Search Results: Authors starting with W from Century Books

New York: International Universities Press, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardback. Very Good condition. Some pencil marks and underlining in text. Previous owner name on first free endpaper. Blue cloth. Approximately 8 x 5 inches. 122 pages. Part of The Freud Anniversary Lecture Series of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute. An expanded version of a lecture given at the New York Academy of Medicine, May 21, 1963.

New York: Fred. Rullman, Inc., undated. Paperback. Good+. Libretto published for the Metropolitan Opera House Grand Opera. Original price on cover, 30 cents. 40 pages. Covers browned. Contents Very Good, bright and clean.

New York: Henry Holt, 1988. 1st American Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. A dozen animal stories retold by the author. Includes perennial favorites such as Puss in Boots and less familiar tales such as The Fox and the Stork. Illustrated by Francis Wainwright. 64 pages, color illustrations throughout.

Scribner, 1996. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardback. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Remainder mark, else fine. A Meditation on Life, Spirit, Art, and the Making of the Film The Color Purple Ten Years Later. Includes Walker's screenplay for The Color Purple, which was never used. Also, entries from the author's journals and correspondence and essays and articles on the controversy in the African-American community upon the film's release. Also, three new essays in which the author looks back at the events taking place in her personal life during this time.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1959. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps. Contributions to Economic Geology. All plates present in pocket.

New York: Bell Publishing, 1963. Hardback. Near fine in very good dust jacket. An excellent introduction to bookbinding. Illustrated, step by step instructions for everything from basic procedures to advanced projects. Includes a chapter on making your own bookbinding tools.

Little Brown, 2000. Advanced Reading Copy. Softcover. Near Fine.. Book has been very gently read, no marks or other signs of abuse. Author's first novel. Intense story of 17-year-old Neil, a good-looking, popular quarterback who is as cruel to his peers as his abusive father is to him. When he accidently commits a terrible crime, his father - the local sheriff in a Nevada town - covers it up for him. Nominated for the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award.

Luzern: Schweizer Volks-Buchgemeinde, c. 1944. Hardback. Very Good in Good dust jacket.. Perfect bound with flexible boards. Some edgewear, previous owner name on first page, Dust jacket soiled, scratched, chipped at top of spine. Laid in is original packing slip from publisher dated 24 Mai 1945. A young adult nature book.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1956. Castle Books reprint. Hardback. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some shelfwear, spine is sunned. An A to Z listing of occult terms and personages throughout history, from Aaron's Rod to Zombie.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1954. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps on cover. Sticker on title page. For field geologists and others having few laboratory facilities.

New York: Scientific American Library, 1983. 2nd Ptg. Hardback. NF/NF. History of key events in physics and fundamentals of physics for the general reader. Part of series. We have many volumes from this series available.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1952. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps.

Ballantine, 1998. Advanced Reading Copy. Softcover. Fine condition.. Unrevised proofs. Author's first novel. Story of six black baby boomer women whose paths crisscross and collide. Promotional materials laid in.

Berne: Phoenix Publishing Company LTD., 1946. Mass Mkt. PB. G. Follows the life of Edward Albert Tewler, the quintessential lower class citizen of 20th century England. Rubbing and edgewear. Creases along spine from reading. Front hinge has worn thin. Diagonal crease on front cover. Paper has yellowed along spine

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1954. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamp. Staple bound.

Seattle: Broken Moon Press, [1992]. 1st edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good condition. Some curl on the cover and light wear on corners. True first edition of Wells' first novel and the precursor to her best-selling 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.' W.P. Kinsella says in a blurb on the rear the book 'displays very strong voices, and the energy fairly crackles off the page. Rebecca Wells is a writer to watch.' Winner of the Western States Book Award for Fiction.

Avon Books, 1995. Advanced Reading Copy. Mass Mkt. PB. Near Fine condition.. Author's first mystery novel, introduces Tamara Hayle, a savvy, street-smart African American sleuth, a former policewoman turned private detective, and a single mom.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1985. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Very Good dust jacket.. Dust jacket has one tear, else fine. An epic fantasy set in an imaginary time and place that evokes Paris under the Nazis or Rio under the Portuguese.

St. Martin's, 1995. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Includes 'With Thimbles, with Forks, and Hope' - the detective team's first case. Also 'Sister Alice' and 'The Gorgon Field' and two previously unpublished stories: 'Torch Song' and 'All for One.' Introduction by Robin Wilson.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1959. Softcover. Good condition. Spine faded. Previous owner stamps. All plates in pocket.