Search Results: Authors starting with W from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

Cambridge MA: Candlewick Press, (1996). Illustrated by Patrick Benson. 5th Printing of First board book edition. (c.1992 as picture book). Gloss pictorial board book, rounded corners. Small oblong. pp. [24] all. Fine. Mommy will always come home..

New York: Fred. Rullman, Inc, n.d. Libretto printed for the Metropolitan Opera House Grand Opera. Kirsten Flagstad rear cover. Stapled-wrap, grey cover. Small 4to. pp. 36, 37-40 "O! Night of Love" music notation. Near Fine. Original German with correct English translation..

Mainz (London, Paris, Brusells): B. Schotts Sohne, n.d. Translated by Frederick Jameson (1839-1916) into English. unspecified edition. Green cloth, a.e.red, green and gilt eps. Small 8vo (17cm). pp. 75, 84, 98, 86. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Light edge and corner wear, caps chipped, light overall page toning. Small bookseller ticket: Heinrich Jaffe, Munchen. Wagner spent over 20 years on the libretto and music to be performed in four nights for a total of about 15 hours. First full performance in 1876 at the Bayreuth Festival continues to this day..

Boston and Chicago: Allyn and Bacon (Norwood Press), (1877). Stated second revised edition. Olive blind stamped cloth. Cr.8vo (18cm). pp. 125. Very Good. Sporadic dots of stain and pencil lines, ink owner. Greek and English translation..

Wien, Pest, Leipzig: Hartelben's Verlag (Chemische-Technische Bibliothek), 1886. Illustrated by 66 abbildungen (figures, text engravings), illustrated series title. First thus edition. No.128 in Series. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt topboard print, marbled edges. 12mo. pp. xxiv, 343, [1] ad. Index. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Faded spine with chipped caps, toned eps, archival reinforced hinges, edges faded. Several foxed spots of stain internally with overall page toning. Small bookseller ticket on front pastedown: E. Steiger & Co., 25 Park Place, New York. Well illustrated period technical manual on grinding and polishing..

Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1890. Illustrated by b&w frontis ("Hannah") and Broughton Family plate with 3 ports. First thus edition. Stapled wraps with illustrated card cover. Imperial 8vo (27.5cm). pp. [iv], 34. Very Good. Small cover chip and light soil, archival spine reinforcement added, staples rusted. Interesting compilation of letters from books, periodicals and past issues of NEHG Register including Waite's article "Broughton. A Sketch of the Family" with plate and facsimile signatures..

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1863. Edited by J. Frederick Collingwood with numerous additions by the author. First separate English edition. Portions previously appearing in "Anthropologie der Naturvolker", Volume 6. Original blind-stamped burgundy cloth, teg. 8vo. pp. 404, 15 (Second List of the Foundation Fellows of the Anthropological Society of London corrected to November 1st, 1863). Very Good. Worn cloth, caps and corners with acid free front hinge repair, internally near fine. Small "bound by Bone & Son, 76 Fleet Street, London" ticket. Copy of Edwin Reed [1835-1908], label front pastedown. A scarce association copy also marking the first volume of the Society..

New York: Dial Press, (1978). Illustrated by 39 b&w reproductions. Stated First printing edition. Blue cloth. 8vo. pp. xxii, 538. Near Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Light edgewear..

Zurich: Self published, 1927. First edition. blue illustrated wraps, ribbon design. Signed by author. 24mo. pp. 70, [1] ad. Very Good+/No jacket, as issued/In mylar protector..

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, (1872). Illustrated by tables, charts and diagrams. Stated 7th Student's thus edition. c.1866 Little, Brown & Co. Boston "from the 6th edition of that volume, the following has been prepared". Original brown blind-stamped cloth and brown eps, gilt stamped spine. 8vo. pp. [4] Ad for this title, xvi, 455. Index. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Also contains the fourth edition preface. Dealer bookplate of "Francis Edgar Smith, 809 Hancock St., Wollaston, Mass. Early books, music, prints, maps" on brown ffep top right corner. Overall internal page toning, no marking or highlighting..

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1988). Illustrated by Catherine Deeter. Stated first edition. c.1967 text. Cloth backed burgundy boards. Oblong 4to. pp. [32]. Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Unread..

