Search Results: Authors starting with V from Trumpington Fine Books Limited

London: Ward, Lock & Co Limited, 1939. 1st Edition. Cream Boards. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Large. Colyer, S. W. Contains 33 b/w photographic plates with supportive text. Light bumps to the head and tail of the spine. Faint pencil name and address inscription to the head of the front end paper. Slightest of bowing of the boards. Fresh and clean. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Light sunning to the spine and to the adjacent edge of the rear of the wrapper and to the head of the rear of the wrapper. Light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine of the wrapper, with a slight nik to the head of the wrapper. well preserved. A very good copy.

Are Pr, 1996-10-01. Paperback. Very Good. 167pp. (white spine) 8vo. 1996. Third edition. A good, tight copy. No reading crease to the spine. A number of ink line marks to the margins of some pages - no underlining. But for the line marks, a lovely, fresh, clean, tight copy.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 1st Edition. Black Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. No Illustrations. 227pp. A super copy of this first edition (1999) in wrapper. 8vo. Bound in black cloth with gilt embossed lettering to the spine. There is the slightest of bumps to the tail of the rear board. Fresh, clean and tight. Dust wrapper is not price clipped and there is slight creasing to the head of the rear panel of the wrapper. Light shelf wear. A fine copy in a very good wrapper.

Amsterdam: Peter Noldus, 2000. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Large. N/a. Type: Z 264pp. 2000. First edition. Text in English, Dutch and Russian too. A very good, clean, tight fresh copy. No inscriptions. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions in colour of the artists' work. A single light reading crease to the spine. Some light or slight rubbing to the head of the spine. A very good, clean, tight copy.

London: Collins, 1973. Third Edition. Brown Cloth. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 12mo. Barruel, Paul. 221pp. Fresh & tight. The head of the spine has been lightly bumped - with associated creasing to the wrapper. O/w a super book. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped. The wrapper has faded slightly at the spine. Bright & clean. A lovely copy.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1975. 1st Edition. Green Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 166pp. First ediiton of this book. Gilt embossed lettering to the spine. Slight fading to the upper edge of the boards, hidden under the wrapperInk inscription to the front end paper, hidden under a piece of paper pasted onto the front end paper with the word 'Mother' in pencil written on it. Slightest of foxing to the end papers, half title page and fore edges. Clean and tight. Dust wrapper price clipped. Slight shelf wear to the edges of the wrapper. A very good copy.

Australia: Centre for south-East Asian Studies , 1994. 1st Edition. Card Covers. Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. 87pp. From the University of Hull Centre for South-East Asian Studies. Occasional Paper No 25. Illustrated with several charts and graphs. Light shelf wear to the edges of the card covers with sligth creasing to the lower corner of the rear card cover. internally clean and fresh. A very good copy.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923. Second Edition. Red Cloth. Very Good/Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾. N/a. 74pp. 1923. Second edition. 12mo. A very good clean, tight copy in good plus jacket. Original publisher's red cloth - gilt embossed to the spine and to the front board with a paper colour onlay of the wise men of Christmas to the front board. A very neat blue ink Christmas gift inscription, Xmas 1925 'To Bella' to the front endpaper. Otherwise a near fine or fine copy. The jacket has not been price-clipped. It has a small chip to the middle of the rear panel - virtually no loss of text, some peripheral rubbing with several small or tiny chips to the peripheries and a little spotting (or small circular stains) and dust soiling. Several short tears to the margins of the jacket have been expertly repaired. A very good, clean, tight copy of a charming children's Christmas book.

Amsterdam: G. A. Van Oorschot, 1970. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/N/a. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. N/a. A very scarce copy with a rhyme put to music with all text and muscial notes in facsimile. No date - c 1970. Comes in a black folder with title on a paper onlay to the front of the folder. A very scarce copy. There is a small circular white soil mark to the inside flap of the folder and one corner has been turned, leaving a neat crease. Some light rubbing to the periphyer of the folder. A very good copy.

London: The Folio Society, 1972. 1st Edition. Quarter Cloth & Paper Covered. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. Greaves, D.H. n/a. n/a Type: n/a 372pp. A super copy. Gilt embossed lettering to the spine and illustrated with several gravure plates by D. H. Greaves. Quarter bound in red cloth with deocrative paper covered boards. There is a light bump tot he head of the spine, which has light fading. Fresh and clean. Comes in slipcase which has a little shelf wear and a couple of slight soil marks. A very good copy.

