Autographs & Signed Books (all items)
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WOOLF, Virginia.
The Years. 1937
£25,000
First edition, first impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "Saxon from Virginia". Cambridge Apostle Saxon Sydney-Turner...
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the Vanessa Bell dust jacket. Housed in a quarter burgundy morocco slipcase. Contents a little browned, cloth... Read more
WOODS, Rex.
Bricks and Hearts. 1933
£375
First edition, first impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page "The Duchess of Marlborough from the author - hoping she will find some charm and...
Octavo. Original rust coloured cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Top edge a little dusty, an excellent copy in the lightly rubbed dust jacket. Read more
WOOD, Ronnie.
Ronnie. 2007
£150
First edition, first impression. Signed by Wood "Ronnie 07" with a drawing of a guitar with some musical notes.
Large octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with colour and monochrome photographs. Spine bumped in fine dust jacket. Read more
WOOD, J.E.R. (ed.)
Detour. The Story of Oflag IVC. 1946
£150
First edition. Handsomely produced - by the standards of the day - souvenir of Colditz Castle in Saxony, the infamous 'bad boys' POW camp. This copy inscribed by the editor on the...
Quarto. Original red cloth backed grey boards, title gilt to spine and upper board. Remains of dust jacket loosely inserted at the rear. Coloured portrait frontispiece... Read more
WOOD, Edward F. R.
Sailing Days at Mattapoisett 1870-1960. 1961
£300
First and only edition, one of 350 copies printed for the author, this designated a "soiled copy" at the limitation leaf: the author's own copy, marked up with his corrections. Wood...
Octavo. Original cream buckram, title in blue to upper board and spine. Frontispiece and 23 pages of illustrations. Covers yellowed, and marked, crossed through in... Read more
WOLFF, Camille (compiler)
Who was Jack the Ripper? 1995
£300
Limited edition, this number 84 of 100 copies, signed by Camille Wolff and Loretta Lay of Grey House Books, and 51 of the 55 contributors, some of the signatures on labels as usual....
Octavo, original black rexine, title gilt to upper and spine, in dust jacket. Illustrations to the text. Self-adhesive book ticket of Jonathan Goodman to the front... Read more
WOLFE, Tom.
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. 1965
£675
First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page.
Octavo. Original white cloth, titles and decoration to spine and upper board in gold and yellow, orange endpapers, yellow top-stain. With the dust jacket. Contents... Read more
WOLFE, Tom.
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. 1965
£650
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "Best wishes, fourteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-three of them, from Tom Wolfe".
Octavo. Original white cloth, titles and decoration to spine and upper board in gold and yellow, orange endpapers, yellow top-stain. With the dust jacket. 18 black and... Read more
WOLFE, Tom.
The Pump House Gang. 1968
£475
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the title page.
Octavo. Original orange cloth backed grey marbled boards, titles to spine in silver, yellow endpapers, black top-stain. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the... Read more
WOLFE, Thomas.
From Death to Morning. 1935
£1,250
First Edition, First Printing. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "For Katherine Gauss with the sincerest of best wishes & of her friend...
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt, top edge stained brown. With the dust jacket. Housed in a brown cloth folding box. Spine dull as... Read more
WOLCOTT, Oliver.
Revolutionary War Pay Warrant of the Connecticut Pay Table to reimburse Samuel Squier, Commissary. November 3, 1779
£250
Interesting piece of documentation from the American War of Independence, authorizing the reimbursement of £1400 to Samuel Squier by the State Pay Table of Connecticut, and...
Fully manuscript pay warrant (169 × 215 mm) Lightly toned, some slightly fraying at the edges, creases from old folds, one or two small splits on the folds,... Read more
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Autograph letter signed to Mr Bohrer 1923
£800
A nice early letter to a fan commiserating with him for an eye condition and giving details of an upcoming short story to be published in Cosmopolitan.
