Search Results: Titles starting with V from Eastleach Books

Michael Joseph, 1968. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, VG. 250pp, colour frontis, 4pp colour & 16pp b/w plates, index, spine faded, & edges a little bumped & rubbed. Extracts, arranged month by month, taken from Sackville West's 'In Your Garden' series of books which describe her garden as Sissinghurst.

Wrens Park, 2001. 1st edition thus.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. 160pp, b/w illustrations, a nice fine as new copy. A new edition, reset. Account of the 32 Victoria Crosses awarded to aviators in WW2 - here are the exploits that earned the men their VC's.

Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2010. 1st edition.. Paperback. Large format paperback, F. 128pp, colour & b/w illustrations, index, a nice fine copy. Osprey Aviation Elite Units Series vol 36. An overview of Fighting Squardon 11 from its formation in 1942 when they flew Wildcats & Hellcats from the USS Hornet, to the end of the unit in 1995 when they flew F-14Tomcats from USS Kitty Hawk.

University Of Toronto Press, 1991. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. x+246pp, index, a nice fine copy. New. Study of the changes in Tudor & Jacobean writing practices when the ideology of the World which underpins them must interpret, regulate & contain a social order undergoing radical upheaval.

University Of Toronto Press, 1991. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. x+246pp, index, a nice fine copy. New. Study of the changes in Tudor and Jacobean writing practices when the ideology of the World which underpins them must interpret, regulate and contain a social order undergoing radical change.

University Of Toronto Press, 1991. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. x+246pp, index, a nice fine copy. New. Study of the changes in Tudor & Jacobean writing practices when the ideology of the World which underpins them must interpret, regulate and contain a social order undergoing radical change.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1938. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, G+. xiv+322pp, colour frontis, 15 colour plates all with captioned uards, folding map, 1 map to the text, index, cloth bumped & rubbed alt the edhes, traces of old newspaper stuck to the pastedowns. An account of the 1931 'discovery' of a remote valley rich in flora in the state of Uttarakhand in India. Smythe, Eric Shipton and R L Holdsworth, all British mountaineers, stumbled into the valley after losing their way when returning from a successful expedition to Mount Kamet.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. 2nd edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG+. xxviii+150pp, 48pp b/w plates, index, a fine copy in a priceclipped & slightly spine faded dustjacket. Detailed study of the contextual & figurative meaning of the Valois Tapestries which now hang in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Commissioned by Catherine de Medici in the 15th C they were a pictorial record of the series of festivals which had been held at the Valois court in a vain attempt to engender reconcilliation between various hostile religious factions.

Harper & Row, 1980. 1st edition.. Paperback. Large format paperback, VG. viii+246pp, b/w text figs, index, text block clean & free from marking / underlining. A side by side look at 2 aspects of education - values & evaluation - that are seldom compared.

Corporation of London - Guildhall Library Publications, 1996. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, F. x+85pp, b/w illustrations throughout, a fine copy. A survey of the churches in London which no longer exist.

Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1978. 1st US edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG. 296pp, 16pp colour plates, endpaper maps, 46 b/w text illustrations, 8 b/w maps, index, fine copy in a slightly yellowed & edge worn dustjacket. Account of the 130 or so species of bird which have become extinct in the last 300 years & of those which are on the brink of extinction due to the activities of mankind.

Smith, Elder, & Co, 15 Waterloo Place, 1871. reprint.. Hardback. Cloth, VG. xii+672pp, engraved frontis, corners a little bumped & rubbed, hinges cracked but holding, Armorial bookplate ( Campbell ), Volume I of the publishers 'Works of William Makepeace Thackeray', but without an ordinal to the spine. Thackeray's 'most representative novel - a picture of society on a broad canvas, embracing a great variety of characters & interests, the object to depict mankind with all its faults and meannesses, without idealisation or romance' [Baker & Packman]

Hutchinson, 1964. 1st edition.. Hardback. cloth, dj, VG/VG. 235pp slightly bumped & worn to edges. Authors 12th novel, set in 1800's France. A historical potboiler.

University Of London Press, 1969. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG/VG. viii+291pp, spine of the dustjacket yellowed, mark to the upper panel where a sticker has been removed, corners bumped, otherwise a nice copy. Interpretations of a series of dramatic productions, from Greek drama to Brecht.

Garland Publishing, New York, Hollywood Film Archive, Hollywood, 1983. 2nd impression.. Hardback. Cloth, F. unpaginated [ approx 700pp ], a fine copy. Facsimile printing of the film review section from the pages of the Hollywood newspaper Variety.

The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1972. 1st edition.. Paperback. Large format paperback, VG. unpaginated [ 156pp ], 28 colour & 123 b/w illustrations, covers a little marked, bottom R corner bumped. A survey of the works of art by the pioneer of abstract artist Vasily Kandinsky [ 1866 - 1944 ] held at the Guggenheim & Hilla R collections.

Penguin, 2010. reprint.. Paperback. Paperback, F. xxxviii+314pp, index, a fine copy. The book contains, as well was Vathek, Beckford's other Oriental Tale - The Long Story. Also included are his Satires, and his travel diaries.

I B Tauris, 1991. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, G. x+275pp, wrappers a little worn, otherwise a nice copy. A selection from travellers' accounts, often shocking, written in the late 19th & early 20th centuries.

Arsenale Editrice, Venice, 1996. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG. 223pp, 230 colour illustrations, bottom L corner bumped, distjacket with a repaired slit to the spine & some rubbing at the edges, a nice copy. A collection of short essays on modern glass design & art, followed by a pictorial survey of the creativeness of 87 leading modern glass artists from around the World.

Hogarth Press, 1952. 5th impression.. Hardback. Cloth, G. xiv+241pp, b/w frontis, spine faded, cloth damaged to rear board, a good reading copy. Account of the author's travels in Africa to Nyasaland, carried out at the behest of the British Government. The trip sees the author exploring the remote Mlanje mountain & then on to the Nyika plateau.