Search Results: Authors starting with V from Tapsell's Books and Music

London: Jarrolds, 1954. 303 pages. Translated from the French by Edward Fitzgerald. Frontispiece and many other b/w photos. Original maroon cloth with gilt titling on the spine. The dustwrapper lower panel has a large piece out of it. *Scarce account of the author's adventures mostly in France in World War Two.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair.

Leigh-On-Sea: F. Lewis, 1966. Quarto. 16 pages plus 60 b/w photos (not paginated). Slight tape marks on endpapers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1928. 191 pages. Original yellow cloth with titling on spine and upper board. Spine slightly sunned. No dustwrapper. Head of spine very slightly rubbed.. 1st U.K. edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Michael Joseph, 1983. 304 pages. Maps on endpapers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

London: Methuen, 1968. 276 pages. Many b/w text illustrations and tipped-in colour plates. Appendix, bibliography and index. Original green cloth with gilt titling on spine and upper board. Fine in like pictorial slipcase. *No. 27 in the Art of the World series.. 1st U.K. Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

London: The Ace Publishing Company 248 pages Not dated (about 1936). Illustrated by Stanley Orton Bradshaw. Colour frontispiece and three other coloured plates. B/w text illusts and four b/w plates. Pictorial boards. Black titling on cloth spine. Water staining to boards, which are rubbed at extremities. Inscription on fly leaf dated 1940. Rare. *Includes four stories by W.E. Johns.. Hard Cover. Good.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1956. xii. 209 pages. B/w frontispiece and many other b/w photos. Slight foxing on endpapers and fore-edge. Inscribed to Harry Magney, a police superintendent in Sydney. Signed and dated by the author and C.J. Chuck. Scarce with these signatures. *"Engaged in the suppression of vice, illegal gambling, drug-running and sly-grog selling, he (Chuck) became a bogeyman to the racketeers and addicts because of methods of detection peculiarly his own" (from the foreword by the then NSW Attorney-General, W.F. Sheahan).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London: Methuen, 1970. 203 pages. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. One map and many b/w text illustrations. Appendix, bibliography and index. *No. 28 in the Art of the World series.. 1st U.K. edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.