Search Results: Titles starting with W from Librairie In Folio

8vo, cloth,  xvi, 526 p., ill., maps, ill D.J, under mylar, like new.

in8, 90p., couv ill.

8vo, cloth, ill dj, 138p., owner's stamp.

8vo, 288p., illustrated , blue illustrated cloth, few stain on the back.

Chromolithography, 265x395mm, original proof impression. Like new, a small tear of 2 cm in the lower margin.
“The second versions of the Vanity Fair caricatures are the proof prints or proofs before lettering. [First versions are the original watercolors; third versions are the widely available weekly/album prints.]   Produced to verify the colours and lines of the lithograph, no more than twenty copies were printed. Not true many more than that. These prints have no captions or dates, or other descriptive type, and the magazine bound them in numbered albums, in green leather with gilt tooling.  They were offered for sale, and also awarded as prizes in the magazine’s acrostic contests.  At the front of each volume is a printed note from Vanity Fair giving the number of the proof volume and the numbered volume in the series. However these volumes were "broken" to sell individually and one never sees the complete volume. The quality of the colours in the proof prints, their clarity of line and… Read More

8vo, viii, 468p., ill b&w line drawings by Olga ley, fine dj

Original blue cloth, XVII, 250,15 p., ill, photos, an almost perfect copy.
William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside GCB, CMG,CBE, DSO, (6 May 1880 - 22 September 1959) was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the first year of the Second World War.In September 1918, he was attached to the Allied expeditionary force fighting the Bolsheviks in northern Russia, and in November given command of the force. This was his first independent command, and he threw himself fully into it; for over a year, he travelled continually along the Northern Dvina river to keep control of his scattered international forces, at one point narrowly escaping assassination. However, the Red Army managed eventually to gain a superior position in the Civil War and in late 1919 he was forced to abandon the White Army to their fate. In November he handed command over to Henry Rawlinson, who would supervise the eventual withdrawal, and returned to Britain. Ironside was made… Read More

Oblong 4to, 593p., brown cloth in fine dj, ill.(heavy book) text in 4 languages, english, french, german, netherland.

4to, 232p., ill. color photos

Quarto, 256p., Pictorial Board, ill fine DJ, color b&w ill. Fine copy

4to, 272p., black cloth, ill D.J (small tear upper back)., ill color b/w. 1st ed.

Square quarto, 193p., color hardcover issued without dust jacket,

Green pictorial hardcover, 255p., price clipped ill DJ, ill color b&w ill. fine condition. Reprinted from the 1971 ed.

Reprint. Hard cover. Weatherhill, N. Y Tokyo (1980) Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards.

4to, full cream cloth (no DJ), Unpaginated, illustrated with 100 tipped-in, full-page, full-color plates,

oblong quarto, 95p., red cloth, ill. dj.,60 Color Illus.

Oblong folio, green cloth, color DJ, viii, 324p.,  ill. 370 reproductions, 315 of which have never been reproduced before., first printing, under mylar. As new.