Search Results: Authors starting with V from Antique Bookshop

N.Y. Gallery Books., 1988.. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 318pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Light staining to head and tail of dustjacket else a very good copy. 1st English language edition. Scarce.

Melb. OUP., 1992.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 430pp. b/w ills. Name covered with liquid paper on ffe else a very good copy. 1st ed. Unrivalled in scope & detail.

Lond. Reaktion Books Ltd., 2021.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 454pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Games People Play is the first global history of sport. Wray Vamplew examines how sports have developed across the world, & how economics & politics have turned sport into a huge consumer industry.

N.Y. Guggenheim Publications., 2000.. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 212pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine. Softcover edition.

Lond. Nelson., 1959.. (2nd imp) Folio. Or.cl. 216pp. Profusely illustrated with colour maps and many black & white illustrations. Very good copy.

Boston. Houghton Mifflin., 1976.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 182pp. A very good ex-library copy with the bookplate, stamped "discarded", of the American Library in Paris. Also stamped on the bookplate "Donation from the personal library of Marlene Dietrich." The dj covered with stick-down plastic. The Australian writer John Baxter, has spoken of the disposals from this famous Paris library.

Lond. Ian Allan Ltd., 1977.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 160pp. With many b/w ills. (some foxing) Dustjacket worn at edges. Good copy. 1st ed. Matched in the early stages of WWII only by the Spitfire, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was undoubtedly one of the greatest combat aircraft of all time.

N.Y. Harper & Brothers Publishers., 1937.. Or.cl. 367pp. uncut. Frontispiece map & b/w photographic plates. Two postage stamp-size stamps on front pastedown else a very good copy. 1st ed. Travels in the Pacific.

Richmond,VIC. Hardie Gratn Books., 2021.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 373pp. col plates. Fine. 1st ed. Jacinda Ardern was swept into office in 2017 on a wave of popular aduation dubbed 'Jacindamania'. Her victory seemed heroic as she rose from deputy leader of the opposition to become Prime Minister.

Surrey. Ian Allan Publishing., 1995.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 111pp. Date on title page. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. A look at the evolution of signalling & the signal box on steam railway lines in the British isles between the 1830s & the 1860s. Originally mechanical signals were operated before electronic signalling

N.Y. Pointed Leaf Press., 2006.. Folio. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 216pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Dorothy Draper created & designed the definitive style of Hollywood Regency, a synthesis of rococo scrollwork, & baroque plasterwork that was deliberately anti-minimalist. She was much in demand.

Lond. The Folio Society., 1972.. (rep) Or.cl. 112pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. In the slip-case. High Renaissance artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born in the Republic of Florence & was an archetypal Renaissance man. He is one of the best documented artists of the 16th century

Lond. Printed for Hunt & Clarke., 1827.. Nicely rebound in full morocco gilt. xxvi,288pp. uncut. Lacking the half-title. Lower part of title page appears to have been made up from another copy. Scarce. F.1158.

N.Y. Viking Studio., 2008.. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 224pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Using security scanners & x-ray machines, photographer Nick Veasey creates stunning inside-out images that reveal the inner workings & intricacies of everyday objects, animals & plants.

Syd. New Holland., 2011.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 304pp. col & b/w plates. Sl. foxing on foredge else a very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by Maria Venuti. Foreword by Bert Newton.

Lond. George Routledge., 1877.. Or. gilt & blind-stamped cloth. iv,284pp. a.e.g. Numerous b/w plates. Cloth binding unevenly faded else a good copy. Scarce.

University of Sydney., 1983.. Foolscap folio. Cloth-backed wrappers. 290pp. + Index & 22 plates. Front wrapper sl.foxed else a very good copy. 1st ed.

Oxford University Press., 2002.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. xviii,558pp. Name on ffe else a Fine copy. 1st ed. An important study.

Lond. Heinemann., 1976.. Or.bds. Dustjacket (price-clipped) 340pp. Sl. foxing on foredge & names of ffe and title, else a very good copy. 1st Eng. ed.

Adelaide. Lutheran Publishing House, 1992.. Col.ill.bds. 137pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed.