Book Detail
[005717] Vaizey, Mrs George De Horne. Pixie O'Shaughnessy. London: Religious Tract Society, Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Decorative Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Early copy, undate. decorative cloth, a little bumped and with a slightly bowed front board. The endpapers are a little foxed. Binding is sound and pages clean, £5.00
[005718] Vaizey, Mrs George De Horne. More About Pixie. London: Religious Tract Society, Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Decorative Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Early copy, undated. decorative cloth, a little bumped, rear spine hinge is rubbed and slightly split. . The endpapers are a little foxed and internal hinges are a little worn.. Binding is sound and pages clean, £5.00
[005805] Vakil, Ardashir. One Day. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2003. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 024114132X. black hardcover with gilt titles to the spine. Dustjacket in excellent condition bright and clean. Binding good and pages bright. £10.00
[000193] Valentine. The Right to Love. London: Hurst and Blackett, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fair / No Jacket. First Edition ? - pp331 - good/no Cover - slightly faded spine, red cover with gold text and decoration on spine and cover. £10.00
[000952] Valery, Anne. Baron Von Kodak, Shirley Temple and Me. London: Peter Owen, 1976, Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 149 pages, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches. Frontispeive of a young Anne Valery, her memoirs. Brown cloth with gilt titles on spine. DJ has marks and a little grubby, slightly sunning to spine. Otherwsie book in good condition. £7.50
[002958] Valery, Paul. An Anthology. London: RKP, 1977. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0710085273. First UK publication - selected with an introduction by James Lawler. Softcover with some ligh shelfwear. Binding is very good with pages bright and clean. £10.00
[006110] Valiente, Doreen. Natural Magic. London: Phoenix, 1991. Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0919345808. Trade paperback copy in excellent condition, spine a little darkened. £5.00
[006114] Valiente, Doreen. The Rebirth of Witchcraft. London: Phoenix, 1989. Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0919345395. Trade paperback copy in excellent condition, a little light shelfwear. £6.00
[003908] Vallance, Edward. The Glorious Revolution 1688 and Britains Fight for Liberty. London: Little Brown, 20. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. As New / As New. ISBN: 0316726818. first edituion, first print run - as new. £18.00
[006305] van Den Heuval, Albert H.. The Humiliation of the Church. London: ScM, 1967. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Good. blue hardcover sl;ight staines to top edge, dj in good condition with shelfwear. £2.50
[003588] van der Post , Laurens. The Lost World of the Kalahari. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963. Reissue. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Mass Market Paperback. Good / No Jacket. good condition paperback. pages slightly foxed, binding good and tight. £2.00
[001005] van der Post, Laurens, Illustrated by Maurice Wilson. The Heart of the Hunter. London: Hogarth Press, 1961, Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good. in Very Good dj. A collection of the legends and fables of the Bushmen and the Kalahari as taken down in person by the author. Light rubbing to DJ extremities. Nick to top front corner of DJ. A photograph of this book is available upon request. Illustrated by Wilson, Maurice. First Edition - in collectable condition. £15.00
[002327] van Hoek, Kees. An Irish Panorma. London: Longman Green And Co, 1947. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Greeen cloth with gilt titles ot spine. decorative end papers. Illustrated with B&W photographs. 195pp. £5.00
[001342] Van Vogt, A.E. The Weapon Shops of Isher, The Weapon Makers. London: NEL, 1979. Reissue. Mass Market Paperback. Good / No Jacket. Two volumes both Very Good. Light reading creases and edge wear. ; Nice tight flat copies, no names or marks inside. Good editions of this classic of Amercian SF. £5.00
[001349] Van Vogt, A.E. The Silkie. London: NEL, 1973. Second Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good / No Jacket. Second impression of the 1973 publicatiopn. Spine slightly creased and rubbed. Pages cream but otherwsie clean and tight. £2.50
[001348] Van Vogt, A.E. The Wizard of Linn. London: NEL, 1975. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0-450-023339-7. First UK edition - pp174. £2.50
[001347] Van Vogt, A.E. Moonbeast. London: Panther, 1969. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0-586-02937-0. Pather paperback, 1st in imprint, 187pp, [v] ads., decorative upper wrapper (unattributed.), £3.00
[001345] Van Vogt, A.E. The Battle of Forever. London: NEL, 1980. Reissue. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0-450-04597-9. reissue of the 1971 - classic SF novel. Cover good condition, pages browning slightly. Very good condition edition. £4.00
[001343] Van Vogt, A.E. The Mind Cage. New York: Tower Books, 1957. First Thus. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Mass Market Paperback. Good / No Jacket. First US paperback edition - cover slightly creased, pages browning. Otherwise in good condition. £3.00
[001341] Van Vogt, A.E. Planets for Sale. London: Panther, 1979. Reissue. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. Reissue of the 1979 edition - Very Good. Light reading creases and edge wear. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside. Cover artwork by Chris Foss. ; Mass Market PB; 191 pages £3.00
