Search Results: Titles starting with F from Wadard Books PBFA

Esso 100 years of football, the story of the F.A. Cup Winners 1872-1972. 10pp of text and illustration with replicas of the cup winners medals mounted into a stiff backing board featuring 30 clubs. Lightly edgeworn with a small tear to lower spine.

Marlborough, Wilts.: The Crowood Press, 1989 The Honourable Sir Francis Stanley Jackson (1870-1947) was the epitome of the gentleman cricketer of the Golden Age. From Harrow and Cambridge to Yorkshire and England, he played with the greats such as Grace, Fry and Ranji. 208pp with b/w plates.

London: Faber and Faber, 2011 Offering portraits of such key figures as the Lumiere brothers, Georges Melies, Charles Pathe, and Leon Gaumont, he looks at the early pioneers who transformed a fairground novelty into a global industry, and right through to the post war new wave. xv, 448pp.

London: S.Grosvenor, 1884 Forty one short fables the object of which is to illustrate natural history. Walter Brown in his preface states 'It was my intention to have attached a Moral to each Fable, but on consideration decided not to do so, as it is not complimentary to the reader, who often would draw a much better Moral than would be generally added.' 68pp printed letterpress to decal edged wire laid paper, decorated with wood engravings by Thomas Bewick together with illustrative drop capitals from various sources.

Paris: Jouvet, 1885 xv, 393pp, French language text. Good quality plates with tissue guards. A little foxing fore and aft otherwise very good throughout. A quality production.

Paris: Furne et Cie, 1842 Vol.1 - xxiv, 433pp. Vol.2 - 488pp. Profusely illustrated throughout by J.J.Grandville whose output was amazing for a relatively short life. French language texts. Both volumes moderately foxed throughout otherwise very good.

Dunton Gren, Kent: Hodder & Stoughton, 1981 Facsimile edition of that first published in 1909 by Hodder & Stoughton. 152pp. 23 full page illustrations in colour by Detmold plus various line illustrations in black and white throughout the texts.Clear plastic wrapper to gilt decorated cloth hardcover.

London: Thomas Nelson Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Fabre's "Souivenirs Entomologiques". 287pp.

London: L.N.Fowler & Co. The face as indicative of character illustrated by upwards of one hundred and twenty portraits and cuts. Undated, circa 1900. 95pp plus two contemporaneous loose advertising inserts. An interesting and slightly macabre insight into the thinking of the time. Perfect bound with soft printed covers. Small loss to upper spine and creases to lower corner.

London: B.T.Batsford, 1952 H.E.Bates appraisal of the English landscape ably supported by 40 full page colour plates photgraphed by A.F.Kersting. 128pp. Dustjacket with three chips to spine, now in a protective sleeve.

Enderby, Leics.: Blitz Editions, 1993 Fascinating photographs covering the four decades when Victorian life gave way to the 20th century. Aspects of City, Country, Working, Family and Sporting life together with the War years, Childhood days and the Seaside. 128 pages. Photographs reproduced in black and white and sepia.

London: Putnam, 1949 A novel set in World War Two industrial Russia. First published in the USSR in 1948 and translated from the Russian by Moura Budberg. 261pp. An interesting read.

London: Ernest Nister, 1914 A calendar in book form, comrising hard covers, end papers and 24 pages printed lithographically i multiple colours together with metallic gilt. Designed in England printed in Bavaria for Ernest Nister, London and E.P.Duton & Co, New York. Numbered 3678 to the title page, presumably a series number. 157x118mm with a rounded bevil to covers.

Braunschweig: Georg Westermann, 1951 The history and techniques of textile printing in Germany. The book was both designed and illustrated by Erwin Bindewald in a lively and informative style. 168pp.

London: Folio, 1998 A beautiful book, beautifully illustrated by Edmund Dulac. 185pp with colour plates.

Batley, West Yorkshire.: Harry Hayes, 1980 Digest of the articles published between 1972 and 1975 in the Falkland Islands Philatelic Study Groups journal 'The Upland Goose'. 200p well illustrated.

London: Sphere Books, 1986 Scenes from the sudden end of a long war. 560 pages with black and white photographs.

London: Arms and Armour Press, 1994 Tracks the significant events in his illustrious career through to hid downfall, and charts the clandestine diplomatic intrigues linking Britain, Austria, Russia and Prussia in the quest for the Emperor's demise. 352pp with b/w plates.

London: Jonathan Fallowfield Ltd., 1924 122pp in black and white throughout.

Patrick Stephens Ltd, 1989 44 of the most famous bombers from around the world since 1914. The story of each is accompanied by the specification and photographs in colour or black and white. 134 pages.