Search Results: Authors starting with W from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Portland, OR: Timber Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). SIGNED and inscribed by Waddick on half-title page. Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. 192 p. w/ illustrations, appendices, glossary, index. Two related works published together, providing the first detailed look at the iris of China and their cultivation in English.

London: Batsford, 1972. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more so to dj. A bit of foxing at edges of textblock, more so at top edge. Attractive bookseller sticker from Chess magazine (from whom the book was probably first purchased) on flyleaf. 448 p. w/ illustrations, indexes of opening moves and opponents. An important and classic work on Fischer's games, up through 1971.

Austin, TX: Double Diamond PRess, 1995. First hardcover edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Octavo (regular size). Dj has wear to edges, with a few small tears at top edge. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 214 p. A hardcover collection of the Hepcats comic book issues in the Snowblind story arc #1-10. While #11 and #12 were printed, the series staled at that point and no volume 2 was ever done. Uncommon.

New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1987. First edition. hardcover. Very good/very good. Landscape format (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of di and boards. A good night time story of a stuffed bear, passed down from father to son, who takes a child on a night time sailing adventure to a desert isle. The illustrator is well known for his GEORGE SHRINKS books. Uncommon.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974. First American edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. 288 p. w/ bibliography, index, maps on endpapers and appendices of original chronicles and inquisition sources. . An excellent history of the Albigensian heresy and crusade in medieval Languedoc.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so at head and heel of spine. Endpapers slighty darkened. 149 p. w/ footnotes.

London and New York: Macmillan and Co,, 1898. 10th ed. . Hardcover. Good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Corners worn. Name of former owners on half title. Slight wear to head and heel of spine. Some foxing at first and last few pages. Hinges showing some through paper at first and last endpapers. xiv (4), 515 p. w/2 fold out maps, maps with the text (some full page) b&w illustrations, appendix, index. Complete. A classic and masterwork by the co-discoverer of evolution via natural selection in a single volume attractive edition, though a bit worn.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards and dust jacket. Common commercial bookplate on pastedown. viii, 247 p. w/chapter endnotes, index. A survey of the role of Anglo-Saxon England in Europe, up to the end of the Ninth C., and including an interesting chapter on Vikings in Francia.

Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. xiv (1), 179 p. w/endnotes, bibliography, index.

Ann Arbor: University Activities Center and Sigma Dela Chi Professional Journalistic Society, January 1967. First edition. Softcover with glossy covers. Very good. Squareish octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners. Cover made with a circle in center to show the orange and black "BS*" on the cover page. 44 unnumbered pages of text interspersed with b&w illustrations and 1 small map of campus from the 30s. A fun history of UM from the 60s, before the campus protests began in earnest. Interesting anecdotes on elephant racing, football betting scandals, suden automobiles, and even surprise caskets found during building construction. Suprisingly uncommon.

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Squarish, thin duodecimo (smaller than standard). SIGNED and inscribed by the illustrator on tile page, with a small drawing of mouse's head added. Slight wear to edgs and corners of dj and boards. Front dj flap has old sticker residue. The first Christmas of Brown Mouse, who goes with his attic-living family to see it. Uncommon signed.

London: Macmillan, 1973. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thin duodecimo (smaller than standard sze) Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Head and heel of spine bumped. SIGNED by both Watsons on the title page.

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good, price clipped. Thin octavo (standard size). SIGNED and inscribed by the author AND illustrator on dedication page, with a small drawing of a mouse added. Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. A farmer and her daughter go to the county fair in fall, and their adventures are told in rhymed verse.

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Squarish, thin duodecimo (smaller than standard). SIGNED and inscribed by the illustrator to fellow illustrator Jan Whl on title page. Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. The first Christmas of Brown Mouse, who goes with his attic-living family to see it. Uncommon signed.

London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more so to dust jacket. Slight musty smell to book. Sticker on pastedown. 104 p. w/ b&w illus., endnotes. A look at the Royal mint trial plates (a piece of metal used as a standard in the assaying of coins to determine a coin's accuracy and fineness) from 1477 to 1873. An unusual topic.

New York, NY: Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard Books, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good, price clipped. Quarto in landscape format (standard size). SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the half title page with ink drawings of musical notes and Frog dancing with flies on either side. Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Dj is clipped. Watson takes the old Appalachian and English folk song (which actually probably started in Scotland) and tells the story of Frog's courtship of Miss Mouse in verse, with her own illustrations adding to the tale. Uncommon signed.

New York, NY: William Collins, 1978. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good (Price-Clipped) DJ. Squarish octavo (standard size). SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page with an ink line drawing of a woodchuck with coat, scarf and skates. Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Dj is clipped at the bottom corner, but the top corner still has a price of $6.95. Front board has a blue box with a woodchuck within, also in blue. A great winter story of a family of woodchucks enjoying the winter as they prepare for their long sleep. A slightly uncommon book in hardcover, more so signed and in attractive condition.

London: Quadrille Publishing, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thin smallish octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and half-sized dust jacket. With commercial bookplate of former owner on pastedown. 160 p. w/color and b&w illus., index, references. A survey of the work, life and impact of fashion designer and taste maker Schiaparelli, whose decades long career began in the late 1920s.

Chicheser, Sussex, UK: Centaur Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. SIGNED by the editor to Shackleton Bailey, a noted Ciceronian scholar. 171 p.

Pretoria and Cape Town: Patlaw and Juta & Co., 1961. First edition. Hardcover in red cloth binding. Good without dust jacket. Octavo. Only slightly ex-library with an attractive library Civil War collection stamp on front pastedown endpaper and another stamp with less but similar information on title page. Wear to edges of boards with bumping to head of spine and corners of covers. Scuffing to covers with some light white marks on front and a few faint scratches. Pages are lightly browned. 146 pages. A survey of laws pertaining to patents, trademarks, and designs country by country across Africa at the end of the colonial era. Section B