David Ford Books PBFA

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Supplement to the book, Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Honours and Awards, published eight years before: including new awards and new material based on further research. Paperback: white card wrappers, stapled, lettered in maroon, with regimental emblem of deer printed in maroon to front. 22pp, quarto. With fold-out centrespread of b&w photos of soldiers of the regiment in uniform. Very Good copy. Light marks to front wrapper. Clean pages but some small losses and tags to fore-edge of a couple of pages. Note: 1972 Roll of Honour for the same regiment is also listed by this seller.

Condition: Good. First edition. Hardcover book . Green cloth, title printed in black on paper label to spine, no dustjacket. 127pp. History and severe economic problems of the Lancashire cotton industry since 1914, an analysis and plea for change. Good copy. Clean covers, pages have some spotting to ends and closed edges, binding holding though loosening in centre. Name neatly to flyleaf. Pictures available.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Paperback: laminated pictorial card wrappers. Unpaginated. Landscape format. With watercolour illustrations throughout by Eleanor Irving, great niece of the author + b/w photos. In 1875 Chequers was a large private house in the Chilterns A Very Good copy.

Condition: Very Good. Reprint. (first published in 1950). Hardcover book Cloth, gilt titles, and dustjacket. 201pp. With 18 text figures. Mathematical appendix. Acceleration principle of why trade variations are cyclical in charcter. Very Good book in Good protected jacket. Foxing spots to edges and to endpapers. Jacket has some handling marks, large loss to front corner, smaller edge losses. Pictures available.

Condition: Very good. Softcover book 118 pages. Well illustrated book on the incredible miniature locomotives built by David Curwen's company A Very good copy with light creasing to back corner. Pictures available.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small, slim HB. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine and front, with dark blue border lines, no dustjacket. 57pp. Gilt top edge, hand cut fore edges. Nicely produced slim volume of poems, influenced by Classics. Very Good : covers clean, gilt bright, scratch to back, rubbed edges, light fraying to lower spine end; pages clean with light foxing spots to ends and front edge; browning to title from press cutting enclosed; name and date to flyleaf.

Condition: Very Good. Soft cover book , 18x22.5cms, 32pp plus 8pp of photographic illustrations and route map. Pictorial covers, some light marks to edges, faint fingermarks to rear. Internally clean. A Very Good copy. Pictures available.

Condition: good. Ty Cwrdd Annibynwyr. Blaenau Bro Nan-Hyfer. Welsh language throughout apart from quotes from an English language title. HB. 80pp. 24 B&W plates and two diagrams. Discoloration to edges of covers. Foxing to top edge of pages. Spine sunned. A good+ copy.

Fine. First edition. Paperback: colour pictorial card wrappersreproducing painting by Cotman. 176pp, quarto. Well illustrated throughout with 10 colour photos and illustrations, and many in b&w, in the text. Fine copy. Photos available.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Paperback: pink and black card wrappers, stapled. 68pp. Forty-five articles on Norfolk local history and life, some of which had appeared in the local press. Including: Lynn's Merchant Princes; Victorian Rail Crash; Tombland Fair; Stody Pit; Rare Roses; May-time in'40. Title relates to the Ames family of Lakenham. Very Good.

Condition: Good. First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and colour pictorial wraparound dustjacket from painting by Gordon L Harvey. 164pp, quarto. With b&w photos and illustrations in text throughout. Maps to endpapers. A Good copy in a good only jacket. Book clean without inscription but with darkening to cover edges. Dustwrapper has some edge wear with some nicks and tears to corners. Pictures available.

Fine. First edition. Paperback book : laminated card wrappers. 431pp, h: 23cms. 2 maps. Texts by 29 authors over 200 years, including George Woodcock. A Fine copy. Pictures available.

Fine. First edition. Signed by the author on top margin of first page (signature and date). Paperback book : blue card wrappers, lettered in black, illustrated with 3 photos; stapled, 24pp. Illustrated throughout with 15 b&w photos plus line drawings and small maps. Full history of a Sunderland flying boat built for the RAF in 1943, which was converted to a civil aviation Sandringham IV, and flown by Tasman Empire Airways between Australia and New Zealand. The history of similar aircraft of the fleet are also described. Fine copy. Pictures available.

Fine. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover First Edition with dustjacket. 472 pages. How schools have affected the great and the good? in their lives. a Fine copy without inscriptions in a Very Good dustjacket which has a slight fade to spine.Pages slightly tanned.

Fine. First edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 132pp, quarto. With 148 b&w photos and illustrations in text, maps to endpapers. Detailed text on the port and town of Hythe in Kent. Fine in Fine jacket, now in clear sleeve.

