Search Results: Titles starting with W from McNaughtan's Bookshop

Windsor: W.F. Taylor, Library, 1880. 12mo, pp. 33, [1] + 1 frontispiece and 7 plates. Original pale blue paper wrappers printed in black. Somewhat foxed and toned, some offsetting from plates, small dampmark to upper margin. Spine somewhat nibbled. Pencil gravestone transcriptions to inside wrappers. A scarce, undated printing of a guide to Windsor Castle. L.V. Harcourt’s ‘An Eton Bibliography’ dates an example of this title (with different pagination) to 1875, but it seems likely that copies were produced with slight variations throughout the second half of the nineteenth century.

Glasgow: Published by Lumsden & Son, 1815. 24mo, pp. 47, [1]. 8 leaves of plates printed in sanguine included within pagination. Original drab paper wrappers pasted to first and last leaves as issued, front wrapper lettered in ink. Wrappers rubbed to one corner and a little creased. A scarce chapbook abridgement of this popular devotional work, one of several printed by Glasgow publisher James Lumsden, with 14 striking woodcuts printed in red. The whiff of a Bewick attribution hangs about it, probably spuriously, although Tattersfield does record contemporary Lumsden chapbooks as using blocks from Bewick’s workshops, and Hugo attributes to Bewick the woodcuts in a different Lumsden Divine Songs from the same period. Uvin and Pafford between them suggest a genealogy for the plates that may go back to a Newcastle printing, possibly by Bewick or his workshop, though Tattersfield does not record Pafford’s suggested original source among several known Bewick Divine Songs.… Read More

London: Published for Charles Heath, 1840. 8vo, pp. [ii], ii, iii, [i], ff. 50 + frontispiece and 50 plates. Later half calf, green cloth boards, spine divided by raised bands gilt, green morocco label, other compartments tooled in gilt. A little spotting, some tissue-guards lost. A little rubbed, some wear to spine-ends. Inscription to flyleaf: ‘to Anne Juliana Storey from her sincere friend J.W., January 2nd 1843’. The 50 illustrations cover the Waverley novels up to and including 1823’s ‘Quentin Durward’; the frontispiece is the engraved title-page from a similar publication, ‘The Waverley Keepsake’, complete with that title retained.

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1923. NO. 99 OF 320 COPIES, 8vo, pp. 46, [4]. Colour woodcut frontispiece and 2 colour woodcut plates included in pagination. Original pale blue boards backed in ecru cloth, paper label to spine. Binding a little soiled and toned. Bookplate of Francis E. Bliss to pastedown. An early work from the Golden Cockerel Press, with attractive woodcuts by Ethelbert White which were nevertheless unpopular with press proprietors Hal and Gay Taylor, and were ‘universally condemned’ (Cave and Manson, History of The GCP, p. XXX). This led directly to White’s replacement by Robert Gibbings in the Taylors’ next project and Gibbings’ subsequent acquisition and stewardship of the press over the next decade. Cave & Manson 14.

London: Faber and Faber, 2000. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. [vi], 313, [1]. Original black boards, spine lettered in white, colour-printed dustjacket. A little bumped, board edges lightly marked, tiny mark to dustjacket front panel. Ishiguro’s fifth novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in its year of publication.

St Andrews: Entropie Books, 2015. ONE OF 24 COPIES, 220 x 300mm, ff. 26 (including two title-pages). Screen-printed by hand in white on various coloured backgrounds, signed and dated by the author on an endpaper. Loosely wrapped in shoji paper, and housed, Japanese-style, in a binding of maroon cloth with Fabriano Ingres grey endpapers, bone fastenings, and hand-printed shoji paper cover title, with a hand-printed place-marker loosely inserted. New. A limited screen-print edition of twenty-four pieces of poetic text. The texts are printed in white on richly coloured backgrounds and the loose sheets - 24 texts and two title-pages - are contained in a Japanese-style case binding also by the author/artist. Morton writes: ‘Each fascinating monochrome is emphasised by white, and white, in turn, in this book becomes interesting. Then, an accurate measure from each monochrome is added to white - an ink is created - the text is written, being born of, being part of, the image upon which it is now… Read More

London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [xii], 461, [1]. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt, colour-printed dustjacket. Poor-quality paper a touch toned. Dustjacket lightly but unevenly sunned. The first edition of Zadie Smith’s debut novel, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Whitbread Book Award for best first novel.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1949. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 70. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, white dustjacket printed in black and blue. Dustjacket unevenly toned and a little chipped, small area of loss to top of front panel, binding sunned to top edge.

