David charles publishers ltd devon (43 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is slightly scuffed and sunned. Edges are a little creased. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is slightly marked, and edges are a little creased. Front board fore-edge is bumped. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Hardcover in very good condition. Boards are marked. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block is lightly tanned and blemished. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Neat ink marginalia noted on some of the pages which are otherwise clear, and binding is sound. LW. Used.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Reprint. Firmly bound, navy blue cloth boards. Half of paper on inner hinge of front end paper is torn. Foxing marks on front end paper. Scuffing, tears and dust and foxing spotting on jacket.

Soft cover. Etat : Book Very Good +. 311 pages incl index, notes and references & detailed bibliography. Page-edges lightly yellowed & foxed, small bump to back bottom corner o/w a very clean, very tidy copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Firmly bound, yellow cloth boards. Dust marks on cover, foxing marks on the end papers, closed page edges and title page. Jacket not price clipped with some handling wear including a little peeling of the plastic surface.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Firmly bound, pink cloth boards. Marks on the end papers. Jacket is price clipped, there is small handling wear on it.

Cloth Covered Boards/Hard Back. Etat : Book Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Dustjacket is Near Fine. First Edition. 253 pages incluidng index and appendix. Dustjacket and book have slight wear to spine-ends, very slight wear to corners, book has minimal wear to edges. Excellent b/w photography. Top page-edges lightly foxed. Text is spotless. Very nice condition.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Small handling wear on jacket, not price clipped.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Dustjacket Good. First Edition. xvi + 280 pages incl. index, bibliograpy & appendices. Smells very MUSTY and pages to text have a light wave. Dustjacket has some darkening to spine & rear with wear/small creases/nicks to spine-ends. Wear with rubbing to corners & a few small nicks & creases to edges. Book has light wear to spine-ends & boards' corners. With the exception of the musty smell, the contents is very clean & in nice condition with excellent B&W photographic illustrations & sound binding.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Dustjacket Very Good. First Edition. 416 pages incl. index & bibliography. Darker blue background dustjacket has light colour fading to spine, light wear to spine-ends, corners and edges.Hardback binding has light wear to spine-ends. Minor darkening to page-edges o/w pages clean.…

Blue Cloth Boards. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Introduction to geology for visitors to the Peak District. 192pp wkith index, illustrated throughout with black and white maps, drawings and diagrams. Gilt lettering to spine. Slight bumping to lower corner and spine and minor foxing to top edges and pastedown, otherwise good copy with no inscriptions. DJ is price-clipped, with some edgewear and 1/2" closed tear to base of spine, otherwise good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The Author (illustrateur). Book.…

Black Cloth Boards. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Major bibliography of writings in geology from the 17th century to the modern day. 224pp with index. Gilt lettering to spine. Some foxing to end pages and edges, otherwise good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has minor edgewear and fading to spine, otherwise good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Burgundy Cloth Boards. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Simple and comprehensive introduction to the geology of south-west Scotland. 176pp with index, illustrated throughout with black and white drawings and diagrams. Gilt lettering to spine. Minimal bumping to lower corners, otherwise near fine copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has some internal foxing and fading to spine, otherwise good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Black Cloth Boards. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Key to geology and scenery of the Lake District. 189pp with index, illustrated throughout with black and white diagrams and drawings. Gilt lettering to spine. Lower board very slightly bowed and some foxing to page edges, otherwise good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has minor edgewear and fading to spine, otherwise good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The Author (illustrateur). Book. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Dustjacket Very Good. First Edition. 190 pages. Dustjacket has sight wear to top spine-end only, unclipped. Hardback binding has light wear to top spine-end and boards' corners. Pages clean, nice condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Dustjacket Very Good. Third Edition. 224 pages. Cream/white dustjacket has light wear to spine-ends, edges corners. Dark green has light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. B&W photographic illustrations. Very clean pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good +. Etat de la jaquette : Dustjacket Very Good. First Edition. 176 pages. Dustjacket has light wear to edges and is price-lipped. Very clean hardback binding. Illustrated in colour and B&W throughout. Pages very clean.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. Firmly bound, yellow cloth boards .Marks on the end papers and closed page edges. Scuffing, tears, creases and dust spotting on jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Dustjacket Good ++. First Edition. 136 pages incl bibliography. Dustjacket has moderate wear with light rubs to spine-ends, edges and corners, 2 edge nicks. Hardback binding has light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners and lower edges with a light knock to bottom front corner and bottom front edge. Light surface wear to other edges. B&W and colour photographic illustrations. Pages very clean.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£4.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 200pp, illustrated. A history and exploration of the film and entertainment life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous creation and the actors who have portrayed Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. A fairly scarce book.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. First paperback edition, first impression. Edge wear, chipping and short closed tears to top and bottom of jacket and spine, jacket slightly over size for book, corners rubbed, not price clipped (£4.25), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a reasonable copy. 270pp. An account of the shipwrecks discovered off the Devon coast. Richard James Vincent Larn, OBE (b. 1931) is a retired Chief Petty Officer in the Royal Navy, a businessman and maritime history writer who is widely regarded as one of Britain's leading historic shipwreck experts. …

