Search Results: Authors starting with B from Island Books

Richard Netherwood, [Huddersfield,, 1990]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th Service [Pals] Battalions served in France with 92nd Brigade, 31st Division. Sutcliffe, p.106.

Macmillan,, 1916. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) and several maps (one double-page and several full-page) in the text; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, backstrip lettering dulled (but wholly legible), a very good, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down and 2pp series catalogue bound in at end

Macmillan,, 1926. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and folding map on japon, tiny signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, blue top, upper hinge tender (but binding wholly sound), boards lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 6pp series catalogue at end.

Patrick Stephens, Cambridge,, [1984]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip.

Patrick Stephens, Wellingborough,, [1984]. 8vo., Fourth Impression, with illustrated title, very numerous illustrations and maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. First published in 1981.

Harborough Publishing, Leicester,, [1946]. 8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a good, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE UTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1922. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, small neat personal name-stamp to front free endpapers; original blue cloth, gilt backs, uncut and partially unopened, a very good, bright, clean set. The set comprises Vol. I: To AD 313; Vol. II: AD 313-408; Vol. III: AD 408-461.

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, 1989. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 9 full-page facsimiles in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. Published in series 'The Soho Bibliographies'.

Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA,, 1940. 8vo., First Edition, with 22 photographs (a number full-page) as plates and in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original blue buckram, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy. With the trade ticket of Parker of Oxford on front paste-down. Scarce.

Leo Cooper,, [1972]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; original series binding of grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Cooper's concise 'Famous Regiments' series, edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. Sutcliffe, p.319.

Kenneth Mason, [Havant],, [1977]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The story of the training of RN navigators from 1900 to 1977, with substantial coverage of WWII. Law 0911.

Batsford,, [1964]. 8vo., First Edition, with 39 plates on 16 and 8 maps (one double-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright copy in price-clipped, mildly browned dustwrapper. Published in Batsford's sought-after 'British Battles' series, this comprehensive and lucid overview is the first coverage of the subject by an authority who has since made it a special area of study. Enser, p.119; Law 0513.

Transport Bookman Publications, [Chiswick,, 1972]. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and facsimiles throughout; original red cloth, gilt back, backstrip mildly scuffed, case shaken (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean copy. A standard reference

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, 1964. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the series Oxford English Monographs. Gilson, M1152.

Robert Hale,, [1987]. 8vo., First UK Edition, with numerous plates; cloth, a very good, bright,clean copy in dustwrapper. The author's investigation into how Goering managed to take his own life just hours before his scheduled execution

Phillimore, [Chichester,, 1976]. 8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates on 16; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Bennett (Supp.), p.204

[Windmill Publications, Thaxted],, [1979]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Blythman 292.

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1953. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-browned at backstrip. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, and small neat stamp on dustwrapper and title verso. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION

David & Charles, Newton Abbot,, [1979]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Odhams, [1944]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps throughout, and pictorial endpapers, blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.