Search Results: Titles starting with N from Island Books

Escort Carriers Association, [Ontario,, 1989]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and facsimiles throughout, and photographic endpapers; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly sunned at backstrip. HMS Nabob was a Ruler-class escort carrier, and the first carrier to be manned entirely by the RCN. Very scarce, especially in this condition.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [1979]. 8vo., First Edition thus; brown cloth, gilt back, orange endpapers, fore-edge faintly spotted else a near fine copy unclipped dustwrapper. Published simultaneously with the US edition.

Motorbuch, Stuttgart,, [1981]. Sm. 4to., First Edition, text in German, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH HIS HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.

Schiffer, Atglen PA,, [1996]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.

Anthony Gibbs & Phillips,, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition thus, title lightly spotted; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Harrowing account of captivity following Stalingrad. The German edition appeared in 1956.

Werner Laurie,, [1952]. 8vo., Third Impression, with tinted frontispiece and 7 fine tinted plates by Searle; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip mildly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned on (predominantly white) rear panel and with small loss at upper edge of rear panel. Published two months after the first edition. The particularly striking dust-wrapper carries a dramatic illustration by Searle not repeated in the book. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.409 (recording the first edition).

Hutchinson,, [1934]. Roy. 8vo., Second Impression, on laid paper, with coloured pictorial title, 8 plates and 25 illustrations, some light foxing; original plum cloth, gilt back, covers lightly age-worn else a good, bright copy. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Published in same year as the first edition.

Chatto & Windus,, [1987]. 8vo., First Edition, neat inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

Allan Wingate,, [1949]. 8vo., Fourth Impression thus, some moderate offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter dulled at backstrip and with light browning on (predominantly white) rear panel. With striking dustwrapper artwork by James Holland. Published three months after the first UK edition. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

1918][. 8vo., original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Offprinted from the 'Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society'. SCARCE.

1913]. 8vo., original printed wrappers, a fine copy. Offprinted from the 'Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society'. SCARCE

Cassell,, [1954]. 8vo., Second Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, fore-edsges mildly spoted; green cloth, gilt back, a good, firm copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Novel of the supernatural set in the Lake District. Published three months after the first edition.

Folio Society,, 1956. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and full-page illustrations in the text; pale purple cloth, gilt back, covers mildly faded at extremities, top lightly spotted else a bright, clean copy.

Cassell,, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition, with 23 plates on 12 and double-page map, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, top faintly dust-marked else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. As the 'white mouse', Wake ran an early escape line from Marseille to Spain which returned many hundreds to freedom. Later she joined SOE in Buckmaster's F Section and commanded more than 7,000 Maquis in the Auvergne. Astonishingly, she was never caught and ended the war with the George Medal, three Croix de Guerre and the Resistance Medal. A feature film seems long overdue. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.370.

Elek,, [1954]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece, and numerous monochrome plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the armorial bookplate of Ian Vaughan-Arbuckle on front free endpaper. Vaughan-Arbuckle, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Logistics Corps, served in India, Hong Kong, Germany and the Falklands. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Neate *364.

Harper Collins,, [1999]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [1995]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published simultaneously with the US edition.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [1985]. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates on 8 and 8 maps (one double-page) in the text; plum cloth, gilt back, terracotta endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sandler 2526.

Batsford,, [1978]. 8vo., First Edition, with 20 plates on 16, and 4 full-page charts and a double-page map in the text, fore-edges lightly browned as often; cloth, gilt back, brown endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at edges. Uncommon in anything like this condition

Longman,, [1977]. 4to., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip, edges and rear panel.