[001340] Van Vogt, A.E. The House That Stood Still. New York: Paperback Library, 1968. Reissue. Mass Market Paperback. Good / No Jacket. 1968 reissue of the Novel first published in 1950. VG./-. 159pp. Exc condn, with v minor wear. From one of SF's greats £3.50
[001339] Van Vogt, A.E. Slan. Panther, 1962. Reissue. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Mass Market Paperback. Good / No Jacket. 2nd impression of the 1960 1st UK edition. Paperback, G. 156pp, spine edges creased, rear cover marked. One of the great 1950's SF Novels - £2.50
[001338] Van Vogt, A.E. Mission to the Stars. London: Digit Books, 1952. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. London: Digit Books, 1952. Pictorial Wraps. Very Good. WSith some minor rubbing on spine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. UK first edition, Paperback original publication. £5.00
[001344] Van Vogt, A.E. The War Against the Rull. London: Panther, 1962. Second Printing. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Mass Market Paperback. Good / No Jacket. Paperback. second printing of the First UK Edition. Good. Slight spine damage, tanning and edge wear. £4.50
[002755] Vandermeer, Jeff. Veniss Underground. London: ToR, 2004. Reissue. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0330418920. A far future science fiction novel exploring the limits of love, memory and obsession - good condition copy. £3.50
[001601] Various. The First Prayer Book of King Edward V1 - 1549. London: Griffith Farran Browne and Co, First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. The First Prayer Book of King Edward V1 - Reprinted from the copy at the British Museum from 1549 ,hence it is in the English of the day text good to very good in dark blue cloth with gilt titles on spine. Front end paper missing, Rear end paper foxed. The pages are clean and tight and the binding solid and good. £15.00
[001620] Various. My Best Story. London: Faber, 1932. Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Reissue in 1932 of the 1929 volume of Faber short stories - authors include, Arlen, Belloc, Bennett, Beresford, Chesterton, Frankau, A.E.W. Mason, Maugham Walpole, Wells etc... (21 stories in all 491pp). Black cloth with pale grey titles. some edgewear corners a little rubbed. £5.00
[004519] Various. Men of the Bible Some Lessor Known Characters. Manchester: James Robinson, 1904. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. red cloth with black titles on spine and front boards - neat insrciptiton on front endpaper £7.50
[002571] Various. Everyman with Other Interludes Including Eight Miracle Plays. London: Dent, 1930. Reissue. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Book is in green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. £4.00
[006315] Vaughn, Francis and Walsh, Roger. A Gift of Healing. ill. Jane English. London: Arkana, Penguin Books, 1990. First Paperback Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 014019200X. Very good copy, binding good pages clean and bright £2.00
[004978] Veitch, Jennifer a. Full-Spectrum Lighting Effects on Performance, Mood and Health. Ottawa, Canada: National Research Board of Canada, 1994. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Spiral Bound. Very Good / No Jacket. internal report no 659. £5.00
[004839] Venables, Ethel. The Young Worker at College - A study of a Local Tech. London: Faber and Faber, 1967. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine. ex-lib with three stamp marks on front endpaper. Boards have a little light shelwear. Binding is good and pages bright and clean. £5.00
[001715] Vercoe, A. Guy. The Corsair of the Skies. ill. Comerford Watson . London: Blackie, First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Undated title - green boards - frontspiece by Comerford Watson- boards are green are intact some sunning on spine and some marks but overall good. Pages are tight and clean, some spotting on =edges. £4.50
[005101] Vere Hole. Children's Play on Housing Estates. London: HMSO, 1966. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. large format staple bound report, wonderfully llustrated with images of the period, graphs etc. glossy pages and in good condition. National Building Studies Research Paper 39 £6.00
[002694] Vernadsky, Validimir I. The Biosphere. New York: Copernicus, 1998. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Cloth. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 038798268X. As new hardback: black cloth spine with dark blue titles, red boards. DJ is mint. The first complete edition in English of the classic scientific text first published in 1926 which revolutinised our view of the Earth. £25.00
[003677] Verne, Jules. The Mysterious Document. London: Ward Lock and Co, Reissue. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. undated est 1920s ?- small format decorated blue cloth , shelfwear, edges a little rubbed and spine sunned. endpapers foxed. Otherwise pages clean and binding excellent. Nice b/w frontis. £6.00
[005441] Verne, Jules. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. ill. Isabel C. Fortey. London: Blackie, 1945. Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. green cloth with black titles to spine and front cover. the spine is a little sunned and lower corners slightly bumped. £5.00
