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

Cliftonville Press. Hove. 1920. Octavo. xliii, 160pp. Tissue guarded photo frontis., 7 further photo plates. Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, embossed to upper board, bumped to corners, bubbled to upper board, a couple of spots to spine, light wear. Edges untrimmed, occasional light foxing/spotting. No inscriptions.

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.

Printed for C. C. and J. Robinson, Paternoster Row and J. Edwards, Pall Mall. London. 1798. Quarto. 149pp. (103-252). Engraved frontispiece portrait. Two further large folding engraved plates. Occasional spotting, some foxing to the plates. Some small dogears to lower corner. Extracted from the larger work: The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. Lacking boards, frontispiece plate loose, remainder firmly stitched, with remaining worn spine strip.Including: Supplement to the Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III. A Reply to the Observations of the Rev. Dr. Milles, Dean of Exeter, and President of the Society of Antiquities, On The Wardrobe Account of 1483, &c. Printed at the end of Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity. Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1770.Short Observations on The Remarks of the Rev. Mr. Masters, on the Historic Doubts, published in the second volume of the… Read More

Printed; and sold by the Booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland. London. 1764. 12mo. Title, (bl.), (2), 232pp. Including index. Half calf, spine in five compartments with raised bands, gilt and blind tooling, leather label with gilt lettering. Marbled boards and endpapers. Loss to base of spine strip. Upper hinge cracked. Wear to corners and edges. Intermittent spotting and light toning. A crisp, firm text block.
"Apparently similar to SABIN 1636 but three years earlier in date, and without the attribution to "a Midshipman on board the Centurion". Often attributed to "John Philips" which may have been a pseudonym, since that name is not listed on the Centurion's muster roll; Sabin attributed authorship to Richard Walter.
ESTC T90060 SABIN 101190.
UK holdings at the British Library and Cambridge University.
[The Gale ebook, a copy of the BL holding, has had a frontispiece portrait added from the 1767 edition. The original does not possess a frontispiece.]

First edition. Dent. London. 1947. Octavo. vii, 183pp. Photo illus., map. Original cloth, sunned to edges, in original chipped dust wrapper, with short tears. Toned endpapers. Woodcut bookplate of Barbara Holloway to fep.[removed][removed]

William Blackwood in association with the National Trust for Scotland. Edinburgh. 1983. 4to. 86pp. Monochrome photo illus. Original laminated paper covers. Slightly bumped to corners.

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.

First edition. Faber and Faber. London. 1959. Octavo. 102pp. A fine copy in the original purple cloth, white lettering to spine, in original unclipped dust wrapper (12s 6d), a little sunned, with a couple of short closed tears to upper edges.Cypress and Acacia was published after the death of his friend Dylan Thomas, 'Three Harps' being an elegy on the death of his brother poet.

First edition. Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum. London. 1914. Octavo. Half title, title, (2) 80pp. 1 large folding plate, tables, 12 tissue guarded (each tissue guard with printed explanation) litho plates. Black endpapers. Original green cloth, blind bordering, gilt vignette to upper board, gilt lettering to spine. Tips rubbed. Short closed tear to lower margin of p 80.Some light toning to versos of free endpapers. Light spotting to edges of title. A bright crisp copy, still firmly bound."The genus belongs to tropical Africa and America. The monograph is more than a description of species, for it includes a discussion and graphic illustrations of their interrelationships". Includes a fully systemic account, plus a useful index of plant collectors in the field.

First edition. Macmillan Company. New York. 1917. Octavo. xxiv, (1), bl., 359pp + 4pp ads. Frontis., 11 further plates and maps. Folding map of the Caribbean Lands. Original blue cloth, with slight shelf wear. Partially unopened, edges untrimmed. Bookplate of Thomas Watson Kirkconnell to fep. Signature H. A. Olmsted to ffep.

