Search Results: Authors starting with W from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

Atlanta: Dodson & Scott, 1877 1st ed. 434pp. frontis. port. decorated brown cloth 8vo: about Good/no dj [shelf worn; age browning; else a complete copy] Signature of George F. Pierce, Jr. dated April 1877 on ffep. The younger Pierce was son of the famous Georgian George F. Pierce, Sr. (1811-84), Methodist Episcopal bishop and college president. Stephens (1823-72) was a Civil War veteran and post bellum Georgia Supreme Court justice, brother of Confederate Vice President Andrew Stephens.

New York: Macmillan. 1924 1st ed. 392pp. frontis. port. navy cloth sm 4to: about Good/no dj [ink name; age browning & foxing; bit of light shelf rubbing; else a complete & tight copy] The classic biographical work of the Southern writer and academic Wade (1892-1963), a member of the Southern Agrarians. Longstreet (1790-1870) was author of the American classic "Georgia Scenes."

Athens: UGA Press. 1969 reissue. 392pp. green cloth tall 8vo: Fine/no dj [a bottom corner bump; else a nice crisp copy] This reissue of the 1924 Macmillan edition includes an introduction and a Wade bibliography.

New York: Viking. 1965 1st ed. 214pp. hardback 8vo: near Very Good in a near Very Good dj [age spots on fore edge & bottom edge & on white spine cloth; else nrVG; dj = few edge nicks & short tears; else nrVG] The prolific English novelist and poet John Wain (1925-94), quondam Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford and former student of C. S. Lewis, was one of the original "Angry Young Men" of 1950s literary Britain, an appellation he did not necessarily accept.

New York: Viking, 1973 1st ed. 214pp. black cloth 8vo: Very Good+ in a near Fine dj in poly cover [fore edge shows light foxing; else VG+; dj = p-c; else nrF] English writer Wain's (1925-94) literary views on such subjects as Orwell in the Õ30s, Flann O'Brien's fiction, Dr. Johnson's poetry, the meaning of "Dr. Zhivago" and much more.

David & Charles, Inc. 1978. 224pp. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a Very Good+ dj [a small top edge bump; else nrF] The prolific English writer John Barrington Wain (1925-94) was Professor of Poetry at Oxford when this anthology of some of his favorites was published.

New York: Knopf, 1986 1st ed. 443pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Very Good in a Fine dj in poly cover [rough scuffed patch on front cover where a sticker was lifted; short rem. line bottom edge; ink name & address ffep; else VG]

Alan Sutton/Guernsey Press, 1987, 1989. 261pp., 263pp. paperbacks: Very Good [Bedlam is in near Fine condition with some light age browning of text; Task Force is near Very Good with a spine crease and some age browning of text; all in all, two nice copies] Two comic novels, the second a sequel, about a hostile British government's attempts to abolish the ancient status of the Channel Islands by incorporating them into the County of Hampshire. An amusing cast of retired military buffers and their wives informed by the pseudonymous author's long experience of high command in both the RAF and as the Queen's Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, his birthplace. Sir Peter de Lacey Cheminant (1920-2018) who served for 41 years in the RAF, adopted the pseudonym for these novels.

Roanoke, VA: A&W Enterprises, 1989 2nd ed. SIGNED on ffep by author under "Hope you enjoy." 451pp. illus. grey cloth tall 8vo w/gilt titles: Fine/no dj [some ripples in cloth on spine strip; else F] A history retitled from its original title: "Yankee Soldiers in Virginia Valley: Hunter's Raid."

New York: Macmillan, 1931 1st ed. SIGNED on front flyleaf by author. 339pp. green cloth sm 8vo: Good+ in a worn and discolored dj now protected in a Brodart poly cover [antique dampstain outline in outer margins of first few pages; else a clean, complete & tight copy]

Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2005 2nd ptg. 311pp. illus. cream cloth sm 4to: Fine in a Very Good+ dj in Brodart poly cover [dj = small tear @ bottom front cover corner; else VG+] A well-received account of the 57th Georgia Infantry Regiment.

The Nature Company/Time Life Books (printed in Singapore), 1995. 288pp. illus. hardback 4to in pictorial boards: Fine in a Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [dj = tear @ top edge of back cover; else VG] A colorful large format guide to North American flora and fauna.

Chicago: Forster Music. 1918. sheet music. 8pp. paper folio: Good cond. [few edge tears & creases; cover is suitable for framing] Colorful cover by L. A. Brunner of silhouetted potentate on elephantback led by a mahout against an Indian background; predominant color is orange with a stylized sun. Anglo-American composer Wallace (1887-1963) wrote this popular song long before joining Disney Studios where he became a noted composer of music for short animated films. Weeks (1893-1967) was a Seattle songwriter.

London: Grafton Books. 1986 1st ed. 256pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj. A well-illustrated history of the first several centuries of Christianity by a former Jesuit.

Milledgeville, GA: The First United Methodist Church, 1973 1st ed. unpaginated illustrated paperback sm 4to: near Fine [bottom corner is thumbed; else a nice crisp copy]

Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Co. 1995 1st ed. 541pp. illus. red cloth tall 8vo w/gilt titles: near Fine/not issued in dj. An attractive local history published for the Eatonton-Putnam County Historical Society, Georgia.

Adelaide: Rigby Ltd., 1978 reprint. 396pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [some age darkening to top edge; touch of light shelf rubbing along bottom edges; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] The essence of Australian folk humor brought together in three of Wannan's best-loved books: "Tales from Back o'Bourke," "Bullockies, Beauts and Bandicoots" & "Hay, Hell and Booligal." Through yarns, tall tales, legends & ballads, meet great Australian characters: shearers, stockmen, whingers & publicans, swagmen & bush cooks, et al.

London: Robson Book, 1st ptg. thus of undated new edition. 232pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Fine. A nice crisp copy of this edition featuring "extraordinary but true stories from over a century of football [soccer]," covering English association football matches from 1879 through 1998.

Philadelphia: MacRae-Smith Co.. 1928 1st ed. 314pp. blue cloth sm 8vo: Good/no dj [ink name stamp & inscription blacked out on front endpp; fore edge is foxed; some interior foxing and age browning; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A novel set in Alaska by the Minnesota born writer Ward (1886-1959).

New York: Words and Music, Inc., 1942. 6pp. paper 4to: Very Good+. A song "written for Naval Aviation at the request of the Officers and Cadets of the United States Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida" and first performed on January 2, 1942, less than a month after Pearl Harbor, by the notable American bandleader Waring (1900-84). Cover is suitable for framing.