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H-1816
Sandburg, Helga. The Wheel of Earth. New York: McDowell Obolensky,
1958. First edition. Author's signed presentation inscrition on
front endpaper. Original gilt-lettered maroon cloth; small mark
on fore edge. Orange-red pictorial (farm country) dust jacket a bit
sunned on spine and tanned near folds; some rubbing and light edge wear;
small piece lacking from top rear. A fine copy in very good dust jacket.
NB. Helga is the daughter of Carl Sandburg.
$12
H-1818
Sassoon, Siegfried. Meredith. London: Constable, 1948. First
edition. Original sea green boards, sunned on spine with ghosting of
dust jacket lettering thereon, top edges faded; pages age-toned. Grey and
cream dust jacket, lettered in green, now lightly soiled; some creasing at
spine ends and edges; tiny chip at lower rear. A near fine copy of Sassoon's
study of George Meredith's works.
$20
H-1821
Scott, F.R. Events and Signals. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1954.
[First edition]. A near fine copy in
silver lettered
black boards, atouch bumped at corners; matching dust jacket slightly
sunned on spine.
$20
H-1824
Scott, Sir Walter. Kenilworth. [New York]: Limited Editions
Club, 1966. #1109 of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator
Clarke Hutton , with original monthly newsletter laid in.
A fine copy in
yellow
cloth with brown leather spine label; in original glassine; brown
slipcase just a bit rubbed and paper cracked along edge of opening.
A very attractive copy.
$65
H-1828
Self, Will. Cock & Bull. London: Bloomsbury, 1992.
First edition. As new in dust jacket, signed by the
author.
$50
H-1829
Self, Will. Dorian: An Imitation. London: Viking, 2002. First
edition. Signed by the author. A fine copy in black and
grey dust jacket; corner of front flap creased. An update of Wilde's
Dorian Grey set in the early years of the AIDS epidemic.
$65
H-1830
Self, Will. Feeding Frenzy. London: Viking, 2001. First edition.
Signed by the author. Blue boards, lettered in silver; blue
colour pictorial (bloody cake) dust jacket. A fine copy of a collection
journalistic and other essays.
$65
H-1831
Self, Will. Great Apes. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First
edition. As new
in "Great Ape"
photo dust jacket, signed by the author.
$70
H-1832
Self, Will. Grey Area. London: Bloomsbury, 1994. First
edition. A fine copy in spiral-bound pictorial boards; with marks
at outer edges of both boards from spiral spine of once-adjacent
copies; lower front spine corner creased.
$45
H-1833
Self, Will. How the Dead Live. London: Bloomsbury, 2000.
First edition. As new in dust jacket, signed by the author .
$65
H-1834
Self, Will. Junk Mail. London: Bloomsbury, 1995. First collected
edition. Signed by the author. A fine copy in white pictorial
(origami envelope) boards, clean and bright, with just a hint of rubbing to
rear. An ecclectic mix of Self's cartoons, essays, articles and reviews,
herein collected for the first time.
$95
H-1835
Self, Will. My Idea of Fun. London: Bloomsbury, 1993. First
edition. A fine copy in dust jacket, signed by the
author.
$95
H-1836
Self, Will. The Sweet Smell of Psychosis. London: Bloomsbury,
1996. First edition. Illustrations by Martin Rowson. Signed by
the author. A fine copy in
laminated
cartoon-style pictorial boards.
$75
H-1837
[----- Another copy]. This copy not signed. As new,
in laminated cartoon-style
pictorial boards.
$35
H-1838
Self, Will. Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys.
London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition. As new in dust jacket,
signed by the author.
$65
H-1842
Service, Robert. Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man. London: Fisher
Unwin, 1916. First edition. A very good copy in original red cloth,
now somewhat faded and spine gilt dulled; top of spine worn. Minor
foxing, pages a little age-toned.
$12
H-1844
Service, Robert. The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses. New York:
Barse & Hopkins, 1907. Early edition. With frontis and eight
tissue-guarded and captioned plates. Publisher's gilt lettered and
ruled burgundy cloth; spine darkened and dulled; corners lightly worn,
spine ends frayed; light rubbing at edges and hinges; rear panel soiled.
