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254. WARNER, Jack. My First Hundred Years in Hollywood. An Autobiography. New York. Random House. 1965.
£48
8vo., original cloth with price-clipped dust wrapper. A little light rubbing to wrapper, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition. ONE OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
255. WASHBURN, Bradford. Mount McKinley’s West Buttress: The First Ascent. Brad Washburn’s Logbook 1951.Williston, VT: The Stinehour Press for Top of the World Press, LLC, 2003.
£130
4to (253 x 216mm). Original black cloth, upper board and spine lettered in silver, maroon endpapers, dustwrapper; pp. xvii, [1 (section-title)], 142, loosely-inserted errata slip; frontispiece and numerous text illustrations, some full-page, after Washburn et al.; a fine copy.
First edition, no. 215 of 300 signed copies. Mount McKinley, the highest mountain in North America, was first climbed in 1913, and the first ascent of it via the West Buttress was made by Washburn — the acknowledged expert on the mountain — in 1951. The present, finely-printed volume reprints Washburn’s log-book and is illustrated with his photographs of the mountain taken both on the ground and from the air.
256. WILCOX, Herbert. Twenty-Five Thousand Sunsets. The Autobiography of Herbert Wilcox. The Bodley Head. 1967.
£30
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A very good copy. First edition.
257. [WILDER, Billy] CROWE, Cameron. Conversations with Wilder. New York. Alfred A Knopf.. 1999.
£48
4to., original cloth with dust wrapper. A fine copy. First edition.
258. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Baby Doll: the Script for the Film. Secker & Warburg. 1957.
£198
Crown 8vo. Original red cloth, lettered in silver; illustrated with 8 black and white stills from the film; a very good copy in slightly nicked dust- jacket.
First UK edition. ‘ONE OF THE OUTSTANDING WORKS ON FIJI’
259. WILLIAMS, Thomas and James CALVERT. Fiji and the Fijians. By Thomas Williams and James Calvert, Late Missionaries in Fiji. Edited by George Stringer Rowe. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1859.
£250
8vo (232 x 146mm). Original green pebble-grained cloth, upper board with blind-ruled borders, spine lettered in gilt, lemon-yellow endpapers; pp. [2 (title, verso blank)], x, 551, [3 (blank)]; colour-printed wood- engraved frontispiece and 2 colour-printed wood-engraved plates, all with
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tissue guards, one folding lithographic map by Sarony, Major and Knapp, and 7 wood-engraved plates, wood-engraved illustrations in the text; extremities rubbed, neat repairs on lower hinge and endpapers, and spine- ends, some variable browning and spotting, and light marginal marking, otherwise a very good copy in the original cloth; provenance: Myrtle and Frank Soday (archaeologists, bookplate on upper pastedown) — neat [?]pressmarks on front free endpaper..
First US edition. The work was first published in London in 1858, and comprises ‘Fiji and the Fijians’ by Williams (1815-1891), a study of the people, their history and customs, and the history of the Fiji Mission, of which both men were members, by Calvert (1813-1892). The texts were edited for publication by Rowe, and the work is an important early text on the islanders. As Hill states, ‘Reverend Thomas Williams, of Adelaide, Australia, lived as a Wesleyan missionary in Fiji for thirteen years. The preface to the first volume gives a few guidelines to the pronunciation of the Fijian language. The book contains information of the origins of the natives, their warlike tendencies, industrial produce, manners, customs, religion, and language. Rev. James Calvert, considered the “father” of the Fiji missions, worked there for seventeen years. The enormity of the task attempted and accomplished in Fiji is a tribute to the persistent endeavors of the various missionary societies at work in the South Seas’.
Cf. Hill p. 103 (1st ed.): ‘One of the outstanding works on Fiji’.
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