Search Results: Authors starting with V from Gordon Hughes

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated, ix,406 pages. 24 x 17cm. How Speer became the creator of his own myth.

London: Martin Secker, First edition 1916.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 324 pages. Original maroon cloth in good tight clean condition, lettered and ruled in black Top edge slightly dusty Front pastedown with two neat owners' signatures. Endpapers slightly browned. Dustjacket, unclipped, with only minor wear and rubbing to edges. The spine slightly browned. Despite these minor blemishes the volume presents very well. Important first novel by Welsh author Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan, 1870-1948. A rare dystopian science fiction work in which a vellum scroll is found in a metal cylinder in the Andes. This relates the dystopian history of the miniature planet Meleager, where the practice of eugenics ensures the death of defective children and where women have no power or political rights A rare book with a possible influence on Charlotte Haldane's Man's World and feminist dystopian literature generally, especially in the areas of eugenics and male patriarchy

Madras: The Christian Literature Society, for the Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, Bangalore. 1978.. Soft cover. Good. Maps and plans on endpapers, xiii,378 pages 8vo, 22 x 14 cm. A good clean ex library copy 1978

London: Macmillan, 1st edition 1921.. Hardcover. Very Good. iv,365,2(catalogue) pages. 21 x 14cm. Very good clean copy, with the original olive cloth binding showing very light signs of use. Tightly bound, contents tight and clean. Front free endpaper missing, neat name on half title.