Search Results: Authors starting with W from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

London : Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis., 1828 Second edition. [vii] viii - xii, 445 printed pages [Directions for placing the Plates at end], folding engraved Constantinople map after contents pages, 5 full-page lithograph plates (plate supposed to be opposite page 63, opposite title-page), engraved plate of Hebrew opposite page 427, folding engraved plate of The Yafta opposite page 429, folding engraved map of author's route at end of text, (maps and one folding plate with one or two short closed tears, slight toning and sporadic foxing). Former owner's ink signature on front free endpaper. 13 x 20.5 cm. Contemporary full cloth, burgundy morocco label on spine with gilt titling (lower hinge split, very slightly marked and rubbed). Probable provenance: Robert Peter Fleming (1907-1971) who travelled the world partly as an officer in WWII, serving in Norway in 1940, in Greece in 1941 and subsequently in Burma, & India earning the Order of the Cloud and Banner from the Chinese government.… Read More

Circa 1900. 588 printed pages. Portrait frontispiece. Additional decorated title page. India paper. Rounded corners. From the fifth, 1676 edition, much corrected and enlarged. Printed by Horace Hart, printer to the University. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt over red. Inner gilt dentelles. 1.8 x 2.1". Contemporary straight-grained dark green morocco (slightly rubbed, repair to head of spine). Scarcest Oxford miniature book and one of few antique, miniature, fishing books published. Bondy, 117. Spielmann, 504-5. Welsh, 7030.

George P. Putnam & Company, NY, 1850 2 volumes in 1 book with appendix. xiv, 268; 242 printed pages. Tissue-guarded, steel engraved frontispiece of a street in Jerusalem (Governor's House). Silk ribbon place-marker. Contemporary ownership signature and and associated ink stamp. 13 x 18.5 cm. Contemporary full cream goatskin. Spine with black leather label and hand-tooled gilt foliate scrolling. (somewhat abraded in spots). Corners very slightly bumped. Classic work on travels to Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Greece. Provenance:- Archibald Reid of Auchenbothie House in Kilmalcolm- built in 1898 a Baronial mansion by William Leiper FRIBA RSA (1839-1916), a Scottish architect notable particularly for his domestic architecture. It had a simple, detached, two-bedroom cottage as its gate lodge, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh who drew and signed three unexecuted designs for the lodge, as well as the design that was eventually built & was named as architect in the county planning authority's… Read More

John Murray, 1903 18 plates, 1 folding map, contemporary 1/2 black crushed morocco. Gilt period floral tooling at head and tail of spine and beneath titling.This is an especially attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Edward Arnold, London, 1904 8 plates, contemporary 3/4 black morocco, slightly rubbed at corners. This is an especially attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. The spine has a leather label and five raised bands & is densely tooled in gilt. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. Hardcover. Good.

London : Visual Advertising Ltd. for the Widescreen Centre, 1985 180 printed pages. Photographic portrait with white printed lettering on additional card title page. Text illustrations throughout. 21 x 16 cm. Ring bound with clear plastic front cover. Very mild handling wear. COPAC locates only a sole copy at London Metropolitan University Library. This is a rare survivor of a small print-run moviemaking manual. Ivan Watson was the doyen of amateur movie making techniques, including script writing in the 1960-80s.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.

John Murray, London, Albemarle Street, 1840 First edition. Engraved title page (somewhat foxed, as usual), xii; 406 pp.; (2)pp. publisher's catalogue at end. Original pictorial green cloth stamped in blind & gilt, spine faded to brown and some minor soiling. Contemporary ownership inscription "L. O'Grady" on front free endpaper and upper margin of Introduction. It gradually occurred to Jane Loudon that the technical terms and descriptions were rather off-putting to new gardeners, particularly women, who although literate and interested had often not been well schooled in the sciences. Instructions in Gardening for Ladies was published by her in 1840 and partly written because her family were in financial difficulty and extra income was needed. The book was popular, with over 1300 copies sold on the day it was published. It was precise and correct but written in an anecdotal style which made it easy to follow; more than 200,000 copies were sold altogether in multiple editions..… Read More

