Authors beginning with V from Jacket and Cloth (15 items)

London: John Murray, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Orange copper cloth with black title band to upper front cloth and black titles to spine. Very minor residue from sticker to/ ffep. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Small missing section to upper spine end. Sunned and spotted spine. Tightly bound with lightly age toned intact endpapers with strong hinges. Outline of prev sticker to ffep. 'D.S. Libraries' stamp to page 9. Light spotting to prelims. toned pages with light spotting and fox marks to pages margins from soiled and spotted text block edge. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 320. Size: 16mo 19cm by 12.5cm.

London: Phoenix House Ltd, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. SWAN, Donald (Illus.). First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Orange illustrated DJ over mint green cloth. Illustrated by Donald Swan. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good+: Very sharp corners, edges and spine ends. Clean cloth. Tightly bound with clean intact endpapers and very strong hinges. Lightly toned unmarked pages. Very minor faint spots to corners of text block edge. DJ Condition: Good+: Wear, creasing and chipping to upper spine end and corners. Light wear to spine edges. Clipped. Lightly soiled covers Pages 224. Size: 19.5cm by 12cm.

London: Frederick Warne and Co. Softcover. Fair/No DJ. DESCRIPTION: Short colour booklet. Comprises six leaves of text printed to one side only, with six chromolithographic plates. Illustrations printed by Kronheim and Co. from designs by F.J. Skill. Language: English. Book Condition: Fair: Wear to corners with tape repair to spine. See photo. Toned covers with spotting and foxing to some pages. DJ Condition: No DJ Size: 26cm by 22.5cm. AUTHOR: Laura Valentine (1814 - 1899) was a successful childrens writer primarily under the nom-de-plume Aunt Louisa. She wrote a large number of simple stories for younger children published by Frederick Warne & Co. Her illustrations were usually printed by Kronheim & Co. , was a British printing firm, founded by Joseph Martin Kronheim who used an adapted form of the Baxter print process to produce chromolithographs of rich, dense colours.

London: Frederick Warne and Co. Softcover. Fair/No DJ. DESCRIPTION: Short colour booklet. Comprises six leaves of text printed to one side only, with six chromolithographic plates. Illustrations printed by Kronheim and Co. Language: English. Book Condition: Fair: Wear to corners with tape repair to spine. See photo. Toned covers with spotting to some pages. DJ Condition: No DJ Size: 26cm by 22.5cm. AUTHOR: Laura Valentine (1814 - 1899) was a successful childrens writer primarily under the nom-de-plume Aunt Louisa. She wrote a large number of simple stories for younger children published by Frederick Warne & Co. Her illustrations were usually printed by Kronheim & Co. , was a British printing firm, founded by Joseph Martin Kronheim who used an adapted form of the Baxter print process to produce chromolithographs of rich, dense colours.

London: Frederick Warne and Co. Softcover. Fair/No DJ. DESCRIPTION: Short colour booklet. Comprises five leaves of text printed to one side only, with five chromolithographic plates, including one double spread. Illustrations printed by Kronheim and Co. Language: English. Book Condition: Fair: Wear to corners with tape repair to spine. See photo. Toned covers. Foxing to margins to varying extent. 4cm tear to one page. DJ Condition: No DJ Size: 26cm by 22.5cm. AUTHOR: Laura Valentine (1814 - 1899) was a successful childrens writer primarily under the nom-de-plume Aunt Louisa. She wrote a large number of simple stories for younger children published by Frederick Warne & Co. Her illustrations were usually printed by Kronheim & Co. , was a British printing firm, founded by Joseph Martin Kronheim who used an adapted form of the Baxter print process to produce chromolithographs of rich, dense colours.

London: Gresham Publishing Company, c1906. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. DESCRIPTION: Eight volumes in greeen cloth blocked with Talwin Morris (Glasgow School) designs to front and spine. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Lightly faded spine cloth and gilt with minor marks to boards. All volumes are tightly bound with intact endpapers and strong hinges. Toned half titles and lightly toned pages with very occasional minor mark to pags. Toned text block edges. DJ Condition: No DJ Size: 19cm by 13cm. POSTAGE: PLEASE NOTE - This is a heavy item and may require additional postage for overseas deliveries. We will contact you if additional charges are required. Please see our postage policy on our shop front for more information.

London, 1804. Hardcover. Restoration Only/No DJ. DESCRIPTION: Possibly the personal collection of Charles Abbott, Speaker of the House of Commons (1802-1817) being collection of six governmental papers concerning the parliamentary debate on the state of the navy of Great Britain in 1804 bound as one in full leather binding. See provenance. See resume for full list of papers. The bookplate to the front paste down belongs to Right Honourable Lord Colchester and is dated 1887. Paper 2 contains the signature of Charles Abbot, being the 1st Baron Colchester. The paper also has the words "from the author" to the title page that could refer to Charles Abbot responding to the initial paper as Speaker of the Hose of Commons. Language: English. Book Condition: Restoration Only: Detached front and rear boards. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 56, 36, 58, 68, 198, 60. Size: 8vo 22cm by 13cm. PROVENANCE: BOOKPLATE: Lord Colchester. INSCRIPTION- "From the Author". SIGNATURE- Charles Abbot. Charles Abbot, 1st Baron… Read more

