Search Results: Authors starting with W from D. B. Derbyshire Bookseller PBFA

The Ringer by Edgar Wallace (Hodder & Stoughton Limited, reprint circa 1948). Lovely dustwrapper art. Hardback in dustwrapper. 320pp. Size: 7.5 x 5 inches approx. (191mm x 131mm). Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and worn to extremities; slightly sunned/faded to spine. Boards nice and clean; endpapers age tanned; previous owner's name and date in ink to front free endpaper. Overall, a particularly nice, attractive copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

The Templar Legacy and The Masonic Inheritance within Rosslyn Chapel by Tim Wallace-Murphy (The Friends of Rosslyn, 1st edition [Not Dated]).
Well illustrated.
Card covers. 63pp plus b/w and colour plates. Size: 8.25 x 5.75 inches approx. (210mm x 148mm).
A nice, clean copy.
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The Gold Standard - Selected Articles by W. H. Waller (Manchester: W. H. Waller, 1st edition 1931). A series of articles on the reasons why the British monetary system should not be based on a gold standard. Softback. pp [4], 127, including b/w frontispiece. Size: 7.25 x 5 inches approx. (184mm x 124mm). Some light wear and rubbing to covers; vertical creasing to spine; a little dusty/grubby in places. Initials in ink (smudged) to lower corner of frontispiece; occasional foxing/spotting and a little dusty but otherwise pages generally clean throughout; some corner creasing and curling to pages; edges of page-block dusty, especially top edge.Overall, showing wear commensurate with age and storage but otherwise a reasonably nice copy of this uncommon work. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available.*

How to Make a Classic Guitar by Joseph F. Wallo (Published by the author, 1965). Instructions for making a classic or flamenco guitar, well illustrated. Card covers. pp [2], 29, including b/w illustrations, plus three folded plans. Size: 10 x 6.5 inches approx. (255mm x 165mm). Covers a touch dusty and sunned. A sheet regarding flamenco guitars stapled to contents page. Light rusting to the binding staples.Overall, light wear but otherwise a nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available.*

In National Service - Rolls-Royce 'B Series' Engines in British Military Vehicles by Pat Ware (Warehouse Publications, 1st edition 1995). A good study, well illustrated. Hardback in dustwrapper. pp [4], 204, including b/w and colour illustrations. 10.5 x 8.5 inches approx. (267mm x 217mm). A nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

Langford Press, 1st edition 2007.Hardback – bound in half leather with marbled paper boards, illustrated endpapers, and held in a cloth covered slipcase. 168pp including colour illustrations. 12.25 x 11 inches approx. (313mm x 277mm).Unstated in the book however according to the publisher's website 50 copies were specially bound in half-leather, each to be signed and numbered by the artist.This copy is signed and numbered 21 in pencil to the half-title page.A lovely, clean copy.International shipping costs outside of the United Kingdom are estimated and may incur extra. Please enquire for shipping options to your country.

Traction Engines & other portable engines by George Watkins (Landmark Publishing, 1st edition [2003]). Excellent study illustrated with nearly 200 photographs from the George Watkins collection, including scans from his field note book. Hardback – glazed boards. pp 219, [5] publishers list, including b/w illustrations. Size: 10 x 7 inches approx. (252mm x 175mm). A nice, clean copy in near new condition. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available.*

The Textile Mill Engine by George Watkins (Landmark Publishing, 2nd edition 1999). Excellent photographic record. Originally published as two volumes in 1970/71 by David & Charles. Card covers. 232pp including b/w illustrations. 9.5 x 6.75 inches approx. (246mm x 173mm). Sunned/faded to spine.Overall, light shelf wear but otherwise a nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

Privacy and Solitude in the Middle Ages by Diana Webb (Hambledon Continuum, 1st edition 2007). A good study. Hardback in dustwrapper. pp xviii, 266. Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inches approx. (240mm x 161mm). Dustwrapper a little sunned to spine; minor wear and rubbing to spine ends and corner tips. Top edge of page-block a touch dusty and spotted. Light wear but otherwise a nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available.*

Kurt Merz Schwitters - A Biographical Study by Gwendolen Webster (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1st edition 1997) . Biography of the artist and inventor of 'Merz' - art from rubbish. A detailed work - not illustrated. Hardback in dustwrapper. pp xviii, 443 . Size: 8.75 x 5.75 inches approx. (223mm x 145mm). Dustwrapper showing some light wear and rubbing to extremities; some sunning/fading. Spine ends lightly knocked. Overall, showing some light wear from being handled and read but otherwise a nice, clean copy - uncommon. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available.*

(Scenes From the Past:49) Delph, Saddleworth and Greenfield to Oldham by L. Goddard and J. Wells (Foxline, 1st edition (2005)). Well illustrated study.Card covers. 160pp including b/w illustrations. 10.75 x 8.5 inches approx. (273mm x 215mm). A lovely, clean copy in near new condition. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available.*

