Search Results: Titles starting with B from Jacques Gander

Bedford: SAM Publications, 2010. Softback book. 128 pages Well illustrated with colour photograhs, foldout diagram at the back of the book.8.25 X 11.75 inches. Superficial stress crack/crease across the spine. Very good copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London & Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co., 1896. Finely bound in half leather by Hatchards of Picadilly. Dark blue morocco spine and corners, with gilt ruled borders.Five raised bands on the spine, gilt title lettering, and date, with sporting emblems decorating four compartments.Top edge gilt.Ochre cloth boards, and marbled endpapers.. xii, 455 pages. Illustrated with numerous full page engraved plates plus smaller text illustrations. Includes engravings, drawings and diagrams etc.5.5 X 7.5 inches.There are some very few scuffs and rubbing to the leather here and there. Browning to fore edge, and spotting to title page and final pages. Water stain to early pages at the lower corner, diminising progressively. Original owner's ex libris leather gilt lettered label on the front pastedown.Very good copy, pages mostly very clean throughout, with a very sound and solid binding.. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Osprey Publishing Ltd, 1990. This is from the dustwrapper: " When contemplating the engineering brilliance and marketing triumph of the BMW 3-Series range, it is difficult to believe that in 1959 BMW was practically bankrupt,on the verge of a bargain basement takeover by Daimler Benz. In 1992, the company produced over half a million cars and by far the most saleable items in the BMW canon of fours, sixes and V12s were the 3-Series cars.Jeremy Walton sets the scene with a roundup of the 3-Series precursors, highlighting the versatility of the '02' cars and their honourable competition record. During this period, BMW produced the first turbo racing saloon and the first production turbo (the 2002 in 1973). The engine is the heart of any BMW, and the fabled four cylinder, about which the 3-Series would evolve, was also the basis for competition units, including the 1000 horsepower turbo which took the 1983 Fl Championship for Nelson Piquet. The first generation of four cylinder… Read More

London: The British Overseas Airways Corporation in Association with Max Parrish, 1959. Hardcover, pictorial papered boards , 128 pages, illustrated with 122 black and white illustrations and 12 pages in colour. Photos, diagrams, route map. Articles and features by various contributors. Contents : Foreword by Group Captain John Cunningham,The Little World of the Jet Age, Eight Thousand Miles to School, The Silver Fleets, Captains of the Air, All Ready, Brakes off, Beating Bad Weather, The All-Seeing eye, Roast Beef and Bhekti Fish, Building a Modern Airliner, Spot These Planes!, Aircraft of the Future, Airports of The World, By-ways of the Air, Bird's Eye View, Strange Cargoes, On The Flight Deck, A Club of the Jet Age. 8.5 X 11 inches. A good copy, sound and solid, Rubbed around the edges, with handling wear, top corner of the front free endpaper clipped, and with owner's name in ink.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Cobham, Surrey: Brooklands Books Ltd, 1996. Softback book. 172 pages, 8 X 10.75 inches. A good copy corners a bit creased.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1935. Cream buckram with red lettering on the spine and front board. [8] 107 pages, illustrated with line drawings by Rachel Robertson. A good copy with some spotting to early and final pages as well as page edges and spine, and with general dustsoiling to the boards. No dustwrapper.. First Edition. Illus. by Rachel Robertson.

Manchester: G.W. Bacon and Company Showing railways, roads elevations and distances. Also local governement divisions and parishes.Undated. Linen backed folding map, dissected, folding in to cloth gilt lettered boards with marbled endpapers.45.5 X 35.5 inches. Folded size is about 8 X 9.5 inches. Scale 2 miles to an inch.Index gazetteer in the right hand corners. Cloth covers are very worn and damp marked, with the spine worn and the front board detached. The map itself is generally very good with some damp mottling to several panels, showing through on to the map a bit here and there.

Thomas Cautley Newby, Publisher, 1983. Green cloth with white green lettered illustrated dustwrapperxxiv, Colour frontispiece, illustrated with photos, maps, charts, diagrams and drawings etc. 6.25 X 9.25 inches. The dustwrapper has some age toning to the spine and margins, and the page edges also show a little age toning, otherwise book and dustwrapper are near fine, the book is unmarked with no annotatiosn etc.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1893. Finely bound in half leather, brown morocco spine and corners with five raised gilt ruled bands on the spine, gilt title lettering, top edge gilt.Marbled papered boards, and marbled endpapers. xii, 439 pages. The section on racing is by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, and Mr W. G. Craven: chapters headings are: History of Horse Racing; Horses of Ancient Britain; The Progress of the Sport; History of the Jockey Club; Racing Officials: Clerk of the Course; The Starter; The Judge; The Clerk of the Scales; The Handicapper; The Stakeholder; The Stewards; Newmarket; Racing in the Provinces; Racing Servants: Old Style and New; Breeding; Treatment of Yearlings; Early Trials; Three Year Olds; Over a Distance of Ground; Upon Trainers; Upon Jockeys; and Betting. The cestion on steeplechasing is by Arthur Coventry and Alfred E. T. Watson: the chapters headings are: The Origin and Development of Steeple Chasing; The Selection of the Chaser; Schooling; Fences and Fencing;… Read More

Freiburg: Karl Baedeker, 1961. With 24 maps, 3 town plans, 4 panoramas and 178 sketches.447 pages,inscribed with owners name.red plastic binding,very short split at spine bottom.Very good book.. Fourteenth Edition.

