Search Results: Titles starting with W from Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books

First softcover printing. 318 pages. An enormous tribute to the groundbreaking photography of Walker Evans, from images of the Great Depression onwards. His vision has shaped a modern perception of American life and profoundly influenced more contemporary photographers, such as Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe or Diane Arbus.

The first printing of de Bernière's first ever novel, heavily influenced by the magic realism of Latin America and set in a mythical version of it.
The crushing influence of government corruption forces the whole population of a village to head to the mountains to form a new civilization.
Hardcover.

New York: Knopf, 1990. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. This is a review copy first printing of de Berniere's first ever novel, heavily influenced by the magic realism of Latin America and set in a mythical country, there. Crushing corruption forces the whole population of a village to head to the mountains to form a new civilization.

New York: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, 1981. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. A lovely copy of Harrison's rather rare fifth novel, in which ancient evil is confronted by brute good humour coupled with the love of food and drink.

A lovely copy of the extremely sought-after first novel by Coraghessan Boyle, in an excellent jacket with slight browning to spine.
The fictional adventures of Mungo Park, early Scottish explorer of Africa, provide the material for this ridiculously funny, first novel.
Highly collectible, with owner blind stamp to inner page.

A lovely copy of the extremely sought-after first novel by Coraghessan Boyle, in an excellent jacket.
The fictional adventures of Mungo Park, early Scottish explorer of Africa, provide the material for this ridiculously funny, first novel.
Highly collectible hardcover.

Antonia Fraser
The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth Century England
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984
First printing

Signed with a dedication on the title page.

With her characteristically rigorous and compassionate scholarship, Fraser examines the roles of women in England, in the century following the death of Elizabeth 1.

Book and jacket are in fine condition.

New York: Viking Press, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. A perfect copy of this self-selected collection of Chatwin's travel stories, essays and profiles of his many friends. 35 pieces, which range from short stories to society portrais and reveal the author's chameleon charm.

Another trip to Argentina, this time to film penguins, provides the background for a further round of charming and often absurd encounters between Durrell's irrepressible energy and his quarry's determination not to be captured.
Hardcover, in a very good jacket.

London: Faber & Faber, 1991. First UK edition, second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. A very funny novel, which propelled Nigel Williams onto the bestseller lists for the first time. A mild-mannered solicitor decides to murder his wife, but everyone around her starts dying instead. Page edges have begun to yellow a little, otherwise a very good copy

Dinesen's extremely rare, third U.S. publication.
Eleven haunting romances, filled with wild yearning and lyrical descriptions of ages past.
Age wear to dust jacket spine and corners, otherwise a highly collectible copy.
Hardcover, with owner name and address on half-title page.

Stories. : Viking Press, 1994. . First American edition. . Hardcover.. Fine in fine, now in a DEMCO covered dust-jacket. . A perfect copy, with full numberline, of this collection of fifteen stories that helped establish T. C. Boyle as a genius. One of my favorites.

A rare copy of the US first printing of this collection of Dahl's occasional pieces.
Seven stories for grown ups, the title piece about a man who learns how to make a fortune cheating at cards, and then gives it all away.
Hardcover. Wear to jacket spine and date written to first end page.

London: John Murray, 2003. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/fine. Put together by Artemis Cooper, this is a brilliant tribute to the joie de vivre and delirious scholarship that combine in these selections fom Leigh Fermor's many writings, both published and discovered here for the first time. His breadth of knowledge, language and friendships are celebrated in pieces collected from many word portraits, reviews and occasional writings as well as his better known travel classics. Book and jacket are in fine condition.

Boyle's third novel, in which he demonstrates the relentless nature of inherited character traits.
By setting half his story in the days of the Dutch settlers in the Hudson Valley, and half in the radical times of the 1960s, he shows how society changes, but not human nature or genetic destiny.
Hardcover with jacket.