Search Results: Titles starting with W from Henry Sotheran Ltd.

1844. London, George Virtue, [c. 1845]. 8vo. Original cloth, ornamented and lettered in gilt; pp. viii, [2], 255, 8 (publlisher's catalogue); 25 steel-engraved plates including tinted frontispiece and title, tissue guards present, 4 maps including 2 folding, 30 wood-engravings to text; binding a little rubbed, light wear to corners; tissue guards a little browned internally very clean, without the usual spotting of the plates. Revised second edition (first edition 1844). Bartlett made in all five journeys to the Levant and two to Jerusalem in particular, the first in 1842. This is the first work written and illustrated by himself; previously he had illustrated works by others. Bartlett died on the return from his final voyage in 1853-4 and was buried at sea. Blackmer 88.

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1855. Two volumes, 8vo. Original pictorial cloth; pp. x, 334, 23, 16 (both sets of pages publisher's advertisements); vii, 372, [2, errata], [4, advertisements], six lithographic plates; cloth a little marked and worn, heads of spines with expert restorations, two plates with light traces of humidity, otherwise good, contemporary library bookplates and ownerhsip insriptions to both front endpapers. Very rare first edition. Despite the title, Lowth and his wife Emma did not venture into Arabia. The first volume is devoted to Egypt, with descriptions of the land and people as seen by a European tourist. Lowth avoids to dwell on the well-known and described monuments, but takes more care to report of daily encounters with the Egytian population of different social standing, their manners and social interactions. At the beginnig of volume two the tourists are in Cairo, moving slowly towards Suez and Sinai, and then from Akaba north towards the Holy Land, Lebanon and western… Read More

1908. London, Duckworth & Co., 1908. 8vo. 2 vols. Publisher's original green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, top edges gilt; pp. xx, 309; x, 297; photogravure frontispiece of Doughty to vol. I, wood-engraved frontispiece to vol. II, 1 double-page map; some chipping to head and tail of spines, foxing at front and rear of each volume; this is a rare inscribed copy presented by the author to G.G. Coulton, signed to that effect on the half title of volume I. First abridged edition. Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta was first published in 1888, but abridged by Garnett in the present form. A covering letter from Ruth Robbins contains important information regarding the book's provenance: 'it bears Doughty's own inscription, as he personally gave it to the well-known medieval scholar, Prof. G.G. Coulton of Cambridge. Coulton and Doughty met in Eastbourne, and apparently got on very well together (Doughty did not like meeting people on the whole). They spent many hours in conversation, I have been… Read More

London, Peter Davies, 1930. 8vo. Original cloth with dustwrappers; pp. xiv [2], 318, printed on high-quality laid paper, near fine. First edition, hard to find in this condition. Cyril Falls, an distinguished military historian and writer on war here presents a well written and even highly legible bibliography of books on the Great War, including foreign books and works of fiction.

London, Peter Davies, 1930. 8vo. Original cloth with dustwrappers; pp. xiv [2], 318, printed on high-quality laid paper, near fine. First edition, hard to find in this condition. Cyril Falls, an distinguished military historian and writer on war here presents a well written and even highly legible bibliography of books on the Great War, including foreign books and works of fiction.

1903. London; Adam and Charles Black. 1903. Large 8vo., original mid-green cloth attractively panelled in grey to spine and upper cover and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; pp. xiv + 254 + [ii], including 16pp. facsimile letters; with a total of 99 coloured plates protected by captioned tissue-guards and a pull-out chart tipped in to the rear; externally fine, internally near fine, with browning to endpapers and a previous owner's armorial bookplate, and inscription, to front pastedown endpaper. Second edition, of only 1500 copies; first published in 1901. War Impressions is Mortimer Menpes’ personal account of his time spent in South Africa during the Boer War, and was the very first title in A. & C. Black’s Twenty Shilling Series. This same retail price was maintained for twenty years. This is generally thought to be the first title in the canon to employ the newly-invented three-colour process, marking a change of direction for the firm, and setting a pattern for all… Read More

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1955-1960]. Two volumes, 8vo. Original cloth with illustrated dust-wrappers, not price-clipped; pp. 320; 340; 298, plates after photographs in volume one, and this dust-wrapper designed by Ruari MacLean; wrapper of volume II with small marginal flaw to foot of spine, otherwise a very good set, rarely seen together, even in libraries. First English edition, volume two in second impression. The volumes appeared in parallel with the Collins or Collins and Weidenfeld imprint.

