Search Results: Authors starting with W from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

Chicago: Brainard’s Sons Co., [1887]. 8vo. 155, [5] pp. Frntsp., numerous plates. Tan cloth, black rulng & decrtn, gilt lettrng on frnt cvr & spine (mnr bmpng & scuffng to fore-edges, crnrs), still a G copy. First edition.

Philadelphia: David McKay Co., [1936]. 12mo. 62 pp. With 66 photo illustrations. Red publisher’s cloth, photo mounted front cover (slight soiling), w/ d.j. (minor chipping head & foot of spine, edgewear), still VG/VG- copy. First American edition of this work extolling and explaining how to tap dance so a woman could gain a career not only as a social accomplishment, but also a safe way to a slim & perfect figure.

London: John Murray, 1913. Tall thick 8vo. vi, [8], 321, [1] pp. Title in red & black. Photogravure frontisp., numerous plates, 4 maps (1 large folding at end). Blue cloth, gilt lettering front cover & spine, t.e.g. (minor shelfwear, very minor bumping to corners, minor wear), still a VG- copy. First edition of this excellent Civil War biography detailing the career of General Wadsworth who survived the debacle at the First Battle of Bull Run under General McDowell, received the command of the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division I Corps, commanded the Military District of Washington, D.C., and was finally commander of the 2nd Division, II Corps at the Battle of Gettysburg. General Wadsworth’s Division bore the brunt of the Confederate attack on the first day of Gettysburg at the vanguard, suffering nearly 50% casualties, they then continued to fight at the defense of Cemetery Hill, and then Culp’s Hill. He was shot and killed later during the Battle of the Wilderness in May, 1864.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1941]. 8vo. ix, [1], 303, [1] pp. Frontisp. Green publisher’s cloth, orange lettering (slight shelfwear, rubbing, ownership stamp on title), w/ d.j. cover art of house in big timber by George Porter, Jr. (minor scuffing, edgewear), still VG/VG copy, w/ former owership markings on ffep., F.A.O. Schwarz stamp on rear endpaper. First edition of this scarce mystery set against the backdrop of three young men unraveling industrial espionage, and fraud at a western lumber mill. Wadsworth (1901-1959) graduated Ogden High School, and after attending Utah State, worked at the Ogden Carnegie Library, and afterwards the Dept. of Agriculture, Ogden High School Library, and during the war at Clearfield Naval Supply Depot, and librarian at the Univ. of Utah. She wrote many juvenile mystery titles, including Mystery at the Black Cat, Masquerade Mystery, and others.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1945]. 8vo. [8], 280 pp. Yellow cloth, black lettering, w/ d.j. cover art by Lester Kohs (minor chipping & tears head & foot of spine, small tear lower fore-edge front cover, corners worn), VG/G-. First edition of this espionage mystery set against the backdrop of sabotage at an arms manufacturing plant in New Mexico during World War II. Wadsworth (1901-1959) graduated Ogden High School, and after attending Utah State, worked at the Ogden Carnegie Library, and afterwards the Dept. of Agriculture, Ogden High School Library, and during the war at Clearfield Naval Supply Depot, and librarian at the Univ. of Utah. She wrote many juvenile mystery titles, including Mystery at the Black Cat, Masquerade Mystery, and others.

[Shepperton, Surrey]: Ian Allan Publishing, [1992]. 8vo. 160 pp. Numerous photos, images. Colour-illust. softcvrs (rubbng, shlfwr), VG- copy. First edition.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1968]. 8vo. xx, [2], 490 pp. Numerous photos, illusts. Beige cloth, gilt & red lettrng (slght bmpng to crnrs), w/ d.j. (vry slght tidemrk to lwr fore-edge, edgewear), VG/VG- copy, from the library of the former Oregonian editor & reviewer, Malcolm Bauer. First edition, stated.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., [1968]. Thick 4to. 442 pp. Over 1000 photos, diagrams, text illusts. Beige cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. cover art photo of the SR-77 Blackbird (slght toning), NF/VG copy. Revised and enlarged edition of this comprehensive history of the development of America’s military aircraft.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. 8vo. [4], 300 pp. Pink cloth, burgundy lettrng, w/ d.j. (dustsoilng, shlfwr, mnr rubbng), cover art by Susan Foster, VG/VG-. First American edition of this humorous picaresque novel with a fascinating hero and a fabulous rogues gallery odd supporting characters -- spivs, crooks, screwballs, fantasts, and leprechauns.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, [1993]. 8vo. xii, [2], 370 pp. Numerous photo illusts. Brown leather, gilt decoratn on cvrs, spine, raised bands, a.e.g., silk moire endpapers, signed by author on half-title. First edition, signed of this account of Waites imprisonment by Lebanese terrorists in Beirut from 1987 through 1991.

New York: Grove Press, [c. 1957 (ca. 1970)]. 8vo. 319, [1] pp. Colour-illust. softcvrs (mnr shlfwr), VG. Early softcover edition of this work on the Noh theatre of Japan.

London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., [1960]. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 524 pp. Colour frntsp., over 100 photos & maps. Blue cloth, white lettrng, w/ d.j. VG/VG. First edition of this excellent one-volume survey of the countries and peoples surrounding the Mediterranean, including Portugal, France, Corsica, Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Malta, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, the Balkans, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, and more.

Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, 1964. 4to. 315, [1] pp. Double-page title. 100’s of photo illust. Orange cloth, gilt lettrng (slght shlfwr, slght bmpng to crnrs), w/ d.j. (mnr chppng hd & ft of spine, mnr creasng, couple clsd tears), VG-/G. First edition of this excellent photographic history of the Big Band era.

