Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Wadard Books PBFA

London: Blackie & Son Ltd. A Bundle of Tales. Decorated and gilt cover, clean but worn. Slight foxing to early pages. Prize plate to front paste down dated 1910.

Yarrow, 1990 The story of a famous company from its small beginnings on the Thames to that of one of the nations leading industrial firms on the Clyde. Traces the history of the torpedo boat and destroyer with which Yarrows were involved from the very beginning. 179pp well illustrated in black and white. A complimentary copy to the Flag Officer Scotland with a letter from Sir Robert Easton, Chairman of the company dated December 1990.

London: Field & Tuer Undated circa 1890s. Based on an early medieval manuscript purportedly found in Ludlow Castle, transcribed and edited by Griffith Boan in 1512. This edition is typical of the output of Field & Tuer whose publishing output ceased in 1905. 105pp. The binding is a little slack and the spine has been reinforced at some time with clear tape.

London: The Studio Ltd, 1935 David Low (1891-1963) was one of the most famous cartoonists in the world. Here he reveals something of himself and his work explaining the ingredients of caricature. Ye Madde Designer is both entertaining and instructive and contains about 90 of Low's best drawings.
128pp illustrated in black and white naturally.
Book size 260x195mm

Chippenham, Wilts: Robert Ogilby Trust, 1991 32pp plus covers. A good clean copy.

Chippenham, Wilts: Robert Ogilby Trust, 1988 32pp plus covers. Good clean copy.

London: Gale & Polden Guidons are carried only by Regiments of Yeomanry dressed as Dragoons. Certain Regiments carry drums without drum banners. Regiments raised since 1900 with few exceptions do not carry drums. Undated circa mid 1920s. Folded size 220x230mm. Flate size 485x745mm.

London: The Military Historical Society, 2005 It was chosen to start this work in the year 1830 because that was the year a new king - William IV - ascended the throne and the Yeomanry saw one of its periodic expansions. 56pp plus covers, illustrated in colour and black and white.

Miami, Florida: E.A Seemann Publishing Inc., 1976 Here is a big view of the State of Connecticut. Here are some of the best and proud and entertaining stories of its people.
144pp in black and white.
Book size 260x185mm.

Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1980 Outlines and illustrates the dramatic changes that took place between 1780 and 1914 in a town which was swept with a tidal wave of three revolutions - Social, industrial and French.
116pp illustrated in black and white.
Size 265x210MM

London: B.T.Batsford, 1975 Both a history and a perambulation, in which the reader will learn from the most informed of cicerones of the styles, architects, dates and associations of buildings which might otherwise have remained no more than anonymous facades. 192 pages with plans, portraits, photographs and prints.

Tunbridge Wells: Robert Ogilby Trust 16pp plus covers. A good clean copy.

Tunbridge Wells: Robert Ogilby Trust, 1984 32pp plus covers. A good clean copy.

Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922 "That Boswell was at times a very foolish young man any reader may see; but he was not. I think, so foolish as many of his critics have been. When all is said, he has genius, and of that I have tried to make a sympathetic study." 266pp including index.

London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1905 108pp well illustrated in black and white.

London: A.K.Newman and Co. Undated circa 1830s. 195pp with frontis plate. The publishers, A.K.Newman specialised in juvenile and prize books and show an extensive list of titles both front and back. Booksellers label to the front pastedown.

Princetown: Princetown University Press, 1960 Disraelis early life based on correspondence with Benjamin and Sara Austen and material relating to his mistresses Clara Bolton and Lady Sykes. 327 pages. Light fading to cover.

London: Charles H.Kelly, 1898 Recommendations of the day covering the Scriptures, Biography and Travel, Poetry and Fiction. 269pp gilt top edge.

London: George Newnes, 1949 A book of their thoughts and moods and emotions. For the bedside and the quiet moment. 96pp. Dust jacket edgeworn and chipped.

Abingdon : Purnell Book Services, 1967 An account of the campaign around Ypres in 1917 as iy was experienced by a young private in the Northumberland Fuailiers, one of the few who fought right through from the opening attack in June until the front ws finally stabilized in November.
192pp with two maps. Size 240x160mm.