London, P.S.King And Son Ltd, 1938. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt and with Royal Welsh Fusiliers initials in gilt on front cover; pp. xvi, 613, [3], 27 leaves of maps at the end; cloth a little marked, otherwise very good. Very rare first edition, one of 500 copies printed of one of the best Great War books, with a literary contribution by Siegfried Sassoon, A Subaltern's Service in Camp and in Action, a chapter covering the period from March 12th to April 16th, 1917, which is considered an early draft of pages of Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. The chapter in this volume 'written early in 1926, except for his diaries of 1918, was the first prose Sassoon wrote about the war' (Keynes). The compiler of reminiscences of around 50 members of the Battalion was not a fan of Graves' Goodbye to all that and prevented him from contributing. Robert Graves figures several times in texts by others, as does Sassoon. Dunn, of Glasgow, appears in Sassoon's Sherston's Progress as Dr Munro. John… Read More

1969. Lupus Music, 1969. 8vo. Original decorative paper-covered boards, with dustwrapper; pp. 63; slightly rubbed to extremities, internally very clean and bright, very good. Provenance: ffep inscribed by Marc Bolan "Deepest love/ Marc Bolan/ x", with ownership signature of Jeannette Montgomery (b. 1956) the revered photographer of the New York downtown art scene, known since her marriage as Jeannette Montgomery Barron. When asked by the Fashion Style blog who she was 'totally into' as a teenager, Mongomery Barron replied : 'T. Rex' (http://ranchodascoelhinhasportugal.blogspot.com/2014/02/q-jeannette-montgomery-barron.html). First edition. Scarce signed. Heavily inspired by Tolkien, this book of poetry was issued before Bolan hit international superstardom with T. Rex. Nevertheless, he was a big enough domestic star to sell 40,000 copies of this book, which was quickly reprinted and became Britain's biggest selling volume of poetry of the year. There is a nod to his band in the very last… Read More

1997. Viking. 1997. 8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A fine copy. First edition. "Gavin Young first visited Vietnam in 1965 at the time of the American invasion. He was to spend most of the next ten years there as a reporter for the Observer, but also as a kind of honorary citizen and adopted son, forming unusually close ties with the 'delightful, infinitely patient Vietnamese people' and with one family in particular...In a Wavering Grace one of our most distinguished travel writers offers us an unusual and affecting memoir, a unique view of a tragic land. It is the tale of one man's relationship with a people and a place, but even more it is the tale of one indomitable family, whose own lives read like a chronicle of twentieth century Vietnamese history." With a quantity of related material including three typed drafts of the work, dated May to July 1996 with manuscript corrections and amendments by Gavin Young, Peter Carson and Gritta Weil (some on post-its). Each draft is… Read More

Warsaw, privately printed, October 1976. 4to. Original printed flexible card wrappers; pp. 96, diagrams in the text, wrappers a little darkened, otherwise very good despite lower quality paper stock. Very rare first edition, signed by both authors inside front cover. A work on opening bridge games. 'The most interesting approach to strong pass systems has been taken by the Polish players Lukasz Slawinski and Stanislaw Ruminski in their book Introduction to Weak Opening Systems' (Jan Eric Larsson, A Bridge System Collection, online). Were able to locate only one copy in Libraries outside Poland, in Denmark

[London], Ulysses Bookshop, 1931. Large 8vo. Original printed envelope; pp. [4], one bifolium; envelope with soiling and tear to fold of flap, internally very good; provenance: ownership inscription of Roger Senhouse, dated 1937 on envelope. First edition, number 38 of a printrun of 45, numbered and signed by the author on title, ms. number in limitation at the end. This First World War poem is printed here lithographically in cursive on opposite pages in English (one correction on the lithographic stone) and French. Blunden explains the production process of this poem on the final page. 'These verses were written by way of recreation in the Ypres salient towards the end of 1917. At that time a habit of reading French verse characterized the author and explains these stanzas! If any apology be required as well, let it be recalled that "there was a war on" - and on such relics as this have their own value to those who remember it'. All we were able to find out about Ulysses Bookshop in… Read More

Paris, Éditions Delroisse, [1973]. 4to. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrappers; pp. 126, [2]; highly illustrated in colour throughout; wrapper with a few flaws and tears, front fly-leaf with little spot; otherwise very good; bookplate of the Athearn Library. Very rare first and bilingual edition (captions in Arabic) of this early monograph on the coastal city in UAE, documenting the rapid development of the early 1970s, as well as emphasizing the respect of the government and the people for their artistic and cultural heritage.

Paris, Éditions Delroisse, [1973]. 4to. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrappers; pp. 126, [2]; highly illustrated in colour throughout; wrapper with portion at head of spine missing; otherwise very good. Very rare first and bilingual edition (captions in Arabic) of this early monograph on the coastal city in UAE, documenting the rapid development of the early 1970s, as well as emphasizing the respect of the government and the people for their artistic and cultural heritage.

