Search Results: Titles starting with M from David Ford Books

Surrey: Transport Bookman Publications 1976 How it all started. for the author, from a hill climb in 1947 to his involvement in car racing including Le Mans from 1956-1964.Hardcover, First edition , Hardcover book 188pp with 82 b&w photographs. A near Fine copy in like dw. Very light crease across jacket and cover. Light spotting along top edge. No inscriptions and not price clipped.Pictures available.

Cobham, Surrey: Brooklands Books, 1980 First edition thus. Paperback book : pictorial card wrappers, glued binding, 103pp, quarto. Consists of reproduced pages from various car magazines (Autocar, Motor, Motor Sport, Cars and Car Conversions, Car & Driver and others from 1965 to 1978 showing MG MGT GT and coupé models. Short acknowledgments text by R. M. Clarke, the compiler. Good+ condition: clean pages with light tanning to closed edges; wrappers with light rubbing to edges. Pictures available.

Cobham, Brooklands Books, 2000 Softcover book, covering all MGF models from 1995. The Volume combines the following publications MGF workshop manual 2000, K Series Engine overhaul Manual 2000 and PG1 manual gearbox Overhaul Manual 1997. A Very Good clean copy without oily fingermarks! Covers slightly sunned . Previous owners address sticker inside front cover. Pictures available

London: Biteback Publishing Ltd 2014 Declassified and published for the first time. Filled with detailed, and previously undisclosed, accounts centring on the Security Service's activities during the conflict. Hardcover book , xxi, 414pp. Cream cloth with pictorial dust jacket. A Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. Pictures available.

Tiverton: Halsgrove, 2002 First edition. HB. Cloth and colour pictorial wraparound dustjacket. 144pp, large landscape format. With over 70 colour reproductions of Michael Barnfather's paintings (mostly oils of landscapes in Derbyshire) throughout. With introductory texts on his life and approach to painting. A Fine copy.

Pennsylvania: Combined Books, 1995 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth & photo-illustrated dustjacket. 300pp. With b&w photos, drawings and maps in text. The US campaign in New Guinea against the Japanese from March to August 1944, which has attracted differing views about the role of General MacArthur. A Fine copy. Photos available.

Athens: Ekdotike Athenon, 1994 Reprint of 1983 edition, (perhaps the first English edition?). Hardcover book . Red cloth, lettered in gilt, and colour pictorial dustjacket. 572pp, large quarto. With over 360 illustrations, most of them colour photos, showing art and artefacts, buildings and place, as well as colour maps; the twentieth century section has more b&w photos. Near Fine book in Fine jacket. Light spotting to top page edges; bookplate inside front cover. Pictures available

Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 1978 Hardcover book , first edition, xxxii, 905pp. Small stain to foredge. A VG+ copy in VG+ dust jacket.

London: Macmillan Press, 1989 First edition. Cloth and dustjacket.. 208pp. With 224 colour photos in text, and introduction with b&w illustrations, as well as b/w photos of flight. Photos show various plumages of species. Fine in Very Good + jacket, which has some colour fade to spine.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006 Hardcover book, first edition, Black cloth with gilt titles and pictorial dustjacket. 757 pages With b&w illustrations in plates. Other volumes in the series available. Fine in Fine jacket, now in clear sleeve. Pictures available.

Hertfordshire: North Hertfordshire District Council, 1983 First edition. Signed by the author on title page. Hardcover book . Cloth and pictorial dustjacket. 73pp, plus b&w photos in plates. Quarto. After tracing the tradition of hermits, the author describes the life of James Lucas, a wealthy landowner who lived barricaded inside his house in Hertfordshire for over 25 years, and became a celebrated and abused figure in Victorian society, arguing with any callers, including Dickens who wrote a critical article on him. The author cites medical opinion on his condition. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Some light browning to endpapers and closed page edges, jacket yellowed to white with some spotting. Pictures available.

London ; Persephone Books Ltd, 2016 Softcover book with Wrapper. and bookmark. First in Persephone books, Number 120. A Fine unmarked copy

London: Harper & Brothers, 1901. A study of Madame Recamier, for 50 years the undisputed queen of Parisian society. Limited Edition no 24 of 350, signed by the author. HB, 23.5 x 29cms, xiv, 350pp, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard and 23 other b/w Plates, some with tissue guards. Gilt to spine and front board, teg. Sunned to spine. Lightly foxed early and late, which affects frontispiece but no other Plates. Ex libris book plate of previous owner to front pastedown, and inscription of previous owner to fep. A VG+ copy.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1910 Her LIfe and Times 1635 - 1719. Hb, 316pp, photogravure portrait and 16 other illustrations. Blue boards, teg, spine sunned with some light creasing. Some foxing throughout, heavier to endpapers and page edges. A G+ copy.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1961 First Edition,(UK) of the author's third novel, first published in USA. HB. Red cloth with gilt titles, and pictorial dustjacket by R.G. Williamson. 351pp. From the library of the late Sid James, comedy actor, and enthusiast for modern fiction. Other titles from his collection listed. Good in Very Good jacket. Covers bright and clean pages ,small marks to prelims, and a couple of early pages have dark foxing marks.Jacket shows light handling wear , jacket design still sttractive.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992 First edition. HB. Cloth, and dustjacket. 161pp. With 16 pages of b&w photos in plates. A Very Good+ copy; lightly tanned paged edges. Photos available.

Pretoria: Protea Book House, 2000 Second edition. HB. Laminated pictorial boards, no dustjacket. 388pp. With 93 colour photos in plates, many b/w photos and line drawings. Maps to endpapers. Detailed natural history and human history of the Magaliesberg mountains in South AFrica. Very Good. Pictures available.

London: Hutchinson, 1965 First edition. Hardcover book . Blue cloth lettered in silver to spin,; and dustjacket lettered in pink and white on blue decorative background, designed by Peter Chadwick. 192pp. Novel about generations of a family and the grandmother's influence over them (she is the 'Maggie Mackenzie' of the title) . Very Good in Very Good jacket, now in clear removable sleeve. Clean covers and pages, with a little light foxing to closed edges; name and place neatly to front free endpaper. Jacket front and spine bright with small losses to edges, back and flap edges have browning and foxing; price-clipped. Pictures available.

Australia: Viking Penguin Books , 2001 Signed by the author on second flyleaf. Hardcover book . Boards and dustjacket. 338pp. Linen page marker. With colour photos throughout by Simon Griffiths, and a few b & w. Recipes and life in the Barossa valley, South Australia. Fine in Fine protected jacket. Pictures available.

USA: Genii Publishing Co 1960 Foreword by Miss Shari Lewis. Soft covers, 14x21.5cms, 56pp, frontis of Furst and Lewis. A Very Good+ copy.