Search Results: Authors starting with A from Last Word Books LLC

This edition was issued in conjunction with the release of Abbey's last book Hayduke Lives! Contains the previously deleted chapter "Seldom Scene At Home" and all the artwork drawn for the book by Crumb. Full red cloth covered boards, silver lettering on spine, silver decoration on front board. Very good+ in very good dust jacket. Head and heel of spine lightly bumped, faint wear to tips of boards. Jacket has a tape repair to inside of jacket at head of spine panel, chipping to heel, toning along all edges, fading to letter "H" in the word "WRENCH" on rear panel.

Author's last book, published posthumously. Sequel to the Monkey Wrench Gang. Faint damp stain to lower edge of front board.

Quarter black cloth and gold paper, covered boards guilt lettering on spine. First state dust jacket with "mist" instead of "myth" on front flap and "Mickey" instead of "Becky" on rear flap. Light shelf wear to front panel of jacket.

Full tan cloth covered boards, pictorial vignette of cowboy herding cattle on front board and spine, ix, 247 pages, illustrations, black and white photographs, and maps. Fine in VG+ dust jacket. Jacket has some discoloration to top edge of rear panel and rear flap and along flap fold, small nick to top edge of front panel.

Only 5,000 copies printed. Full cream colored cloth boards, gilt lettering, 2 folding maps, numerous other illustrations. A beautiful book. Plain white dust jacket is in good condition with tears, chipping and soiling.

Full tan cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, Corps of Topographical Engineers decoration on front cover. 116 pages, illustrations in color and black and white, from author's sketchbook, 2 folding maps at rear. A large, folio size book. One of 3000 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Lieutenant Abert mapped New Mexico for the United States Army. Small bump to top corner of front board, hence NF grade. In fine clear acetate dust jacket.

Only from the the mind of Adam's can we get "a ghost-horror-detective-time travel-romantic comedy". Half black and black paper covered boards. Very good in VG dust jacket. Full page vertical crease to rear endpaper. Dust jacket has light shelf wear to front panel, crease to top edge of front panel and head of spine, small closed tear and light age toning to rear panel, some toning to rear and front flaps.

Limited edition, #537 of 850 copies. Dark brown paper covered boards, 51 pages, pictures provided by William D. Wittliff. No jacket.

Third book in the main-highway guidebooks prepared by the Federal Writers Project. xii, 244 pages, well illustrated, fold-out map attached to rear pastedown. Signature in pencil of Francis P. Farquhar dated 1940 on first free endpaper. Full tan cloth covered boards, decoration of wagons on front board, dark brown top stain. Very good. Toning to half-title page and first free endpaper caused by laid-in card publicizing other books in American Guide series.

Full green cloth covered boards, 242 pages very well illustrated (197). Detailed canoe diagrams, history of canoes in North Americana. Very good. Tips of boards bumped, small nick and bruise to edge of front board. No jacket.

Front board and spine faded, some staining to front board. Contains foldout map in fine condition housed in pocket attached to rear pastedown.

Full red cloth covered boards are lightly bumped at head and heel of spine. Jacket has a small wrinkle to head of spine

Light blue paper covered boards. Alexie's first novel written for young adults. Dust jacket has very light wear to bottom edge of front panel, hence near fine grade.

The story of the Modoc War of 1873. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, 116 pages, plus 12 pages of black and white photographs. Very good+ in VG+ dust Jacket. Head and heel of spine bumped, binding slightly cocked. Wear to jacket at head and heel of spine and along edges and tips, some darkening to top edge of jacket and flap folds.

Light green full cloth covered boards. Very good+ in VG+ dust jacket. Head and heel of spine no longer crisp, small bump to bottom edge on front board. Jacket has light wear to head and heel of spine.

Special Definitive Edition limited to 1,000 copies. Red pebbled full cloth boards, embossed decoration of Bridger on front board, gilt lettering. Trace of wear to head and heel of spine and tips of boards, gilt lettering on front board dulled, date stamp on upper corner of front pastdown hence VG+ grade. Binding nice and tight. No jacket.

A tale of what can happen when a writer writes about her family and they get a chance to write about her.

Endpaper maps, 30 pages of black and white photographs. Light bump to heel on spine, hence NF grade

Ambrose tackles the construction of the transcontinental railroad from the financiers to politicians to engineers and surveyors to the Chinese and Irish laborers who laid down the rails. Endpaper maps, 32 ages of black and white photographs.

Quarter brown cloth and brown paper covered boards, 511 pages including notes, bibliography and index, six maps. First edition, first printing first issue with "salt port" point on page 134. Jacket has a very small crease near bottom tip of rear panel, hence NF jacket grade.