Search Results: Titles starting with V from Goldring Books

London: Heinemann, 1959. Gold title on blue boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket is not price-clipped. The author is one of many pseudonyms of Trevor Dudley-Smith (1920-1995) a prolific award winning crime and thriller writer who had many works made into films. In this book, set in the aftermath of World War II, Nikolas II King of Slavakia is in exile, debauched, promiscuous and bitter but when his country wants him back he is willing but there are pressures and decisions that he must make. *** An uncommonly good dustjacket by Dion *** *** NOT EX LIB *** 1. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1989. An As New copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. Introduction by Beryl Reid. An anthology of the best written work on the subject of cats, beautifully illustrated from the vast archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum whose collection holds hundreds of exotic, stylish and often amusing feline images. Essential reading for cat connoisseurs everywhere. D4C. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword, 2004. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. x + 309 pages. 55 illustrations. This is the first book to contain the true story of every single recipient of the Victoria Cross during the period 1939-1945. During these six years of continuous conflict world-wide only a total of 182 medals, each inscribed with the simple words 'For Valour', were granted; 23 for action at sea. 32 to airmen and 127 for courage on land. Tragically many of the individuals concerned never lived to learn of the accolade granted to them. B2E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hodder Headline, 2003. First Printing. A Very Good + uninscribed copy with a small bump to top edge. Dustjacket has a small crease to top and a small mark to back. This children's novel was written 17 years before being published and was stored in a loft and expresses the ex model's interest in indigenous tribal peoples of the world and her concern for the world's rainforests and her love of the Cornish countryside. It tells of a boy abandoned as a baby, who had nearly given up hope of finding his family, and follows his change in fortunes as he sets off on a journey after receiving a letter and his journey goes from London to Cornwall to the Amazonian rain forest. The tale is beautifully illustrated by Christopher Crump. 11. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Christopher Crump. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. A Fine uninscribed copy with Mercer Management Consulting card tipped in to front endpaper. Dustjacket is complete. The authors are Vice Presidents of Mercer Management Consulting and specialise in supply chain strategy. Value Nets introduces to you a new form of business design built around superb supply chain performance in the E-commerce world which will enable any company to do far more with the supply chain than control costs. Using numerous case studies that have adopted value net design such as Gateway, Cisco Systems, Cemex, Biogen, Zara and dozens more, the authors demonstrate how value nets bridge the gap between the executive culture of strategy and business re-invention and the operational world of procurement, manufacturing and logistics. C3D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Quercus, 2017. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket whih is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 358 pages. Winter 1953. A young flower seller is found dead in her room at a Brighton boarding house, posed with chilling perfection into a recreation of a famous painting of the death of Lady Jane Grey. This is a killer unlike any DI Edgar Stephens has encountered before. Across the city at the Hippodrome theatre, Max Mephisto is top of the bill in a double act with his daughter Ruby. Tarnishing the experience. though, is one of the other acts: a seedy living tableaux show where barely-dressed women strike poses from famous historical scenes. Is the resemblance to the murder scene pure coincidence or is life imitating art? When another death occurs - this time within the troupe itself - Max once agin finds himself involved in one of Edgar's cases. D4D. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hamlyn, 1992. A near Fine copy in pictorial laminated boards. With over 250 classic science-fiction and fantasy films reviewed. from The Abyss to Zardoz, presented in A-Z format with details of director, running time, main cast, and awards. Illustrated with over 100 colour and black and white action packed movie stills. A1F. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Quartet Books, 1975. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from minor indentation to lower front) with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 216 pages. Vaslav Nijinsky wa more than a star: he was considered the greatest ballet dancer ever. His tartar looks, his famous leap, his unique entrechat royal, his extraordinary strength, grace and vigour, his imaginative choreography - all these combined to make him and Sergei Diaghilev's Russian Ballet a phenomenal success. At the peak of his career he went mad. Twenty five years later, as the Red Army advances across Nazi-occupied Hungary, the horror and disruption of war awaken in him glorious and humiliating memories. His bizarre and disastrous relationship with Diaghilev, his virtual imprisonment in Hungary during the First World War and the fiasco of his American tour all contributed to his paranoia and spiritual confusion. 'Vaslav is a fantastic reconstruction of his last days. While he and his wife Romola flee across war-ravaged… Read More

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Harry N. Abrams, 1984. A Fine unmarked copy with gold title and blind embossed Vatican crest on red cloth boards with Fine dustjacket. Message by John PaulII and foreword by Philippe de Montebello, James N. Wood and Ian McKibbin White. Produced to accompany three exhibitions in New York, San Francisco and Chicago in 1983/4. This large format volume comprises : Map of Vatican City State, The Vatican Museums, Old Saint Peter's, The Fabbrica of Saint Peter's, The Apostolic Palaces, The Belvedere, The Treasury of Saint Peter's, New Saint Petr's and Baroque Rome, The Library Museums, Museo Pio-Clementino, Pinacoteca, Museo Gregoriano Egizio, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, The Collections of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Museo Pio Cristiano, Pontificio Museo Missionario-Etnologico, Collezione D'Arte Religiosa Moderna. Magnificently illustrated with 272 iilustartions including 161 colour plates and map. Complete list of… Read More