London: Faber and Faber, 1988. FIRST BRITISH EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. [vi], 151, [1]. Original black boards, spine lettered in white, colour-printed dustjacket. Pages toned. Signed ‘MV/L’ to title-page.

Paris: Published by the Club des Etudiants d’Anglais, 1963. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 48, [4] + 2 plates. Original cream card wrappers printed in red and black. Wrappers somewhat soiled and marked. Folded sheet containing 18-line manuscript poem loosely inserted. Kenneth White’s first book, published at the end of his doctorate study at the Sorbonne, which was later expanded and translated for the dual-language ‘En Toute Candeur’ the following year. This copy is one of the 400 unnumbered trade examples from a total print run of 650 copies.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. 192. Original green cloth, colour-printed dustjacket. Jacket just a touch nicked. Signed by the author to the title-page. A sharp, signed first edition of the second Jemima Shore mystery.

London: The Bodley Head, 1950. FIRST EDITION, NO. 432 OF 1,140 COPIES, large 8vo, pp. 139, [1] + frontispiece and 40 colour plates. Original red cloth lettered and blocked in gilt. Boards somewhat marked and sunned.

Glasgow: Published by Scottish Secretariat, Ltd.; Printed and Published by The Caledonian Press, 1943. 2 pamphlets, each 8vo, pp. [8]; 12. Stapled in self-wrappers as issued. Both pamphlets a little creased and soiled, staples rusted. Two pamphlets by poet, classicist and, between 1942 and 1945, leader of the SNP, Douglas Young (1913-1973). In 1943 Young was between prison terms for ‘his refusal of both military and industrial wartime conscription for the purposes of raising the topic of Scottish independence in courtroom tribunals’ (McCaffrey, ‘The Adjacent Kingdom of England’, Études écossaises 17, p. 88) - he argued unsuccessfully that Scots could not be conscripted to fight abroad under the 1707 Act of Union. In ‘William Wallace and THIS War’ Young uses the commemoration of the birth of Wallace to contrast taking up arms for Scottish independence, as Wallace did, with fighting overseas in service of England in the… Read More

New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993. FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPIES, 3 vols., 8vo, pp. [xii], 242; [x], 244; [xii], 242. Original black and red boards, spines lettered in silver and gilt, colourprinted dustjackets. A touch rubbed to extremities, spine ends bumped. Postcards from the author presenting the books loosely inserted in first and third volumes, pencil ownership inscriptions (including the recipient) to front flyleaves. First editions of the initial three volumes of The Domesday Books, a series of books set in Elizabethan England penned by Keith Miles (b. 1940) under the pseudonym Edward Marston, a name taken from Elizabethan playwright John Marston (1576-1634). The postcards from the author in the first and third books present the copies to a previous owner.

London: John Long, 1915. 8vo, pp. 124. Text printed in double columns. [Bound after:] Barrett, Wilson. The Sign of The Cross. London: John Macqueen, 1899. 8vo, pp. 150. [And:] Swan, Annie S, Briar and Palm, The Wages of Life. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1900. pp. 126. Text printed in double columns. Three works bound together in later quarter diced morocco, green cloth boards, spine divided by triple gilt rules, compartments with central floral tools in gilt, edges sprinkled red. First and third works toned. Paper lifting from boards at edge of leather. An early paperback issue of a 1902 adventure novel by prolific author Fergus Hume (1859-1932), who produced over a hundred books but is best-remembered for his first, ‘The Mystery of a Hansom Cab’, from 1886. It is bound with two other early paperback issues of late Victorian novels.

