Search Results: Titles starting with F from Lasting Words Ltd

UK: George Edward Eyre, 1864. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 1st Edition 1864. FURTHER PAPERS RELATING TO THE MILITARY OPERATIONS IN NEW ZEALAND. BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY PAPER 10262. HOUSE OF COMMONS LONDON, PRINTED BY EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE, HMSO FIRST EDITION.A VERY RARE OFFICIAL BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY PAPER FOLIO SIZE, WITH 67 PAGES Extremely good condition in a protective cover. There had already been much fighting between the Maoris and the British settlers, and the colonists were not prepared to countenance Maori controlling and ruling most of the land in the North Island. War broke out again in 1863 with the Invasion of the Waikato. To assist in this war, a temporary navy was established. This was the Waikato Flotilla, New Zealand's first de facto navy, comprising eight riverboats, four armoured barges, five coastal boats and a naval dockyard. The Waikato War, including the Tauranga Campaign, was the biggest of all the New Zealand Wars. This… Read More

UK: Chatto and Windus, 1929. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilbert Spencer. 1st Edition 1929. Limited edition of 700 with this being number 53. Gilbert Spencer illustrations. Flat signed by the author to the limitation page. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents very good. The complete wrapper is very good+ and quite bright. Spine slightly darkened and wrapper lightly soiled/marked. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. Small closed tear to bottom corner. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 9518##011628

UK: Warne, 1886. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. New Edition 1886. Illustrated with eighty original illustrations, Bound in the original decorative publishers cloth. Book is very good and bright. Light edge rubbing. Contents quite good. Small name to endpaper. Pages quite foxed. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16727

UK: Dent, 1913. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition Circa 1913. Undated. Date confirmed by Copac. Frederick Colin Tilney (illustrator). First Thus. This volume contains an interpretation of 48 of La Fontaine's fables for children. There are 8 full page colour illustrations by Tilney. For those not familiar with la Fontaine, many of Aesop's fables were taken from the originals by la Fontaine and duly attributed to him. Book is very good+ and bright. Spine gilt dulled. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request.Ref11530 ###013325

USA: Milner and Company, 1854. New Edition . Cloth. Good. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. New Edition 1854. Illustrated with over 100 engravings. Engraved fold out frontis. Bound in the original cloth. Book is good++ with marked used cloth boards. Edges rubbed, Hinges lightly repaired in places. Contents average. Pages age toned and marked in places. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18408

UK: W. Kent and Co, 1857. 1st Edition . Decorative Cloth. Good ++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Charles Bennett. 1st Edition 1857. Designed and Drawn on the Wood by Charles H. Bennett, Engraved by Swain. Wonderful illustrations. Bennett, a noted artist and contributor to Punch was also a founding member of the Savage Club. Joseph Swain was an English wood-engraver. He is best known from his engravings in Punch magazine of cartoons by Sir John Tenniel. Bound in he original cloth. Book is good++ and quite bright. Marking to cloth. Edges rubbed in places. Contents quite good. Pages lightly foxed and rear pages with stating to edges. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18408

UK: William Milner, 1845. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. New Edition 1845. Illustrated with over 100 engravings. Lovely little miniature book. Engraved fold out frontis. Bound in the original cloth. Book is very good and bright. Light edge rubbing. Contents quite good. Pages age toned and marked in places. New front endpaper. More images can be taken upon request. Ref14846

UK: Michael Joseph, 1964. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1964. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and quite bright. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. White rear age toned. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18527

UK: Michael Joseph, 1964. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1964. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and quite bright. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. White rear age toned and lightly soiled. More images can be taken upon request. Ref13816

UK: John Murray, 1953. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1953 Signed by the author on a bookplate. Book is very good and quite bright. Contents quite good. The wrapper is good++ and quite bright. Loss to edges and spine tips. Edges rubbed, nicked and with a few small closed tears. Age toning to wrapper. More images can be taken upon request.Ref 14552/14769

UK: Rupert Hart Davis, 1954. First Edition 1st Printing. Full-Leather. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1954. Re-bound in full leather with gilt detailing and gilt to page edges. Book is fine and very bright. Contents good. A nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17656

UK: Michael Joseph, 1944. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1944. An overlooked masterpiece of war literature. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. Edges rubbed, creased, nicked an a few closed tears to edges. Minuscule loss to spine tips. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18527

UK: Routledge, 1876. New Edition . Cloth. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. New Edition C1876. An early 'Yellowback style book' A yellowback is a cheap novel or book which was published in Britain in the second half of the 19th century. Developed in the 1840s to compete with the "penny dreadful", yellow-backs were marketed as entertaining reading. They had brightly coloured covers, often printed by chromoxylography, that were attractive to a new class of readers, thanks to the spread of education and rail travel. Routledge was one of the first publishers to begin marketing yellow-backs by starting their "Railway Library" in 1848. The series included 1,277 titles, published over 50 years. These mainly consisted of stereotyped reprints of novels originally published as cloth editions. By the late 19th century quite a few publishers were issuing their own versions of yellow-backs eg Chatto and Windus, Smith Elder,Longmans, Ward Lock. They included… Read More

UK: Bodley Head, 1918. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. John Lane. 1st Edition 1918. Fifteen color plates by unnamed illustrators, twenty-five stories about fairies, b&w illustrations throughout. Book is very good and bright. Spine a little lightened. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18408

UK: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1925. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1925. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Book is very good and in quite bright condition. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18207

UK: Griffith and Farran, 1875. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Kate Greenaway. 1st Edition 1875. A very early illustrated book by Kate Greenaway. Bound in the original red/gilt cloth with new endpapers. Book is very good with inscription to inner page. Contents good. Spine repaired professionally at top. Very un-common. More images can be taken upon request. Ref ###03829

UK: Odhams, 1935. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition Thus Circa 1935. Undated. Includes the rare wrapper. Books are very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and bright. Small loss and repairs to spine tips/edges. Spine top with large loss. More images can be taken upon request. ref16685

UK: Collins, 1930. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Anne Anderson. 1st Edition C1930. Title vignette, colour frontispiece and 15 similar plates, 20 full-page line-drawings and numerous similar in-text illustrations. First Anderson collected edition, originally published as two separate works: Grimm's Fairy Tales (Glasgow: Collins, 1922) and Andersen's Fairy Tales (Glasgow: Collins, 1924). Anne Anderson (1874-1952) was a prolific Scottish illustrator, primarily known for her art nouveau children's book illustrations. Book is fine and in beautiful condition. Contents good. Light foxing to page edges. The wrapper is near fine and very bright. Light edge rubbing. Price clipped. A beautiful example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 15038

UK: Odhams, 1935. First Edition Thus . Cloth. Very Good ++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition Thus Circa 1935. Undated. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents very good. More images can be taken upon request. ref 15373

UK: Bodley Head, 1959. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rex Whistler. New Edition 1959. An important new edition of the classic work with wonderful black/white illustrations by Whistler throughout the book. Wonderful production quality with very decorative gilt work to the boards and spine. Book is virtually near fine with very bright boards and gilt. Contents very good indeed. The complete wrapper is very good and bright. Age toning and spotting to covers. More images can be taken upon request. Ref3913####012948