Search Results: Titles starting with V from Lasting Words Ltd

USA: Farrar Straus, 1955. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1955. First American Edition in English, of Colette's first novel written without the collaborative efforts of her husband. Un-common. Book is near fine and very bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ ad very bright. Price clipped. Small closed tear to top edge. A very nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref15493

UK: Macmillan, 1947. Reprint . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Stuart Tresilian. 5th Imp 1957. In the same format as the 1st edition. Signed by the author to the front endpaper. The third volume of the Adventure Series. Book is very good++ and bright. Spine a little lightened. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and quite bright. Edges rubbed and nicked. A few small closed tears to edges. Spine darkened. Quite a nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 15481

UK: Macmillan, 1947. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Cloth. Good ++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stuart Tresilian. 1st Edition 1947. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian. Signed by the author. Wonderful Provenance: Joyce Clark, thence by descent. Joy Clark born 1937 grew up in Beaconsfield with her parents Isabella and Cecil Clark. The Clark's ran an ironmonger's shop in the town and Enid Blyton was a regular customer. For many years whenever one of her books was published, Blyton would kindly sign and give a book to Joy, who was a small child at the time. Book is very good and bright. Light marking to cloth. Contents quite good with a number of pages have been cleaned due to colouring in. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16411/16491

UK: Macgibbon and Kee, 1969. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1969. Flat signed by Brian Vesey Fitzgerald. His personal copy. Book came from the Brian Vesey Fitzgerald's library with his bookplate to the endpaper. Book is very good++ and bright. Light edge rubbing. The complete wrapper is very good+ with slight rubbing and toning to edges. More images can be taken upon request. Ref15624

UK: Dent, 1930. Reprint . Full-Leather. Very Good ++. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Reprint Dent Edition 1930. Deluxe edition bound in full leather. Book is very good++ and bright. Edges lightly rubbed. Contents good. Small name to endpaper. More images can be taken upon request. Ref15466

UK: Macmillan, 1995. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1995. A Commissario Brunetti Crime Novel. Book is near fine and bright. Nice clean contents. The complete wrapper is near fine and bright. More images can be taken upon request. Ref13629

UK: Heinemann, 1979. New Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. New Edition Reprint 1979. A new printing originally published in 1931 with new artwork to match the Dance to the Music of Time series. Book is near fine and bright. Contents good. The complete wrapper is near fine and bright. Light age toning to spine. Very un-common. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16156

UK, 1816. First Edition . Soft cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Verdun, Under Wirion, Courcelles, De Beauchene, And De Meulan By Anthony Latreille 1st edition Printed 1816 London . A Pamphlet written by a gendarme, recounting his service to the supervision of English prisoners, in Verdun, between 1803 and 1814. The translator, prisoner himself for 6 years, was a direct witness to humanity, kindness and benevolence of the author. The pamphlet goes in to great detail on clubs, gambling, theatre, police, races, escapes etc.The original paper pamphlet is average with light foxing /age toning to pages. Complete 14 pages. Size is 20cm x 13cm. Missing the original covers. More images can be taken upon request. Ref15211

UK: Faber, 2004. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very nice collectable 1st Edition 2003. Booker Prize winning novel. Book and wrapper are fine. Textblock edge slight age toned. Digital images available upon request. Ref13040

UK: Blackie, 1906. New Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Reprint 1906. A new printing of his verses for Blackie publications. Wonderful art nouveau decorative cloth binding by Talwin Morris. Book is very good and bright. Contents average. Age toning to some pages. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17165

UK: Blackie, 1906. Reprint . Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. New Edition 2nd Imp 1906. Part of the red letter library with book design by Talwin Morris a leading illustrator and book designer during the late 19th and early 20th century. Book is very good++ and bright. Spine and edges lightly rubbed. Contents good. Light foxing to a few inner pages. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 16579

UK: Ward Lock, 1935. Ninth Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Margaret Tarrant. 9th Edition Circa 1935. Undated but the 1st with this new wrapper design. Twenty colour plates by Tarrant. The book is very good++ with bright boards. Contents very good.The wrapper is very good++ with edges a little rubbed/nicked. Small loss to spine corner. More images can be taken upon request.Ref 5838 ###008458

Germany: Benteli Verlag Bern, 1969. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good++. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 1st Edition 1969. German Text and with many black and white pictures. Book is near fine and bright. Small mark to front board. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. Light surface/edge rubbing. Small loss to center. Contents good. Very heavy book. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16230

USA: Doran, 1930. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1930. Tipped in age toned signed page from P G Wodehouse to his American neighbour. Book is very good+ and in bright condition. Spine wording a little lightened. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request.Ref 14531

USA: Doubleday Doran, 1930. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. New Edition 1930. Identical to the 1st edition and printed just after in the same year. A Jeeves book. Book is very good++ with bright boards. Contents good. Name to endpaper. The wrapper is very good+ with slight rubbing/nicks to edges. Light soiling to wrapper. Minuscule loss to spine tips. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 9862 ##012117

UK: Edmund Ward, 1960. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good++. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. 1st Edition 1960. The Reverend Awdry's twentieth book in the Railway Series. Conforms to all the 1st edition points. Book is near fine and very bright. Contents good. Nice tight textblock. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. Light edge rubbing. A really good example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 16568

UK: Directory Press, 1937. First Edition . Paper. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A Very Rare Original Luncheon on Wednesday 3rd March 1937, at the Westgate Hotel, Newport, Mon in Honour of a Man of Gwent Arthur Machen. Menu including a 2 pp. extract from Henry Danielson's bibliography bound-in, some light spotting, a folded compliments slip from the Arthur Machen Testimonial Committee loosely inserted, original stiff string-bound wrappers with monochrome illustration to rear wrapper. Size is 245mm x 155mm. Condition is good. Light spotting. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17031

UK, 1852. First Edition . Paper. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 1st Edition 1852. A Victoria Act for Making a Turnpike Road between Stone Creek and Sunk Island Church in the County of York and Between Sunk Island Church and Partington Haven, and for Consolidating with Other Such Roads and for the Construction of Quays and Wharfs at Stone Creek. 18 pages complete in its own right. Pages are in good condition. Taken from a bound up book. More images can be taken upon request. Ref15516

UK: Metheun, 1926. New Edition . Full-Leather. Very Good ++. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. New Edition 1926. (11th overall) Delux pocket edition. Bound in full leather with decorative stamping. Book is very good+ and bright. Edges lightly rubbed. Spine a little lightened. Contents good. A nice example. More images can be taken upon request.Ref 16052

UK: Faber, 1934. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++/Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1934. Book is very good++ with bright boards. Contents good. The wrapper is near very good with light rubbing/nicks to edges. Spine and top edge age toned. Miniscule loss to spine top. More images available upon request. Ref15875