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Ex library with usual stamps and defects. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some slight yellowing to back jacket, but overall jacket fresh and unfaded. Not price clipped (£1.75), no personal inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall lightly read for ex library. 148pp, illustrated. The Armagh rail disaster happened on 12th June 1889 near Armagh, Ulster, Ireland, when a crowded Sunday school excursion train had to negotiate a steep incline, the steam locomotive was unable to complete the climb and the train stalled. The train crew decided to divide the train and take forward the front portion, leaving the rear portion on the running line. The rear portion was inadequately braked and ran back down the gradient, colliding with a following train. Eighty people were killed and 260 injured, about a third of them children. It was the worst rail disaster in the UK in the nineteenth century, and remains Ireland's worst railway disaster ever. To this day it is the fourth worst railway accident to happen in the United Kingdom. At the time it was the worst rail disaster in Europe and led directly to various safety measures becoming legal requirements for railways in the United Kingdom. This was important both for the measures introduced and for the move away from voluntarism and towards more direct state intervention in such matters.…

ca. 1970. Orig. green cloth hardcover, gilt. With dustjacket. (334) pp.: table, 6 fold. maps in rear pocket; 24 cm. In very good condition. Reprint from 1915 ed., Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. / Reprinted 1968 by Augustus M. Kelley New York. 780g.

Hard Cloth Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket complete. Black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 224 pages clean and tight. During World War II the British Commandos and the United States Rangers brought the art of combined operations and of the sudden, lightning strike upon the enemy to a level of organisation never reached any previous war. But the Commandos and the Rangers were the inheritors of a long tradition; the history of strike forces made up of highly trained, highly professional crack troops is as old as that of war itself. In The Raiders Richard Garrett tells the stories of some of the most exciting of the raids carried out by these more-or-less irregular strike forces -- raids which have often had an effect upon the course of war out of all proportion to the numbers of men involved - and provides linking commentaries that put each raid in perspective and add up to a concise history of this little-studied branch of warfare. The stories range in time from the Peninsular War, and the remarkable exploits of a frigate's crew that held up the advance of an entire French army, to the 1970s and a special operation that used the most modern techniques and weaponry - the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport. In between we march with British troops who burned the White House in 1814, follow Canadian and British Commandos into the hell of Dieppe, take part in the D-day landings with the Rangers, and, in Vietnam, drop into a prisoner-of-war camp to rescue prisoners who were no longer there. This is a book that reveals the drama, horror and excitement of war at its moot personal as it traces the development of the military strategy that Winston Churchill memorably called `the butcher and bolt policy'. Size: 4to. Numerous Photographs (illustrateur).…

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket complete but price clipped.Green cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. 216 pages clean and tight. The key to success with horses lies in understanding their unique and complex nature. In this fascinating book the author. o Explains exactly what makes horses `tick' o Unravels the mysteries of equine psychology o Provides detailed information on breeding, breaking and training. o Uses real life stories and anecdotes to illustrate her techniques. o Explains how to overcome problems simply and effectively. No horse owner should be without it! Size: 8vo. Photographs (illustrateur).…

Hard Back. Etat : Book VG ++. Etat de la jaquette : Dustjacket VG ++. First British Edition. xviii+318 pages including bibliography plus index. Dustjacket has slight wear with tiny creases to edges. Book has very light wear to spine-ends with minimal fading to extreem top edges. Illustrated with b/w photos and diagrams. Text is very clean. Very nice condition.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Revised Edition. First published in 1961, this is a thoroughly revised third impression of 1981. Some very slight edge wear to top of spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 248pp, illustrated. For about two hundred years a village-made four-wheeled vehicle, called a wagon to distinguish it from the cart with only two wheels, was a common sight in many parts of the English countryside. It was used for carrying the hay and corn harvest from the fields and for transporting grain and other produce to market. As long ago as the 1870s Richard Jefferies was writing of the 'true old fashioned wagon' as if it were already disappearing from his 'Southern Country', and indeed it was. At that time, factory-made boat and barge wagons had appeared, but the village wheelwrights built their wagons to last more than one farmer's lifetime and it is some tribute to their craftsmanship that the author of this book was able to find examples of traditional wagons in every district of the country in which they had been used. Quite a scarce book. …

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Reprint. Facsimile reprint of the original 1914 edition, now with a new introduction by Anthony Huxley. For technical reasons, the publishers were unable to reproduce the colour illustrations in the original edition but all the black and white illustrations have been retained, these being 24 full page photographs, pp. 308. Cloth binding with attractive d.w. In near fine condition without any inscriptions or other markings, dust wrapper, also near fine, not faded, price clipped, in protective sleeve. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Reprint. Facsimile reprint of the original 1914 edition. For technical reasons, the publishers were unable to reproduce the colour illustrations in the original edition but all the black and white illustrations have been retained, these being 24 full page photographs, pp. 316. Bound in cloth with attractive dustwrapper. In near fine condition without any inscriptions or other markings, dust wrapper with no fading, price clipped, in protective sleeve. Size: 8vo.…