Search Results: Titles starting with U from Loe Books

LONDON: Amex Co. Ltd, 1950. Book. Illus. by VIOLET HARFORD. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to. 14 pages; superb colour illustrations throughout. Covers very good with light general wear only. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1921. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo. 186 pages, colour front end paper maps, folding colour map (very good, light wear to title of map) and b/w illustrations. Original blue cloth binding with green lettering, good with some general wear and rubbing to extremities, cloth lightly marked. Contents good and tight, some pencil annotation, light spotting and a few small marks. A good copy..

Russia: Not Known (United Nations?), 1994. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Seemingly a Russian military manual for United Nations peacekeeking operations, this copy has covers and title page in Russian but the content is in English. 212 pages. This copy has a fascination provenance as the front end paper is signed and inscribed to "Peter" from various intenational military pesonnel (officers), many evidently Russian; a typical inscription reads "We were opponents. Now and forever we're partners Lt. Col. Ilya Kosyanov". Original red cloth backed boards, very good, slightly marked. contents clean and tight. A fascinating and unique item..

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1934. Book. Illus. by Lees, Clifford. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. xi & 144 pages, b/w illustrations by Clifford Lees throughout. Original pink cloth binding very good with light general wear only, very slightly marked. Contents clean and tight, neat gift plate to the front aste-down, otherwise unmarked and without inscriptions. A very good copy of this scarce title..

London: James Bowden, 1898. Book. Illus. by Copeland, Charles. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. pp vii 490, b/w frontispiece, other b/w plates throughout. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering to front board and spnie, vert good with just a little general wear, some rubbing to extremities and joints. Contents clean and tight, one neat pencil inscription. A very good copy of this rare edition with photogravure plates..

London: John Cassell, 1852. Book. Illus. by George Cruickshank. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. First British Cruickshank illustrated version. pp xxiii 391, b/w frontispiece, twenty-seven b/w illustrations by Cruickshank. This copy has been carefully rebound with paper covered boards and matching endpapers, the leather spine appears earlier. The binding is very good with just a little wear to the spine surface. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy of this rare edition with numerous illustrations..

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1920. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 12mo (12 x 17cm). No date Circa 1920. 531 pages, followed by publisher's adverts. This copy still has its attractive period dust jacket with colour on-lay to the front panel mounted within ruled borders, good with some general wear and rubbing, somewhat chipped and scuffed to edges, (not price-clipped), repair to reverse of rear joint with archival tape, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, good. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, a little reading wear. An attractive copy with its original dust jacket. Part of the Nelson;s Classics series.

London: John Murray, 1982. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. 81pages. Original dust jacket fine, very slight fading to the spine, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A fine copy..

London: Hutchinson, 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pages, colour and b/w illustrations. Original dust jacket good, with some general wear and rubbing to edges, lightly chipped to head/tail of the spine, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, very good. Contents clean and tight, previous owner's neat inscription to the front free end-paper, no inscriptions, minimal spotting to page edges. A very good copy with a good dust jacket..

London: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1919. Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to (19 x 26cm). No date [1919]. 244 pages. Four Tipped-in coloured plates, six half-tone plates of photographs the war in the field (comnplete). Original red cloth binding with black lettering, colour on-lay to the front board, binding good with a little general wear and rubbing, cloth slightly marked. Contents good and tight, small presentation bookplate to the front paste-down, all plates and pages tightly bound in. A good plus, tight copy..

London: The Bakunin Press, 1913. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. Pp 61 + two pages publisher's adverts, original orange card covers, with some general wear and toning of the paper, a little chipped to bottom of spine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

London: A.H. Wheeler & Co's Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. 96 pp, rear cover missing, illus frnt cover slightly worn at extremities, hinge and joint tender, contents clean but binding tender, a good copy of a first edition Kipling..

London: Samuel French Limited, 1960. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition Thus. 8vo (approx. 12 X 18cm). 25 pages. Covers very good with a little general wear only. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy. French's Acting Edition..

London: The Sound Approach, 2015. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 4to Landscape. 308 pages 4 CDs, numerous colour and b/w illustrations. Contents clean and tight, signed by the author to the title page. A fine tight copy..

London: Henry Colburn, 1830. Book. Very Good. Full Leather. Second Edition. 8vo. (second edition but same year as the first) pp. viii, 272. Contemporary full green calf binding with raised bands to the spine and gilt rules, red title label (slightly chipped), wide gilt dentelles; all edges gilt; binding with a little general wear and rubbing, lightly chipped to the head of the spine, slight fading to top edges and spine. Contents clean and tight, original pink end papers, with neat 'copperplate' inscription to the front free endpaper; contemporary signature to the head of the title page "F. A. L Locke"; small ink spot to p.270, otherwise unmarked and without foxing. A very good clean copy..

Budapest, 1900. Book. Fair. Paperback. 4to. pp 23, b/w illustrations throughout and folding map. Original paper covers a worn, tear to front panel, spine paper mostly gone but pages held together. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A fair copy..

London: Hutchinson, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Original grey cloth binding with gilt lettering, very good with a little general wear and rubbing, gilt dulled. Contents clean and tight, front end paper a little marked, otherwise unmarked, no inscriptions. A very good copy. (Novelised biography of Mary Queen of Scots, told by her nurse who served her devotedly to the day of her death)..

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1940. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 300 + adverts. Original beige cloth binding with red lettering, in very good condition, but somewhat marked. Contents clean and tight, ex library, but with few markings and evidence of labels to front end paper, A very good copy..

London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd, 1931. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo (17 X 24cm). 560 pages, folding table. Original black cloth binding with gilt lettering, very good with a little general wear and slight rubbing to extremities, neat gilt stamped shelf no. to the base of the spine. Contents good and tight, a couple of discreet reference library stamps and associated label and pocket to the front end paper. A very good tight copy..

Paris: Marengo Publications, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 4to. approx 240 pages; colour and b/w illustrations. Original hardback binding, very good with a little general wear, spine slightly faded. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A very good copy..