Search Results: Titles starting with I from David Ford Books

London: International Correspondence Schools, c.1930 New edition. Undated but probably circa 1930. Reference no. 40C. Hardcover book . Sturdy boards with black cloth, and gilt titles to spine. Decorative endpapers. Paginated in sections. Tall octavo. With attractive engraved figures in text throughout, as well as some b&w photos and a few coloured illustrations in plates. Ends with sample examination questions. Very Good. Clean bright covers with light abrasions to edges and small tears lower spine cloth. Binding sound and pages clean. Pictures available

Scranton International Textbook Co 1909 Hardcover book green cloth. Boards rubbed, small tear to spine centre. Some pencilling to endpapers. a Good+ copy. Pictures available.

Boston, USA: The Christopher Publishing House, 1959 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 407pp. With b&w photos and illustrations in plates. Very Good in Fair jacket, now in clear sleeve. Jacket browned with worn edges (creases, tears, small losses), including large tears to back. Pictures available.

London: W.H. Allen & Unwin, 1965 First UK edition (orig. pub. USA). Hardcover book . Cloth & pictorial dustjacket by Milton Glaser. 256pp. Good basic advice on food and cooking with many recipes. Very Good in Good dusst jacket. Slight tan to pages and marks to edges; jacket has large tears (repaired inside) to front but no real losses, very slight fade to spine, browned back and edges. Pictures available.

London, James & James, 2002 Hardcover with dustjacket, First Edition, 168 pages . Well illustrated History of this famous Norfolk School. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916 First edition. Hardcover book . Grey paper-covered boards with white cloth spine, black titles to spine and on paper label to front. 158pp. Includes an introduction on Virgil's rhythms, The Vision of Aeneas, a paraphrase of the Aeneid, and Priam and Achilles, a paraphrase of Homer's Illiad: these print the Latin and Greek as well as Bridge's verse. Covers tanned and spotted, lightly bumped bottom corners and lower front corner frayed. Occasional marginal spotting, tanned endpapers. A Very Good copy. Pictures available.

Norfolk, Mascot Media, 2016 Softcover book, first edition, 160 pages illustrated with Darren Rees's paintings of the scenery and wildlife of this remote area. A Fine copy . Pictures available.

London: Hodder and Stoughton 1960 A Dirk Rogers Adventure. HB, 1st ED, 126pp, colour frontis. Slight spotting to edges of early pages,frontis has two small scuff marks where spine side edge of plate has stuck to title page. Dust jacket has minor rubbing with some marking to rear. A VG+ copy in VG+ DJ.

New York, John Wiley & Sons, 2000 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. 244 pages with illustrations. The Story of Sir John Frankin's lost polar expedition. A Fine copy in a near Fine dustjacket. Pictures available.

Reykjavik,Mal og menning, 2015 Softcover, revised edition.341 pages with colour illustrations throughout. The appearance, way of life and habitat of the birds of Iceland. Enfglish text. a Fine copy without inscriptions enclosed in a protective wallet. Pictures available.

Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1979 First edition thus. HB. Cloth, and dustjacket . 224pp. With 10 b&w illustrations in plates. Eleven essays, including: In Search of Cultural History: Myth and Reality in German Wartime Broadcasts; Art History and the Social Sciences; Reason and Feeling in the Study of Art. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Light wear to top edges of cover and jacket. Pictures available

London: G. Bell and Sons, 1955 Reprint of title first published in 1948. HB. Cloth and dustjacket lettered in red on patterned paper with red knight to front. 240pp. With chess board diagrams in text throughout. Very Good in Good+ jacket. Light browning to endpapers and closed edges. Jacket has light wear to edges with small losses, large closed tear to lower front, small tear back edge, now in protective sleeve.

London, Macmillan, 1954 Hardcover book , first edition in dustjacket. 343 pages with one illustration, the cover design for The Secret rose. Yeats as a symbolistic poet. A Very Good book with the previous owner's name and date, in a Very good unclipped dustjacket. Slightly darkened jacket spine. Pictures available.

London, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1923 Hardcover book, First edition thus. in dustjacket. First published in 1893. Travels amongst the Natural history and natives , together with pen pictures of the travels by Alfred Hartley and J. Smit. A Very Good/ near fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. Previous owner's name to front end paper otherwise a very nice clean copy. Jacket has light handling wear with small nick out of top front edge. Nice copy . Scarce in it's original jacket. Pictures available

London: John Harris undated A Selection of Moral Tales. Hb, inscriptions of previous owners to front pastedown and fep dated 1827. 236pp, 10 of 12 plates each showing 2 illustrations for the tales. Card covers, cloth spine, all worn and aged, loss to spine base. Some pages loose but all present except the 2 plates. An interesting item.

Jutland Archaeological Society 1983 Danish Archaeological Investigations on Failaka, Kuwait. Volume 2:1 - the Hellenistic Pottery. Publication number XVI:2. Hardcover book , 1st ED, 21.5x30cms, 140pp with figures. Pictorial boards, no dj. A VG copy. Pictures available.

Milano: Art Grafiche Amilcare Pizzi 1961 I Primi Dieci Anni Di Attivita. HB, 1st ED, 25x33cms, 230pp, colour and black and white plates and photographs. Text in Italian. Very slight sunning to bottom board edges. Pale tanned strip to endpapers. White dust jacket heavily tanned to spine, light tanning to edges. Card slipcase has some tanning and small tears to edges. A Very Good+ copy in Very Good dust jacket with card slipcase.

London: Folio Society 1996 Translated by Robert Fagles. Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox, illustrations by Grahame Baker. HB, lxxxv, 596pp, endpaper maps, 8 illustrations, 3 other double page maps. Bound in quarter leather with cloth sides blocked with a design by the artist. Black slipcase. A Fine copy in near Fine slipcase. Very light marks to one side of slipcase. Pictures available.

London: Printed by Charles Rivington for T.Osborne, C. Hitch et al, 1760 New edition. Six volumes, complete, a Fine set, handsomely rebound with brown leather spines, lettered and decorated in gilt to spines, and marbled boards in pink and grey-blue, with similar marbled endpapers. Top page edges gilt. Binder's mark MB 71. Volume 1: With 2 engraved frontispiece plates showing Homer and Pope, to page lix Preface, to page cli, Essay on Homer ((both with engraved head and tail pieces); engraved folding map of Greece and Phrygia in Homer's time, then the First and Second Books of the Iliad, with engraved headpieces (as in all the volumes, plus some have tailpieces as well) and a Geographical Table of The Towns etc in Homer's Catalogue of Greece, to page 175. Volume 2: The Third to the Seventh Books of the Iliad, and an Essay on Homer's Battles, 341pp including a folding engraved map of Troy. Volume 3: Eighth to Twelth Books of the Iliad, 304pp. Volume 4: Thirteenth to Sixteenth… Read More

London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1992 First edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. Unpaginated, h: 30cm. With nearly 1000 colour photos showing over 80 sports, for the artist and illustrator. Very Good in Very Good+ protected jacket. Light rubbing to cover edges.