Search Results: Authors starting with V from Cornell Books Limited

London: Archibald Constable and co, 1908. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), xi, 212pp. 7 plates. Original burgundy cloth, gilt titling to the spine. The binding is a little rubbed, there is light foxing to the preliminary pages, and the contents are a little tanned; overall, this book is in good plus condition.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1970. First edition (hardback). 12mo (20cm by 13cm), 143pp. Original orange cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition (dustwrapper price-clipped). ISBN 0575004088

London: Halcot & Truscott Smith, 1924. First edition (hardback). 4to (32cm by 26cm), ix, 78pp. 64 plates, including 16 in colour. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, top edge gilt. The boards are somewhat rubbed, and there is creasing to a couple of the tissue protectors; overall, this book is in good condition. From the library of art historian and professor Sir Lawrence Gowing.

Cheltenham Newspaper co, 1928. First edition (hardback). 4to (29cm by 23cm), 384pp. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Small mark to the front board, light foxing to the edges of the text block, gift inscription to the front free endpaper; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. Includes a photograph of the building that is now our shop (on page 331).

London: The May Fair Hotel, 1984. Facsimile of the 1927 edition (hardback). 4to 925cm by 22cm), iv, 92pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original white cloth, colour plate inlaid on the front board. Light spotting of the boards, light bump to the front board; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. Reprint of the 1928 edition (hardback). 8vo, xv, 252pp. Original grey cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Boards lightly rubbed, else this copy is in very good condition.

London: Greenhill Books, 2001. First edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 19cm), 319pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 1853674613

Thornhill Press, 1993. First edition (softcover). 8vo (24cm by 17cm), iv, 104pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original laminated card wrappers. This book is in very good condition. Signed by the author on the title page, and several typed letters from the author are loosely inserted.

Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1989. First edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), ix, 134pp. Frontispiece, 16 text illustrations. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Light foxing to the edges of the text block, short ownership inscription; overall, the book is in good to very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good plus condition (light chafing of the edges). ISBN 0862996589

London: Arthur L Humphreys, 1902. First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 18cm), 132pp. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, top edge gilt. Some rubbing of the binding, slight chafing to the foot of the spine, endpapers browned, contents VG. Overall, this copy is in good to very good condition.

London: Faber, 1971. First edition in English (hardback), translated by Joan Bulman. 8vo (25cm by 16cm), 351pp. 126 illustrations, 5 maps. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Bookplate to the front pastedown, short ownership inscription, light foxing to the top edge of the text block; overall, the book is in good to very good condition. The dustwrapper is in near-VG condition (light chip to the foot of the spine panel). ISBN 0571087825

Gloucester: John Bellows, 1937. First edition (hardback). 8vo, 175pp. Frontispiece, plates. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt motif to the front board. Some light staining of the boards, light foxing of the preliminary pages. Overall, this copy is in good condition.

Leningrad: Aurora Publishers, 1969. First edition (hardback). Square 8vo (22cm by 22cm), 37pp, 81 plates, 2pp list of plates. Original brown cloth, dustwrapper. Endpapers foxed; overall, the book is in good condition. The dustwrapper is in very good condition. Text in Russian and English.

Manchester: John Heywood, 1889. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 83pp. 103 text illustrations. Original grey cloth. The binding is rubbed and spotted, the contents are VG; overall, this book is in good condition.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1967. Reprint (softcover). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), xix, 300pp. 19 plates, 4 maps. Original laminated card wrappers. Light sunning of the spine, light foxing to the edges of the text block; overall, this book is in good condition.

London: Frederick Warne and Co, nd [1883]. No edition stated. 8vo, viii, 311pp. Original decorated brown cloth, gilt titling and design to front board and spine. Binding badly shaken; overall a fair copy.

London: Royal Academy of Arts, in association with Yale University Press, 1999. First edition (hardback). 4to (28cm by 22cm), 167pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and b&w. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0300079974

Oxford University Press, 2022. First edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), ix, 273pp. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 9780192865892

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. First edition. 8vo, 245pp. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Spine a little wrinkled, light spotting of fore-edge, else a very good copy in a near-VG dustwrapper (rubbed at front and rear). A book about the City (ie the financial district) of London. Publisher's file copy, with the number 5008 inscribed in crayon on the flyleaf and the spine of the dustwrapper.

Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens (in association withe The University of Chicago Press), 2013. First edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 17cm), 320pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 9781842465011