Search Results: Titles starting with W from Paul Haynes Rare Books

Druid Press. Carmarthen. 1947. Octavo. 325-404. 8 monochrome plates. Original paper wraps, sunned to upper edge and spine. A couple of spots, chipping to overlying cover edge. The Essence of Welsh Literature By SAUNDERS LEWIS This unpublished essay was broadcast from the Cardiff Studios of the B.B.C. and is printed here for the first time. Sir Stafford Cripps address at Trealaw, Rhondda "A Social Experiment". Dennis Morgan's "Changing Face of South Wales" with contemporary photographs of industrial development following the post war Distribution of Industry Act 1945. The first publication of Emyr Humphrey's 'Michael Edwards at College'.

Druid Press. Llanybri, nr. Llanstephan, Carmarthen. 1945. Octavo. 100pp, 2 pp adverts. Original paper covers, a little sun-darkened to the edges. Printed on typical war-time paper. Original staples, oxidised. A nice copy.Significantly contains two poems by R.S. Thomas, both published here prior to the publication of his first volume of poems 'The Stones of the Field' in 1946. The first poem, published here, and never collected, is 'Gideon Pugh' [attributed to S. R. Thomas in the volume]. "Gideon Pugh may be a minor poem, but it is a significant one" [S. J. Perry. OUP. 2013.]The second poem published here for the first time is Thomas' 'The Rising of Glyndwr'. Published in 'The Stones of the Field' a year later, "It is at this moment that we first meet ' the matter of Wales ' fully articulated in R.S. Thomas's work ' The Rising of Glyndwr ' ". [W. Moelwyn Merchant. UWP. 1989]. Robert Graves 'The White Goddess: a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth was published in 1948, based on his articles in… Read More

The Druid Press. Carmarthen. Vol.VI, No. 24. Winter 1946. Octavo. 144pp. 8 photo plates. Original staple bound blue paper covers. Slightly sunned to edges, staples oxidised, tiny chip at base of spine. The original Druid Press Christmas and New Year Gift Subscription flyer printed in red is still loosely inserted. A nice crisp copy.Contains "Memories of Christmas" by Dylan Thomas, an earlier piece of writing from which emerged "A Child's Christmas In Wales" published in 1955.

Folding linen backed, hand coloured map, 42 x 35.5cm, folding to: 12.5x 9.5cm, in the original embossed cloth covers, sl. worn, with original paper label, lower corner chipped. Information on Population in 1841, Fairs, Rivers, Distances, Market Days.

First English edition. Ingram Cooke and Co. London. 1853. Octavo. Engraved frontispiece, Engraved title, Title, v, (3), 308pp. (4) Publisher's catalogue. 6 engraved plates. Numerous text engravings. Publisher's catalogues to yellow endpapers. Original embossed decorative cloth, with gilt to spine. Edge chipping and short splits to head and foot of spine. Some spotting and foxing. Inscribed Lizzie to upper margin ffep. Leighton, Son and Hodge, Shoe Lane, London plate to rep.Historic newspaper clipping tipped in to ffep. "Ghastly Scene at a Bull Fight. A Matador Gored to Death" reporting the death of bull fighter El Manuel Garcia Espartero May 27th, 1894, in Madrid. Hemingway devoted several manuscript pages regarding this bull fighter in his research for "Death in the Afternoon" and "The Undefeated". Killed four years before he was born, Hemingway regrets never having seen him fight. Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) French writer, artist, photographer, Daguerreotypist, and poet, "the… Read More

Blackie and Son Limited. London. nd. Octavo. Half title, title, vii, 208pp. Full blue calf Prize binding by Relfe Brothers London. Spine in six compartments with gilt tooling and red leather label, Kibworth Grammar School Emblem to upper board in gilt. Gilt bordering, edge tooling and inner gilt tooling. All edges and endpapers marbled. Some light rubbing to extremities. Occasional spotting. Ribworth School Prize bookplate, awarded to W. Hill Midsummer 1895, to fep.

Daily Express. London. [1945] Oblong octavo. (143)pp. Original paper covers, chipped, torn, worn, marked and faded. Sidney Conrad Strube (1892-1956) The highest paid and most popular inter-war cartoonist, he expressed the voice of the people through the 'Little Man'.

First edition. Art Print. Sevastopol. 2001. 125pp. Colour photo and monochrome plates. Original photographic pictorial boards, gilt lettering. Photographic endpapers. 8 colour plates, 8 monochrome plates, maps and plans. Price inscribed below isbn. Small bump to lower corner of upper board, otherwise a near fine copy."the hero-city, the city monument, the museum in an open air ... the industrial and scientific centre of the South of Ukraine ... Every day the main city clock plays 'Legendary Sevastopol'. While listening to this melody remember everything this glorious, hospitable city survived and watch its sights attentively and respectfully" A guide to the cultural life, buildings and monuments, vine growing and wine making, religion, and history of the city published before the 2014 annexation by Russia, and the current war in Ukraine.