London: Karl Baedeker, Leipsic, 1898. Raspberry cloth boards,blind stamped,with horizontal and vertical decorative bars, with gold title lettering on the spine and front. xxiv, 322 pages, 15 maps, 14 plans and a panorama of la Chaine du Mont Blanc.The front pastedown carries ads for other Baedeker titles, whilst on the rear endpapers is a route map for all France. Green marker ribbon.The first map has a one inch tear from careless opening, otherwise a very good copy with the spine is a bit faded but the gold titles are bright.. Third Edition.

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1912. Raspberry cloth boards,blind stamped,with horizontal and vertical decorative bars, with gold title lettering on the spine and front.civ,462 pages With 20 maps, (lacking one map, 21 maps called for)56 plans and a two page panorama of Jerusalem.. The front pastedown carries ads for other Baedeker titles, whilst on the rear endpapers incorporate a 3 page folding map of Syria as an index to routes and special maps of the handbook.Central pages to three gatherings detaching from staples.Marker ribbons worn and faded,two names to front endpaper and pastedown. Externally rubbed to edges and corners, with the cloth worn and splitting along the sides of the spine.Missing the map of Syria,Mesopotamia and Babylonia from page 411.Reading copy, fair condition.. Fifth Edition, Remodelled and Augmented. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.

London: Karl Baedeker, Leipsic, Dulau and Co.. London, 1895. Raspberry cloth boards,blind stamped,with horizontal and vertical decorative bars, with gold title lettering on the spine and front. lxxix, 410 pages plus a 42 page sketch of Norwegian and Scandinavian grammar with vocabulary and phrases at the end of the book. With 28 maps, 16 plans and a three small panoramas. The front pastedown carries ads for other Baedeker titles, whilst on the rear endpapers is a regional index map. The green marker ribbon is worn through. Otherwise a very good copy, very sound all round with very minimal wear and few signs of use. No marking , or annotation etc.. Sixth Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Edward Arnold, 1920. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine, xii, 303 pages, plus ads of 16 pages, welll illustrated , 5.75 x 8.5 inches. A little rubbed at the corners an dspine ends, foxing to title page, very clean throughout with no marking annotations etc. Very good, no dustwrapper.. Third Edition, Second Impression.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900. Artillery Circular M, series of 1893. Ballistic tables computed by Major James M Ingalls, Fifth Artillery, U.S.A., Under the direction of The Secretary of War.Bound in tough khaki buckram with gilt title lettering on the spine.viii, 137 pages, Supplement 1:31 pages, Supplement 2 : 35 pages. 12 X 12.5 inches. Externally rubbed, scuffed and marked, given the cloth is very tough, all very sound and solid, Inside again all in good order and very good throughout.Small London book binders tag to edge of rear pastedown.. Original Copy. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. Fully illustrated with colour photos.160 pp.7x10 ins.Very good book in a very good dust wrapper.. First Edition.

Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1867. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, and blindstamped decorated border to front and rear boards.xviii, 433 pages, engraved frontispiece. 5.5 X 7.75 inches. The book has been rebacked with the original back strip laid on, and the endpapers have also been replaced. A good copy, corners bumped with some wear to the cloth, spotting to the first few pages. There is some annotation here and there in the book and some of the index pages are coming loose. inscribed to William Armstrong "with the author's grateful regards 13 January 1868" (not signed).. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition.

Darlington: Published By the Author, Printed by Wm Dresser & Sons Ltd, 1948. Subtitled :'Being an account of the Malayan Campaign, with some subsequent experiences as a guest of the Imperial Japanese Army" .Bound in pale green cloth, [iv]153 pages. Illustrated with maps and photographs. 5.75 X 8.6 inches. A bit rubbed around, and corners a little worn, previous owner's name to front endpaper.Very good copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: The Carey Kingsgate Press Ltd., 1951. Hardcover, Blue cl;oth with gilt lettering on the spine, in plain dustwrapper. 168 pages, some illustrations, 5 X 7.5 inches. Very good book in a good dustwrapper with a couple of shortish tears.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Swindon, Wiltshire: The Crowood Pres, 1990. hardcover, 1444 pages, well illustrated, 6.75 X 9.5 inches. Very good book in a very good priceclipped dustwrapper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.