Pevsner, Nikolaus Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Penguin Books, 1973. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0140710329 A very good hardback copy in dust-wrapper, Neat name stamp on endpaper. (Book ref. 104896) £12.00
Brading, Rosetta East Cowes & Whippingham, Isle of Wight Book 2 1915-1939
Rosetta Brading, 1993. Soft cover. Near Fine. paperback book with 110 pages. Illustrated with b/w photos & 2 maps. Excellent clean and sound condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. Very carefully read. (Book ref. 022316) £5.00
O'Connor G.W The First Hundred Years Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Steam Packet Company Limited
Camelot Press. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A history of the Red funnel fleet 1861-1961, 107pgs, illus, spine sunned otherwise very good condition (Book ref. 002444) £11.50
Winter, Ron; Winter, Pat Village Churches of the Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight: Forget Me Not Books, 1987. Illustrated by Illustrated. 1st Edition. Pictorial Card Covers. Very Good Plus/N/a. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 176pp. A super copy of this first edition paperback ( 1987) ( black spine). A variety of b/w and colour photographic images throughout support the text. There is slight shelf wear to the card covers and the slightest of paperclip impressions to the head of the half title page. Textblock remains clean and tight. A very good plus copy (Book ref. 227394) £7.00
Granby Alan (Ed) A Yachtsman's Eye - the Glen S Foster Collection of Marine Paintings
New York: W W Norton, 2004. Hardcover. Landscape 4to, 248pp. small nick to the spine of jkt, small dent to spine of book, illustrated d/jkt, unclipped. Dk blue boards, clean and bright. Colour illustrations. ISBN 0393060632. Yachtsman and sailor Foster amassed a huge collection of marine art - sadly broken up upon his death in 1999, and this book represents the best of it: J E Butterworth, Frederic Schiller Cozzens, Fitz Hugh Lane, Robert Salmon, E T Baker, and many more. 0393060632 (Book ref. 6980) £22.00
DALEY Brian, INSOLE Allan: THE ISLE OF WIGHT Geologists' Association Guides 25
Geologists' Association, 1987. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (near Fine). Pp. 36 (no inscriptions), with b&w illus. (Book ref. 55337) £7.50
British Geological Survey: ISLE OF WIGHT Special Sheet Drift Edition 1:50000 Series
British Geological Survey, 1976. Original printed paper folded coloured map (VG). (Book ref. 55353) £6.00
Parr, Donald A Web of Fear: Ghosts of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Derby: The Breedon Books Publishing Co, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. /Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. 4to. Colour dj. 156 pp. B/w plates. Very clean. No inscriptions. VG+ / VG+ (Book ref. 04376) £6.00
DAISH A.N. Printer’s Pride: The House of Yelf at Newport, Isle of Wight, 1816-1966
Yelf Brothers Ltd, 1967 92p, frontispiece and many illustrations, 7.3”x 9.7”, a LOW-POSTAGE hardback*, a very good+ copy in a very good+ dust-jacket (*Please ignore the default postage figure as POSTAGE AND PACKING on this book will be LOW) (Book ref. 104003) £10.00
Sibley, Patricia Isle of Wight Villages
Robert Hale, 1983 Hardback, Fine/Fine. First edition, red cloth, 8vo, 16 b&w plates, clean tight and bright in like pictorial dust jacket.. (Book ref. 19959) £5.00
Red Funnel Steamers: Daily Steamer Cruises from Southampton (Royal Pier) During August 1950
Red Funnel Steamers, Southampton, July 1950, poster timetable, 19” x 10”, printed in blue giving details of cruises to Ryde, Shanklin, Swanage, Bournemouth, Southsea etc, together with fares and general information. It has been folded a number of times horizontally and vertically and there is a small triangular piece of loss at the top & a little edge wear. I will post it folded. (Book ref. 1057) £10.00
Whittington, C J: Railways In The Wight
1971 Pictorial card Covers in Good condition. Tear to bottom edge of front cover, repaired. 34pp 2nd Edition. The history of the railways on The Isle of Wight. (Book ref. 25477) £6.50