Neat ink gift inscription on front endpaper; bookplate; a few plates
worn at margins, one or two cracking or creased at inner edge; light
foxing. A very good copy of this early Service collection.
$35
H-1846
[Shakespeare, William] Cowden-Clarke, Mary. The Complete Concordance
to Shakespeare ... London: Bickers & Son, 1894. New and revised
edition. "Being a verbal index to all the passages in the dramatic works
of the poet." A fine, bright copy in original
dark brown
bevelled cloth, gilt lettered, decorated (Shakespeare) and bordered;
top edge gilt; very light rubbing to spine ends. Contents clean and tight
(unusual in such a thick volume). A fascinating study of the words used by
the great bard, and their contexts.
$65
H-1848
[Shakespeare, William] Holden, Anthony. William Shakespeare: His Life
and Work. London: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. [First edition].
Signed by the author. A fine copy in fine pictorial
(Shakespeare) dust jacket.
$15
Shaw, George Bernard. Works by and About.
Specialty list.
H-1849
Shields, Carol. Flatties: Their Various Forms and Uses.
Toronto: Harbourfront, 1997. First edition. "Harbourfront Reading
Series, 1997 Chapbook 9."
Fine
copy in pictorial (antique maps) wrappers, one of 150 copies
(from a total edition of 550) numbered and signed by the
author.
$45
H-1850
Shields, Carol. Larry's Party. [Toronto]: Random House of Canada,
1997. First Canadian edition. Signed by the author. A fine
copy in black boards and
colour pictorial
(set table) red dust jacket; tiny scuff to front panel of jacket.
$35
H-1851
Shields, Carol. The Orange Fish. Toronto: Random House, 1989. [First
edition]. Original blue boards, glue showing through (poor quality endpapers)
at inner hinges, and colour pictorial (Zednick's Skater) dust jacket. A fine
copy of this collection of short fiction.
$30
Author's First Book !
H-1852
Shields, Carol. Others. Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1972. [First edition].
Original
orange and purple
card wrappers, bright and fresh; with just a hint of sunning to spine and
dusting to panels; internally excellent. A fine copy of the author's
first book, a collection of poetry.
$325
H-1854
Shields, Carol and Shields, Catherine. Fashion, Power, Guilt and the
Charity of Families. Winnipeg: Blizzard Publishing, 1995. First edition.
Original colour pictorial card wrappers, fresh and clean. A fine copy of
this play, written in collaboration between Pulitzer Prize winner Carol
Shields and her daughter.
$25
H-1855
Shute, Nevil. The Rainbow and the Rose. London: Heinemann,
1958. First edition. A fine copy in original red boards,
gilt-lettering slightly dulled; full colour red pictorial dust jacket
a little worn at spine ends and corners.
$20
H-1856
Sillitoe, Alan. Mountains & Caverns: Selected Essays. London:
W.H. Allen, 1975. First edition. A near fine copy in dust jacket,
signed by the author.
$20
H-1858
Sinclair, Iain. Downriver (Or, the Vessels of Wrath) ....
London: Paladin Grafton, 1991. [First edition]. "A Narrative Adventure
in Twelve Tales." Original blue boards with faint "dings" on front board near
spine; blue pictorial
(Meidner's Apocalyptic Landscape) dust jacket, just a touch soiled
on white rear panel. A fine copy.
$20
H-1863
Smith, Alexander McCall. The Sunday Philosophy Club. London:
Little Brown, 2004. First edition. "A New Series from the author of
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency." As new, in original purple
boards and colour pictorial dust jacket.
$25
H-1865
Smith, Zadie. The Autograph Man. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2002.
First edition. Red, blue and pale grey dust jacket, with
liner notes and fold-out chart, clean and sharp. Fine.
$35
H-1866
Smollet, Tobias. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. London: J.F.
