Search Results: Authors starting with W from Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books

London: Michael Joseph, 1963. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A lovely copy of Keith Waterhouse's rare, early novel about an obsessive misfit's search for love. His third novel, following the magnificent Billy Liar, this has a grimmer tone of urban frustration and self-absorption. Fine 60s jacket by William Belcher.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Born in China in 1911, the son of a Missionary Doctor, Peake struggled for years as an illustrator, before achieving recognition with Titus Groan, published with help from Graham Greene in 1946. He remains one of the most intriguing English draughtsmen and writers of his generation, although tortured by the times he lived through. Previous owner's name to first end page.

Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation, edited by Richard Wattenmaker and team. London: Little Brown, 1993. First printing. A sumptuous survey of hundreds of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Early Modern masterpieces, from Manet to Matisse. 318 pages with 323 reproductions and three double fold-outs. A perfect copy.

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1949. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. This is an immaculate copy of the first edition of a minor work by Evelyn Waugh, describing the chaos that overcomes a pedantic schoolmaster, who has been invited to take part in a literary ceremony in the Central European country of Neutralia. The nightmare of totalitarian hospitality allows Waugh to mock the modern age and mourn the decline of the old ways.

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2007. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. A collection of reminiscences from the many celebrities attracted to Thompson during his meteoric life, with an introduction by Johnny Depp. Marshalled by Rolling Stone magazine, where Wenner was his editor for 35 years, more than a hundred writers and friends remember him, including Ralph Steadman, Tom Wolfe, Jack Nicholson and even President Jimmy Carter.

The rare, true first printing, with "first edition" on copyright page, correct code I-B, denoting September 1952. Book good, with aging to boards, and owner name to first end page. Unclipped jacket ($2.50) has some wear, with two chips to spine edge. With 4 blurbs to back and publisher is just 'Harper and Brothers'. A lovely, collectible copy of one of the most sought-after children's classics, with brilliant drawings by Garth Williams.

New York: Dutton, 1985. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. White's fourth novel, after A Boy's Own Story, in which he stretches his literary imagination to include the whole tradition of European Romance and crowds a beseiged city with fabulous characters and erotic adventures. SIGNED on the title page.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. First printing. Paperback. As New. 320 pp. A marvellously dense and comprehensive compilation, with hundreds of photographs of sculpture, to illustrate the thinking behind Moore's enormous body of work. A prolific and fluent writer, Moore describes his intentions and his views of his contemporaries

Canongate, 1996. First printing. Paperback. As New. The first serious attempt to catalog and identify what makes the paintings of Craigie Aitchison so compelling. With over 120 color plates, this excellent biography examines Aitchison's unusual approach to portraiture and his obsession with crucifixions and Bedlingtons.

London: Faber & Faber, 1991. First UK edition, second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. A very funny novel, which propelled Nigel Williams onto the bestseller lists for the first time. A mild-mannered solicitor decides to murder his wife, but everyone around her starts dying instead. Page edges have begun to yellow a little, otherwise a very good copy

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Thirteen very varied sallies from Mr. Wolfe, three going back to the 60s, attempting to show that his finger is still on the pulse. My Three Stooges is fun, an attack on John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving, all of whom had dissed his A Man in Full, with the understandable claim that he could not write a novel. He disagrees.