Search Results: Titles starting with W from Robert McDowell Antiquarian Books

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1833. 1st Edition . Hardcover. See Description. Joseph Mallord William Turner. Royal 8vo. 3 volumes of "Turner's annual tour" series (about 24 cm each). "Wanderings by the Loire" (1833) pp. [8], 256, with 21 steel engravings including extra illustrated title page. "Wanderings by the Seine" (1834) pp. [8], 256, with 20 steel engravings including extra illustrated title page. "Wanderings by the Seine from Rouen to the source" (1835) pp. [6], 258, with 20 steel engravings including extra illustrated title page. All engravings are after drawings by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), the English Romantic painter, printmaker, and illustrator. Uniformly bound in full dark green leather publisher's bindings by F. Westley - the covers with gilt floral and line borders; the spines with a continuous gilt arabesque design. All edges are gilt. An F. Westerley binder's ticket is present on the inside front cover of the 1835 volume. The bindings show… Read More

London: The Aquarian Press, 1962. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. Small 8vo. pp. xi, [1], 7-112. Bound in publisher’s pale gray-green cloth. The binding is clean and tight with only the most miniscule signs of bumping to the upper corner tip of the front board. The dust jacket is price clipped on the inner flap and shows spots of wear and rubbing to the extremities. The head cap of the jacket spine is chipped (15 x 13 mm). The rear jacket displays some mild soiling and a couple of small tears (sealed). An ink stamp from the U.S. distributer Wehman Bros. ("Wehman Bros. Publishers 159 Main Street Hackensack, N.J") is present in the lower margin of the title page. Interior pages are generally clean. Pages 92-93 contain a small, light manufacturing smudge. Doreen Valiente (1922-1999), often called "the mother of modern witchcraft" was a founding figure in the contemporary Wicca movement. During the 1950’s, while she served as high priestess in Gerald… Read More

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 1998. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. Limited edition #287 of 500. Signed by the author. pp. [2], 201, [1]. Bound in black cloth. Both binding and dust jacket are fresh and clean. "A storm is coming to Cliffside, California, and with it comes a killer. His name is Clay Saunders, and he walks in two worlds. Born with a caul, Saunders sees ghosts. But to him, the world of the dead is very much like the world of the living… His latest target is Diabolos Whistler, leader of a satanic cult…" [from the dust jacket].

London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1871. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. First English Edition. 8vo. pp. x, 338. With 10 reproductions in autotype and 34 wood-engravings by P. Sellier. Bound in half green morocco with gilt spine (slightly faded). Upper head-cap neatly restored; some wear to the corner tips and outer extremities. All edges gilt. Interior is clean. Small 5 mm tear to margin of one plate. Georges Duplessis (1834-1899) a prolific French author on engraving and book illustration. He was a conservateur at the Bibliotheque nationale department des Estampes. His "Les merveilles de la gravure" was published in French (1871). The book appeared in English the same year. Includes chapters on the Italian, Flemish, German, and French schools as well as sections on Engraving in England and Spain.

New York: Viking, 1995. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. pp. [12], 452. Bound in quarter dark blue cloth with light blue boards. Binding and dust jacket are both clean and fresh. Description from the dust jacket: "A serial killer is on the loose in Minnesota, snapping young women’s necks with each change of the seasons. "Within twenty-four hours of the first murder, TV weatherman Dixon Bell, a hulking eccentric, warns his viewers that a tornado is about to strike. The National Weather Service hasn’t called it, but Dixon Bell does because he sees it coming in his mind." Novel, Suspense, Thriller, Horror.