Dove, 1825. Added engraved title page and frontispiece. Defective
contemporary calf, severely worn at corners, and lacking large pieces
at spine ends; front cover holding by chords only; covers mottled and
chipping; all edges marbled, but faded. Bookplate; contents,
surprisingly, clean and tight. A binding copy only.
$20
H-1867
Sontag, Susan. Death Kit: A Novel. New York: Farrar, Straus
& Giroux, 1967. First edition. A fine copy in original black
boards with white spine; black and white dust jacket, a little
rubbed, and worn at spine ends and corners.
$8
H-1869
Spark, Muriel. The Complete Short Stories. London: Viking, 2001. First
collected edition. As new in torquoise boards and matching
colour pictorial
(memory-box montage) dust jacket. "... Contains all her published short
stories together with some new writing ..."
$20
H-1873
Spark, Muriel and Stanford, Derek (eds.). My Best Mary: The Selected
Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. London: Allan Wingate,
1953. First edition. A near fine copy in original blue boards,
creased at corners, spine ends and near joint at top edge of front
board. Pictorial dust jacket a bit surface soiled and creased at
top and bottom of spine.
$20
H-1875
Stallwood, Veronica. Oxford Fall. London: Macmillan, 1996.
First edition. As new in dust jacket, signed by the
author.
$30
H-1876
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Across the Plains: With Other Memories
and Essays. London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. Large paper
edition. No. 3 of 100 copies signed by the printers
R.& R. Clark. Original cream cloth, upper corners and top edge
soiled, spine a little darkened, but gilt lettering still bright;
edges dusty; front free endpaper professionally replaced; most pages
unopened. A very good copy.
$165
H-1878
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Father Damian: An Open Letter to the
Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu ... London: Chatto & Windus,
1890. First published edition. A very good copy in original light
brown wrappers worn at edges and corners; badly chipped and partially
split at spine.
$95
H-1880
[Stevenson, Robert Louis] McKay, George L. (comp.). A Stevenson Library:
Catalogue of a Collection of Writings By and About Robert Louis Stevenson
Formed by Edwin J. Beinecke. New Haven: Yale University Library, 1956.
[First edition]. One of 500 copies. Original gilt-lettered
black buckram; top edge gilt; ex-library copy, with bookplate and call number
on front pastedown, and discreet ink stamps on verso of title page, final
leaf, tipped in manuscript facsimiles, and bottom edge. A clean, bright,
most attractive copy, but because of the internal markings, only very good.
$55
H-1883
Storey, David. The Contractor. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. First
edition. Black boards a touch creased at spine ends. Price-clipped mustard
and black dust jacket surface rubbed; spine sunned; top edge a bit creased;
head of spine and top corners lightly worn. A fine copy of this play, in
very good dust jacket
$15
H-1884
Storey, David. Saville. London: Jonathan Cape, 1976.
First edition. Original pale green boards, with small snag at lower
edge of front panel; tail of spine creased.
Colour pictorial
(village scene) dust jacket, with short closed tear and attendant
creasing at bottom of front panel; creased along top edge, and lacking
tiny pieces at corners and spine ends; price-clipped. A very good copy.
Winner of the
1976 Booker Prize.
$100
H-1888
Swift, Graham. Last Orders. Picador: London, 1996. First
edition. Winner of the 1996 Booker
Prize . A fine copy in
pictorial (beer
glass) dust jacket.
$70
H-1889
[Swift, Jonathan] Hay, James. Swift: The Mystery of His Life and Love.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1891. Second edition, with "a few alterations and
corrections" (same year as first edition). Large paper copy, printed on high
quality rag paper; many pages unopened. Original maroon boards, gilt lettered
on spine; covers severely spotted, through loss of pigmentation; light sunning
to spine and upper rear. Neat ink names on front endpapers, all endpapers
unevenly tanned; clipping laid into pp.36/7 with resulting browning of page
near gutter; pages otherwise nice and bright. A very good copy of this
biographical analysis of the great 17th century writer.
$70
T
H-1890
Tenny, W.H.F. Songs of the North and Other Poems. Toronto: Ryerson
Press, 1923. [First edition]. Presentation inscription from the author
on frontispiece . Original gilt-lettered red cloth, now a trifle
darkened on covers; 1 leaf lacking 3" x 1/2" piece at fore edge (probably
through careless opening).