London: Smith , Elder, 1909. Gilt monogram and title on blue cloth boards which are unmarked with no wear. Age toning to endpapers else very clean and unmarkd. 345 pages. Top edge gilt. Hugh Stowell Scott 1862-1903) was a prominent English novelist who wrote as Henry Seton Merriman. An enthusiastic traveller he died of appendicitis aged 41. 11. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Bloomsbury, 1997. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Page marker bound in. Winner of the 1997 Whitbread Award and the AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. A novel which spans nearly a century and conjures up vivid pictures of savannah, forest and city life in South America and unforgettable characters illuminate the theme and plot. The narrator is the ventriloquist who weaves together his stories of love and catastrophe. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Michael Joseph, 1960. Gold title on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear and just light bumping to corners. Internally there is a small neat signature to verso of front endpaper else clean and unmarked. Pictorial dustjacket is price clipped with chipping and wear. Coloured map endpapers. A novel of six people in search of an ancient Indian statue and the effect it has on their lives and is set in an Indian jungle in 1890. A1C. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: John Calder, 1962. A very clean, tight and unmarked copy with no wear and just a crease to lower corner. Translated from the French by Patrick Bowles. A fascinating study of the man and his work, profusely illustrated, which provides essential useful background information recreating the musical world of the 19th century. This is an original publication first appearing in paperback format in the Calderbrook series. B2D. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Dennis Dobson, 1947. Gilt title and trumpet motif on green cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is some light foxing to tope edge else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has an inch loss to top of spine and some wear and is not price clipped. Although there are many biographies of Verdi, the author has succeeded in unearthing new and important material, and has shown the man and his life as he revealed himself through his correspondence. Portrait frontispiece and 4 illustrations. First published in 1930. L. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. 419 pages. 21 illustrations. 2 maps. This masterful book, which wil be seen as the definitive work, is the first major reappraisal for 20 years of the nature of the Vichy regime in France during World War II. The author uses up-to-date research to examine the degree to which ministers and officials of the regime, the legal and administrative system, the Church, and individuals in different walks of life collaborated with Nazi Germany which occupied part of then all of France between 1940 and 1944. Curtis reviews the careers, indictments and trials of the regime's prominent figures for crimes against humanity committed during the war, and scrutinises the ambivalent role of Francois Mitterand as a Vichy official. **** NOT EX LIB **** PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.83 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST A1C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.… Read More

London: Longman, 1970. A Very Good + unmarked copy with price clipped dustjacket which has some wear to top and bottom. The author was a West Country newspaper editor, journalist, playwright and author whose parents were Dartmoor hill farmers and he gained a great love and knowledge of horses and country life. He died at the tragically early age of 49 in 1969. In this book he pays tribute to many horses including his own, filled with personal memories, opinions and digressions and horse talk of the kind that would-be horsemen everywhere can't resist, all enriched by illustrations by Michael Charlton and with photographs. C3A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Charlton, Michael. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: C.W. Beaumont, 1935. Paper title labels on blue cloth boards which have minor marks but no wear. Internally there is an inscription to front endpaper and light foxing to closed edges and endpapers else a clean, tight unmarked copy. 45 pages. 12 illustrations. Ninette de Valois founded the the Vic-Wells Ballet and Vic-Wells Ballet School which was established at the Sadler's Wells Theatre in 1931, later changing the name to the Sadler'sWell Ballet. These would become the predecessors of today's Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Royal Ballet School. Ninette de Valois was with the Ballets Russe and after its disbandment following the death of Diaghilev, she employed some of the company's former stars, including Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin. A1C. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1971. A near Fine copy which has a small name to front endpaper and a few specks to fore edge with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. 170 old photographs. In the six decades covered by the book Sussex was a county where oxen, gleaners and smocked farm labourers were still to be seen in the fields, where croquet was played in crinolines and stoolball survived, where windmills abounded and a tide mill worked 16 hours a day, where turnpikes interrupted the traffic's flow and in which the London Brighton and South Coast Railway was in its heyday. These are some of the subjects illustrated amongst the 170 photographs, representative of 60 towns, villages and country places, each accompanied by commentaries. 13. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Harper Collins, 2003. An As New copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. lii + 476 pages. 36 main illustrations and 55 illustrations in the text. Coloured pictorial endpapers. The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and technologically advanced nation in the world, people carried slops up and down stairs; buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mould forming; wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. This drudgery was routinely performed by the parents of people still living. Running water, stoves, flush toilets - even toilet paper - arrived slowly throughout the century; and most were luxuries available only to the prosperous. An incisive portrait of Victorian domestic, life portrayed through a collage of diaries, letters, advice books, magazines and paintings, the author shows how social history is built up of tiny domestic details. Laid out like a house, following the story of daily life from room to room. **** NOT… Read More

London: B.T. Batsford, 1972. A very clean, tight and unmarked copy which has age toning to page edges and endpapers else a near Fine copy. Dustjacket is VG+ and is price clipped. A large format book of 167 Victorian and Edwardian photographs with commentaries which depict Surrey local history - villages, transport, country towns, public life and occasions, sport and entertainment, churches, schools, long lost crafts and more. **** NOT EX LIB **** 15. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.