Search Results: Authors starting with W from Classic Books and Ephemera

Baltimore: G. Willig, Jr., 1840. Sheet_music. Very Good. [4] p.: music; 32 cm. Removed from a volume of sheet music published from 1825 to 1850 with former owner's name on the front: "E. C. K. Seymour." Contains song with lyrics and keyboard accompaniment. "1994" at lower edges. No date of publication. George Willig, Jr., operated the Baltimore branch of the family music publishing business from 1829 to 1879. Joseph Augustine Wade (1796-1845) was an Irish composer. In Very Good Condition: lightly browned along edges; otherwise, clean.

Lowell, Mass: New Moon Publishing Co, 1893. Paperback. Very Good +. 32 p.: illustrated advertisements; 25 cm. Light brown wrapper with dark brown wrapper title and illustration. "For Old and Young" -- on front wrapper. Advertisement for Hood's sarsaparilla on outside of back wrapper. Advertisements inside wrappers. Contains fiction (including Grace Gaston by Vernon Sumner Wadman), poetry, observations on Massachusetts politics, and advice. This was presumably Vernon S. Wadman (b. 1875), who was involved in the steel businessin Massachusetts around 1900. Scarce. In Very Good+ Condition: wrapper lightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight.

Seattle: University of Washington Book Store, 1927. Paperback. Very Good +. [2], 26, [2] p.: title vignette (publisher's emblem?), frontispiece portrait of Lillian Gish; 19 cm. Light blue wrappers printed in black within decorative border with same vignette. Decorative initial letter in blue and black. Biographical Note about Lillian Gish follows the text. University of Washington Chapbooks, edited by Glenn Hughes, no. 7. The author, Edward Wagenknecht (1900-2004), was an American literary critic who also wrote on film. He received his PH.D. in 1932 from the University of Washington, where he taught from 1925 to 1943. This was his first published work. In Very Good+ Condition: head of spine rubbed; spine slightly faded; clean and bright.

Akron, OH: Werner Co, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. "With appendices, enumerating the principal ships of the United States Navy, their batteries and armor, and official reports of the Battle of Manila and the action off Santiago de Cuba." -- title page. 241 p.: 43 leaves of chromolithographed plates with captioned tissue-guards (included in pagination); 36 x 46 cm. Black morocco-gain cloth with gilt-stamped cover title: The U. S. Army and Navy 1776-1899. Brown, grey, and black cover illustration. Boards have bevelled edges. All page edges are gilt. Dark brown endpapers. Title page in red and black. "The Country's Defensive Forces in War and Peace" -- at head of title page. The Army by Lieut.-Col. Arthur L. Wagner; The Navy by Commander J. D. Jerrold Kelley. A heavy book; for international shipping, it will have to be sent by priority international. In Very Good Condition: corners rubbed; ends of spine frayed with minor loss; cover is slightly soiled; front free… Read More

Hamburg, Ger: T.C. Felginers Wittwe und Joh. Carl Bohn, 1739. Hardcover. Good -. Title continued: "Wobey zugleich die Eigenschaften der Geister überhaupt mit erörtert." Zweytes Stück, Dritte Betrachtung. [8], xvi, 543, [1] p.; 21 cm. Signatures: )(4 a-b4 A-Y4 (4to). Original brown cloth spine and marbled paper over boards. The four-leaf dedication to a former mayor of Hamburg, Johann Anderson, (signed )(4 and dated May 4, 1740) is inserted following the title page. Woodcut title vignette printer's device signed C. Fritzsch sc [Christian Fritzsch (1695-1747)]. Woodcut head- and tailpieces. Druckfehler on final, unpaginated, page. In Good- Condition: the original binding is quite worn: most of cloth lacking from spine and fore-edge of front board partially lacking; pp. 193-240 (signatures 2B-2G) are detached from text block as a unit; occasional light foxing and faint dampstain at upper edge or fore-edge; otherwise clean and complete.

Leipzig: Otto Spamer, 1872. Hardcover. Very Good. Dritte Auflage. viii, 163, [1] p., color frontispiece and 4 leaves of illustration: many in-text illustrations; 20 cm. Black cloth spine with printed paper spine label; color illustrated paper over boards. Publisher's advertisement on endpapers and back board. Illustrated title page. Part of the series Das Illustrirte Goldene Kinderbuch, Zweite Gruppe, I. Entirely in German. Faint former owner's stamp on half title page for Harold Rose, Berlin. A nicely illustrated guide to use with children in exploring science and nature from one's living room. In Very Good Condition: small chip out of spine label; cover slightly discolored; light foxing on first few pages; otherwise, clean and tight.

Berlin: Ullstein & Co, 1910. Paperback. Good. 2 issues with continuous pagination: 32 p.: music, illustrations; 30 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. The music is a piano realization, with lyrics; accompanied by a illustrations. "Alfred Gessler" in pencil at upper edge of first page of each issue. In Good Condition: lacking back wrapper of each issue; front wrapper of part 1 scraped along spine; pencil check mark next to some titles; faint dampstain along lower edges; lightly browning and slightly brittle; otherwise clean and complete.

Berlin: Ullstein, 1906. Paperback. Good -. 16 p.: music, illustrations; 30 cm. Black-and-white photograph on front wrapper of Lohengrin and a swan. Disbound from a larger volume. The music is a piano realization, with some lyrics; accompanied by a few illustrations. In Good- Condition: front wrapper scraped along spine; back wrapper detached but present; faint dampstain along lower edges; lightly browning and slightly brittle; otherwise clean and complete.

