Search Results: Titles starting with O from David Ford Books

Southampton: OS Office , 1903 HB. Engraved coloured map laid onto linen, folding into 21 sections, with red cloth covers when folded up, lettered in black. Scale 4 miles to one inch, reduced from the I inch map, revised in 1894-7, with railways inserted to Jan. 1904. Includes south Devon and a little bit of Cornwall, roughly centering on Dartmoor and Exeter. Opened out size: 48 x 62cm. Very Good condition. Generally clean map surface, with some browning to folds and some light foxing spots. Clean bright covers.

London: Country Life, 1938 First edition. HB. Cloth, and pictorial dustjacket. 79pp, h: 25cms. Five stories for children by Bernard Darwin illustrated by Elinor Darwin with 5 full page colour lithographs and many line drawings. Attractive illustrations; the title story is about elephants. Good+ in Good protected jacket. Covers have light handling marks; light foxing throughout, sometimes heavy, but plates are bright and unfoxed on image side. . Jacket front fairly bright, tanned along top 4/5 cms, large closed tears to top; losses to corners, larger to top spine, some makrs to rear.

Basingstoke, Bee Books New & Old, 1978 Hardcover, first edition in dustjacket. 89 pages, an indepth look at the observation hive. A Fine copy in a Very good slightly foxed unclipped dustjacket. Pictures available.

London : Printed for West and Hughes, 1801 'A New Edition, with Notes by Horace (Late) Earl of Orford, and Ornamented with Plates, Chiefly Designed by Mr. Wollet.' Hardcover book . Original boards covered in marbled paper with green paper spine, bearing paper title label printed in black. viii, 155pp, quarto. Nicely printed on hand-cut watermarked paper, with 6 hand-coloured engravings in plates (including frontispiece). The main author of this work is not given, though part of the text is by the late Earl of Orford. This appears to be the first illustrated edition. An attractive volume with original character, which belonged to the private library of Herbert Watney, MD, of Buckhold, Berks (his bookplate inside front cover, with a shelf mark recorded). There is also a small circular stamp of a second owner on title page corner. Very Good condition overall. Boards clean but with worn corners and some rubbing to marbled paper. Binding sound. Pages have browning to edges, spotting and heavier… Read More

London: Jarrold & Sons, 1879 New edition, with additions from unpublished manuscripts by the author, and notes by Southwell, Stevenson & Newton. HB. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine. xxxvi, 239pp. With folding map of Norfolk as frontispiece, and 2 illustrations in plates. Very Good condition. Covers largely clean, gilt bright,light rubbing to edges, map in Very Good condition , Previous owners name and date (1885) to end paper.. Binding slightly stretched at front but stiil sound. Pictures available.

London, Warne, 1974 Hardcover, First Edition thus. 191 pages with illustrations in colour and mono.The Cyanamid jacket Variation . Print code 8.774 Fine in Fine dustjacket slight yellowing of white on jacket flaps. Scarce.

London: The Robson Press, 2012 First edition, first impression. HB. Red cloth with gilt title to spine, and photo-illustrated dustjacket. x, 373pp. With b&w photos in plates. The 40 year old friendship of Amis and Larkin, and how it was important to the writing of both. A Fine copy. Photos available.

London: W.B. Clive University Tutorial Press undated Edited by A.R. Weekes. The University Tutorial Series, General Editor William Briggs. HB, 104pp, 1st ED. Small volume, blue cloth boards, quarter black leather with leather title square to front board with gilt lettering. Spine banded with gilt lines. Slight rubbing to spine ends, and fading/sunning to board edges. Blue endpapers with 3p, franked, Keats postage stamp tipped in. Half title page has had loss at top corner (2x3 cm) which has been previously well repaired. Some foxing throughout. Volume has been used and there has been pencilled notes and underlinging to some pages. These have generally been erased but some faint marks remain, especially to 'To a Nightingale' and 'On a Grecian Urn' plus one or two green lines to margins. Still A Very Good copy.

