Search Results: Titles starting with W from Itchen Books

Handsigned "Jack Douglas" to the front endpaper (no dedication), with accompanying "I-Do-It myself with Able Jack" sticker. No other inscriptions. Very Good, clean, tight condition in original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price £2.90 net). Small abrasion to front panel, but in Very Good condition.

Top edges green, pictorial (map) endpapers, index and tipped-in errata slip. Illustrated with line drawings and black/white photographic plates. Good+ condition, with foxing to prelims and page edges. No inscriptions. In Good+ original dustwrapper which has minor edge loss (including some loss to lettering of upper spine panel). The dustwrapper is now protected by a transparent, non-adhesive, acid-free protector (which could be easily removed if so desired).

US 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 2019 (with complete numberline 1-10 to copyright page). Very Good, clean, tight condition with no inscriptions. Minor bumping to lower spine edge. In original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped, with a fold to the rear flap.Savas writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation for the irrationality of existence. -- The New York Times I fell in love with this book. -- Katie Kitamura, author of A Separation A mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past and her complicated relationship with a famous British writer. After her mother's death, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore, she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and… Read More

1st Edition thus, 2011 (paperback, film tie-in with colour illustrations from the film), with complete numberline 1-10 to copyright page. Very Good+, clean, tight condition. Handsigned by Michael Morpurgo to a special publisher's bookplate to the title page. No dedication or personalisation.
(Previously published in 1982, this is the 1st Edition of the 2011 film tie-in version).

1st hardback Edition thus / 1st Printing (with complete numberline 1-10 to copyright page). (Previously published in 1982). Very Good+, clean, tight condition, in Very Good+ original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price £10.99). No inscriptions.

Signed by author. Very Good condition; hand-inscribed/dated in year of publication, with loosely inserted typed/personalised poem. In foxed dustwrapper. Inscribed "For Alec, with love from Denys at Christmas 1955". The typed loosely inserted poem relates to the book, ending 'All Dame Nature's / Sons and Daughters / Should at bedtime / Read The Waters' and is headed 'For Alec'. The dust-wrapper is protected by a transparent, acid-free, non-adhesive Melinex protector which could be easily removed if so desired.

Very good. Signed by author. Aside from the authorial inscription, no other writing. 48pp. Inscribed by the author to the title page in English and French.

UK true 1st Edition / 1st Printing with uncorrected 'whip' on line 13, page 50. Very Good condition, with ownership name/date to front endpaper. Leading edges rough cut, as issued. In near Good original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price 15s). The wrapper has loss to the lower spine affecting most of the publisher's details, closed tears (with archival tape and paper repairs mainly to folds / spine head and tail), and browning/soiling.Radclyffe Hall was well known in London literary circles and had already been published to some acclaim by Jonathan Cape. However, in August 1928 the Home Secretary (a Christian fundamentalist) was persuaded that the author's new book 'The Well of loneliness' was profane. He banned the book from sale. The publishers Jonathan Cape made secret arrangements with a French publisher, 'Pegasus Press', for the book to be sold in France. But on 3 October 1928 a warrant was issued for Customs and Excise to seize and destroy the books crossing the channel. A… Read More

3pp. Rare original 1908 Duke of York's Theatre programme for 'What Every Woman Knows' - A Comedy in Four Acts by J.M Barrie. Date code 25/9/08 to upper margin. Good+ condition with vertical folds. An early programme from the first production of this play which opened at the Duke of York's Theatre on the 3rd September 1908. Cast; Gerald du Maurier, Henry Vibart, Sydney Valentine, Edmund Gwenn, Hilda Trevelyan, Norman Forbes, Mrs Tree, Lillah McCarthy, Madge Murray.

Good+ condition. Some rusting to staples & minor marks to covers. No writing or inscriptions. Precedes the film adaptation.

Good+ (or better) condition, with loss to the paper label on the spine. A little dusty, but unusually well preserved for this fragile production. No inscriptions.

58pp. + 2pp advertisements. Good+ condition with occasional marks to prelims (and ink hand-correction to publisher's advertising leaf). The acetate front wrapper very thin and with repair to two edges. Back wrapper not preserved. SIGNED by the author on the half title in ink and with message. The named recipient Richard Phené Spiers FSA, FRIBA then presents the book to A.E Haywood, and himself signs. A further ink note on the original 'acetate' wrapper by the author. A 'Social Satire'. e.g. 'The Boy Thought bankers were great philanthropists'; The Boy thought that on the whole he preferred dirty to clean hands', etc. on a variety of subjects.James Stanley Little (1856–1940); author and editor. Lectured in London and the provinces on South Africa and Imperial Federation.Richard Phené Spiers FSA, FRIBA (English architect, author, and educator, 1838-1916)

English Language poetry collection. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Includes illustrated photographic plate of Crown Princess Michiko with her daughter, and further plate of the author's mother. Warmly inscribed to the half-title page by the author for Christopher Fry, (Poet and playwright 1907-2005), bearing her Shirayuri Women's College address and dated August 1979. Very Good, clean, tight condition, in Very Good original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped.

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 2003 with complete numberline 1-10 to copyright page. Illustrated. Handsigned to the title page "To Claire best wishes Terry Jones" with additional signature of Alan Fletcher in different hand beneath. Small marks to the facing page where the ink has blotted. Very Good condition, with no other inscriptions, in original Very Good dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price £20.00).

1st Edition, 2010. Beautifully produced collection of short stories by Rose Tremain. Illustrated by Jeff Fisher.

Original undated, but c 1920 Trade Catalogue of Smithy & Foundry Equipment issued by William Allday & Co, Pneumatic Engineers, Birmingham. Extensively illustrated, with index and fold-out advertising sheets to front. Good condition with usage marks to contents pages and wear / stains to wrappers and partial splitting to paper spine.The Alldays & Onions Pneumatic Engineering Co. of Birmingham, was a company founded in 1889 by the merger of the long established Onions (The company was founded by a family of craftsmen named Onions who manufactured bellows in their shed in the shadow of Dudley Castle). This was in 1650, during the reign of King James the First.) and William Allday & Co. (formed by William Allday in 1720) engineering companies.They became known for their engineering and blacksmithing equipment. By 1770 the company had established a virtual monopoly in and around Birmingham, the company soon began manufacturing portable forges in addition to bellows. During the 19th century the company was… Read More

Good+ condition. folds and rusty paperclip marks. Original shooting script (including camera directions) + photograph from the production.

Scarce original issue. Includes the W.E Johns short story "The Raid". Fair condition only. The original Howard Leigh illustrated cover is chipped / creased, with the main area of loss being to the upper spine corner of the front panel extending to the paper spine covering. The contents complete, but pages rather browned. No inscriptions.
Separate issues of the short lived aviation quarterly magazine 'Wings' (which only ran to 4 issues from 1934-5) with their colour covers are scarce. Occasionally they appear bound together (without covers) in a 1935 reprint volume.

Very good. No inscriptions. Advance Copy in white wrappers with striking design in black/red. Published in 2013 (for launch in 2014).

Facsimile of the 1607 Edition (Printed by William Iaggard of London). Near Very Good condition, with toning to the rear cover and small stain to upper left corner. Internally clean, with no inscriptions.