Search Results: Titles starting with W from Island Books

W & A K Johnston, Edinburgh,, 1903-1904. Folding map mounted on cloth, measuring 34 x 50 ins (approx. 86 x 127 cms), hand-coloured in outline, folding in 56 panels to 9 x 4.25 ins (approx. 23 x 11 cms), some mild age-soiling; housed in publisher's printed cloth case with 12pp booklet (trade advertisements; signature on front wrapper; front wrapper detached but present), a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

James Bowden,, 1899. 8vo., First Edition, with fine portait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 80 pages of plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original decorative blue cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in white, upper board with mounted coloured illustration of WG at the wicket, joints lightly rubbed, top dust-soiled, expertly recased, covers mildly age-faded else a very good, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's illustrated catalogue bound in at end. Arguably Grace's most readable book, this classic semi-autobiography contains hints for young cricketers and a wealth of cricketing statistics. Padwick, 7583

Hambledon Press,, 1980. 8vo.. Second Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 80 pages of plates; olive tweed cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly sunned at backstrip. Good quality reissue of the original classic of 1899. Padwick, 7583 (recording the original edition).

Faber,, [1998]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and pictorial endpapers; green cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Allen & Unwin,, [1981]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper taped to paste-downs. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper.

Dawson, Folkestone,, 1977. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy.

Faber,, [1982]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Dent,, [1946]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; pale green cloth, gilt back, green top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities.

Chris Beetles,, 1988. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome reproductions throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Includes introductory essays.

Hutchinson,, [1961]. 8vo., Fifth Impression, with portrait frontispiece and plates; original green cloth, upper board blocked with Bentley badge in silver, backstrip lettered in silver, boards lightly faded at edges else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the trade ticket of Chater & Scott on front paste-down. The first of Bentley's two volumes of autobiography. First published in 1958. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Macdonald and Jane's,, [1977]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Published in the series 'WW2 Fact Files'. As usual in this series, a fully illustrated directory arranged by country and class with good statistical detail and interesting photographs. Law, 1142

Jane's,, [1974]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published in the series 'WW2 Fact Files'. As usual in this series, a fully illustrated directory with good statistical detail and interesting photographs.

Macdonald and Jane's,, 1978. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the series 'WW2 Fact Files'. As usual in this series, a fully illustrated directory arranged by country and class with good statistical detail and interesting photographs. Law 1775.

Macdonald and Jane's,, [1977]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Published in the series 'WW2 Fact Files'. As usual in this series, a fully illustrated directory arranged by country and class with good statistical detail and interesting photographs. Law 1640

Macdonald and Jane's,, 1974. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, fore-edges lightly spotted else a very good, bright clean copy. With the exception of some of the earlier sloops and ex-US patrol frigates, this work includes a complete listing of all the front-line escorts (frigates, corvettes and sloops) in service with the RN and RCN. Law, 0946

Jane's,, [1979]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Published in the series 'WW2 Fact Files'. As usual in this series, a fully illustrated directory arranged by country and class with good statistical detail and interesting photographs. Law 1639.

Macdonald and Jane's,, 1978. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Published in the series 'WW2 Fact Files'. As usual in this series, a fully illustrated directory arranged by country and class with good statistical detail and interesting photographs. Law 1775.

Macdonald and Jane's,, [1977]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the series 'WW2 Fact Files'. As usual in this series, a fully illustrated directory arranged by country and class with good statistical detail and interesting photographs. Law 1640

Military Mode, [Hitchin]., 2018. 8vo., with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial boards, a fine copy.

Patrick Stephens, Cambridge,, [1979]. 4to., First Edition thus, with illustrated title and very numerous illustrations from photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. As always with this series, a useful and well-reproduced assembly of detailed photographs.Law, 0194.