Search Results: Authors starting with W from Sue Lloyd-Davies Books

BLACKIE & SON 1896 1ST (UK) EDIT H/B. Hardcover. GOOD SOME CREASES MARKS & STAINS PAGE EDGES GRUBBY PIECE MISSING FROM 1ST TITLE PAGE BOXFBC; 8993 .

London: KOGAN PAGE. 1989. Paperback. 1850916470 . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library Usual Stamps Marks.; 48899 .

FABER AND FABER. Hardcover. First Edition 1948. Tall 8vo. Mauve cloth, gold lettering. 100 pps of illustrations, 4 in full colour. Very Good in torn/scraped Dustwrapper, which is protected by the usual plastic. Lacks ffep, but Overall very nice copy.; 7188 .

SCOTT WEBSTER & GEARY 1837 4TH EDIT H/B. 1837. Hardcover. V GOOD HAND-COL'D FRONTIS & B/W PLATES ORIG. CLOTH EXLIB LABEL NO STAMPS FOXING FBN; 9268 .

London: Chapman and Hall Ltd. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. Second Edition. Hardcover. Blind stamps on front board, stained/scraped. Corners and head/tail of spine bumped. Gilt titling to spine, faded spine. Presentation book plate on front pastedown. Slight foxing. 419 pp. Black and white diagrams. INTERNALLY TIGHT AND BRIGHT.; 001011; 8vo .

Rochester, New York, USA.: The Women's Club of the University of Rochester,. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Paperback. In the original publisher's glossy pictorial card covers. VERY Slight edgewear - negligible. Spiral bound - Very Clean and Tight. NO Inscriptions or Marks. (x) + 215pp. Illustrated and decorated, and with decorative lettering throughout, in b/w by John Menihan. Recipes contributed by the Women's Club of the University of Rochester, NY. An Excellent Very Clean, Tight and Bright copy. Looks unused. An amazing selection of personal receipes covering a huge spectrum of the culinary canon, and considering it was post-war the ingredients required show that the USA cookbooks of this period were not restricted by the rationing of the UK and elsewhere! . Recipes include 'Peruvian Tallerinis'; 'Lemon Cake-Custard'; 'Steamed Chocolate Pudding with Sherry Sauce'; 'Kraft Crab Delight'; 'Roast Wild Duck with Wild Rice… Read More

New York: Windmill books/simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. First US Edition. Hardcover. 0671665200 . Colour illustrated dustwrap, internal repairs, slight loss to tail of spine, in protective plastic cover. Clean blue boards, darker blue titling to front cover and to spine, 2 small indentations to spine (pinholes?) Corners and head/tail of spine slightly bumped. NO INSCRIPTIONS. Colour illustrated title page, profusely illustrated with full colour full page illustrations. CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT.; 004556; Folio .

Tadworth, Surrey: World's Work Ltd. As New with no dust jacket. 1979. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. 0437841820 . In the original publisher's glossy coloured pictorial laminated boards. No dustjacket as issued. No Inscriptions or Marks. Unpaginated. (c. 32 pp). Illustrated throughout with charming b/w pen and ink drawings by Erik Blegvad. 1st UK Edition. A delightful Valentine's tale - " Pleasant Fieldmouse plans a Valentine's trick in order to cheer up all his forest friends and enemies into sharing a time of goodwill and friendship by sending Valentines ......." An Excellent Very Clean, Tight and Bright 'As New' copy. Would make a lovely Gift. ISBN: 0437841820.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: John Murray. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0719542847 . 186pp. A richly flavoured and delightful book in which the author makes pen portraits of people no longer living who left a deep impression on him at different periods of his life. They include a black American jazz trumpeter living in Paris; a German farmer working a Welsh mountain smallholding: a young actor later to become a world megastar; a theatrical landlady in Stratford-upon- Avon; A brilliant Oxford Don etc. These inevitably had an influence on the works of the Author through 3 decades of writing. Pictorial dustwrap NOT PRICE CLIPPED, no marks. Clean blue boards with bright gilt titling to spine. NO INSCRIPTIONS. CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT.; 105210; 8vo .

Wales: The Cambrian Archaeological Association. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Paperback. First Edition, with 10 black & white plates and 49 figures, sm.4to. (pp. 213) , softback, publisher's original pale blue card covers printed in black. A very good copy overall, covers have a few light marks, but binding sound, contents clean, and NO inscriptions or markings. The 10 black and white plates are at the end of book. Numerous black and white illustrations/diagrams, etc, and a fold-out plate. Internally very clean tight and bright. On an Iron Age fort located on a hill near the village of Laugharne in South-West Wales, and occupied later in the Roman period which has yielded Dark Age pottery. See Images; Small 4to 9" - 10" tall .

London: Longmans, Green and Co Ltd. Good with no dust jacket. 1927. Hardcover. (1st) Green boards, spine faded blending to boards slightly, corners and head/tail of spine bumped, gilt titling to spine, offsetting, foxing spots, tissue guarded black/white frontis. 491pp. Black/white illus. Foxing to page edges. Overall internally CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT. Hinges sound.; 105620; 8vo .