Ernest Nister; E. P. Dutton & Co., 1898 ERNEST NISTER HUMPTY DUMPTY MOVEABLE POP-UP BOOK IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. Complete with six full-page colour chromolithographed pop-up illustrations in fine working condition, depicting Cinerella, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, and Beauty and the Beast. All pop-ups function well, are bright and are in fine condition. Lacking front free endpaper. All pages evenly toned. Very occassional and extremely slight foxing. 32 x 27 cm. Dark green cloth backed cream chromolithographed paper covered boards. Spine extremely lightly worn at head and foot. Lightly abraded . Corners extremely slightly worn. Crucially this is a better than usual copy. The production of this book, its expense to produce and the vulnerability of the moving parts to careles handling have made such examples increasingly scarce. This book represents one of the finest productions of Ernest Nister and of the printers in Bavaria,… Read More

Springer, 2003 xvii, 368 pages. Upper top corner of binding, slightly worn.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Florian Weis aus Hamburg, 1998 290 x 210 x 60. (1), 514, (2)p. Maroon card covers with black cloth spine (no lettering). German text on recto only throughout. Colour full-page frontispiece.This is an original doctorate dissertation that lay the foundations for being published as a book the following year by Hamburg, VSA. The doctorate was supervised by Professor Dr. Bernd-Jurgen Wendt. Labour supported the fight against National Socialism, in a cross-party manner, but pushed for welfare-egalitarian reforms during the war as well as binding international peace goals. The Second World War was also a time for think tanks in the Labour Party. "Planning" was the keyword, nationally and internationally. The study of Florian Weis deals with these plans on the political left. "Think tanks" are considered significant today - especially in American politics and at international level - because they believe that they can analyse global trends and set long-term political accents. Topics also… Read More

Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), 1968 In original blue buckram decorated in gilt with Cook's ship on upper board. With origianl cream dustwrapper with identical ship image, and with extremely mild shelf wear. 295 x 450 mm.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

J.W. Arrowsmith, 1910 In original blue, dust-soiled wrappers -the front cover detached and the spine & edges showing wear, with ink owner's inscription on upper cover & half-title.. 243x154mm. Soft cover. Fair.

Arnhem, H.A. Tjeenk Willink, 1862 (8),40 printed pages. Text in Dutch. Pages uncut and partly unopened. Some creasing at the top corner. 14 x 24 cm. Original printed wrappers. Stab bound. Some creases and very slight wear to the upper edges. On the back wrapper is an advert for the book "Between the Tropics". Sketches from the animal and plant kingdom by Dr. G. Hartwig, from a book review in the New Trade and Securities Magazine of November 25, 1861. This is the first local published description of the land, people, early colonisation, & cultivation of this agricultural Colony. Concerns the Bay of Natal, Durban, Umvoti (District of KwaZulu-Natal), the Bantu people ("de Kaffers" who he describes as "a beautiful, proud and well-made people. They have a dark brown, almost black skin colour. Some, however, are shades of brown. They are heavy, large and tall, and are rarely found with body defects. That race who come into contact with European people only wear a shirt or… Read More

Richard Bentley, London, 1850 xxx, 413; xix, 407; xix, 444 pp. 4 engraved plates, 2 folding maps. Plates slightly dampstained. In three volumes, volume one and two from the sixth edition and the final third volume from the fifth edition, uniformly bound in contemporary brown full morocco, spine in compartments with gilt lettering. All edges gilt. All hinges weak and cracked. Some mild wear in general. All three volumes with former owner's bookplate in the form of a family crest, the name "A.F. Cunningham" and the family motto "Fortitudine". The Cunninghams were originally a Scottish clan. A.F. Cunningham was a printer and author, in America, who flourished in 1840.. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Good.