Leipzig: Im Insel-Verlag, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good -/good -. [4], 306, [2] p.: 580 illustrations; 25 cm. Off-white linen with red and black spine and cover titles. White dust jacket printed in red and black. Publisher's advertisements on final unpaginated page and on both flaps and back section of dust jacket for other works by and about Goethe. Includes index. Pages 243-303 contain notes on the illustrations. Book is in Very Good- Condition: cover is slightly discolored; pages are slightly browned; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good- Condition: lightly soiled; brown along spine and two edges; loss at head of spine; creasing and chipping along upper edge of back section; loss along both flap folds.

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co, 1883. Hardcover. Very Good. Title continued: "as well as the most approved processes of deposition by simple immersion, with descriptions of apparatus, chemical products employed in the art, etc. Based largely on the "Manipulations Hydroplastiques" of Alfred Roseleur." Imprint includes: London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. xxviii, [1], 18-656, 31, [1] p.: many in-text drawings and tables; 24 cm. Black bead-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Brown endpapers. Catalogue of Practical and Scientific Books published by Henry Carey Baird & Co. on 31 pages following text. Includes Lists of American and British Patents Bearing on the Subject of the Electro-Deposition of Metals, and index. Inscriptions on front free endpaper indicate that P.M. Sharples acquired the book in March 1888 and in June 1888 he traded it to Joseph T. Price for a Beach drill chuck. This was probably Joseph Townsend Price (1859-1924), a… Read More

Iowa City, Iowa: Qara Press, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine -. Baasch, Norman. [16] p.: 2 linoleum cuts; 27 cm. Original light blue paper over boards with white paper label on front board, printed in black. "Printed by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr. on Curtis Rag paper with linoleum cuts by Norman Baasch. Of an edition limited to 190 cpies, this is copy 25." -- colophon. This poem first appeared in The Listener on Aug. 6, 1959. Major Claude R. Eatherly was one of the pilots involved in the atomic bombing of Japan in World War II. In Near Fine- Condition: cover lightly soiled; pages are clean and crisp.

New York: W. Reid Gould, 1870. Good +. 1 deed (4 pages; 42 cm.) published by W. Reid Gould, 158 Nassau St., N.Y. Printed and handwritten with one Internal Revenue stamp. Signed by John Wait and Mary E. Wait, and by the Orange County notary public, John W. Bushfield. In Good+ Condition: outside is soiled; discoloration along the folds with very small loss in spots; ink is faded but legible.

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. Paperback. Very Good. Third Printing. 157, [3] p.: portrait of the author; 23 cm. Paperback. Gift inscription dated 2002 on first, blank, page. In Very Good Condition: spine is slightly sunned; corners lightly creased; clean and tight.

New York: Hill and Wang, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good/fine. [10], 195 p.; 22 cm. Yellow cover with black spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. "By tracing slavery from before the revolution, through the Constitution's framing, and into the public debate that followed, Waldstreicher rigorously shows that slavery was not only actively discussed behind the closed and locked doors of the Constitutional Convention, but that it was also deftly woven into the Constitution itself." -- dust jacket. Gift inscription on the title page from the author to Ken Kusmer, another Temple University history professor, who left marginal comments and underlining throughout. Book is in Very Good Condition: marginal comments and underlining by former owner Temple University history professor Ken Kusmer; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Fine Condition: clean and bright.

New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. xv, [1], 315 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Black cloth spine with gilt spine title; yellow paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. Stated First Edition. "Scientist, revolutionary, abolitionist: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave master, and empire builder. . . . Finding slavery at the center of Franklin's life, Waldstreicher proves it was likewise central to the Revolution, America's founding, and the very notion of freedom we associate with both." -- dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine Condition: small ink stain on top page edges; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: ends of spine slightly rubbed; clean and bright.

New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good -. x, 562, [4] p., frontispiece portrait of Peter the Great; 21 cm. Mustard cloth with bevelled edges; gilt stamped spine and cover titles; gilt, red, and black Russian eagle on front cover. Top page edges gilt. Pale yellow endpapers. Publisher's advertisement on p. [ii]. Publisher's catalog on 4 pages following text. Former owner's name on front fixed endpaper: John G. Wilson 1898. Former owner's name on front free endpaper: Casway. In Very Good- Condition: cover soiled; cocked; ends of spine starting to fray; spine sunned; pages are clean and tight.

Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. xxvi, [2], 164 p.; 22 cm. Paperback. "Both learned and intelligent, original and thoughtful, this book places the American black experiece in a broad, comparative perspective." -- back cover. In Very Good Condition: cover is lightly rubbed; a few marginal marks and one underlining in the Notes section; otherwise, clean and tight.

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1982. Paperback. Very Good -. First Midland Book edition. xvi, [2], 189 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. A Midland Book MB 301. A circular embossed stamp on half title page: Library of Schultz and Reeves. The author focuses on Anne Bradstreet, Helen Hunt Jackson, Emily Dickinson, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Lizette Woodworth Reese, and Louise Guiney among others. In Very Good- Condition: top page edges and fore-edges soiled; otherwise, clean and solid.

San Francisco: Colt Press, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good. [4], 45, [1] p., 1 folded facsimile of The Wasp; 25 cm. Red cloth spine with printed paper spine label. Patterned blue paper over boards. One of a limited edition of 550 copies isued from the Colt Press by William Roth and Jane Grabhorn in Feb. 1941. Printed in red and black with portrait of Ambrose Bierce on title page. Engraved bookplate of George Reed Salisbury on front fixed endpaper. In Very Good Condition: sunned along fore-edges of boards; slightly rubbed; spine label is intact; internally clean and crisp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. Hardcover. Near Fine -/near fine -. [8], 321, [5] p.; 22 cm. Blue cover with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The 14th title in the Bruno, Chief of Police, mysteries set in France. Book is in Near Fine- Condition: slightly cocked; small ding in the upper edge of the front cover; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine- Condition: small ding in the upper edge of the front section; clean and bright.