$15
H-1891
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. Ballads and Other Poems. London:
C. Kegan Paul, 1880. [First edition]. Original
green cloth with
blind-stamped border, gilt lettered on spine; 2 small gouges at
bottom of front cover, one showing board;
corners bumped and spine ends creased. 3 pp. publisher's list of
author's works at rear; pp. 169-74 creased across upper corner;
otherwise a clean, tight copy.
$20
H-1892
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. Demeter and Other Poems. London:
Macmillan and Co., 1889. [First edition]. Original
green cloth, lettered
in gilt; bumped at corners and spine ends; a touch worn in a few places
along joints; 1" dark stain at top edge. Light soiling to upper corner of
front endpaper; a few stray pencil marks in text; with three line errata
slip tipped in following contents. Near fine.
$20
H-1893
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. Enoch Arden, etc. London: Edward
Moxon & Co., 1864. [First edition]. Original
drab olive green
cloth,lettered in gilt on spine, with publisher's device blind-stamped
on front cover; spine sunned, head and tail creased. Ink ownership name
and bookseller's label on front pastedown; 8 pp. publisher's catalogue
(dated August 1864) inserted at front; front hinge loose but strong.
A very good copy.
$25
H-1894
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. Enoch Arden, etc. London: Edward
Moxon & Co., 1867. [Later edition]. A fine copy in original
bright green cloth
with title in gilt on spine and publisher's device blind-stamped on
front cover; spine a touch darkened and ends a bit creased. 16 pp.
publisher's catalogue (dated April, 1867) at front.
$15
H-1895
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. Gareth and Lynette etc. London: Strahan,
1872. [First edition]. Near fine copy in original blind-stamped
dark green
cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; spine ends and joints a little rubbed.
Half-page publisher's ad tipped to front endpaper, 10 pp. catalogue
at rear; full-page "Xmas 1872" gift inscription on front endpaper;
contents perfect.
$15
H-1896
[-----Another copy]. This one rebound, with no ads at rear.
Full
pebble-grained crimson morrocco, gilt spine lettering, by J. B.
Hawes, Cambridge; a little rubbed; elaborate inner gilt dentelles; all
edges gilt. Contents clean and bright. An attractive copy.
$20
H-1897
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. The Lover's Tale. London: Keegan Paul,
1879. [First edition]. Original blind-stamped
dark green cloth,
gilt-lettered on now lightly darkened spine; spine ends and joints a
little rubbed; rear panel spotted. 4 pp. publisher's ads at rear. Very
good
$20
H-1898
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. Tiresias and Other Poems. London:
Macmillan and Co., 1885. [First edition, first issue].
Gilt-lettered
green cloth, bumped at corners; spine darkened and ends lightly
creased; blue streak along centre of rear cover.
Without imprint at foot of p. 204 (c.f. Wise, T.J. The
Ashley Library , v. VII, p. 152).
$20
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. The
Window, or, The Songs of the Wrens. London: Strahan & Co., 1871.
[First edition].
H-1899
Theroux, Paul. The Family Arsenal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1976. First US edition. A fine copy in lightly edgeworn black
pictorial dust jacket, rubbed at spine ends.
$8
H-1900
Theroux, Paul. Hotel Honolulu. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2001.
First edition. Original black boards; colour pictorial (man at pool)
dust jacket, lightly rubbed on rear, with a few minor scores. A fine
book in near fine dust jacket.
$15
H-1901
Theroux, Paul. My Secret History. London: London Limited
Editions, 1989. One "of 150 numbered copies of the First Edition",
signed by the author. Specially bound in half-cloth and
marbled boards, with original glassine. Margins a little age-toned owing to
poor quality of paper . Fine.
$100
H-1903
Theroux, Paul. Saint Jack. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
First edition. A fine copy, in original red decorated and blue-lettered
oatmeal cloth.
With like pictorial
dust jacket.
