Search Results: Authors starting with W from Dark Parks Books & Collectibles

[New York]., 1906.. 6 x 9 inches.. Original ink illustration and 3D paper board, on thick art paper. Probably created for some sort of adult menÕs magazine or broadside.. A fine example of very early 20th century adult cartoon artwork. The Library of Congress refers the title as ÒThe IdeaÓ, see citation listing below. Suitable for framing. Library of Congress Pt.4 Copyright Entries: 1362.

Altdorf:: Jobst Wilhelm Kohles,, 1704.. First Edition.. 8vo.. A-O8,P4 [P4 blank] 1/2 vellum over marbled boards, small tear in spine. Inner hinge started. Unusual bookplate on last paste-down with capital letters falling over each other. Head-piece vignettes, tail-pieces, 16 plates of coats-of-arms. Johann Christoph Wagenseil (1633-1706), scholar and professor of history and later eastern languages at Altdorf, travelled widely as a tutor to the children of the count de Traun and during these excursions earned the esteem of the princes of Germany, the emperor, and Louis XIV of France. He wrote and published around 20 works in French and Latin, including a defense of the existence of Pope Joan. OCLC locates only one copy (Harvard). Graesse W493.

New York:: Atheneum,, 1978.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Publishers green cloth, minor shelf wear, near fine. Dust jacket, minor shelf wear, tiny chip at head of spine, minor crease to inside front flap, else excellent. In protective mylar.

New York:: Metro Books,, 2001.. Hardcover.. Publishers cloth, just a hint of shelf wear, near fine, in a fine pictorial dust jacket. Fully illustrated with color and b&w photographs. In protective mylar.

New York:: Weathervane Books,, 1970.. Hardcover.. Publishers blue cloth title to spine. Several leaves with some yellow highlighter to text some pages with now flattened short dog ears overall still an excellent working copy. Red dots to textblock perhaps remainder marks.Fully illustrated. Illustrated dust jacket near fine. A classic on Freemasonry and one of the greatest books on the material. A Dark Parks favorite priced to go. In new protective mylar.

Sauk City:: Arkham House,, 1961.. First edition. 2070 copies printed.. Hardcover.. Publishers black cloth gilt title to spine very minor shelf wear near fine. Illustrated dust jacket minor toning at edges still about near fine. In new protective mylar. Collection of 14 ghost stories. Baron: Horror Lit 4-311. Bleiler: Supernatural Fiction 1647.

London & New York:: John Churchill & Wilson and Co.,, 1843.. Hardcover.. Original quarter calf over marbled boards corners worn, minor front hinge cracking but still holding strong and fine. Complete in itself as volume one. Priced to go. The Lancet was founded by surgeon Thomas Wakley in 1823. It quickly became Englands leading medical journal. Containing transcripts of medical lectures news and details of noteworthy cases. Here in our 1843 copy we find numerous interesting and wonderous articles and findings. A great read for the curious and odd findings in early 1800s medicine and practice.

London:: John Hinton,, 1751.. 10.75 x 18 cm.. Fine impression, trimmed at top and bottom, lacking the text for publishing and date at bottom. Mounted at corners onto blank leaf. Suitable for framing. Illustration from The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (1751), copy in reverse after original Ogborne in 1751. At the time of hid death in 1750, Bright was considered the fattest man in England, he weighed 665 pounds. BM: 1862, 0614.1358. Odonoghue 1908-25-4.

New York:: Simon and Schuster,, 1974.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Publishers cloth, some minor rubbing, ink remainder mark, at bottom text block, else excellent condition. Illustrated dust jacket, tiny chip at head of spine, inside flaps slightly sunned, else near fine. In protective mylar.

London:: Printed for Samuel Bagster,, 1808.. Seventh edition. First Bagster edition.. 8vo.. Quarter modern calf over marbled boards gilt rules to spine and title on black label. Fine binding. A few plates with minor foxing but overall a very nice copy clean and crisp with large margins. Seventeen full-page plates and numerous text illustrations. One of the most often reprinted books in English literature and the most famous book on fishing ever printed. A celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. It was first published in 1653 and Walton continued to add to it for a quarter of a century. In 1676 Charles Cotton, Waltons friend and fellow angler added to his work and completed his instruction in fly fishing and the making of flies.

New York:: Carleton,, 1862.. Hardcover.. Modern brown leather over thick boards black title label in gilt. Newer marbled endpapers. Frontis plate with small corner cut away at top else book is near fine with numerous comic full=page illustrations. Come with notes about Browne freely tipped in. Priced to go. Nice copy in fine binding. Charles Farrar Browne (1834-1867) American humor writer best known as pseudo Artemus Ward. He is considered to be Americas first stand-up comedian.

Atlanta:: Kings Way Press,, 2013.. First edition. Signed Limited edition.. Hardcover.. Publishers red cloth with gilt decorative cover all edges silver gilt about as new and near fine. Signed by Watters and illustrator Alex McVey. Numbered 118 of only 200 copies. Bound with book mark ribbon inside. Illustrated by Alex McVey.

Canada:: Random House,, 1999.. First edition.. Hardcover.. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Priced to go. First edition.

New York:: Sully and Kleinteich,, 1915.. First edition. Rare.. Hardcover.. Publishers cloth, paper illustration to cover, very minor shelf wear/rubbing at edges, else excellent. Text pages are clean, near fine. An excellent copy of a rare book. In protective mylar. Priced to go. Illustrated by W.N. Clement, four plates.

New York:: Tor,, 2004.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Publishers red cloth, title to spine, minor bump to bottom of spine, near fine. Illustrated dust jacket, near fine. In new protective mylar.

New York:: Tor,, 2005.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Publishers black cloth, title to spine, just about fine. Illustrated dust jacket, near fine. In new protective mylar. About as new.

New York:: EOS,, 2001.. First edition.. Hardcover.. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket, bookseller sticker on back jacket cover. In protective mylar.

New York:: EOS, , 2000.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Publishers black cloth over white boards, very minor shelf wear, minor publisher smudge to inside first endpaper, remainder mark on bottom text block, else excellent copy in a near fine dust jacket. In protective mylar.

Amstelaedami:: Joannem Wolters,, 1696.. 9.5 x 15.5cm. Single leaf.. Teller, Abraham, ed. Title page only. Red and black print. Small vignette at bottom. Adhered to lalrger plain leaf. Slightly trimmed. Suitable for framing.

London:: W. Collins & Co.,, [ND].. First edition. Scarce.. 8vo.. Publishers brown cloth, shelf wear with edges slightly rubbed, spine ends frayed, a couple tiny tears at top of spine, and a crack starting at center spine, text-block with minor foxing, else text is clean. In protective mylar.