Search Results: Titles starting with V from Chilton Books

London: Book Club Associates, 1974.. 1st Book Club ed. "She had an unusual capacity for combining a romantic attitude to gardening with hard practical advice." Pp. 250, colour frontis., 4 colour photos, 18 b/w photos. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w. VG/VG.

Leighton Buzzard: The Faith Press, 1973.. 1st ed. "'VIA' ...or 'The Way', as Christianity was first called, is based on the, hitherto, much neglected Epistle of St James. The comparatively recent finding of the Qumran 'Community Rule' has led to a 're-discovery' of this Epistle, for parallels with Deuteronomy and the Community Rule now show that it was originally intended as a Constitution for the Christian Church." Pp.80, occasional light spotting. Pbk, slightly rubbed. G+.

London: SCM, 1951.. 1st ed. "In the shifting patterns of today it is not easy to see where we are going, nor are we of one purpose about our destination". Pp. 143. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w has slight chipping and rubbing. G+/G.

London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1932.. Originally published in 1927 under the title 'Landstrykere' (Wayfarers), the first novel in the 'August' trilogy. This is the 3s and 6d edition. Translated from the Norwegian by Eugene Gay-Tifft. Pp.549, occasional light spotting, toning to free endpapers. Brown cloth, dustwrapper browned to spine with 1tears and losses to top front edge and top and tail of spine. Scarce. G+/Fair.** Knut Hamsun " pioneered psychological literature with techniques of stream of consciousness and interior monologue, and influenced authors such as Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Maxim Gorky, Stefan Zweig, Henry Miller, Hermann Hesse, John Fante, Charles Bukowski and Ernest Hemingway....Hamsun had strong anti-English views, and openly supported Adolf Hitler and Nazi ideology. Due to his professed support for the German occupation of Norway, he was charged with treason after the war. He was not convicted, due to what was deemed psychological problems and issues with old age". (wiki).

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937.. 3rd impression. "A wanderer denies the existence of system: that is the essence of vagabondage....you will find me rambling in these notes, as I have rambled by Fell and Force: over the hills, through heather and fern, one day; the next idling along a stream to some remote tarn - ever avoiding towns like the plague..." Pp.246, black & white frontispiece and 18 further illustrations by A.S.Hartrick + 1 sketch map, signed dedication to half-title page and facing page. Green cloth, dustwrapper a little dusty with small edge tears and losses. G+/Good.

Langley: St Paul Editions, 1967.. 1st editon. "A collection of short but thrilling biographies of five famous priests who, beset by peril, persecution and seemingly insurmountable difficulties, wrought great achievements and suffered even to death as true heroes of God." Contents: 1.A Lancashire Hero: Thomas Jackson, Mill Hill Father (1844-1916); 2.Planting the Cross in China: Fr. Joseph Freinademetz, S.V.D. (1852-1908); 3.A Dangerous Man: Dr Titus Brandsma, O.C. (1881-1942); 4.Death to the Peacemaker: Max Josef Metzger (1887-1944); 5.Behind the Bamboo Curtain: Fr. Bede Chang, S.J. (1905-1951). Pp.139. Paperback. VG.

New York:Charles Scribners,1938.. 1st ed. The International Library of Christian Knowledge series. Pp10/213. Black cloth, blind-stamped title to front, gilt title to spine rubbed. G+.

London: Nicholson and Watson,1939.. 1st ed. The International Library of Christian Knowledge series. Pp.170. Black cloth, d/w rubbed. VG/G+.

London: J.T.Hayes, 1869.. 1st ed. Full title: The Validity of the Holy Orders of the Church of England Maintained and Vindicated, both Theologically and Historically, with Foot-Notes, Tables of Consecrations, and Appendices. Pp.32/533/3(ads), armorial bookplate of Alfred Edward Alston to inside front board. Blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt title to spine, edges slightly rubbed. VG.

London: Methuen and Co., 1895.. Second edition. Journal-letters from Samoa. Pp.xx/366/32(ads for other publications), portrait frontispiece of Stevenson (etched by W.Strang) + 2 photo portrait plates, owner's name to front free endpaper, occasional spotting and small pink spots to lower margins of first 36 pages, rough-cut page edges. Brown cloth, gilt motif to front board, gilt title to spine, edges rubbed. Good.

London: Faber & Faber, 1971.. Rep. "... evokes the atmosphere of a Radnor valley: life as it was lived on the old farm - the shepherds and sheep, people and weather, customs and conversation - in the first quarter of this century". Pp.170. P/b with illustrated cover G+.

The Art Institute Of Chicago - Ryerson Library. Glass lantern slide with a black & white illustration of the Stour Valley, Suffolk. 3.25" x 4.0" (8.2cm x 10.2cm). Title label to one side:"Scotland Murray, David. The Valley of the Stour." The other side has a paper label: "The Art Institute Of Chicago - Ryerson Library".

London: Hodder and Stoughton,1935.. Rep. Pp.203. White cloth, spine darkened. VG.

Ontario; G.R. Welch Co. Ltd., 1968.. 1st ed. Twelve sermons. Pp. 144. Orange cloth, d/w, slight chipping to corners. VG/G.

Romford: Ian Henry Publications, 1992.. 1st edition. "From Viking invasion, through the birth and decline of the Stour Navigation, to the coming and going of the railways, the reader is whisked along the highways and byways of Suffolk and Essex with a new discovery at every turn.." 25cms x 17cms. Pp.138, many black & white illustrations throughout, signed by the author to title page, owner's details to half-title page. Paperback. VG.

London:Macmillan,1949.. 2nd impression. 3rd book in the Adventure series. Pp.10/341, frontispiece + further black & white illustrations by Stuart Tresilian,slight spotting to external page edges not affecting text. Yellow illustrated cloth, slight fading and wear to spine. G+

San Francisco: Chandler Publishing Co., 1969.. 1st ed. A survey of the evolving meanings of mental health in the West from classical Greece to the present. Pp. 12/305. Light turquoise green cloth, illustrated d/w has small losses. VG/G.

New York: D.Appleton-Century Company, 1941.. Social History of the Northern Plains and Rocky Mountains from the Earliest White Contacts to the Coming of the Homemaker. Prequel to "The Sod-House Frontier". Pp.xviii/574, black & white frontispiece + 31 further black & white plates, maps to endpapers (The Northern Plains and Rocky Mountains), small owner's name to front free endpaper. Brown cloth, cowboy on a horse motif to front board. VG.

London: Chatto & Windus, 2016.. 1st edition. "An innovative fusion of detection and biography." "The captivating and mysterious tale of a Victorian bookseller whose fate was changed forever by the greatet painter of all time. In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velasquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history..." Pp.296. Black boards, dustwrapper has minor water staining to reverse of front cover which is not apparent to the outside. VG/VG.

Eastbourne: Kingsway, 1985.. On July 16, 1972, a young man, a soldier, died in the Crimea. He was a church member, and his death was a violent one. Details of how it happened and why are told in this moving book". Pp.159. Pbk. VG.