Boston: Walker Lith. & Pub ca.1915. Linen backed sectional color folding map which stores to 9.25 x 5-inches, printed cards showing front and back replace two linen sections. 34.5 x 27.5-inches opened. Map very good, some straightened folds, with edge soil when folded, linen still white. The map sections are 7 wide by 3 long equalling 21 sections backed to the piece of linen. So designed so you could open it in your Model-T with the wind blowing and still be able to read it. Scale: 2 miles per inch. Label of Old Corner Book Store Map Department covering date, rear prices $2.50..

Boston: Walker Lith. & Pub, 1915. Linen backed sectional color folding map which stores to 9.25 x 5-inches, printed cards showing front and back replace two linen sections. 34.5 x 27.5-inches opened. Map very good, some straightened folds, with edge soil when folded, linen patchy yellowing. The map sections are 7 wide by 3 long equalling 21 sections backed to the piece of linen. So designed so you could open it in your Model-T with the wind blowing and still be able to read it. Scale: 2 miles per inch. Label of Old Corner Book Store Map Department. No price listings on rear..

Boston: Walker Lith. & Pub Illustrated by Color. ca.1915. Linen backed sectional color folding map which stores to 9.25 x 5-inches, printed cards showing front and back replace two linen sections. 34.5 x 27.5-inches opened. Map very good, some straightened folds, with edge soil when folded, , linen slightly yellowed. The map sections are 7 wide by 3 long equalling 21 sections backed to the piece of linen. So designed so you could open it in your Model-T with the wind blowing and still be able to read it. Scale: 2 miles per inch. Label of Old Corner Book Store Map Department covering date, rear prices $2.00, railroad maps $.25..

Boston: Walker Lith. & Pub (ca.1915). Linen backed sectional color folding map which stores to 9.25 x 5-inches, printed cards showing front and back replace two linen sections. 34.5 x 27.5-inches opened. Map very good, some straightened folds, with edge soil when folded, ink owner. The map sections are 7 wide by 3 long equalling 21 sections backed to the piece of linen. So designed so you could open it in your Model-T with the wind blowing and still be able to read it. Scale: 2 miles per inch. Label of Old Corner Book Store Map Department covering date, no prices rear..

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. First edition. First State (dedication page omitted). 2 volumes. Blue cloth printed gilt, top board decoration in red (rosary) and silver. 16mo. pp. v, [1] blank, 502; v, [1] blank, 578. VG/No jacket, as issued/Lacks original slip case. Foxing starting, wear to corners and heels, otherwise a bright and tight set. BAL 20819. (Postage as two books)..

New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, (1880). Early [1884] edition. Original brown cloth and eps, beveled boards, gilt stamped spine. 8vo. pp. 552, 12 Publisher Ad: Some Early Novels. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Light cap and corner wear, overall toning. Small bookseller ticket of W. B. Clarke and Garruth, Booksellers and Stationers, Boston, Mass. rear pastedown. Quill inscription "Alvah N. Smith from his L. L. Class Christmas 1885" ffep. BAL 20798 Note on later printings indicates the undated title page and the 4 line (previously 2 line) dedication describes the late 1884 printing of which this is an example. Issue point pp.11, line 4-3 from bottom "be-became"..

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1984). Illustrated by Brock Cole, pen & ink. Stated first edition. Review slip laid in, publication date 12/14/84. Blue boards, quarter black cloth. 8vo. pp. 118, [2]. Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Friendship and responsibility..

Chicago: Homewood Publishing (W.B. Conkey), 1902. Illustrated by Color frontis, text engravings by A. E. Hart, W. H. Shelton, C.A.N., H.D., Merrill and others. Assumed first reprint thus edition. Reinforced pictorial buckram. Cr.4to. pp. [ii], [40]. About Good/No jacket, as issued. Edgeworn boards, two page tears, faint "stayed in the lines" coloring on several pages, some page staining. Two pages have a pencil "v" substituted for the "b" in the story " Baby Beth's Cake" by Theodora Roosevelt. Charming turn of the century children's anthology with, poetry, shorts and moral tales..

New York: Harper & Row, (1964). Illustrated by Copious photos and line drawings. First edition. Popular Science Skill Book. Pictorial Stiff Wraps. 8vo. pp. 160. Index. As New. Unread copy with traces of wear..