Search Results: Authors starting with W from Adrian Harrington Rare Books

Kansas City: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co. 1908. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, a little scuffed and soiled. Titled in black to spine and front board. Very good. Portrait frontis. Internally clean. A clean tidy copy of a near contemporary account by an officer who served in the campaign.

London: The Quadriga Press, 1961. [World War II Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.281 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge orange. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Gaynor Chapman, priced at 15s. Just a touch of light handling to extremities, and some toning to jacket spine. A lovely crisp, clean copy. Near fine.

London: William Heinemann, 1910. [Norse Saga] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Quarto (30 x 24cm). Illustrated with tipped-in colour plates. Publisher's full parchment over boards pictorially blocked in gilt, top edge gilt. A lightly used copy with very gentle spotting, and little marking to covers, silk ties wanting, inside paper joints cracked, Pre-Raphaelite style bookplate to pastedown. Near fine. No.3 of 1150 copies.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1967. [English Heraldry] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 23cm), pp.xxviii; 609 [1]. With 44 illustrated plates, many in colour. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and light blue endpapers. Top edge gilt, with the red illustrated dust-jacket. Presented in the original plain card box. Jacket price-clipped, with some light handling. Box slightly rubbed and bumped, with one small flap missing. Near fine, almost as-new.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1957. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[10] 196. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 15s to front flap. With a loose postcard inserted. Interior lightly toned. Some soiling to cloth. Jacket gently toned with minor edgewear. Very good. A fine work of literary criticism which includes musings on Restoration comedy, Ovid, William Wordsworth, and more contemporary poets such as Ezra Pound and Dylan Thomas.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. [Hostage Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 370. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine and cream endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £14.99. A little spotting to edges, trivial sunning to spine. Very good indeed.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. [Hostage Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 370. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine and cream endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £14.99. A crisp, clean copy. Fine.

London: David Nutt, 1852. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xvi; 473; xv [11]. With five steel engravings and twenty-seven wood engravings. Contemporary full tan calf, with gilt titles on green label to spine, and further gilt decorations to spine, as well as raised bands and gilt and blind ruling to boards. Blind decorated turn-ins, with Serpentine marbled endpapers, and all edges marbled. Some light spotting throughout, more so to preliminaries, black ink inscription to flyleaf dated 1874. Toning and slight wear to spine. A very good, attractive copy. William of Wykeham was the founder of Winchester College and New College, Oxford.

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1956. [Modern literature] FOURTH IMPRESSION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 262; [2]. Publisher's black cloth with teal label and gilt lettering to spine, typographic dust-jacket. Toning and spotting to edges of textblock, significant markings to front board, bumping to spine and corners, some tearing to dust-jacket spine, price clipped. Very good. This is an in depth analysis of the Tao Te Ching Chinese philosophy.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960. [Chinese Folk-Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.273 [3]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge blue. With the pale blue dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Gently toned, with some spotting to endpapers. Jacket toned with some spotting, as well as a few closed tears. Very good. A collection of 26 Chinese folk tales from the fifth to the tenth centuries AD, translated and introduced by Waley.

London: Cassell & Company, no date [1889-1890]. [London Topography] PUBLISHER'S CLOTH, later printings. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.xvi, 576; pp.xii, 560. Illustrated with numerous in-text engravings. With the large folding map loose to a pouch in volume II. Volume I coded 03.90 to advertisements at rear, and volume II coded 08.89. Publisher's brown cloth, elaborately titled and decorated in black and gilt to spines and uppers. Floral patterned endpapers. Spotting to edges and endpapers, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Light wear to cloth only. Near fine. Best known for 'London Old and New' (1878), Walford taught briefly at Tonbridge School in Kent, later becoming editor of 'The Gentleman's Magazine' and 'The Antiquary'.

