David Ford Books PBFA

Condition: Very good. Softcover book 118 pages. Well illustrated book on the incredible miniature locomotives built by David Curwen's company A Very good copy with light creasing to back corner. Pictures available.

Condition: Good. First edition. Hardcover book . Green cloth, title printed in black on paper label to spine, no dustjacket. 127pp. History and severe economic problems of the Lancashire cotton industry since 1914, an analysis and plea for change. Good copy. Clean covers, pages have some spotting to ends and closed edges, binding holding though loosening in centre. Name neatly to flyleaf. Pictures available.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Supplement to the book, Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Honours and Awards, published eight years before: including new awards and new material based on further research. Paperback: white card wrappers, stapled, lettered in maroon, with regimental emblem of deer printed in maroon to front. 22pp, quarto. With fold-out centrespread of b&w photos of soldiers of the regiment in uniform. Very Good copy. Light marks to front wrapper. Clean pages but some small losses and tags to fore-edge of a couple of pages. Note: 1972 Roll of Honour for the same regiment is also listed by this seller.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Paperback: laminated pictorial card wrappers. Unpaginated. Landscape format. With watercolour illustrations throughout by Eleanor Irving, great niece of the author + b/w photos. In 1875 Chequers was a large private house in the Chilterns A Very Good copy.

Condition: Very Good. Reprint. (first published in 1950). Hardcover book Cloth, gilt titles, and dustjacket. 201pp. With 18 text figures. Mathematical appendix. Acceleration principle of why trade variations are cyclical in charcter. Very Good book in Good protected jacket. Foxing spots to edges and to endpapers. Jacket has some handling marks, large loss to front corner, smaller edge losses. Pictures available.

Condition: Very Good. Soft cover book , 18x22.5cms, 32pp plus 8pp of photographic illustrations and route map. Pictorial covers, some light marks to edges, faint fingermarks to rear. Internally clean. A Very Good copy. Pictures available.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small, slim HB. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine and front, with dark blue border lines, no dustjacket. 57pp. Gilt top edge, hand cut fore edges. Nicely produced slim volume of poems, influenced by Classics. Very Good : covers clean, gilt bright, scratch to back, rubbed edges, light fraying to lower spine end; pages clean with light foxing spots to ends and front edge; browning to title from press cutting enclosed; name and date to flyleaf.

Condition: good. Ty Cwrdd Annibynwyr. Blaenau Bro Nan-Hyfer. Welsh language throughout apart from quotes from an English language title. HB. 80pp. 24 B&W plates and two diagrams. Discoloration to edges of covers. Foxing to top edge of pages. Spine sunned. A good+ copy.

Fine. First edition. Paperback: colour pictorial card wrappersreproducing painting by Cotman. 176pp, quarto. Well illustrated throughout with 10 colour photos and illustrations, and many in b&w, in the text. Fine copy. Photos available.

Fine. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover First Edition with dustjacket. 472 pages. How schools have affected the great and the good? in their lives. a Fine copy without inscriptions in a Very Good dustjacket which has a slight fade to spine.Pages slightly tanned.

Fine. First edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 132pp, quarto. With 148 b&w photos and illustrations in text, maps to endpapers. Detailed text on the port and town of Hythe in Kent. Fine in Fine jacket, now in clear sleeve.

Fine. First edition. Paperback book : laminated card wrappers. 431pp, h: 23cms. 2 maps. Texts by 29 authors over 200 years, including George Woodcock. A Fine copy. Pictures available.

Condition: Good. First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and colour pictorial wraparound dustjacket from painting by Gordon L Harvey. 164pp, quarto. With b&w photos and illustrations in text throughout. Maps to endpapers. A Good copy in a good only jacket. Book clean without inscription but with darkening to cover edges. Dustwrapper has some edge wear with some nicks and tears to corners. Pictures available.

Fine. First edition. Signed by the author on top margin of first page (signature and date). Paperback book : blue card wrappers, lettered in black, illustrated with 3 photos; stapled, 24pp. Illustrated throughout with 15 b&w photos plus line drawings and small maps. Full history of a Sunderland flying boat built for the RAF in 1943, which was converted to a civil aviation Sandringham IV, and flown by Tasman Empire Airways between Australia and New Zealand. The history of similar aircraft of the fleet are also described. Fine copy. Pictures available.

