Search Results: Authors starting with W from Collectible Books

1. 1908 on title page. Published by Longmans Green and Company. No jacket. (ix)+363 pages. Very attractive green cloth with stamped line borders on covers, and bright gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Very light spotted foxing to endpapers. NO cracking, tears, pons, or marks.

1. Published by W. B. Conkey Company. 1893 Conkey copyright. Originally published in 1889 so later edition. 227pp +4pp ads. 5 x 7.5 inches. Frontis + 40 illustrations. Reddish brown cloth with gilt rules and letters on spine. Top edge gilt. Spine a bit sunned. Pages lightly tanned due to paper quality. Partially erased signature on the front endpaper, and minor pencil notation on inside margin of Contents page. Else clean and tight. History of California before the gold rush. Author's 1880's experiences, observations and commentary about people, races, activities, Indian tribes, Spanish American culture, missions, the Argonauts, etc.

1. DIFFERENT PUBLISHER! 1928. First American edition. Published by Payson & Clark Ltd. 331pp+1pp(printers note). 5.5 x 7 inches. Green cloth with black letters to spine and cover. No dust jacket. Map frontis. Very light rub to spine ends and corner tips. Clean, bright, tight and unmarked.

1. DRAWINGS BY SAMUEL WARD STANTON: OCEAN STEAM VESSELS. 1963 copyright by Elizabeth Anderson Stanton. Printed by Meridan Gravure. Oblong 8.5""; x 11.5"";. Original paperback bound into hardback with gilt spine lettering. Nicely bound in blue buckram matching the original wraps. Ex-library. 40 pages. First 4 pages contain a foreword by Alexander Crosby Brown, Intro by Frank Braynard, Artist's Note, Acknowledgements, Drawings' Owners, and a List of Illustrations. The remaining pages are full-page illustrations of different 19th century ships. Significant physical and historical details are provided in lower margins. Listed illustrations include wash drawings, pen and ink, and oil painting.

1. Title continues, ""..Being also a key to any arithmetical work, on the principles of association and visible illustration, WITH THIRTY ENGRAVINGS...by Charles Waterhouse A. M.."" Copyright 1855, 216 pages. Portland Me., Printed paper covered boards with leather spine. Good binding, one loose page, light general soiling, foxing and edge wear. Signatures on endpapers by Frances, Sarah and John Leavitt of Scarborough, Maine. Laid-in business card, ""Nath'l Waterhouse with Eastman Brothers, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in English, French and American Dry Goods, Gloves, Hosiery Undergarments, No. 129 Middle St., Portland, Me."" Scarce.

1. First edition. 1883. Published by Pacific Press, Oakland, California. 311pp. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. Original pebbled black cloth with blindstamped designs and letters, and illustrated title in gilt on the front cover. Light fray to corner tips and spine ends. Some stain and soil to cloth and textblock edges. Floral endpapers. First blank shows small booksellers pencil to top corner, ""1st Ed. 50.00 Californiana Anti-Tobacco, Pro Temperance Views of Old West and Native Americans"". Else pages unmarked. Includes tissued frontis + 5 full-page plates, and many text illustrations. Corner tips and spine ends lightly frayed; .25 inch cloth tear near top edge in rear joint. Howes W181. Amazing pioneer experiences, observations, opinions and historical events. Crossing the Plains in 1852. Travels in California, Missouri, and Kansas. Missions; circuit-riding; Indians; General Vallejo, Slavery; Elk, grizzly and buffalo hunting; even a man eaten alive by wolves.

Fifth edition thoroughly revised. 1887 on COPYRIGHT and TITLE pages. Published by Lippincott. 76 pp. Burgundy cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Lightly soiled and rubbed. Nice clean pages with NO cracking, handwriting, marks or tears. 7.5 x 5.25 inches.

1. Japan Publications. Printed in the U. S. A., Stated First Edition November 1991. Publisher's price $15.95. Clean , bright and tight. NO spine crease, probably unread.

1. Pantheon, New York, 1985 First American edition. First printing. Book appears unread, almost like new, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket with tiny tear to top of spine (under 1/8""), and lightly rubbed on back panel.