$45
H-1907
Thow, William. Tales of a Songsmith. Montreal: Privately Printed,
1951. [First edition]. Original chocolate brown cloth, lettered in gilt
on spine; old red ink "25¢" on front endpaper.
$8
H-1913
Trollope, Anthony. Hunting Sketches. London: Chapman and Hall,
1865. [First edition].
Original red
cloth, now somewhat soiled, but gilt titling still nice and bright;
one corner a bit worn, head of spine worn with 1/2" loss and amateurishly
re-coloured; tail and other corners lightly bumped; small bubble to
cloth at front. Front endpaper cracked, but hinge strong; 32 pp.
publisher's catalogue dated May 1865 at end; contemporary ink names on
verso of front endpaper, partly offsetting on facing title page; contents
clean and tight. A very good copy.
$225
H-1914
Trollope, Anthony. The Last Chronicle of Barset. London: Smith
Elder and Co., 1867. [First edition]. Two volumes. Original
elaborately
gilt-decorated dark blue cloth. A completely unsophisticated copy, in
need of professional attention: gilt rubbed on spines, but stll fairly
bright on covers; wear at extremities and hinges; spines leaning; shadow
of labels removed from upper front covers. Original yellow coated endpapers
marked with tape stains; light foxing to some plates and tissue guards;
text generally clean and tight. A very good copy only, yet with some TLC
it could be made quite respectable.
$275
H-1915
Trollope, Anthony. Orley Farm. London: Chapman and Hall, 1862.
[First edition, mixed issue (v.1 3rd, v.2 4th)]. Two volumes. Original vertically
ribbed maroon cloth decorated in blind on covers and elaborate gilt on spines;
spines a bit faded, and a little frayed at ends, with gilt still reasonably bright;
inner hinges cracked. V.1: small mark to front cover; ugly stain to lower inside
corner of endpapers and first two leaves, affecting frontispiece; similar, but
smaller stain at rear affecting final 4 plates and endpapers (but not text); some
gutter splits resulting in a few adjacent loose gatherings, protruding at fore
edge with page edges a little frayed. V.2: last few plates dampstained at lower
inside corners; rear joint frayed 1" at bottom; 2" abrasion at lower front fore
edge with loss. Overall, a very good set, not often encountered in original cloth.
$650
U
H-1919
Unsworth, Barry. Sacred Hunger. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992.
[First edition, later issue dust jacket]*. Winner of the
1992
Booker Prize. A fine copy with just a hint of age-toning to
fore-edge; pictorial
(slaves in ship's hold) brown dust jacket with very minor creasing and
miniscule nick at head of spine.
* The price-clipped dust jacket is a later issue, identifiable only
through the barcode number on rear panel of dust jacket.
$75
H-1920
Upward, Edward. In the Thirties. London: Heinemann, 1962.
First edition. A fine copy in original forest green boards;
with near
fine pictorial (1930s cityscape) dust jacket, barely visible 2" water
stain on rear panel.
$50
H-1921
Urquhart, Jane. Away. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1993.
First edition. Original pictorial french wrappers; 1" square "ding" on
front cover; contents clean and bright. A near fine copy.
$45
H-1922
Urquhart, Jane. Changing Heaven. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart,
1990. First edition. A fine copy in original buff boards and pictorial
dust jacket; faint stain to upper fore edge and p. 147; 1" crack to rear
inner hinge (binding fault).
$15
H-1923
Urquhart, Jane. The Underpainter. Toronto: McClelland &
Stewart, 1997. First edition.
As new in
dust jacket, signed by the author.
$45
H-1924
Urquhart, Jane. The Underpainter. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart,
1997. Second printing. Presentation copy, with personal inscription
from the author. Fine copy; in colour pictorial dust jacket, with
gold Governor General's award sticker on front panel.
$20
H-1925
Ustinov, Peter. The Love of Four Colonels: A Play in Two Acts.
New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1953. First US edition. A fine
dark blue buckram copy
in cream
pictorial (Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer on stage) dust jacket, very
lightly soiled overall.
