Search Results: Authors starting with W from Quiet Friends

NY, London: Putnam. VG book, no DJ. Clean/tight. Fairly bright. Extrems litely worn.. 1906. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book, no DJ. TEG. Gilt lettered & decor blue/green cloth. Spine heel w 1/4" tears. FINE inside BUT: neat gift note on fep. .

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill. VG book, GOOD(worn) DJ. Gilt lettered green cloth.. (1943). 1st edition. Hardcover. VG book, GOOD(worn) DJ(in Brodart). 8vo, 347pp. Attractive DJ front panel. $2.75 price intact. MANY 1/2" chips & 1" tears. . Yellow top edge. Tight & clean book with NEAR FINE text leaves BUT MISSING the first blank end paper. First leaves in this book are the half title page followed by the title page. .

Geneseo: Brunner, Genesee Valley Hunt. NEAR FINE book. Black cloth with gilt & white spine label.. 1984. 1st ltd ed.. Hardcover. NEAR FINE book, no DJ, likely as issued. Limited to 950 copies. Tight. "MINT" contents. Geneseo Valley Hunt" map laid in. . Book's spine & edges lightly sunned. .

London: Methune. NEAR FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). 8vo 527pp.. 1973. 1st edition.. Hardcover.

Paris: Librairie Fischbacher. VG book. Marbled boards & eps. Some pencilled underlining.. (1916) 1893cp. 28th thousand. Hardcover. VG book. IN FRENCH. TEG. Half brown morocco. Gilt spine lettering. Extrems lightly worn. Text pages lightly age browned. . Small 8vo, 281pp. .

Phila: Historical Society of Penna. VG+ book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Bright book/DJ. Tight. FINE inside.. 1974 (1942cp). 1st thus. Hardcover. VG+ book, VG DJ. DJ edgeworn. DJ front cut top to bottom, tape repair inside has left stains on outside. Greatly revised ed. .

London: Balliere, Tindall & Cox. VG books. Orig pebbled red cloth. King/Queen gilt stamped cover.. 1937 (1898cp). 15th edition.. Hardcover. VG books. 8vo, xi,1-784,50 & 785-1618,50pp. Very attractive. Text & illus bright & clean as new. Extrems w minor wear. .

NY, Toronto: Rinehart. VG book, GOOD DJ. DJ w $2.75 price, spine ends chipped away.. 1947. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book, GOOD DJ(in Brodart). FINE text block. Rinehart logo on cp. Red tinted top edge. No aging, foxing, soiling, etc. .

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. VG+ book, GOOD DJ. SIGNED.. 1966. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG+ book, GOOD DJ. SIGNED half tp. FINE book but spine ends rubbed. DJ bright & whole but worn corners. .

Don Mills, Ontario: Longmas Canada Ltd. VG+ book, VG DJ. SIGNED by author & wife.. (1965). 1st ed likely. Hardcover. VG+ book, VG D/J(in Brodart). SIGNED/inscribed by author & wife Clean book/DJ. Tight. FINE inside. DJ edgeworn. 8vo, xii,350pp .

London: Hodder and Stoughton. FINE book, FINE DJ(in Brodart). 1st ed. 8"x6". 307pp.. 1952. 1st edition.. Hardcover. FINE book, FINE DJ. Illustrated with 83 pictures of 137 places. Book's sole flaw, litely bumped spine top. DJ w few 1/8" chips. . Near flawless book. Text block fore & bottom edges as white as new. Top edge, colored a light red, just as clean as the other two. Book stays closed when stood on edge so there's a good chance its never been read. DJ complete with price. In 1953 England's monarch became a queen, at which point the titled THE QUEEN'S ENGLAND. .

