Search Results: Titles starting with W from Inanna Rare Books Ltd.

1997. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1997. 24cm. xii,612 pages. Many illustrations throughout the book. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1976. Cuba, Casa De Las Américas, 1976. 12 cm x 19 cm. 104 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Foxing and some slight discolouration evident on covers, endpapers and some of the centre pages. The times, trials, ordeals, abuses and power struggles of a sugar plantation in Jamaica (where the author was born and lives) during the slavery years.

1935. First Edition. Leiden, Sijthoff, 1935. 24.5cm x 16cm. IX, 451 pages. Original hardcover in protective Mylar. Gilt lettering on spine and frontboard. Bindung lose ! / Binding loosened / Very good publisher's cloth, front hinge starting, former owner's name in ink, B. Wiesner, twice on front endpapers.

1843. [London], 1843. Hand-coloured Lithograph. Beautifully Framed. Size of frame with Lithograph: 42.5 cm x 32.5 cm. Size of actual Lithograph: 37 cm x 27 cm. Excellent condition. Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Calder and the eastern edge of the Pennines, which had a population of 76,886 in 2001. Wakefield was dubbed the "Merrie City" in the Middle Ages and in 1538 John Leland described it as, "a very quick market town and meately large; well served of fish and flesh both from sea and by rivers ... so that all vitaile is very good and chepe there. A right honest man shall fare well for 2d. a meal. ... There be plenti of se coal in the quarters about Wakefield". The Battle of Wakefield took place in the Wars of the Roses and it was a Royalist stronghold in the Civil War. Wakefield became an important market town and centre for wool, exploiting its position on the navigable River Calder to become an inland port. In the 18th century, Wakefield traded in corn, coal mining… Read More

1988. First Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 16 x 24 cm. 64 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Near Fine condition. Signed by Philip Levine on the titlepage.

2003. El Paso, Cinco Puntos Press, 2003. 15 x 23cm. 142 pages, with black and white photographs. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Handwritten dedication by the author to Chuck Kruger on title page. Oklahoma, or "Okla Homma," is a Choctaw word meaning "Red People." In this collection, acclaimed storyteller Tim Tingle tells the stories of his people, the Choctaw People, the Okla Homma. For years, Tim has collected stories of the old folks, weaving traditional lore with stories from everyday life. Walking the Choctaw Road is a mixture of myth stories, historical accounts passed from generation to generation, and stories of Choctaw people living their lives in the here and now.

1994. Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1994. 15 cm x 23 cm. 78 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss - american - irish poet Chuck Kruger. Marked as "to be reviewed" by Kruger on front free endpaper. With his markings, annotations and comments in the text. Contains among others the following poems: Going Back; Revenant; Killeen; The Valley; Hallomas; Heritage; Ghost; The Old Red House; On Another Shore; The Current; Ferry; Wheel; Scythe; Islandman; Fugitive; The Circle; Far Country, On This Shore etc.

1904. London, Goupil & Co., 1904. 22.5 cm x 30.2 cm. 302 pages. With black & white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover in protective collector's Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier ! Includes for example the following chapters: The History of the Collection / Pictures of the French School / Pictures of the Italian School / Pictures of the Dutch and Flemish Schools / Furniture / Porcelain and Pottery etc.

1993. Brig, Rotten-Verl, 1993. 8°. 365 Seiten. Hardcover / Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter, absolut neuwertiger Zustand. KEINE Anstreichungen. [Veröffentlichungen des Forschungsinstituts zur Geschichte des Alpenraums Stockalperschloss Brig - Band 4]. Enthält u.a.: Rechtskultur im Wallis / Das Walliser Landrecht / Das Wallis und die Bundesverfassung von 1874 / Das Wallis und die schweizerische Bundesverfassung von 1874 / Zur Geschichte der Grafen von Biandrate / Die Landsgemeinde von Goms / Dorfgerichte im Wallis / Freigerichte im Oberwallis / Der Pranger im Wallis / Wasserdiebstahl im Wallis / Bahrrecht im Wallis / Markt und Marktrecht im Wallis im 16.Jahrhundert / Die Rechtsstellung der Fremden in der Landschaft Wallis in der Schweiz / Der Kirchenrat im Wallis / etc. etc. etc. etc.