Monthly Supplement of The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. April 30 to May 31, 1833. Charles Knight. London. 4to. Extract, unbound. 8pp. 4 engravings. A couple of spots, light toning, otherwise crisp and bright. Engravings of: Harpooning the Wales in the Arctic Seas; Carcass of the Whale; Skeleton of the Whale; The Harpoon; Dangers of the Whale Fishery.Scoresby, Greenland, Shetland, Arctic, Davis' Straits, Baffin's Bay, Liverpool, Whitby, Hull, Peterhead etc.

B.K.W.1. [Brüder Kohn Wien 1]. nd. [c.1916]. Oblong quarto (17 x 25 cm). Album of 24 colour plates from watercolour paintings of Vienna by various artists. Original pictorial red and cream boards, red cloth spine, gilt lettering to upper board with armoured knight in black. B.K.W.I. in black to lower board. The plates are captioned in German, French and English. Corners rubbed, light shelf wear. Light stain to lower board.1. Rathaus mit Lieben-Denkmal; 2. Universität und Liebenbergdenkmal; 3. Votivkirche; 4. Burgring; 5. Museum; 6. Karntnerstrasse; 7. Opernring mit Karntnerstrasse; 8. Opernring; 9. Stephansdom; 10. Graben mit der Dreifaltigkeitssaule; 11. Burg - Michaelerplatz; 12. Naschmarkt; 13. Schwartzenbergplatz; 14. Christinendenkmal; 15. Marienbrucke; 16. Kirche Maria am Gestade; 17. Kursalon im Stadtpark; 18. Kariskirche; 19. Beethoven - Denkmal; 20. Prater, Hauptallee; 21. Schloss Schonbrunn; 22. Schonbrunn; 23. Cobenzl, Schlosshotel; 24. Kahlenberg und Leopoldsberg.Not recorded in… Read More

First edition. Gurney & Jackson. 1893. Octavo. xx, 472pp. Double-page frontispiece map, 52 plates, further text emgravings. Half calf, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Spine in six compartments with gilt embellishment, leather labels with gilt lettering bound and signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Slight foxing to preliminary pages, occasional spotting.
From the library of Humphrey Adam Gilbert (1886-1961) of Bishopstone, Hereford, hunter, shooter and fisher; author of a Tale of a Wye Fisherman, with his signature dated 1932 to first blank.

First edition. Printed by Hadden Best & Co. Ipswich for the Author. 1977. 8" x 6". 18pp. Original pictorial stapled blue wraps. A little sunned to covers. A meticulously researched monograph, with appendices. Scarce.
In 1874 the engine, railway and six Englishmen left Ipswich for Shanghai in the SS Glenroy via the new Suez Canal. These men, with a Chinese workforce, laid the first railroad in China's history along with bridges, turntables and stations from Shanghai to Woosung. By July 1876 the line was open and a passenger service was running six trains a day. A diplomatic incident arose, negotiations took place. The Chinese authorities raised the cash to buy the line and on 22 October 1877 the line was immediately torn up and shipped to Formosa with all the rolling stock. Less than two years after work commenced on the line there was no trace left.

First Baskerville edition. Printed by John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, at Shakespear's Head in The Strand, London. Birmingham. 1761. 4 volumes. Quarto. Complete with the rare "Directions to the Binder". Text and plates all complete.
Vol. I: I, title, ii blank, iii-v dedication, vi blank, vii-xx Preface, xxi-xxv Poem, xxvi-xxvii Contents, xxvii blank, 1-501 Poems on Several Occasions, 502 blank, 503-37 Poemata, 538 blank, 3z2 blank, 3z2 verso "Directions to the Binder. This leaf is to be cut out". (therefore usually missing) 413-537 Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals, 538 blank, 539-42 index 543-4 blank. 3 engraved plates, plus 6 plates included in pagination.
Vol. II: Title, A1 blank, A2 sub title to Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, A2v blank. A3-A3v Dedication, A4-A4v Preface, 1-171 Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, 172 blank, 173-372 The Tatler, 373-538 The Spectator, 539-40 Index, 550 blank. 7 engraved plates.
Vol. III: Title, blank, 3-579 The Spectator, 580 blank, 581-91… Read More

Privately Published by R. Perry. Wotton Under Edge. 1986. Limited edition. xiii, 193pp. Text illus. Original cloth in original dust wrapper, very slightly chipped to top edge. Signed by the author to front pastedown, plus inscription dated Christmas 1986 to ffep.

First edition. Methuen and Co. London. 1928. Octavo. x, 244pp. 8pp publisher's catalogue. Original cloth, sunned to the spine, with a few spots. Corners bumped. Endpaper map. Corner clipped to ffep. Frontispiece plate, 18 photo illustrations on 15 further plates. Occasional light spotting. Ownership inscription in pencil to ffep.
Sir Algernon Aspinall (1871-1952) Secretary of the West India Committee.

First edition. 1750 copies (of which 600 for sale). Private Libraries Association. Pinner. 1991. Tall quarto. xii, 183pp. Profusely illustrated with monochrome wood engraved plates, text vignettes and photos.. Original black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Red endpapers. A very nice copy.Blair Rowlands Hughes-Stanton (1902-1981) Major twentieth century wood engraving artist. Founding member of the English Wood Engraving Society. Director, with his wife Gertrude Hermes, the Gregynog Press from 1930-33.