London: Hodder and Stoughton. AS NEW book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Bright DJ. 1st ed. 8"x5", 307pp.. (1952). 1st edition.. Hardcover. AS NEW book, VG DJ. Illustrated w 83 gravures of 137 places. Pink tinted top edge. Bright DJ complete with "15/- net" price. . All three text block edges bright & clean. Immaculate inside. Book tends to stay closed when stood on its spine, a sign of having been read with great care, if at all. Dj top edge extrems with few 1/8" chips. The book was completed after Arthur Mee died. Mee had edited all the other titles. The following year, 1953, it was reprinted and the series renamed "THE QUEEN'S ENGLAND". .

NY et al: Harper & Row. NEAR FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart).. 1965. 1st edition.. Hardcover. NEAR FINE book, VG DJ. Bright & tight. DJ w minor edgewear. 8vo, 126pp. .

KC, MO: Halcyon Housel. VG book, VG+ DJ. SIGNED.. (1969). Hardcover. VG book, VG+ D/J(in Brodart). SIGNED & inscribed fep. Tight. Top edge dust stained. FINE text. FINE D/J but: tips rubbed. .

London: Goupil. VERY FINE book in full crimson levant morocco. 1st ed. #3/250.. 1903. 1st ltd ed.. Hardcover. VERY FINE book. Lucian Durvand, 1852-1924, binding, one of France's finest binders. Signed by him @ front, lower, turn in. . 33x26(cm), Pp.254. Sophia's son became UK's George I. Printed on Japanese vellum paper. Two identical frontis, one of which in color. Most plates printed in two states, both w tissue guards, one captioned. Pastedowns & both sides of first & last 2 leaves marbled. Elaborate gilt turn ins of 2 rows of dentils separated by 4 ruled or dotted lines. Both covers identically gilt decorated. Board edges double ruled in gilt. Covers framed with linear floral design & double ruling, this duplicated but reversed an inch inside. Inside this a more elaborate floral design. Spine w 5 raised, gilt ruled, ribs. 2nd panel gilt lettered author/title. Other panels w corner fleur de lis, inside which a double ruled rectangle with a floral design inside that. The… Read More

NY: Holt Rinehart Winston. VG+ book, VG DJ(in Brodart). SIGNED fep.. 1967. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG+ book, VG DJ. SIGNED. Bright book & DJ. DJ edges & corners rubbed, 1" tear top front. .

NY & London: Harper. NEAR FINE books, no DJs. SIGNED. Limited edition of 498 copies.. 1906. 1st edition.. Hardcover. NEAR FINE set. Green cloth, gilt spine lettering. Limitation page states NUMBERED & SIGNED, this copy SIGNED but unnumbered. . 8vo, 186 & 189-367pp. Bright & clean set with minor flaws. (1) Foxed & glue browned pastedowns & adjoining eps. (2) "Audrey Christmas 1925" neatly inked inside both. (3) Cover extrems rubbed & top edges a bit soiled.(4) Boards slightly bowed. Mrs Ward SIGNED her name, "Mary A Ward" on page facing the limitation page. Limitation states it's a numbered set, but this set is unnumbered. Plates all with captioned tissue guards. .

NY: Viking. NEAR FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart).. 1954. 1st edition.. Hardcover. NEAR FINE book, VG DJ. 8vo, x,305pp. Spine rubbed, old prices on fep. .

Evansville, IN: Unigraphic. FINE book, AS NEW DJ. Facsimile reprint of the 1903 edition.. 1979. 1st thus.. Hardcover. FINE book in AS NEW translucent plastic sleeve. Book also AS NEW but for a inked gift inscription. 10"x7", 320pp. . This is # 116 of an unnumbered limited edition. Orig published in 1903 by Doubleday, Page. Book enclosed the publisher's clear plastic sleeve. An immaculate book, all three text block edges as white as new. .

Richmond.: William Byrd Press.. "MINT" book, FINE DJ(in Brodart). Crisply SIGNED in ink on fep.. 1990. Hardcover. MINT book, FINE D/J(in Brodart). SIGNED. 8vo, 38pp. DJ with few tiny closed tears in some corners. .