Search Results: Authors starting with U from Wykeham Books

Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Citta del Vaticano, first edition, 1969. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. viii, 147, [4] pp, 1 plate. Booklabel of the bibliophile A R A Hobson on verso of title-page, Very Good.

Constable Young Books Ltd, London, first edition, 1963. Cloth, 8vo,. 106 pp, 14 plates. An entertaining collection of "book-detective"essays, each taking as its starting point a book or document from the author's collection and recounting something of its history as gleaned from Uden's own researches. As illustrations , the first three chapters lead from a manuscript book kept by Vice-Admiral Sir James Hawkins Whitshed to the case of the marooned sailor, Robert Jeffrey; from a faded pocket-book to the thrilling escape of HM Frigate Juno in 1793; and from a Book of Homilies to a 400 year old curse. Good in rubbed and used price-clipped dustwrapper.

Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1988 reprint of 1982 first edition. Cloth, 8vo,. 279 pp, numerous plates,. Includes chapters on : The Language of Book-Collecting; The 'Art, Mystery and Manual Occupation' of Bookbinding; The Illustrated Book; Private Press and Press Books; The Cult of the First Edition; Association Copies; Provincial Presses; Bibles; Completeness and Condition; The Care of Books; Ephemera; Autograph Letters and Manuscripts; The Adventure of Collecting; Sources of Supply. Also among the Appendices are a glossary of book collecting terms and a quiz. Very Good in slightly creased dustwrapper.

Constable Young Books Ltd, London, first edition, 1963. Cloth, 8vo,. 106 pp, 14 plates. An entertaining collection of "book-detective"essays, each taking as its starting point a book or document from the author's collection and recounting something of its history as gleaned from Uden's own researches. As illustrations , the first three chapters lead from a manuscript book kept by Vice-Admiral Sir James Hawkins Whitshed to the case of the marooned sailor, Robert Jeffrey; from a faded pocket-book to the thrilling escape of HM Frigate Juno in 1793; and from a Book of Homilies to a 400 year old curse. Library stamps on endpapers, frontispiece somewhat marked, otherwise Good in a used and torn dustwrapper.

Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1983 reprint of 1982 first edition. Cloth, 8vo,. 279 pp, numerous plates,. Includes chapters on : The Language of Book-Collecting; The 'Art, Mystery and Manual Occupation' of Bookbinding; The Illustrated Book; Private Press and Press Books; The Cult of the First Edition; Association Copies; Provincial Presses; Bibles; Completeness and Condition; The Care of Books; Ephemera; Autograph Letters and Manuscripts; The Adventure of Collecting; Sources of Supply. Also among the Appendices are a glossary of book collecting terms and a quiz. Near Fine in dustwrapper with slightly marked spine.

Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, first edition, 1982. Cloth, 8vo,. 279 pp, numerous plates,. Includes chapters on : The Language of Book-Collecting; The 'Art, Mystery and Manual Occupation' of Bookbinding; The Illustrated Book; Private Press and Press Books; The Cult of the First Edition; Association Copies; Provincial Presses; Bibles; Completeness and Condition; The Care of Books; Ephemera; Autograph Letters and Manuscripts; The Adventure of Collecting; Sources of Supply. Also among the Appendices are a glossary of book collecting terms and a quiz. Fine in a dustwrapper which has a sunned spine.

Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1983 reprint of 1982 first edition. Cloth, 8vo,. 279 pp, numerous plates,. Includes chapters on : The Language of Book-Collecting; The 'Art, Mystery and Manual Occupation' of Bookbinding; The Illustrated Book; Private Press and Press Books; The Cult of the First Edition; Association Copies; Provincial Presses; Bibles; Completeness and Condition; The Care of Books; Ephemera; Autograph Letters and Manuscripts; The Adventure of Collecting; Sources of Supply. Also among the Appendices are a glossary of book collecting terms and a quiz. Fine in near Fine dustwrapper.

Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, paperback edition, 1986. Laminated wrappers, 8vo,. 279 pp, numerous ills. Includes chapters on : The Language of Book-Collecting; The 'Art, Mystery and Manual Occupation' of Bookbinding; The Illustrated Book; Private Press and Press Books; The Cult of the First Edition; Association Copies; Provincial Presses; Bibles; Completeness and Condition; The Care of Books; Ephemera; Autograph Letters and Manuscripts; The Adventure of Collecting; Sources of Supply. Also among the Appendices are a glossary of book collecting terms and a quiz. Fine.

Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1995 reprint of 1982 first edition. Cloth, gilt cover-device, 8vo,. 279 pp, 116 ills. Includes chapters on : The Language of Book-Collecting; The 'Art, Mystery and Manual Occupation' of Bookbinding; The Illustrated Book; Private Press and Press Books; The Cult of the First Edition; Association Copies; Provincial Presses; Bibles; Completeness and Condition; The Care of Books; Ephemera; Autograph Letters and Manuscripts; The Adventure of Collecting; Sources of Supply. Also among the Appendices are a glossary of book collecting terms and a quiz. Very Good in slightly used dustwrapper.

