Search Results: Authors starting with W from Walkabout Books

Boston: Little, Brown, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 276 pp, illustrated with four b/w plates, in original pictorial cloth. No dust jacket. Some minor staining to top edge of text block, foxing to first two leaves, one page with old finger smudges. Still an attactive, very good copy of this well written young adult historical novel of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Berkeley, 1924. Softcover. Very good-. First separate edition, one of fifty copies reprinted from the Spanish Southwest. 9.25 x 12 inches, stapled wrappers. Minor dampstain at lower gutter (see accompanying image), light foxing to endpapers. 27 pp. Bibliography describing dozens of editions.

Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Early California Travels Series XX. One of 325 copies printed by Caroline Anderson, Los Angeles. 7.5" x 5", xi, 113 pp, illustrated, in cloth-backed illustrated boards with mounted paper spine label. One corner slightly rubbed, else fine. Account of the California stay of the "Otter," a northwest trader out of Boston captained by Ebenezer Dorr, Jr.

Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 240 pp, illustrated and indexed. Lower corners lightly bumped, otherwise as new, in original dust jacket. "The eight decades history of a major American industrial firm which has long been a leader in developing and producing piston engines for aircraft, jet engines for missles, and air-cooled diesel engines for tanks and other tracked vehicles.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 394 pp, indexed. Slight soiling to top edge of text block, else a fine copy, in a very good dust jacket with light wear to the top edge. Louis Waldman (1892-1982) was "a leading figure in the Socialist Party of America from the late 1910s and through the middle 1930s, a founding member of the Social Democratic Federation, and a prominent New York labor lawyer" (wiki). This autobiography offers, according to the dust jacket, "an insider's view of labor and socialist affairs by one who played a leading role in their making," with Waldman's life mirroring "the growth, development, and ideological conflicts of American Labor and third-party political life.

London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xii, 623 pp, with 12 maps (2 colored), select bibliography, index. Very light general wear to boards, some offsetting and previous owner's label on endpapers, contents clean, binding sound. No dust jacket. Includes chapters on Dutch occupation, colonization, Parliament and Volksraad, unification, and other topics.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1876. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. Two volumes in original brown cloth decorated in gilt, pp xxi, 503; viii, 607, with 2 pp. ads at rear of the second volume; 7 color lithographs maps (1 folding, 2 double-page) and 20 plates. Ex-library, with no external markings beyond slight evidence of labels removed from lower spines, but discard markings on half title and title pages. Moderate rubbing and general wear to boards on both volumes, Volume I with creasing to spine cloth and splitting of cloth along the front joint. Otherwise sound, internally clean, and complete. "Considered the nineteenth century's leading expert on the geographical distribution of animals, Wallace carried out extensive fieldwork in areas as diverse as North and South America, Africa, China, India and Australia to document the habitats, breeding, migration and feeding behaviour of thousands of species around the world, and the influence of environmental conditions on their survival....… Read More

London, New York, and Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. Hardcover. Very good. First trade edition. 10.5" x 8", 166 (1) pp, with 25 tipped-in color plates mounted on green paper with captioned tissue guards. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt decoration, illustrated endpapers. Rubbing to extremities, small tear in cloth at head of spine, else sound and clean. James Henry Thorpe (1876-1949) was a member of the London Sketch Club and a regular contributor of cartoons to Punch magazine.

Scranton, NJ: International Textbook Company, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good -. Part I: iv, 46 pp, with illustrations, plate xi in rear pocket. Part II: vi, 52 pp, with illustrations,18 plates in rear pocket. Both volumes show light general wear and soiling to boards, rubbed corners, name of front free endpapers; contents clean and sound. No dust jackets. Due to size, shipping charges may be more than standard for priority or international orders.

Kraus Reprint Limited, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good. lxvi, 104 pp + folding map + folding illustration, with index. Name written on front pastedown, underlining and annotations to preface; else clean and sound. No dust jacket. Reprint of the 1899 Hakluyt Society edition. Second series, No. III. Includes versions of this voyage by Capt. Wyatt, Robert Dudley, and Abram Kendall. Please note: the image associated with this listing shows another volume in the same series, but it other than the title it appears identical to this one.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. ix, 346 pp, with references, index. Bound in blue cloth. Touch of wear to edges, name handwritten on front free endpaper; else fine. Some chipping and mild toning to edges of dust jacket. "Hobbes' theory of moral and political obligation has received scant attention, although important for an understanding of his political doctrine. In this book the author presents a new interpretation of the theory which he attempts to set out in the form of a continuous argument, providing at the same time a more complete and detailed treatment than has hitherto been available" (dust jacket).

