Search Results: Authors starting with W from Kama’aina Collection

Franz Hanfstaengl, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Fred. Leeke Pink. None. with accompanying text by Franz Muncker Approx. 19.5 inches tall x 14.5 inches wide x 5/8 inches thick, 49.5 x 37 cm. Title, 8 pages, 15 plates in copper etching (heliogravure) after paintings by Ferdinand Leeke. Illustrated original canvas binding. With pictures on Holländer (2), Tannhäuser (2), Lohengrin (3), Rheingold (1), Walküre (3), Siegfried (2) and Götterdämmerung (2). Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

London: LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW; J. MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET; JOHN GREIG, UPPER-STREET, ISLINGTON; AND CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH., 1814. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair+. WALTER SCOTT, ESQ. None. Volume 1. cxxvii + 92 pp + 47 plates. Volume 2. [93] - 209 pp + ci appendices + [11] pp index + 45 plates + frontis and ornamental title pages. Gilt top page edges. Professionally rebound with green calf skin spine and corners with a lighter green linen covered boards. Handsomely done with gilt letting on the spine. Tight binding. Heavily foxed and some circular mold staining throughout. Some fore and aft pages have loss due to insects. Please view all photos as they are a part of the item description. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos.

Bookplate for: The Johann Fust Community Library of Bocca Grande, Florida, Inc.. EDITED WITH HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION ORIGINAL LATIN TEXT WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION ON OPPOSITE PAGES AND NOTES BY JAMES WESTFALL THOMPSON

Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Unknown. Bookplate from The Johann Fust Community Library. From the Latin by James Westfall Thompson text including a bibliography and an index. Vellum spine is moderately darkened. Paper covered boards are lightly shelfworn, Contains 181 illustrations, several of which are two-page or fold-out. (including 8 plates). Edited with Historical Introduction, Original Latin Text with English Translation on Opposite Pages and Notes; Bibliography; Index. Printed on English hand-made paper. Vellum spine with gilt lettering over brown paper covered boards blindstamped with Caxton Club device on covers; decorative endpapers.One of 300 copies printed. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Size: Quarto (4to). Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

Boston: James R. Osgood And Company, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. A. F. Bellows, Samuel Colman, Henry Farrer, R. Swain Gifford, and J. D. Smillie. None. None 32 x 24.5 cm. Bound in decorative green cloth with gilt design and lettering. Complete with 20 etchings by A. F. Bellows, Samuel Colman, Henry Farrer, R. Swain Gifford, and J. D. Smillie. Some rubbing to the edges of the boards. green cloth over bevelled boards. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. WINLR

USA: E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. John Vassos. None. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. 57 pp. Quarto. Original Black boards, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, black and gilt decorated end pages. 1927 to copyright page and no mention of reprint. Very slight fading to spine, shows little wear. Some fingerprints inside. A Very good copy Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos.

New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. John Vassos. Madge Anderson. None Vassos, John (illustrator). First Edition. NY: E. P. Dutton & Co Inc, 1928 Black spine with blue paper boards, Fair. Boards showing on corners. Illustrated by John Vassos, 124 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. 7.5 X 9.5 inches. Tissue guards on every illustration. 16 illustration with tissue overlay. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 2HR

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. John Vassos. None. None Illustrated by John Vassos (illustrator). First Edition. Illustrations by John Vassos. NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1929. First Edition thus. Lg 8vo. 102pp. With 16 b&w half-tone lithographs by Vassos. Black cloth back & green paper boards, black & gilt image lower front cover, spine letters gilt, board edges moderately worn, owner's name on e.p, interior in very good condition. No dj. ; 16 b&w plates; Large 8vo 9"" - 10"" tall; 102 pages. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 2HR

Leipzig: ERICIIIENEN, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. HEINRICH VOGELER-WORPSWEDE. Signed Grete Haap 1915. Franz Blei and Felix Paul Greve Translated by Franz Blei and Felix Paul Greve. Book decoration (title drawing, 12 drawings, 12 initials and 3 vignettes) by Heinrich Vogeler-Worpswede, illustr. Original full leather binding with gilding on title and spine, cover drawing by Heinrich Vogeler-Worpswede, - exceptionally well-preserved copy with a few insignificant rubbings. A couple of pages have fingerprints that we have not cleaned off because they do not interfere with the text. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos.

USA: PUBLISHED BY THE KINGSPORT PRESS, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. None. A fine copy of a book tracing the origins and development of book illustrations. The original series appeared in Publisher's Weekly. More than six dozen illustrations, printed on gloss paper. Bound in two-tone cloth, rust and black, and with gilt lettering on spine and ruling to covers. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos.

New York : D. Appleton & Co. Publishers, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Harry Fenn and J.D. Woodward. None. None Assisted By the Most Eminent Palestine Explorers. With Numerous Engravings on Steel and Wood from Original Drawings By Harry Fenn and J.D. Woodward. Volumes I and II complete. Very large two volumes: 13.5” x 10”x 2.25” each. Black leather with gilt blind stamped design to covers and spines, gilt titles. All edges gilt, marbled end papers. Gilt on interior edge of binding leather as well. The history, geography and archeology of eastern Mediterranean, with observations on Christian, Jewish and Muslim culture, sumptuously illustrated with many stunning steel and wood engravings, remarkably bright and clean. Volume I: Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Judaea, Nazareth and Gaililee. Volume II: Cairo, Sinai, Thebes, Memphis and Edfu. 
Charles William Wilson (1836-1905) was a geographer and archaeologist in the British Army. During the 1860s, he conducted major surveys of Jerusalem and… Read More

London: G. P. Putnam’s Son’s - The Knickerbocker Press, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Frank T. Merrill. None. None Very nice and clean, tight copy. 6-1/4 x 4-1/2 inches Blue printed paper wrappers, gilt stamped lettering to front. Blue cloth, very attractively decorated gilt script and AEG. Attached red ribbon marker. Pictorial eps, profusely illustrated through-out with pictures and text drawn. Very Little to no foxing. The only issue with this volume is the worm damage to the inside covers near the spine. Spine also has a couple tiny holes off to the side. Book was professionally treated for book worms. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR