Search Results: Authors starting with V from Bookfare

London: Simpkin Marshall, 1907 2 maps and 91 illustrations; Hardback: olive green cloth, elaborately decorated top board incorporating designs of palm trees and a ship, printed presentation leaf as front free end-paper; Some wear to covers, especially corners and head of spine, foxing to end-papers, front hinge tender, previous owner's stamp to front free end-paper, a g+ copy of a scarce book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

1st Edition, Lindsay Drummond, London, no date: 1942 Map; 64 illustrations; Navy blue cloth decorated in silver; Neat ownership inscription to front free end-paper, slight cover wear, near fine.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1970 "The Clark Lectures for 1969"; Hardback: black cloth decorated in gilt on spine; 1 corner bumped, fine in slightly torn dirtied g dustjacket.

1st British Edition, 1990 Travel essays; Originally published by the North Point Press, San Francisco the previous year; Red cloth lettered in gilt; Fine in near fine dustwrapper.

Boston: E.P. Dutton, 1944 Hardback: green cloth decorated in black and gilt; Slight signs of use, vg+

1st British Edition, Spring Books, London, no date : 1970's ? 47 colour plates, 4 double-page; Hardback: quarter white cloth lettered in gilt on decorated boards, illustrated end-papers and title-page, patterned edges to text pages; Lacks 1 prelims leaf, else near fine in less fine dustwrapper.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1937 "The Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History" for 1930; Hardback: blue cloth decorated in gilt and blind; Spine a touch creased, unopened, near fine.

London: Simpkin Marshall, London, 1854, 1854 "For the use of colleges, schools and private students . comprising the substance of all the most approved French grammars extant, but more especially of the standard work "La Grammaire des Grammaires" sanctioned by the French Academy and the University of Paris, with numerous exercises and examples illustrative of every rule"; Hardback: black binder's cloth, edges spotted; Covers slightly unevenly faded, internally fine and very fresh.

London: Hutchinson, 1998 Signed by author on title-page; 22 illustrations; Hardback: red cloth lettered in gilt on spine, illustrated end-papers; Binding slanted, vg+ in dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

First Edition, Cresset Press, London, 1958 Literary and religious quarrels between Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Henry Arthur Jones, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton, Henry James and Dr. Coulton; Hardback: red cloth lettered in gilt on spine; Light signs of use, spine faded, vg+

London: Seeley, 1894 Hardback: green cloth lettered in gilt on spine; Spine & small part of lower board damp-stained, some general light cover wear, binding shaken , front hinge pulling, g+. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: Kilijaro, 1996 222 colour illustrations; 31 black & white illustrations; Advertisements throughout, including 60 full-page illustrated and in colour; First Edition thus; Hardback: dark green rexine decorated in gilt; Fine in dustwrapper.

London: Duckworth, 1920 Woolf's first novel: originally published in 1915, Duckworth issued this edition iin 1920, using the sheets of the first American edition of that year, with a new Duckworth title-page; Hardback: green ribbed cloth decorated in black and blind; 1 corner bumped, spine faded to light brown, front hinge cracking, previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper, overall still a fresh vg copy.

London: Watts, 1937 Presentation copy, also with an inscribed business card of the author loosely tipped-in; Hardback: Pink patterned cloth decorated in black; Front free end-paper badly torn out, boards a little bowed, vg in worn dustwrapper.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1969 12 maps; 8 colour illustrations; 52 black & white illustrations; Hardback: brown cloth, red lettering-piece, spine decorated in gilt, illustrated end-papers; Slight signs of use, vg+; If ordering from outside the UK, please be aware that this is a heavy book and may require extra postage charges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984 Paperback; Fine.

1st British Edition, Chapman & Hall, 1938 358 illustrations; Blue cloth decorated in gilt; Some cover wear especially round spine, internally fine.