[mad=dog]

Here's how I would solo:
Go to FAI. Get RoW.
Sleep. Memorize identify and friends if your cha is low.
Go to High Hedge. Get some means of turning invisible.
Go to Golem Cave. Turn invisible before the sirines. Collect the book, cloak and wand and you are set. The cloak will turn you into a wolf - a way to get rid of Annoying Little Pests, the book will raise your con by 1 and finally the wand will (with a few reloads) knock out the sirines giving you a good 12K xp to start out with and a few pearls to trade for scrolls at High Hedge.
I don't recall if you can buy potions or scrolls of invisibility in High Hegde, but I think you can at least. Otherwise I am a bit short of ideas.
With the 12K XP and gold I'd get prot vs. petrification and head out to kick some basilisks and get to level 5 where life is so much easier for a solo wizard.