Search Results: Authors starting with W from Ariadne Books

London: G. G. Harrap & Co, 1913. First edition. Undated but published 1913. Hardback. Unpaginated. 275mm x 190mm approx. Full leather binding. Blind stamped design to front. Ornate gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Decorated endpapers. Lavishly illustrated. 8 tipped-in four-colour plates. Numerous other colour illustrations, some full-page, ornamentation and decoration throughout. Beautifully designed and executed. No jacket. Illustrations and decorations by Willy Pogany Near fine condition. Very slight rubbing to lower edges of boards towards the corners. Slight cracking to upper reaches of front hinge. Text block very sound and everything is firmly in place. Small and faint ink marks to Part III title page, which appear to be a minor production fault rather than later marking. A couple of pages have some small and faint soil marks. Free of inscriptions. A lovely, bright copy of what is arguably one of Pogany's most creative works.

London: G. G. Harrap & Co, 1911. First edition, 1911. Hardback. Unpaginated. 275mm x 190mm approx. Publisher's pale green cloth binding. Colour and gilt decoration to upper board and to spine, single colour design to lower board. Decorated endpapers. Lavishly illustrated. 16 tipped-in four-colour plates. Numerous other colour illustrations, some full-page, ornamentation and decoration throughout. Beautifully designed and executed. No jacket. Illustrations and decoration by Willy Pogany. Book in very good condition. Slight rubbing/wear to extremities of spine and points of lower corners. Very solid binding with everything firmly in place. Free of inscriptions. A very bright and clean copy of this lovely book.

London: William Heinemann, 1910. Arthur Rackham. William Heinemann, London, 1910. First edition. 4to. ix, 160pp. 34 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards and pictorial endpapers. Letterpress illustrations. No dust jacket. Book in very good condition. Some light damp staining to covers and spine a little toned. Light spotting. Closed tear to edge of p23/24.

London: Tate, 2008. First edition. Softcover. Fine/No dust jacket issued.. Tate, London, 2008. First edition. Book condition: near fine. Very clean and tightly bound with an uncreased spine - the book has an unread 'feel' to it. Card covers. 176 pages, profusely illustrated. The book also contains essays commissioned especially from Sheena Wagstaff, Manuela Mann, Alex Potts and Michael Wood. Contributions also from John Berger, Gavin Bryars, Alberto Iglesias, James Lingwood and Richard Serra.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1941. Second edition, revised 1945. Hardback. Very Good/Good. B. T. Batsford, London, 1941. Second edition, revised 1945. Book condition: very good. Minor wear and some slight discolouration to upper edges of boards. Gift inscription to ffep. Internally clean. Dust jacket: good. Price clipped and some edge wear. Small puncture to spine which is also a little discoloured. A little chipping to head & tail of spine. Here are vivid descriptions of the country in the prose of many famous writers illustrated with numerous examples of contemporary pictures.

London: Routledge, 2001. Paperback. Very Good/No dust jacket issued.. Routledge, London 2001. Paperback. Book Condition: Very good. Very light creasing to spine and the book leans a little. Very sound and clean, free of marks and annotations. (368 pages). The essays in this collection, Identities, illuminate the ways in which conventions of realism were transformed by new ideas about gender and race, and an increasing moral uncertainty. Focusing on some of the most striking novels of the century, this volume explores some of the key emerging themes in nineteenth century fiction: madness and the unconscious, decadence and degeneration, the 'New Woman' and masculinity, colonialism. Concepts crucial to understanding the literature and society of the nineteenth century are clearly explained and discussed. This volume is an indespensible resource for the literature of this period. This text also formed part of the Open University course AA316 'The Nineteenth Century Novel'.

London: J. Wallis & sold by Davies & Eldridge, Exeter., 1810. Hardback. 12mo. Unpaginated. 45 leaves. Letterpress title and contents list. 43 engraved maps (complete) with contemporary hand colouring, including double page map of Yorkshire and a small map of the Isle of Wight (not included in the contents list). Contemporary marbled boards with gilt morocco label to upper board, rebacked with later red morocco. Later endpapers. Book in very good condition. Bumped, rubbed and worn at extremities. Light soiling. Printed ex libris plate to front paste down.

