Search Results: Authors starting with W from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1903. Hardcover, blue cloth ruled and lettered in gold, sans dust-jacket. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with photographs. Neat gift inscription on half-title, dated August 8th, 1903. The author's husband served as Ambassador to Russia at the time of Alexander III's coronation and latter a the Cout of St. James in Great Britain. Cloth soiled and spotted, with spine lightly sunned albeit gilt lettering still bright. A sound, internally very clean copy of a rare book. Good.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Spring Books, 1967. Hardcover in publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. Includes 44 pages of text, with 9 line diagrams and black and white photographs, and approximately 48 pages appended containing 54 color plates. Third impression. Previous owner's small label inside front cover. A clean, square and unmarked copy. Dust-jacket protected by handsomely crafted acetate cover. Near fine in a fine dust-jacket. Not a particularly heavy book but to large for flat rate Priority mail, depending on distance extra postage charges may apply for Priority shipment.. Third Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1968. Hardcover, dark blue cloth, lacking dust-jacket. 314 pages. Author Index, Subject Index. Illustrated with graphs, tables, drawings and several photographs. First edition. Symposium Volume Eight, The British Ecological Society. Previous owner's name stamp on front free end-paper and several small white marks to cloth, else a clean, square, unmarked copy with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Very good. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Norman:: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. Hardcover, brown cloth in price-clipped dust-jacket. 162 pages. Index. A reply to the controversy surrounding the alleged adulteress relationship of Charles Dickens and Ellen Ternan. Second printing. Not in Podeschi. A fine copy in a very good dust-jacket.. Second Printing. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. Trade paperback. 413 pages. Reprint. A used copy which shows soiling, wear and fading to covers and previous owner's name inside front cover. Else a clean, sound, internally unmarked copy. Text is free from writing, underlining and highlighting, with only minimal marks to contents page. A good or better reading copy. . Reprint. Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Norman:: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. Hardcover, brown cloth, no dust-jacket. 162 pages. Index. A reply to the controversy surrounding the alleged adulteress relationship of Charles Dickens and Ellen Ternan. Second printing. Not in Podeschi. A fine copy.. Second Printing. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Thames & Hudson, 2014. Book. New. Soft cover. Reprint. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format paperback. 176 pages. Includes Notes, Select Bibliography, Index and List of Contributors. Eight essays by Diane Waggoner, Pat Kirkham, Gillian Naylor and Edward R. Bosley on Morris and Design. Illustrated throughout chiefly in color. Originally published in 2003 to coincide with the eponymously named show at the Huntington Libraries, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, this is the second impression re-issued in 2014. A very nice, pristine copy of this catalog of William Morris' contributions to the British Arts and Crafts movement. New.

Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1990. Paperback. large format quarto in stiff pictorial printed covers. 127 pages. Selected Bibliography, Index of Georgia Artisans. Illustrated throughout with black and white and color photographs. First edition. An exhibition catalogue presenting 109 items, mostly furniture and textiles, but including coinage, porcelain, pottery and other pieces. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Fine. . First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1949 Cloth. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American edition. Slim hardcover in dustjacket. Translated from the French by Forrest Williams and Stanley Maron. Dustjacket cropped short for cover s, binder's error. Light shelfwear to jacket. Very good in very good dustjacket.. Cloth. Poor/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Pensacola, FL: Self-published, 1975. Tall self-stapled pamphlet format. 71pp., in stiff red and green card covers. Signed new-letter by author laid-in. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good+.. First Edition. Stiff Wraps. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Viking Press, 1975. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Hardcover in dustjacket. Illustrated. A very good+ clean copy in lightly edgeworn good dustjacket.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1989. Hardcover, large quarto bound in black cloth and publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. 314 pages. Bibliographic References, Index. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white photographs. First edition. A survey of five stately homes: Charlecote Park, Goodrich Court, Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill, Sir Walter Scott's home, Abbotsford, and Fonthill Abbey, the grandest and most famous Gothic Revival house of its day, with an eye towards the collecting taste, socio-economic conditions geo-political circumstances which came together to make the Romantic aesthetic palpable. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a very good+ dust-jacket. A large, heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾"… Read More

New York: Wallace's Monthly, 1885. Hardcover, bound in original dark green pebbled cloth , lettered in gold on spine and with image of race horse stamped in gold on lower backstrip. 527pp. Dark brown coated endpapers. In addition to Standard Bred Trotters and other Non-Standard animals, this volume includes a series of tables, exhaustive and complete, showing the results of all past experiences in breeding and developing the Trotter. Wallace published these Registers on what appears to be a semi-annual basis, this is the volume for the year 1885, the fifth in the series. A nice, clean, square copy with no previous owner's name or book-plate, strong hinges, and all pages firmly attached. A very good+ copy of this important equine refernce work.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1947. Orange cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with color and monochrome plates. Excerpts from a variety of notable British authors dealing with the English manor, village, farm and factory, landscape, field, road and ritual. Very good+ in edgeworn, good dustjacket.. Third Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1940. Red cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with 6 pencil sketches. Originally published by the Derrydale Press. Early printing of the first trade edition. Dustjacket chipped and age soiled. Fiction set on the Big Stony river and the people of the Brown Fly Fishing Club who fish there. Very good in good dustjacket.. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Milton C. Weiler. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books Inc., 1995. Hardcover in glossy pictorial dust-jacket. 128pp., Index. Illustrated with color photographs. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, crisp copy. Unread, as new copy in an as new dust-jacket.. First Edition. Boards. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965. Blue cloth in price clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with drawings by Carl Burger, several in color. Dustjacket shelfworn and lightly chipped. Old price in marker inside fornt cover. Very good in good jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Brentano's Hardcover, cloth sans dustjacket. No date, circa 1934 [private library stamp of previous owner on front free endpaper dated April, 1934]. A thick volume, 864pages , containing 4 double page maps and numerous entries by or about explorers from the Historian Herodotus to The expoits of Stanley and Scott. Some finger soiling and darkening to cloth, else a tight, internally clean good copy.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: MaCrae-Smith Company, 1926. Green cloth with lettering and polar bear stamped in dark green, in worn, badly age soiled dustjacket. Illustrated with photgraphs by author. The story of a working passage upon a small steamer from Philadelphia to Greenland in the year 1925. Dustjacket lacking large chip at top of backstrip and again on rear panet at upper corner. Very good in poor jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Berkley Books, 1982. Book. Good+. Soft cover. Later Printing. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Mass market paperback. 322 pages. Fat content of food chart, Index. Later printing. Contains over 300 healthy and tasty recipes. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. Mild toning to pages. A clean, square, sound copy, with no writing or marking to text, Good+..