London: Quiller Press, 1995 First edition. HB. Cloth, and dustjacket. 108pp. With b&w photos in plates, map and family tree. The author grew up in pre-Revolutionary Russia and her family made their way to England after 1917. Fine in Fine jacket.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1966 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth, and pictorial dustjacket by David Fawcett. 174pp. Novel. Fine in Very Good jacket very lightly rubbed edges. Pictures available.

Zurich & New York: Scalo, 1995 First edition, April 1995. HB. Maroon cloth lettered in silver on black panel to spine, and photo-illustrated dustjacket. Unpaginated folio. With Lagerfeld's b&w photographs throughout, many whole page and some double page, with introductory text, and accompanying texts by Lagerfeld to some of the photos. Models include Helena Bonham-Carter, Linda Evangelista and Emma Thompson, photographed in or against buidlings or landscape locations. Fine copy.

Barnsley, Pen & Sword Books, 2012 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. 198 pages with illustrations.The Rise and fall of the first great English Kingdom. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Pictures available.

Sussex: The Book Guild, 1992 First edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 283pp. The author's life, from being orphaned in the blitz to making his way back from Australia at the end of the war as a merchant seaman and officer: 'there cannot be much in the maritime world that has not been encountered, weathered and survived..' Fine in Fine jacket.

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003 With unparalleled access to the Tour de France's own archives, this book chronicles the race from its raw origins to its position at the time of publication as the world's greatest sporting challenge. With foreword by multiple-winner Lance Armstrong. HB with Dust Jacket, 29 x 27 cm, 360pp. Colour and B&W photographs throughout. Small light rub to top of jacket spine. to spine. A Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. No inscriptions and not price clipped.

Whitby, Horne & Son Ltd, 1919 Softcover book, twentieth edition, 224 pages with illustrations , maps and adverts at rear. A lovely early guide book to Whitby with colour illustration to front cover and Frank Sutcliffe advert to rear cover. Very Good condition with no tears or inscriptions. Pictures available.

London: William Heinemann Ltd 1956 Soft covers, 14x22cms, 128pp with illustrations.

Peterborough: City of Peterborough Council , 1962 First edition. Paperback: pale blue card wrappers, lettered in dark blue, stapled. 12pp, quarto. With photo of the track, and of the Marquess of Exeter, (President of the Amateur Athletic Association). Includes Programme of the athletic meeting, and local adverts. Very Good. Light browning and a few marks to wrappers, with evidence of old crease across.

New Jersey, USA: T.F.H. Publications, c.2000 Presumed first edition, undated but circa 2000 from contents. HB. Pictorial laminated boards and same design dustjacket. 336pp. Lavishly illustrated throughout, mostly with colour photos in text. Includes a section on setters outside America. History of the breed, American and overseas breeders, showing and care for the dogs. Very Good in Fine jacket. Book would be fine but for stamped red star on lower front closed page edges.

Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1970 New edition. Hardcover book . Black cloth and pictorial dustjacket. 144pp, large landscape format. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of Frank Wilcox's attractive watercolours and drawings, some in colour. Maps to endpapers. Subtitled: Pictorial survey of the Indian Trails of Ohio arranged from the works of the late Frank Wilcox. Originally published in 1933, the book traces 31 trails in Ohio, and has a detailed text on the native American tribes of Ohio and their conflicts with Americans and British. Introduction by McGill. Inserted loose: A folding map of Ohio Indian village sites and trails (related subject but not originally part of the book). Good in Very Good protected jacket. Pages clean with browned and lightly spotted edges; covers have faded and rubbed areas. Jacket bright, lightly creased and rubbed edges and margins, light marks to spine, lightly rubbed edges.. Pictures available,

London: The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2006 First edition. Paperback: colour pictorial card wrappers. 334pp, large quarto . With over 2,250 oil paintings reproduced in colour, from 45 public collections in Norfolk (including Norwich Castle Museum and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art at UEA, as well as many small collections at local town councils or museums). Introductory text on each collection. Fine copy.