Search Results: Authors starting with W from Johnson's Used Books

This is a quality paperback facsimile of a very scarce original published in Topeka KS, 1908, very nice quality, lots of photo illustrations, this edition published privately by a family member in 1983, 5-1/4""x7-3/4"", 126 page, near mint unmarked unused copy. Fascinating.

Oxford at Clarendon Press, 1923, assumed 1st edition, reddish brown cloth, gilt spine title and device, sound little-used ex-library copy with the usual marks, otherwise very good, moderate rubs/bumps to cover extremities, text slightly evenly age-toned, a number of foldouts (facs. of manuscript leaves and charts of characters in each play), 7""x8-3/4"", 366pp, quite scarce, no dust jacket

Pleasantville NY, Reader's Digest Assoc., copy. 1969, apparent 1st ed with no mention of later printings, green with floral décor, glossy, wire bound, not visible from the outside of the book), 252pp, piano accomp. As well as guitar chords, 9-1/2""x12-1/4"", mild rubs to cover extremities, no previous owner name or marks, shipping weight over 4 lbs

London, Folio Society, 1947, 1st printing by this publisher, ill. Lettice Sandford, cream cloth spine with blue and white decorated boards, hardcover, original printed acetate dust jacket that is fair only with tape repair and about a square inch piece missing top of spine area...the exposed area of the top of the spine of the covers is sunned, slight wear to cover extremities, text mildly and evenly age-toned, 5-1/2""x8-7/8"", 60pp, small discreet previous owner name inside the front cover, otherwise unmarked...an early Folio Society production

published by The Country Squire, Winchester Center, CT., 1981, second printing, SIGNED by author on free standing front endpaper. This 278 page book is bound in stiff pictorial wraps and is in very good condition. raxx

Middle Village NY, Jonathan David, copyright 1976, First edition, 6""x9-1/4"" hardcover, red hardcover boards, very good to fine bright unmarked copy, good price-clipped dust jacket. 239 pages. See scans for table of contents.

Allentown PA, Story Classics, 1948, hardcover, beige buckram cloth sine, blueish-grey pictorial boards, near fine probably unread copy, previous owner bookplate inside the front cover, otherwise unmarked, ill. Richard Lindner, 7-1/2'x9-1/2"", 131pp, housed in a fair but serviceable black slipcase that has wear and a small amount of chipping over the joints

NY, Barse& Hopkins, copy. 1910, limp green suede covers with yapped edges, very good except sunning on spine and cover edges, original owner's ink signature on blank page in front dated 1920, ill., 5-1/2""x7-5/8"", no dj

1863 true 1st edition, 2nd state (with a 22 page publisher's catalog at the back of the book - the listing for ""Tales Of A Wayside Inn"" has a price of $1.25 indicating a 2nd State while the first state gives no price but says ""nearly ready. BAL publisher is reluctant to say which is first and which is second state, and hedges by saying it is ""significant""); Ticknor and Fields; Boston. Includes the first appearance in book form of the famous poem, ""Paul Revere's Ride."" Top edge gilt, stippled brown cloth with beveled edges, a very crisp sound attractive copy, mild wear/bumps to extremities, spine is very slightly sunned and even less so along top margins of covers, 4-5/8""x7-1/4"".very slight sticker residue on top edge of the free front endpaper (endpapers are brown). Solid very good condition, inner hinges sound and uncracked. Text is mildly and evenly age-toned.

Boston, Houghton Osgood & Company, 1878, 1st edition 1st state with publisher name spelled out at the base of the spine, brown cloth hardcover with beveled edges and gilt title background, fair or about good sound square copy, front inner hinge starting to split, moderate wear and fraying to cover extremities and tips, previous owner name in pencil inside the front cover that is very unobtrusive because endpapers are dark brown (""Howard Roper, May 16 1878""), otherwise unmarked. 4-1/2""x7-1/8"", text block is sound and tight.

Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, copy. 1906, assumed 1st edition of this illustrated edition, redl cloth hardcover with gilt lettering and décor, fair but sound copy, numerous full and half-page tinted illustrations (noted in the illustrations table of contents) but there is mention of a frontispiece, which is missing, and no mention of 5 other full-page color plates that are not mentioned in the list of illustrations, rather worn copy with a major ink spill on the top corner and on the rear edges of the rear cover...the spill happened a long time ago. Inner margins of the text are affected by the ink spill, but does not affect the text or the illustrations, all ills. present except for the frontis,

Boston, Ticknor & Fields, 1856, last copy. 1850, an ornate gift edition, full leather, ribbed spine, beveled cover edges, covers are ornately carved, moderate scuffing to leather extremities, mainly to top 1"" of the spine area, inner hinges are slightly split but outer leather hinges of both covers are solid and uncracked, early owner's name in gilt lettering on front cover, no previous owner name or marks in the book, slight even age-toning to the text, frontis portrait engraving of Longfellow with tissue guard (mild foxing to this tissue guard), 5-1/4""x8-1/8"", all edges gilt, 334pp, quite attractive

Indianapolis IN, Bobbs Merrill, copy. 1905, hardcover, gray cloth with color paste on front cover ill., good sound square tight copy, small previous owner bookplate on free front endpaper, otherwise unmarked, color frontis with other plates black and white plates in the text, good sound copy, tight uncracked hinges, moderate wear/bumps/fraying to cover extremities, old faint superficial dampmarking on rear cover, 7""x9-5/8"", 132pp, no dust jacket

(by the great-grandson of Richard Wagner). NY, Picador, 1999, 1st US edition, hardcover, illustrated, fine square tight unmarked probably unread copy, 6-1/4""x9-1/2"", fine dust jacket.

NY, Picador, 1999, 1st US edition coded, hardcover, yellow and purple boards, 310 pages, trans. from the German by Della Couling, fine unread unmarked copy, 6-1/4""x9-1/2"", fine dust jacket.

Berkeley CA, Howell-North Books, copy. 1974, 1st edition hardcover, light greenish blue cloth, very good, very slight sunning to some cover edges, slight rubs to cover extremities, 8-1/2""x12-1/4"", 135pp including index and appendix, black and white vintage photo ills., about good dust jacket with a few short closed edge tears and rubs protected by an acetate jacket liner (neither the jacket or the liner is attached to the book in any way, shipping weight over 3 lbs

NY, Thames & Hudson, 1986, 1st edition hardcover,reddish brown boards, fine probably unread copy, part of a small address sticker of the previous owner on the top edge of the free front endpaper, otherwise unmarked, 6-1/4""x9-5/8"", ill., 192pp incl. index

w/ Preface by F. C. Burkitt, London, Fisher Unwin, 1927, stated 1st edition, navy blue cloth hardcover, good sound square tight copy, previous owner ink namestamp on the front and rear free endpapers, otherwise unmarked (note: there had been occasional very light pencil marginal brackets in the text, but I erased all that I saw with ease...I may have missed a few), a few minor dog-ears, mild age-toning to endpapers, 5-1/2""x8-3/4"", 368pp, indexed. Dedicated to Albert Schweitzer.

Philadelphia PA, Historical Society of PA, 1958, 1st edition hardcover, gray cloth, good sound tight copy, mild wear and bumps to cover extremities with moderate sunning to cover edges, no previous owner marks, color and black and white ills., 9""x12-1/4"", fair and edge-chipped but still serviceable dust jacket with mild paper loss. 261pp. shipping weight 5 lbs

Wash DC, Luce, copy. 1970, assumed 1st edition, and ex-library reading copy with the usual ex-library flaws and marks, free front endpaper clipped out and not present, dust jacket in acetate liner, nice solid reading copy only, 5-1/2""x8-3/4"", 319pp