1. Published by Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1894. Rare true first edition with 1894 on title page. 194 pages. 4.75 x 7 inches. Pressed gold gilt designs to spine and front cover. Front cover letters to title and author in green. All page edges are gold gilt. Light rub and soil to white cloth. No cloth fraying. Inside very clean, bright and tight. Author's first published book. Whiting published 21 works within the following 17 years. Each of 5 chapters are titled and introduced by a full-page poem of a famous poet, with 5-6 subtitles per chapter. From an 1895 New York Times review, ""...thoughtful essays devoted to the engendering of human happiness, friendship. and the salvation of society. One chapter, entitled 'Exclusiveness and Inclusiveness,' is of singular excellence..."" Timeless advice.

1. First edition. 1908 on title page. Published by Longmans Green and Company. No jacket. (ix)+363 pages. Very attractive green cloth with blind-stamped line borders on covers, and bright gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Very light tan spots to endpapers. NO cracking, tears; NO pons, or marks.

1. Stated first edition. Dust jacket in Near Fine condition with slight edgewear. Published price on dj flap $35.00. Book in Fine, Like New condition.

1. SIGNED, inscribed, and dated on the front endpaper, ""Sincerely Herbert Earl Wilson June 19, 1922"" Below ""To Earl from Aunt Electa"". A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, CA, MLCCCCXXII (1922). First Edition. Slight bumping and very tiny paper chipping to outside edges. 5 x 7 inches, (135) pages. Original beige paper covered boards with brown lettering to spine, and drawing on cover. Fine condition inside. Clean, bright, crisp and tight. 13 illustrations from photographs by H. C. Pillsbury, and 8 vignette woodcut chapter headings. Contents include Indian: food, clothing, dwellings, industries, sweathouses, baskets, weapons, customs, religious beliefs, ceremonies, trade, dances, feasts, burials, medicine, history, white men influence, legends and more. Much on regional geology. . . .

1. Scarce in rare dustjacket. 1926 copyright by Century Co. New York & London. No date on title page. viii + 251pp. 8 x 5.5 inches. Dark red cloth with black lettering. Book and dustjacket in Very Good+ condition. NO wear on the cloth. Dust jacket has one 1/4 inch tear with slightly darkened spine. There is spotted foxing on the foredge, and the first few pages are lightly tanned. The rest is clean, tight and bright. Behind the front flap on the front pastedown there is a fine custom bookplate of YMCA notable Gilbert Beaver.

1. SIGNED by author William Swan. Charles E. Lauriat Co., Boston. 1925 on title page. Printed at the Colonial Press, C.H. Simonds Co. Near Fine. No dj. Slightest edgewear to covers, no fraying. Clean, bright and tight. Map endpapers. 335 pages, including appendix and index, followed with a fold-out plan. Dark blue cloth with bright gilt letters to spine. Top edge gilt. Printed tissue cover over frontis. 50+ listed illustrations.

SIGNED Fifth Printing. Farrar Straus & Giroux. Dj is edgeworn and publishers $5.95 price is present at top flap corner, but the bottom front flap corner is clipped. Pasted to fep is authors note, "";For Brian's copy of 'What I'm Going To Do, I Think', with my best wishes Larry Woiwode"";. Present on pastedown is Brian's bookplate. Some spotting or staining is present to page edges and the margins of a few pages. and mailed with trackable in the USA. .

1. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Stated first edition 1981. Unread, clean, bright and tight. Like new but for very faint surface rub to dustjacket.

1. By Elizabeth Wolf-Cohen. 1st ed. 1998. Published by Courage Books. 9 x 9 inches. Inside covers show pictures of Elvis stamps. New dust Jacket and book. 100+ color and b&w photos of Elvis and his favorite food. Includes some recipe histories such as fried peanut butter and banana and bacon sandwich!

1. Random House 1973 Stated First Edition. Unclipped dustjacket has 1/16"" and 1/8"" tears at top edge, and light edge toning. Book is reading copy. Cloth clean and intact. Spine leans. Bookplate on fep. About 20 lines underlined.

1. Houghton Mifflin: 1985. First edition, first printing. Book like new, clean, crisp, tight, bright and unread. Dust jacket with 1/2 inch closed tear to bottom edge, and light rub to corner tips and edges.