$12
V
H-1927
Van Dine, S.S. The Benson Murder Case. [London]: Daily Express
Fiction Library, [n.d., ca.1930s]. Original gilt-lettered textured red
boards, very slightly rubbed at corners and spine ends. Printed on cheap
paper, now evenly age-toned. Striking
red and black
pictorial dust jacket. An atractive little edition of this Philo Vance
mystery. Fine.
$8
[Van dine, S.S.] Wright, Willard Huntington, ed.
The Great Detective Stories ... New York: Scribner's, 1927. [First
edition].
H-1928
Vanderhaeghe, Guy. The Englishman's Boy. Toronto: McClelland
& Stewart, 1996. First edition.
As new in dust
jacket.
$15
H-1929
Vanderhaeghe, Guy. Homesick. Toronto: McClelland &
Stewart, 1989. First edition. A fine copy in light brown boards, with
fine full colour pictorial dust jacket.
$35
H-1930
Vanderhaeghe, Guy. Man Descending. London: Bodley Head, 1986.
First UK edition, author's first book. A fine copy in like pictorial
dust jacket.
$35
H-1931
[Verne, Jules] Evans, I.O. Jules Verne and His Work. London: Arco
Publications, 1965. First edition. Original green boards, lettered in gilt
on slightly darkened spine. A near fine copy of this study of Verne's
many literary works.
$20
H-1932
Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro). The Eclogues. New York:
Limited Editions Club, 1960. Translated into English verse by
C.S. Calverley. #1109 of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator
Vertés ; monthly newsletter laid in. A fine copy
in buff
cloth, decorated in green; with original glassine, with short closed
tear at top front corner; matching buff slipcase a bit soiled, and
foxed at top edge.
$60
W
H-1934
Waddington, Miriam. The Second Silence. Toronto: Ryerson,
1955. First edition. A near fine copy in pale yellow boards and
matching dust jacket, the former showing some light soiling and the
latter a 2" acid-free tape repair to tear in front panel.
$20
H-1935
Walters, Minette. The Echo. London: Macmillan, 1997. [First
edition]. A near fine copy with a few slight marks on black boards;
in fine pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author .
$20
H-1936
Walters, Minette. The Sculptress. London: Macmillan, 1993. First
edition. Signed by the author , her second novel. Margins
a little age toned; a fine copy in
colour-pictorial
dust jacket.
$130
H-1940
Waugh, Evelyn. Edmund Campion. London: Hollis and Carter, 1947.
Second edition [i.e., Illustrated edition]. With a new preface by the
author. Original dark purplish-blue coth, lettered in gilt; top edge
red; two small lightened spots. Endpapers a touch toned,
tiny snag to corner of front pastedown; neat ink name on facing
endpaper. Cream dust jacket printed in red and black; 1/4-ring mark
on front panel; light dusting and spine sunned; light wear to corners
and spine ends, 1" piece lacking from upper front corner; a couple short
closed tears. A near fine copy, in very good dust jacket, of this
biographical work on the Elizabethan Jesuit martyr.
$12
H-1941
Waugh, Evelyn. A Little Learning: The First Volume of an
Autobiography. London: Chapman & Hall, 1964. First edition.
Fine copy, in fine dust jacket with light dime-sized smudge at centre
of spine.
$35
H-1942
Waugh, Evelyn. The Loved One; in Horizon, vol XVII, no.98
(February, 1948). London: Horizon, 1948. [First appearance]. Original
cream wrappers
printed in black and orange, now age-toned at margins; neat repair
to tail of spine, head chipped at corners; corners lightly creased; a
bit dusty. Pages toned; lower corner of pp. 97-118 creased; contents clean
and tight. A near fine copy of the first appearance of Waugh's classic
"Anglo-American Tragedy", to which the entire issue is devoted.
$95
H-1945
Waugh, Evelyn. A Tourist in Africa. London: Chapman & Hall,
1960. First edition. A fine copy, in silver-lettered blue boards, and
green and
brown decorated dust jacket, a little browned on spine and back
panel.
$35
H-1946
Waugh, Evelyn. Tourist in Africa. Boston: Little, Brown, 1960.
First US edition. Original light brown boards, with map endpapers
charting his journey around the coast of Africa; top edge a little
soiled. Orange dust jacket severely faded at spine, with only title
lettering visible; lightly chipped at edges and with a small closed
tear at lower edge. A very good copy.
$15
H-1950
[Waugh, Evelyn] Cooper, Artemis (ed.). Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch: The Letters
of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991.
First edition. Blue boards; pages age-toned at edges; photo-pictorial
(Waugh and Cooper) dark blue dust jacket with just a hint of sunning to
spine and of creasing to spine corners. Fine.
$15
H-1952
Weldon, Fay. The Bulgari Connection: A Novel. Rome: Leonardo,
2000. First edition. Number 115 of 750 copies, signed and
dated by the author, "26th October, 2000 - London." With
separate presentation inscription signed "Fay" on front
endpaper. A fine copy in original gilt-lettered black boards, and
colour pictorial (Bulgari necklace) white dust jacket. In near fine,
elaborately built black clamshell box lettered "Bulgari" in gilt at
lower front; corners bumped.
When Bulgari, the Italian jewelers, opened a new store on London's Bond
Street, they commissioned Weldon to write a novel featuring their
collection. These signed, numbered and boxed copies were given as gifts
at the opening party. A totally original form of product placement!
$45
H-1953
Wells, H.G. The Discovery of the Future. London: A.C. Fifield,
1913. [First UK edition]. Original brown-grey boards, lettered
in brown; corners and tail of spine bumped, head torn 1/4" at joints;
spine darkened and scuffed; minor foxing to page edges. A very good
copy.
$15
H-1954
Wells, H.G. The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine. London: Methuen,
1902. First edition, first issue. Original gilt-stamped (bright) scarlet cloth,
faded at spine; covers a little marked; edges spotted, light foxing to first and
last leaves; contents clean and tight; 40 pp. ads dated July 1902 at rear. Near
fine.
$325
H-1956
Welsh, Irvine. Ecstasy. London: Cape, 1996. First edition. As
new, in striking
colour pictorial
(purple head with open mouth taking an ecstasy tablet) dust jacket.
$50
H-1971
[Wilde, Oscar] Mazumdar, Maxim. Oscar Remembered. Toronto: Personal
Library, 1977. [First edition]. Inscribed by the author. A
very good copy of this one-man stage play, with photos of the author
staring as Wilde. Printed in brown on cream paper; light card wrappers
in black and brown, a touch rubbed at edges. Near fine.
$35
H-1974
Wilkinson, Susan. Sebastian's Pride. Toronto, 1996. Paperback,
403pp; as new
in decorative
(boleadoras) card wrappers.
$10
H-1975
Wilson, Colin. The World of Violence. London: Victor Gollancz, 1963.
[First edition]. Fine copy in red boards with spine gilt a touch dulled.
Near fine
bright yellow
dust jacket lettered and ruled in purple and black;
light soiling; with three short partial glass rings on rear panel, which
barely show as shadows on cover; and faint score on front.
$35
H-1982
Wodehouse, P.G. The Little Nugget. London: Methuen, 1914.
Third edition. Original blind-stamped plum cloth; elaborate spine gilt now a
little dulled, but still sharp; spine ends creased; minor spotting to covers.
Rear endpaper professionaly replaced; 31 pp. ads dated "25/10/13" at rear.
A very good copy.
$95
H-1983
Wodehouse, P.G. Love Among the Chickens. London: Herbert Jenkins,
1921 [i.e. 1923]. "Popular edition entirely rewritten by the author"
[i.e. Second English edition; later issue*]. A rough and tired copy in
original olive green boards, lettered and ruled in black; now-sunned
spine torn from head along rear joint and across title (affecting
"Among"); corners and spine ends rubbed and worn; covers soiled and
spotted. Pages browned due to poor quality paper; front hinge loose and
cracked, but still holding. Probably the world's worst copy!
* Not in McIlvaine: 17 reprints of the 2nd English edition
are listed, but none matching this list of books opposite title page (8 titles
from Picadilly Jim through The Girl on the Boat ).
