Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler , Jungle Trails Jungle People, Clair de Lune Troubadour Romances, Wood A History of Siam, David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest

Wade, Mary Hazelton. Our Little Siamese Cousin
Published: Boston L. C. Page & Company Publishers1912
Binding: Original oatmeal-coloured pictorial cloth
Price: U.S.$65

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8vo., original oatmeal-coloured pictorial cloth slightly soiled and marked, half title, pp. 110 plus 16 pages of publisher's adverts, illustrated by L. J. Bridgeman with 6 full page plates, some browning mainly to first few pages, a very good copy of an uncommon children's story-book, written following a visit to the U.S.A. by a royal prince of Siam in 1902.

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Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest.
Published: Little, Brown and Company Boston. 1996
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original Blue cloth/boards with dust wrapper.
Price: U.S.$200

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8vo., First Edition, original two tone blue boards in its pictorial dust wrapper, pp. 1079, a fine copy.

*David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American author of novels, essays and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California. He was widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time included in its All-Time 100 Greatest Novels list (covering the period 1923–2006).

Los Angeles Times book editor David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last 20 years".

Wallace killed himself in 2008 after a long battle with depression.

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A thick heavy book, the included registered airmail postage alone: $35-$45

Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson with love and truth. Miscellaneous Writings edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist.
Published: The Nonesuch Press Bloomsbury. 1929
Edition: Limited Edition
Binding: Full Polished Calf
Price: U.S.$375

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8vo., Limited Edition of 1100 copies No. 682, original full polished calf gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, pp. x + 631, illustrated with copper plate engravings including tissue guarded frontispiece plate, plus colour stencilled drawings by The Curwen Press, a very good copy.

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Ward, Eric. A Book of Make-Up.
London/New York. Samuel French, Ltd.1930. 8vo., First Edition, original pictorial decorated cloth backed boards, light wear and some slight soiling mainly to lower cover, pp. 98, illustrated with numerous full page colour & b/w plates, inscription, date and a few marks to ffep, a good copy. U.S.$90

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Waugh, Evelyn. Unconditional Surrender.
The conclusion of Men at Arms and Officers and Gentlemen. Chapman and Hall London 1961. 8vo., First Edition, original blue cloth in a pictorial d/w, half inch stain to upper d/w joint, some small chips and some soiling to lower cover, contents clean. U.S.$175

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West, Michael. Clair de Lune and Other Troubadour Romances.
Published: George G. Harrap & Co.
Edition: (c1912)
Binding: Half Maroon Morocco Fine Binding
Price: U.S.$350

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4to., Handsomely bound in half maroon morocco over reddish/white boards, gilt tooled spine with raised bands, a few light marks to cloth, top edge gilt, decorative half title and title, pp. 140, illustrated by Evelyn Paul in a medieval style with beautiful illuminated full page colour plates, smaller colour plates within text some heightened in gold and silver, plus decorative initials and chapter tailpieces, full page plates o Japanese Vellum the rest on handmade paper, also full page music scores by Alfred Mereer, small neat inscription on front free endpaper, apart from a few spots to endpapers, a very good copy.

A collection of early romances from the world of King Arthur and his Noble Knights, incl. The Search for The Holy Grail, Clair de Lune, The Quest of The Saint Graal, and other tales.

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Wetering, Janwillem Van de. Robert Van Gulik His Life His Work.
Published: Dennis McMillan Publications, Miami Beach, Florida. January 1987
Edition: First Edition, Limited Edition of 350 copies and signed by author.
Binding: Original red cloth in dust wrapper.
Price: U.S.$475 Sold

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8vo., First Edition & Limited Edition (No. 287) of 350 copies signed by the author, original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in its pictorial dust wrapper, decorated endpapers, pp. 147, illustrated with 12 plates including a frontispiece plate of Van Gulik plus charts and diagrams, a fine copy.

Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) was born in Holland in 1910 but grew up in Java. Van Gulik was a highly educated authority on Chinese history and culture, diplomat, musician and writer who is best known for his Judge Dee mystery series. As a researcher van Gulik studied esoteric Buddhism and translated ancient texts, including a Chinese 18th century detective novel. This Chinese mystery novel was based in turn on the well known historically real Chinese magistrate Judge Dee who lived in the 7th century CE. Using the three stories from this original source as a stepping stone, van Gulik developed his own series of historical mysteries set in 7th century China featuring additional adventures of Judge Dee.

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Whitney, Caspar. Jungle Trails and Jungle People. Travel, Adventures and Observations in the Far East.
Published: New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1905
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Decorated Blue/Green Cloth
Price: U.S.$195

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8vo., First Edition, original gilt and white decorated blue/green cloth, similar spine, 3 extra white lines added by hand to spine, pp. xv + 310 & 4 pages publisher's adverts, illustrated with 32 photographic plates including frontispiece, bookplate on paste-down, and 2 names on front free endpaper, some pages showing browning at joints, a very good copy.

Includes: Siam, Burma, Java, Malaya

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Williams, Leigh. Green Prison, Twenty Years in Thailand.
Published: Herbert Jenkins Limited London. 1941
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original green cloth
Price: U.S.$65

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8vo., First Edition, original green cloth faded, gilt tooled and lettered spine, pp. 252 plus 4 pages of publisher's adverts, illustrated with pictorial map endpapers, photographic frontispiece and 7 other full page plates, light age browning to pages, and fading to outer margin of plates, not affecting plate, a good firm copy.

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Wilson, Angus. The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot.
London, Secker & Warburg, 1958. First Edition, 8vo; original brown cloth front cover with crease down centre, pictorial d/w, pp. 430, ink writing on d/w front inner flap " recommended by The Book Society" apart from slight damage to upper cover a good clean copy. U.S.$135

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Wood, W. A. R. A History of Siam from the earliest times to the year A. D. 1781. With a supplement dealing with more recent events.
Published: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd. London 1926
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original blind stamped and lettered blue cloth
Price: U.S.$350

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8vo., First Edition, original blind ruled and lettered blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, light wear to binding, pp. 294, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of King Prajadhipok, map of Siam, and 10 other full page plates, random light spotting, margins of plates darkened, browning to free endpapers, overall a very good copy, scare in this condition.

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Wood, W. A. R. Land of Smiles
Published: Printed at the Krungdebarnagar Press, Bangkok. 1935
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original red & black patterned cloth.
Price: U.S.$150

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8vo., (216 x 145mm) First Edition, original patterned red & black cloth ( variant binding to the more common red cloth), one or two small marks, spine gilt, binding slightly worn at corners & edges, illustrated with a frontispiece & 40 other full page plates, including a view of King Prajadhipok entering Chiangmai on elephant-back, random browning, mark to title page( from old bookplate?) a good to very good copy in the rarer variant binding.

The author was British Consul-General stationed in Chiangmai.

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Woolf, Michael Angelo. Sketches of Lowly Life in a Great City.
G P Putnam's Sons New York 1899. Oblong folio, First Edition, dark blue cloth backed pictorial boards, rubbed and soiled mainly on lower cover, vignette title page and captioned illustrations on every page, pp.185, internally a very good clean copy. U.S.$110

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Woolf, Virginia. Flush.
A Biography. Harcourt, Brace and Company. New York. 1933. 8vo., First American Edition, original brown cloth, pictorial endpapers, pp. 185, bookplate, illustrated with 3 full page photo-plates, some browning to ffep's and title, a good firm copy. U.S.$100

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