Search Results: Authors starting with V from Wadard Books PBFA

London: Collins, 2011 500pp+2. Illustrated in colour and black and white.

London: Privately Published By Newman Neame Ltd, 1962 A centenary history, well produced with classic typography set with wide borders and two colour illustrated chapter heads. 171pp with black and white plates. Dustjacket now in a protective sleeve.

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1989 The Imperial Japanese Army thrust a railway over 400 kilometres through one of the most rugged and pestilence ridden areas of the world in just twelve months. The cost in dead, 13,000 Allied prisoners and 70,000 Asian conscripts. 114pp illustrated in black and white. Small stain to the bottom corner of the penultimate pages.

London: The Light Railway Transport League, 1955 Dover was well ahead of its neighbours when, totally eclipsing the horse omnibus, the first electric tramcar was driven by the Mayor, Alderman Henry Minter Baker, from Buckland to the Pier on the 6th September 1897. 88pp well illustrated in black and white. Cloth covers unevenly sunned.

Grand Rapids, Michigan: Reformation Heritage Books, 2010 A Reformed understanding of baptism together with a history of the doctrine of baptism. 454pp.

London: Collins, 1977 223pp. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Small stain to front end paper otherwise very good throughout.

Amsterdam: Strengholt, 1971 200pp with numerous black and white plates. Dutch text.

London: Holland Press Cartographica 2, 1980 The second volume in the Holland Press Cartographica series. Several of the articles are contributed by Ronald Tooley's friends: Coolie Verner with his Yorktown campaign and Smith's Virginia; Tony Campbell's revised article on the Jansson-Visscher Maps of New England; Stevens and Tree's Comparative Geography; and Skelton's Marine Surveys of James Cook in North America, 1758-1768. xi, 519pp illustrated in black and white throughout. Ex libris plate to front pastedown.

Contoocook.NH: Dragonwyck Publishing, 1986 176pp of absolute nostalgia. Black and white photgraphs throughout.

London: Robert Hale, 1958 The trip which is the theme of this book took the author over thousands of miles of the Indian sub-continent, from the jungles of Mysore to those of Madras, Travencore-Cochin, Gir, Assam and Central India. The objective was to see wild creatures in their habitat and study their behaviour towards each other and to man. 187pp with black and white plates.

London: Frederick Warne Undated, circa mid 1880s. 184pp+2 well illustrated with wood engravings. Sewing a little slack otherwise very good..

London: Folio, 2009 Essays selexted and introduced by Rosalind Vallance. 239pp illustrated in black and white.

Portsmouth, Hants: Milestone Publications, 1985 The first definitive biography of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, which includes an illustrated, priced catalogue of the collectables associated with his immortal character 'Old Bill'. 255pp illustrated throughout in black and white.

Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2002 The loosely furnishing related designs of Richard Hutten who describes himself as a civilized anarchist. Experimental and interesting, well photographed in colour throughout and with English text.

Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo, 1990 Maps tell their own fascinating and many sided story about the conquest of a land and the growth of a nation. As well as enjoying the sheer artistry and intelligence of the 78 maps and prints, one can also appreciate the historical insight they offer. 144pp lavishly illustrated in colour.

Richmond, Surrey: Trotman, 2003 How to have more time, more money and less stress. 124pp.

London: Michael Joseph, 1943 The death rattle of a disintegrating world is answered by the first shrill cry of the new era to which the world is moving. The author fervently believes that a new and better world is rising from the ashes of the world of yesterday. 316pp.

London: Bailey Bros & Swinfen Ltd, 1945 Novy Kapesni Slovnik, Anglicko-Cesky - Cesko-Anglicky.

London: Collins, 1939 Escape is a story of suspense inside Nazi Germany - a story of Germans who gambled their own lives against hopeless odds in an astounding plot to save from execution a woman they hardly knew. 381pp. The dustjacket notes ask Who is Ethel Vance? Who is it, able to write so well, that feels it necessary to keep his (or her) identity from the Nazis? The author was in fact Grace Zaring Stone (1891-1991) an American novelist who used the pseudonym to avoid jeopardising her daughter who was living in occupied Europe during the Second World War.

Barnsley, S.Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2014 The author was an adventurer who served in the cavalry and newly formed tank corps before becoming a POW. As a result this Great War memoir has exceptional scope and interest. xii, 194pp. with good black and white plates.