Search Results: Titles starting with V from Loe Books

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 318 pages. Original dust jacket good, with a little general wear and some 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, inscribed and signed by the author to himself to the front free end paper, a little spotting internally. A good signed copy with a good dust jacket..

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Book. Illus. by Lewis Baumer. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 4to (24 x 29). Signed Limited Edition of 350 copies of which this is number 60 signed by Baumer. With 20 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Original Publisher's full vellum, with gilt decoration and lettering, colour plate to front board with ornate gilt surround, very bright and clean, a little speckled to the top of the spine, ribbon tie present to front only. Original decorated endpapers, toned, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, all plates and tissue guards in very good condition without creases or folds; uncut edges a little dust soiled, paper crisp. A very good copy of this superb limited edition..

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo. Signed by the author to the title page. Original dust jacket very good, with a little general wear and a little rubbing to edges and joints, slightly scuffed to the head of the spine and little uneven fading to the rear panel, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, very good. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good clean signed copy of the first American edition..

UK: Watsonia, 1957. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Offprint. Large 8vo (25 x 17 cm). An offprint with separately printed wrappers from Watsonia vol. 4 Part 1, 1957. Pp. 28-40; b/w photographic plate, diagrams. A very good copy, unmarked..

London: Ward, Lock & Company, Limited., 1938. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 4to. pp. 200 including 48 coloured plates. Original dust jacket very good with a little general wear and rubbing, lightly marked, not price-clipped, now protected in a clear removable archival sleeve. Original beige cloth binding with black lettering, very good. Contents good and tight, no inscriptions but with light spotting and foxing, a little more pronounced to first and last few pages. A very good tight copy. [The plates of the first printing were lost during the Second World War and a reprint issued later in 1946 of which this is one, though dated 1938 as the first edition. Very few copies of the first edition exist - in the first edition the word "ex." appears at the end of the first line of the frontispiece caption whereas in the reprint it appears at the beginning of the second line, additionally the reprint is bound in a finer-weave cloth binding.].

Bridgwater: Bee Books New & Old, 1993. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. Large 8vo. 16 pages. Card covers fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked. A fine copy. Scarce..

Bucharest: Apimondia Publishing House, 1977. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo (17 x 24cm). 91 pages, b/w illustrations. Covers very good with some general wear and rubbing, a little marked. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

Bucharest: Apimondia, 1977. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. 90 pages; b/w illustrations throughout. Covers very good with light general wear only. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

Tegelen: Faassen-Hekkens., 1939. Book. Very Good. Hardback. Signed by Author(s). Second Edition. 4to. From the library of Professor Stearn with his bookplate to the front endpaper and pencil note on receiving the book from the author, initialed W. T. S.; signed and inscribed by the author to Stearn on the front free end paper; also included are three typed letters, signed from the author to Stearn, two loosely inserted and one pasted to rear end paper. Pp. 978; b/w illustrations; text in Dutch. No dust jacket. Binding with slight rubbing, otherwise very good. Contents good and tight. A very good signed copy with excellent provenance; a much enlarged edition. A large heavy book and a small postal surcharge may apply. [Provenance: from the library of Prof. William Stearn, with his bookplate to the front paste-down, "doyen of British botanists" who wrote c. 500 papers and books, including the classic "Botanical Latin". He was an authority on Linnaeus and an expert on botanical… Read More

London: British Empire Vegetation Committee, 1938. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First and Later Editions. 8vo 22.5 x 14.5cm. pp. xvi, 235; "with 23 figures and 12 maps in the text, and 17 photographs of vegetation" inlcuding folding charts. Original tan cloth hardback binding, very good with a little general wear only. Contents clean and tight, previous owner's neat signature to the front paste-down, otherwise unmarked. A very good copy..

UK: The Devonshire Association, 1980. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Offprint. 8vo (21.5 x 14 cm). An offprint from Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Special Vol 2, 1980. Pp. 117-134; b/w diagrams. A very good copy, unmarked..

UK: The Devonshire Association, 1980. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Offprint. 8vo (21.5 x 14 cm). An offprint from Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Special Vol 2, 1980. Pp. 117-134; b/w diagrams. A very good copy, unmarked..

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1964. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xiii, 613; fold out plates and maps Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine, very good with a little wear and marking. Contents good, spotting to endpapers and foredges, text block clean, inscribed by Derek Ratcliffe "with best wishes Derek" to the front free endpaper. A good copy with interesting provanence. {Derek Ratcliffe author of serveral New Naturalist titles, Lakeland and Galloway].

UK: The Devonshire Association, 1980. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Offprint. 8vo (21.5 x 14 cm). An offprint from Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Special Vol 2, 1980. Pp. 117-134; b/w diagrams. A very good copy, unmarked..

London: Andre Deutsch, 1959. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. 2 vols (vols 1 & 2 of 6), gilt titling to spine, contents neat and tight, both djs protected with archival sleeves torn and chipped with a little loss, vol 1: 448 pp, b/w illus and diagrams throughout, b/w map at front, 16 clr photos at front, a very good copy. Vol 2: 360 pp, photo frontis, published 1961, clr photos. Very good copies Both volumes in Spanish and English..

Esquimalt, B. C.: HMCS Venture, 1961. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo. The 1961 yearbook for H. M. C. S. Venture, B. C. Black and white photographs throughout. Original Card covers with a little general wear and a few marks, a previous owner has written the date 1961 to the front cover and Ventura 1961 to the spine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

Swansea: The Gower Society Publication, 2003. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. pp. 96, numerous colour illustrations. Covers with a little handling wear. Contents clean and tight with no inscriptions.

London: Longmans Green & Co., 1904. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Sm 4to. pp. vi, 71. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering, a little general wear and superficial silverfish damage to lower edges which has resulted in loss of colour. Top edge gilt. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1940. Book. Illus. by Tarrant, Margaret. Good. Hardcover. Fourth Edition. 8vo. No date but circa 1940. 340 pages + publisher's adverts + 48 colout plates by Margaret Tarrant; pictorial end papers colour and b/w illustrations. The hard-back binding is in good condition - light wear to spine, edges and corners, clean and bright with colour onlay to front board. Contents clean and tight, light ink name to endpaper and half title, minimal foxing to prelims.. A good copy..

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1887. Book. Illus. by Millais, Keulemans. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. x, 344. Publisher's 8 page illustrated catalogue at the rear dated 1882. Illustrated title page and tissue guard; b/w plates some tissue guards, two colour plates, large colour fold out map laid on linen to the rear, fold out line drawing within. Original red-coated end papers, top edges gilt. Bound in the publisher's green finely ribbed cloth with gilt title to spine, good with some wear and fading. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A very good tight copy with a superb colour plate of a bunting by Keulemans..