Search Results: Titles starting with C from Jacques Gander

Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1966. Comprehensive work on Chinese jade, fully illustrated with colour and black and white photo plates and drawings etc.Covers the forms of jade artefacts through the dynasties, the characteristics and occurrence of jade.Plus informative appendices on jade marks, devices etc.193 pages, 8 x 10.5 inches, Brown cloth with gold spinal lettering and green chinese characters on the front,Very good book some light soiling to the spine also faded.. Second Edition, Fourth Printing.

London: Thos. Cook & Son - Simpkin, marshall, hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited, 1912. Original red cloth over stiff card covers with gilt lettering to spine and front panel. 360 pages which includes advertising section of 60 pages. With fascinating period adverts also on the front and rear endpapers. With folding maps of Scandinavia and Northern Europe, and of Norway. Plus plans of Christiana, Copenhagen, Bergen, Stavangar and Trondheim.4.75 X 6.75 inches. The red cloth is a bit age darkened all round, and with the original owner's name and date, 1912, at the top of the title page. Other than that, a very good copy indeed, all clean, complete and in good order throughout, and very sound.. Ninth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Cloth Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1891. 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.xiii[ix],495 pages. With numerous illustrations by Viscount Bury and Joseph Pennell. 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 some spotting to first and final pages with offsetting to endpapers. 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.. Third Edition Revised. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Orion, 1996. Fine book in a fine dust wrapper.F/F. First Edition.

London: Unicorn with Cadogan, 2017. Black cloth spine, boards illustrated with old street plan, with gilt lettering.208 pages.Chapters by a variety of writers covering various aspects of the estate over the years: Earl Cadogan : foreword, John Julius Norwich, John Simpson, Amber Butchart, Brent Elliott, Beatrice Behlen, Alan Powers, Alwyn W. Turner,and Viscount Chelsea.Includes notes and biographies and index.Beautifully illustrated with colour and older archive photographs,engravings, artists works, maps and street plans, old adverts, period ephemera etc.9.5 X 12 inches. A little wear to corners from rubbing.Very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1949. Hardcover in dustwrapper. Blue cloth with gilt lettered spine in plain off white dustwrapper with black lettering and line illustration.215 pages. Illustrated with plates, 5.75 X 8.75 inches. Very good book in a dustwrapper with wear, chipping and short edge tears to corners and spine ends.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair.

The Oxfordshire Record Society, 2002. The Oxfordshire Record Society Volume 63. Pale yellow cloth in illustrated dustwrapper. l, 158 pages, 6.25 X 9 inches. Very good book in a very good dustwrapper which is a bit faded.. First Edition.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. Yellow Jacket paper back reprint of 1948 original.(first thus).Very good pictorial wraps small crease on front corner,and pages browned as usual..

London: Forbes Robertson Ltd., 1953. Very good book with browning pages , some spotting on the top edge and an inscription on the front free endpaper, in a good dustwrapper which has a bit of wear to the corners and at the spine ends.. First Edition.

Geneva, Switzerland: Patrick Cramer, 2012. Mauve cloth with silver lettered spine in illustrated dustwrapper. 432 pages, Well illustrated throughout with colour illustrations of over 400 cards, and 600 cases 10 X 12. 5 inches. Near fine book in a near fine dustwrapper with a small nick at the foot of the spine. . First Edition. Very Good/Very Good.

Sussex, England: New Horizon, 1981. Very good book in a very good dustwrapper signed by Micky van Zwanenberger on the front free endpaper. Signed by Author. First Edition.

1994: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Paperback edition, xxii, 372 pages, 6 X 9 inches. a good copy with owners name on the front free endpaper.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Upper Bucklebury, Berks.: Wild Swan Publications Ltd., 1985. Hardcover in dustwrapper.viii,120 pages. Well illustrated with black and white photpgraphs, maps,track layout, building drawings, and time tables.8.7 X 11 inches. Very good book in a very good dustwrapper which has a little wear to the top corners.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Collins, 1952. This book is in a library binding,i.e. itis bound in yellow cloth with no publishers name on the spine and a crcular "ex libris" logo on the front,it is slightly smaller than the trade edition,and the pages have probably been trimmed a small amount.The dust wrapper is the same as that of the trade edition and is therefore slightly to large for the book.Book is very good,the wrapper is very good except for some tiny tears at the head of the spine where it overlaps the book.. First Edition.

London: Edward Stanford, 1876. Bound in three quarter burgundy morocco, with red cloth boards. Raised bands on the spine, with short title and author's surname in gilt in one compartment, with gilt floral devices to the remaining five compartments, 1876 publication date in gilt at the foot of the spine. Top edge gilt, new marbled endpapers and new fly leaves. Half title.frontis with tissue guard. x[xi-xii]400 pages, Illustrated with ten colour plates and a folding map at the end of the book.5.5 X 8.4 inches. Externally the book is in very good condition, bindiung very sound solid clean and bright. Lower corners a bit rounded inwards. Inside is also very good, with a few spotst to the first few pages, and also the last few pages. The map is foxed, and browned, with the folds reinforced on the verso with paper strips.and a one and a half inch tear from careless opening where the rmap is joined to the book.. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Faber & Faber, 1933. Red cloth,silver lettering,Wood engraving on title page by Enid lacey.Very good book ,spine a bit faded.. First Edition.

London: The Greyhound Racing Association, , 1933. Khaki cloth with a colour illustration of greyhounds racing by Cecil Aldin laid on within an embossed gilt border. 40 pages. Well ilustrated with photographs and a map. 8.6 X 10.6 inches.Cloth dustsoiled with some splash spots on the back, otherwise a very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: The Children's Book Club, 1959. Hardback in dustwrapper. 169 pages. Illustrated with line drawings. colour illustrated dustwrapper by J. E. McConnell.5.25 X 7.5 inches. Very good book in a very good dustwrapper.. Children's Book Club Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by J. E. McConnell.

London: Michael Joseph, 1976. Very good book in a very gopod wrapper a little rubbed here and there and with a scratch across the front cover just breaking the surface and showing white.. First Edition.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972. Hardcover. Blue boards with gilt lettering in blue illustrated dustwrapper.Illustrated with eight half-tone plates and twenty-four line illustrations by Ernest Petts. 5.75 X 8.75 inches. Very good book with rubbing to corners and spine ends, and some spotting at the page edges in a good dustwrapper with some wear from rubbing to corners and spine ends.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.