$12
H-1986
Wodehouse, P.G. Sunset at Blandings. London: Chatto & Windus,
1977. [First edition]. "With Notes and Appendices by Richard Usborne.
Illustrated by Ionicus." A fine copy in original turquoise boards, bright
and clean; aerial view of Blandings endpapers drawn by Ionicus.
Colour
pictorial (Blandings scene) dust jackets; price-clipped with new
overlapping publisher's decimal price-stickers (£6.95 covered by £7.95) on
front flap. Wodehouse's final unfinished novel: first half is completed
text, second half is his working notes headed "Work in Progress."
$35
H-1987
Wodehouse, P.G. Sunset at Blandings. New York: Simon and Schuster,
1977. First US edition. "With notes and appendices by Richard Usborne.
Illustrations by Ionicus." Original brown/black speckled boards decorated
(Blandings) in white; Ionicus's aerial view of Blandings follows orange
endpapers; remainder stamp at bottom edge. Colour pictorial (Blandings
scene) dust jacket, with the slightest hint of sunning to spine; top of
spine creased, tiny chip at one corner. A fine copy, in near fine dust
jacket, of Wodehouse's final unfinnished novel: first half is completed
text, second half is his working notes headed "Work in Progress."
$8
[Wodehouse, P.G.] Graves, Charles.
-And the Greeks. New York: McBride, 1931. First US edition. "With
an Introduction by P.G. Wodehouse ..."
H-1990
[Wodehouse, P.G.] Donaldson, Frances. P.G. Wodehouse: A Biography.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1982. First edition. "The Authorized
Biography" (cf. dust jacket). A fine copy in original reddish-brown
boards; pale yellow, red and golden brown dust jacket clean and crisp,
with a hint of curling to top edge.
$20
H-1991
[Wodehouse, P.G.] Sproat, Iain. Wodehouse at War. New Haven:
Ticknor & Fields, 1981. "The extraordinary truth about P.G.
Wodehouse's broadcasts on Nazi radio" (cf. dust jacket). Publisher's
proofs of first US edition. Two sets of proofs, both with T&F red
dust jackets; comprised of:
1) Loosely stitched publisher's dummy of UK sheets, with US
annotations indicating new preliminaries to come, etc.; bright and clean,
dust jacket excellent.
2) US page proofs prepared from UK sheets, with publisher's small
stickers indicating changes; and imprint and copyright information in
transparency, photoprint, and annotated photoprint placing the new
material; dust jacket creased and torn at base of spine.
3) Paste-up of preliminary pages, set 12-up on large sheet of heavy
paper, folded; old cellophane tape holding pages in place now dried and
separated, yet all pages present.
4) Mock ups of title and copyright pages.
Condition generally
near fine to fine; paste-up is very good. A interesting look into the
production of this book. All items together ...
$55
H-1993
Wons, Anthony (Tony). Tony's Scrap Book: 1933-34 Edition. Chicago:
The Reilly & Lee Co., 1933. [First edition]. Original gilt lettered
and ruled dark burgundy cloth; bookseller's label, with price stub, on front
endpaper. Four colour decorative dust jacket, sunned and dusty on spine;
minor edgewear, head of spine lightly frayed. A fine copy in near fine
dust jacket.
$15
H-1995
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader. London: Hogarth Press, 1925.
First edition. "Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth
Press ..." Original
cream boards,
with green and brown decorations by Vanessa Bell; covers lightly soiled
and age-toned at edges, grey cloth spine sunned, but most of lettering still
clear (that at foot of spine a bit rubbed); contents excellent. A very good
copy.
$675
H-2005
[Woolf, Virginia] Kirkpatrick, B.J. A Bibliography of Virginia
Woolf. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967. Revised [i.e. Second]
Edition. "The Soho Bibliographies." Ex-library copy, with library
stamps on endpapers and title page. Pale yellow dust jacket encased
in library-style sleeve, glued to pastedowns at flap corners; spine
label. Despite its former life, a bright, clean, externally attractive
copy of this useful bibliography.
$20
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