Search Results: Authors starting with W from Bull's Head Rare Books

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1865-1866. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece in each volume, numerous wood-engraved illustrations to text. xxxv, [1], 504, [8, catalogue]; xxiv, 643, [1] pp. Publisher's decorated purple cloth over beveled boards; spines faded, cloth worn and frayed, vol. 2 spine repaired, front hinge cracked, foxing

Paris: Éditions du Sagittaire, [1946]. Copy D of 5 copies hors commerce on vélin blanc superieur, in addition to fifteen numbered copies. 8vo. 152, [4] pp. Unopened in publisher's printed wrappers, yapp edges; slight edgewear, small stain to front wrapper One of 5 copies hors commerce on vélin blanc superieur (of 20 total copies) of the first French edition of Miss Lonelyhearts, West's "horror-comic" (Connolly) masterpiece about a despairing agony column writer. Translated by Marcelle Sibon and with a preface by the Surrealist author Philippe Soupault in which he recounts meeting West in New York. The first edition of Miss Lonelyhears was published by Boni & Liveright in 1933.REFERENCE: Connolly 76; White A3i

London: H. Trapp, 1788-1789. 2 vols. 8vo. 448; 416, [8, errata and index] pp. Modern dark green quarter morocco and marbled boards; toned, occasional staining and foxing, a few small paper repairs, vol. II A1, B2-3 silked, A1 repaired with some loss to text on verso. In custom slipcases [Vol. II bound with:] WINCHESTER, Elhanan. A Selection of Sermons, Some Original, and Others Never Before Published in Europe.... The First Volume. London: Printed for the Author. Sold by T. Scollick, 1789. 60 pp. Not in ESTC or OCLC.Rare complete run of The Philadelphian Magazine, all 22 numbers published in London, February 1788-November 1789, by the American Universalist clergyman Elhanan Winchester (1751–1797), bound with an unrecorded collection of his sermons. "Winchester was a remarkable orator, an early antislavery advocate, and a prominent pastor during the years of the American Revolution. He should be remembered as one of the most influential contributors to early American Universalism and as a man who… Read More

London: Broomsleigh Press, n.d.. Facsimile edition, no. 173 of 250 copies. 8vo. Hand-colored folding frontispiece after James Sowerby. xx, [2], 207, [1] pp. Half green leather and cloth; light shelwear and some fading to covers, book-plate Facsimile of the original 1785 edition. "Beginning his research after hearing of an old country woman who used the herb to cure dropsy, Withering used foxglove to treat congestive heart failure with some success. Its introduction into the Edinburgh pharmacopoeia in 1783 and its subsequent widespread acceptance eventually led to its overuse and Withering's classic Account of the foxglove was actually written as a protest against such abuse. The book includes 163 cases involving the use of digitalis and is regarded as one of the classics in pharmacology" (Heirs of Hippocrates 1039)

France, Belgium & Luxembourg, 1917-1919. 129 vintage silver prints, comprising 1 panorama (5-3/4 x 21 inches), 27 larger format prints (6 x 8 & 8 x 10 inches) and 103 smaller format prints (various sizes, generally 2-1/2 x 4-1/4 & 3-3/4 x 4-3/4 inches), many prints docketed on the verso by Fineberg, a few with alphanumeric code that corresponds to the Catalogue of Official A.E.F. Photographs, 1919. Occasional creasing and wear, small chip from corner of panorama, generally in very good condition Archive of photographs from the Western Front of World War I by the American photographer Sergeant First Class Morris Fineberg, 79th Division, Photographic Unit of the American Expeditionary Forces Signal Corps. These are Fineberg's own retained copies, many with his docketing and captioning on the rear. Images include a three-panel panorama (“Looking towards Woevre Plain between St. Michel & Verdun”), aerial reconnaissance images, captured German munitions, battlefields with casualties, Fineberg with other… Read More