Search Results: Authors starting with R from Virginia Bank Books

Rome. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 1959. (3746) Hardback. 417 pages. V.g. in green cloth with dulled gilt lettering to spine. No d.w. Ex Private Company Library (ICI Wilton) with remnants of their bookplate on front pastedown obliterated by marker pen and one ICI Library stamp on rear pastedown. No pockets. Errata slip loosely inserted. Tight sound clean copy.

Profile Books. 2019. (10462) Hardback. 197 pages. B.w. photographs. Near fine in dark green boards with bronze lettering to spine, in a fine unclipped d.w. No markings or inscriptions. Walking the streets of Ramallah in Palestine on the 50th year of the Israeli occupation, Raja Shehadeh records the changing face of the city he calls home. Green spaces - gardens and hills crowned with olive trees - have been replaced by tower blocks. The occupation and the settlements have become entrenched, strangling the city he grew up in.

London. Collins. 1990. (9235) Hardback. 241 pages. B.w. illustrations. Fine in blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, in a fine price clipped d.w. No markings or inscriptions.

D. Bradford Barton. 1975. (10624) Stapled landscape format paperback. 48 pages. Many b.w. photographs. Fine in a v.g. papercover with sun fading to spine area of front and rear covers. No markings or inscriptions.

Manchester University Press. 2012. (10464) Paperback. 290 pages. B.w. photographs. Fine in a fine papercover. Appears unread. Offers alternative ways of conceiving the making of modern Britain, and intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain's heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870-1950.

Robert Hale. Fifth edition 1990. (10463) Paperback. 254 pages. B.w. illustrations. Maps. Fine in a fine papercover. No markings or inscriptions. Appears unread. Geography, history, customs, legislative and legal systems, flags, currencies, comestibles, churches and other buildings of note are all written about exactly.

London. Methuen. 1984. lst edn. (5961) Hardback. 385 pages. B.w. illustrations. Fine in grey boards with gilt lettering to spine, faint old pricing in indelible pencil on front fly-leaf, in a fine d.w. with slight fading to spine. Ex shop stock - UNREAD BOOK. ISBN: 0-413-40130-8.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London. Fifth impression 1998. (9924) Hardback. 172 pages. Fine in navy boards with gilt lettering to spine, in a near fine price clipped d.w. with faded spine. No markings or inscriptions.

Upton upon Severn. Author/The Self Publishing Association. 1989. (9579) Hardback. 202 pages. B.w. illustrations. Fine in black boards with silver lettering to spine, in a fine unclipped d.w. No markings or inscriptions.

Ely. EARO. 1983. (8328) Large format paperback. 160 pages. B.w. photographs. Fine in a v.g. papercover. No markings or inscriptions. ISBN: 0904463907.

Watson-Guptill. 1981. (10125) Large format hardback. 144 pages. Numerous B.w. illustrations. Fine in brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, in a v.g. unclipped showing a little wear to top and bottom edges. No markings or inscriptions.

Rochester. T. Holdroyd. Undated. Circa early 1900s. (9960) Hardback. Good in maroon cloth with gilt lettering to front board. Edge of textblock grubby and edges of pages browning due to age. Small black stripe (felt tip pen?) at bottom of front corner. Signed by author on front fly-leaf. No d.w. 37 pages. Chapter 1 - Opinions for and against its public use. Chapter 2 - A very simple explanation of its clauses.

Printed and Published by The Journal Company, Rochester. Undated, circa early 1900s. (9961) Hardback. Good in slightly grubby maroon cloth with gilt lettering to front board. This book has been profesionally rebound (rebacked) with new pastedowns and new endpapers at front and rear. 48 pages. No d.w. Now a tight sound clean copy.

Cassell. 1913. First edition Reprinted May 1913. (10608) HEAVY Hardback. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. 279 pages. With 32 full plate colour pictures painted by James Clark, R.I., assisted by J. MacPherson-Haye and S. B. Carlill, under the direction of the author. V.g. in navy cloth with blind tooling on front board plus coloured illustration edged and lettered in gilt and with gilt lettering to spine. Gilt to top edge of textblock, faint foxing to front and bottom of textblock and scattered faint foxing to some pages. Some browning to front and rear pastedowns and flyleaves. No inscriptions. No d.w. A tight sound very clean copy.

Robert Jennings. 1829. Second Editions. VOLUMES 1 & 2 ONLY. (10605) HEAVY Hardbacks. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. Vol. 1 - 421 pages. Vol. 2 - 428 pages. Both have portraits at frontispiece plus other b.w. illustrations. These 2 volumes have been rebound (recased) using dark plum cloth and with black lettering on cream paper labels to spines. New pastedowns and endpapers fitted at front and rear. Ageing to edges of textblocks. Now tight sound clean copies.

Mickleover. Chantry Books. 2010. (9952) Paperback. 218 pages. B.w. illustations. Family trees. Fine in a fine papercover. No markings or inscriptions. Appears unread. Train-ride with Timothy is the second book of the series A Mixed Inheritance. It is set in the years 1793-1853 and follows continuously on from the years (1605-1793) of the first book Walk With Petronella. Family life in Middle England over 300 years.

U.S.A. Moonraker. 1983. (2208) Large format stapled paperback. 64 pages. B.w. drawings. Fine in fine papercover. Unread book from new stock. The book deals largely with sailing ships of European or American vintage. ISBN: 0-8306-8304-6.

London. Macdonald & Jane's. 1977. lst edn. (7350) Hardback. 351 pages. B.w. illustrations. Near-fine in brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, in a good price-clipped d.w. showing a little wear to edges. Small booksellers label (Ian Hickman of Hastings) fixed to bottom of front pastedown. No inscriptions. ISBN: 0-354-04145-2.

Simon & Schuster. 2004. (10700) Hardback. 304 pages. Fine in black boards with gilt lettering to spine, in a fine unclipped d.w. No markings or inscriptions.

London. Bloomsbury. 1991. (9724) Hardback. 400 pages. B.w. illustrations. Maps. Near fine in grey boards with gilt lettering to spine, in a v.g. unclipped d.w. showing slight wear to top of spine. No markings or inscriptions.