Single sheet white laid paper. Housed in a dark green quarter morocco slipcase made by The Chelsea Bindery. Folded for mailing and a little tanned but excellent. Read more
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Typed letter signed to his editor J. Derek Grimsdick ("J.D.") concerning the Berlin broadcasts. 1953
£7,500
Highly important typed letter, with autograph corrections and signed by him with initials, to his English editor, J. Derek Grimsdick of Herbert Jenkins, concerning Wodehouse's...
2 pages, American letter, lightweight Saxon Onion Skin paper, creased where folded twice for posting, typed on one side only. Custom red morocco-backed slipcase and... Read more
WISTER, Mrs. O.J. [Sarah Butler Wister] & Miss Agnes Irwin. [eds.]
Worthy women of our first century. 1877
£650
First edition. This copy with the bookplate of Butler Place to the front pastedown, and the publisher's presentation inscription; "Mrs. Owen J. Wister with respects of the...
Octavo. Original maroon sand-grained cloth, title gilt to the spine, decoration in black to the boards, brown surface-paper endpapers. A little rubbed, short split... Read more
WINTERSON, Jeanette.
Sexing the Cherry. 1989
£125
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author, "For Griselda, with thanks + good wishes, Jeanette 1989".
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and decoration to front board gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine ends a little bumped, dust jacket fine. Read more
WINGFIELD, R. D.
A Touch of Frost. 1990
£2,000
First Edition, First Impression. Signed by R. D. Wingfield on the title page. This book is more elusive than DI Frost's suspects.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Book and dust jacket fine. Read more
WILSON, Jacqueline.
Between the Lines. 2006
£1,500
An illustrated story written for the charity Book Aid International by the world famous child super star Tracy Beaker. Signed by Jacqueline Wilson.
A3 broadsheet. Autograph story, illustrated and signed. Mounted, glazed and framed. Read more
WILSON, Edmund.
A Piece of My Mind. 1956
£375
First Edition, First Printing. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "To Dorothy Mendenhall with love from Edmund New Year's Day 1957". With a...
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Some minor staining at the foot of the spine but an excellent copy in the creased and... Read more
WILSON, Edmund.
Classics and Commercials. A Literary Chronicle of the Forties. 1950
£375
First Edition, First Printing. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "To Dorothy Mendenhall with love from Edmund Christmas 1950". With a...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed and tanned dust jacket. Read more
WILSON, Edmund.
I Thought of Daisy. 1929
£1,250
First edition, first printing. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "To Alice and Christian Gauss from their friend Edmund Wilson August...
Octavo. Original dark blue boards, titles to upper board and spine in light blue. With the dust jacket. Endpapers lightly browned, small split to foot of spine, white... Read more
WILSON, Edmund.
I thought of Daisy. [1952]
£250
First UK edition. First published in the US in 1929. With the author's signed presentation inscription on the front free endpaper to author and music historian Sam Chotzinoff, dated...
Octavo. Original rust cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine tips ever so slightly frayed, a very good copy in the tanned dust jacket with some... Read more
WILSON, Edmund.
The Scrolls from the Dead Sea. 1955
£375
First Edition, First Printing. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "To Cousin Dorothy with love from Edmund Wellfleet Mass. October 19,...
Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to upper board and spine in red. With the dust jacket. Some browning to the endpapers but an excellent copy in the lightly rubbed... Read more
[WILSON, Colin] WEIGEL, John A.
Colin Wilson. 1975
£85
First Edition, First Printing. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper to Alan Hancox.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt. A fine copy. Read more
[WILSON, Colin] CAMPION, Sidney R.
Colin Wilson. 1962
£65
First Edition, First Impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper to Sheila Hancox.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. A very good copy. Read more
WILSON, Colin.
Bernard Shaw. 1969
£125
First Edition, First Impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper to the bookseller Alan Hancox.
Octavo. Original burgundy cloth, titles to spine gilt, grey endpapers. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the dust jacket. Read more