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1826. FIRST EDITION, 3 vols., 8vo, pp. iii-xvi, 315, [1]; [ii], 332; [ii], 370. Half-titles discarded. Later half vellum, cream marbled boards, spines divided by gilt rules, red morocco labels, other compartments tooled elaborately in gilt, top edges brown, other edges sprinkled red. Slightly foxed. A little rubbed and somewhat soiled, spine-ends bumped. Scott’s twenty-second novel, inspired by tales of supernatural occurrences at the titular Woodstock Castle. Todd & Bowden 190A.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1942. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 64. Original green cloth, spine lettered in red, orange dustjacket printed in green. Dustjacket price-clipped, a few marks to rear panel, spine panel slightly browned and a touch rubbed, short split at head of front joint fold. Inscribed on the flyleaf by one of the authors: ‘Rab, Love from Robert’. Higginson & Williams B30.

London: Printed [by Rickaby] for Martin and Bain, 1794. 8 vols., pp. [iv], xvi, 184; [iv], 167, [1]; 201, [3, blank]; [iv], 174, 33, [3, blank]; 192; 187, [1]; 169, [27], 22; [ii], 41, [3], 31, [1], 30, [2], 31, [5], 19, [1], 13, [3], 16 + two folding maps, two engraved portraits, and seven engraved frontispieces. Contemporary tree calf, boards bordered with a gilt roll, spines divided by double gilt rules, green morocco labels, other compartments with gilt cornerpieces and central flower and urn tools, edges sprinkled blue. A little minor toning and spotting, a couple of short handling tears to folding maps, one portrait with engraved imprint shaved at foot, two leaves bound out of order in one vol. A few joints cracking at foot, a tiny split at foot of vol. 2 spine, corners a touch rubbed. Booklabel of J. Mc. D. to front pastedowns and some flyleaves, a few pencil notes to initial blanks of vol. 1. A very pleasant copy of a scarce edition of Pope’s Homer, especially unusual to find… Read More

London: Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman, 1669. Folio, pp. [xlii], 41, [1], 80, [4], 58, 61-70, 154, 23, [1], 148 + frontispiece portrait. Contemporary mottled calf. Lightly toned, a bit of soiling and spotting. Rubbed, rebacked to style with gilt decoration and red label, hinges relined, no rear flyleaf. Ink inscription of 'Mary Ever' to flyleaf. The second edition - following two issues the previous year - of the influential and popular collected works of Abraham Cowley (1618-1667). It 'reprints the contents of Poems (1656), together with the two prose tracts of 1661, and the 1663 Verses with some additional poems, published and unpublished; the most significant new material is Several discourses by way of essays in verse and prose, a collection of prose essays interspersed and accompanied by poems, dealing with such topics as 'Of Liberty', 'Of Agriculture', 'The Garden' (addressed to Evelyn), and 'Of Myself'' (ODNB). ESTC R21122.

London: Printed and Sold by A. Bettesworth [et al.], 1723. 2 vols., 8vo, pp. [viii], xxiv, 58, [2], xviii, 18, [2], 8, [4], 119, [1]; [iv], 400, [10] + frontispiece (vol. 1) and engraved title-page (vol. 2). Contemporary calf, boards bordered with double gilt rules, spines divided by raised bands between gilt rules, red morocco labels, third compartments numbered direct in gilt, edges sprinkled red. Somewhat scratched, spines creased, small area of loss to foot of spine of vol. 1. A reissue of Edmund Curll’s 1713 edition, with cancel title-pages, done in a slightly haphazard manner. The works in volume 1 have been re-ordered to match the listing on the new title-page, resulting in an inaccurate contents page and advertisement leaf for Curll’s publications halfway through the book, and the engraved title-page for volume 2 retains Curll’s imprint and the date of 1713, a date shared by the title-pages of the individual works across both volumes. In addition to La… Read More