Search Results: Authors starting with W from Neil Pearson Rare Books

Cardiff: Second Aeon Publications, 1973. 8vo, pp. 36. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers. Some general wear and creasing, wrappers rubbed and darkened. Cover illustration by Rick Davis. First edition, no. 328 of 400 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A late Wantling collection (he died the following year) and scarce.

El Cerrito: Dust Books, 1966. 8vo, pp. 40. Original stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front and rear panels. Photographic portrait of author to front panel. Wrappers a little browned, ink stamp of Location Press, Blackburn, to inside front wrapper. A well preserved copy. First edition. Foreword by Len Fulton.

Majorca: N.p., 1959. 4pp. ALS, secured with staple to top left corner. Faint horizontal creases consistent with having been folded in to an envelope (not present). Very well preserved. 4pp. ALS FROM JACK WARNER TO FELLOW DIXON OF DOCK GREEN ACTOR ANTHONY PARKER, WISHING HIM WELL ON HIS DEPARTURE FROM THE SHOW. The BBC TV show Dixon of Dock Green ran from 1955 to 1976, for a total of 432 episodes. Jack Warner, who played Dixon, appeared in every single one. The character first appeared in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp, where Warner's kindly bobby was famously shot dead by a hoodlum played by the young Dirk Bogarde. The character was resurrected for a stage show the following year which was co-written by Ted Willis. It was Willis who supervised the transfer to television, and between 1955 and 1963 he wrote 201 episodes of the show. Anthony Parker joined the show in 1957 to play the naive young recruit PC Bob Penney, and stayed for two years before leaving in an attempt to avoid typecasting. (His… Read More

London: Faber, 1948. 8vo, pp. 104. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Blue printed dustwrapper. A little musty, otherwise a fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with minimal fading to spine. First edition of Watkins' third book.

London: Faber, 1962. 8vo, pp. 99. Original magenta boards, lettered in silver to spine. Printed blue dustwrapper. A fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a solitary dink to top corner of front panel. First UK edition, and a lovely copy.

London: Faber, 1959. 8vo, pp. 102. Original magenta boards, lettered in white to spine. Printed dustwrapper. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with a little fading to spine and the lightest of edgewear. First UK edition, and a near fine copy.

London: Hutchinson, N.d. [1938]. 8vo, pp. 408, 8pp. catalogue of Wheatley titles and 24pp. publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine, publisher's name in gilt to front board. Map endpapers. Spine ends a little bumped, otherwise a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, some light general edgewear, and an unobtrusive 1cm closed tear to top edge of rear panel. Dust jacket and endpapers design by Diana Younger. First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'For W. Royden, with the best of good wishes from his friend Dennis Wheatley'. Walter Royden (born Walter Smith) worked in publishing, and was the father of the actor Auriol Smith. An early Wheatley title, a lost world novel, and the basis for Hammer's The Lost Continent (1968), directed by Michael Carreras and starring Eric Porter and Hildergard Knef. Inscribed, in the dust jacket, and rare.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965. 8vo, pp. 356. Original black boards, lettered in gilt at spine. A little light spotting to top edge of text block, but a near fine copy in an all but fine dustwrapper with just the lightest of offsetting to flap edges. 8 photographic illustrations, production stills of the plays in the book. First edition. This collection of White's highly experimental plays sold poorly, and is quite scarce. Hubber and Smith J-1

New York: M.S. Mill/William Morrow, 1960. 8vo, pp. 251. Original red boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in an all but fine dust jacket with the very lightest of wear to spine ends. First edition of the author's first novel. HUBIN, p. 438

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1932. 8vo, pp. 313. Original red boards, lettered in green to front panel and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Light offsetting to endpapers, but a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, faded at spine and with a little wear to lower edge. First US edition. Preceded by the UK edition published earlier the same year with the title The Gold Comfit Box. The fifth of seven Williams titles featuring the German spy Dr. Adolph Grundt, better known as Clubfoot. Scarce in the dust jacket, and a very well preserved copy. HUBIN, p. 439

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. 8vo, pp. 303. Original purple boards, lettered in green to front panel and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Small area of sunning to foot of spine corresponding to chip in dust jacket. A very good copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, a little light chipping and with loss to foot of spine. First US edition, preceded by the UK edition published earlier the same year. The fourth of seven Williams titles featuring the German spy Dr. Adolph Grundt, better known as Clubfoot. HUBIN, p. 439

