Search Results: Titles starting with W from BookAddiction

London, UK: Boosey & Hawkes. Soft cover. Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Undated. 50pp. Printed card covers, illustration on front, navy titles on front, sheet music throughout. Folio. Covers moderately soiled and water stained around bottom half of spine (visible on versos). Spine ends moderately rubbed. Corners moderately rubbed. Internally very neat, clean, bright and tight. Clarinet part revised by Frederick Thurston.

London, UK: Spinks, 1994. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated auction catalogue. Printed laminated card covers. Slightly dog-eared corners. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 4to

New York, NY, USA: Back Stage Books, 2004. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xxii, 596pp, with monochrome plate illustrations. Pictorial laminated light card covers. 8vo. Light shelf wear to covers. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight.

London, UK: Chatto & Windus, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 160pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Photographic endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has minor shelf wear, light chipping to edges, price clipped. 8vo. Unique and highly entertaining cricket book recalling Grace's fiftieth birthday and the Gentlemen v Players match at Headquarters before going beyond the boundary to reveal the colourful lives and sometimes tragic fate of its participants in this shrewd insight into the late Victorian world.

Chicago, IL, USA: Gateway Editions, 1999. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 160pp. Pictorial light card covers. Light sun fading to spine. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight. 12mo. A festschrift for one of the century's few original thinkers in the field of economics.

London, UK: National Federation of Women's Institutes, 1965. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 112pp. Pictorial laminated light card covers, comb bound. 8vo. Chipping to edges, some creasing to corners, comb broken in two spots, rear card torn from bottom four teeth. Some staining to bottom corner at rear; otherwise, internally, neat, clean and bright

London, UK: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1981. Card Covers. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 96pp. Pictorial laminated light card covers; illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photographs. 4to. Light chipping to edges and wear to covers. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight. The dazzling collection of objets d'art bequeathed by Rothchild in 1898. Demonstrates the rich diversity of Renaissance taste and the outstanding skill and ingenuity of Renaissance craftmanship.

Foss Islands, York: Printed and Published by T A J Waddington. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Not dated but c 1900-1910. 62pp booklet with printed card covers, stapled (covers worn and a little chapped and curled at edges, some oxidization around staples). Internally softened but neat, clean, bright and tight. A comprehensive guide to and history of Kirkstall Abbey, interspersed with many contemporary advertisements for local business and services. Numerous small black and white illustrations in text, some of the photographs being attributed to J H Walker and John Waddington.

London, UK: Blandford Press, 1989. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 334pp; illustrated throughout with black and white and colour photographs, black and white illustrations and maps. Laminated pictorial light card covers. Light chipping to edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8mo. Discusses all sixteen orders of waders and long-legged wading birds from all parts of the globe - in all over 300 species are described with details of their characteristics and behaviour, voice, distribution, habitat, food, breeding and display.

London, UK: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1944. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Kiddell-Monroe, J. 234pp. Orange cloth-covered boards, black titles on spine, black design on front. Sun faded spine, bumped ends. Foxing to text block edges. Decorated endpapers. Gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No dust jacket. 12mo. A good clean copy of this children's book featuring Crusoe Robinson.

London, UK: Hutchinson, 1980. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 148pp. Pictorial laminated light card covers. 8vo. Light shelf wear to covers, spine sun-fading. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight.

London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Not dated but 1938. First edition. 12mo. A little spotting and page tanning. Previous owner's name on title page. Dust jacket, clipped, a little rubbed at edges and chapped at base of spine but no loss and still an attractive volume.

London, UK: Anthony Blond, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 508pp. Red cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Text block edges starting to tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Paper dust jacket has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.

London, UK: Chatto & Windus, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First edition. 256pp. Blue cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine; top text block edge sprayed blue. 12mo. Sun-faded spine, lightly rubbed/bumped spine ends. Top text block edge colour fading, remaining edges starting to tan and fox. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. The story of Christine, a woman who has grown up in a country ravaged by war and dissension and who has learnt to rely on no-one but herself, but whose love for Victor a reckless and successful financier, awakens her to life.

London, UK: Bloomsbury, 1990. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 220pp, two sections of black and white photographic plates. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. In as new condition throughout. 8vo. Moving, evocative and even sometimes amusing recollections of the concentrated, seven-month onslaught on the capital.

London, UK: BBC Learning Support, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 42pp. Paper card covers, stapled. 8vo. Light chipping to edges and wear to covers, corners starting to curl, crease to front bottom corner. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight.

Cardiff, UK: Wales Tourist Board, 1978. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 64pp, illustrated throughout. Pictorial light card covers, stapled. 8vo. Light chipping to edges and wear to covers. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight.

South Wales, UK: The Druid Press, 1944. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 102pp stapled journal in light card covers (covers are toned, especially at edges and around spine, and gently worn, rubbed at edges). Internally a little toning on first and last few pages but generally neat, clean and bright. 'Wales' was a literary and political journal celebrating Welsh literature, containing fiction, poetry, reviews, and articles, published between 1938 and 1960. This issue features, among other things, A Letter on Welsh Politics by George Woodcock, Earth Green and Red by J Gywn Griffiths, Political Trends by John Lagonna (with a curious endorsement of communist economic policy), Parliamentary Memories by Lord Clwyd, The Political Enigma of Tim Ellis by Ithel Davies and four poems by Lynette Roberts. Most significantly perhaps, this issue contains part two of an article by Robert Graves, entitled The Roebuck and the Thicket on the front cover but referred to… Read More

London, UK: Cassell & Co, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 196pp. Green cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded top edge, lightly rubbed spine heel. Top text block edge foxing. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket sun-faded, has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped. The author distils his experience of Wales, with all its humour, its sadness and its conflicts. He ranges from the pure comedy of Welsh nicknames, a dying art set down for the first time.

Cardiff, UK: National Museum of Wales, 1929. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 100pp, ten black and white plates, fold out map. Printed light card covers. 8vo. Light chipping to edges and wear to covers. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight. Illustrated with 10 monochrome plates, diagrams and a fold out chart. An account of the sea fisheries in Wales up to the time of publication.