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Poet & Printer, London., 1969. First edition. Octavo. Unpaginated. Twelve poems, each of which is accompanied by a full-page illustration by Tom Ricciardi who also designs the pictorial title-page. Printed on paper of different colours. Wrappers. Loosely inserted is a short Typed Letter Signed by the publisher Alan Talring.Covers slightly faded at spine and edges. Near fine.
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Gallery.
by WADE, John Stevens. RICCIARDI, Tom (illustrates).
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Sélection. Chronique de la Vie Artistique - XIII.
by WADSWORTH, Edward. Various authors.
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Éditions Sélection, Anvers., 1933. First edition. Quarto. pp 76, [4] adverts. Wrappers. About half of the pages are devoted to the black and white reproductions and one photograph. Texts by Waldémar George, Michael Sevier and Ossip Zadkine.Overlapping edges nicked and creased. Spine slightly darkened and rubbed. Very good.
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A Genius of Industrial England: Edward Wadsworth 1889-1949
by WADSWORTH, Edward. Lewison, Jeremy (edits).
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Arkwright Arts Trust and Bradford Art Galleries and Museums., 1990. First edition. Quarto. 128 pages. Essays by Andrew Causey, Richard Cork, Serge Fauchereau and Jeremy Lawson. Well-illustrated exhibition catalogue. Card wrappers.Fine.
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Tiepolo's Hound.
by WALCOTT, Derek.
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Faber and Faber, London., 2000. First edition. Royal octavo. pp [xii], 164. A long poem: the verse biography of Camille Pissarro. Illustrated with colour reproductions of the author's watercolour paintings. Cloth-backed boards.One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author.Fine in fine acetate dustwrapper.
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The Antilles - Fragments of Epic Memory: The Nobel Lecture.
by WALCOTT, Derek.
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Faber and Faber, London., 1993. First edition. Octavo. 30 pages. Sewn plain wrappers.Fine in fine dustwrapper. This Faber edition is now uncommon.
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The Castaway and Other Poems.
by WALCOTT, Derek.
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Jonathan Cape, London., 1965. First edition. Octavo. 62 pages. Cloth-backed patterned paper boards. The author's third book in the U.K. Thirty-three poems.Fore-edge a bit spotted. Near fine in very near fine dustwrapper.
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The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes.
by WALEY, Arthur.
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George Allen and Unwin, London., 1958. First edition. Octavo. 257 pages. The first attempt to give an account of the Opium War (1839-42) from the Chinese point of view, largely making use of the diary of Commissioner Lin.Very near fine in very good, slightly rubbed dustwrapper a bit darkened at the spine.
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An Introduction to the Study of Chinese Painting.
by WALEY, Arthur.
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Ernest Benn, London., 1923. First edition. Quarto. pp xii, 261. 49 plates, six in colour, all of which have captioned tissue guards. Pink-grey cloth with bevelled edges.Free endpapers lightly tanned. Near fine in the scarce dustwrapper which is very good, slightly marked and rubbed, darkened at the spine and with several nicks and a 6 cm closed tear which have been repaired on the reverse.
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The Nine Songs - A Study of Shamanism in Ancient China.
by WALEY, Arthur (edits, introduces and annotates).
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George Allen and Unwin, London., 1955. First edition. Octavo. 64 pages. Eleven page Introduction by the translator, who provides a commentary on each of the nine songs, as well as numerous notes. Three Appendices.Endpapers very faintly spotted. Spine and cover edges a little faded. Very good indeed in very good, slightly nicked dustwrapper a bit darkened at the spine.
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The Lady who Loved Insects.
by WALEY, Arthur (translates).
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The Blackamore Press, London., 1929. First edition. Octavo. 38 pages. One of 550 numbered copies. Four dry-point etchings by Hermine David. Cream silk covers. Top edge gilt. A story translated from the Japanese. Near fine. Lacks the card slipcase.
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Yuan Mei - Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet.
by WALEY, Arthur.
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George Allen and Unwin, London., 1956. First edition. Octavo. 227 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Yuan Mei. The biography contains numerous translations of the poet's verse and prose.Small ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Small snag at head of spine. Near fine in very good, slightly nicked dustwrapper faintly darkened at the spine.
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On Sight.
by WALKER, Alice.
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Bookslinger Editions, Minneapolis., 1983. First edition. A 19-line broadside poem published on the occasion of the author's reading at the Walker Art Center in March 1983. Printed at the Toothpaste Press.Number 34 of 90 copies signed by the author.Fine.