Pyatt, Edward C: Chalkways of South and South-East England
UK: David and Charles, c1974 Hardback, first edition, very good condition, in a very good price-clipped dust-jacket, publisher's original olive clothboards with gilt blocking to spine - slight fading at edges, 190 pages, 16 b/w photo plates, 21 b/w maps, salisbury plain, marlborough downs, north downs, southdowns, isle of wight, south dorset ridgeways, great ridgeway, ridgeway path, birds and wild flowers of the chalk. (Book ref. 2689) £5.00
Mew, F: Back of the Wight - Yarns of Wrecks and Smuggling
Country Press, Isle of Wight, 1965 Originally published in 1934 near fine condition, in a very good wrapper which has minor chips and tears to top edge, ochre clothboards with brown blocking to front and spine, 8.8" x 5.5", 116 pages, b/w photographic illustrations, Contents: Musing; Mackerel; The Chantry; The Clarendon; Wrecks 1880-1881; 1882-1884; "Hurrah, She's Ours !" ; Sirenia - Lifeboat Gallantry; 1890; The Eider; The Alcester; Three in Danger; Auguste: Tobacco, brandy and Butter; Dolly, St Monan and Diligent; Ketch Firefly; Nemrod; SS Snar; Souvenir. War Kinght: Lois; 1921-1930; Walpen, Ladder and Whale Chines; James Wheeler's Log; A List of some of the Wrecks; Treasure Trove; Good Old Days; Archaeology; Barrow No 3; Later Finds; Smuggling Yarns; Fibis; Twenty Years Later (Book ref. 884) £7.00
Cohen, Edwin: Birds of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1963 First edition, very good clean tight condition, in a good unclipped (30s) dust-jacket lightly scuffed and small tears at edges, publisher's original dark green clothboards with gilt blocking to spine, light foxing to eps,278 pages including index, 16 full page b/w photos of habitats , b/w line illustrations, fold-out b/w map,---------Systematic list of the birds of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight,and chapters by several contributors on the birds of various local regions and on the geology and botany of the area. (Book ref. 1801) £10.00
Jones, Barbara The Isle of Wight. King Penguin No. 52
London: Penguin, 1950. First Edition. Illustrated board cover. VG: in very good condition with lightly chipped dust jacket. 35pp :: 16 colour plates :: 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5") (Book ref. kp52) £12.60
MITCHELL (Vic) and SMITH (Keith): Branch Lines to Newport.
Midhurst, Middleton Press, 1988. Revised edition, 4to, original illustrated laminated boards, with 123 photographs and 46 diagrams, a very good copy. (Book ref. 32614) £10.50
JONES (Jack) & (Joanna): The Isle of Wight. An Illustrated History.
Wimborne, the Dovecote Press Ltd., 1987. 4to, original coloured illustrated wrappers, with 172 illustrations and 4 maps, a FINE copy. The first history of the Isle of Wight since the eighteenth century. (Book ref. 32607) £9.95
RICHARDS (John Morgan): Almost Fairyland. Personal Notes concerning the Isle of Wight.
London, John Hogg, (1914). FIRST EDITION, 8vo, finely bound in new quarter red morocco, gilt panelled spine, frontispiece portrait of the author's wife, 50 plates and 4 pages of publisher's advertisments, a very good unfoxed copy. The author lived at Steephill Castle, near Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight. This delightful account of the island, especially around Ventnor and the Undercliff, is now extremely scarce and much sought after by collectors. (Book ref. 32605) £160.00
ENGLEFIELD (Sir Henry C.): A Description of the Principal Picturesque Beauties, Antiquities and Geological Phenomena, of the Isle of Wight. With additional Observations on the Strata of the Island, and their Continuation in the adjacent Dorsetshire, by Thomas Webster.
London, William Bulmer and Co., 1816. FIRST EDITION, large 4to, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked with part of the original gilt panelled spine laid down, 3 folding maps (1 coloured), 9 folding plates (1 coloured), and 38 other plates, engraved bookplate on front pastedown, slightly foxed but generally a very good copy. (Book ref. 32602) £550.00