Search Results: Authors starting with V from Trumpington Fine Books Limited

London: Ward, Lock & Co Limited, 1939. 1st Edition. Cream Boards. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Large. Colyer, S. W. Contains 33 b/w photographic plates with supportive text. Light bumps to the head and tail of the spine. Faint pencil name and address inscription to the head of the front end paper. Slightest of bowing of the boards. Fresh and clean. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Light sunning to the spine and to the adjacent edge of the rear of the wrapper and to the head of the rear of the wrapper. Light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine of the wrapper, with a slight nik to the head of the wrapper. well preserved. A very good copy.

Are Pr, 1996-10-01. Paperback. Very Good. 167pp. (white spine) 8vo. 1996. Third edition. A good, tight copy. No reading crease to the spine. A number of ink line marks to the margins of some pages - no underlining. But for the line marks, a lovely, fresh, clean, tight copy.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 1st Edition. Black Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. No Illustrations. 227pp. A super copy of this first edition (1999) in wrapper. 8vo. Bound in black cloth with gilt embossed lettering to the spine. There is the slightest of bumps to the tail of the rear board. Fresh, clean and tight. Dust wrapper is not price clipped and there is slight creasing to the head of the rear panel of the wrapper. Light shelf wear. A fine copy in a very good wrapper.

Amsterdam: Peter Noldus, 2000. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Large. N/a. Type: Z 264pp. 2000. First edition. Text in English, Dutch and Russian too. A very good, clean, tight fresh copy. No inscriptions. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions in colour of the artists' work. A single light reading crease to the spine. Some light or slight rubbing to the head of the spine. A very good, clean, tight copy.

London: Collins, 1973. Third Edition. Brown Cloth. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 12mo. Barruel, Paul. 221pp. Fresh & tight. The head of the spine has been lightly bumped - with associated creasing to the wrapper. O/w a super book. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped. The wrapper has faded slightly at the spine. Bright & clean. A lovely copy.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1975. 1st Edition. Green Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 166pp. First ediiton of this book. Gilt embossed lettering to the spine. Slight fading to the upper edge of the boards, hidden under the wrapperInk inscription to the front end paper, hidden under a piece of paper pasted onto the front end paper with the word 'Mother' in pencil written on it. Slightest of foxing to the end papers, half title page and fore edges. Clean and tight. Dust wrapper price clipped. Slight shelf wear to the edges of the wrapper. A very good copy.

Australia: Centre for south-East Asian Studies , 1994. 1st Edition. Card Covers. Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. 87pp. From the University of Hull Centre for South-East Asian Studies. Occasional Paper No 25. Illustrated with several charts and graphs. Light shelf wear to the edges of the card covers with sligth creasing to the lower corner of the rear card cover. internally clean and fresh. A very good copy.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923. Second Edition. Red Cloth. Very Good/Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾. N/a. 74pp. 1923. Second edition. 12mo. A very good clean, tight copy in good plus jacket. Original publisher's red cloth - gilt embossed to the spine and to the front board with a paper colour onlay of the wise men of Christmas to the front board. A very neat blue ink Christmas gift inscription, Xmas 1925 'To Bella' to the front endpaper. Otherwise a near fine or fine copy. The jacket has not been price-clipped. It has a small chip to the middle of the rear panel - virtually no loss of text, some peripheral rubbing with several small or tiny chips to the peripheries and a little spotting (or small circular stains) and dust soiling. Several short tears to the margins of the jacket have been expertly repaired. A very good, clean, tight copy of a charming children's Christmas book.

Amsterdam: G. A. Van Oorschot, 1970. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/N/a. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. N/a. A very scarce copy with a rhyme put to music with all text and muscial notes in facsimile. No date - c 1970. Comes in a black folder with title on a paper onlay to the front of the folder. A very scarce copy. There is a small circular white soil mark to the inside flap of the folder and one corner has been turned, leaving a neat crease. Some light rubbing to the periphyer of the folder. A very good copy.

London: The Folio Society, 1972. 1st Edition. Quarter Cloth & Paper Covered. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. Greaves, D.H. n/a. n/a Type: n/a 372pp. A super copy. Gilt embossed lettering to the spine and illustrated with several gravure plates by D. H. Greaves. Quarter bound in red cloth with deocrative paper covered boards. There is a light bump tot he head of the spine, which has light fading. Fresh and clean. Comes in slipcase which has a little shelf wear and a couple of slight soil marks. A very good copy.

Pineapple Press, 1995-07-01. Paperback. Like New. 132pp. 1995. First edition. 8vo. A Near fine copy in lovely fresh, tight, clean condition. No inscriptions. No reading crease to the spine. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions and a small colour plate section. A small square white sticker inside the rear card cover. A super copy.

Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, 2001. First Edition. Green Boards. Fine/Fine. 4to. Illustrated. ISigned by Author. Signed by Author Type: Presentation Copy 130pp. A signed presentation copy, signed by Edwina Vardey to the front end paper. A fresh, tight first edition. In excellent condition. Minimal signs of shelf wear of any kind. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped. A few tiny spoil specks to the reverse of the wrapper - barely noticeable. A superb copy.

London: Vallentine, Mitchell & Co. Ltd, 1957. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall - Small. 151pp. 1957. First Edition. Gilt embossed Jewish vignette to the front board and gilt embossed title to the spine. Fore-edges rough cut. The text supported by a number of photographic reproductions. A couple of corners bumped and the tail of the spine bumped. Slight bump to the head of the spine. A very slight, light circular soil mark just 3mm in diameter affects three or four leaves.

Glasgow: William Collins and Co Ltd, 1858. Reprint. Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Roberts, David. 1275pp. Probably the finest 'family Bible' we have ever seen or had for sale. 39 tinted lithographic plates by the great nineteenth century lithographers - 'Day and Son'. Each of the full page landscape plates after David Roberts - the great nineteenth century travel artist famous for his views of Arabia, Egypt and the ancient near east. The plates are as follows: frontispiece, additional title page, 29 other views (Including several of Egypt a view of the Roman forum and one of the acropolis - Athens), 6 maps and plans and finally 2 family register plates (printed to both sides - 4 pages in all - none filled in). All plates tissue guarded. Ornate and beautiful blue silk-backed endpapers and paste-downs with rich gilt work to the marins of the interior boards and endpapers. A gilt embossed leather onlay to the front paste-down - 'presented to… Read More

London: W. Kent & Co. , 1860. First Edition. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Various. 167pp. 1860. First edition. 4to. small sized. A very good, essentially clean, tight copy in original publisher's high Victorian green cloth binding - profusely illustrated in gilt. All edges gilt. Bevelled edges. Yellow endpapers. Profusely engraved additional title page and a similar frontispiece. Some scattered spotting throughout. Some rubbing to the cloth at the head and tail of the spine with slight loss of outer cloth in several places. A very good copy.

Bayswater, London: Association of Royal Navy Officers, 2019. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾. N/a. 144pp. 2019. (blue spine) First edition. 8vo. sized. A lovely, fresh, clean, tight, bright, very good plus copy. No inscriptions. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions in colour and b/w. A light or slight crease to the extreme upper corner of the front card cover. Nevertheless a lovely, fresh, clean, tight copy.

Northamptonshire: Patrick Stephens Limited. Hard Boards. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. Type: Z A 10 volume complete set of Action Stations, by a variety of authors. The volumes include : Wartime military airfields of East Anglia 1939 - 1945; Military airfields of Lincolnshire and the East Midlands; Military airfields of Wales and the North - West; Military airfields of Yorkshire; Military airfield of the South - West; Military airfields of the Cotswolds and the Central Midlands; Military airfields of Scotland, the North-East and Northern Ireland; Military airfields of Greater London; Military airfields of the Central South and South - East; Supplement and Index. All with wrappers. All volumes are illustrated with numerous b/w phootgraphs and maps and have photographic end papers. Gilt embossed lettering to the spines. Volume I has a light bump to the head and tail of the spine and a few faint soil marks to the boards, concealed… Read More

Scotland: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2009. Reprint. Laminated Hard Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. N/a. 1205pp. 2009. 118th edition. A near fine, clean, tight copy in original laminated white hardboards. No inscriptions. All ribbon page dividers still attached. A lovely well preserved copy.

Netherlands: Gerhard Stalling Verlag, 1967. 1st Edition. Beige Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Illustrated. Type: Z 288pp. A lovely copy of this first edition ( 1967) in wrapper and original slipcase ( white spine). Folio. Text in Dutch. Illustrated with numerous full page colour plates throughout. Bound in beige cloth with a litle mottling to the cloth spine and very slightly to the front board. No inscriptions. Fresh, clean and tight. Dust wrapper is not price clipped and is well preserved. A little mottling to the extreme head of the spine of the wrapper. Minimal shelf wear - clean and tight. Comes in slipcase with some foxing to the upper and lower edges and ligth rubbing to the corners. Firm and tight. A very good copy.

Midhurst: The Royal British Legion , 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo Large (over 7¾" - 9¾"). N/a. 203pp. 2000. First edition. The text supported by numerous illustrations - one or two in colour. Original publisher's brown boards - gilt embossed to the spine and to the front board. A biro inscription to the head of the front endpaper. The wrapper has not been price-clipped. The wrapper has slight creasing to the head and tail of the rear panel and a short expertly closed tear to the tail of the front panel and likewise one to the tail of the rear panel. A very good copy of a scarce publication.