Search Results: Titles starting with E from Island Books

Faber,, [1973]. 8vo. First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Bloomsbury,, [2010]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Secker & Warburg,, [1977-78]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with plates, neat signature on front free endpapers; brown cloth, gilt backs, blue tops, tops lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean set in price-clipped dustwrapper.

[La Galerie Andre-Weil, Paris,, 1975]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous colour reproductions ( a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Includes list of exhibitions showing the work of the French landscape artist.

[Privately Printed],, [1978]. Roy., 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Personal account of agent and leaflet drops with European Air Transport Command and 492nd Bombardment Group. VERY SCARCE.

[Dover Town Council, Dover],, 1940. Single sheet, roy. 8vo., First Edition; one horizontal fold else a VIRTUALLY PRISTINE copy. Remarkably well-preserved Evacuation Luggage Request From, enabling the recipient to request provision for additional luggage in the event of evacuation. RARE IN THIS STATE.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [1955]. 4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, and numerous coloured, tinted and monochrome photographs and maps throughout; original black holland, upper board with company crest blocked in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased (without material loss) at edges. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE COMPANY WITH ITS NAMED BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. With the separately printed leaf 'Amendments to the Appendices' loosely inserted. Sold with a quantity of relevant company and commercial ephemera, and with a few notes and cuttings loosely inserted. A splendid fleet history, with due space accorded to 'San Demetrio' and 'Ohio' from WWII. Includes ROH, detailed fleet profile and lists of officers. Scarce in this condition.

Collins,, [1975]. 8vo., First Edition, with front and rear endpaper maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, case with slight lean else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper, the latter with short closed tear on front panel and tony loss at bottom edge of rear panel. Dustwrapper artwork by Barry Glynn. This meticulously-researched novel of WWII is the basis of John Sturges' hugely popular feature film (1976) starring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Headline,, [2006]. 8vo., First Edition; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Seventh novel in the 'Eagles of the Empire' sequence.

Harper Collins,, [2015]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Folio Society,, 2011-2009-2011. 3 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with frontispieces, plates and maps in the text; pictorial cloth (green/grey/brown respectively), upper boards and backstrips blocked in gilt and colours, green endpapers, all near fine copies in publisher's board slip-cases. The set comprises: The Eagle of the Ninth (sixth impression 2011); The Silver Branch (second impression 2009); The Lantern Bearers (first impression 2011). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.

Folio Society,, 2005. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 11 plates and full-page map in the text; pictorial green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked in gilt, white and black, green endpapers, a near fine copy. The publisher's slip-case is not present with this copy.

Hamlyn for Country Life,, [1968]. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous fine coloured plates, monochrome plates and maps in the text; brown cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, primrose endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's illustrated board slip-case.

Crecy Books,, [1995]. 8vo., First Edition, with 46 plates on 24 and a full-page chart in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by E. Tufnell. Moving account of the famous carrier, told through eye-witness accounts and supplemented by a well-chosen selection of rare photographs (mostly private and almost all previously unpublished). Covers her story from commencement of hostilities to her loss with Operation PEDESTAL.

National Defence University Press, Washington DC,, [1991]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.

Phalanx, St. Paul MN,, [1991]. Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; pale blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Messum's,, 2011. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured reproductions (the majority full-page) throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. With separately printed price list and invitation to private view loosely inserted.

Dent,, [1914]. 8vo., First Edition thus; original series binding of grey ribbed cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, grey top, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE. EL 666; Seymour 407.0.

John Bell,, 1791. 12mo., with 2 engraved plates; twentieth century grey boards, upper board with printed paper label, a very good, bright, crisp copy.

Bibliographical Society, 1903 [Hain, Meisenheim,, 1965]. 4to., Second Edition, with numerous facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. High-quality facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1903.