Fine. First edition. Hardcover book . Black cloth with gilt tiles, and colour photo-illustrated dustjacket. 176pp, quarto. With 8 pages of colour photos in plates, and b&w photos in text throughout. Contributors: Gordon Burton, Neville Fickling, Mike Green & Barrie Rickards. Fine in Fine jacket, now in clear removable sleeve. Pictures available.

Fine. First edition. Hardcover book and photo-illustrated dustjacket. 294pp. With 8 pages of b&w photos in plates. Biography of the great cricketer, (captain of England who opened the batting with WG Grace) athlete & footballer, who also ran for Parliament and went to Hollywood . Includes cricket career stats at end. Fine in a Fine jacket Photos available.

Condition: Very Good. Third ('Handy') edition of book first published in 1951. Hardcover book . Yellow cloth, lettered and blocked in black, no dustjacket probably as issued. 138pp. With 16 b&w photos in plates, showing action from races, mostly at Goodwood, many involving the author. Includes chapters on racing in Jersey and Silverstone. Nicely presented little book in Very Good condition, just a few light marks to covers. Pictures available.

Fine. Softcover book with Wrapper. First in Persephone books, Number 90. A Fine unmarked copy.

fine. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Paperback book : laminated white card wrappers, stapled, lettered in black with printed images to front of company logo and RMSP maritime postal mark. 88pp. Cockrill Series Booklet no. 49. With b&w photos and illustrations in text, throughout, including photos of ships and many maritime postal marks. Detailed text on the history of the company, with fleet list. Aimed partly at collectors of maritime postal marks and stamps. Very Good. Some brown spotting to back edge of wrapper, otherwise fine. Pictures available.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 254pp. With 4 figures and 2 maps. Population changes, birth, marriage and death rates, family structure in York during the industrial revolution. Very Good in Very Good protected jacket: clean covers, lightly creased spine ends, a few small marks, marks to back endpapers. Jacket has creased & lightly rubbed edges.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardcover book . Decorative paper covered boards printed with repeat motifs in pale blue, black and brown, and pale blue cloth spine, lettered in gilt. (this design may be by Edward Bawden). 123pp. With 12 illustrations in plates, 7 of them in colour. A Very Good copy. Clean well bound pages with dust darkened top page edges. Covers have browning to margins and light wear to cloth edges. Girl's school prize label, 1946, on front free endpaper, which has been partly removed leaving small tear/hole. The front cover has a gilt school crest and lettering stamped on it- quite nice image and a sense of the book's history. Pictures available.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. HB. Red cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and pictorial dustjacket. xiii, 232pp. With 42 b&w figures in text (mostly graphs). Extensive bibliography. This copy belonged to the ecologist Bryan Sage: his bookplate on front endpaper. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Lightly spotted closed page edges, light browning to endpapers and jacket ; rust marks from staple to back endpapers (stapled review of this book is inserted loosely).

Condition: Good. HB, 2nd Edition, revised. 13x19cms, green cloth covers, 187pp with illustrations. Covers spotted, some rubbing and bumping to spine with abrasions. Light spotting to foredge otherwise internally clean. A Good+ copy.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. HB. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket by Ralph Thompson. 187pp. With 14 full page pen and ink drawings by Ralph Thompson, as well as smaller drawings on section heading pages. Durrell's entertainingly written meetings with various curious creatures on his travels in South America and Africa. Very Good book in Good jacket, now in clear removable sleeve. Bumps and slight fading to cloth edges; no inscriptions; pages clean but browning and spotting to top closed edges, and light browning to endpapers. Jacket front very good, light wear to eges.Photos available.

Fine. First edition. HB. Cloth, and colour pictorial dustjacket, including colour photo of author to back. 199pp. With 12 b&w photos in plates. The author looks back on her eventful life from the age of 93; born in Germany, she was a fashion model in the 1920s in London and Berlin and worked in a Berlin couturier. A Fine copy. Photos available.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 144pp. With b&w photos in plates and line drawings in text by K.E.Carter. Includes cableways, cable cars, ropeways, cable railways, cranes, wire rope and cable construction. Very Good in Very Good protected jacket. Light spotting to endpapers. Jacket has a few marks (mainly to back), light rubbing to edges and spine; price-clipped. Pictures available.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 662 pages With 192 pages of colour photo plates , line drawings in text, plus colour habitat photos in plates, and coloured maps to endpapers. Very Good in Very Good price-clipped. dustjacket. No inscriptions. Pictures available.

Fine. A Limited Edtion of which this is number 271. HB, 1st ED, 21x27cms, endpaper plan, 140pp fully illustrated. Very minor rubbing to board edges. Dust jacket sunned to edges with some sunning to spine. A near Fine copy in VG+ DJ.

Condition: Very good. Soft cover, First edition, 80 pages illustrated by Richard Millington. A Very good copy. Previous owners name to cover.