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Wanderings in the Roman Campagna.
Profusely illustrated.
London; Boston and New York: Constable & Co. Limited / Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. First edition. Original hardback boards, with gilt decorations and title to front board. Gilt stamped titles to spine. Profusely illustrated, as the title page says. Frontispiece map, and many b/w photos - some double-page. Also some in text illustrations. Boards only lightly rubbed, and contents are very clean. Top edge gilt still quite fresh. xiii, 378. 36 full page plates. 245 x 180 mm (9¾ x 7 inches).
Book ID: 3988More details Price: £30.00 -
Wasser und Sumpfvogel
1881. A watercolour entitled Water and marshbirds. Beautifully executed, would appear to be the original for a book illustration? 16 water and marsh birds are illustrated, including a swan and a flamingo. illustration is on art board and is sized 48cm x 31cm. It is presented under passe partout of 60cm x 40cm. To the bottom edge is a little marking. One of the birds (Grey Heron) has been neatly pasted onto the rest of the image. To the reverse of the passe partout is a photocopy of the artwork with the birds labelled in German. Dittrich, Walter: (1881 Haida - 1976 Rorgenwies/Eigeltingen) German watercolourist and book illustrator.
Book ID: 4086More details Price: £225.00 -
Weenen schetsen ter plaatse
Book ID: 4481More details Price: £60.00
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WernerBischofPictures.
Zürich: Werner Bischof Estate / Steidl, 2006. First edition. Large, hardback book. Black cloth inside original unclipped dust jacket. Book and jacket in very good condition. Edited by Marco Bischof (son of Werner), with museum director Simon Maurer, and graphic designer Peter Zimmermann. 463 pages. 270 x 250 mm (10¾ x 9¾ inches).
Book ID: 3781More details Price: £30.00 -
Wester Kerk
from Beschryvinge van Amsterdam
Book ID: 4316More details Price: £125.00
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Westminster Abbey. A Guide to the Buildings and the Monuments.
With a Plan and an Explanation of English Gothic Architecture.
London: Chatto & Windus: 1955. Original red paper covers with white titles. Third Impression. Frontis plan of the Abbey over two pages. 8 photographs and three further line drawings. A lovely copy of this book. The red covers are clean and tidy with just a touch of handling to them. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 116 pp.
Book ID: 1342More details Price: £12.00 -
When Elephants Come to Town.
A Visual Anthology.
Hannibal, 2020. First edition. Black and white photographs of the history of elephants in captivity. As New condition. 176 pages. 215 x 165 mm (8½ x 7 inches).
'Through this extraordinary selection of photographs and accompanying text, we follow elephants on their journey from Ancient Rome to Coney Island and beyond. Across battlefields and city bridges, in railway cars and circus rings, adored, applauded and at times brutally mistreated, elephants have truly come to town.' - James Attlee.
Book ID: 3938More details Price: £24.00 -
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter, do they? A Literary Art Print
United States: Obvious State, 2019. A literary Art print / Poster featuring one of the cards from the "Visual Ode to Visual Women" series. 360 by 280mm (14¼ by 11 inches). As new, unopened.
Book ID: 2476More details Price: £35.00 -
Willem Tell. Een geschiedkundig verhaal uit de veertiende eeuw, voor jongelieden.
Naar het Hoogduitsch van Gustaaf Nieritz ; met platen.
Book ID: 4362More details Price: £150.00
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William Dodd's Sermon Unmasked.
Book ID: 3765More details Price: £75.00
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Wind in the Willows
Illustrated by Paul Bransom
Book ID: 4236More details Price: £180.00
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Witchcraft at Salem.
Book ID: 2802More details Price: £40.00
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Witness Number Five: Joseph Mills.
New York: Joy of Giving Something Inc, 2008.
Book ID: 2105More details Price: £40.00 -
Witness Number Four: Sections of Time.
New York: Joy of Giving Something Inc, 2007.
Book ID: 2104More details Price: £40.00 -
Women in Culture: A Women's Studies Anthology.
Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. This is a publisher's review copy, in laminated boards (hardback). An anthology which collects texts on women in culture and offers an introduction, for students in women's studies and feminism, to the cultural dimensions of women's experience. It reveals how the mass media, music, and pornography industries portray women, and how advertising promotes unattainable standards of beauty for women. 240 mm x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches). 457 pp.
Book ID: 2227More details Price: £50.00 -
Woodcut of a Windmill
Holzschnitt einer Windmühle
1937. Signed and limited woodcut. Copy # 5 of 50 copies. Part of a series by German artist H. Kröger. Signature in pencil, and dated 1937. On fine Japan paper. In a card mount. Slight discolouration to mount, otherwise very good. 155 x 130 mm (6 x 5 inches).
Book ID: 3107More details Price: £35.00 -
Woodworking Machinery;
Its rise, progress, and construction, with hints on the management of saw mills and the economical conversion of timber.
London: The Technical Press Limited, 1922. 5th Printing. A companion book to 'Saw Mills, their Arrangement and Management'. Hardback in original dark blue cloth, with gilt stamped title to spine. 40 b/w plates - 10 of which are fold out. In a very good and clean condition. Minor rubbing to boards. Inside just a number 1 in ink on title page, otherwise virtually spotless. 442 pages. 200 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2890More details Price: £38.00 -
Worlds Within Worlds.
With illustrations by the author.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1928. Burgundy cloth covered hardback boards, lettered in gilt on spine and within a decorative border in gilt on the front board. Top edge red as issued. fore edge and bottom edge untrimmed. Preface by the author. Illustrated with 10 b/w drawings by the author. A very good clean copy. A collection of articles, and b/w illustrations - mainly on travel within China, Japan, Korea and America. viii, 310 pp + 2 pp. publisher's adverts. Spine and section of dust jacket loosely inserted. Boards only lightly handled. Internally clean and unmarked. 230 x 130 mm (9 x 5 inches).
Book ID: 4440More details Price: £120.00 -
Wuthering Heights.
Lithographies originales de Léon Masson
Book ID: 4449More details Price: £1,400.00
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Young Woman in Profile.
Book ID: 4314More details Price: £150.00