Search Results: Authors starting with W from Ripping Yarns

London: Griffith and Farran. Hardback. Good. Red pictorial front board with gilt title on spine. Slight rubbing on book edges and spine. Black and white illustration on frontispiece. Hinges visible at some centrefold but all pages present. No date printed but neat inscription date states 1905. 160 pp. Size: 5 x 7 Inches

Walker Books, 2000. 1st Thus. . Hardback; Trilogy of books set in Northern Ireland. All hbs with dw. Very good. To be sold as a set.

London: T.C.& E.C.Jack. Hardback. Good. Brown boards with illustrated picture from front board. Corners and spine bumped. No date but neat inscription in pencil to FFEP dated 1920. From the Great Operas by J.Cuthbert Hadden. Four colour plated. 46pp. Good, tight copy. Size: 6 x 4½ Inches

Oxford: Phaidon, 1978. 1st Edition . Very Good/Good+. Grey boards with dustwrapper, 182 pp. Contributors include Updike, Clive James, Bette Crouse Mele etc. Dw a little dusty, otherwise very good.

Paper Cover. Good+. Paper covers, 36 pp. 1st issue of the poetry magazine. No date but cover price is 2/6. Includes contributions from Alan Plater, Spike Milligan, Brian Patten, Roger Mc Gough, Anselm Hollow etc. Faint scattered foxing in places on cover, inside clean and unmarked and overall good+ tight copy. Size: 26 x 21 Cm

London: Enitharmon Press, 1984. 1st New and Revised Edition. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. Very Good/Good+. Edward Wakefield. Blue boards, uncllipped dw, 47pp. Illustrated with line drawings by the poet. Dw slightly dusty with a couple of extremely faint small brown marks, otherwise good+. Book itself clean, unmarked and very good. Size: 8.5 X 8.5 Inches

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. 1st Edition . Paper Covers. Good+. Paper pamphlet, unpaginated but 12 pp of text. Essay which concludes with the author's poem 'Some Brilliant Sky'. this the April 1975 issue of Sparrow which printed the work of a single author in each issue. Externally very slightly tanned atedges of paer covers. Good+ clean and tight.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. Corners and spine bumped, edges rubbed. General shelf wear. . Paperback. Good. 7 x 5 Inches.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1996. First Thus. . Paperback. Very Good. Pocket Poets Series No.33. Corners and edges a little scuffed otherwise very good, clean and tight. Signed by author and dedicated to poet Adrian Mitchell. Size: 5 x 6.5 Inches

London: The Catalst Trust, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. Glossy paper covers 10 x 7 inches, 36 pp. Very good.

New York: Grove Press, 1957. 1st Thus . Good. Paper covers. 319pp + 5pp publisher's list. Covers bumped at edges and slightly creased. Occasional highlighting and annotation to text.

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons. VG. Blue pictorial cloth. 2 colour plates. 165pp + 2pp publisher's list. Prize label to front paste-down endpaper dated 1919. Edges slightly rubbed. Front endpapers slightly marked.

London: Blandford Press. Hardback. Good/Good. Red boards with unclipped dust jacket. Corners and spine bumped and rubbed. Some small chips and tears to edges of jacket. Hinges cracked, text block tight. Some scattered foxing to outer text block. Size: 7 x 5 Inches

London: Enitharmon Press, 2000. First Edition. . Hardback. Very Good. Prefcae by Frank Kermode. Number 9 of 150 numbered copies, the first fifty signed by Edward Upward, Alan Walker. and Frank Kermode. Also contains letter invitation to launch of poetry anthology book 'Tying the Song' in London. Maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. Very good

London: Harper & Brothers. Hardcover. Good/Good-. Rhoda C. Chase. Red boards with unclipped dustwrapper, 155 pp. In 'The Sandman Series' of gift books for children. 4 colour plates and several b&w illustrations. Front board bears the signs that the dustwrapper was previously inadvertently adhered to the board. Neat ink inscription and a little faint foxing to 1st free endpaper. Dustwrapper worn at edges with a few closed tears and tiny nicks at edges. Good tight copy. Size: 8 x 5 Inches

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK). VG-. Oscar Wilson. [1910] Grey pictorial cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Colour frontispiece. Decorated endpapers. 122pp + 6pp publisher's catalogue. Board corners and top & base of spine bumped. Covers slightly marked. Contents very good, clean & tight.

London: Samuel Bagster. Hardback. Good Minus. Red cloth boards, spine faded with a small chip missing from head of spine; boards slightly bowed, corners rubbed. Internall very clean, sound and bright. Size: 18 X13cm

London: Hon.F.D.Astor/Whitefriars Press, 1957. 1st Edition . Good. Yellow paper covers. 9x6ins. 12 volumes, from January to December 1957. All copies tight. Other odd copies available for other years - please contact us for details.

London: The Hon. F.D.L. Astor, 1958. Soft cover. Good. Edward Bawden. Blue paper covers.Vol 164 no. 981 .Contributors incl Guy Wint, Brian Crozier, Richard Rees on Gurdjieff, Gerda L. Cohen etc. A good tight copy.

London: Dean and Son. Hardback. VG/VG. Red boards with unclipped dust jacket, 248PP. Corners and spine lightly bumped. Pages a little tanned but tight clean and otherwie very good. Size: 7 x 5 Inches