Search Results: Authors starting with W from Pages Past Books

VG/VG Funk & Wagnalls NY 1968 1st hardcover 8vo, 247 pages, b+w photos. Author and her husband built a trimaran and sailed with their infant son from Connecticut to Florida along the inland waterway. Dustjacket price clipped. Light soiling to white of rear. Solid and clean with dj in protective cover.

VG-/G FS Crofts & Co NY 1938 1st hardcover 4to, 397 pages, b+w illustrations, index, bibliography, appendix. Bookplate inside front cover. Complete and practical guide to costume throughout the ages beginning with Egypt through the 20th century, organized by historical periods and countries. Light extremity wear to binding, dustjacket spine and edges darkened with some light edgewear, but very nice in a protective cover.

VG JH Hartley illus A & C Black, Ltd London 1922 1st hardcover 4to, 58 pp, color and b+w illustrations, paste on pictorial cover. Harmonized by Lucy E Broadwood. Illustrated with 13 color plates plus color paste on pictorial cover by Hartley. Light cover rubbing and very light spotting to the rear cover; light foxing inside the covers; otherwise solid and clean.

VG, no dj Florence W. Williams illus Juvenile David C. Cook Pub. Co. Elgin 1928 1st Hardbound 8vo, 61 pp, color plates Story of how an Indian girl and her cousin found Christ through their adventures with the Indian doll set in eastern New York among the Iroquois and Algonquin Indians. 1930 award inscription inside front cover. Light cover rubbing and very light foxing inside front cover; otherwise clean and solid.

NF/VG condition Associated Booksellers Westport 1958 1st printing hardcover 8vo, 267 pages, index, bibliography, b+w illustrations. First printing book in a third printing dustjacket which is price clipped with some light edgewear/rubbing, but nice in a Brodart protective cover.

Good+ condition E.P. Dutton NY 1921 1st assumed hardcover 8vo, 344 pages, 24 full page illustrations, index. Italian painting from the 15th to the 18th century, including the work of the principal artists and their followers of the various Italian schools not already treated in the previous volumes of this work. (continued from Vol III) Light browning inside covers with light agewear. Solid copy.

Good+ Carida watercolors Lothrop Lee & Shepard Boston (1892) Early edition hardcover 8vo, 126 pages, b+w illustrations, decorated cover. Children's stories with fairies, animals, dogs, etc. as told by the thumb, ring finger, etc. Short gift inscription inside front cover. Light soiling and agewear. Solid copy with brown and silver decoration.

Fine/Fine Louisiana State Univ Press Baton Rouge 1993 1st hardcover 8vo, 183 pages, index, bibliography. The emergence of the planter-aristocrat over the yeoman as the dominant cultural icon in the newly settled states of the old southwest.

Good+/ no dustjacket Macmillan NY 1910 early reprint hardcover 8vo, 628 pages. Light general agewear. Solid with strong cover and spine titling.

VG/VG condition Quadrangle Books NY 1972 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 228 pages, b+w photos, index. Quadrangle Books news release laid in. Dustjacket protected in Brodart.

VG+/VG Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs (1971) 3rd hardcover 8vo, 276 pages, index, bibliography. A center for urban education book. Solid clean copy with only light rubbing to dustjacket.

VG/VG- Leon Amiel NY 1977 hardcover 4to, 240 pages, 100 full page plates, 16 in color, 37 additional illustrations, reading list. Art of printmaking with representative work of many artists. Light rubbing and edgewear. Solid clean copy with dustjacket in protective cover.

VG-/VG-some light wear, VG- 100 drawings Random House NY 1965 1st ptg hardcover 8vo (lg), unpaginated, Theological, historical and architectural look at New England houses of worship.

Good+ Thomas Nelson & Sons London no date hardcover 12mo, 287 pages, b+w frontis. From Nelson's Library. Light general agewear. Name inked on front endpaper.Undated; probably 1940s-1950s.

Good/no dustjacket Grosset & Dunlap NY (1908) reprint hardcover 8vo, 460 pages + ads. Name inked out inside front cover and on front endpaper. Spine sunned and front cover spotted. Solid copy.

Good/Good condition Westminster Press Philadelphia (1962) hardcover 8vo, 246 pages. Front free endpaper removed. DJ spine sunned with light extremity wear. Solid clean copy with dj protected in Brodart.

VG/VG- Helen S. Hamilton illus Doubleday Garden City (1964) reprint hardcover 8vo, 184 pages, pictorial endpapers, illustrations by Hamilton. 28th title in series. Dustjacket price clipped with crease at left front. Tight bright clean copy.

VG- pg decorations, frontis JB Lippincott Phila 1893 1st hardcover 12mo, 237pp, Social and domestic life of colonial days. Light soiling, general wear, but very presentable copy. Christmas gift. Inscription front free endpaper, bookmark detached but laid in. Light foxing inside covers and inside hinge at title page cracked. Still, solid and respectable copy.

Fine/VG+ a few small soil smudges on dustjacket, VG+ photos repros Galahad Books NY nd (1974) reprint hardcover 8vo, 431pp, Tales of archeaological discovery-related first hand by the discoverers themselves. Dustjacket in protective cover.

Good 41 repros in aquatone Random House NY 1934 1st hardcover 8vo, 360pp, Indexed, with collateral reading list, technical drawings, woodcut illustrations Some binding soiling with 4" closed tear to hinge cloth reglued.