Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Island Books

University Press, Cambridge,, 1946. 8vo., First Edition; original wrappers printed in green, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-browned else a near fine copy.

Religious Society of Friends, Chichester Meeting,, [2000]. 8vo., with photographs and illustrations pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.

Ordnance Survey, Chessington,, [1946]. Folding coloured map on paper measuring 24.0 x 35.0 ins (approx. 61 x 89 cms) folding in 16 panels to 12.5 x 5.0 ins (approx. 32.0 x 13 cms); printed card covers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With small institutional stamp on front cover and inner wrapper [only]. The cover is Ellis Martin's 'Medallion Royal Arms' with blue border and location map, in long format. The generic form of this design became the first standard post-war OS cover. The survey is based on the full revision of 1921 with later corrections. Browne, 96.2.a.

Ordnance Survey, Chessington,, [1946]. Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 24.0 x 35.0 ins (approx. 61 x 89 cms) folding in 16 panels to 12.5 x 5.0 ins (approx. 32.0 x 13 cms); printed card covers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With small institutional stamp on front cover and inner wrapper [only]. The cover is Ellis Martin's 'Medallion Royal Arms' with blue border and location map, in long format. The generic form of this design became the first standard post-war OS cover. The survey is based on the full revision of 1920 with later corrections. Browne, 96.2.a.

Ordnance Survey, Chessington,, [1945]. Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 24.0 x 35.0 ins (approx. 61 x 89 cms) folding in 16 panels to 12.5 x 5.0 ins (approx. 32.0 x 13 cms); printed card covers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With small institutional stamp on front cover and inner wrapper [only]. The cover is Ellis Martin's 'Medallion Royal Arms' with blue border and location map, in long format. The generic form of this design became the first standard post-war OS cover. The survey is based on the full revision of 1923 with later corrections. Browne, 96.2.a.

Harvill,, [1992]. 8vo., First Edition, with full-page map in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the best close-quarters accounts of the war in Burma, by the author of the Flashman novels. Fraser served with 9 Bn The Border Regiment in 17th Indian Division. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Graham & Cole M28.

Geological Society of London,, 1884[-1903]. 8 vols., 8vo., First Edition with numerous illustrations, diagrams and maps throughout; strongly and uniformly bound in blue cloth, gilt backs, all in very good, bright, state.

Cassell,, [1952]. 8vo., First Edition, neat signatures on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned and chipped (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Biographical studies of Caterina Fiesta Adorna, Cornelia Connelly, Rosa Isabella Santa Maria de Flores, Therese Martin.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [1986]. 8vo., First edition thus, with illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Enlarged version of the original edition ['Cornish Cats'] of 1974.

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1925. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; burgundy cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down. SCARCE.

Phillimore, [Chichester],, [1997]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.

Conway,, 1972. Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous photographs and diagrams (the majority full-page) in the text; cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Warship Monographs. Monograph Two. The five battleships of this class - Queen Elizabeth, Barham, Malaya, Valiant, Warspite - were the last designed under Sir Philip Watts as Director Naval Construction. All served in the latter stages of WWI (Queen Elizabeth controversially at the Dardanelles) and with distinction (especially Warspite) throughout WWII which all save Barham, a tragic early loss, survived. Scarce, especially in this condition. Law, 0994.

Allen Lane,, [1973]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; pink cloth, gilt back, purple endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes actions in China, India, Crimea, Afghanistan, North-West Frontier, Africa.

Collins,, [1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Jarrolds,, [1942]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy. Enser, p.21.

Chatto & Windus,, n.d. [1886]. Sm. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece, coloured title-vignette and 26 coloured illustrations in the text , text mildly age-marked; original oatmeal pictorial cloth, upper and lower boards with gilt frame border blocked in colours with different vignettes and lettered in gilt and black, backstrip lettered in black, all edges gilt, green endpapers, very neatly recased, covers mildly age-soiled as often else a bright, firm copy.

George Allen,, 1905. 8vo., Twenty-Fifth Thousand, signature on front paste-down, free endpapers and half-title lightly browned; original green cloth, sides framed in blind, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, cream endpapers, a very good, bright, crisp copy. First published in 1869.

Folio Society,, 1970. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 7 plates, small label scar on front free endpaper; blue patterned boards, black cloth back lettered in gilt, black endpapers, black top, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.

Leo Cooper,, [1978]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Loosely inserted is a guide, illustrated in colour and monochrome, to the regimental museum. Sutcliffe, p.16.

Yelf Brothers, Newport IOW,, 1937. 4to., with title-vignette, 24 plates, and full-page photograph and 2 full-page plans in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. This edition was entirely rewritten to incorporate new information that came to light during restoration of the house between 1934-1936.