New York: Vanguard Press, 1947. 8vo, pp. 240. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Slightly cocked, a little foxing to edges of text bloc, a near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, a little foxing and browning to rear panel, and with wear to spine ends. First UK edition of the author's first book, in a striking dustjacket designed by Roy Sanford. Slide 49 Slide 49

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966. 8vo, pp. 487. Original pink and blue cloth, lettered in silver on spine. Spine slightly sunned, the whole a little dusty, but a near fine copy in dustwrapper. First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO KAY BOYLE : 'For Kay, In all respect and reverence, and in love too. You're marvellous, and I should like one day to be worthy of it, you. Herb. San Francisco July 3, 1966.' Herbert Wilner was a Professor of English at San Francisco State University between 1957 and 1977. Kay Boyle moved to San Francisco in 1963 after the death of her husband, and took a job teaching creative writing at the University.

London: N.p., 1970. i) 2pp. ALS on Windsor's scalloped personal stationery; ii) Post Office telegram. Faint horizontal folds to the letter consistent with a journey by envelope (not present), otherwise very well preserved. Top corners of telegram missing, not affecting text. 2pp. ALS AND A POST OFFICE TELEGRAM FROM BARBARA WINDSOR, APOLOGISING TO BOTH EDDIE JOFFE AND BOB MONKHOUSE FOR HER NON-APPEARANCE ON AN EPISODE OF THE GOLDEN SHOT DUE TO ILL HEALTH. The Golden Shot was a British game show made by ATV for ITV, which ran between 1967 and 1975 and was hosted by Bob Monkhouse for the first five years. In 1970 Eddie Joffe was in the director's chair and Barbara Windsor was booked for the 22 February 1970 episode of the show, to appear alongside the pop group Herman's Hermits. But ill health intervened. In her letter to Joffe, (written on her Hendon Hall Court stationery) she apologises for her absence: 'I've already written & told Bob [Monkhouse] how sad I've been over letting you down last… Read More

London: Bloomsbury 1989. 8vo, pp. 167. Original dark blue boards lettered in gold, blue silk bookmark. A near fine copy in a dustwrapper with the slightest of wear to top edge. First edition. The fourth novel by the author of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1947. 8vo, pp. 252. Original orange boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Publisher's device in black to rear panel. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, (white) rear panel a trifle marked, a couple of small closed tears and a little light edgewear. Dustwrapper illustration by Frank Ford. First UK edition. The sixth Blandings novel, and a very nice copy. McIlvaine A66b

New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1935. 8vo, pp. 311. Original light green boards, lettered in dark green to spine. Yellow endpapers. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dustwrapper. Small ownership signature to ffep., spine a little dulled and with some wear to spine ends, offsetting to endpapers. A better than very good copy in a very good dustwrapper, historical water staining affecting rear panel near spine, and with very slight chipping to head of spine. Illustrated dustwrapper by Roese. First US edition, published five months after its UK counterpart. McIlvaine A53b

New York: George H. Doran, 1924. 8vo, pp. 323. Original yellow boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Slight age-toning to text block, but an all but fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, light wear and chipping to spine ends, rear panel just a little marked. First US edition, preceded by its UK counterpart of the same year. Part of the plot of Bill The Conqueror was used for the book of the Kern-Bolton-Wodehouse musical of the same year, Sitting Pretty, which opened in New York in April, 1924 -- six months before the book's publication, and a month before its serialisation began in the SEP. An extremely attractive copy of a book rarely seen in such nice condition. McIlvaine A33b

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1940. 8vo, pp. 252. 4 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original red boards, lettered in gilt and with publisher's device in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Offsetting to endpapers, title page marked, a better than very good copy in a very good dustwrapper with two closed tears to front panel, and a little wear to spine ends. Dustwrapper illustration by Fenwick. First edition, first issue, in the primary red binding with gilt lettering. Familiar settings, unfamiliar characters. No Wodehouse regulars here, but that didn't stop the Saturday Evening Post serialising it in May and June of 1940, before its appearance in book form. McIlvaine A63a

New York: George H. Doran, 1924. 8vo, pp. 330. Original green boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. illustrated endpapers. Lacking the dustwrapper. Lettering to spine a little faded, bookseller's label to front free endpaper, which also bears a contemporary gift inscription. A very good copy. First US edition. A collection of ten golfing stories, first published in the UK under the title The Clicking Of Cuthbert.