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The Mission that Failed - A Tale of the Raid & other poems reprinted from the ''Owl'' etc.
by WALLACE, Edgar.
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T. Maskew Miller, Cape Town and Bulawayo., 1898. First edition. Small octavo. Wrappers. 52 pages. The author's scarce first book.The front cover has been repaired where it had become detached with some of the advert on the inside of the cover being obscured. Two corners of the covers have been restored and there is a repair to outer edge of lower wrapper. Front free endpaper spotted and creased at one corner. Good.
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Bosambo of the River.
by WALLACE, Edgar.
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Ward, Lock & Co, London., 1914. First edition. Octavo. Colour frontispiece. First issue black blind-embossed cloth lettered in gilt with colour pictorial panel reproducing a detail from the frontispiece mounted on the front. A 304-page adventure novel.Free endpapers tanned. Very good indeed in later issue dustwrapper which is good, nicked, chipped and torn, defective at the tail of the spine. On the spine of the dustwrapper is a mark where the price sticker has been; the first issue dustwrapper had a printed price.
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Middle East Anthology of Prose and Verse.
by WALLER, John and DE MAUNY, Erik (edit).
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Lindsay Drummond, London., 1946. First edition. Octavo. 170 pages. Contains work by Sidney Keyes, Lawrence Durrell, Bernard Spencer, Keith Douglas, Olivia Manning, John Gawsworth, etc.Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by one of the editors: "To Derek Patmore, from John Waller. 29 April 1967 [messy squiggles] If there's any more unobtainable Greek [?] we'll have to send Patmore to Coventry!'' The recipient was Waller's fellow Fleet Street poet. Derek Patmore's middle name was Coventry; he was the great grandson of another poet, Coventry Patmore.Fine in fine dustwrapper designed by John Heartfield.
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The Kiss of Stars.
by WALLER, John.
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Heinemann, London., 1948. First edition. Octavo. pp viii, 73. Thirty-four poems.Presentation copy from the author to fellow poet G.S. Fraser and his wife, inscribed: ''To George and Paddy from John Waller - October 1948.'' Under the presentation inscription the author has written the first four lines of the poem ''Gifts for a Wedding'' which is included here. The poet G.S. Fraser was the author's superior at the Ministry of Information in Cairo during the Second World War. He is mentioned in the poem ''Salamander'' and is quoted at the head of the title poem.Endpapers spotted. Very good in good, rubbed and spotted dustwrapper darkened at the spine and edges.
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Fortunate Hamlet.
by WALLER, John.
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The Fortune Press, London., 1941. First edition. Octavo. 52 pages. The author's first book, a collection of poems. Pages unopened. From the library of Marie Stopes with her bookplate on the front pastedown. She was a contributor to Waller's magazine Kingdom Come.Fine in very near fine dustwrapper.
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The Merry Ghosts - Poems.
by WALLER, John.
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Editions Poetry London, London., 1946. First edition. Octavo. 53 pages. Frontispiece portrait. Thirty-five poems written on board ship or in various parts of the Middle East, 1941-1943.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper to a fellow poet:''To Francis Scarfe from John Waller. December 1946.'' He has also made a small, but important, change to the poem ''Meeting at a Play'' on page 22, and another, slightly less so, to ''Curtain'' on page 37.Very good indeed in very good, spotted, faded and slightly stained dustwrapper.
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Bookplates by Pickford Waller.
by WALLER, Pickford. MURDOCH, W.G. Blaikie.
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The Morlan Press, London., 1921. First edition. The second book of Pickford Waller's bookplates. Quarto. Two-page text by W.G. Blaikie Murdoch. Reproduced, each given a whole page to itself, are the art nouveau bookplates of J.H. Brewerton, Basil W. Ridley, Frida Ridley, Sybil Waller (2), Muriel A. Parton, Nita Prager, Harold Notley, Alice M. Gray, Maud Waller, Arthur W. Sykes, Margaret Howard Seymour, Maud Ridley and Walter Bradley. Wrappers. Pages unopened.A bit of light spotting here and there. Covers slightly creased at the edges. Very good indeed. Scarce.
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Shadow of Authority.
by WALLER, Robert.
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Jonathan Cape, London., 1956. First edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Although the novel is about something called the National Publishing Authority it is in fact a satire on the B.B.C. where the author worked as a producer. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Robert with best wishes from Robert! August 1956. With thanks for appreciation and criticism of the mss."Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper, designed by Dennis Bailey, a little rubbed at edges.
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