Search Results: Titles starting with W from Lucius Books

London: Sidgwick and Jackson. 1920. First edition, first printing of the poet's first trade publication. First edition, first printing of the poet's first trade publication. Publisher's original [first state] purple cloth with white paper label, printed in black to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth with small areas of fading (corresponding with the minor chips to the dustwrapper) otherwise bright and fresh. The contents, with the bookplates of Simon Nowell-Smith and Anne Powell to the front pastedown are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Spare paper title label tipped in at the rear (as issued). Complete with the very good rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is toned and slightly chipped to the spine, and has a piece of archival tape to the underside. An attractive example. The first state of the first printing, issued with encouragement from Siegfried Sassoon (who remained a life-long friend of… Read More

London: The Folio Society. 2009. First edition with these illustrations. First edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original quarter grey leather over silk boards, titles in silver to the spine. Map endpapers. Silk bookmark. Top edge silver. Quarto. With a frontipiece portrait of the author and 19 further photographic illustrations by Herbert W. Gleason. Printed on Abbey Wove paper. Housed in the original illustrated card slipcase. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents spotlessly clean throughout. Scarce. First published in Boston by Ticknor and Fields in 1854. This superbly presented newly illustration edition is based on the Oxford University Press edition published in 1997, which followed the text of the first edition, with minor emendations. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: George Allen and Unwin. 1959. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original green cloth with silver titles, lacking the dustwrapper. A near very good copy, lightly rubbed to the board edges and with afew light marks and indentations. The contents are complete and clean throughout but with a previous owner's signature and a little spotting / browning to the front free endpaper. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Macmillan. 1981. First edition. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth with silver titles to the spine. In dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight. The contents are clean throughout and free of previous owners' inscriptions and stamps. In the better than very good dustwrapper, which is very lightly creased to the extremities. Not price-clipped (£5.95 to the lower front flap). A superb association copy inscribed by the author to the poet Mairi Macinnes and her literary critic husband John McCormick in black ink on the front free endpaper, reading "For Mairi and John / from Nina with love". From the beloved and prolific author of the award winning children's novels Carrie's War and The Peppermint Pig. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Anvil Press Poetry. 1987. First paperback edition, issued simultaneously with a limited edition hardback. First paperback edition, issued simultaneously with a limited edition hardback. Inscribed by the author to Richard Hollis, who designed the dustwrapper. Sewn binding. Original white card wrappers, in the dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Not price-clipped (£3.95 to the front flap). A nice association copy. Inscribed by the author in blue ink, "For Richard Hollis / with congratulations / on the cover / F. T. Prince." Hollis, born in London in 1934, has enjoyed a varied career in the worlds of art, publishing, and academia. During the 1970s, he notably designed three books for John Berger (including the Booker-winning novel 'G' and 'Ways of Seeing') as well as catalogues for Bridget Riley, Lucien Freud, Howard Hodgkin, and Steve McQueen. 'Walks in Rome', Prince's final single volume is a form… Read More

London: Century. 2005. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original pictorial boards, in the scarce limited edition dustwrapper. Illustrated in colour throughout. A superb fine copy, the binding clean and square, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the scarce original dustwrapper, which is lightly creased to the top of the spine and with a light indentation to the top centre of the rear panel. A lovely copy without toning, loss or tears. Only a small percentage of the first edition were issued in the dustwrapper. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Woodstock, NY: Sun in Scorpio Press. 1984. First edition. First edition. Hardcover issue. Signed by the author. Oblong quarto. Publisher's original black cloth over boards with title lettering in silver to upper panel. Light rubbing to the extremities but certainly a near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. With an introduction by A. D. Coleman. Limited edition of 700 copies, around 550 of which were issued in paperback. This copy one of scarce hardcover issue, numbered 320 and signed by Charles Gatewood in black ink on the title page. A superb volume that deserves a wider audience. Gatewood is best known as a photographer who documents the sexual underground and helped launch the Modern Primitives meme into popular consciousness. This, however, is undoubtedly his best book, and one of the notable American photo books of modern times. Unlike his other work that emphasises sexuality and the idiosyncrasies… Read More

London: Paul Elek. 1947. First edition with John Minton illustrations. First edition with John Minton illustrations. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the John Minton colour illustrated dustwrapper. Further illustrations in black and white throughout the text by John Minton. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt, bright and fresh. The contents, with a previous owner inscribed Book Society bookplate to the front endpaper are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the very good rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has several small chips and short closed tears, with associated creasing to the spine tips and fold corners. Not price-clipped. A decent example, in original condition of a notoriously fragile dustwrapper. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Cassell and Company. 1933. First UK edition, first printing. First UK edition, first printing. Original orange cloth with black titles to the spine, in the Cecil W. Bacon illustrated dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding firm, the board corners and spine tips with some minor bumping. The contents, with a tiny bit of spotting to the text block top edge, a previous owner's bookplate and stamp to the front pastedown and ownership inscription to the title page, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed, creased and nicked original dustwrapper which has a number of closed tears to the edges and folds, and some chipping to the spine tips and flap folds. A western adventure novel. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Hutchinson. 1966. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt title to the spine, in the Edward Mortelmans illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated map endpapers. An excellent fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (30s net to the front flap). Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page "For / S. Baker / from his old friend / Dennis Wheatley". A Roger Brook novel. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: The Folio Society. 2006. Deluxe numbered, limited issue of the edition originally published by the Folio Society in 1971. Deluxe numbered, limited issue of the edition originally published by the Folio Society in 1971. Bound in full maroon Wassa goatskin, blocked front and rear with a design by Jeff Clements, lettered in gilt to the spine. Illustrated throughout with drawings by the Polish artist Feliks Topolsi. Iridescent lime green endpapers. Printed on Edinburgh Cream Wove paper. Bound-in grey ribbon bookmark. Upper edges gilt. With an additional booklet (containing an extract from John Bayley's 1966 book, 'Tolstoy and the Novel') in lime green card wraps sewn with black thread, with white title label lettered in black to the front cover. All housed in a black cloth-covered clamshell box lined in the same shade of green as endpapers and booklet, and lettered in gilt to the spine. A fine copy, presenting as unread, the binding square and firm, the contents bright and clean… Read More

