Volturna Press (54 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. 1st Edition. Good Clean Condition Book. Light foxing to the page edges.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Ex-library hardback, no jacket, bumped slightly at head and tail of spine, light wear at edges, boards otherwise unmarked. Return slip, barcode on FEP; inkstamps on edges of page block, FEP, and half-title. Contents otherwise clean and sound throughout. TPW. Ex-Library.…

1st Edition in this form. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. From George Seaver's own library through the Zozimus (Wyse Jackson) sale 2021. Geroge Seaver was an English biographer and polar enthusiast. In 1946, Seaver was appointed bishop's vicar of Kilkenny Cathedral in Ireland, but even after his retirement his interest in polar affairs and writing biographies remained until his death in 1976. Physical description: 96 pages: 5 plates. Subjects:Local clergy. Religious works. Hartford, Diana Mary. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Minimal wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 151pp hardback, red cloth gilt frontispiece portrait and bw plates, very good in a very good wrapper.

1st Edition in this form. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. From George Seaver's own library through the Zozimus (Wyse Jackson) sale 2021. Geroge Seaver was an English biographer and polar enthusiast. In 1946, Seaver was appointed bishop's vicar of Kilkenny Cathedral in Ireland, but even after his retirement his interest in polar affairs and writing biographies remained until his death in 1976. Physical description: 96 pages: 5 plates. Subjects:Local clergy. Religious works. Hartford, Diana Mary. 1 Kg.…

1st edition. 8vo. xiii + 233pp. Tipped in colour frontispiece and 4 tipped in colour plates, b/w. illustrations from drawings, map. Bookplate to inside front cover. Paperback in original pictorial yellow wrapps. lettered in black, rubbed. ISBN 0856063614 US$11.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. small 4mo perfect bound card covered booklet, illustrated throughout with diagrams, schematics. Errata slip laid in.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. further medical reminiscences, signed presentation copy from the editor. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover with dustjacket. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Fine dark blue cloth, no inscriptions or marks. Unclipped dustjacket. Illustrated with black & white diagrams, maps, charts, and colour plates. "Among the uses and properties studied, besides the cloth industry, are pharmacy, oil well drilling, agriculture, foundries, sealing ponds and canals, other uses in civil engineering, oil refining, ore pelletising, pesticides, catalysis and folk medicine. "; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 421 pages.…

149pp, index, bibliography : a study of the persistence of personality beyond death from a psychical viewpoint, includes case studies & a chapter on non-medical healing; hardback vg vg dw.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A good copy in the dust wrapper, title page torn, dust wrapper chipped.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. HARDBACK blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pictorial dust-jacket a little faded on spine, small tear at head repaired (not price-clipped). excepting these slight flaws on d-j this is as new. Please contact me for further information or photographs if required.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Gray stain on top edge of text block, which does not bleed down into the text, otherwise very good in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on front flyleaf. Inscribed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 151pp, frontis, two plates, d/w in removable protective plastic sleeve. Edited by Denis Hayes Crofton.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Conservation Society Reprints vol 3. A collection of articles on the population problem by members and vice-presidents of the Conservation Society. viii, 147pp. Rear cover and page block head are slightly marked; spine is tanned and lightly creased. Very faint wear to late upper page corners. All content is clear. TS. Used.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Condition : Fair/very usable study copy. Ex-university library with associated library markings. Hard cover, no jacket. 421pp. No highlighting or annotations to text. Small indentation to top edge. Pages age toned. Photo on request.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. 185 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Nr Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Vg-plus to Near Fine. Excellent clean firm interior, no marks or inscriptions, just slight tan to top closed edge of pages, excellent clean firm boards; d/j has faint tone to top edge otherwise vg-plus appearance, not price-clipped./.

First Edition. A comprehensive study of the ancient chemical 'Fuller's earth'. 421pp. Large and heavy item for which there will be an additional postage charge for overseas orders - please enquire in advance of order Near Fine in near Fine VG jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback. Conservation Society Reprints vol 1. A collection of articles on the population problem by members and vice-presidents of the Conservation Society. xi, 96 + (w)16 (insert, slightly haphazardly bound in: Britain's Population Problem by Dr Michael Watts). Exterior is a little marked and worn; spine is creased. All content is clear. 'First published October, 1968. (Reprinted from original plates October, 1969.)' TS. Used. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Conservation Society Reprints vol 2. A collection of articles on the population problem by members and vice-presidents of the Conservation Society. xii, 136pp. With errata slip laid in. Covers are lightly marked and worn; spine is a little sunned; mark on page block head. Content is clear throughout. TS. Used.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Paperback. 21.5 × 15cm, 147pp. An anthology of prose and poetry on one theme - the conservation of the Earth's resources from the earliest warnings and writings in the Bible, through the Industrial Age with Wordsworth, Cowper, Clare, and lesser known writers including an Indian Chief, and on to the menace of the modern age and the future with Stephen Jay Gould, Ted Hughes, and Philip Larkin. Condition: This copy is in very good condition, the only fault is the frontispiece illustrations is starting to work loose a little.…

Condition: Near Fine. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), xv, 151pp. Frontispiece and 2 plates. Original orange cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0856061492.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Type: Book pp xviii, 421. 1st printing. Private library plate to FPD. Presented by the Author (presumed in his hand) to flyleaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Smith, Francis Maylett. A G.P.'s progress to the Black Country / edited by Dennis Hayes Crofton. Hythe: Volturna Press, 1984. Hardback, VG, in unclipped dustjacket, with minor shelfwear and some colour-dye leak from the boards along the top edge. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. Ownership name and annotation to ffep. Frontispiece b/w photograph. 151pp., b/w photographs. Contents clean and bright. Francis Maylett Smith worked in the South Wales coalfields as a medical assistant until 1915, before buying a GP practice in the Black Country, from which he retired in 1933. He died, aged 67, during the Second World War. This is his second book of memoirs, a sequel to "The Surgery at Aberffrwd". RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…

Condition: Good. Good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with minor age tone. DJ with light wear, fading to spine and two repairs.