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.

Wolf, Joseph (Illustrator).

Feathered Favourites. Twelve Coloured Pictures of British Birds from Drawings by Joseph Wolf.

First Edition. London, Thomas Bosworth, 1854. 25 x 18 cm. (6), 54 pages. Illustrated with 12 colour plates. Dark green Morocco with extesive gilt and blind decorations to boards and spine. Gilt title on front board and spine. Bevelled boards. All edges gilt. In custom-made clamshell box with paper label. Very good condition. Boards, corners and spine rubbed and bumped. Minor fraying to spine ends. Dust dulled. Occassional some mild browning / foxing. Internally clean. All 12 plates with tissue guards.

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.

Wordsworth, Charles / Hodgson, W. Earl (Editor).

Annals of My Early Life 1806-1846 / Annals of My Life 1847-1856. With occasional Compositions in Latin and English Verse.

Two Volumes. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891 & 1893. 22 x 14 cm. xvi, 42 pages plus 24 pages publishers list / xxxvi, 230 pages. Original dark blue cloth with gilt titles on spine. Hard covers. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Edges and end papers age darkened. Library sticker on front paste down of ‘Early Life’. Hinges starting to crack. Bindings remain sound. A few pencil annotations. Internally clean.

Wright, Richard.

Early Works: Lawd Today!, Uncle Tom’s Children and Native Son. Edited by Arnold Rampersad.

New York, Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1991. 12.5 x 20.5cm. 936 pages. Original clothbound hardcover with silk pagemarker in protective slipcase. Excellent condition, as new. [The Library of America, No. 55].

Yeats, W.B. / Bradford, Curtis Baker [Ed].

The Writing of The Player Queen. Manuscripts of W.B. Yeats transcribed, edited and with a commentary by Curtis Baker Bradford.

First Edition. DeKalb, Northern Illinois University Press, 1977. 18 x 27cm. (24), 483 pages. Original clothbound hardcover with dustjacket in protective archival wrapper. Binding, boards and text in very good condition, clean and bright. Dustjacket spine and rear sunned with minor signs of shelf wear to edges. From the series Manuscripts of W.B. Yeats, edited by David R. Clark.

Yeats, W.B. / Stephens, James / Higgins, F.R. / O’Connor, Frank et al.

Broadsides 1935. A Collection of Old and New Song. Songs by W.B. Yeats, James Stephens, F.R. Higgins, Frank O’Connor, Lynn Doyle, Bryan Guiness, Padraic Colum. Illustrattions by: Jack B. Yeats, Victor Brown, Sean O’Sullivan, E.C. Peet, Harry Kernoff, Maurice McGonigal. Music by Arthur Duff.

Photo-Lithographic Reprint of the First Cuala Press Edition. Shannon, Ireland, T.M.MacGlinchey for the Irish University Press, Robert Hogg – Printer, 1971. 29 x 21 cm. 64 unnumbered pages, incl. blanks and title page. Illustrated. Quarter cloth over green paper covered boards. Hard cover. Black title on front board. In original plain paper jacket. Green end papers. Fine in very good dust jacket. Very mildly age darkened. Dust jacket with minor edge wear and and short tears. See images. Internally clean. A very nice copy.

Yeats, W.B. / Stephens, James / Belloc, Hilaire / O’Connor, Frank et al.

Broadsides 1935 and 1937.

Photo-Lithographic Reprints of the First Cuala Press Editions. Two Volumes. Shannon, Ireland, T.M. McGlinchey for the Irish University Press, Robert Hogg – Printer, 1971. 29-21 cm. Both Volumes: 64 pages, incl. blanks and title pages. Illustrated. Quarter cloth over green paper covered boards. Hard cover. Black title on front board. In original plain paper jacket. Green end papers. Fine and very good in very good dust jackets. For exact descriptions please go to westcoastrarebooks.com and search for items 103459 & 103460.

Yeats, W.B. / Stephens, James / Belloc, Hilaire / O’Connor, Frank et al.