London: Macmillan, 1941. Macmillan & Co, London, 1941. First edition. Hardback. 432pp. Publisher's original green cloth binding with blind-stamped design to upper board and gilt to spine. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Julius Cromwell, blinded in the First World War, brings his young wife Celia to their new home in an ancient house in the Glebeshire village of Garth in Roselands. Julius's blindness has opened to him a mysterious and enthralling inner world, but the farther he goes into it the more he is removed from those he loves. Book condition: good. A little shelf wear. Very small indentation to leading edge of front board, corners very slightly bumped. Faint tanning to endpapers and some very slight spotting to text block fore edge. Dust jacket: fair. Unclipped. Generally rubbed and soiled. Some edge wear with slight loss to head & tail of spine, corners chipped and spine discoloured. Light spotting to flaps and inner surface.

London: The Religious Tract Society, c1911. Hardback. Good/No dust jacket.. The Religious Tract Society, London, c1911. Book condition: good. Some shelf wear and corners a little bumped. Front board weak at hinge. Previous owner's name & address to ffep. Very light foxing/tanning to endpapers. Occasional marginal mark/underlining in text and the odd dog ear. Eight black & white illustrations including frontispiece. 271pp plus section of ads at rear with other titles from 'The Anti-Papal Library'. Gilt titles to spine, white titles to front. No jacket. A firmly protestant view (as one would expect) from the author of 'The Secret History of the Oxford Movement'.

London: Macmillan, 2003. First edition, 2003. Signed by the author to the title page. Hardback. 424pp. Dust jacket. Howard Stamp, a retarded twenty-year old, was convicted on disputed evidence of brutally murdering his grandmother in her Dorset home. Less than three years later he was dead, driven to suicide by self-hatred and relentless bullying by other prisoners. A fate befitting a murderer, perhaps, but if he was innocent? Book in near fine condition and unread. Dust jacket near fine and unclipped. Round sticker to front 'signed by the author'.

London: Macmillan, 1993. First edition, 1993. Signed by the author to the title page. Hardback. 308pp. Dust jacket. Rosalind Leigh had no idea what awaited her inside the prison walls. As a journalist, she knew all about Olive Martin who had been found over five years ago, cradling the bodies of her dead mother and younger sister; how she had pleaded guilty to both muder charges and why she had been nicknamed 'The Sculptress'. But Roz had never come face to face with a convicted killer before... Book in very good condition. Light toning to page edges. Dust jacket very good. Unclipped. Very light edge wear/creasing and some very slight colour fade to spine.

London: Macmillan, 2000. First edition, 2000. Signed by the author to the title page. Hardback. 380pp. Dust jacket. November 1978. The Winter of discontent and Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburried, rubbish piles up in the streets - and somewhere in West London a woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter. She was known as 'Mad Annie' and was despised by her neighbours. Her death would have gone unmourned and unnoticed but for the young woman who finds her and who believes - seemingly against reason - that Annie was murdered... Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket near fine and unclipped. Very minor edge wear only.

London: Macmillan, 1995. First edition, 1995. Signed by the author to the title page. Hardback. 398pp. Dust jacket. The newspapers reported the case with relish. jane (Jinx) Kingsley, fashion photographer and heiress, tried to kill herself after being jilted by her fiance, Leo Wallader. Leo has since disappeared - together with Jinx's best friend Meg. But when she wakes from her coma, Jinx can remember nothing about her alleged suicide attempt. Then the memories begin to surface - memories of utter desperation and absolute terror... Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket near fine and unclipped. Slight trace of adhesive residue to front where (presumably) a sticker has been removed. Otherwise, just the merest edge wear.

