Gvin (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. color photos by Gvin Kingcome (illustrator). glossy pictorial wraps; 175 clean, unmarked pages . A history of Vanessa Bell's Charleston, exploring its history, designs, developments and maintenance that now attracts thousands of tourists yearly. Illustrated with sumptuous colour photographs recalling the daily lives of all of its inhabitants and Bloomsbury Group visitors, including Clive Bell, Maynard Keynes, David Garnett, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, E.M. Forster et al. A truly stunning book.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Good. V knige sobran unikalnyj material iz istorii epokhi vikingov. Rasskazano o bespretsedentnoj ekspansii na zapad, v poiskakh nevedomykh zemel, zhitelej Skandinavii, kotorye govorili na odnom narechii, ispovedovali odnu religiyu, priznavaya skhodnye zakony, i v techenie trekh stoletij veli zhestokie vojny na more i sushe Zapadnoj Evropy. Dannye arkheologicheskikh issledovanij, analiz literaturnykh pamyatnikov i istoricheskikh svidetelstv prizvany sozdat mnogomernyj obraz vikingov.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Good. V knige sobran unikalnyj material iz istorii epokhi vikingov. Rasskazano o bespretsedentnoj ekspansii na zapad, v poiskakh nevedomykh zemel, zhitelej Skandinavii, kotorye govorili na odnom narechii, ispovedovali odnu religiyu, priznavaya skhodnye zakony, i v techenie trekh stoletij veli zhestokie vojny na more i sushe Zapadnoj Evropy. Dannye arkheologicheskikh issledovanij, analiz literaturnykh pamyatnikov i istoricheskikh svidetelstv prizvany sozdat mnogomernyj obraz vikingov.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Good. V knige sobran unikalnyj material iz istorii epokhi vikingov. Rasskazano o bespretsedentnoj ekspansii na zapad, v poiskakh nevedomykh zemel, zhitelej Skandinavii, kotorye govorili na odnom narechii, ispovedovali odnu religiyu, priznavaya skhodnye zakony, i v techenie trekh stoletij veli zhestokie vojny na more i sushe Zapadnoj Evropy. Dannye arkheologicheskikh issledovanij, analiz literaturnykh pamyatnikov i istoricheskikh svidetelstv prizvany sozdat mnogomernyj obraz vikingov.

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Various (illustrator). First edition. An exceptional and original copy of this limited first edition of this work, a study of Royal Yachts by Charles Murray Gavin, copiously illustrated throughout. Providing a history of Yachts, and specifically Royal Yachts, from Saxon and Norman times all the way to the modern day, with special emphasis given to the construction and design of the craft throughout history. This work also features an extensive appendices, providing information regarding the origin of the names of Royal Yachts, State visits and Empire Tours, Officers who served in Royal Yachts, and much more. This edition is limited to 1000 numbered copies, of which this is No. 545. Featuring numerous 'half-tone' illustrated plates, and fifteen tipped-in coloured plates, each with a protective tissue guard. In a full crushed morocco binding with gilt detail to the front board and spine. Externally, minor shelfwear to extremities. Slight handling marks to boards. Front hinge strained after endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean throughout. Pages rough cut to edges. Near Fine. book.