Search Results: Titles starting with W from The Antique Map & Bookshop

J.Bowden 1899 2nd impression. Blue cloth lettered in white with col. plate mounted on fr.cover ( showing W.G. Grace in action). In generally good condition. Spine a little sunned. Corners a little bumped. Two name inscriptions on front endpaper. Endpapers, title page & frontis and its fore edges have some foxing, front endpaper is darkened. Page XX and plate opposite have mark on them. Else generally clean & tight. Photogravure frontis. portrait of the author (with facs. signature) & 80 pages of illustrations. pp.xx/ 524 pp. / Cat.32 pp. Same year and months as 1st. ed.;

London, Mixed publishers and editions 1879. Hardback, approx 7.5 x 5 inches. ATTRACTIVE Uniformed bindings. Halfbound polished green morocco leather and marbled to boards. Gilt line edging. Raised banding and gilt decorations to spine. Gilt top page edging. Marbled endpapers. Binding by J. LARKINS. In very good condition. Some very minor rubbing to leather bands on spine. 3 volumes slightly faded to brown. 3 volumes very slightly sunned top edge of marbled boards. Pages clean and tight. Inside some foxing, Amateur Poacher has name inscription on half title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. After London or Wild England. Cassell 1885 1st Amarllis at the Fair. Sampson Low 1887 1st The Gamekeeper at Home. Smith Elder 1879 3rd Wild Life in a Southern County. Smith Elder 1879 2nd Nature near London. Chatto 1883 1st Red Deer. Longmans 1884 1st The Story of My Heart. Longmans 1883 1st Hodge and his Masters. Smith Elder 1880 2 Volume Set 1st The Open Air. Chatto 1885 1st The Toilers of the Field.… Read More

Orr & Comp Amen Corner Paternoster Row Ca1870. Size of engraved surface: 25cm x 30cm. In very good condition. Smudge by map title. Inscription to rear dated 1872. Uncoloured.

London. John Lane The Bodley Head. 1944 1st.. 7.5 x 5.0 inches. In orange cloth covers with black to spine and silhouette to front. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Spine slightly darkened and rubbed at ends. Slightly rubbed along top edge. Price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Spine slightly darkened. Mild foxing to edges and endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. 233pp. With b/w woodcuts by J.Kiddell-Monroe. A family holiday in a horse drawn caravan. Includes adventures with the people they meet and joining a circus!.

Bloomsbury. 2012 1st. edition. Size 6.5 x 9.5 inches. In dark grey cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Author’s neat inscription to main title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 353pp. Set in WWl a young man is sent on an intelligence mission to Switzerland to expose a traitor.

Bloomsbury. 2012 1st. edition. Size 6.5 x 9.5 inches. In dark grey cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Author’s neat inscription to main title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 353pp. Set in WWl a young man is sent on an intelligence mission to Switzerland to expose a traitor.

Adelaide, G. Hassell & Son, 1918 1st. Paperback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. In plain paper covers with B&W illustration to front. Stapled binding. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to spine and edges. A couple of minor light handling marks to cover. Some slight fading to rear spine edge. Neat pencil inscription to top edge of title page “Cholmondeley.” A couple of small foxing spots to middle of outer page edges. Else pages clean and tight. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 33pp. Illustrated with B&W drawings in text by Marion Hart.

The Crowood Press. 1987 reprint.. 7.5 x 5.0 inches. In light brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). A clean and tight copy. 95pp. With b/w photographs and line drawings. A guide to the art and craft of stick making (dressing). Includes choosing the type of wood, types of stick, tools, and displaying sticks.

Ludgate Hill London Daldy Isbister and Co 1876 (5th.ed.).. 2 volumes. Sm. 8vo. Bound in original black cloth binding with horizontal red lines and embossed gilt decoration In generally good condition. Some rubbing on edges, ends of spines a little chipped, a few faint marks & corners a bit bumped. Small name inscription head of each half title page. A couple of pages uncut. Else generally clean & tight. Size 7.5 x 5.5 inches 2 double-pg. plans by St. Clair Baddeley. 474 pp./ 456 pp., plus index & adverts

Spurbooks Ltd. 1974. Size 4.75 x 7.25 inches. In illustrated limp card covers with black lettering to front. In very good condition. Slight browning throughout. Else a clean and tight copy. 64pp. With b/w maps. The author suggests walks around Dorset with maps of routes. One erratum map.