Broadsides 1937. A Collection of New Irish and English Songs 1937. Songs by: W.B. Yeats, W.J. Turner, Oliver Gogarty, Hilaire Belloc, Dorothy Wellesley, James Stephens, Edith Sitwell, Frank O’Connor, Gordon Bottomley, F.R. Higgins, Padraic Colum, Walter De La Mare. Illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, Victor Brown, Harry Kernoff, Maurice McGonigal. Music by W.J Turner, Arthur Duff, Edmund Dulac, Frank Liebich, Hilda Matheson, Art O’Murnaghan, Hilair Belloc.

Photo-Lithographic Reprint of the First Cuala Press Edition. Shannon, Ireland, T.M. McGlinchey for the Irish University Press, Robert Hogg – Printer, 1971. 29 x 21 cm. 64 pages, incl. blanks and title page. Illustrated. Quarter cloth over green paper covered boards. Hard cover. Black title on front board. In original plain paper jacket. Green end papers. Very good in very good dust jacket. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Dust jacket creased, mildly stained and with short tears. Internally very clean. See images.

[Yeats, W.B.] Murphy, William M.

Family Secrets – William Butler Yeats and His Relatives.

Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, 1995. 23.6cm x 16cm. XXVII, 534 pages. With 101 illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Edges mildly dust dulled. Internally clean.

Yeats, William Butler.

Werke (Sechs Bände). Band I: Ausgewählte Gedichte / Band II: Erzählungen / Band III: Dramen 1 / Band IV: Dramen 2 / Band V: Essays und Einführungen / Band VI: Autobiographie. Herausgegeben von Werner Vordtriede.

Neuwied / Berlin, Luchterhand Verlag, 1970 – 1973. 8°. Frontispiz, 315 / Frontispiz, 225 / Frontispiz, 246 / Frontispiz, 220 / Frontispiz, 344 / Frontispiz, 538 Seiten. 6 Bände (vollständig). Ausgabe Luchterhand Verlag 1970-1973. Insgesamt 1894 Seiten. Originale Ganzleinenbände mit Original-Umschlägen sowie zusätzlichen Klarsicht-Schutzumschlägen. Kopfschnitt der Bände etwas angestaubt. Sonst sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

Yorke, Malcolm / [Cole, Brenda] / [Cole, Leslie].

Today I worked well – the picture fell off the brush. The artistry of Leslie Cole, told for the first time by Malcolm Yorke with a note on the interesting life of Brenda Cole.

First and limited Edition [500]. Huddersfield, The Fleece Press, 2010. Oblong, 23 x 28 cm. 198 pages. Illustrated throughout. Quarter cloth over marbled paper boads. Gilt title. As new condition. A bright and clan copy.

Young, Andrew.

The Collected Poems of Andrew Young. Arranged with a bibliographical Note by Leonard Clark. Wood-Engravings by Joan Hassall.

First Edition. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. 21 x 14 cm. 219 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth with gilt title on spine. In original unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition in good dust jacket, now in archival jacket. Minor rubbing and bumping to book. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Dust jacket a little worn with some short tears and minor paper losses to corners and spine. Some notes written on the dust jacket inner flap. Internally a bright and clean copy.

Young, Edward.

The Poetical Works of Edward Young.

Two Volumes – Complete. London, William Pickering, 1852. 16 x 10 cm. Vol.1: lvii, 298 pages. With a Frontispiece. / Vol.2: vi, 334 pages. Full brown morroco with armorial gilt designs to both boards. Raised bands and gilt title. All edges gilt. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Mild foxing to first and last few pages. Internally clean. Name of previous owner on front free end papers.

Zigman, Laura.

Animal Husbandry.

First Edition. New York, The Dial Press, 1998. 14 x 21.5cm. 304 pages. Original quarter-clothbound hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Partial sunning to wrapper, otherwise excellent condition. Signed by the author on title page.