Search Results: Authors starting with Y from David Ford Books

Dunstable, Guideline Publications, n.d. Softcover book , 60 pages with plans, drawings and photographs for the air historian or modeller. Very Good. Pictures available.

London: Oxford University Press, 1962 First edition. HB. Cloth, and dustjacket by Tunnicilffe. 308pp. With frontispiece plate by Tunnicliffe of Pied Flycatchers (same design used for the jacket), and reproductions of Bewick wood engravings of birds as chapter headings. Text has maps and tables. Fine in Very Good protected jacket. Light browning to closed edges. Jacket has very light rubbing to top of spine ,No inscriptions and not price clipped. lovely copy.

Hunstanton, D.A.Yates, 1967/ 1968 Softcover, 522 pages useful historical reference to the shops, and businesses that inhabited Norfolk in the !960's. from farmers to publicans . lots of adverts. All listed under their local towns and village. A Very good copy with some crasing to covers and tape residue inside covers. Pictures available

London: Chatham Publishing, 2000 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 314pp. With b&w photos in plates and battle maps in text. A fresh look at the battle of Jutland and its long aftermath of debate and controversy. Fine book in Fine jacket.

London: Ward, Lock, 1897 First edition. Hardcover book . Beige cloth with nice stamped green art nouveau design of carp and pond weed. 87pp, slim volume 15.5 x 9cm. Covers have a few marks with some splash stains mostly to back. Pages clean. A Very Good copy. Pictures available.

London: Chatto & Windus 1945 first edition A drama in two acts. Hb, 1st ed, 94pp. Black boards spotted, light foxing throughout. Dw rubbed, spine spotted, light edgewear. A VG copy in VG DJ.

New York, DAP/Distributed Art publishers,2008 Hardcover, First Edition with dustjacket.198 pages illustrated in colour with Johns work. A Fine copy without inscriptions in a Very Good dustjacket with very slight darkening to edges of jacket. Pictures available.

Nottingham: Book Law Publications 2004 The Scottish Trains & The Pullman Trains. HB, 1st ED, 28x22cms, v, 154pp of photographs and text. Pictorial laminate boards, no dust jacket. Creasing to top corner of pages 5-12. A near Fine copy.

Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1918 First edition. Hardcover book . Dark blue cloth lettered in black on white paper labels pasted to spine and front, with red and recessed borders to latter. 95pp, plus publisher's list. With frontispiece self-portrait of the author, tissue-guarded. Six essays by the painter John (Jack) Butler Yeats, including: Watts and the Method of Art, Synge and the Irish, and The Modern Woman. Very Good copy: clean and bright front cover, browning to spine label, some scratches to back cloth. Pages largely clean, some quite heavy foxing and browning to prelim pages. Name to flyleaf- 1918, Tristram B. Hart. Pictures available.

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket, 938 pages with illustrations. A volume covering the poets life and the letters written to friends and fellow poets. A Very Good copy with the previous owners name and date in a Good but edge worn and clipped dustjacket.

London , Collins, 1971 Hardcover, with dustjacket, 311 pages. Illustrated in colour and B & W. Fine in near Fine Ellis Jacket.. Not price clipped no inscriptions,very slight edge darkening around inside rear flap but still a lovely bright copy.

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1989 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth, and dustjacket. 283pp. No illustrations. How the native peoples of Canada have been treated and how they are now defending their culture and rights. Foreword by Canadian Cree Tomson Highway. Fine in Fine jacket, now in clear sleeve. Light spotting to top closed edges. Pictures available,

Rutland, Goldmark, 2015 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. 333 pages with many full colour examples of the artist's work. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. No inscriptions , pictures available.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967 First edition thus. HB. Brick-red cloth with gilt title and image to front cover, and dustjacket designed by Michael Jarvis. 32pp. With beautiful wood engravings by Joan Hassall as vignettes throughout. Poems about creatures of the countryside, some with an underlying religious theme. Nicely designed and printed book, as usual with Hart-Davis. Fine in Very Good protected jacket. Clean cover, pages and jacket, which is price-clipped.

London: Bell & Hyman, 1985 First edition. Signed by the author with dedication inscription on title page. HB. Pictorial cloth and dustjacket. 192pp. With b&w drawings and diagrams throughout. Make-up for the school and amateur theatre. Very Good in Very Good protected jacket. Yellowing to page edges, slight fade to cloth edges. Pictures available

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1930 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket, signed by the author three times! (twice with a dedication to front and rear end-papers. ) A near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. Slight tanning to endpapers otherwise a very clean copy. Dustjacket has very slightly rubbed corners but is still a very striking jacket. Pictures available.

Bognor Regis, Sussex: The Arundel Press, 1950 First edition. HB. Green cloth with gilt title, and pictorial dustjacket. 125pp. With 11 b&w wash drawings by Grimes in text, and to endpapers, and photo to frontispiece plate. Life in rural Flansham in Sussex. Attractively produced book. Very Good clean and bright book in Very Good jacket, which has light handling wear

London & Glasgow: Richard Griffin & Co, 1860 First edition. Hardcover book . Library binding of red cloth with gilt title to spine. 598pp, octavo. With b&w engraved figures and illustrations in text throughout. With sections on nautical astronomy, practical astronomy and meteorology. Very Good. Library stamp to title page only (Engineer's Institution?). Clean covers with some patchy fading, some light marks and browning to prelims. Pictures available

Glasgow: James Brown & Son & Ferguson, 1915 Revised and enlarged edition. Paperback: pictorial printed card wrappers, brown & red lettering and image of scout, on buff card. xvi, 665pp. With line drawings in text throughout, two sections with colour images (flags and pilot badges, in marine chapters). Pictorial adverts at ends. Very Good: in remarkably good condition for a paper covered book of this period: clean wrappers, rubbed edges mostly to spine which has some small tears at lower edges.

Marlborough, Wiltshire: Libanus Press, 1985 First edition, limited to 200, copy no. 181. HB. Fawn cloth spine and terracotta paper covered boards, no dustjacket. Unpaginated, beautifully printed on Zerkall laid paper, h: 21.8cms. Tipped in frontis photo of author, small vignette drawing opposite collophon at back. Poems from the 1950s to the 1980s, published posthumously. Fine condition.