Good in Poor dust jacket, now protected in clear sleeve. Beige covers with browm spine and lettering, gilt to spine. Cover edges have darkened. Pages clean apart from small stain to lower margin of first few, which also have creased corners. Endpapers browned. Jacket has large losses to front edges and lower corner, creases to both panels and age marks to back. Pictures available.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1963 First edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. xxiv, 387pp. Foreword by Cyril Beaumont. With 73 b&w photos and illustrations in plates, plus 11 drawings in text by Robert Bruce Church. Includes classical, romantic and contemporary choreography and composing: mostly of ballet. Very Good+ book in Very Good jacket. Small bumps to cover corners. Jacket has light wear to edges and some toning to back.

New York: Privately printed by William E. Rudge's Sons Christmas 1938 550 copies printed. The story of a life. Hardcover book , no dw, 236pp, 3 tipped-in colour plates by William Blake, 13 tipped-in b&w photographs, 150 other b&w photographs, folding map of the world in pocket at back. Dk red cloth, spine darkened, front edges sunned, internally small previous owner's label to front pastedown otherwise clean and good. A VG+ copy.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1941 First UK edition (first published in US in 1940). Hardcover book . Pale blue cloth with dark blue lettering to spine, and Gollancz yellow dustjacket with maroon and black lettering, which quotes Steinbeck's opinion of the novel on the front. 248pp. Very Good in Good+ jacket. Light browning and spotting to cover edges, creased spine ends. Browning and spotting to closed page edges, light foxing and browning to endpapers. Light wear to jacket edges incl. tiny losses, a few abrasions to spine, which is browned. Spotting, browning and light handling marks to back and front; unclipped, no inscriptions. Pictures available.

New Jersey, USA: T.F.H. Publications, c.2000 Presumed first edition, undated but circa 2000 from contents. HB. Pictorial laminated boards and same design dustjacket. 336pp. Lavishly illustrated throughout, mostly with colour photos in text. Includes a section on setters outside America. History of the breed, American and overseas breeders, showing and care for the dogs. Very Good in Fine jacket. Book would be fine but for stamped red star on lower front closed page edges.

London: Robson Books, 1979 First edition. HB. Cloth and photo-illustrated dustjacket. 179pp. With 10 b&w photos in plates. Biography of the great jazz musician Fats Waller, endorsed by Humphrey Lyttleton. Fine book in Very Good jacket

London: Methuen, 1898 First edition. Hardcover book . Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt vignette of three soldiers to front cover. xxvii, 320pp. With photo portrait of the author as frontispiece, tissue-guarded, and 14 other b&w photos and line illustrations in plates, and 3 maps. (Note: three of the four maps listed are present, one is missing. One folding map of the Nupe Country is present but loose). Foreword by Sir George Goldie. Vandeleur lead a military expedition in 1897 that surveyed the Nupe country around the Niger river, and his route is shown on one of the maps. Also some military actions are described. This copy is ex-library, (Alassio English library) and has just a small stamp to title page, some ink class marks to front pastedown and to spine. A scarce book on lesser known episodes of the British empire in Africa, in Fair to Good condition overall. Covers have some light marks and spots, some cloth fading and tears to spine edges, though gilt is bright. Binding sound… Read More

London: Ebury Press, 2016 First edition, first impression. HB. Cloth and colour photo-illustrated dustjacket. 328pp. With colour photos in plates, and to endpapers. The life and football career of Jamie Vardy, the Leicester and England striker. A Fine copy.

Germany: Konemann, 2004 First English edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 831pp, folio, h: 30cms. Colour photos alongside recipes throughout. Recipes provided by many European chefs, graded according to skill level, whose names only appear at the lower margin of the page. Clearly set out. Very Good in Very Good protected jacket. Small loss to front pastedown, light tan to top edge. . Pictures available.

London: Folio Society 1993 3 volume set. Second printing, Hardcover books in slipcase. A Selection Translated by George Bull. Revised introduction. Colour plates throughout. Bound in tan cloth with gilt design. Brown slipcase. A Fine set in a Fine slipcase. No inscriptions. Pictures available.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986 First edition. HB. Brown cloth with gilt titles and dustjacket bearing b&w photo of Karajan. 274pp. With 18 b&w photos in plates. This copy belonged to the LSO clarinettist Basil N. Tschaikov, - his signature and date are on the front free endpaper. Very Good in Very Good jacket.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958 First edition. Hardcover book . Black cloth, gilt titles and crest to spine, and grey dustjacket lettered in red and black. 288pp, octavo. With frontispiece and 21 plates of b&w photos reproducing medieval manuscripts. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life & Thought, new series vol.6. Fine in Very Good jacket. Clean covers and page faces, Jacket has a few small spot marks, lightly sunned spine, and is price-clipped. Matthew Paris

London: John Murray Book Club Associates 1985 Tales of the Great Western 1892 - 1947. Hardcover book Signed and dedicated by the author, pictorial endpapers, 191pp, 24 b&w photographs plus tables and diagrams. Minor spotting to endpapers. Dust jacket is price clipped with v. light edgewear. A near Fine copy and dust jacket. Jacket spine slightly sunned. Pictures available.

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1964 Reprinted article from Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, the first issue in this form. Paperback: blue card wrappers, lettered in black; stapled quarto, pp103-144. With 2 maps in text and a b&w photo in plate. Very Good copy, clean and bright .

USA: Massachusetts Audubon Society, 1993 First edition. Signed by Wayne Petersen on title page, and with presentation inscription by him on half-title to friend. HB. Blue cloth, titled in blue to spine, with gilt bird vignette to front cover, and colour pictorial dustjacket from painting by Van Dusen.. 514pp. With 21 full page line illustrations by Van Dusen, and distributuin maps for 130 breeding species, as well as colour maps to endpapers. The text covers 460 species of bird recored in Massachusetts. Foreword by Roger Tory Petersen. Very Good book, with spotted top closed page edges (otherwise clean and bright) in Fine jacket.

London: Christopher Helm / A & C Black, 2008 First edition. Hardcover with dustjacket as issued. 416pp. With excellent colour photographs as well as line drawings and distribution maps and graphs in text. From the Wye valley in the East to the Usk in the west Gwent is a relatively small area but one with a diverse range of habitats resulting in a breeding species totalling more than 120 .A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket With the Book Plate of author Bryan Sage.