Search Results: Titles starting with V from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

London. Printed for the Trustees by Wiliam Clowes Ltd. , and sold at Hertford House., 1960 xii, 214 printed pages. 209 pages of full or half-page photographic, monochrome illustrations (arranged alphabetically by the artists' surnames). Title page slighly creased. 17 x 26 cm. Full limp vellum with vellum ties, yapp foredge & with laced-in vellum sewing supports in the style of the late Renaissance. No lettering nor decoration. Hand-bound in 1989 by female bookbinder (first name only known as Maggie) for Bookbinding Diploma in the UK. The first edition was published in 1925. Beautifully hand-crafted binding that feels softly textured and cold to the touch.. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Victor Gollancz, 1954 432 printed pages, photographic portrait frontispiece, map endpapers ('The Author's Routes'). 15 x 22.5 cm. Original red cloth, spine with gilt lettering (very slightly faded. Complete with photographic portrait dust jacket, in good condition. Old tape residue just showing through from inside of head & tail of spine. Very slight edgewear & a few very short closed tears. Presents well. This book of memoirs was translated from the Danish by Johan Hambro. Contents - each chapter headed by a quote, followed by list of subjects. For example: Chapter III - "No matter how I achieved it, the degree bolstered by morale." Copenhagen, Hippocrates, pigs' trotters - first steps toward the Arctic. Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen (1886-1957) was a Danish explorer, author, journalist and anthropologist, notable for his role in Arctic exploration, namely the Thule Expeditions.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good.

London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co., 1897 FIRST EDITION. 63 printed pages. Thirty-two full colour page illustrations as well as numerous brown printed vignettes within text (8 marginal and very short closed tears, 4 with 'invisible' tape repairs). Endpapers and verso of final page with historic paper tape repairs (edges frayed and worn). 28.5 x 22 cm. Original paper covered boards with green cloth spine (inner hinges split but holding firm; worn at head & tail of spine and along edges; corners bumped and worn). Florence K. Upton (1873 - 1922) was an American-born English cartoonist and author most famous for creating the Golliwog character, featured in a series of children's books. The books were written by Florence's mother, Bertha Upton (1849-1912). In 1897, having had two Golliwogg books published, the Uptons decided to try something different with The Vege-Men's Revenge. The story is about a little girl named Poppy who is sent by her mother to collect… Read More

Printed by F. Collins for T. Ilive at the Nag's Head, in Jewen-street Re-printed by W. Davy, [London]., 1818 Unpaginated. [286] printed pages. Woodcut English title, "Holy Bible"; typographic English title; original and reprint imprimatur; typographic reproduction of original title, "Verbum Sempiternum. London : Printed by F. Collins for T. Ilive at the Nag's Head, in Jewen-street, 1693". New Testament has English section title, and typographic reproduction of the 1693 "Salvator Mundi" title. Signatures: A-I8; K8; (K8, blank); [a]8; b-g8; h8; (h7 & h8, blank). Lacks front free endpaper. Slight historic marginal staining C5-C8. 40 x 50 mm. Contemporary burgundy straight-grained morocco. Spine in gilt single fillet bordered compartments with acorn corner-pieces and horizontal foliate scrolling; boards with triple gilt fillet borders and stylised fleur-de-lis corner-pieces; inner gilt dentelles (slightly marked, wonderfully patinated, and a trifle rubbed, with a little wear to the hinges- but overall a… Read More

Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, Printed by Horace Hart, Oxford., 1900 583 [1] printed pages. Portrait frontispiece. Oxford India paper. All red edges gilt. 48 x 56 mm. Original blue morocco, with rounded corners (very mild rubbing to edges). Black endpapers. Inner gilt dentelles (front inner hinge and board with vertical crack from handling). "The highlights in this finely printed series are undoubtedly the Bunyan, Goldsmith and Walton all of which are scarce. Published from ca. 1896 to 1905, the earlier editions London, Henry Frowde, the later ones London, Horace Hart, 584 pages, with portrait frontispiece" Bondy, 117. Spielmann, 171. Welsh, 3103. The only miniature edition of one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels among Victorians. This miniature edition was bound by more than one binder for the publisher. This is variant A: lettered "The Vicar of Wakefield" in upper and lower case, in gilt along the spine with the same titling near the top of the the… Read More

Part I Northern Wonderland; Part 2 Wellington, HawkesBay, and Taranaki; Part 3 Canterbury, Nelson, and Marlborough. Printed and published by H.J. Weeks Ltd., Christchurch, 1905. Each part with map and 32 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 14 x 22 cm. original colour printed card covers, stab sewn (a few sligns of edge wear and some creasing). The first photograph in New Zealand was taken in 1848; by the time of these publications, NZ had its 16th Parliament and had produced its first documentary film about the Boer War five years previously. Horace J. Weeks established his printing company in 1886 and expanded dramatically, specialising in fine art designing and printing, particularly in the process, half-tone and three-colour work. OCLC Numbers / Unique Identifiers: 152211688, 978282065, 829680922. WorldCat locates three copies of Part 1 (Waikato, Alexander Turnbull and Otago/Hocken); WorldCat locates a single copy of Part 2 (Alexander Turnbull Library - National Library of New Zealand); WorldCat… Read More

Mouton, The Hague, Paris, 1975 In original red cloth with original blue dustwrapper having very mild shelf wear.. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine.

London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1852 12mo, bound in original publishers blindstamped green cloth glit. Original yellow endpapers with armorial bookplate of Charles V. Walker. Dedicated to Hurton's friend Hans Christian Andersen, author of Fairy Tales. This is the revised and corrected 2nd edition, published a year after the 1st. The book measures 13.5cm by 20.5cm. The contents are complete, meeting collation: [6], ii, 344pp. Condition: The binding is holding firmly and is in good condition, with some general wear to surface / extremities from handling, slight lean toward upper board, sunning to spine with some nicks/fraying to hinges and ends, corners bumped. Textblock firm and contents in good clean condition, some light toning and spotting. Period ink ownership to title, and bookplate to front pastedown of Charles Vincent Walker FRS (20 March 1812 24 December 1882), an English electrical engineer and publisher, a major influence on the development of railway telecommunications,… Read More

Circa 1834. 24 printed pages. 12 charming hand-colored lithographic plates. 72 x 88mm. Original, printed, cream boards (very slight age-toning). Concerning a disobedient young squirrel's trials and tribulations. English original first published by George W. Burgess circa 1832/1833 in New York. Not in Bondy, nor Spielmann, nor Welsh. WorldCat locates one sole copy worldwide (Pierpont Morgan Library). This copy is somewhat rare and undoubtedly charming.