New York: Designs Publishing, [1953]. 8vo. 128 pp., including 4 pages of publ. ads. Colour-illustrated softcovers (minor creasing, edgewear to corners), still VG copy. First edition, thus, Intimate Novels No. 28, of this noir sleaze pulp novel first published by this Louisiana author. Wall (1886-1963) attended Tulane and LSU briefly, worked as deck hand on the Mississippi, wheat harvester in Wyoming and Montana, newspaper reporter, and prolific writer, whose republished novels with salacious covers in the 1950s included Swamp Girl, Love Fetish, Marrige Rite, Lovers Cry for the Moon, and others.

Garden City, NY: Crime Club, Inc., by Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930. 8vo. [8], 346, [2] pp. Black cloth, red lettering on front cover & spine (minor shelfwear, minor bumping to corners), w/ d.j. Art Deco cover art of masked man in top hat holding gun (chipping head & foot of spine, creasing, edgewear, scuffing), VG-/G- copy. First Crime Club edition, early printing, of this mystery originally published in London in 1926 as The Man From Morocco.

[New York: American Colortype Co., c. 1900; 1914]. Oblong 4to. 12 x 10 in. [40 leaves (unnumbered).], including 17 colour photo printed plates, 17 explanatory leaves on tissue, 4 leaves of music & title, and w/ self-printed colour-illustrated lithograph softcovers, punch sewn at spine w/ red silk ribbon (minor dustsoiling, edgewear), still VG; Folio. 6 x 16.5 in., printed in black, w/ illust. ad for the national Silk Co. petticoats, center fold as issued (minor toning, small crease to lower corner), still VG. First edition of this printed souvenir album which was one of the many cross-marketing pieces published by Klaw & Erlanger promoting the original blockbuster of the Progressive Era in America. Considered to be one of the most spectacular and successful Broadway productions ever mounted, whose run from 1899 to 1900 would be witnessed by over 10 million people, generating millions in profits, and featured over a dozen freight cars to carry all the equipment and cast. Young had adapted the wildly… Read More

London: George Newnes, Ltd., [1929]. Tall 8vo. 128 pp. Colour-illustrated softcovers, w/ Yellow Peril cover art of young flapper girl weeping and being whipped by Chinese man sporting Queue pigtail (very minor chipping head of spine, minor uniform interior toning as usual, small soil spot front cover), still VG- copy. First Newnes Sixpence edition, thus, of this anthology of mysteries and suspense stories by Wallace, issued by Newnes and drawing from Forty-Eight Short Stories. Newnes also released in this Sixpence net series titles by Edgar Rice Burroughs, A. Conan Doyle, William Le Queux, Edgar Jepson & M. Leblanc, and others.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., [1931]. 8vo. 319, [1] pp. Green publisher’s cloth, black lettering front cover & spine, decorated yellow endpapers (minor shelfwear, rubbing), w/ d.j. Art Deco cover art of horse-racing scene (minor chipping head of spine, light foxing, edgewear, some dustsoiling), still VG/VG- copy. First edition, stated, of this mystery/thriller based on his original 1929 play, and set against the backdrop of horse race fixing, suicide, and burglary. It was adapted in 1931 to the Gainsborough Pictures film directed by T. Hayes Hunter, and starring Herbert Marshall, Edna Best, and Anne Grey. It was subsequently remade as a comedy in 1948 starring Greta Gynt and John McCallum.

Denver, CO: Frank S. Thayer, Publ., [Smith-Brooks Engravers, Printers], 1902. 4to. 10.75 x 12.75 in. [48 pp (unpaginated)]. Title in red & black, colour frontisp., numerous photo text illustrations, 36 photo plates. Embossed green suede leather binding, yapp edges, gilt lettering stamped on front cover, green silk moire pastedowns (minor sunning to fore-edges, sunning to spine), still VG bright copy, preserving all tissue guards. Second edition of this nicely executed photographic essay of the big game animals of the Rocky Mountains in and around Colorado, with illustrations of cougar, mule deer, bighorn sheep, coyote, and even a rattlesnake. Buffalo Bill replaced Theodore Roosevelt in writing an admiring introduction regarding the splendid images. The essay by Grant details how he and his wife traveled through Colorado, and the difficulties they had in obtaining the shots. Wallihan (b. 1859) and his wife would later be awarded prizes at the Paris World Exposition in 1900, and then the 1904 St. Louis… Read More

St. Louis, MO: Multiplex Display Fixture Co., [ca. 1915]. 4to. [8 pp (unpaginated).], which folds accordion-style in one large brochure. Colour-tinted photo illustrations, diagrams, green & black border lettering & Arts & Crafts decoration (very minor shelfwear), NF. First edition of this exceedingly scarce product catalogue for wall paper sales display fixtures, featuring Mutliplex display featuring metal framed leaves which pivot, open like a book being paged, and are sized 18 x 48 inches each; a Wall Extension Multiplex Display which can featured up to 50 wings, or leaves of 100 different wall paper treatments, as well as a version equipped with castors. A very nice lozenge photo of a beautifully appointed Arts & Crafts wallpaper showroom is included, and also advertising for Multiplex Wall Paper Easels for use as window display items. Founded in 1903, Multiplex Display Co. quickly became a large manufacturing concern in St. Louis, producing display cabinets, window displays, advertising, signs… Read More