West, W.J.

The Larger Evils: Nineteen Eighty-Four – The Truth Behind The Satire.

Edinburgh, Canongate Press, 1992. 15.5 x 23.5cm. (16), 207 pages, with B&W illustrations. Original hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition.

Wheen, Francis.

Karl Marx.

First Edition. London, Fourth Estate, 1999. 23 x 15 cm. 431 pages. Original paper covered boards, inside original decorated dust jacket; now inside archival jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Roger [Katz] on the title page.

William Wordsworth.

The Poetical Works of Wordsworth. With Memoir, Explanatory Notes &c.

London & New York, Frederick Warne and Co., Not dated.[ca.1900] 14 x 19 cm, xliv, 628 pages. Original dark green cloth hardcover.Gilt title and decorations on spine. Very good condition. Solid binding. Pages and edges age darkened. Some browing and foxing mainly to end papers. Some pages unopened.

[Williams, Rowan Douglas]. Bentall, Eleanor (Photographer).

Documents and Photos to Rowan Douglas Williams. Pamphlet 1: The Ordination or Consecration of the Reverend Canon Professor RDW, Bishop of Monmouth. / Pamphlet 2: Confirmation of the Election of the Most Reverend Doctor Rowan Williams as Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan. Incl. Two Photos of Rowan Douglas Williams.

1992 & 2002. 35 and 19 pages. Two Photos. Original stiff paper covers. Paperbacks. Very good condition. Covers mildly stained and with some pencil notes. ‘Reserved’ in ink on rear cover of the 1992 pamphlet. Internally bright and clean.

Wills, James / Wills, Freeman.

The Irish Nation. Its History and its Biography. [With short biographies of many Irish historical persons].

Volume 1 & 2 ONLY! Edinburgh, London & Dublin, A. Fullarton & Co., 1876. 24 x 15 cm. Vol.1: v, 684 pages / Vol.2: iv, 730 pages. Tissue guarded Frontispiece and Plates, incl. genealogical plates of the families Fitzgerald (x2), Niall or O’Neill and Fitzmaurice. New (2021) black cloth with gilt title on spine. New end papers. All edges gilt. Very good condition. New bindings. Internally clean with occasional very mild foxing, mainly to tissue guards.

Wilson, Edmund.

A Piece Of My Mind. Reflections at Sixty.

First Edition. New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. 19.4cm x 11.5cm. 239 (9) pages. Original Hardcover with original price-clipped dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Endpaper signed by preowner.

Wilson, Robert A.

Seeing Shelley Plain. Memories of New York’s Legendary Phoenix Book Shop.

First Edition. New Castle, Delaware, Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 23 x 15 cm. (8), 237 pages. With B&W Illustrations. Original cloth hard cover. In original decorated dust jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Top edge a little dust dulled.

Wolkonsky, Prince Serge.

My Reminiscences.

First Edition. London, Hutchinson, [1924]. 23 x 15 cm. Vol.1: 313 pages w/ eight Illustrations / Vol.2: 276 pages w/ eight Illustrations -complete. Original dark blue cloth. Gilt titles. Inside original pale blue dust jackets, now inside clear archival jackets. Near fine in very good dust jackets. Losely inserted letter by Peter Wolkonsky M.D., dated 1992. Also losely inserted two newspaper clippings about the dicovery of the Tsarist graves in 1992. A very nice set. See images.

[Wollstonecraft, Mary] Nixon, Edna.

Mary Wollstonecraft. Her Life and times.

London, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1971. 24 x 16 cm. 205 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Woolf, Jenny.

The Mystery of Lewis Carroll. Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created Alice in Wonderland.

First US Edition. New York, St. Martin Press, 2010. 23 x 15 cm. x, 326 pages. Original pale blue cloth hard cover. Inside original decorated dust jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. Traces of a sticker on front of dust jacket.