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. First printing. 160 pp plus ads. Orange cloth binding stamped in black; no dust jacket. Minor soiling to rear board, spine slightly faded but fully legible, protected by a clear mylar jacket. The first book by the accomplished Alaskan mountaineer and alpine photographer, written when he was just 17 and developing his climbing skills in the Alps. Illustrated with photographs by the author, his brother, and their climbing guide. Neate W24.

St. Paul, MN: Northern Pacific Railway, 1921. 10.25 x 8,5 inches, stapled wrappers. 64 pp, with many illustrations from photographs, colored map on verso of front cover, double-page map at center showing the routes of the Northern Pacific from Chicago to the West Coast. Lightly rumpled, a few chips and short tears, a few pages with offsetting from laid-in clippings; very good. Pages 1-55 related to Washington, the remainder to Northern Idaho. General text describes scenic beauty, climate, resources, irrigation projects, and other advantages for the investor or settler. This is followed by a county-by-county rundown of land prices, primary crops and livestock, resources, industries, soil and climate, transportation, water, power, and potential markets. The Idaho counties included are Bonner, Benewah, Kootenai, Clearwater, Latah, Idaho, Lemhi, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone. Most of the illustrations show agricultural and range lands. Five copies of this edition located in OCLC. Other editions were… Read More

New York: G. Robinson, 1796. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, xiv, blank leaf, 303 pp, in original contemporary full-calf binding with red spine label. A fair to good copy, with front board partially detached, leather split and starting to separate at head of spine. Front free endpaper and frontispiece lacking, contents otherwise complete, with light foxing and toning. A decent reference copy of the first edition. Collects Washington's letters to various officials and dignitaries, including British admirals Arbuthnot and Digby, Henry Clinton, Lord Cornwallis, Sir Guy Carleton, the Marquis de Lafayette, Alexander Hamilton, Major General John Sullivan, and others, and also "including many applications and addresses presented to him with his answers; Orders and Instructions, on important occasions, to his Aids de Camp, &c." Covers the period 1779 to 1783. Howes W-133 (noting that the first seven letters are Tory forgeries); Sabin 101742.

Placitas, NM: Duende, 1964. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Side-stapled wrappers show some light soiling and foxing, pages tanned, upper outer corner chipped. The full issue is devoted to this work by Watson and also includes a one-page introduction by him.

London: White Lion Publishers, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good. 383 pp + illustrations, with maps and plans, appendix, index. Minimal edge wear, light impression of 4 inch ring on back cover, a spot of soiling to front free endpaper; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Allenby's "fame as a soldier rests secure on two brilliant campaigns in Palestine and Syria ... the following pages will attempt to devlop into a portrait, the portrait of a great soldier and a very gallant and honourable gentleman, whose family motto, Fide et labore ('By loyalty and service'), records the faith by which he lived and died" (introduction).

1889. First Edition. Softcover. Good. One of 50 copies printed for private circulation. 30 pp. 7 x 10.5 inches, in original wrappers, illustrated with one original photograph and one photomechanically reproduced photograph. Presentation inscription on the title page to a member of a prominent Allegheny County family, "Mr. R.C. Wrenshall from John Way, Jr." Wrappers are chipped and only just attached (by a thread) to the text block, most of backstrip is gone, margins of the page with the original photograph are foxed. Otherwise clean. John Way, Jr. (1831-1902) was an elder of the Presbyterian Church of Sewickley and he taught a bible class for young men for 60 years. He helped to organize the Young Men's Christian Association in his area, taught elocution classes for adults, acted as the first president of the Public Library in Sewickley. In 1877, after finding the local schools unsuitable for his children, he financed a new building and reopened the Sewickley Academy for Boys, which had originally… Read More

Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1951. Hardcover. Very good. First America n edition. pp. xi, 308, with index and glossary. Blue cloth covers, sunned at the spine, tiny bit of rubbing to extremities, previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Classic text describing Confucianism and Taoism in China and how they affected economic and political development of China.

Libra Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/fine. One of 350 copies issued. ix, 229 pp, illustrated. Bound in blue cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. Previous owner's name and date written on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in fine jacket. History of the Nuestra Señora Reina de los Ángeles Asistencia and its associated church, La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles (The Church of Our Lady Queen of the Angels), told via a series of excerpts from original source material.

Mission Hills, CA: Archival Center, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. California Catholic Miscellany I, one of 350 copies issued. pp 21, (1), illustrated, in stapled wrappers. Slight sunning to top margin of back cover, else a fine copy. Includes a short essay on Politi, a checklist of 40 books written or illustrated by him, reproductions of two of his drawings, and a few photographic illustrations.