Search Results: Authors starting with W from Lansdowne Books

1st edition.Reprinted 1953. Very good copy in the original colour printed boards and dust jacket no in protective mylar. Well-preserved; tight, bright, clean covers and pages.Pookie has an adventure beyond the wood, finding himself captured by gypsies and made to perform in their circus, before eventually making his escape and returning home

A very clean, tight and rare copy in original brown cloth in very good condition. Very slight bumps to spine and covers. Title in gilt lettering on spine and upper boards, incl. gilt tooled hieroglyphs between a gilt border also on upper cover. Red marbled endpapers and marbled edges. (xxi), 955pp. 2 full-page maps as a double frontisp., many plates, of which plans of temples, text-figs. and ills, diagrammes, full-page coloured maps and plans, index, list of contents, and important notice on Bakshish, list of Egyptological words.This work represents far more information to the tourist than the usual tourist-guide. Originally drawn up in 1886 in accordance to the suggestions of his [Wallis Budge's] friend Mr. J.M. Cook with vast information on ancient monumental Egypt.

The original edition of Rubaiyat of a Motor Car. Humorous prose. Iluustrated with full page plates by Frederick Strothmann. Colour illustrations throughout. Pictorial cover as shown. A tight, clean copy. This work was written in 1906 when cars were much different than they are today, this short poem celebrates the 'joys' of the automobile. The work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Very charming and collectible.

1st Edition. Hardcover with unclipped jacket light wear at top and bottom of spine panel . Dust jacket is now protected with a mylar cover. Light rubbing to Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. First book club edition. Through a vivid canvas layered with intrigue, conspiracy and murder, Rebecca West has created a story that is at once a family saga, a political thriller, a philosophical drama and a historical novel.Rebecca West's gripping psychological mystery—part thriller, part historical novel—The Birds Fall Down takes readers inside the intrigue of revolutionaries preparing to overthrow an empire. During early revolutionary stirrings in Russia, after an unexpected turn of events, Laura Rowan, the coddled granddaughter of an exiled British nobleman, becomes her grandfather's sole companion on a fateful train ride. In France, a young revolutionary approaches Laura and her grandfather with information that will turn her world upside down, and their travels… Read More

First edition. With a photogravure frontispiece and 12 lovely tissue-guarded plates by E. C. Peixotto. Publisher's original dark green cloth beautifully decorated on the upper cover and spine after designs by Margaret Armstrong. The lettering on both the cover and spine is in gilt. A handsome and bright copy of this lovely book, internally very fresh and clean. The pages are uncut pages to side and bottom and gilded to top.The Armstrong binding is fresh, vivid and clean with minor evidence of age damage to the top and bottom of spine. A BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED ITALIAN TRAVEL BOOK by a Pulitzer Prize winning author. Though the less famous then her collaboration with Maxfield Parrish this collection of nine essays is none-the-less appealing. Mr. Peixotto's art was far more familiar then his name, he had been a extremely successful illustrator of magazines and periodicals. Scribner's sent the young artist to Italy with Mrs. Wharton and then kept him at various points of the Mediterranean for over a year.

Navy blue boards with gilt spine lettering, price clipped illustrated dust wrapper now in protective mylar designed by Osbert Lancaster. Pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.Gift inscription on inside front board."Commemorating Plum's 90th birthday, issued this tenth Bertie-Jeeves novel which finally resolves the Bassett-Spode romance."

London : Folio Society, 1997. First Folio Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth, in a slip-case. Pages tight, bright, clean and strong. Never Read. Overall a Fine copy. Physical description: xii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23cm.

London: Folio Society, 2004. First Folio Society Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 22 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 279pp. Illustrated cloth in slipcase. With illustrations by Paul Cox.
The gardens of Blandings Castle are that original garden from which we are all exiled. All those who know them long to return." ―Evelyn Waugh When Lord Tilbury receives a letter from Galahad Threepwood stating he will no longer be publishing his memoir, he decides to travel to Blandings Castle and steal the manuscript. But he isn't the only one after the memoir. Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe and Lady Constance Keeble are also trying to lay their hands on it to prevent Ronnie Fish and Sue Brown from getting married. Monty Bodkin, Lord Emsworth's new secretary, is also after the manuscript in order to secure a year's employment at the Mammoth Publishing Company.

First Edition thus, with frontispiece, title-vignette, illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps; pictorial cloth, gilt back, a fine copy bound in fully illustrated cloth in publisher's slip-case also in fine condition. Black and white illustrations throughout by Paul Cox and with pictorial cloth covers with drawings by the artist.
Hugh Carmody loved Millicent, Lord Emsworth niece, but he was very good friends with Sue Brown - an attachment which Millicent, perhaps, could hardly be expected to enthuse over. Ronnie Fish loved Sue, and entertained feelings of unrestrained ferocity towards Pilbeam, a blister of the first water, who was pestering her with flowers. When Millicent and Ronnie heard that Hugo and Sue were having dinner on the quiet, there was trouble; and when Ronnie, descending upon Mario's, found not Hugo but the execrable Pilbeam, summer lightning flashed in truth. How Lord Emsworth's pig was stolen, how Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe was accused of the crime, how Mr… Read More