Search Results: Titles starting with V from Bookfare

1st Edition, Skira, Milan, 1996 104 colour and 165 black & white illustrations; Paperback: square 4to; Near fine.

1st Edition, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2006 59 colour and 19 black & white illustrations; "With an essay by Frances Fowle"; Foreword by Michael Clarke and Kathleen Soriano; Paperback, square 4to; Bruise to foot of spine, near fine.

1st Edition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2000 8 colour illustrations; 16 page pamphlet, landscape format; Near fine.

London: Frederick Muller, 1963 23 illustrations; First British Edition; Hardback: black cloth decorated in gilt, top edge pink, end-papers bearing Vanderbilt family tree and coat of arms; Small snag to head of spine, top edge spotted, vg in defective dustwrapper.

New York: Harper & Row, 1963 Introduction and 12 essays; A 'Harper Torchbook'; Paperback; Spine very rubbed, text clean, g+

First Edition, George Allen, London, 1908 Presentation Copy, inscribed on front free end-paper: "Miss Josephine Lawson with the writer's best wishes. Dec. 14. 1908", with an autographed letter signed from the author further presenting the book; Hardback: green patterned cloth attractively decorated in gilt, top edge gilt; Spine a little faded and marked, light foxing, a near fine copy.

Spring Books, London, 1966 48 colour plates; 8 black & white illustrations; Hardback: brown cloth decorated in gilt, quarto; Boards a little bowed, lacks front free end-paper, vg in worn dustwrapper.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1946 20 historical essays; Hardback: pink cloth decorated in gilt on spine, top edge pink; Slight signs of use, previous owner's name to front free end-paper, near fine in worn dustwrapper

1st Edition, Fattorusso, Florence, 1930 1 colour plate; 395 black & white illustrations; "The Churches, the Palaces, the Treasures of Art, a Handbook for Students and Travellers"; No. 5 in "The Medici Art Series - Wonders of Italy"; 3 pages of publisher's advertisements, 1 in colour; Paperback: brown wrappers decorated in red and brown, colour plate set into top wrapper, title-page printed in red and black, Venetian bookseller's ticket, quarto; Slight wear and dirtying to wrappers, still a near fine copy of an attractive item.

London: A & C Black, 1915 11 colour plates by Mortimer Menpes, Birket Foster, William Callow and others; Decorative title-page and 1 black & white illustration in text; A volume in the "Beautiful Europe" series; Not dated: published 1915; Hardback: blue paper boards elaborately decorated in black with a further colour plate by Menpes set into top board; Spine a little faded and spotted in brown, wear to 2 corners, text and plates clean, vg+

Manchester: National Education Union, 1871 "Together with a reprint of the act"; Hardback: red ribbed cloth decorated in blind; Covers very marked by old damp, small piece cut from head of title-page (no loss), text clean, g+

Bourdier, Versailles, no date: 1920's ? 24 plates; Plates captioned, but no other text; Paperback: octavo, landscape format; Wrappers dirtied, several plates spotted or creased at one corner, vg.

London: J.M. Dent, 1949 First British Edition; Hardback: blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, decorated title-page; Light cover wear, previous owner's name to front free end-paper, vg+

Chicheley, Buckinghamshire: Paul Minet, 1972 Folding map; 8 plates; 9 illustrations in the text; "Including Cumberland and Westmorland with Lancashire North of the Sands"; Preface by R.S. Ferguson; A facsimile of the original edition "published by David Douglas Castle Street Edinburgh 1892"; Hardback: green cloth decorated in gilt on spine, illustrated title-page, issued without a dustjacket; Spine just a touch faded, near fine.

London: Bradbury Agnew, 1890 188 humourous illustrations; Hardback: red cloth decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, black laid end-papers; Reading copy only: lacks title-page, head of spine worn, top board spotted, a few leaves roughly opened and torn, previous owner's name to half-title.

1st Edition, Batsford, London, 1955 137 illustrations; Hardback: red cloth decorated in gilt on spine, spine panelled, top edge red; Covers unevenly darkened, vg+

1st Edition, Athol Books, Belfast, 1985 Includes "Thomas Moore's Letter to the Roman Catholics of Dublin"; 38 pages of introductions by the editor; Paperback; Wrappers a little used, near fine.

Cassell, no date: 1889 Decorations and 110 illustrations; "With introductions, notes, and a life of Oliver Goldsmith (36 pages) by John Francis Waller L.L.D."; Brown cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, black and blind, yellow laid end-papers; Slight wear to covers and head and foot of spine: a fine copy of a handsome book.

1st Edition thus, Adam & Charles Black, London, 1903 13 tissue-guarded colour plates by John Massey Wright; No. 180 of a limited edition de luxe of 250 copies; Introduction by Joseph Grego; Includes "John Forster's 'Essay Upon The Vicar of Wakefield', reprinted from 'The Life and Times of Goldsmith' (1848)"; Hardback: cream cloth elaborately decorated in green and gilt, shamrock devices to spine and top board, lge 4to; Covers a little dirtied, small blue pen line to top board, spine starting to fray, prelims foxed, text nice and fresh.

1st Edition, Constable, London, 1982 132 illustrations; Hardback: red cloth, blue lettering-piece, decorated in gilt on spine, top edge red, blue-grey end-papers, small quarto; Slight signs of use, previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper, near fine in slightly less fine dustwrapper.