Antique Collectors’ Club. 1982 8th edition revised.. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. In light green cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Price clipped). Small mark to bottom edge. Else a very clean and tight copy. 478 pp. With b/w and colour plates.

Victor Gollancz. 1929 1st edition.. Size 6.5 x 10.0 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened and rubbed. Small chips and tears. Large piece missing from front. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Slight browning to endpapers. Author and translator's signatures opposite main title. A few pages unopened/uncut. Else a very clean and tight copy. 101pp. English translation of a long poem by Edmond Fleg, written after he had re-connected with his Jewishness, the poem covers the Wailing Wall, the Great War and hope for the future of the Jews. Limited edition of 750 copies and signed by both author and translator. Scarce with dustwrapper.

Pelham Books 1971 1st Edition. Bound in original red cloth with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly rubbed at edges. Some small marks). Not price clipped. Inside clean and tight. No inscriptions or other marks. 157pp Ralph Wightman was born in the remote Dorset village of Piddletrenthide, where his father was a farmer and butcher. His liking was for the farming side of the business, and he did all the jobs which farm bred boys faced in the days before tractors. A thirteen acre field, which his family farmed for more than a century, is used as a basis for discussing the changes in farming and country life.

Methuen & Co. 1923 23rd edition. 5 x 8 ins. Bound in original bright blue cloth with gilt to spine. In very good condition. Endpapers lightly tanned, small nick lower title page. Some foxing spots to page edges else pages clean and tight throughout inside. 290. + 8pp. 16 colour and other b&w illustrations.

London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1891. Hardback, approx 8 x 5.5 inches. In full calf leather fine binding by “Bickers & Son.” Gilt paneled boards, raised banding and gilt decoration to spine, gilt lettering to brown leather label. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good condition. Some minor darkening and rubbing to edges, some rubbing and fading to spine. Some minor darkeing to endpapers, with binders stamp and neat inscription to front “Llandaff Cathedral School, Prize for English, Aubrey Isaac Rothwell Butler. 1892.” Some minor darkening to edges of frontis and title page, else inside pages and plates all very clean and tight. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 367pp. Illustrated with 16 full-page B&W plates.

Jonathan Cape. 1972 1st UK edition... 8.75 x 5.5 inches. In grey cloth covers with gilt to spine. Black endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 109 pp. With b/w illustrations. Originally published in 1920 under the title ‘Wanderung: Aufzeichnungen’, a synthesis of prose, poetry and watercolour sketches, here reproduced in black and white.

R.Scott. ca1948. 8vo. Black cloth covers with gilt to spine. In very good condition. With tatty dustwrapper (Dw loss head of spine, with chips on edges.) Slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. 380pp; 4pp Cat; 12 full-pg.drawings by M.VIGERS, and over 100 text ills.by the author. Maps & plans. The author describes the countryside with history and descriptions of people and places.

London, Macmillan & Co., 1879 new edition. Hardback, 9 x 6 inches. In green cloth with decorative cover, black and gilt designs and gilt lettering to front and spine. Top page edges gilt. Brown endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor handling marks to boards, corners slightly bumped and rubbed, a couple of small nicks to bottom of spine. Front endpapers cracked. “Burn & Co.” binders label to rear. Some mild foxing to prelims and pages throughout. No penned inscriptions. Else a very clean and tight copy. 520pp. 100 b&w illustrations within text.

Hutchinson. 1966 1st.. Hardback, 8 x 5 inches. In maroon/black speckled cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Maps to endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. spine slightly rubbed at ends. Not price clipped. Laminated). Else a clean and tight copy. 460 pp. The lady of the title is Napoleon’s sister Pauline. The story covers the years 1800 to 1805. The adventures of Roger Brook, Pitt’s most resourceful secret agent who has quarrelled with his master. Action takes place from the West Indies to Russia.

Manchester. National Reform Union. 1901 1st.. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. In orange cloth covers with gilt to spine. In very good condition. Re-bound ex library copy. Bookplate and rubber stamp from Wandsworth Public Libraries to front endpapers. Occasional small marks inside. Else a clean and tight copy. 344 pp. Much of the text is in two columns. A history of the Boer War told from articles, speeches and letters from newspapers and periodicals of the time.