London: Joseph Clayton, Jun, 1851. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. DESCRIPTION: Volumes I & II bound as one in three quarter green leather with marbled boards. Black leather title plate to gilt decorated five ridged spine. Contains 60 editions of the weekly illustrated magazine for 1851. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Heavy wear to lower board edges. Soft edge section next to lower spine edge margin. Rubbed cloth with minor marks. Section of spine date plate missing. Tightly bound with clean intact endpapers and strong hinges. Clean unmarked pages. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages iv, 416 & iv, 428 & 128. Size: 34cm by 22.5cm. POSTAGE: PLEASE NOTE - This is a heavy item and may require additional postage for overseas deliveries. We will contact you if additional charges are required. Please see our postage policy on our shop front for more information. BOOK RESUME: Volume 1 - No. 1 [2 Nov 1850] - No. 26 [26 April 1851] & Volume II - No. 27 [3 May 1851] - No. 60 [20… Read more

London: Haynes Publishing Group, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First Edition. Language: English. Book Condition: Near Fine DJ Condition: Very Good: Light wear to upper and lower spine ends Pages 288. Size: 29cm by 23.5cm.

London: George G Harrap & Co Ltd, 1939. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 1st English Edition. Originally published 1937. DESCRIPTION: Red cloth. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Lightly sunned spine with rubbed cloth boards. Tightly bound with intact endpaper and strong hinges. Sticker residue to rear endpaper gutters. 4 cm tear to rear endpaper from gutter outward. Remainder mark to lower text block edge. Previous owners name to front paste down. Faint foxing to false title and rear fly pages with minor spotting to title and first and last few pages. Occasional minor spots to one or two pages. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 284. Size: 8vo 19cm by 13cm.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1892-1899. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No DJ. First Edition. Signed by author. Inscribed by Margaret Verney (sister of Florence Nightingale). DESCRIPTION: Four volumes bound in publisher's original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Illustrated with 69 engravings, drawings, and woodcuts and 2 foldouts. Language: English. Book Condition: Fair: Wear and bruising to some corners of vol I, II and III. Heavy wear to corners and edges of volume I. Light wear to remaining corners, edges and spines ends of all volumes. Marks to cloth of upper front cloth of volume I and upper spine end of volume III. Lightly warped boards to volume I. All volumes remain tightly bound with intact endpapers and firm hinges. Vol I; Spotting to opening and closing pages with spotting and marks to many page margins. Vols II, III and IV; Light spotting to some endpapers and fly pages with occasional spotting and marks to other pages, plates and tissue guards. Author inscription to vols III and IV to… Read more

Lugd. Batav Apud Danielem a Gaesbeeck, 1680. Hardcover. Poor/No DJ. DESCRIPTION: Full brown leather binding. Three ridged spine. Language: Latin. Book Condition: Poor: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Crack to length of centre of toned and hardened spine. Cracked spine edges. Small missing section to rear spine mid section. Remains tightly bound with lightly toned endpapers and firm hinges. Lightly toned unmarked pages with wave to block. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 2, 492,28, Auctorum Qui Catalogus 88pp. Size: 32mo 13cm by 8cm.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Color illustrated paper covered boards with silver/grey title plate to front board. Black cloth spine with silver lettering. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners and edges. Light wear to spine ends. Rubbed boards and cloth. Tightly bound with lightly toned intact endpapers. Prev owners name to ffep. Heavy pencil annotation to rear endpapers. Foxing to prelims and rear pages with further foxing to page margins. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 248.

Stockholm, 1889. Hardcover. Good/Na. DESCRIPTION: Large three quarter leather bound atlas containing 51 double-page plates with photolithographic reproductions of maps from between 1490-1597. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends. 2cm missing section to lower spine along with 7cm tear to lower front spine edge and ffep. Intact endpapers. Cracked verso of endpaper with light movement to front hinge. Patch of spotting to page 133. All maps are clean and unmarked. DJ Condition: Na Pages [12], 141, plates. Size: 52cm by 36cm. POSTAGE: PLEASE NOTE - This is a heavy item and may require additional postage for overseas deliveries. We will contact you if additional charges are required. Please see our postage policy on our shop front for more information. BOOK RESUME: Contents: 1) The geographical Atlas of Ptolemy, 2) Editions of Ptolemys Geography, 3) Pseudo-editions of Ptolemy. Ptolemys errors and merits, 4) Ancient, not Ptolemaic maps, 5) Extension of Ptolemys… Read more

London: Rizzoli, 2013. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. DESCRIPTION: White patterned DJ over white silk-like cloth with blind titles to front and spine. Illustrated throughout. Language: English. Book Condition: Near Fine DJ Condition: Very Good: Sunned front cover with light wear to corners and edges Pages 404. Size: 32cm by 25cm. POSTAGE: PLEASE NOTE - This is a heavy item and may require additional postage for overseas deliveries. We will contact you if additional charges are required. Please see our postage policy on our shop front for more information. BOOK RESUME: Luxury and art have never been more closely linked than they are in these early years of the twenty-first century. Virtually all the worlds major luxury houses have associated themselves with contemporary art through sponsorships, commissions, or foundations, and these points of exchange nourish the increasingly symbiotic relationship between fashion, art, and other design disciplines. Of all modern luxury brands, Louis Vuitton can… Read more