Search Results: Titles starting with W from Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

N: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1993. Pp. xii+260(last blank), frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, chronology, indices; med. 8vo; St. Paul's Bibliographies/Oak Knoll Books, Winchester & New Castle, 1993. First edition. Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers.

London: Thornton Butterworth, 1934. Pp. x+150, bibliographical list; grey cloth, lettered and decorated in black, with slight bruise just below centre of spine; top edges grey; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split, the backstrip lightly browned; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a few neat pencilled annotations to last couple of leaves, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Thornton Butterworth, London, 1934. First edition. Modern Writers and Playwrights series.

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1941. Edited, with an Introduction, by Richard Curle. Drawings of Hudson and Cunninghame Graham by Sir William Rothenstein. Single fold, 4 pp., title page, specimen pages 40 and 37, prospectus; cr. 8vo; title page very slightly foxed, horizontal crease at centre, light crease from backstrip fold at bottom, The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1941. Cock-a-Hoop P150.

London: N, 1950. Pp. 72, frontispiece portrait plus 3 plates, index; dust wrapper, a trifle foxed and soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; a little light foxing and offsetting; University of London Press , London, 1950. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author on the upper free endpaper. Bibliography of the Scottish scholar, William Paton Ker.

Canberra: H. J. Green, Government Printer, 1931. Pp. 16(last blank); roy. 8vo; printed stiff paper wrappers, blue pencilled numbers on upper wrapper; contents lightly creased at corners; H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra, 1931..

London: Orion, 2004. Pp. x+386(last blank); med. 8vo; dust wrapper; a little light foxing; Orion, London, 2004. First U.K. edition..

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd, 1952. Pp. x+294; cr. 8vo; red cloth, lettered and ruled in black, edges of boards a trifle rubbed, the spine slightly faded at extremities; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, edges lightly rubbed and chipped, with pieces torn from backstrip extremities and a couple of tape repairs on reverse; free endpapers faintly offset, the outer leaves and edges slightly foxed; Sampson Low, Ltd., London, 1952. Overseas edition. *A Jasper Shrig novel. The dust wrapper illustration is by H. M. Brock.

Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books, 2010. Pp. 126(last blank); med. 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed; Bloodaxe Books, Tarset, Northumberland, 2010. First U.K. edition. *Charles Kenneth Williams (1936-2015) won many poetry awards, including the 2000 Pulitzer Prize..

New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. Pp. [viii]+312(last blank); dust wrapper; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Pantheon Books, New York, 1999. First trade edition. *Signed by the author on title page.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1974. The life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849-1924. Pp. xii+274, 16 plates, bibliography, notes, index; med. 8vo; boards slightly flecked; dust wrapper; Secker & Warburg, London, 1974. First edition..

Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia, 1988. Pp. [28](including the free endpapers), illustrated in colour throughout; small demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; WilliamHeinemann Australia, Melbourne, 1988. First Australian edition.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1989. Foreword by Philip Mason. Pp. xxiv+228(last blank, colophon), 4 coloured plates, black & white pictorial double title page and text illustrations (several full page), 4 maps (one double page), appendices, glossary, notes, bibliography, index; narrow cr. 4tgo; navy cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper; Melbourne University Press/The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 1989. First edition. *The term 'Waler' was coined in Calcutta in the 1840s, to describe a horse from New South Wales. 'Soon horses from every Australian colony were contesting prizes on the Indian turf and carrying dragoons and troopers in the wild, disputed border regions of Queen Victoria's empire. These part-thoroughbred horses left Australia in their tens of thousands, never to return. Most people will know them as the horses ridden in the legendary charge by the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba in 1917' [wrapper blurb].

London: Readers Union, 1946. Pp. 136, frontispiece portrait; wide post 8vo; brown cloth, spine lettered and decorated in red & blue, bottom edges of boards lightly bruised; top edges navy; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split; bookplate of Benjamin Tindale on upper pastedown, a little light foxing; Readers Union, London, 1946. Book Club edition. *The basis for a 1945 film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Dana Andrews, with narration by Burgess Meredith. Originally published by Knopf, New York, in 1944. Harry Brown (1917-1986) was an American poet, novelist and screenwriter.

London: Navy Records Society, 1953. Edited with an introduction by Gerald S. Graham. Pp. xx+442(last blank)+[20 , errata slip, frontispiece, 3 maps, index; fs22 med. 8vo; qr. navy and white buckram, lettered, ruled and decorated in gilt; fs24 book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, a little light foxingfs22 ; Navy Records Society, [London], 1953. Publications of the Navy Records Society Volume XCIV. First edition.b0fs24.

London: Bloomsbury, 1989. Pp. xii+188(last blank), 24 plates (16 coloured or part-coloured); med. 8vo; upper board a trifle marked; dust wrapper, slightly rubbed; Bloomsbury, London, 1989. First U.K. edition. *The story of Simon Weston, who was severely burned in an Argentinian air attack during the Falklands War.

London: Constable & Company Limited, 2002. Pp. [viii]+296(last blank); dust wrapper; Constable, London, 2002. First edition. *Author's first novel.

New York: Collins Publishers, 1987. Pp. 128, black & white text illustrations (some full and double page); square demy 4to; dust wrapper; Collins Publishers, New York, 1987. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label on upper pastedown. Let Us Remember. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, booklet loosely inserted.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Scenes from an Anglo-Irish Childhood. Pp. xiv+258(last colophon), 12 plates; demy 8vo; qr. green cloth over beige papered boards, spine and upper board lettered in gilt; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, a trifle scuffed; corners of a couple of leaves slightly creased; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989. First edition. *Memoirs of the Irish novelist, academic and screenwriter.

Sydney: N, 195-. Introduced by Robert Benchley. From Kenneth Grahame's "Dream Days". Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, stapled, lightly foxed and creased, the edges lightly rubbed, with small split at foot of backstrip; tiny chip from bottom fore-corner of title page, a little light foxing and soiling, short closed tear to bottom edge pp. [24/5], bottom fore-corner of last page creased; John Sands, Sydney, n.d.[195-]..

London: The Bodley Head, 1960. A Bodley Head Monograph. Pp. 82, frontispiece portrait, select bibliography; small 8vo; printed turquoise papered boards, faintly soiled, corners a trifle rubbed; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper free endpaper, edges of leaves foxed; The Bodley Head, London, 1960. First edition.