Search Results: Titles starting with W from Wheeler's Bookshop

Wadowice: Grafikon , 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. Die-cut pictorial cover. 375 pp. Superbly produced photographic history of Wadowice in the early to mid-20th Century. Sepier b/w photographs throughout. Near as-new. FINE

London: Frederick Warne, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. With jacket. 119 pp. Prev. owner's inscr. to ffep. Clean and bright. Jacket is complete and has aged gracefully. VG+ / VG

Walberton, West Sussex: Walberton Action Group, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Staplebound A5 booklet. Red pictorial card covers. 66 pp. B/w illustrations. Good detailed local history of Walberton, Binsted, Fontwell area. near Chichester, West Sussex. As-new. FINE

New York & London: G. P. Putnams / T. Fisher Unwin, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark green cloth with gilt decorations. 421 pp. B/w illustrated. Inscriptions to endpapers. Pictorial plate pasted at ffep. Overall very clean. Binding beautifully sound. VG+

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Co., 1843. First Edition. Softcover. Coloured county map on linen. Unfolded, 16 x14 inches tall. Dated 1843. Dark grey textured leather covers with aste-on title plate. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. VG+

West Sussex: Published by the Author, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Undated. Circa 2002. 8vo. staplebound booklet of walks, published by the author as a tribute to his faithful border collie walking companion, Henry. Colour pictorial covers. 41 pp. Signed by the author at front endpage. Clean and bright. VG+

Seaford: S. B. Publications, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. New. 8vo. 144 pp. B/w plates. New. FINE

London: W & R Chambers, 1942. Reprint. Hardcover. 1942 Printing. 8vo. With jacket. 308 pp. B/w plates and double-page map. Book and jacket clean and sound. VG / VG

London: Constable, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Colour pictorial jacket. 205 pp. B/w plates, maps. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. VG+ / VG+

Liphook: Bramshott & Liphook Preservation Society, 1984. Softcover. Reprint with revisions. 8vo. Pictorial card covers. 44 pp. B/w illustrations and maps. Collection of circular walks with historical and archtectural details of the villages around the Hampshire, Surrey, West Sussex border. VG+

Leckhampton: Reardon, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Small 4to. Pictorial covers. 16 pp. B/w illstrations. Walking guide done very much in the style of the Wainwright guides. No inscriptions. Near as-new. NEAR FINE

Keighley: Hillside Publications, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. New. Yorkshire Dales Walks - Book 4. 8vo. Booklet. Pictorial covers in protective pouch-sleeve. 64 pp. B/w illustrations and maps (very much in the style of Wainwright's lakeland guides). Pristine, as-new condition. FINE

London: B. Fellowes, 1839. Hardcover. Fourth Edition. 1839 printing. Small 8vo. Original cloth with blind-stamped lozenge designs to front and rear. Gilt titled spine. 307 pp. B/w frontispiece illustration from engraving (depicting head of Waterton's "Nondescript" ape-man taxidermy hoax). Textblock clean and bright throughout and binding sound. Early owner's printed name-plate to front pastedown, and a small 20th C. inscription to ffep. VG

London: Macmillan, 1879. Hardcover. 1879 Printing. 8vo. Attractive contemporaneous half-leather with nonpareil comb-marbled boards. Textured spine leather with raised bands. Comb-marbled endpapers and all edge comb-marbled. xvi. 520 pp. B/w illustrations from engravings throughout. Ex-Libris bookplate (of one 'Pershouse', with coat of arms) to front pastedown. Clean and sound with only very occasional trace of lightest foxing. Binding in lovely condition. A spledid copy. NEAR FINE

London: Archibald Constable, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Superb 20th Century rebinding in half leather with swirl-marbled boards. xxiv. 424 pp. B/w plates. Three fold-out maps. Some related early pencil notes to rear blank flyleaf page. Beautifully clean and sound. A lovely copy in this highly attractive binding. NEAR FINE

London: Nelson, 1891. 1891 Printing. 8vo. Dark maroon cloth with gilt decorated titles. Bevelled edges. xxxix. 367 pp. plus publisher's ads. Tissue-guared b/w frontispieceB/w illustration plates from engraving throughout. Features an extensive introductory 1826 'review' by Sydney Smith. 1891 gift inscription to flyleaf. Overall book and binding beautifully clean. No foxing. Cloth sound, including the spine. VG+

London: Chapman & Hall, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Maroon half-leather with ornately comb-marbled boards. Notorious exploration hoax travelogue from the 1870s. 283 pp. Colour frontispiece, of the highly suspect 'Mount Hercules' (32,000 feet, taller than Everest). Fold-out map at rear showing the 'expedition' route and features. This colourful, entirely imaginary exploration travelogue was soon after publication shown to have been an elaborate hoax, the author never having set foot in New Guinea. Book and binding clean and bright. Name inscription (of Walter Wren, Powis Square, London, at head of contents page). Just a little wear to leather at head of spine. Overall VG+

London: Thomas Nelson, 1895. Hardcover. 1895. Illustrated Edition. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt decorative titles. Bevelled edges. 367 pp. B/w illustration from engravings. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Beautifully clean. VG+

London: Cassell, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. With jacket. 224 pp. Colour and b/w plates throughout. As-new condition. FINE / FINE

Swanage: Amberwood Graphics, 1994. Softcover. VG+. Fifth Edition. 4to. Pictorial cover. 20 pp. B/w illustrations. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. VG+