Search Results: Fiction from David Ford Books

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1939 First English edition, translated from French by W.B. Wells. Hardcover book . Red cloth, black titles, and pictorial dustjacket by Lowen. 260pp. Stories of bullfighting in Spain set before 1936, when the author lived there. Very Good in a Very Good jacket. Book is clean with bright covers, but has light foxing to pages, heavier to closed edges. Jacket has a couple of small marks and some light rubbing to spine. . Pictures available.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1971 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and pictorial dustjacket by John Sergeant. 377pp. Very Good in Very Good jacket, now in clear sleeve. Light brown foxing to endpapers, which has also affected the jacket flaps . Small loss to top jacket edges. Pictures available.

London, Cassell and Company, 1927 Hardcover Book, 3/6 edition , dedicated by Radclyffe Hall to title page. 'To a great healer from the Grateful author of this book March 1st 1927. No signature. Enclosed is a Black and white photograph of Radclyffe Hall. A Very Good copy in green cloth with lightly bumped corners. No dustjacket. Pictures available.

London, Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1962 Hardcover book , first edition thus. in dustjacket. A Collection of twelve short stories from the author. Fine book in a near Fine dustjacket with very light handling marks to rear of jacket. Pictures available.

London: The Scolartis Press, 1929. First edition Edited and with an Introduction by J Paul de Castro. HB, 1st ed, 409pp. Blue cloth, gilt to spine. Minor bumping to ends, small typed label to front pastedown. A VG+ copy.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1895 First edition thus, limited to '500 copies for England and America.' HB. Grey paper-covered boards lettered in black with engravings around title; leather spine with gilt titles. 506pp, large quarto. With tissue-guarded coloured lithographic frontispiece by Cruikshank, and 25 coloured lithographs in plates, also tissue-guarded. With publisher's preface to this edition, and Dickens' earlier preface. A beautiful production in Very Good condition : covers bright, some light handling marks and light foxing, paper over edges rubbed in places. Binding sound. Pages clean and bright, with light browning to prelims and closed edges. Armorial bookplate inside front cover.

London: W. H. Allen, 1970 First UK edition. Hardcover book. Brown cloth with gilt titles, and pictorial dustjacket by Barbara Walton. 383pp. Novel set in the Bahamas. Fine in Very Good jacket, now in clear sleeve. Jacket has light colour fade to spine and light browning to inside edges, small abrasions to corners, spot to spine. Pictures available

London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1983 Illustrated by J. S. Goodall. Hardcover book, first editon, Signed Dora Saint ( Miss Read) 256pp, with b/w line drawings throughout. A lovely copy . No inscriptions and not price clipped Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Tiny bit of edge foxing. Pictures available.

London: Chatto & Windus 1936 Humourous tales, comic verses and many curious drawings. HB, 1st ED, xi, 316pp. Slight creasing to spine ends, tiny signature of previous owner to fep. One or two odd spots to margins. Dust jacket has light rubbing to edges, with minor loss to spine head and tiny chips to corners. Volume very slightly stepped. A Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1975 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket, 223 pages. Novel by Rumer Godden's elder sister set in Kashmir and Pakistan. A Fine copy in a Fine un-clipped dustjacket, No inscriptions , nice copy. Pictures available.

London: Max Reinhardt, 1967 First UK edition. Hardcover book . Black cloth, silver title, and pictorial dust jacket by Jim Russell. 252pp. With nice line drawings by Jim Russell. Brief introduction by Hitchcock, and stories by eleven authors, including Eric Ambler, Conan Doyle, Michael Gilbert and Somerset Maugham. Very Good in Very Good protected jacket. One page has large production crease with associated small tear. Jacket has light wear to edges, and some colour fade to spine. Pictures available.

London: Faber and Faber, 1959 First English edition, translated from French by R.E. Montgomery. HB. Red cloth with gilt titles, and pictorial dustjacket. 205pp. Novel set in South America. From the library of the late great Sid James, comedy actor, and collector of modern fiction. Other titles from his collection listed. Fine in Fine jacket, now protected in clear sleeve. Clean covers and pages, minor spot to top closed edges. Jacket clean and bright, very light rubbing to edges with two small closed tears, slight browning to white lettering on spine.

Devon: The R.S. Surtees Society 1989 Originally published in 1846 by rudolph Ackermann. HB, vi, 326pp with numerous illustrations by H Alken Bound in red with gilt to front and spine, gilt slipcase. Slipcase has some very light rubbing to base and top edges. A Fine copy in VG+ slipcase.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952 First reprint of 1951 first Penguin edition. Paperback book orange and white card wrappers lettered in black and orange, with photo and biography of Orwell to back. 120pp plus publisher's catalogue at back. A Very Good copy, well bound with crisp wrappers which have light browning to spine and margins; owner's initials and date (1954) to half-title; the usual tanning to page margins and edges, and a few light pencil marginal notes.

London: Allen Lane 1973 A powerful tragi-comedy covering the years from 1940-1970. Hardcover book , reprint, inscribed and signed by the author to title page. 211pp. Slight bumping to spine base. Dust jacket has some light edgewear. A Very Good copy in Very Good dust jackeet. . Pictures available.

London, Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928 Number five in the Woburn Books Series. Hardcover book in dustjacket. . A Signed limited edition of 530 numbered copies. This is number 145. Set in hand in Imperial Shadow and printed by Robert Maclehose & Co Ltd at the University Press Glasgow. A lovely copy . No inscriptions and not price clipped. Slight tanning to jacket spine. . Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Pictures available.

London: Eyre Methuen, 1972 First UK edition. Hardcover book. Brown cloth with gilt title and red bison motif to spine, and dustjacket illustrated with old photo of town in the American west. 278pp. Map of America with native American territories to endpapers. Novel about the development of the American west. Very Good book in Very Good jacket. Clean bright covers; clean pages with browning to top third of a group of 12 or so, from old page marker. Jacket has light wear to edges and some light fade to spine. Pictures available.

London:The R S Surtees Society, 1983 1st thus or The Richest Commoner in England. Numerous illustrations in black & white and colour by John Leech. Introduction by Rebecca West, 412pp. Mint condition, bound in red with gilt. Gold slipcase in Fine condition .

London, Grayson & Grayson, 1935 Hardcover book with dustjacket No 2 in the Grayson books series of Signed Limited first editions. Signed by L.A. Pavey. Number 95/285 . A near Fine copy in a near Fine dustjacket. Pictures available.

Eire: Cló Dolmen Áth Cliath, 1964 New edition, of work first published in 1941. Entirely in Irish language. Hardcover book . Red paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt, and pictorial dustjacket by Sean O'Sullivan. 111pp. With sketch maps to endpapers. Myles na gCopaleen was the pen-name in the Irish Times, of Brian O'Nolan, who also wrote as Flann O'Brien. A near Fine copy of a nicely produced little book; clean pages and jacket, light spotting to top closed page edges and some offset browning from jacket to endpapers; owner's small name stamp to flyleaf margin; jacket price-clipped. Pictures available.