Editrice Antenore, Padova, first edition, 1964. Printed wrappers, 8vo, 26 cm,. [443]-475, [2] pp. Offprinted from Italia Medioevale e Umanistica V (1962). Very Good.

Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, 2005 reprint of the 1892 first edition. Cloth, 8vo,. xxv, 358 pp, 152 pp, 1 large folding genealogical table, folding Map. From the publisher'sdescription: "Yemen was one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. Between the 9th century BC and the 6th century AD, it was part of the Minaean, Sabaean, Himyarite, Qatabanian, Hadhramawtian, and Awsanian kingdoms, which controlled the lucrative spice trade. It was known to the Romans as "Arabia Felix" ("HappyArabia") because of the riches its trade generated; Augustus Caesar attempted to annex it, but the expedition failed. In the 7th century, Islamic caliphs began to exert control over the area. After this caliphate broke up, the former north Yemen came under control of Imams of various dynasties usually of the Zaidi sect, who established a theocratic political structure that survived until modern times. (Imam is a religious term. The Shiites apply it to the prophet… Read More

Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, 2005 reprint of the 1892 first edition. Cloth, 8vo,. xxv, 358 pp, 152 pp, 1 large folding genealogical table, folding Map. From the publisher'sdescription: "Yemen was one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. Between the 9th century BC and the 6th century AD, it was part of the Minaean, Sabaean, Himyarite, Qatabanian, Hadhramawtian, and Awsanian kingdoms, which controlled the lucrative spice trade. It was known to the Romans as "Arabia Felix" ("HappyArabia") because of the riches its trade generated; Augustus Caesar attempted to annex it, but the expedition failed. In the 7th century, Islamic caliphs began to exert control over the area. After this caliphate broke up, the former north Yemen came under control of Imams of various dynasties usually of the Zaidi sect, who established a theocratic political structure that survived until modern times. (Imam is a religious term. The Shiites apply it to the prophet… Read More

Privately printed, New York, first edition, 1940. Limited edition of 150 copies, printed at the Morrill Press. 3 vols, leather spine-labels, 4to, 31 cm,. xli, 377, [2] + v, 379-791, [2] + 793-1303, [2] pp, lx leaves of plates, frontispiece signed by Carl H. Pforzheimer. 1105 entries for books; plus manuscript entries numbered 1a-169. The splendid first edition of the catalogue of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library of English Literature, 1475- 1700. The Collection -acquired in 1986 by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center - is "principally one of ‘classical' English books from the beginning of printing to 1700; that is, of major literature between Henry VII and William and Mary. It contains most of the great monuments of Renaissance poetry and prose, from Caxton, Chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare to Bacon, Donne, Milton, the English Bible, Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration drama, and the earliest translations of major foreign authors. The heart of it is set out fully in the famous… Read More

English-Speaking Union, [London], n.d. but 1954. Printed wrappers within plain brown wrappers with typescript title, 8vo, 22 cm,. [11] pp. Page numbers written in ink, two ink notes on front wrapper.

Columbia University, [New York], first edition, 2004. Printed wrappers with flaps, 4to, 28 cm,. 170, [1] pp, ills (some colour). 250 items, Near Fine.

Oxford University Press, Oxford, later edition, 1976. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 29 pp, ills. A concise account of Oxford University Press and the history of publishing in Oxford. Covers faded and slightly marked, otherwise Good.

Oxford University Press, London, first edition, 1967. Printed wrappers, cover illustration, 8vo,. [24] pp. 113 entries. From the introductory note: "This exhibition, celebrating the publication of John Fell, The University Press & The Fell Types by Stanley Morison, shows some of the material that had to be surveyed before the book could be written and is designed, like the book, to honour the memory of Fell and his work for the University Press." A well-annotated catalogue. Good.

University of California (University Library), Los Angeles, first edition, 1989. Printed wrappers, gilt cover-title and device, 8vo, 26 cm,. 173 pp, one mounted illustration and 20 plates. 112 entries. The first fascicule of five cataloguing the collection; this volume is devoted to "publications from the lifetime of the elder Aldus (1495-1515). Slightly sunned around spine, front wrapper a little marked and with one small chip at spine, contents Very Good.

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1969. Decorated cloth, 8vo, 22 cm,. viii, 607, 85, 441 pp. The Catalogue contains, with some exceptions, the books published by The Clarendon Press and The Oxford University Press and its various branches. Covers a little marked, otherwise Good.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1955. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 25, [3] pp, ills. Good.