Search Results: British History from David Ford Books

London: The Socialist Labour League, 1970 First edition. Paperback book : stapled booklet illustrated with b&w photo to front wrapper, which is lettered in red. No other illustrations. 16pp. Author was a Liverpool docker. Very Good. Creases, corner curl and some browning to wrapper; paper tanned inside; has been folded lengthwise leaving a light crease .. Pictures available.

East Lothian, Tuckwell Press, 2000 Hardcover First Edition with Dustjacket. 524 pages. The work of 14 scolars, An in depth study of one of Scotland's most important towns illustrated with many in colour. A new standard work on the the history of Aberdeen. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket, No inscriptions and not price clipped. Pictures available.

Aylsham, Norfolk: Aylsham Local History Society, 2008. First edition in book form. Signed by the author on title page. He was a local vicar and lived all his life in Aylsham. Paperback: pictorial card wrappers. 112pp. With many b&w photos & Illustrations in text. Fine condition.

A Howard & Wyndham Co 1978 The War between Downing Street and the Media from Lloyd George to Callaghan. Written by this well known Political Correspondent of the Sunday Times. Hard cover book, first edition, 199pp, 26 illustrations. Inscribed and signed by the author - 'with the author's best wishes, as ever'. A Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. Pictures available.

London: Printed by J.S. Forsaith for Parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green, 1865 First edition. Hardcover book . Blue cloth, with green leather spine, lettered in gilt to maroon leather title label to front cover .First edition . Bound in with Report on the Health of Bethnal Green by Thomas Sarvis, MD. Pages: 19pp Parish accounts etc, +19pp Health Report. The Parish accounts include the Ninth Annual Report by Vestry (with a list of its members and officers), which has a report on the local roads and sewers , 'scavenging', railway bills, and other local matters. The Report on the Health of Bethnal Green for the year 1864 which follows the Parish report includes tables of causes of death and on two hospitals. Very Good copy, clean well bound pages, the covers having wear to spine edges and some surface marks to back cover. Pages: 19pp Parish accounts etc, +19pp Health Report. The Parish accounts include the Ninth Annual Report by Vestry (with a list of its members and officers), which has a… Read More

London: Cassell and Company, 1909 First edition. Hardcover book . Pictorial cloth printed in yellow and black with skyline image of London to front cover and Big Ben to spine, no dustjacket probably as issued. 415pp, octavo. With frontispiece photogravure portrait of the author, tissue-guarded; no other illustrations. Observations and experiences in London, under a wide variety of subject headings under 'Mainly about' : mist; eating; politics; sport; the river; holidays. Very Good copy. light marks to covers; page edges, endpapers and tissue-guard lightly browned or foxed but otherwise clean with no inscriptions. Pictures available.

Exeter, Imprint Academic, 2005 Hardcover book , First edition in dustjacket. 412 pages with charts tables and maps. Written before Brexit so an interesting examination of what could, should and might happen and now of course did! A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Pictures available.

USA, Kentucky Horse Park, 2003 An exhibition catalogue illustrating the role that the horse played in British history from the Iron Age to present day. Pictorial paperback book 22.5x29.5cms. 255pp. Numerous colour and B&W illustrations throughout. Half title clipped to top corner. A fine copy. Pictures available.

London: Bracken Books, 1989 Reprint, in one volume: originally published in two vols in 1814. Introduction by Doreen Yarwood. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 217p, folio, h: 33cms. Full page colour reproductions of the original 85 engravings. With Smith's text on the costumes and their historical context. Very Good in Fine protected jacket; browning to page edges.

Edinburgh, W & R Chambers Ltd, 1969 Hardcover, First Edition, 193 pages with illustrations ( drawings).The life or what is known of thelife of Angus Og the illegitimate son of the last Lord of the Isles . A Fine copy with the armourial bookplate of the previous owner. in a Very Good price clipped dustjacket with very light rubbing to edges. No inscriptions, Pictures available

Woodbridge, The Boydell Press, 2011 Hardcover book , First Edition , 288 pages with illustrations , maps and plans. No dustjacket- none issued? A collection of essays on the remains of the post-medieval period A Fine copy , no inscriptions. Pictures available.

London: A & C Black, 1963 First edition. Hardcover book . Pictorial cloth boards and pictorial dustjacket. 64pp. Line drawings by Leslie V. Ferminger. Signed by the author on flyleaf. Very Good in Very Good protected jacket. Light browning to endpapers and edges, with thinned areas to back endpaper. Jacket clean with light wear. Pictures available.

Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2002 Paperback: laminated card wrappers with b&w photos to front . 126pp. With b&w photos throughout , with detailed captions, and introduction. . A Fine copy. No inscriptions.

London: Longman, 1971 New edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket . 355pp. Very Good in Good+ protected jacket. Light bumping to covers. Name and address to flyleaf. Jacket has heavily creased flaps, light edgewear and rubbing to edges, price clipped.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015 First edition, first impression. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 341pp. With colour and b/w illustrations in plates. A Fine clean copy. Pictures available.

London: Nichols, Son & Bentley, 1813 Hardcover book , Second edition, with additions by J. Nichols. Full leather, gilt title and spine decorations, gilt tooled edges, marbled page edges and endpapers. 271p + 86p introduction & prelims, h: 22cms. 11 engraved and etched plates, some double page, including maps (one fold-out). Very Good condition: covers largely clean and bright, some light scuffs & abrasions to leather, mostly at spine ends, diffuse spotting, faded section on back. Binding sound, pages mostly clean, some foxing and browning to prelims and front endpapers, occasional light spotting inside. Bookplate of Rev'd William Grice to front pastedown. A Very nice copy. Pictures available.

Berkhamsted: G. Loosley and Sons, 1907 First edition. Paperback book : light grey paper wrappers, lettered in black, stapled. 26pp, octavo. The front wrapper and title page bear the school motto Festina Lente (more haste less speed), with a decorative border. News of the school, speech day and prizes, The St.Albans Pageant, a lecture on Velasquez, Nature Study, a visit to the British Museum, sports, and other contents. Good copy. Pages clean apart from some pencil underlining of names and rusted staples in centre; wrappers are darkened from handling and with some marks; old sellotape strip added to reinforce spine. Other titles on Berkhamsted history available from this seller. . Pictures available.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910 First edition, Volume I only : 1448-1665, published in 1910 Hardcover book . Blue cloth over bevelled boards, with silver titles and college crests,no dustjacket (as issued?). 620pp, Year-by-year biographical entries on members and scholars of the college since its foundation. The work of the former Master of the college, Dr. Peile. A Very Good volume Clean, bright covers with light scuff line to rear board and a couple of small scratches to front board.. Pages generally clean, some light foxing and browning to closed edges and ends. No inscriptions. Clean copy. Pictures available.

Stroud: Spellmount (The History Press), 2011 First edition. HB. Cloth, and colour pictorial dustjacket. 287pp. Well illustrated with 32 pages of b&w illustrations, photos and maps, in plates. The little known invasion and occupation of London and part of England by the French in the reign of King John, and their eventual defeat: part of the ongoing struggles beyween feudal lords and the crown, and the English and French in this period. Fine copy. Photos available.

Chesham: Barracuda Books, 1977 First edition. HB. Blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine and front, with gilt publisher's motif to front, and colour pictorial dustjacket reproducing 1849 print of Chesterfield. 148pp. Tall quarto. With 200 b&w photos and illustrations in plates and text, including maps to endpapers. Some photos show the same street view in earlier times and the 1970s. Detailed history of Chesterfield. Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Gift inscription on verso of flyleaf. . Jacket has very light creasing to edges. Photos available.