Edinburgh: R. Grant and Sons, 1844. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2]; 217; [1]; 2; [2]. Publisher's brown cloth, decoration blocked in blind to boards. Gilt titles and blind ruling to spine. Catalogue to rear. Yellow endpapers. Interior bright, though lightly thumbed and spotted in a few areas. Faint marking to endpapers. Toning to edges, mostly top. A bit of soiling and rubbing to cloth. Gilt titles partially rubbed. Minor wear to joints and extremities. Very good. Very scarce copy of a lesser-known novel which opens on a dialogue between angels and takes place in the fictional kingdom of Belino. Walker wrote many other works of a similarly religious note, most of them poems or non-fiction.

Yeovil: Haynes, 1991. [Italian Motorcycles] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.192. Captioned black and white photographs of Italian racing bikes between the 1950's and 1970's. With eight colour leaves to centre. SIGNED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf, dated July 2001. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the red photographic dust-jacket, priced at £17.99. Light rubbing to binding and jacket edges; jacket lightly sunned to spine. Very good.

Derby: The Breedon Books Publishing Company, 2003. [Motor-Racing] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.224. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Number 111 of just 250 copies SIGNED and hand-numbered by the author in black ink to half title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £19.99. A 1cm tear to top edge of jacket, with associated creasing and rubbing. Light general wear. Very good.

Tyne & Wear: Redline Books, 2003. [Japanese Motorcycles] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.336. Illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photographs. Number 111 of 250 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at £25. Light wear to edges, and very light toning to spine. Near fine.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. [Historical Fiction] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. First edition, third printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[14] 497 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine and upper, maps to endpapers. Blue ink gift inscription from Attlee's daughter Janet (1923-2019) to half-title: 'Daddy | with love from | Janet & Shippy | Dec 1966.' A new bookplate detailing provenance to verso of flyleaf. Spine sunned and marked. Very good. A novel set during the American Civil War, based on the experiences of the author's great-grandmother, a mixed-race slave from Georgia. From the library of Clement Attlee (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1945-1951), and his wife Violet.

New York, NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1932. [Gorilla adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 249;[1], advertisement. Publisher's green cloth blocked in dark brown, photographic endpapers, coloured top edge. Contents very clean, spine sunned, frayed at tips. A used yet respectable copy. The ultimate monster story, giant apes, dinosaurs, dangerous native types, giant bamboo barricades, virgin sacrifice and cigarette smoking types whose trousers fasten just under their armpits.

New York, NY: Katherine Tegen Books, 2017. [Young Adult Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 415 [7]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to publisher's bookplate, affixed to flyleaf. Publisher's red paper-covered boards with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Connie Gabbert, priced at $17.99. A fine, as-new copy.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. [Indian Colonial History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] xii; 504 [4]. In a slightly later full calf binding for Glasgow Highschool, by CARRS & GOY of Glasgow (binder's label to verso of fly-leaf). with blind tooling to spine, as well as gilt ruling a a gilt school crest to boards. A new black morocco title label stamped in gilt to spine. All edges and endpapers marbled. Black ink prize inscription to a blank leaf tipped in ahead of the title page, awarded to William Wardrop Crawford in 1837-38. Armorial bookplate of Alastair Wardrop Euing Crawford to front pastedown. A large tear to fore-edge of title page, repaired some time ago with a square of thick paper to verso. A tear also to fore-edge of contents leaf. One leaf folded and not properly trimmed for edge-marbling (a binding / production fault). A little light spotting to first and final leaves, otherwise crisp and clean internally. Quite heavy wear to binding;… Read More

London: Methuen, 1900. [Poetry]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14 cm), pp.121; [3], blank; 48, catalogue dated October 1900 (second issue). Publisher's red cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, rough-cut top edge, other edges trimmed. Some acceptable wear and marking, occasional foxing; very good. The author's second book, being a collection of verse from the Boer War, in which Wallace served as an Army Medic. Includes the poem 'Tommy to his Laureate' where 'Tommy' Atkins addresses Rudyard Kipling. Eric Quayle; Detective Fiction, p.106.