London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1936. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. In greeny cloth-covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. No dust jacket. The cloth is very 'patchy' with quite a few darker green areas but the gilt titling is bright. All hinges tight. The book is in a protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks better now. The page fore-edges are 'toned' /browning with age, with some very light 'spotting' (pale small foxing). A former owner's name (J. B. Thomas) in ink on the front pastedown - whether it is THE J. B. G. Thomas of the Western Mail I can't say for certain - it doesn't look like the 60s /70s signature, but it does look like that of a young man - and as this book was published in 1936 when he would have been exactly that - so? ? . Internally no major marks, a little light yellowing/offsetting to the endpapers and some very occasional scattered foxing (light yellow-brown… Read More

London: Arthur Barker Ltd. Good with no dust jacket. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Green boards, dusty, gilt titling to spine, dulled. Corners and head/tail of spine bumped. Biro marks on pp 17, 62, 97, 341, rear cover and bottom edge. Foxing. Black/white illus. Overall CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT.excellent collection of articles on Rugby, and the famous teams and champions from around the British Empire (Wales, Scotland, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, etc.), including such authors as: Owen, Osborn, Munro, Wooller, Gadney, John Daniell, H.J. Henley, A. Wemyss, Leslie Murray, and many others.; 004146; 8vo Heavy, Large. .

London: Mills, Jowett, and Mills (printed by). Good with no dust jacket. (1825). Second Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 8vo Thick. Marbled boards with cloth spine, paper label with gilt titling on spine. Front hinge detaching. Corners knocked. Edges fraying. This copy belonged to a Medical Library in Chatham. Inner hinges/e/p's foxed otherwise very clean and tight internally. Volume V & VI - Saturday 9th October 1824 to 2nd April 1825. With index. Included in this book are descriptions of various illnesses/diseases of the era. These would include - Hectic fever, disorganization of a part of the fifth pair of nerves, anasarca, popliteal aneurism, sores resembling chancres which are not chancres, gonorrhaea etc etc and the treatment which was given.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Evans Brothers Ltd. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine faded blending to edges of boards, head of spine chipped, tail of spine and corners bumped, adverts to endpapers, NO INSCRIPTIONS, colour frontispiece, 328pp, internally near fine, CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT. "A series of selections from the half-century's feminine fiction offers an amusing peep-show of the more intimate side of Victorian life. From the proposal of marriage and first kiss to the moods of a harsh husband or inebriate father, there are faithful reflections of much that men no doubt preferred to leave unexpressed."; 106285; 8vo (large) .

Tenby: R Mason (printed by). Good with no dust jacket. Paper Wraps. No date 1864/1878? Reprint from the Cambrian Journal. Grubby paper wraps, foxing. Text underlining and some annotations. Inscription of title page. 18 pp.; 002326; 8vo (slim booklet) .

London: Spring Books. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Tri-lingual Photography book of Barcelona's people and Places. Dark blue cloth bound boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and front cover. NO Dustjacket. There are some old (?damp?) stains to the bottom edge of the covers which does NOT affect the inside of the book. There is also some light fading to the spine and top edge of the boards, Otherwise there are NO inscriptions or other marks. Text is in English, German and French. 159 pp. Illustrated throughout with b/w plates. Index. Overall, apart from the 'faults', as detailed above, this is a Tight and Secure, Near 'Very Good' copy. "This is a striking photographic account - in b/w - of the history, peoples and places and culture of Barcelona." ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

London: MacMillan & Co Ltd. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Good++/No Jacket. First Edition. 4to - Tall and Thick. Original black buckram boards with gilt illustration of "Hermes in Repose" and gilt titling to spine.Small paint mark at bottom of spine. Corners knocked. Top of front board faded. With 11 coloured heliogravure (sepia toned print) illustrations, NOT FULL COLOUR. 48 Half tone plates. Col. frontis with tissue guard. Coloured map of Campania. Topography/the Inhabitants/earthquake of 63AD; eruption of 79 A.D. ; identifiable objects;Villa Suburbana, &c.; bibliography. This book is a history of Herculaeneum and a history of its excavations. There is substantial correspondence here published between the Authors and the Italian authorities being the pre requisites to their proposed excavation; it is not known if there excavation took place.Overview of the ancient site prior to the major excavations; concentration on the art works and… Read More

1999 S/B. 1999. Paperback. V GOOD EXLIBRIS USUAL STAMPS MARKS & ATTACHMENTS BOXDN; 8020 .

San Francisco: Chronicle Books. As New with no dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Paperback. 0811802884 . Contains over 40 recipes for appetizers, soups and salads, entrees and desserts as well as drinks all made with or to serve with Tequila. 120 pp. Illustrated in yellow/black/white. Tight and bright.; 001134; 8vo .