Authors starting with S from Amanda Willis Rare Books

Wiliam Darton, London, 1820. Revised edition; 176pp; original roan-backed boards; faded gilt title to spine; frontispiece and eight further full page engraved plates; scribbling in a contempoary childish hand and a name dated 1835 both to front end paper; 12mo... more information

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The Temple-Sheen Press, 1911. Limited edition of 200 copies printed by the author; 55pp; quarter off-white buckram over blue boards; handmade paper, edges uncut; vignette to title page; introduction by Richard G. Moulton; presentation inscription; 12mo... more information

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The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1928. Limited edition of 500 copies of which this is no. 334; 55pp; quarter publisher's vellum over patterned boards, gilt title, printed rust-coloured dust wrapper, pages uncut and some unopened; the text is taken from the edition published by Mr. H. Lacey of Liverpool; four full-page engravings; small 8vo. [Chanticleer 56].... more information

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John Rodker for subscribers, London, 1927. In 12 volumes. Limited edition of 1000 copies, this being no 584; quarter bound pink morocco over black boards, gilt titles to spines, gold-blocked illustration to front boards, top edge gilt, others uncut; frontispiece to each volume and several other full page pochoir illustrations; English versions of the Kuttanimatan of Damodaragupta and Samayamatrika of Kshemendra; 4to.... more information

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London, Macmillan, 1922. Book VG, original red cloth-backed off -white boards tanned EPs, slightly soiled, gilt lettering on faded spine, long inscription on FEP, some pages uncut, limited edition of 300 SIGNED by the author, no DW as issued.... more information

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The Studio Ltd., London, 1930. First edition; 8pp. introduction; xii plates; blue boards, title label to upper board and to spine; small landscape 4to.... more information

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William Heinemann, London, 1962. First UK edition. Blue boards, gilt title to spine, tiny knock to lower spine edge otherwise fine, printed dustwrapper slightly worn but intact; 8vo.... more information

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London, Hutchinson & Co., nd. Book VG, blue blue boards, gilt lettering, blind-stamped lines, foxing on prelims and front edges, frontispiece photograph and 16 further illustrations.... more information

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London, Oresko Books, 1979 First edition, book VG, blue boards, silver lettering, small crease at top of spine, pictorial DW NF, a biography in photographs and drawings, over 110 illustrations, 8 in colour.... more information

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London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1984, First edition. Book and DW VG, blue boards, small knock to one corner, gilt lettering, the battle of the global airlines and their cut-throat competition, by the biographer of Nelson Mandela.... more information

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London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1965. First edition, xvi., 720pp., book NF, red boards, gilt lettering, no DW.... more information

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Chatto & Windus, London, 1930. First edition. xx; 362pp. including index; mustard-coloured cloth, gilt title and hedgehog to upper board, title to faded spine, illustrated dust wrapper; colour frontispiece by John, fourteen black and white drawings by Garside; writers include Cervantes, Voltaire, Borrow, Robert Bridges, Blunden, W.H. Hudson & Matthew Arnold among many others: 8vo.... more information

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the Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Limited edition of 275 copies of which this is no. 95; book fine; 91pp; quarter publisher's vellum over blue boards, gilt title to spine, single gilt rule; teg, others uncut; illustrated with eight engravings by Gertrude Hermes; translated from the Arabic by Toussaint and rendered into English by Christopher Sandford and printed for subscribers; 8vo.... more information

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Faber and Faber, London, 1945. First edition; 224pp; pink boards, faded gilt to spine, dust wrapper missing small piece upper spine decorated wood-engraving by Reynolds Stone repeated on title page; frontispiece portrait of the author by Gwyn Philpotts; 12mo.... more information

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Faber and Faber, London, 1986. First edition. 114pp; blue boards, title to spine, dust wrapper, all near fine; edited by Rupert Hart-Davis; photographs and drawings within text; previous owner's bookplate; 8vo.... more information

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A. Ruffori, Firenze, nd [c. 1930-35] 12 chromolithographed sheets unbound as issued, showing a variety of ornamental alphabets; printed in red, blue, green, and gold; housed within the original parchment paper chemise which bears the title with nine ornamental capitals in red, blue, and black, frayed at the edges;4to.... more information

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Ivor Nicholson & Watson, London, 1935. First edition. 67pp; brown linen spine over marbled boards, title label to upper board, dust wrapper; funny insect-inspired poems and drawings; 4to.... more information

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Constable, London, 1929. Limited edition of 1000 unnumbered copies. 157pp. Book very good patterned paper in blue and gold over publisher's vellum, top edge patterned, others uncut, no dust wrapper; title vignette in blue and red; eight plates and fourteen in the text; text printed within single blue rules; 8vo.... more information

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The Fleuron Press, London, 1926. Limited edition of 425 copies of which 1-175 for presentation, this being no. 88; Randolph Schwabe's copy with his name; 39 pp.plus illustrations; book very good, maroon spine with gilt title over green boards, printed dust wrapper; essay by Harold Child; eight illustrations, one tipped in; 12mo.... more information

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The Viking Press, New York, 1978. First edition. Book and pictorial dustwrapper near fine grey boards, black spine, title; illustrated with black and white photographs and plans; 4to.... more information

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