First edition. Privately printed for the Authors by V. T. Sumfield, Station Street, Eastbourne. 1907. Octavo. (2), 511pp. Tissue guarded fontispiece, 14 further plates. Folding coloured map to rear. Original green cloth, gilt to spine and upper board. Ink spot to lower margin of the title page. Some rubbing and wear to extremeties. Occasional light foxing, mainly to endpapers and verso of the map. Occasional unobtrusive marginal pencil notation. Signature of J. H. Davies to ffep in pencil.
JAMES ALFRED WHELDON MSC, ALS, ISM (1862 - 1924) His herbarium specimens are at The National Museum of Wales.
ALBERT WILSON FLS, FR MET. SOC. (1862-1949)
This copy was from the private collection of Quentin Oliver Newton Kay (1939-2017)

First edition. Chapman and Hall. London. 1856. viii, 316pp. 16pp publisher's catalogue dated May 1st 1856 to end. Original cloth, blind tooled. Part of spine strip missing, requiring attention and renewing, as is often the case in this work, due to the fragility of the cloth used. (Price has been adjusted accordingly to allow for the work to be done professionally to the new owner's taste). Wear to boards. A little spotting to title page, generally bright, binding firm. Original yellow endpapers. Occasional pencil to margins. Small Armorial bookplate to fep. ("R.T." or "R.J." ) Binder's plate to rep: Bound by Bone and Son, Fleet Street, London.

First UK edition. John Camden Hotten. London. 1868. Small octavo. xii, 403pp. Half title, Frontispiece portrait. Title. Later full blue calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, leather labels, gilt rules and lettering. Lightly toned. Spine slightly darkened. Signature of Raisley Moorsom in pencil to ffep.
The first edition of Whitman published in the UK, the only time Whitman (reluctantly) allowed his writings and his portrait photograph to be censored.

413pp. Illustrations in colour and monochrome. Very good in original dust wrapper. As new.

First edition. University Press, Cambridge. 1939. xlii, 373pp. 10 plates, folding map, text map, 7 tables. Original green cloth, gilt to spine. Edges untrimmed. Corners lightly rubbed. Map misfolded, with minor chipping to edge. Bookplate to fep of Lancashire Education Committee. Date due label removed from ffep. Brown pocket with card and original catalogue card to rep. Faint mark to top of upper board. This volume, published under the Polynesian Bequest embodies Williamson's manuscripts both published and unpublished. It covers Warfare in Central Polynesia, Kava in Samoa and Tonga, Kava in other Polynesian Islands, The Arioi, and Sex, Courtship and Infanticide. It includes a 14 page bibliography.

First edition. Christopher Davies. Swansea. 1970. 8vo. 62pp. Original cream cloth, gilt lettering, in original unclipped d/w both sunned to top edge.

First edition. The Delyn Press. Caernarvon. [1955]. 154pp. Photo plates. Original orange cloth, black lettering to spine, sunned to top of spine. In the original dust wrapper, chipped and torn with loss to top edge. Light toning to endpapers, text and plates bright and crisp.Signed by Jeremiah Williams (the editor), Bryngwenallt, Caernarvon, dated February 1955.

Alfa Art Publishers. Saint Petersburg. 2003. Large Quarto. 231, (23)pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Original blue cloth, gilt to spine and upper board, in original dust wrapper. A fine copy with no inscriptions. Foreword by Mikhail Piotrovsky. Essays by Nina Vernova, Larisa Bardovskaya, Nicolai Tretyakov, Yury Mudrov, & Vladimir Semionov.

First edition. Privately printed by T. Buncle & Co. Ltd. Arbroath. To be obtained from the Author, Albert Wilson, Tir-y-Coed, Ro Wen, Conway. 1938. Octavo. (3), 413pp. Frontispiece, 36 further photo-plates. Colour map of Westmorland to rear pocket (with tapered margin as published). Original green cloth, gilt to spine and upper board. Some occasional light foxing to endpapers and verso of map. A nice copy.
ALBERT WILSON (1862-1949)
This copy was from the private collection of of Quentin Oliver Newton Kay (1939-2017)

Blandford Press. London. 1967. Quarto. 191pp. Illustrations throughout. Original cloth faded and mottled to edges, rubbed to extremities, in chipped, creased and sunned d/w. Signature to pastedown.
Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912) Zoologist and medical officer on Scott’s two Antarctic expeditions. Wilson’s drawings and watercolours brought together for the first time. "Words must always fail me when I talk of Bill Wilson. I believe he really is the finest character I ever met" Scott.