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

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1945. Hardcover. Second Edition, Reset and Illustrated. Large 8vo. Pictorial jacket. 129 pp. B/w illustrations. Inscribed school prize-plate to ffep. Book and jacket clean and bright. VG+ / VG+

Petersfield: Petersfield Area Historical Society, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Petersfield Papers series, No. 2 8vo. Pictorial card covers. 48 pp. B/w illustrated. As-new. FINE

London: Macmillan, 1934. Hardcover. Early Printing (1934) 8vo. Mauve-grey cloth with gilt titled spine. 474 pp. Inscr. and inscribed gift-plate to ffep. Light sunning to cloth, else clean and bright. VG+

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1919. Softcover. Seventh Edition (Revised), Eleventh Impression 1919. 8vo. Grey wraps with pictorial design. Volume II of the Dublin Plays. 45 pp. One very small 1920 inscription to ffep corner. Just light foxing to endpages. Main textblock and covers clean and sound. Covers near as-new. Overall VG+

London: Macmillan, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth. 592 pp. B/w frontispiece. Inscr. to ffep. Bright and sound. VG+

London: Victor Gollancz, 1932. Second Impression. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth. 287 pp. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. VG+

Maidstone: South Eastern Magazine Ltd., 1981. Softcover. 8vo. staplebound magazine booklet. 56 pp. B/w photos and illustrations. Includes pieces on Brighton piers, Sussex trams and trolley buses, sundials, and old parish chests. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. VG+

Maidstone: South Eastern Magazines Ltd., 1980. Softcover. 8vo. staplebound magazine booklet. 56 pp. B/w photos and illustrations. Includes pieces on Sussex paddle-steamers, Horsham's penny four-farthing cycles, Chichester's celebration arches, the cryptic inscription on Duncton's church bell, and much more. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. VG+

London: Macmillan, 1895. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt titles. 589 pp. plus publisher's ads. suppl. B/w illustration plates, including tissue-guarded frontis. Bookplate and inscr. at front pastedown and endpaper. Light foxing to fore-edge. Overall clean and sound. VG

London: Robert Baldwin / The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. [1838]. Robert Baldwin (with 47, Paternost Row address) stated as publisher at title page (no Cradock involved according to that). Large 8vo. Original publisher's dark grey-green blind-stamped cloth with gilt titles. Endpapers replaced and hinges repaired. viii. 600 pp. B/w illustrations from engravings. Pages just lightly cockled. Clean and bright throughout. Binding has osome light markings and sunning but is sound. GOOD+

Emsworth, West Sussex: AJK Business Management Services, 1988. Softcover. 1988 Reprint. 8vo. Pictorial wraps. 140 pp. B/w plates and plan of house. The author's rebuilt derelict cottage at Flansham near Bognor Regis in Sussex (Meadow Cottage, Hoe Lane) and his time there in the mid-twentieth century. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. Near as-new. NEAR FINE

Bognor Regis: The Arundel Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. 8vo. No jacket. Green cloth with gilt titled spine. 125 pp. B/w illustrated throughout, including pictorial endpapers. The author's country life at the hamlet of Flansham, near Bognor in West Sussex. Pages and binding clean and bright. Very light occasional foxing to top edge, but not obtrusive. Text-flap from jacket remnants pasted at blank flyleaf. VG+

London: Samuel Walker, 1948. Softcover. Undated. Circa late 1940s. Softcover edition. Pictorial covers over wraps. 254 pp. B/w illustrations and a map. Farming life in Flansham, West Sussex,. Follow-up to The Chronicle of a Country Cottage. Contains, pasted in at prelims two nice newspaper clipping photos (with captions) of the wedding of farmer Alan Adames and Miss Betty Page, of Flansham. Clippings dated September 1943. The Adames family features strongly in the book. Very clean. Binding sound. VG+

London: Charles H. Kelly, 1898. Hardcover. 8vo. Red pictorial cloth with gilt titles. Bevelled edges. 267 pp. B/w illustrations and photographs. Christian missionary expeditions in some remote parts of Canada. Old 1902 gift inscr. to ffep. Pages and pictorial binding all beautifully clean. Binding near-pristine. NEAR FINE

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. 1970 facsimile reprint of the 1813 book. 8vo. With pictorial jacket. 481 pp. B/w illustrations. Clean and sound. No inscriptions. VG+ / VG+

Oracle, Arizona: Synergetic Press, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. 103 pp. B/w photos. Inscr. to title page, else near as-new. NEAR FINE