Search Results: Authors starting with W from finecopy ltd

T. and J. Allman, London, 1823. later edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Fifth edition. Title in red & black, 10 engraved plates of boards, illustrations, light foxing, old ink inscription to front free endpaper and pen & ink diagram to rear, original boards, rubbed, spine worn. Bindings split before title but held by stitching.

G. Walker & Sons, London, 1838. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition 1838 A collation of 6 issues of The Philidorian Chess Magazine (Dec 1837 - May 1838 - all issued) bound and published by George Walker (editor).A rare work. We can trace none at auction and none in UK institutions (there are 5 in the USA and 1 in Germany). Original quarter cloth over papered boards, a little bumped to extremities but otherwise excellent.

Thomas Hurst, St. Paul's Churchyard, London, 1836. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Olive, blind-stamped cloth, blue & white patterned end-papers. Upper hinge broken, splitting to ends of spine. Internally excellent, clean and bright.

The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition 1925 638/875 numbered copies printed on Van Gelder laid paper at the Curwen Press. The binding is bowed but less than is usual, else a Fine copy in the original vellum with a VG dustwrapper in the original decorated paper, a little nicked and chipped to edges.

L Drury, London 1821. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. First edition London 1821 complete with all 14 Plates including Frontis all with tissue guards, three plates bound out of sequence. Later patterned boards with gilt lettered leather label and new endpapers. One page with central crease, textblock slightly toned. Collation: xii, 224pp (2) (errata & directions to binder), errata leaf with short closed tear. 8vo. A scarce account of pioneer life in the early 19th century. The lithograph plates include views of a log tavern in Indiana, Little Brandywine, Pennsylvania, the place of worship at Legionier, the ferry at Maysville on the Ohio, Frankfurt, Kentucky, and the church at Harmony, Indiana.

London 1700. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hand coloured map of the British Isles London 1700. An excellent copy with no visible flaws and bright clean colour. Attractive modern mounting, glazing and framing.

Allen Press 1975. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. First Edition. One of 140 copies printed on hand-made paper, illustrations in the text, advertisement slip loosely inserted, publisher's cream cloth over red decorated cloth, acetate jacket, folio, 1975. A Fine copy. Mint

William Heinemann, 1899. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. 'The Modern Jew', London, William Heinemann, 1899, 1st edition, signed and inscribed in pencil to half title "Charles Beresford Sept. 1899 From Arnold White", xvii, 301pp + publisher's 32pp catalogue of adverts at end dated July 1899, period cream polished buckram, calf gilt title label to spine. A close to Fine copy. Rare in any condition, much more so signed and inscribed thus.Note : Historians of British antisemitism consider Arnold White (publicist, author, journalist, campaigner) a key exponent of racially orientated anti-Jewish sentiment in the United Kingdom in the period before the First World War. These attitudes were repeatedly demonstrated by his vehement opposition to East European Jewish immigration and underscored by a large literary output on the topic. In the late 1880s, White frequently clashed with leading Anglo-Jewish figures on immigration yet, in general terms, there was often difficulty in assigning him… Read More

Methuen & Co.,1915. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First illustrated edition, the sixth overall, Methuen 1915. Illustrated by Jessie King. Spine slightly darkened and lightly spine tips and joints. Upper hinge slightly loose, but not torn or cracked and binding solid. Internally cleaner and fresher than usual with this work, a few odd intermittent light spots else bright. Plates exceptionally good. Attractive copy.

Cambridge, Richard Watts at the University Press, 1807. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. The Antquities of Magna Graecia, Cambridge, Richard Watts at the University Press, 1807, title with engraved vignette, 73 full-page engraved plates and plans, including 20 aquatint views, engraved maps and illustrations, subscribers list, some light spotting, marginal toning and marginal water stains intermittently throughout, largely confined to the margins rather than the images themselves. Period black half morocco over blue cloth. Some rubbing to leather but solidly bound. Scarce.More photographs or a Whatsapp video available on request

Bloomsbury, UK, 2006. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First Edition First printing Flat Signed on title page, Fine in a Fine DJ. In a protective cover. Not clipped Signed by Author

London Limited Editions 1993. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. First Editions thus, Signed limited edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine acetate Jacket as issued, with one small tear to corner. One of 150 numbered copies. Signed by Author

Hurst, Robinson & Company, London, 1822. later edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Third edition 1822 Very good in contemporary half-calf, gilt title and marbled boards. A few spots but generally bright and crisp. viii [2] 298pp [2]

Faden 1815. later edition. No Binding. Fine/No Jacket. Third edition 1815. Large engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, sectionalised into 32 and laid on linen, contained in a good contemporary card slipcase, somewhat worn Howgego. No 188, state 7. 130 x 106 cms

Published by Penguin Viking, 2018. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Fine copy of the 1st impression. In a protective acetate wrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE TITLE PAGE Signed by Author

Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1990. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First Edition First printing Flat Signed on title page, Fine in a Fine DJ. In a protective cover. Not clipped Signed by Author

John Murray London 1831. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. First edition 1831 complete in three volumes, a Fine set in period full polished calf, spines elaborately tooled in gilt with contrasting double title labels. Provenance Earl of Portsmouth with his later manuscript name and Hurstbourne Park reference. Additional bookplate to pastedown.

University of Nebraska Press Lincoln [1950]. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. First edition 1950 A Fine copy in a Near Fine Jacket, with a small chip to head of spine, lightly soiled. Signed by Williams at head of his own Foreword to the book. In a Brodart protector. Signed by Author

Dramatists Play Service, Inc, New York, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Fine/No Jacket. First edition 1967 A Fine copy, signed by the author on frontispiece recto. Original publisher's wrappers. Signed copies are rare. Signed by Author

Dramatists Play Service, Inc, New York, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Fine/No Jacket. First edition 1969 A Fine copy, signed by the author on frontispiece recto. Original publisher's wrappers. Signed copies are rare. Signed by Author