Search Results: Authors starting with N from Wheeler's Bookshop

London: Penguin, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. First Printing. 12mo. Colour pictorial wraps. 220 pp. Extensive section of b/w plates. Clean and bright with just light age-tanning of pages. No inscriptions. Binding sound. Following the author's fascinating and idiosyncratic guide to the lesser known areas of London, he turns his perceptive eye to the environs of the french capital. NEAR FINE

Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1878 book. 8vo. With jacket. 290 pp. B/w illustration plates (from engravings). Pictorial endpapers (maps). NEAR FINE / VG+

London: Methuen, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. New. Methuen Drama series. First Printing. 51 pp. As-new. FINE

London: Collins(The New Naturalists), 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. New Naturalists Monograph, Number 5. 8vo. With jacket (design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis). 244 pp. B/w and colour plates, and b/w illustrations. Book and unclipped jacket beautifully clean and bright. NEAR FINE / NEAR FINE

London: Methuen, 1930. Hardcover. First English Edition. Large 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt titles and pictorial design. 518 pp. B/w plates, illustrations, plans. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. VG+

Chichester: Phillimore, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. First Printing. 1987. 8vo. 64 pp. B/w photos, maps. As-new. FINE

London: Pan (Picador), 1983. Softcover. First Picador Edition. 8vo. 298 pp. B/w plates. No inscriptions or creases. VG+

England: The Lavenham Press, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. Limited Edition (500 printed). Landscape 4to. 154 pp. Marvellous detailed pencil-sketch studies of a wide variety of old West Sussex barns and farm buildings, many recorded here in their last days of dilapidated splendour before demolition or conversion to houses. A superb collection of plates, beautifully presented. Signed by Newdick at half-title page. As-new condition. FINE

Botley: Shire Publications, 2011. Reprint. Softcover. 8vo. 64 pp. Colour and b/w photos throughout. As-new. FINE

London: Gollancz, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. With jacket. 288 pp. VG+ / VG+

Littlehampton: Littlehampton Urban District Council, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. The Littlehampton Papers (No. 7). 4to. Card covers. 23 pages. As-new. FINE

Gillingham: Meresborough Books, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. Pictorial covers. 62 pp. B/w plates. Detailed history of this Kent village and its principle buildings. No inscriptions. VG+

Brighton: Published by the Author, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Large folio. Original dark brown cloth with ornate gilt titles and black decorations. 50 plates plus title page and index page illustrations. All complete and beautifully clean throughout. Binding in remarkably clean and sound condition also. No inscriptions. A fascinating range of Sussex buildings (including many ruins and semi-ruins), old houses, bridges, mills, all sketched distinctlvely by R. H Nibbs. Thought to be a relatively limited printing, now particularly scarce in this complete form. VG+

Brighton & Worthing / London: W. j. Smith / John Russell Smith, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Original publishers half-leathter with dark brown cloth and gilt titles. Marbled endpapers. AEG. B/w plates with adjoining descriptive plate. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Detailed sketches of the churches by Nibbs. Additionally, an early prev. owner has neatly pasted-in (at blank adjoining page versos) several 19th century pictorial clippings (smaller plates) that give additional views of each church and surroundings, mostly b/w etchings, but one a vividly coloured chromolithographic. Origins of clippings not stated, but they appear to be from other mid-19th C. books or periodicals Prev. owner 1891 inscription to title page. Light occasional foxing, milder foxing to the plate outer borders. Etchings themselves all clean. Binding sound. A splendid array of the county's ancient churches, VG+

St. Albans: St. Albans Museums, 2000. Softcover. First Edition. Large 4to. Softcover. 40 pp. Well illustrated guide to this extensive Roman site near St. Albans, in Hertfordshire. Colour plates throughout. As-new condition. FINE

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1945. Softcover. Early Penguin reprint. 1945. 251 pp. plus ads. Very clean. No inscriptions. Minimal tanning. Covers bright and sound. VG+

London: The Folio Society, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. First Folio Soc. Edition. B/w pictorial jacket. 225 pp. B/w illustrated. Book and jacket near as-new. FINE / NEAR FINE

Moretonhampstead: Old House Books, 1994. Softcover. 1994 Printing. 8vo. Colour pictorial cover. Large fold-out colour picture map of the fictional village of Ambridge (from the BBC Radio 4 series The Archers), with a 14-page b/w illustrated guide booklet. As-new. FINE

South Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. Grey cloth with gilt titles and colour paste-on pictorial plate. Botanical artist Philippa Nikulinsky lyrically describes and illustrates the growth and seed-dispersal of this curious plant of Western Australia, the Firewood or Menzie's Banksia. Colour illustrations throughout. Signed by Nikulinsky at title page. Also included is a detailed 18-page magazine feature, 'Wild Flowers of Western Australia', all about Nikulinsky's botanical studies, with colour photos. Book as-new. FINE

London: Jupiter Books, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. With jacket. 127 pp. Splendid b/w illustrations by Nace Lui Fyson, describing streetlife and architecture in various parts of the metropolis. Clean and sound. No inscriptions. FINE / NEAR FINE