Search Results: Titles starting with W from Lasting Words Ltd

UK: Faber, 1956. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good+. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 1st Edition 1956. This is the true first UK (British) edition, first printing (with "First published in England in mcmlvi stated on the copyright page, and with no later printings listed). The Publisher's Note is tipped in after the copyright page as required for the true first printing. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Contents good. Endpapers darkened. The wrapper is very good+ and bright with light rubbing to edges. Spine age toned. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16514

UK: Eliot Stock, 1888. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1888. The Wakefield Bishopric Movement: Being a History of the Circumstances Which Led to the Formation of the See of Wakefield and a Brief Review of the Chief Features of the Work, Together with a Complete List of the Subscribers, Offertories Etc Bound in the original cloth. Book is very good++ with quite bright boards. Light edge rubbing. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref13539

UK: Hogarth Press, 1986. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1986. Signed by the author on a Waterstones bookplate. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good+ and quite bright. Pages age toned. Light edge rubbing and creasing. Price clipped. More images can be taken upon request.Ref 14552/14769

UK: Westmorland Gazette, 1972. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 2nd Imp C1973. Undated. Printed just after the 1st printing and in the same format. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and bright. Light edge rubbing. Odd nicks. Light creasing to wrapper surface More images can be taken upon request. Ref17430

UK: Chatto and Windus, 1948. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1948. Flat signed by the author to title page. Book is very good++ and very bright. Contents good. Wrapper is very good++ and bright. Minuscule loss to spine tips. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 10057####012215

UK: Methuen, 1923. Fourth Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 4th Edition 1923. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Light rubbing to edges. Contents good. The wrapper is very good+ and bright. Two small chips to spine and edge. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. A few small closed tears to edges. Spine age toned/darkened. Uncommon with the wrapper. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 8737 ##010994

UK, 1900. First Edition . Paper. Very Good ++. 64mo - up to 3" tall. A good clean signed card C1900 by Walter Crane. Size 120mm x 90mm Condition is very good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref15916

UK: Dicks, 1880. First Edition Thus . Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition C1880. A Drama in Three Acts. A Play of 20 pages. Frontis plate. John Thomas Dicks 1818-1881 was a publisher in London in the 19th century. He issued popular, affordably priced fiction and drama, such as "shilling Shakespeares and wonderfully cheap reprints of Scott and other standard authors. Booklet is very good and bright. Taken from a bound up book of the Plays of Dicks. Original covers not present. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request.. Ref15763

UK: Samuel French, 1915. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. 1st Edition 1915. The dedication copy with a letter to Lady Muriel who the book is dedicated to tipped in. The letter reads 'Dear Lady Muriel, The war has not brought us tragedy only. Pleasant memories have sprung from it too. And certainly one of the pleasantest for me will always be my association with you in your charity Matinee at the Haymarket. I feel I can commemorate it in no better way than in dedicating this little play to you'. Yours Sincerely Edward Knoblock.' The play was produced on the 2nd July 1915 at the Haymarket, Cast included Helen Haye, Lynn Fontanne, Jean Cadell, Ethel Levey, Lilian Braithwaite, Delysis etc, Lady Muriel Evelyn Vernon Paget 1876-1938 was a British philanthropist and humanitarian relief worker, initially based in London, and later in Eastern and Central Europe. She was made an OBE in 1918 and promoted to CBE in 1938. She… Read More

UK: Kaye and Ward, 1982. First Edition . Pictorial Cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1982. A lovely example with bright white boards and pages. A signed Michael Morpurgo bookplate to front endpaper. Made into a succesful play and now a major film. Book is near fine and very bright. Contents very good. A very nice example of a rare book. More images can be taken request. Ref8787 ###11189

UK: Union of Democratic Control, 1914. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1914. (Union of Democratic Control Pamphlet No. 3). The softback book is good++ with bright covers. Light edge rubbing. Covers a little age toned. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 15494

UK: Hale, 1983. Reprint . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1983. Presentation inscription to Richard Williamson from the author. The book includes a few references to his father Henry Williamson. From a large collection of Henry Williamson's and his family's books. Includes a specially commissioned small bookplate affixed inside the book confirming this. Book is very good++ and with bright boards. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. More images can be taken upon request. ref 17592

UK: Dent, 1954. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reprints but New Edition 1954 to have the 1956 Film Bands Added Around the Books. Three volume set. Books are very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrappers/bands are very good++ and bright. Spine slightly age toned. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 17725

UK: Walter Scott, 1900. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. E H Garrett. New Edition Circa 1900. Undated. Four volumes bound up as two. Five plates by E H Garrett. Bound in the original cloth. Books are very good+ with quite bright boards.Edges lightly rubbed. Contents good. Foxing to some pages. Very uncommon set. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17627

UK: Dent, 1921. Reprint . Cloth. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Reprint 1921. Three volume set. Books are very good and bright. Spine a little darkened and small mark to one volume at the base. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 17903

UK: Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 1964. First Edition Thus . Printer Wrapper. Good ++. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1964. Undated. Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, London, 1964. Pamphlet. 1st Edition. Cover design by Robin Fior. Uncommon title. Softcover. The book is good but with rubbed, creased, stained and nicked edges. Small loss to rear edge. Spine repaired. Contents good with age toned pages. Light staining to title page. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 15839

UK: Walter Scott, 1900. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. E H Garrett. New Edition Circa 1900. Undated. Four volumes bound up as two. Five plates by E H Garrett. Bound in the original cloth. Books are very good+ with quite bright boards. Edges lightly rubbed. Small repaired cut (5mm) to tip of spine on one volume. Contents good. Foxing to some pages. Very uncommon set. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17537

UK: Oxford University Press, 1923. Reprint . Cloth. Good ++. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Reprints 1923-1928. Ownership Inscription to two volumes by the Sculptor Henry Moore and probably a gift from his new Russian bride when they married in 1929. Dated 1929 in both volumes. Books owned by Henry Moore of this period are rare in commerce. The late 1920's were very important formative years and in 1928 saw Moore's first solo exhibition, held at the Warren Gallery in London. On 19 July 1929, Moore married Irina Radetsky, a painting student at the Royal College. Shortly after they married, the couple moved to a studio in Hampstead at 11a Parkhill Road NW3, joining a small colony of avant-garde artists who were taking root there. Shortly afterward, Hepworth and her second husband Ben Nicholson moved into a studio around the corner from Moore, while Naum Gabo, Roland Penrose, Cecil Stephenson and the art critic Herbert Read also lived in the area (Read referred to the area as "a… Read More

UK: Walter Scott, 1889. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. New Edition Circa 1889. COPAC dated. 1st UK edition based on the American Crowell sheets but without the preface. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. Complete four volumes in original decorative cloth. Books are near very good with quite bright boards.Edges rubbed in places. Spine tips rubbed and ceased. Marking to some boards. Contents quite good. Endpapers darkened. Name to one volume. Quite a bright set. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 16405

UK: Oxford, 1928. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Good ++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1928. Review copy sent to Williamson. From a large collection of Henry Williamson's and his family's books. Includes a specially commissioned small bookplate affixed inside the book confirming this. Book is good++ with quite bright boards and spine. Spine a little lightened. Cloth a little marked and rubbed in places. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17593