1798. First Irish Edition. In Two Volumes (complete Set). Dublin, Printed by B. Smith for P.Wogan, C.Brown, H.Colbert, W.Porter and J.Rice, 1798. Octavo (12 cm x 17,5 cm). 336, 322 pages. Hardcover / Modern half-leather bound to the style of the 18th-century with spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only to the edges and two tiny lesions to the titlepage of the first Volume. Faded dampstain to some pages of the lower bookblock of Volume II. While the bookblock is generally used and has the occasional very faint stain and a minor tear to a page, the set is in very good or even better condition ! Extremely scarce ! [This first Dublin Edition in two Volumes is not known by Montague Summers. In his "A Gothic Bibliography", he lists only the First Edition by Longman in 1798 and the Second Edition from Minerva-Press in 1805]. Mary Robinson’s fifth novel, "Walsingham; or, The Pupil of Nature", was [First]… Read More

1980. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1980. 16 cm x 24 cm. 432 pages. Several black and white plates throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: "Mother, Father, Water, Earth, Me..." / "The beginning of a great career" / "America brought to hospital in her fair youth" etc.

1922. Berlin, S. Fischer Verlag, 1922. 15 cm x 21 cm. Band I: "Prosaschriften": Frontispiz-Portrait, C, 176 Seiten. Band II - "Leaves of Grass": 253 Seiten. Original Hardcover / Originale Verlagsbindung. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsmerkmalen an der Bindung. Innen nahezu neuwertig und sehr sauber. Beiliegend: S.Fischer - Verlagswerbung fuer Hans Reisigers Walt Whitman-Ausgaben.

1987. 1. Aufl. Baden-Baden, Nomos-Verl.-Ges, 1987. 8°. IV, 236 Seiten. Softcover / Broschiert. Sehr guter Zustand. KEINE Anstreichungen. [Schriften der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung : Liberale in Programm und Praxis.]

1945. The Diggers' Edition. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1945. 13.5 cm x 20 cm. XXIV, 295 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: Australia Begins: On board / Transcontinental: West to South / Victoria: Melbourne / Federal Capital: Canberra / New South Wales: Sydney / The Arts / Tasmania / Van Diemen's Land: Port Arthur etc.

1932. Third Impression. London, Hutchinson & Co, 1932. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 286 pages. 34 illustrations including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher's original slamon cloth] with lettering on spine. Tooling to spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some stronger signs of foxing. Includes, for example, the following: Early Experiences / Safari Moja / Safari M'Bili / Safari Tatu / Information About Hunting / How to Go on Safari etc.

1958. Second Edition. London, Neville Spearman & The Holland Press, 1958. 18 cm x 24 cm. Frontispiece, VII, 188 pages. 58 illustrations including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher's original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine is faded. Front board carries faint hint of staining. Some very occasional light spotting to an otherwise bright and clean interior with sharp corners. Includes, for example, the following: Hunting the Big Bull Elephant / The Brain Shot at Elephant / African 'Medicine' or Witchcraft and Its Bearing on Sport / Dabossa / Hunting in Liberia / The Ascent of the Bahr Aouck / Rifles etc. Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell (8 September 1880 – 30 June 1954), known as Karamojo Bell, was a Scottish adventurer, big game hunter in East Africa, soldier, decorated fighter pilot, sailor, writer, and painter. Famous as one of the most successful ivory hunters of his time, Bell was an advocate of accurate shot… Read More

1960. Erste Auflage. Gütersloh, Sigbert Mohn Verlag, 1960. 11,5 x 19 cm. 430 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebunden. Im originalen Schutzumschlag (der Schutzumschlag in speziellem Brodart-Cover). Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. Heinrich Theodor Fontane (* 30. Dezember 1819 in Neuruppin; † 20. September 1898 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller. Er gilt als bedeutendster deutscher Vertreter des Realismus. (Wikipedia)

1905. First Edition. London, G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1905. Octavo. 382 pages. Original Hardcover. Poor condition of the binding. The rear board detached. Spine damaged. Name and date diagonally through title. Presentation copy Inscribed on the halftitle: "With Alan Dale's compliments"

1977. First Edition. London, Cassell, 1977. 14 x 22 cm. 339 Pages including photographs and index. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following chapters: HMS Courageous / Dunkirk - From the Air / HMS Illustrious / African Journey / The Biter Bitten. An epic account of a legendary aircraft and the men who flew in it...his peronsal courage, determination and resilience shine through every page and stand as an inspiration for all who serve in today's FAA (NAVY NEWS).

1976. London, W.Foulsham & Co. Ltd., 1976. 22,5 cm x 14,5 cm. 256 pages. With many black-and-white illustrations throughout the book. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing on edges. Includes for example the following essays: The Spud Run to Tobruk / Two Trains From Lochailort / The Struggle At Salerno / An Island Called Vis etc etc.