Search Results: Titles starting with C from David Ford Books

London: J.M. Dent, 1984 First edition. Cloth and photo-illustrated dustjacket. 294pp. With 8 pages of b&w photos in plates. Biography of the great cricketer, (captain of England who opened the batting with WG Grace) athlete & footballer, who also ran for Parliament and went to Hollywood .... Includes cricket career stats at end. Fine in a Fine jacket Photos available.

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green 1830 Hardcover, First edition, Two Volume set on the History of Scotland. bound in half-leather. Very Good. Two well bound volumes with light overall rubbing.Volume 1 has lost it's red title panel to spine. two small dated inscriptions inside front cover of Vol 1 (1879 & 1896) Foxing to first few pages Half and titlepages of both volumes but main contents clean. Pictures available.

London: PL - Nicholson & Watson, 1943. First edition A Play in Two Acts. A play in verse with a setting in the Garden of Eden, with Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel and the Archangels as characters. HB, 1st ed, 32pp. Inscription of previous owner to front pastedown. Dust jacket is price clipped and has minor chipping and rubbing. A VG+ copy with VG DJ.

London: Collins, 1974 First edition. Hardcover book , green cloth with gilt titles, and dustjacket . 286. With photo frontispiece,y colour photographs 36 b&w photos in plates, text figures and maps. Colour illustration of Ptarmigan and Tawny owl tipped into reverse of title page tohether with some newspaper cutting stuck in at end of book. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket with some creasing and sunning . Previous owner's name to half-title page.. Pictures available.

London, Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1970 Hardcover book, first edition (UK) 370 pages with illustrations in dustjacket. The Development of the Egyptian capital over the years. A near Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Pictures available.

London, I.B.Tauris, 2007 Hardcover book , First edition in dustjacket, 358 pages with many illustrations in cpolour. A History of the Architecture and Culture of Cairo under the Mamluks. A Fine copy without inscriptions in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. Pictures available. Heavy book may require extra shipping charges. Pictures available.

Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2008 First edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 282pp. With b&w photos in text. The history and tradition of Louisiana cajun and zydeco music being played at venues in California. This came from the library of the classical clarinettist Basil N. Tschaikov. Fine in Fine jacket, now in clear sleeve.

Johannesburg: Purnell 1969 Paintings, field sketches and field notes. HB, First Edition, 22.5x30cms, 248pp plus addenda and index. 80 colour plates. Some light spotting affecting some margins and a few plates. Slight rubbing to board edges. Dust jacket has some rubbing to folds and edges. A VG+ copy in VG+ DJ.

Glasgow & Edinburg: WM Hodge, 1910 First edition. Soft cover book : cloth covered card wrappers with cloth spine. 825p, folio, h: 33cms. Proceedings of the arbitration hearing in Edinburgh between the Caledonian Railway Company and its employees on the proposed cuts in wages or increase in hours worked. Includes full testimony and questions, stock and locomotive capacity details of rhe railway company, with fold-out tables. Worn and rubbed wrappers with losses to spine labels, split to binding at front though generally sound for such a heavy volume, pages clean with some light creasing. A Good+ copy. Pictures available.

Lavenham, Terence Dalton Ltd, 1972 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and colour pictorial wraparound dustjacket from painting by Gordon L Harvey. 164pp, quarto. With b&w photos and illustrations in text throughout. Maps to endpapers. A Good copy in a good only jacket. Book clean without inscription but with darkening to cover edges. Dustwrapper has some edge wear with some nicks and tears to corners. Pictures available.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1967 First edition. Hardcoer book. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, and dustjacket designed by Patricia Davey. 157pp. The author's first collection of short stories, set in Orkney. One page foreword by the author. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Clean page faces, heavy foxing to top closed edges. Cover gilt bright, some fading to cover edges with small mark and scuff to lower edge. Jacket has light soiling to back, a little spotting to front with tears and small losses to edges. Browned edges to flaps. Pictures available.

London: Robert Hale, 1978 First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to title page. Hardcover. Cloth, and pictorial dustjacket 208 pages. With illustrations. Storey's search into his native landscape of Cambridgeshire and the Fens, A near Fine copy in a Fine price clipped dustjacket. No inscriptions. Pictures available.

Sevenoaks: J. Salmon, c.1925 Presumed first edition. Undated but probably 1920s from contents. Paperback: brown thin card wrappers, lettered in dark brown with pasted on plate to front; stapled, oblong format, unpaginated. Consists of 15 colour reproductions (one per page) of watercolour views of Cambridge (mostly the colleges) by Quinton, and title page (no text accompanying). Good condition overall . Wrappers poor: browned with spots and marks, small chip loss to front illustration. Title page spotted (tiny pin size spots), a couple of marginal (paint?) marks; staples rusty with centre pages detached (present, with some spotting to gutters).

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993 First edition. Hardcover book , 22x29cms. Cloth, and dustjacket. 400pp. Richly illustrated with over 300 mostly colour photos, and 87 colour maps and charts. Maps to endpapers. With texts by 50 contributors, divided into large themes from geography, history, the arts to society and politics. Fine in Fine protected jacket. Pictures available.

London: Third Millenium Publishing, 2013 First edition. Dark grey cloth lettered in gilt to spine and with gilt Cambridge arms to front, in colour pictorial dustjacket., large square format. 160pp. With reproductions of 36 engravings in plates, taken from Cantabrigia Depicta of 1811, restored and coloured for this edition. These show mostly colleges and other buildings in Cambridge, with detailed texts on each opposite, as well as introductory texts on history, and a map. A Fine copy of a very nicely produced book.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 English editions of books originally published in France. One volume is a first English ed., the others are reprints. Complete in 3 volumes, of uniform design. Hardcover. Orange brown cloth with gilt titles to spine on black panels, and colour pictorial dustjackets. Book Vol 1: 350 to 950. 1997 reprint. 556pp. Book Vol.2: 950-1250. Ist English ed, 1997. 544pp. Book Vol.3: 1250-1520. 1997 reprint. 554pp. Extensively illustrated with colour plates, and b&w illustrations and maps in text. near Fine in Fine dust jackets. Light tanning to top closed page edges. No inscriptions. Very Nice set. Pictures available.

New York: Da Capo Press, 1970 Facsimile reprint of 1877 first edition by Joel Munsell of Albany. Hardcover book . Maroon cloth, gilt and silver titles, no dustjacket (as issued). 461pp. With b&w illustrations in text and plates. American war of independence campaigns. Fine. Pictures available

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: Humphrey Milford 1924 reprint First of a series of interest and usefulness to Boy Scouts. HB, 96pp, illustations throughout. Cloth boards with pictorial paper front illustration of 3 scouts. Spine ends bumped, spine top has 2 tiny tears, split to bottom front spine fold. Previous owner's name and addresss stamp to front pastedown, some light foxing. Still a VG copy.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953 First edition. Hardcover book . Red cloth with gilt titles, and pictorial dustjacket. 417pp. with 32 b&w illustrations and photos in plates, and 9 maps & diagrams. Very Good in Very Good jacket, now in clear sleeve. Light browning and foxing to closed page edges and endpapers. Jacket generally clean, some light use marking, small losses & tears to spine ends. . Pictures available,