On Sex, Health, and ESP by Mae West (London: W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd, 1st edition 1975).
From the dustwrapper blurb – "Mae West's wit and wiles and her equally devastating commonsense here combine to give us an insight into living, loving and the other side".
Hardback in dustwrapper. pp vi, 237, plus b/w plates. Size 8.75 x 5.5 inches approx. (223mm x 140mm).
Dustwrapper age-toned, especially to rear panel; light sunning to spine title lettering; original price to flap cancelled with a blue marker pen. Boards and spine clean and bright. Occasional mark or dustiness but otherwise pages very clean throughout; light dinge to page edges (final quarter of page-block and visible in accompanying images) – fairly inconsequential and only mentioned for completeness.
Overall, a particularly well preserved copy and quite the best I've seen or handled – lovely indeed.
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Gipsy Caravan – A 100 Years' Story hand-written and illustrated by Jean Westlake (Sandy Balls Press, 1st edition 1982), foreword by C. H. Ward-Jackson. The story of the author's family owned caravan, well illustrated including scale drawings. Card covers. pp xiv, 66 including b/w line drawings. 11.75 x 8.25 inches approx. (299mm x 207mm). Sunning/fading to spine and covers; a little shelf-worn. Overall, showing some light wear but otherwise a nice, clean copy with a square spine. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available.*

The History of the Caravan by W. M. Whiteman (Blandford Press, 1st edition 1973). A good, solid history of caravans, illustrated with b/w plates. Hardback in a dustwrapper. 295pp including b/w line drawings plus b/w plates. Size: 8.25 x 5.5 inches approx. (209mm x 142mm). Dustwrapper has a small patch of light dampstaining to rear panel/head of spine, not serious and only visible to verso. Edges of page-block a little dusty and marked. Overall, light wear but otherwise a nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available.*

The Union Club, Blackburn 1849 - 1949: A Short History by Henry Whittaker ([Blackburn: The Union Club], 1st edition 1950). A short history produced to commemorate The Club's Centenary, with potted biographies of past club presidents and other officials. Includes two views of club premises but otherwise illustrations are portraits of officials and fold-out plates of club member's caricatures. Hardback. Cloth effect papered boards with title to front board. pp [14], 187, including b/w illustrations plus fold-out plates. Size: 10 x 7.5 inches approx. (252mm x 193mm). Spine and boards lightly rubbed and worn to extremities; sunned/faded to spine and front board. Offsetting to endpapers, with sellotape staining mainly to paste-downs (a polythene sheet had been taped on to cover spine and boards); age-toning to pages but generally clean throughout. Overall, a reasonably nice, clean copy of this uncommon Blackburn interest book. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior… Read More

Sir Edwin Lutyens - Designing in the English Tradition by Elizabeth Wilhide (Pavilion Books Limited, 1st edition 2000).
Well illustrated throughout.
Hardback in dustwrapper. 192pp including b/w and colour illustrations. Size: 10.25 x 9.25 inches approx. (281mm x 233mm).
A nice, clean copy.
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Essays by Sir William Temple (The Gresham Publishing Company, [No Date] circa 1910), with an introduction by J. A. Nicklin. Binding design attributed to Talwin Morris (ref. Glasgow School of Art Library). Hardback – publisher's cloth binding with gilt decoration to spine and front board, floral endpapers, top edge gilt. pp [2], [i]-ix, [x-xii], 13-331, plus frontispiece. 6.25 x 4.25 inches approx. (160mm x 108mm). A little sunned/faded to spine; light wear and marking to cloth; slightly bumped to tail of spine. Offsetting to half-title page, pencilled name to upper corner; some spotting to page edges, occasional grubby mark or foxing but otherwise pages generally clean. Nonetheless, remains a nice, attractive copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

A Concise History of Spain by William D. Phillips, Jr. and Carla Tahn Phillips (Cambridge University Press, 1st edition 2010).
A volume in the 'Cambridge Concise Histories' series.
Hardback - glazed boards. pp xiii, 345, including b/w illustrations. Size: 8.75 x 5.5 inches approx. (222mm x 142mm).
A nice, clean copy.
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The Parish of Kirkby Malhamdale by John William Morkill (Kirkby Malham P C C, (second edition) facsimile 2005). Nicely produced facsimile reprint of a work originally published in 1933. A limited edition, number 97 of 210 copies bound in buckram (of 250 numbered copies in total). Hardback in dustwrapper. pp [10], xv, 346, plus b/w plates. 10 x 7.75 inches approx. (255mm x 195mm). A lovely, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

Derbyshire (The Buildings of England) by Nikolaus Pevsner and revised by Elizabeth Williamson (Penguin Books, reprint 1998). A volume in the Pevsner "The Buildings of England" series. Excellent study, this copy a 1998 reprint of the 1986 printing with corrections and addenda. Hardback in dustwrapper. pp 414, [2] title list, including b/w line drawings and plans, plus [64]pp b/w plates. Size: 7.5 x 4.75 inches approx. (187mm x 116mm). Light wear but otherwise a nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*