Webb Bower Exeter Devon (67 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Third Impression August 1987. The book is in good condition with a sturdy hardcover binding. There are no visible inscriptions or library markings. The absence of a dust jacket is noted, but the cover design remains vibrant and intact. Overall, the book maintains its structural integrity and visual appeal. unknown (no dust jacket visible). Cooper Thirkell Limited (design) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Edition Not Stated. A record of British furnishing and decorating tastes over the last hundred years Near Fine in dust jacket, slight shelfwear.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A VERY GOOD, bright, clean, tight copy sans rips/tears, stains, discoloration and interior markings. PROLIFICALLY ILLUSTRATED in full color and black-and-white photography (many full or double-page) with accompanying descriptive captions. "National Maritime Museum Guide to Maritime Britain" is the definitive guide to Britain's great maritime heritage. It is a region-by-region account of the maritime history of this seafaring nation. In the company of one of Britain's leading yachting journalists circumnavigate the British Isles, exploring en route places of maritme significance." 208 pages. "National Maritime Museum Guide to Maritime Britain" is beautifully illustrated throughout with specially commissioned photographs by Simon McBride and historic archive material from the collection of the National Maritime Museum." NOTE: Due to size and weight of the book additional shipping cost will be requested for EXPEDITED and OUT-OF-U.S. shipment. GC5.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Pale red cloth-effect boards, lettered in gold foil. Very slightly rubbed extremities, gift inscription inked on half-title, otherwise essentially as issued. Color pictorial dust jacket shows price-clipped front flap, otherwise nearly as issued. 200 pp., illus. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book. …

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Original prices of £14.95 net, USA $19.95/Canada $29.95, now protected in paper backed polyester film. Book has no writing or marking. Not ex-library.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1989). 1989 1st edition thus. 4to (198 x 254mm). Pp192. 14 colour plates, b/w photographs throughout, b/w maps. Green boards, spine titled in white. Ex-library copy. General overview of the accessible outdoor spaces of Britain. The book was first published as A Day In The Country in 1979 by Andre Deutsch .…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition, First Impression. Original price of £8.95 printed on dust jacket front flap. Jacket now protected in paper backed polyester film. Book has light edge wear else fine with no writing or marking.

Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st. small 4to. 224pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First edition, first printing with no other printings listed, 1983. Pictorial cloth boards with black lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; Color Illustrations; 48 pages; Illustrations drawn from sources from the 14th to the 19th centuries. Origins, history and a recipe for many common herbs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1980. Webb & Bower, Exeter, 1980. Hard cover. Book Condition : Near fine, like new. Appears little read.Superb colour illustrations. minor shelf wear. Heavy book may incur extra postage. Book will be sent by Uk postal service. Bookseller Inventory #011082. Harry Price (illustrator). N/A. …

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1981). (1879) 1981 new edition. Folio (218 x 310mm). Pp256. 41 Colour plates by A. F. Lydon, engravings by Benjamin Fawcett, brown end-papers. Brown cloth backed paper-covered boards, pictorial gilt design to upper board, spine titled in gilt. Various minor faults, slight spotting to edges and end-papers. Good-plus in slightly spine-faded dust-wrapper. A good one-volume reprint of the well-known and collectable colour plate book, originally published in two volumes in 1879. "The book combines a scholarly and comprehensive text with illustrations of an accuracy and artistic standard rarely seen today. There are sixty-two species described; forty-one are illustrated with colour plates and each section opens with a charming landscape drawing." One of the most attractive fishery science/ angling books of all. This edition contains a new foreword by Lord Hardinge of Penshurst. . …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1988). 1988 1st edition. Oblong 4to (263 x 226mm). Pp160. B/w, colour photographs, map. Green boards, spine titled in silver gilt. Various minor faults. Good-plus in used dust-wrapper. The author visits some of the less well known and harder to get to parts of the British and Irish inland waterways. Contents include, the Wiltshire and Hampshire Avon, Strangford Lough, Lough Neagh and the Lower Bann, the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation, Tollesbury and Old Hall Marshes RSPB reserve, Newtown River I.o.W., Kentmere and the River Kent, Long Sleddale and the River Sprint, Eskdale, the River Esk and Whillan Beck, Lochs Scavaig and Coruisk on Skye, Lochs Laxford and Roag on Lewis, Lough Erne, the Suffolk and Essex Stour, the Tamar, the Dart and Devonport Leat, the tidal reaches of the Exe, Beverley Brook in London. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Price clipped DJ, previous owner sticker of the Countess of Harewood to front endpaper. ; First edition, first printing with no other printings listed. Blue cloth boards with black lettering to spine. Nice tight copy. ; 64 pages; A delightful and easy to follow instruction book full of small projects that would make wonderful gifts, (or you could always just keep them for yourself! ).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Large 8vo. 208 (2) pp, color and b/w illus. Webb & Bower in association with Michael Joseph: First Edition, 1987. Price clipped. Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean and white. 7.75" x 10". Brown cloth with white lettering to spine. Pictorial dj in acetate protector. "This book is about the places Shakespeare is known to have lived, and the venues where the troupe of actors performed during his time as a player. The use of specially commissioned photographs, and an illuminating text enable us to reconstruct the Elizabethan world in which Shakespeare lived and performed." Size: Wide Quarto. Simon McBride (photographer) (illustrator). Book.…