Pineapple Press, 1995-07-01. Paperback. Like New. 132pp. 1995. First edition. 8vo. A Near fine copy in lovely fresh, tight, clean condition. No inscriptions. No reading crease to the spine. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions and a small colour plate section. A small square white sticker inside the rear card cover. A super copy.

Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, 2001. First Edition. Green Boards. Fine/Fine. 4to. Illustrated. ISigned by Author. Signed by Author Type: Presentation Copy 130pp. A signed presentation copy, signed by Edwina Vardey to the front end paper. A fresh, tight first edition. In excellent condition. Minimal signs of shelf wear of any kind. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped. A few tiny spoil specks to the reverse of the wrapper - barely noticeable. A superb copy.

BRILLIANT CLASSICS - CDs. Like New. 4 cds in 2 cd boxes - the whole housed in a card slipcase. All in lovely fresh, clean, tight bright condition.

Ambleside: Beatrix Potter Society, 2022. Reprint. Card Covers. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾. N/a. 119pp. (orange spine) 8vo. sized. 2022 reprint. A lovely, fresh, clean, tight near fine copy. No inscriptions. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions in colour. The slightest of shelf wear to the card covers. A well preserved, fresh, clean, tight near fine copy.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1917. First Edition. Orange Cloth. Good Plus/Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Bosschere, Jean De. 144pp. 1917. William Heinemann. First Edition. Twelve tissue guarded colour plates as called for after Jean De Bosschere including the frontispiece. Blind stamped front board and spine. Numerous other illustrations in black and white and two colours. A scarce wrapper albeit incomplete and tired. Some probably insect damage that appears as light rubbing to head and tail of front board and similarly to rear board with a little soiling. Head and tail of spine and several corners a little bumped (two corners bumped). Several page corners have been turned including the plate entittled 'the enchanted apple-tree. This same plate has several blunt scratch/indentation marks in it. No real loss of image. The odd scattered soil mark. The odd small or tiny chip to the margins of one or two tissue-guards. The wrapper is in fair condition. It is chipped… Read More

Edinburgh: The Scottish National Dictionary Association Limited, 1972. First Edition. Paper Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. N/a. Folio sized. 1972. First edition. 2 parts in original paper wraps. Volume IX. Part 1. (Stang-Sun) and Part 2. Sun-Teth. Not ex-library. Some uncut pages. No inscriptions. Clean and tight. Significant tears to the margins of the paper wraps of Part I, small tears to the margins of the paper wraps of Part II and a circular stain mark to the front panel of Part II. 2 parts of one of the scarcer 'later volumes' forming a half a volume

London: The Egypt Exploration Society, 2007. First Edition. Card Covers. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Large. N/a. Type: Z 310pp plus viii colour plates at the rear. A lovely, fresh, clean, tight well preserved near fine copy. No inscriptions. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions and line drawings. A lovely, clean, tight well preserved copy.

London: William Mackenzie, 1860. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. N/a. 1280pp. No date. Circa 1860. Small Folio sized. The shorter title to the Half-title page: 'The Holy Bible, with notes and observations by The Rev. John Brown'. Bound in contemporaneous full black leather - gilt embossed to the spine and to the front board. Numerous engravings (a number after the marvellous John Martin) in b/w and some maps. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. A former owner's blue ink name inscription to the upper corner of the rear endpaper. Some shelf wear and some rubbing - typically to the board corners, but other rub marks/scratches to the rear board. Damp staining with a light tide mark to at least one plate, but nevertheless very clean pages/textblock. A chip to the leather at the tail of the spine measuring 2cm x 1.2cm A very good, clean, tight copy of this family Bible.

Great Bookham, Surrey: Profile Publications Ltd, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - Large (over 7¾" - 9¾"). N/a. The original 24 issues in their original scarce black folder. They can all be removed from their metal guards - NOT the later published book. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions in b/w and a number of colour plates. All in very good condition but some marking and some rust marking too from the metal guards, which hold the issues in place. A very good well preserved set.

London: The Royal College of Science Chemical Society, 1923. 1st Edition. Blue Cloth. Very Good/N/a. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No Illustrations. 45pp. A first edition copy bound in fresh blue cloth binding. There is light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine. Several graphs and diagrams support the text. Internally also very fresh,clean and tight. A very good copy.