Search Results: Authors starting with W from Evening Star Books

Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, Limited, 1939. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo. [5], viiil, [3], 2-598, [2] pp. Blue cloth with green and gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine, the book itself has a very attractive design. Price of 25/- net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece, six folding plates, one full-page illustration, and with several in-text photographs and designs. A later printing of the second edition. A well-designed book that provides a history of Buddhism in one of the most historically fraught places in the modern era. With a Blackwell's bookstore tag on the front pastedown, a bit of foxing to the leaves; jacket has traces of edge wear, particularly to the spine panel.

Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas Publisher [1958], 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Small 4to. [6], vii-viii, [2], 3-342, [2] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. A glossary and a reference on medical etymology, with brief histories of famous doctors and nurses. Jacket has a few small spots of discoloration on its rear panel.

London: Published for The Crime Club by Collins [1965], 1965. First printing. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [4], 5-223, [1] pp. Quarter red cloth over red and black patterned cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Wainwright's uncommon first novel. Very near Fine book in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with some edge wear and moderate rubbing.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [9], 4-186 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket's design done by Gary Gore. Joshi 60. A collection of ghost stories by Wakefield. Jacket has moderate toning.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich [1991], 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-xvi, [2], 3-463, [1] pp. Quarter brown cloth over pictorial boards with gold lettering on the spine. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $24.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers [1988], 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [14], xv-xxi, [3], 196, [2] pp. Quarter beige cloth over purple paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A collection of poignant essays from Alice Walker, reflecting on her travels, her experiences within the San Fransisco LGBTQ+ community, and her relationship with her daughter. A Near Fine book with minor toning to the textblock in a Near Fine dust jacket with mild fading to the spine panel.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [1981], 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [8], ix-x, [4], 3-167, [1] pp. Quarter beige cloth over red paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $10.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A name on the free front endpaper and minor wear to the edges of the boards; jacket shows a small chip to the front panel and a bit of edge wear.

New York: St. Martin's Press (1995), 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. 8vo. [10], 1-262 pp. Blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $21.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Foxing to the top textblock and fore-edge; jacket with a few wrinkles to its rear panel.

Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press, 1808. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], ii-viii, [1], 2-389, [3]; [3], 2-416 pp. Quarter recent maroon leather over marbled paper boards, black label lettered in gilt with a bit of additional gilt lettering on the spines. Recent endpapers and pastedowns. Lowndes 2813. Oxford DNB, Charles W. J. Withers, "Walker, John, (1731-1803)". John Walker was a naturalist and surveyed the Hebrides between the years of 1766 through 1786. He was a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and taught natural history. These volumes were published posthumously. Walker's two volume set gives great detail on the agriculture, the population, the police force, the fossils and natural plants of the Hebrides, and on other aspects of life in the Hebrides during the late seventeenth century. A touch of foxing to an occasional leaf, overall a lovely copy.

London: Routledge (1989), 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [8], ix-xi, [1], 1-247, [1] pp. Bound in red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. A sharp copy of this careful examination of the coherence theory of truth, uncommon in the first edition.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company (1999), 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [12], 0-273, [2] pp. Black paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $24.00 on front flap of jacket. Few very faint, tiny spots of discoloration to top of textblock, else a Fine book in a Fine dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo. [6], v-x, [2], 551, [5] pp. Bound in green cloth with gold lettering and light green and orange decorations, photo inset in a gold rectangle on front board; top edge gilt. The Player's Edition. Very Good with a slight separation between the backstrip and top of textblock and a few traces of rubbing and edge wear.

New York: Little, Brown and Company (2011), 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. Large 8vo. [4], v-x, [4], 3-548 pp. Black paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $27.99 on front flap of dust jacket.

New York: The Heritage Press [1960], 1960. Later edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [4], v-xxii, [3], 2-486, [2] pp. Pictorial pink cloth with gold lettering blocked in black on the spine. Housed in a black slipcase. Frontispiece, color plate illustrations and in-text wood engravings done by Joe Mugnaini. Introduction by Ben Ray Redman. Includes the Sandglass issue. A Near Fine book with the spine moderately faded; slipcase is close to Fine.

Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons [1960], 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [8], 9-357, [3] pp. Black cloth with a design in blind on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs and maps. General Chamberlain fought at Little Round Top and is credited as playing a significant role in winning that engagement. A small push to the top textblock and a bit of rubbing to the boards; jacket has traces of edge wear.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [3], vi-x, [3], 2-521, [1] pp. Half contemporary calf over tan pebbled cloth with the spine in six compartments and a maroon and green morocco label lettered in gilt, spine decorated with gilt; textblock, endpapers, and pastedowns marbled. A decorative bookplate from 1883 on the front pastedown. Oxford DNB, G.E. Buckle, "Mackenzie, David Wallace". David Wallace Mackenzie was a journalist and a correspondent for the London newspaper The Times. He was stationed in Constantinople and in the Balkans for several years, and through this position he was able to travel to and write about Egypt. In this volume he presents a geographical summary of Egypt, and investigates its political systems. Wallace travels through the desert to different villages, cities, and communes, and records the daily life, the British influence, and the political realities of nineteenth-century Egypt. A Near Fine book with minor wear to the extremities and a… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers [1880], 1880. Later printing. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 8vo. [5], 6-552, [1], 2-12, [2] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine; brown topstain. A Near Very Good book with the rear hinge cracked and moderate rubbing to the edges of the boards.

New York: W. W. Norton & Co. [2003], 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [12], 319, [5] pp. Quarter black paper boards over blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $23.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Minor wear to the extremities.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company (2005), 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo. [10], 3-343, [1] pp. Quarter red cloth over white paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $25.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Minor wear to the boards' edges including some yellowing; jacket has a wrinkle to the front panel and a bit of edge wear.

Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von B.G. Teubner, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo. [3], iv-xiv, [3], 4-288, [2] pages of publisher's advertisements pp. Half morocco over marbled boards with the spine in six compartments; all edges lightly speckled. In a reinforced binding. A few in-text figures. Part of the publisher's series on Lehrbüchern [= textbooks]. Volume 35 in the field of mathematical sciences. A name on the free front endpaper and offsetting from a bookplate's removal on each pastedown.