London: The Folio Society. 1971. First edition with these illustrations, first printing. First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Two volumes. Together with a framed original drawing by Felix Topolsky from the book (vol II, p.235). Original red half leather with illustrated cloth-covered boards and titles in gilt to the spine, in slipcase. Top edges red. Illustrated throughout with black and white line drawings by Topolsky. Fine copies, the bindings square and clean, the contents clean and bright throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the original slipcase which is lightly rubbed to the extremities and has a very short closed tear to the paper covering at the spine. The original drawing pictures Napoleon, and is on an irregularly shaped piece of paper (seemingly cut from a larger sheet of drawings) which is a little toned to the edges and is window-mounted behind glass. Feliks Topolsky (1907-1989) was a Polish artist who spent much of his adult life in the UK.… Read More

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2000. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with numerous black and white maps. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean and crisp throughout and remaining free from any previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine unclipped dustwrapper. A thoroughly researched reassessment of the military and political strategies employed by Edward II and the Black Prince, which had led them to victory at Dupplin Moor, Halodon Hill, Crécy, and Poitiers. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: George Bell and Sons. 1908. First edition, third issue. First edition, third issue. Original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and black titles and an illustration plate to the upper board. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates by A. C. Michael. A very good copy, the binding firm, the edges rubbed, the spine toned, the illustration plate scuffed with loss. The contents, with a contemporary pencil ownership inscription to the front pastedown and some spotting to the text block edge and prelims, are otherwise clean throughout. A military science fiction novel notable for predicting the use of aircraft in warfare. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Jonathan Cape. 1949. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Enoch Powell to the journalist and politician Leo Amery. Original dark blue cloth with silver titles to the spine, blue top edge, no dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities a little rubbed, the bottom corner of the upper board slightly bumped. The contents, with L. S. Amery's notes handwritten emendations throughout, are otherwise clean. Loosely laid in is an original three page typescript by L.S. Amery entitled "Notes on Future Warfare", with two holograph emendations. The typescript is pinned at the upper left corner, an impression of which has been left of a couple of pages where it was laid in to the book. Inscribed by Enoch Powell (of whom Kingston-McCloughry says in the foreword "on this book we have collaborated at every stage") in blue ink to the front free endpaper "To / Mr L. S. Amery / on his 80th Birthday / in respectful… Read More

London: Unwin Hyman. 1990. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original dark green boards with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with a double page colour frontispiece and a further 19 illustrations and maps in black and white throughout the text. A near fine copy, with some bumping to the top of the spine, the cloth is fresh and the binding tight and square. The contents are clean throughout and free from inscriptions or stamps. Complete in the lightly rubbed dustwrapper, that is bumped to the spine ends, with a small lightly scratched area to the top left corner of the upper panel. Price-clipped to the lower front flap. The eighth volume in The History of Middle-Earth series. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

New York: George H. Doran. 1917. First American (and first hardcover) edition, first printing. First American (and first hardcover) edition, first printing. Signed by J. C. Smuts. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout. Complete with the very good rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has a couple of short tears and small chips to the extremities and a previous owner's inscription to the blank front flap. Signed by the South African statesman, military leader and philosopher in blue ink on the front endpaper. In addition to holding various military and cabinet posts, Smuts served as prime minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 to 1924 and 1939 to 1948.�Smuts was an internationalist who played a key role in establishing and defining the League of Nations, United Nations and Commonwealth of Nations. He… Read More

Cornwall: Peterloo Poets. 1987. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original illustrated card wraps, the front panel showing Sir Luke Fildes' painting, 'The Doctor'. Printed on laid paper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean. There are a couple of stains to the upper edge of the page block, spreading to the upper edge of the rear panel (both sides) and the outer edge of the final page. Lightly bumped to the lower spine tip with a little rubbing to corners. £7.95 price sticker covering the original £6.95 printed to the rear panel. Signed by the author in blue ink to the title page. The author's fourth collection. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Hamish Hamilton. 1962. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original red textured cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with full page line drawings by Osbert Lancaster. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents, spotted to the closed text block edge are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the bright price-clipped dustwrapper which is spotted to the rear panel and otherwise without fading, loss or tears. A collection of Essays, Articles and Reviews. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Faber and Faber. 2013. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original light blue paper-covered boards with titles in silver gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. An immaculate fine copy, the binding square and tight. The contents clean and bright throughout and free from any previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine dustwrapper. Not price-clipped (£12.99 to the front flap). Provenance: from the library of the multi-award winning poet Pat Borthwick. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.