Search Results: Authors starting with W from Parker's Rare Books

Chicago: Rordens Bogtrykkeri, 1883. HB. Brown pebbled, blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering on front cover, 12 mo, 201 pp. + errata at rear. Illustrated with plates throughout. No marks in book, binding solid, a few finger marks on endpapers. Covers show slight edge wear. Uncommon title on Luther's life. Book condition VG. Text in Danish.

Basel: Verlag der Missionsbuchhandlung, 1893. HB. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and elaborate black designs on front cover and spine, small 12mo, 173 pp. + 6 pp. ads at rear, patterned endpapers. Neat owners writing on ffep, no other marks in book, binding solid. Covers show minor edge wear. Book condition VG. Sechste Auflage, text in German.

Stuttgart: Cotta, 1860. HB. Brown cloth, gilt lettering and designs on front cover and spine, 16mo, 156 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher's ads at rear, yellow endpapers, AEG. Poetry by Duboc (1822-1910) German writer of note in the second half of the 19th Century. Bookseller blindstamp and owner's name on ffep, no other marks in book, rear hinge cracked but binding solid. Covers show light wear to corners, joints cracked 1/4" top of spine. Book condition VG-. Text in German.

Winona, Mn: Printed by Theis Printing Co, c. 1976 [1999]. Wraps. Oversized stiff paper wraps, black lettering and aerial view of Brownsville, Minnesota on front cover, 4to, 126 pp. History of Brownsville, originally published in 1976, and updated for the village's sesquicentennial celebration in 1999. Brownsville is located on the Mississippi river in Houston County, Mn. No marks in book, binding tight. White covers show light soiling. Book condition VG.

Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1822. 2nd Am. HB. in which the common improprieties in Reading and Speaking are detected, and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are pointed out.....". Full brown leather, red leather title label, with gilt lettering, on spine, 8vo., 383 pp. Covers scuffed, edge worn. No marks in book, binding solid. Book condition Good+.

Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, c. 1947. HB. Blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo., 171 pp. Owners name ffep, underlining and marginal notations in text. Covers show minor edge wear. Book condition Good+.

New York: Mystery League, 1930. Stated 1st. HB. Black cloth, 8vo., 319pp. Book clean, but for moisture stain on edges of last 16 pages, in dust jacket with minor chipping, edge wear, old price written on front cover. Book condition Good+ in Good+ DJ.

New York: Harper, 1880. 2nd pr. HB. Brown cloth, beveled edges, gilt lettering on spine, 12 mo., 552pp + ads. 11 Word dedication, brown end papers, owners name ffep. Edge wear, fraying to top and bottom of spine. Book condition Good+.

New York: Richard R. Smith, 1930. HB. Orange cloth, black lettering on spine, 12 mo., 140pp. Clean, unmarked book. Book condition VG.

London: Longman, July 1972. Wraps. White wraps, black lettering on front cover and spine, 8vo, pp. 467-696 + ads at rear. No marks in book, binding somewhat weak. Covers show minor soiling. Good reading copy.

New York: Viking Press, 1947. HB. Blue cloth, dark blue lettering on front cover and spine, 8vo., 322 pp. Covers show minor soiling of edges, edges of text block and preliminaries show some foxing, no marks in book, binding solid. In unclipped ($3.00) dust jacket that has chipping, minor loss top and bottom of spine. World War II fiction. Book condition VG- in Good DJ.

Frederick Warne & Co., London and Scribner, Welford & Armstrong, New York, [187?]. HB. Half black leather and green pebbled cloth, gilt lettering on spine with blindstamped designs and gilt bands, 16mo, viii, 375 pp. First American edition, originally published by Bentley of London in 1872. Minor foxing to preliminaries, owners initials on front pastedown, no other marks in book, binding tight. Covers show very light edge wear, minor soiling to edges of text block. A rather handsome copy of an uncommon title, OCLC records two copies of this edition. Book condition VG.

Shippensburg, Pa: Burd Street Press, 1997. HB. Red simulated leather, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo., 326 pp. 326 pp. including index, bibliography and 72 pp roster biographies of members of the company. Clean, unmarked book but for private blindstamp on ffep. In unclipped, clean dust jacket with minor chipping top of spine. Book condition VG+ in VG+ DJ.

Boston, et al: D. C. Heath & Co, c. 1916. HB. Brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 12 mo., 476 pp. including index. No marks in book, binding solid. Covers show slight edge wear, one 1/4" white spot on front cover. Illustrated. Book condition VG-.

Chicago: Aldine Publishing, 1971. 2nd. pr. HB. Blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo., 175pp. Unmarked book with minor edge wear, in dust jacket with slight wear top of spine. Book condition VG in VG DJ.

San Francisco, et al: Harper and Row, 1986. 1st. HB. White quarter cloth over tan boards, red lettering on spine, 8vo., 303 pp. No marks in book, binding solid, in unclipped dust jacket with 3/4" tear bottom front, minor chipping. First printing. Book condition VG+ in VG- DJ.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1969. 1st, 1st pr. HB. Blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo., 248pp. X-Lib. but with minimal flaws. Good reading copy.

Chicago, et al: Scott, Foresman and Company, c. 1932. HB. Blue cloth, yellow lettering on front cover and spine, 12 mo., 429 pp. Owners name ffep only marks in book, covers show some shelf wear, binding solid. Book condition Good+.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1891. First American Edition. Wraps. Tan stiff paper wraps, brown lettering on front cover and spine, publishers ads for Mark Twain books on rear cover, small 8vo, 151 pp. Fold-out map by F. S. Weller before title page. Account of the author's experiences as a officer in the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1887 to 1889 led by Henry Morton Stanley. Previous owners name top of front cover and top of title page, in pencil, and dated 1891. No other marks in book, binding tight. Map in very good condition. Covers clean, with price of 50 cents top of front cover, 1/2 inch tear top of rear cover. Book condition VG.

Columbus, Ohio: The R. G. Adams Co, 1934. HB. Blue cloth, yellow lettering on front cover and spine, 12 mo, 196 pp. Owner's name ffep only mark in book, binding tight. Covers show very light wear. Book condition VG.