[002238] Verne, Jules. The Clipper of the Clouds. London: Sampson Low, 1891. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Decorative Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Original red pictorial cloth stamped in blue and black. 1891. Identified on the title page as the "New and Cheaper edition". It has seven b/w illustrations. (Taves & Michaluk V030). The story of Robur the Conqueror and his flying machine powered by electricity. The spine is slightly sunned, corners slightly bumped. The binding is loose with webbing showing between p16-32. Pages 17 to 32 detached from binding. The pages are complete and clean. Endpapers foxed. The rear cover has a Pears Soap advertisement on rear cover. A very rare title indeed. 192 pages -- Images available on request. £50.00
[002234] Verne, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. London: Sampson Low, 1919. Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Decorative Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Red cloth binding with illustration of ships and boats to front and spine. photgraphic frontispiece. General handling wear, binding is a little loose with webbing showing between tiltle page and fontespiece, corners and spine sunned and ends bumped. However notwithstanding this it's rather a nice edition with a good clean and readable font. £5.00
[004053] Verney, John. Going to the Wars a Journey in Various Directions. London: Collins, 1955. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Good / Poor. green cloth with gilt titles to spine, spine is slightly sunned. dusjacket has a piece missing from the top of the flap, also has pieve missing from top of spine and bottom edge has jagged edge. Bindoing is good and pages clean. £5.00
[006289] Vernon, Glenn M.. Sociology of Religion. London: Mcgraw Hill, 1962. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. Olive green cloth with gilt titles to spine and red and gilt decoration. Unclipped dustjacket in reasonable condition with shelfwear and slightly worn uppert edges. A sociology study of the religious dimensions of mans relationships to man £5.00
[001464] Vesaas, Tarjei. The Birds. London: Peter Owen, 1984. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Ex-Library. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0-7206-0701-9. Translated from the Norwegian by Torbjorn Stoverud and Michael Barnes. The 1984 reissue of the 1968 edition. Black cloth with silver titles, Dustjacket close to perfect. Ex-lib with two stamps on rear of title page, bookplate on rear pastedown and single scuff mark on FEP.\Otheriwse this is a fine book close to mint. £25.00
[002903] Vesaas, Tarjei. The Boat in the Evening. London: Peter Owen, First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. A readers copy, front endpaper and title page missing. ex-lib. black cloth with blue tinted silver titles to spine. £5.00
[005830] Vian, Boris. I Spit on Your Graves. Los Angeles: TamTam Books, 1998. First Edition. Small 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 096623460X. Very good trade paperback edition. Introduc tion by Marc lappard £5.00
[002568] Victoria, Queen. Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861. London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1868. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. A record of Queen Victoria's widowed years in Scotland. Portrait frontispiece with tissue protector. Green cloth showing a fir tree in gilt on front cover. Bevelled boards with wear to corners and titles faded to spine. Illustrated. Front endpaper is becoming detached. £10.00
[005365] Vidal, Gore. Hollywood a Nove of the Twenties. London: Andre Deutsch, 1989. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Near Fine / Near Fine. ISBN: 023398495X. near fine copy. Blue cloth with gilt tiles to spine. Fine dustjcket. Heavy book additional postage packing required. £4.00
[000763] Videl, Gore. Myron. London: Heinemann, 1974, Cloth. First Edition. Ex-Library. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. 244pp. 9" x 6 Near good hardback with good dust jacket. Ex-lib with bookplate and usual marks. £5.00
[000747] Videl, Gore. Dark Green, Bright Red. London: Heinemann, 1979, Cloth. Fair. First Edition. Ex-Library. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. reissue of the novel first published in 1950 by E.P.Dutton. ex-lib with stamps and usual marks. Title page repaired with tape. otherwise in good condition. £10.00
[003598] Vincent, Adrian. Victorian Watercolours Children. London: Bloomsbury, 1987. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pictorial Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 1854710214. glazed pictorial hardcover, Dustjacket Minor shelf wear to covers. £2.00
[003383] Virgil. The Works of Virgil. ill. Various. London: Bell and Daldy, 1869. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Poor / No Jacket. Literally translated into English prose, with notes, by Davidson, a new edition, revised, with additional notes by Theodore Alois Buckley. Publishers blindstamped cloth boards. Spine gone and front and rear board detached (webbing gone).; wear to edges of boards, pages browning, Internally clean, Portrait Frontis Piece. £5.00
[003597] Vladislav, John. Persian Fables . ill. W. And B Forman. London: Spring Books, First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pictorial Hardcover. Very Good / Poor. pictorial hardcover with dustjacket a bit ragged with pieces missing. binding is good and pages bright. Pictures from the collections of Persian minatures in the Teheran Imperial Library. £5.00
[002080] Voous, K.H.. Atlas of Euopean Birds. London: Nelson , 1960. First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. A fine book in clean fresh dark green cloth covers with bright gilt titles to spine. Internally fine and free of inscriptions. The binding is clean and tight. A really nice copy. £10.00
[003439] Vroom, Victor H. And Edward L Deci. Management And Motivation. London: Penguin, 1970. First Trade. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 140801448. penguin modern management readings £2.50