Fine. First edition. Hardcover book . Black cloth with gilt tiles, and colour photo-illustrated dustjacket. 176pp, quarto. With 8 pages of colour photos in plates, and b&w photos in text throughout. Contributors: Gordon Burton, Neville Fickling, Mike Green & Barrie Rickards. Fine in Fine jacket, now in clear removable sleeve. Pictures available.

fine. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Paperback book : laminated white card wrappers, stapled, lettered in black with printed images to front of company logo and RMSP maritime postal mark. 88pp. Cockrill Series Booklet no. 49. With b&w photos and illustrations in text, throughout, including photos of ships and many maritime postal marks. Detailed text on the history of the company, with fleet list. Aimed partly at collectors of maritime postal marks and stamps. Very Good. Some brown spotting to back edge of wrapper, otherwise fine. Pictures available.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 254pp. With 4 figures and 2 maps. Population changes, birth, marriage and death rates, family structure in York during the industrial revolution. Very Good in Very Good protected jacket: clean covers, lightly creased spine ends, a few small marks, marks to back endpapers. Jacket has creased & lightly rubbed edges.

Fine. Softcover book with Wrapper. First in Persephone books, Number 90. A Fine unmarked copy.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. HB. Cloth and dustjacket. 242pp. With line drawings & figures in text. The power of smell and taste in humans, applied to food, wine (the author owns a winery) and sexual attraction. Very Good copy, with some very light creasing to jacket.

Fine. Softcover book with Wrapper. and bookmark. Rreprint, Persephone books, number 29. A Fine unmarked copy.

Condition: Very Good. First US edition. Paperback book : laminated colour photo-illustrated card wrappers. 128pp, large landscape format. With colour photos throughout, some whole page, of more than 50 trolleycars, full vehicle and detailed close-ups. Includes some British vehicles as well. Also a few historic b&w photos. Text has full history and technical specifications. Very Good; light handling marks and edge wear to wrappers. Pictures available.

Fine. 200 Years of Freemasonry in Hertfordshire 1797-1997. Foreword by RW Bro Michael Batham Jones. Hardcover book , 1st ED, 22x30cms, endpaper maps, viii, 228pp, illustrations throughout in colour and b&w. Includes laid in folded Family Tree of the 200 Lodges in the Province of Hertfordshire. A near Fine copy in near Fine DJ. No inscriptions. Very lightly sunned jacket to rear. Pictures available.

Fine. An illustrated record. HB, 1st ED, 21.5x31cms, 148pp with illustrations. A near Fine copy in VG+ DJ.

Fine. Second edition, with added material, of title first published in 2006. HB. Laminated colour pictorial boards, as issued, quarto, 256pp. With many b&w photos, illustrations, diagrams and maps in the text. A detailed history of Bodmin Jail in Cornwall from its opening in 1779, as well as some history of other jails in Cornwall and contextual history of prison conditions in England in the eighteenth century, and the efforts of reformers such as John Howard. Fine copy of a nicely presented book. Photos available.

Fine. Appears to be second edition (originally published in 1983?). SIgned by the author inside front wrapper (just signature). Paperback book : colour pictorial card wrappers, lettered in brown on yellow, laminated. 96pp, folio. With 286 illustrations, 60 in colour, of postcards showing life on canals and in narrowboats in Britain, from the author's extensive collection. With introduction and detailed captions. Includes construction, trade and commercial, leisure activities, and humourous cards. A Fine copy. the complete history.

Fine. Softcover book with Wrapper. Reprint in Persephone books, Number 21. A Fine unmarked copy.

Fine. Softcover book with Wrapper. and bookmark. First in Persephone books, Number 94. A Fine unmarked copy.

Condition: Very Good. First English edition, translated by Robert W. Hayman, from the 1977 first German ed. HB. Pictorial cloth boards, with no dustjacket as issued. 400pp. With 63 colour plates painted by Diller illustrating nearly all of the 300+ species described; plus 245 b&w distribution maps, and 3 larger maps. Very Good. Clean pages with lightly foxed / speckled top edges; light marking to top cover edges. Pictures available.

Fine. Softcover book with Wrapper. Reprint in Persephone books, Number 12. A Fine unmarked copy.

fine. Condition: Very Good. First edition. HB. Laminated pictorial cloth, no dustjacket as issued. 280pp, octavo. With 40 colour plates painted by Ian Willis, as well as many line drawings in text. Distribution maps in the species accounts. Designed with its laminated covers to be durable in the field. Very Good near fine condition.Very Very slight sunning to spine. Previous owner's address label to end paper. Nice copy.