Search Results: Titles starting with P from Island Books

Hutchinson,, [2011]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; grey cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [1982]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; terracotta cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.

Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, at the Red-Lion in Pater-Noster-Row; T. Ryles, in Hull; and T. Hammond, in York,, 1735. 8vo., text in Latin and English throughout, with woodcut head- and tail-pieces to each book, neat eighteenth century signature and annotation on title, neat eighteenth century signature on blank preliminary; contemporary full calf, sides with double gilt frame border, skilfully rebacked to style with five raised bands, red leather label lettered in gilt, compartments tooled in blind, corners neatly reinforced with calf insets to style, a firm, crisp and remarkably clean copy with virtually no age-staining.

Riccardi Press for the Medici Society,, 1912. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper; original grey boards, holland backs with printed paper labels, gil tops, uncut, covers mildly age-marked, corners lightly bruised else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 525 NUMBERED SETS (THIS SET NO 362).

Kookaburra Technical Publications, Melbourne,, [1974]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with fine coloured illustrations and numerous photographs in monochrome throughout, some mild age-staining, bookplate scar on front free endpaper; pictorial boards, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, AND EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BY THE INSERTION OF A MOUNTED COLOURED PLATE DEPICTING FOUR P-40 LIVERIES EXTRACTED FROM THE AUTHOR'S 'RAAF CAMOUFLAGE & MARKINGS 1939-1945, VOL. 1'. Detailed and scarce monograph on AustralIa's primary WWII fighter, including twenty aircraft flown by fifteen aces. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.

Airlife, [Shrewsbury],, [1992]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Turner Publishing, Paducah KY,, [1987]. Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; navy cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, a near fine copy.

G2 Entertainment,, [2015]. 8vo., First Edition thus; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

P&O Steam Navigation Co.,, 1982. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs hroughout; printed wrappers, a near fine copy.

Gollancz,, 1992. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1992]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous plates and maps; blue boards, red cloth back lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

HMSO,, [1995]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and coloured maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.

John Hamilton,, [1936]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published a year after the Australian edition.

Macdonald & Co.,, [1970]. 8vo., First UK Edition, with photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Detailed account of the P-40 Curtiss Warhawk and its operations in WWII. Enser, p.171

University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu HI,, [1989]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and endpaper maps; ivory tweed cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in green, a near fine copy. Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 8.

Hogarth Press [with] Gollancz [with] Harper Collins [with] Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, 1978[-2001]. 7 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome plates, final volume with coloured endpapers; cloth (brown/brown/red/blue/green/green/brown respectively), gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. First two volumes with dustwrappers by Angelica Garnett. The set comprises A Pacifist's War. [Diary 1939-1945] (1978); Everything to Lose. Diaries 1945-1960 (1985); Hanging On. Diaries 1960-1963 (1990); Other People. Diaries 1963-1966 (1993); Good Company. Diaries 1967-1970 (1994); Life Regained. Diaries 1970-1972 (1998); Ups and Downs. Diaries 1972-1975 (2001). Evocative and often hilarious diaries from the last remaining member of the Bloomsbury Group. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.

[Privately Printed,, [1853]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece; attractively bound in half calf, marbled boards, gilt back, sage endpapers, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE. Anderson p.205

Plymouth Council of Social Service, Plymouth,, 1953. 8vo., First Edition, with tipped-in coloured title, portrait frontispiece, printed title, plates and illustrations in the text; blue pebble-grain cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, martbled endpapers, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 100 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY GILL AND PENROSE (THIS COPY NO. 76). The Pageant was staged in the Roiyal Citadel upon Plymouth Hoe in the year of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Odhams Press,, [1933]. 4to., First Edition, profusely illustrated throughout with photographs toned in sepia, free endpapers lightly browned; original green cloth blocked in blind, gilt back, green endpapers, backstrip dulled (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean copy. Morton contributes a delightful 4pp forward prefaced by a fine full-page portrait in sepia. Odhams' massive pictorial survey covers every conceivable aspect of life from the turn of the century onwards. Inevitably there is significant coverage of the Boer War and WWI. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION

Warren & Son, Wykeham Press, Winchester,, [1957]. 8vo., Second Impression, with 11 plates and folding plan; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, yapped edges, uncut, a near fine copy.