Search Results: Titles starting with W from Bath and West Books (PBFA)

Melbourne: Phuong-Hoang Press, 1973. First Edition, First Impression . Softcover. Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover copy in good condition with rubbing/creasing to edges, and tanning/marking to page edges. Cheap paper tanning but contents clean without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. Firmly bound. 168 pp.; b/w photographs. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A moving account of Rena Briand's fight to rescue destitute children from war torn Vietnam and re-home them in Australia. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

A & W Enterprise, 1985. Fifth Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author to fffep with "Hope you enjoy". Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket which is clean and bright with fading to spine and light rubbing/creasing to edges. Grey cloth gilt. Binding clean, bright and square with minor bumping to top corners. Minimal marking to page edges. Contents clean and crisp without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or markings other than author's inscription and #216 in pen to ffep. 182 pp; b/w ills. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for, and insured.

New York: The Traveller's Companion Series in association with The Olympia Press, 1967. First American Edition . Paperback. Fair/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A scarce title. This is the first American edition by The Olympia Press in their Traveller's Companion Series. Founded in Paris in 1953, The Olympia Press was banned from publishing in the USA until 1967. Original green, thin card wrappers with black lettering. Light wear and creasing to wrappers with rubbing to spine tips and edges. Age-toning and minor spotting to page edges. Cheap paper browned. Text block strained in a couple of places (see photo for worst example) and care needed when handling. Contents clean without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Scarce in any format. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

London : Viking, 1990. First Edition, First Impression First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Parkins, David. First edition, first printing, with full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket which is clean and bright with minor spotting and rubbing to edges and without chips or tears. Blue cloth with white lettering to spine, also clean and bright with minor edge wear. Child's name written in ballpoint pen to ffep, a few light spots to endpapers, light spotting to page edges, contents o/w clean, bright and tight. 96 pp. Drawings by David Parkins. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

Bristol: Printed for Private Circulation by J. W. Arrowsmith, Printer, 1901. First Edition, First Impression . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt and black. Boards clean with light edgewear and one light stain to upper; spine badly faded. Contents clean without bookplates, inscriptions or markings. 98 pp. These bound papers form a series of annual reviews of meteorological observations taken at Bristol. 'Thirty Years' Weather at Bristol from 1860 to 1899' also in stock at time of listing.

Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. No publication details but this is a modern facsimile edition. Pastor Charles Taze Russell was the founder of 'Zion's Watch Tower' and 'Herald of Christ's Presence', known worldwide today as 'The Watchtower' - the magazine of the Jehovah's Witnesses. The book is bound in blue cloth with gilt titling to upper board and spine. Boards clean, bright, square and sharp. Contents clean, white and tight. Light marking to page edges but o/w fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Heavy/oversize book. U.K. postage at default charge but overseas buyers may be asked for a little extra. Enquiries welcome. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for, and insured.

London: Wright's Coal Tar Soap. First Edition, First Impression First Printing. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rowlands, Constance E.. Delightful vintage children's book. Sixteen full-page colour illustrations of animals, fairies, babies etc. by Constance E. Rowlands, with accompanying short verse for each. Unpaginated. Presented by The Proprietors of Wright's Coal Tar Soap, Southwark, London. No date but c.1925. Paper-covered boards with colour illustration to upper. Green linen spine. Light wear to paper and spine tips; light spotting and marking. Contents in good condition without inscriptions, foxing or other marking; colours bright. Landscape format. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1962. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Shepard, E.H.. Set of three 1960s 'Pooh' books in their scarce dust jackets. Only missing 'Now We Are Six'. Matching formats with jackets in red, green and blue (one price-clipped and two unclipped), and bindings to match. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Winnie-the-Pooh': 853rd Thousand, reprinted 1964 for the 55th time. 'The House at Pooh Corner': 704th Thousand, reprinted 1963 for the 40th time. 'When We Were Very Young': 863rd Thousand, reprinted 1962, for the 61st time. The dust jackets are bright with minor soiling, rubbing, and a few small chips and tears; minor spotting to top and bottom edges of some flaps, and to reverse of Winnie-the-Pooh which also has a faint stain to bottom edge of front flap. These minor faults do not detract from their charm. The books are clean and bright with 'Winnie-the-Pooh' gilt… Read More

London: Folio Society, 2022. First Edition, Third Impression Third Printing. Hardcover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Leger, Patrick. New copy in the publisher's eco-wrapping, as received directly from The Folio Society. Carefully unwrapped to check for flaws - of which there are none, and to photograph, then carefully rewrapped. John Wyndham created some of the most intriguing and intelligent science fiction of the 20th century, and this special collection brings together three of his best works: 'The Day of the Triffids', 'The Midwich Cuckoos' and 'The Chrysalids' . His gripping stories show ordinary, sometimes heroic people reacting to unsettling or disastrous events that call into question the very nature of human society. With Wyndham's writing, science fiction becomes an instrument to force us to look at our own world with fresh eyes and to examine our comfortable assumptions, from human superiority to the permanence of civilisation. These… Read More