London: Macmillan, 2007. First edition, 2007. Hardback. 385pp. Dust jacket. When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Worrying bouts of aggression cause him to come to the attention of the police who are investigating three 'gay' murders in the Bermondsey area of London. Under suspicion, Acland is forced to confront the real issues behind his isolation. Book in very good condition. Faint toning to page edges and a little very light creasing to extremities of spine. Dust jacket very good and unclipped. Very minor edge wear only.

London: Collins, 1993. First edition, 1993. Hardback. 200pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. The aim of this book is to encourage botanists and gardeners to see their hobby as a common interest, and the shed some light on the origins of plants found in British gardens. There are chapters on the influence of genetics and environment on the variation of plants; hybridisation and sterility; native and exotic trees; shrubs and shrubberies; herbs, flowers and grasses; and other 'special' life forms such as water plants, carnivorous plants and parasitic ones. Vegetation today is the product of very complex interactions between man and his environment, and there is a discussion of the roles played by botanists and gardeners in the process. Finally, the rise of ecology as a science is described and the book discusses late twentieth century attitudes to 'wild nature' and to gardens. An increasingly scarce title - especially in this condition - the original print run was less than fifteen… Read More

London: Macmillan, 2002. First edition, 2002. Signed to the title page by the author. Hardback. 416pp. Dust jacket. When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in her night clothes and with bloodstains on the ground nearby, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A Coroner's inquest gives a verdict of 'natural causes' but the gossip surrounding James refuses to go away. Friendless and alone, his reclusive behaviour alarms his London-based solicitor and his concerns deepen when he discovers that James has become the victim of a relentless campaign which accuses him of worse than murdering his wife... Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket near fine. Unclipped and with only very minor edge wear. Special price sticker to front.

London: Collins, 1993. First edition, 1993. The book has the bookplate of Eric Hosking to the front pastedown (bird photographer and photographic editor of the New Naturalist library 1943 - 91). The bookplate was posthumously imposed by David Hosking, son and professional collaborator of Eric Hosking. Hardback. 200pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. The aim of this book is to encourage botanists and gardeners to see their hobby as a common interest, and the shed some light on the origins of plants found in British gardens. There are chapters on the influence of genetics and environment on the variation of plants; hybridisation and sterility; native and exotic trees; shrubs and shrubberies; herbs, flowers and grasses; and other 'special' life forms such as water plants, carnivorous plants and parasitic ones. Vegetation today is the product of very complex interactions between man and his environment, and there is a discussion of the roles played by botanists and gardeners in the process.… Read More

London: Studio Editions, 1990. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. The book is in very good condition with little sign of use - there is some tanning of the paper. The dust jacket is also in very good condition with just a ver small amount of shelf wear to the edges. The text of this edition is a reprint of the fifth (the last to receive Walton's own revision), with which it has been carefully collated. The spelling has been modernised. The Compleat Angler has an unfading charm and cannot fail to entrance even the non-angler. A most companionable book.

Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1997. Limited edition of 500 signed copies, this being no 7. Hardback. 108pp. Quarter vellum with gilt over boards covered by paste paper made by Victoria Hall of Norwich. This edition was published to mark Colin Smyhe's 25 years as Francis Warner's publisher and to celebrate the author's sixtieth birthday. The book was designed by Michael Mitchell and printed by his Libanus Press, Marlborough, in three colours embellished with gold-leaf motifs on mould-made Velin Arches rag paper. The book is signed by the author to the colophon. Book in near fine condition. Some discolouration to the vellum. Very clean and bright internally.

Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1997. Limited edition of 500 signed copies, this being no 262. Hardback. 108pp. Quarter vellum with gilt over boards covered by paste paper made by Victoria Hall of Norwich. This edition was published to mark Colin Smyhe's 25 years as Francis Warner's publisher and to celebrate the author's sixtieth birthday. The book was designed by Michael Mitchell and printed by his Libanus Press, Marlborough, in three colours embellished with gold-leaf motifs on mould-made Velin Arches rag paper. The book is signed by the author to the colophon. Original prospectus loosely inserted. Book in fine condition.