Duckworth, 1973 160 printed pages. 8 duotone pages of family photographic illustrations & 8 pages of illustrations of paintings. Woodblock illustrated chapter headings throughout. Signed in ink by Kyffin Williams in flourishing hand on half-title page. Printed map endpapers. 16.5 x 25.5 cm. Original red cloth. Gilt lettering along spine. Dustwrapper very slightly shelf worn. Price excised from lower corner of inner dustwrapper. Sir Kyffin Williams (1918-2006) was a Welsh painter best known for his depictions of the Welsh countryside, shepherds and their sheepdogs, livestock, and small villages. Williams paintings were primarily made with impasto palette knife marks and few brushstrokes, employing a limited palette consisting of gray and subtle greens that emanate the color found in the rocks and foliage of Wales. He went to the Slade School of Fine Art in London, also spending time painting in the Welsh settlement of Y Wladfa in Patagonia, Argentina in 1968, thanks to the Winston Churchill… Read More

Gomer Press, Llandysul, 2001 102 printed pages. Signed by Kyffin Williams in blue ink & in a flowing hand, on the front free endpaper. Loosely inserted two colour illustrated folding card leaflets for Kyffin Williams exhibitions at the Thackeray Gallery in 1991. 22 x 26.5 cm. Original black cloth. Spine with silver lettering. Dustwrapper near fine/fine condition. Sir Kyffin Williams was a Welsh painter best known for his depictions of the Welsh countryside, shepherds and their sheepdogs, livestock, and small villages. Williams paintings are primarily made with impasto palette knife marks and few brushstrokes, employing a limited palette consisting of gray and subtle greens that emanate the color found in the rocks and foliage of Wales. Born on May 9, 1918 in Llangefni, United Kingdom, he went on to study at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, also spending time painting in the Welsh settlement of Y Wladfa in Patagonia, Argentina in 1968, thanks to the Winston Churchill Fellowship. Today,… Read More

Scott, Ady & Company, "East London Observer 48, Whitechapel Road, E., 1915 155 x 145.16 p. Grey boards.Title offset, Light foxing. Founded for relief of poor of West Ham. Held by only 5 COPAC/WorldCat member libraries worldwide. Nicholas Avenon (d. 1599), merchant tailor of London, conveyed to 12 trustees a 6 a. marsh, Withering's mead. On his death the income from this land provided 24 poor persons with a penny loaf each every Sunday, any more going to an annual sermon preached in the parish church. The trustees, all laymen, were empowered to renew the trust, but by 1834 it had long lapsed and the charity was controlled by the vicar. The land, at Middle marsh, in Plaistow, was then let for £21, and loaves were being distributed among inmates of alms-houses. Avenon's charity was included but later questioned, as a Distributive Charity, in the scheme of 1870. But in 1879 the Charity Commissioners ruled that the central charity board should govern it. The income from… Read More

Sorika, 2013 This is the scarce first book of the author of The Glue Ponys, longlisted for the 2017 Republic of Consciousness Prize. It was signed by the author in ink on the half title page.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Circa 1845. 120 printed pages + 8 pages of publisher's adverts at the end. Engraved frontispiece and title. All edges gilt. Original pale green endpapers. 30 x 50mm. Original red cloth (very slightly rubbed). Front cover and spine stamped in gilt and both lettered "Life of Abraham". This is a Diamond textbook (a series of miniature books that also covered the lives of Christ, Samuel, Joseph, Alfred the Great and the Reverend C.H. Spurgeon). Welsh only notes Spielmann's copy. Bondy remarks "Much loved by collectors". Bondy, 130. Spielmann, 512. Welsh, 7179. WorldCat locates five copies including the Adomeit copy, only one copy is in the UK and it is not held by the British Library.

Hutchinson No date. Contemporary 3/4 green calf, spine gilt. This is an especially attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. The spine has a leather label and five raised bands & is densely tooled in gilt. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. Hardcover. Very Good.