Search Results: Authors starting with W from Truffle Books

Groninger Museum + the National Gallery. Very Good. 2003. Hardcover. The book is in very good condition, tightly bound and appears to be unread. ; Colour & monochrome plates; 300 x 250; 169 pages .

London: Adam & Charles Black. Very Good. 1897. Victoria Edition. Hardcover. Top gilt edges are faded, edges are roughcut and browned. Wear to the spines and boards, spine ends and corners are bumped. Foxing on the endpapers; the text blocks are generally clean, some damage to page edges where the pages have been separated after production and one old tape repair on Anne of Geierstein. ; Quarter leather binding by Relfe Brothers Limited awarded as a prize to A Farquharson by the Commercial Travellers' School in July 1906 (certificate on pastedown of Waverley) . Spines have been rebacked with gilt text and decoration: Waverley has a gilt decoration on the front board. Pink boards and green marbled endpapers. The 13 books are: 1. Waverley & Guy Mannering 2. The Antiquary & Rob Roy 3. Old Mortality & Black Dwarf 4. Ivanhoe & The Monastery 5. The Abbot & Kenilworth 6. The Pirate & Fortunes of Nigel 7. Peveril Of The Peak & Quentin Durward 8. St. Ronan's… Read More

London: Tate. Very Good. 2006. Card Covers. 1854375822 . The book is In very good condition, tightly bound; appears to be unread. Edges are clean. Internally the book is clean, free of markings and foxing. ; 235 x 295; 224 pages .

New Haven: Yale University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 0300088582 . In very good condition, tightly bound; appears to be unread. Black cloth boards with gilt text. The dust jacket is complete with only minor shelf wear. Internally the book is clean, free of markings and foxing. ; Edited and completed by Amanda Clark Frost. Contains 21 illustrations. ; 554 pages .

New York: Little Brown and Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1945. First American Edition. Hardcover. The book is tightly bound, the boards are clean ; top edge greyed page edges browned. The dust jacket is worn to the extremities, the back is grubby and marked. The boards of the hardback are grey. The condition of the Penguin paperback Is commensurate with Its age. ; From the library of David Lodge. David John Lodge is an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, another theme is Roman Catholicism. Two of his novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize; he also served as the chairman on the Booker Prize jury in 1989. Lodge has also written television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. Lodge's thesis for his MA was on Roman Catholic writers and the "two stars" of that thesis were Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene; both… Read More

Folio Society. Very Good. 2015. Hardcover. The book is in very good condition, appears to be unread. The slipcase Is complete with some light markings. ; From the library of David Lodge. David John Lodge is an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, another theme is Roman Catholicism. Two of his novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize; he also served as the chairman on the Booker Prize jury in 1989. Lodge has also written television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. Evelyn Waugh Lodge's thesis for his MA was on Roman Catholic writers and the "two stars" of that thesis were Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene; both are mentioned extensively in his autobiography - Quite a Good Time to Be Born. The introduction to this edition was written by David Lodge. .

London: Duckworth. Very Good. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. The book is tightly bound, faded on the spine and boards. Top edged greyed, edges browned with light foxing. End papers browned. Pencil markings in the text block. ; 206 pages .

London: The National Gallery. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2014. 185709557X . The book is in very good condition, tightly bound. Black cloth boards are clean, page edges clean. Internally the book is clean, free of markings and foxing; appears to be unread. The dust jacket is complete with only minor shelf wear. ; Printed in association with The Rijksmuseum and distributed by Yale University Press. ; 235 x 290; 302 pages .

London: Heinemann. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. The book is tightly bound. Internally the book is generally clean, free of markings and foxing. The dust jacket is lightly worn to the extremities, unclipped. ; 150 pages .

Nottingham: Shoestring Press. Very Good. 2021. First Edition. Paperback. The book is in very good condition, tightly bound and clean. Lodge has marked some pages with pencil lines in the margins. ; From the library of David Lodge. David Lodge is an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, another theme is Roman Catholicism. Two of his novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize; he also served as the chairman on the Booker Prize jury in 1989. Lodge has also written television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. Inscribed to Lodge. ; 150 pages; Signed by Author .

London: Preface Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. The book appears to be unread and is in very good condition. Tightly bound, pages edges clean: internally clean and free of markings. The dust jacket Is complete: unclipped. ; 328 pages .

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. The book is tightly bound, page edges are lightly marked; internally clean and free of markings and foxing. The dust jacket Is complete, worn to the extremities, the spine is faded/sunned; unclipped. ; From the library of David Lodge. David Lodge is an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, another theme is Roman Catholicism. Two of his novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize; he also served as the chairman on the Booker Prize jury in 1989. Lodge has also written television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. Inscribed to Lodge on the endpapers. ; 377 pages; Signed by Author .

London: William S Orr & Co. Very Good. 1840. First Edition. Fine binding. Light wear on the raised rings on the spine. Gilt text and Illustrations are bright; Page edges gilt, bright. Foxing on endpapers; sporadic foxing in text block. ; An exceptionally fine and elaborate binding. Pictorial, descriptive and historical. With upwards of 350 engravings on wood and 28 on steel; illustrative of the scenery, architecture and costume of Greece. ; 356 pages .

London: Fisher Son & Co. Very Good. 1845-1847. Leather. There is old sellotape between the boards and pastedowns that seems to serve no useful purpose as the binding Is tight. ; Fine binding by Robert Seton of Edinburgh; undated but 1845-1847, binding contemporary with late 1840s. Bound from parts, 3 volume series bound as one. 95 engraved plates with tissue guards. This book is comprised of the first three of four volumes purchased by subscription and later sent by subscribers to binders, so each set would be in a different binding type. The fourth series was issued as a supplement after this binding. [A winter and summer in Paris]. ; Engraved plates .