Search Results: Titles starting with R from Wadard Books PBFA

Preston: Ships in Focus Publications, 2001 Published in 2001 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the company. 88pp well illustrated in colour and black and white. Includes an index of ships.

Cookham, Berks: Queensgate Publications, 1999 Ascari, Fangio, Hawthorn, Moss, Clark - a unique record of those men who stood head and shoulders above the rest during what were perhaps the most challenging and dangerous years of the sport. 189pp illustrated in colour and black and white.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1886 Racing by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, and Mr W.G.Craven. Steeple-Chasing by Arthur Coventry and Alfred E.T.Watson. xii, 419pp, colour frontis plate with numerous line illustrations throughout the text by J.Sturgess. Spine dull, ends lightly rubbed. Some light foxing fore and aft, otherwise very good.

New York: The New Press, 2002 Encyclopedic and fascinating. In movies ranging from Hopalong Cassidy to film noir the authors have cast the spotlight on Hollywood's quiet heroes bringing them out from under the shadows cast by the blacklist. 460 pages with black and white plates.

London: Whittaker & Co., 1912 A manual of Wireless Telegraphy for the use of Operators.
ix, 147pp plus Log Book unpaginated.
90 illustrations in black and white.
Book size
170x110mm

Singapore: Landmark Books, 1992 Grand histiric hotel, international landmark, glittering social venue - this is Raffles Hotel as she began her 105thn year many of which are displayed in this luxurious volume. 224pp with archive and modern photography.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994 Biography of the early feminist and romantic poet, Louise Colet (the model for Flaubert's Madame Bovary) who lived a life rich with drama and excess. A candid portrait of the sexual mores in 19th century France. 432 pages with black and white plates.

Cambridge: Cricket Wicket Press, 2011 What could be more quintessentially English than a cricket match one August afternoon between two villages in the Darent Valley? But the match was hardly begun when a new phase of the Battle of Britain erupts overhead. The skies are filled with fighting aircraft. The players retire to the pavillion. What happens next? Edition limited to 106 copies, unpaginated.

London: Simon and Schuster, 1995 The sequel to the Carpetbaggers. 363pp.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941 Laramie's horse went lame, and as Wingfoot was the only living creature he has to care for, he halted at midday, without thought of his own needs ...... 319pp

London: T Fisher Unwin, 1900 Ex Libris W.J.Macqueen-Pope. The famous Scottish yarn written in the vernacular. 409 pages plus publishers list. Pages lightly browned. Internal hinges cracked. Spine ends rubbed with small stains to front board.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015 The place of the thousang gates, where sentient trains criss-cross the galaxy in a heartbeat. Meet Zen Starling, Rebel, adventurer, imposter, liar, hero, enemy, ally, destination unknown....
299pp plus glossary.
220x160mm

Birmingham: Printed for the author & sold by H.Winnall, 1847 51 letters dated between December 1842 and July 1847 written anonymously under the pseudonym Veritas Vincit. Originally published in the Railway Times and Railway Record they take to task railway managements in their treatment of employees and how this impinges on both workers and public safety. No punches pulled, names names, both personal and corporate.
These letters brought together by the author in a single volume with an index in 1847.
iv, 232pp - Lacks front end paper. Internal hinges cracked. Some random light foxing.

London: The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society, 1949 Nos. 239 to 250 plus index. Individual copies all with covers and very good.

London: The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society, 1954 Nos. 299 to 310 inclusive plus index. Individual copies all with covers and very good.

London: Atchley & Co., 1857 Containing instructions for Ranging Curves and setting out Lines and Levels in earthworks, permanent way, bridges and viaducts on the square, on the skew, and on curves. A treatise on taking borings with practical rules for designing works, and getting out working drawings of masonry and brickwork, timber, wrought iron and cast iron and examples of specifications, and tables for earthwork. 200pp well illustrated with diagrams throughout the texts, numerous tables and 12 full page plates five of which are folding. Sometime professionally rebacked to a high standard with original spine relaid.

London: Hutchinson, 1963 The setting of this novel is a small farming village in northern Sweden. The period, the years 1894 to 1914. The Rainbird is the local name for the Swallow regarded as a strange and mystic bird. 326pp.

London: Adlard Coles Nautical, 2005 Mention the Shipping Forecast and most people will be able to reel off a list of sea areas - Dogger - Fisher - German Bight. The places are real and described and illustrated in this unusual book.190pp in colour.

Marlborough, Wilts.: The Crowood Press, 1989 An original and provocative book which challenges many of the established ideas of a war whose harvest was almost three quarters of a million American dead, rwice that of any other war in which Americans have fought. 239pp.

London: Simpkin Marshall & Co., 1884 Canterbury Cathedral is too vast, too rich in art, history and tradition, to be included in this book. But around that matchless pile, and overshadowed by it, there are monuments which - more venerable than Christ Church itself - are memorials of the earliest English Christianity.
148pp illustrated with pen and ink line drawings throughout.
Inscribed and signed by J.W.Cross to the front end paper dated 1887.