Second Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked, dust-toned and sun-toned dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.Subjects: Queens Great Britain ; Biography; Kings and rulers; Queens; Peerage/Royalty; United Kingdom; Kings, queens, rulers, etc. Great Britain History; Kings, queens, rulers, etc. Great Britain ; Biography; Great Britain Kings and rulers ; Biography; Great Britain; England. 1 Kg. …

Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, color portrait ; 26 cm. Notes; Published in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Previous edition published in 2 volumes as Recollections of a happy life, London : Macmillan, 1892. Maps on lining papers. Subject; North, Marianne 1830-1890 ; Biography. Botanical artists Great Britain Biography. Painters Great Britain Biography. Botanical illustration History. Women painters Great Britain Biography. 1 Kg.…

Second Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked, dust-toned and sun-toned dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.Subjects: Queens Great Britain ; Biography; Kings and rulers; Queens; Peerage/Royalty; United Kingdom; Kings, queens, rulers, etc. Great Britain History; Kings, queens, rulers, etc. Great Britain ; Biography; Great Britain Kings and rulers ; Biography; Great Britain; England. 1 Kg. …

1st Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 128 pages: chiefly illustrations (some colour); 23 x 27 cm. Subjects: Quinton, A. R. Quinton, A. R. (Alfred Robert) 1853-1934. Quinton, Alfred Robert. Landscape painting, English. Great Britain Rural conditions 19th century. Great Britain Rural conditions 20th century. English watercolour landscape paintings Quinton, A R (Alfred Robert), 1853-1934 Illustrations. English watercolour landscape paintings Quinton, A R (Alfred Robert) 1853-1934. Genre: Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 127 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm. Subjects; Natural history England Selborne. Natural history. Natural history England Selborne (Hampshire). Selborne. Hampshire. England. Hampshire Selborne Natural environment - Correspondence, diaries, etc. White, Gilbert 1720-1793 Biography. 1 Kg.…

Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, color portrait ; 26 cm. Notes; Published in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Previous edition published in 2 volumes as Recollections of a happy life, London : Macmillan, 1892. Maps on lining papers. Subject; North, Marianne 1830-1890 ; Biography. Botanical artists Great Britain Biography. Painters Great Britain Biography. Botanical illustration History. Women painters Great Britain Biography. 1 Kg.…

1st Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 128 pages: chiefly illustrations (some colour); 23 x 27 cm. Subjects: Quinton, A. R. Quinton, A. R. (Alfred Robert) 1853-1934. Quinton, Alfred Robert. Landscape painting, English. Great Britain Rural conditions 19th century. Great Britain Rural conditions 20th century. English watercolour landscape paintings Quinton, A R (Alfred Robert), 1853-1934 Illustrations. English watercolour landscape paintings Quinton, A R (Alfred Robert) 1853-1934. Genre: Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 127 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm. Subjects; Natural history England Selborne. Natural history. Natural history England Selborne (Hampshire). Selborne. Hampshire. England. Hampshire Selborne Natural environment - Correspondence, diaries, etc. White, Gilbert 1720-1793 Biography. 1 Kg.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1987). (1935) 1987 this edition. 4to (195 x 252mm). Pp208. Colour plates, illustrations & foreword by Michael Loates, decorated end-papers. Minor faults, tanning to page edges. Good-plus in slightly used dust-wrapper. This is Henry Williamson's famous story of the life of a salmon. "The country of the story lies between the Severn Estuary to the north and Dartmoor and its rivers to the south." Good illustrations and foreword by Michael Loates. .…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Four pictorial hardcovers in decorative slipcase. Fourth printing. Books are -- As New, crisp and clean. Slipcase with marbled-patterned paper has very light wear. Contains the following titles: "Tile Paintings, " "Patterns for Papers, " "Patterns for Textiles, " and "Floral Borders. " Color plates throughout, with introductions by Hilary Young, Sarah Postgate and Gill Saunders. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.…

Fourth Edition. Provenance: Bookplate of Roy and Nina Merley. Fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: The Victoria and Albert colour books. Physical description: 13, [1] pages, 32 pages of plates : chiefly colour illustrations ; 21cm. Notes: Illustrations on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (page 14). Subjects: Endpapers ; Pictorial works. Book decoration ; Endpapers and lining papers. Decorative arts ; Patterns and design. 1 Kg.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Trade pbk, minor rubbing to card covers along lower edges. Clean, unmarked copy. No sign of wear to the interior pages. This copy is the 3rd impression published in 1989 "Winston Graham's saga of Cornish life in the eighteenth century has established itself as a classic, and a phenomenal publishing success.The Poldark television series kept large audiences enthralled all over the world. Winston Graham describes the Cornwall he loves and knows so well and tells the story of how Poldark came to be written - what inspired him - and how the television epic came to be made.".…

Hardcover. dj. 1st edition. pp. 128. Oblong 4to. Very sl. edge wear; else vg/nf in sl. scuffed, edge-rubbed vg dj. '.this new biography reveals the range of [Greenaway's] work, from her earliest designs to the books which made her famous.'. colour, b&w illustrations (illustrator).

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1987). (1935) 1987 this edition. 4to (195 x 252mm). Pp208. Colour plates, illustrations & foreword by Michael Loates, decorated end-papers. One or two pages a little creased else very good in dust-wrapper. This is Henry Williamson's famous story of the life of a salmon. "The country of the story lies between the Severn Estuary to the north and Dartmoor and its rivers to the south." Good illustrations and foreword by Michael Loates. . …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. No internal markings; price clipped D/J.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good +. First Edition. 223 pages. Dustjacket has light wear to spine-ends and corners, unclipped. Hardback binding has light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Pages very clean. Nice condition.