Search Results: Titles starting with W from Camphor Bookstore

The Western Front: Drawings by Muirhead Bone
New York: George H. Doran, 1917. With an Introduction by Field-Marshall Sir Douglas Haig. 2 volumes in 10 parts. 200 plates, many color, 4to. Condition: The cover boards in cloth and paper are a little worn with some signs of staining. The drawing and magazines inside are in very good condition, with one or two loose caption pages.
About the item: Sir Muirhead Bone was a Scottish etcher and watercolorist who became known for his depiction of industrial and architectural subjects and his work as a war artist in both the First and Second World Wars. Originally, these drawings were issued in 10 parts. Volume 1 contains the original 5 parts, in their original covers and crisp clean dustwrappers. Volume 2 contains part 1 in it's original case and dustwrapper, and the rest of the sheets are loose.

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahameCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1926. Classic adventures of mild Mole, genial Ratty, wild Toad and calm Mr Badger, in an antique edition nicely illustrated by Barnhart. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine; stamped black illustration of a mouse reading under a tree on front board and spine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 351 pp. There are 8 bright full-page color illustration plates, including a tissue-protected frontispiece, and 4 full-page black and white drawings. Condition: The book is in VG condition overall. The cover cloth is a little age darkened and the titles on the spine have faded. There's a lengthy inscription on the half-title page (see photos) but otherwise unmarked.

The Wyeths: The Intimate Correspondence of N.C. Wyeth, 1901-1945Gambit, Inc., Boston, 1971. First printing. Edited by Betsy James Wyeth. Blue cloth spine, cream cloth boards, gilt lettering, blue ink label, pictorial endpages, yellow topstain. 8vo. 858pp. , xv + 871pp, 107 illustrations (8 in color, bibliography, index. Clean and in excellent condition. The DJ is protected in plastic.

The Enchanted Landscape Photographs 1940-1975By Wynn BullockAperture, New York, 1993. First Edition. In addition to the superb photographs, there is a poem by Ursula Le Guin, a biographical essay by Raphael Shevelev, and excerpts from the writings of Wynn Bullock. Bibliography in the back. Book and jacket are in near fine, as new condition.
About the book:In images of haunting beauty Wynn Bullock explores the ineffability of time and space, the mystery beneath the static surface of reality, and the contradictory and compelling nature of existence itself. Now available in paperback, The Enchanted Landscape, a definitive retrospective monograph of his photographs, confirms Bullock as one of this century's preeminent photographers and celebrates the incandescent brilliance of a true American sage.