Search Results: Authors starting with V from Itchen Books

1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1924. 506 pages + 8-page Publisher's catalogue bound to rear bearing the correct number code 10 24. Very Good condition with a little lean to the text block, minor edge wear/corner bumping, some darkening to the spine and toning to endpapers. No inscriptions. Clean and brght intermally.
A scarce first World's Classics edition of this collection of stories concerning ghosts and the supernatural. An anthology of some popular spooky tales by various authors, compiled by V. H. Collins. With an introduction by M R James, known for his ghost stories, which are considered among the best in its genre. Comprising numerous tales concerning the mysterious, supernatural, and the marvellous.The first edition of this work, published in 'The World's Classics' series by Humphrey Milford at Oxford University Press. Comprising fifteen of the most popular among their genre, including stories by authors such as Daniel Defoe, Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe George Eliot, and H G Wells among others.

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing with correct numberline "001" to copyright page. Very Good+ condition with no inscriptions. In Very Good original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped. 2018 Novelization of the hit Broadway musical "Dear Evan Hansen." Val Emmich is the principal author with the assistance of the playwright Steven Levenson and the songwriting team Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. The musical won Tony Awards for Best Musical, Book, Score, Actor and Featured Actress.

Near Very Good condition. Colour printed postcard titled "A Glad Christmas Tide" with art nouveau border and Henry van Dyke quote. Finely printed by Ernest Nister. Postally used in c1912 with a halfpenny postage stamp and indistinct postmark."For love is Life and they who do not love Are not alive But every soul that loves lives in the heart of God and hears him speak."Credited from "The Toiling of Felix and other poems" 1900 - Charles Scribner's Sons.

3x consecutive issues of "Reality - The World's Searchlight on Germany" (Numbers 146, 147, 148). Undated, but November 1918. Illustrated with black/white cartoons. Good condition, with some edge war / marginal tears to issue 148. Scarce.

12 issues (Volume 1 Numbers 1-12) of 'The Aero'. Scarce in original printed wrappers. All complete and in Very Good condition. The usual browning to the paper stock and occasional spotting / minor edge tears, with marks to the front cover of No.1, Rear cover of No.2, and minor loss to one corner of the front cover of No.12. 194 pp. B/W illustrations and diagrams throughout; some advertisements.

Very Good condition with no inscriptions. 5 stories (2 attributed - to T.V Nicholas and Marjorie R James). Stories include "An Obliging Gnome", "Hoppity-Hop Lending a Saucepan", "The Wonder Wonder Who Built a Little House", "Billy Belisha Lost His Head", and "The Friday Farthing". Attractive Alan Wright colour illustration on inside front cover + black/white text illustrations by various artists including May Smith.

Illustrated with photographic plates and fold-out map to the rear. Near Very Good condition due to inscriptions / pasted items. Presentation inscription "To Minnie Griffiths 1951 from Auntie with every good wish, Ethel Mildred Griffiths.". Pasted to the front endpaper, preliminaries, and rear pastedown are original photographs and Victorian carte de visites of the Griffiths, Gilmore Griffiths and Lloyd families (most with identifying ink annotations). Loosely inserted to the rear is a May 1952 postcard "Picnic Ground, Crystal Springs, Matamata" with inkstamp and notes, and an envelope 'For Emmie' containing loose photographs and a 3 page letter from Bill Griffiths (of Howick, Auckland, New Zealand) relating to the death of his father and providing / requesting genealogical material. A most interesting association copy.

Original 1867 printed / embossed 21s Dinner Ticket for the 152nd Anniversary of the Most Honourable and Loyal Society of Ancient Britons. His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales as President of the Day. Held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St James's, London. Embossed seal with Prince of Wales feathers for the Welsh Charity School, Ashford. Very Good condition. Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910)The Most Honourable and Loyal Society of Ancient Britons, founded in London in 1715, was a complex and multi-faceted patriotic phenomenon. It was simultaneously a mouthpiece for royalist propaganda and a haven for political radicals, a piously charitable foundation and an excuse for having a good time.

104pp, + photographic illustrations. Good+ condition - the wraps are shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. Inscribed and signed by author, who has added her address ('With compliments from K. Vundla 1564 Mtipo St, Dube Village, Soweto, R.S Africa') to the front endpaper (undated).From the rear cover; "Kathleen Vundla comes from the royal family of the Batlokoa tribe. She trained as a nurse at the Crown Mines hospital. There she met and married Philip Vundla. Life was rough and tough for the wife of a revolutionary leader and mother of twelve children, but she stood by Philip through poverty, struggle and danger....."