1897. London; Osgood, McIlvaine and Co. 1897. Large 8vo. Finely and richly bound in full tan morocco, spine with 5 raised bands, decoratively ruled in compartments and lettered, and dated, direct in gilt, with double panels to boards and decorative cornerpieces in gilt in triple-line gilt fillet, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, decorative gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers, by Birdsall of Northampton; pp. [iv], [v]-viii + [ii] + 337 + [i], with original cloth covers laid down and bound in to rear; illustrated with a frontispiece etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a map of Wessex; a very nearly fine, and remarkably handsome, copy with just a touch of rubbing to joints and edges, internally uninscribed, and fresh, save offsetting from gilt dentelles to edges of free endpapers. First edition in book form of this often-overlooked Hardy novel which was published as volume XVII in the Wessex Novels series. It is Hardy's penultimate novel which appeared previously in serialised form as The Pursuit of… Read More

1989. London; Walker Books. 1989. Landscape 4to.; publisher's terracotta textured cloth lettered in black to spine, pictorial double-page endpapers (different at front and rear), in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [36]; illustrated throughout in alternate colour and monochrome with wonderful double-page spreads; both externally and internally fine, without ownership inscription, in an uncommonly clean example of this scarce and vulnerable dustwrapper with a trace of light dusting, 4 tiny spots to upper panel, one short, angled, and closed, tear to top edge of lower panel (3.5cm), with a little local creasing, and two other tiny closed edge tears, each professionally repaired to the reverse with archival tissue-tape. First edition of this modern children's classic, which has established itself as one of the best-loved children's books in English of the late twentieth century, boasting sales well in advance of 9 million copies. Unsurprisingly it is included in the BBC list of the Greatest Children's… Read More

1888. London: Macmillan & Co., 1888. Two volumes. 8vo, three quarter calf over green cloth; spine ribbed, with lettering and ornamentation in gilt; boards with gilt ruling; top edge gilt, others untrimmed; marbled endpapers; pp. [vi], 247; [vi], 212, [4] (publisher's catalogue); with the orignal publisher's cloth bound in at the back of each volume; light rubbing to extremities; light fading to hinges of spine; slight damage to the calf on spines, which obstructs Vol II gilt lettering on the second volume; previous owner's bookplates to paste-downs, Provenance: that of Oliver Brett, Viscount Esher; very good copies, retaining the original binding. First edition. 750 copies were printed though only 634 copies were bound up. The unbound sheets were later remaindered.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Andrew Reid & Company, Limited, 1926. 4to. Original black crushed morocco, pp. 44, frontispiece and 11 colour-plates with tissue guards; near fine, printed on high quality laid paper; ibnitially a little foxed, otherwise very good. First edition, privatly printed, inscribed to George Angus and with the donor's (Sir Noble) armorial engraved bookplate inside front cover. 'Douglas Strachan (1875-1950) was a Scottish artist who designed the stained glass windows in the chapel at Westminster College. Our chapel was commissioned by Sir William and Lady Black Noble in memory of their son William Black Noble, 2nd Lieutenant in the Northumberland Fusiliers, who died in World War One at Ypres in 1917. They asked Douglas Strachan to design the stained glass windows on the theme of the Benedicite - O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord - and Strachan's windows are full of strong, beautiful colour, and dynamic movement' (Douglas Strachan blog at westminster.cam.ac.uk/).

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Andrew Reid & Company, Limited, 1926. 4to. Original black crushed morocco, front cover lettered in gilt; pp. 44, frontispiece and 11 colour-plates with tissue guards; near fine, printed on high quality laid paper. First edition, privatly printed, inscribed by Sir William Noble, dated Xmas 1926 and with the donor's armorial engraved bookplate inside front cover. 'Douglas Strachan (1875-1950) was a Scottish artist who designed the stained glass windows in the chapel at Westminster College. Our chapel was commissioned by Sir William and Lady Black Noble in memory of their son William Black Noble, 2nd Lieutenant in the Northumberland Fusiliers, who died in World War One at Ypres in 1917. They asked Douglas Strachan to design the stained glass windows on the theme of the Benedicite - O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord - and Strachan's windows are full of strong, beautiful colour, and dynamic movement' (Douglas Strachan blog at westminster.cam.ac.uk/).

No place or printer, [July 1944]. 8vo. Illustrated stiff card wrappers, map and plan inside wrappers, wire-stitched, pp. 24, [2], illustrations after photographs in the text; staples a bit oxidized, marginal traces of humidity towards the end. A guide book produced for Allied troops in the Levant. - The only other copy we were able to locate is in the Imperial War Museum.