Search Results: Titles starting with Y from David Ford Books

Yamaha Motor company 2005 The perfect match, part 2, 2005 GP season review. HB, 131pp, colour illustrations throughout. Text in French but title to front cover in English. Pictorial paper covers. A Fine copy.

Barnsley, Pen & Sword 2019 Hardcover book , First Edition with dustjacket . Special operations in the American civil war. Illustrated , 370 pages. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. No inscriptions and not price clipped.. Pictures available,

London, Jonathan Cape, 2015 Hardcover book , First Edition in Dustjacket. 548 pages with illustrations. the story of alliance warfare in the second world war. A Fine copy without inscriptions in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. Pictures available.

Great Yarmouth: Jarrold & Sons, c.1920 Probably First edition; undated but from contents after 1918. Paperback: brown paper wrappers, lettered in black to front, and with engraved image of a Yarmouth troll cart to front. Stapled. 12pp. With 16 b&w illustrations in the text, which is on the history and historic places and artefacts in Great Yarmouth (eg. The Tolhouse, Kitty Witches Row and Early English doorways). Foreword by the Mayor, George Platten. A Fair copy. Rather fragile, with the binding holding but staples rusty. Small losses to wrapper edges and top page edges. Creased corners of pages. Pictures available.

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1959 Hardcover book , third edition,in dustjacket, 650 pages with folded map at rear.Browne's classic of life and travel in Persia. A Very Good copy in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. Page edges slightly tanned. A Nice copy without inscriptions. Pictures available.

London: William Tegg , 1849 Reprint or new edition, as preface is dated 1832. HB. Full leather with gilt titles on red and black leather panels to spine, with gilt decorations and borders. All page edges and endpapers marbled. A handsomely bound volume that belonged to William Thomas, Baron Bolton, with his armorial bookplate inside front cover, and inscribed by him as Bolton to margin of title page. Large octavo, 1643pp. With 114 b&w engravings in text. Very Good. The front cover is held at the internal hinge by one cord, otherwise the binding is sound and the pages largely very clean (with a little spotting to ends) and the covers bright and clean with some edge rubbing and scuffs to the leather. Note: Hone's Everyday Book in 3 volumes listed separately by this seller.

London: Telescope Publishing, 1997 First edition. Paperback: laminated pictorial card wrappers. Unpaginated. Landscape format. With watercolour illustrations throughout by Eleanor Irving, great niece of the author + b/w photos. In 1875 Chequers was a large private house in the Chilterns A Very Good copy.

London: Kyle Cathie, 1997 First edition. Hardcover book , 24x29cms. Cloth and dustjacket. 192pp. Colour photos throughout. Seasonal recipes inspired by the produce of the Ballymaloe gardens and farm animals in Ireland. Fine in a Fine protected dustjacket (price-clipped). Pictures available.

London, Macmillan, 1949 Hardcover book , first edition in dustjacket. 336 pages. A biography tracing some of the influences of the poets life including occultism, Irish Nationalism, his father and the long love affair with Maud Gonne and marriage. A Very Good book with the previous owner's name and date, in a Very good unclipped dustjacket. Slightly darkened jacket spine. Pictures available.

London: Bantam Press, 2015 First edition. HB. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket. 307pp. No illustrations apart from the photos of winners on the jacket. Interesting analysis from a professional cycling journalist about winners of the greatest bike race in the world from 1975 (Thevenet) to Nibali in 2014, so no Merckx but bravely he includes Armstrong and writes well about that tainted era. A book for cycling and Tour fans, A Fine copy.

Barnsley: Frontline Books (Pen & Sword), 2018 New edition of title published first in 1966 in America. Hardcover book . Cloth and colour photo-illustrated dustjacket. 445pp. With 8 pages of b&w photos in plates. American history through the Cavalry from the War of Independence through the Civil War to the wars against native Americans. Fine book, in Fine jacket. Photos available.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 333pp. With 46 b&w photos and illustrations in the text, and 6 maps. Pioneering research into the winter campaign against the Sioux and Cheyenne peoples in the winter of 1876-7, including five battles. Fine book in Very Good jacket, which is clean and intact but quite heavily rubbed to surfaces and edges. Photos available.

London, Macmillan, 1929 The libretto for Gilbert and Sullivan's famous operetta, with colour illustrations by W. Russell Flint. HB with dust jacket. vi, 102pp. 8 colour illustrations by R. Flint with further B&W drawings in pen by Charles E. Brock. Minor bumping and rubbing to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket darkened, loss to spine head (4cm) chip to centre of spine, creasing to edges. A very good+ copy in a good dust jacket.

Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1980 First edition. HB. Cloth, and dustjacket. 116pages . An illustrated record recalling the town from 1780-1914. With b&w photos and illustrations throughout. Very light handling to book and jacket. Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. No inscriptions and not price clipped. Light rippling to first couple of pages. still a decent copy.

Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1979 First edition. HB. Cloth, and dustjacket. 132pp, quarto. With over 200 b&w photos and illustrations throughout; old map and illustrations to endpapers. The four-chapter text has decorative borders from a 19th Century almanac. From the accession of Victoria to the local Home Guard. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Light dusting to top edges, small splits to paper over front hinge at front endpapers.

Michigan: Zondervan, 1982 New US edition. HB. Cloth with leatherette spine, and dustjacket. Unpaginated, 26 x 24cm. With 68 full page colour reproductions of David Robert's views of the Holy Land, with detailed texts opposite, (including Biblical quotations) and brief introduction. High quality printing. Fine in Fine protected jacket. No inscriptions Pictures available.

London: Hutchinson, 1965 First edition of this Danube edition. Hardcover book. Cloth and dustjacket. 232 pages Grey endpapers. With Preface by Koestler. A Volume of essays by Koestler . A Very Good book , without inscriptions in a near Fine un-clipped dustjacket. Pictures available

London & Hull: A. Brown & Sons, c.1939 First edition, undated but after 1935 from contents, probably late 1930s. Signed by the author on flyleaf. Hardcover book . Light blue cloth, gilt titles to spiine, and decorative dustjacket block-printed in blue on cream paper. 269pp. With line drawings in text by Ellen McLane (who also designed the jacket), and b&w photos in plates. Various historical happenings and notable people in York (eg the Civil War, the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, and chapters on Laurence Sterne, 'two highwaymen' and 'two eccentrics', and 'tobacco and snuff signs'. A nicely produced book. Very Good in Good jacket, now in clear sleeve. Some very light foxing to endpapers. Jacket has small losses to spine ends and to corners, closed tear to corner; some small age marks to back and (less so) to front. Pictures available.

London: Robert Hale, 1950 First edition. HB. Green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, and with gilt vignette scene to front cover, and dustjacket lettered in white and black on green paper with line illustration to front.. 305pp. With 49 b&w photos in plates, and a folding map of the county at end. The County Books series by Hale. A Very Good+, near fine, bright, clean copy. No inscriptions. Wrapper has crease to back edge ; not clipped. Photos available. Lovely copy.

London, A Brown & Sons, Hardcover, presumed First edition-no date, with dustjacket. 335 pages with many illustrations and map at rear .A Very Good copy with light foxing to page edges in a near Fine dustjacket. light marks to rear of jacket.