Search Results: Authors starting with W from Sparkle Books

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2002 Fine First Edition, First Printing In Near Fine Unclipped Dj. Richard Wagamese Describes Ojibway Traditions And Knowledge And His Own Life Experiences In Order To Fulfil His Role As Father To His Estranged Son. This Was A Timely Book Ten Years Later In That Subsequent Observations Have Come To The Conclusion That In The Modern Age The Absentee Father Had Been A Disturbing First Nations Tradition And With That Acknowledgement, The Recognition Of A New Generation Of Young Fathers Who Hope To Do Better.

London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969 1969 Paul Hamlyn Edition With Illustrations By Maria Calati, Translated By Guido Waldman. 4To, Very Good Condition Brown Boards With Gold Lettering, Decorative Endpapers, No Writing Or Marks Or Stickers. Good- Dust Jacket Has A Number Of Large Chips, Is Unclipped, In Brodart Cover.

U.S.A.: Washington Square Press, 1997 Very Nice Copy Of First Edition First Printing Alice Walker (The Color Purple). This Is An Interesting Memoir Because It Is About The Color Purple And Her Feelings About The Making Of The Film. Contains Her Screenplay.

U.K.: Hart-Davis, 1969 Very Good First Hart-Davis Edition 1969 In Very Good Unclipped Dust Jacket. Remnant Of Book Plate On Ffep.Light crease to both front board and Dust Jacket. Clean Purple Boards With Gilt Lettering First Novel Written And Illustrated By Victoria Walker.

East Rutherford, NJ, U.S.A.: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1986 This Book Is Signed And Inscribed By The Author November 12, 1986. The Dust Jacket Is Unclipped And Both Are Very Good + Condition. As Noted On The Jacket Panel, This Book Is Based On An Incident From The Author's Own Childhood And Is Inspired By Native Legends About The Power Of Niagara Falls. Mr. Wallace Is An Award Winning Illustrator And Writer.

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Sierra Club Books, 1980 Beautiful book, first edition, in fine condition. Sierra Club publication illustrated by Jennifer Dewey. White linen boards with grey lettering and grey pencil drawing of rose hips (and caterpillar?) on front board. Decorative endpapers with blue and dark blue leaf design. Dust jacket has grey leaf design on beige ground with blue lettering. Very attractive design. Dust jacket is unclipped, has two half inch tears to top rear panel. No writing or other marks. A beautiful work of urban ecology.

U.S.A.: Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 1992 Stated First Printing, Very Good, No Writing Or Marks, One Corner Has Some Rubbing. Lacks Dj. A Lovely Book About Families, Houses, Changing Landscapes And Changing Society. Oblong, 8.25 X 10.5

London & Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers Ltd., 1932 First Reprint August 1932 Of The First Edition And Printing July 1932. Scarce Book, Very Good For Age, Some Browning Of Initial Pages, Small Bookstore Sticker On Inside Cover. Light Rub To Corners And No Dj. Green Boards With Gilt Lettering, Light Rub To Spine Bottom. Fos On Ffep.

Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole, 1965 Signed Copy (On Ffep), Unclipped Dj Showing Original Price Of $3.95 And Testimonials From Bud Abbott, Gene Autry And Alice Faye. Dj Spine Is Sunned And Dj Has Several Tears And Chips. Light Toning To Text, Very Good Bright Yellow Boards With Red Lettering.

E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Rough Guides, 2000 Stated First Printing, October 2000 Small Format Guide To The Blues. Small Format. No Writing Or Marks.

Richmond Hill, ON, Canada: Firefly Books, Limited, 1994 Near fine copy in near fine unclipped dj. One corner has more of a production flaw than a rub. Written by Heather Patricia Ward of Hanna, Alberta. A very touching book dedicated to missing children about a mother promising to search and search in every possible vehicle to find her child.

Leicester: Brockhampton, 1950 Good plus copy of this scarce book spine is somewhat cocked, pale blue boards are grubby and spine is sunned. Former owner address in pencil on inside endpaper, gift inscription in pen on ffep. Clean interior moderately toned, very light wear. Illustrations, black and white with colour highlighting by Kay. States first published in 1950. Dust jacket is not price clipped, but is quite chipped with loss at top of spine. Corners are good and book is sturdy. Original price is 4/6

Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1995 Near fine first edition, SIGNED by the author on the Title Page. This book was at a library sale and has "discard" stamp on the upper page edge and a black X at lower spine, but was never inducted into a library. has no stamps or stickers or any other indicators. There is a little rubbing on back dj panel. DJ is unclipped, there are no ownership marks or writing other than the aforementioned stamp.and X.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1963 First Edition Of Auberon Waugh's Second Novel Published By Chapman & Hall In 1963. Near Fine Boards And Interior, No Writing Or Marks In Very Good Dust Jacket Which Is Clipped And Somewhat Soiled On White Rear Panel. A Very Nice Copy, With Jacket Description, "Auberon Waugh Is A Born Writer And Writes Like Himself And Nobody Else. . . . The Same Economy Of Words, The Same Unemphatic Wit, The Same Irresistible Comic Spirit."

Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1968 Oxford University Press 1970 Second Printing. Very Good In Very Good Unclipped Dust Jacket. Clean Grey Boards. Former Owner Bookplate On Ffep With Name Obliterated In Black Felt. Dust Jacket Has A Few Short Closed Tears At Edges But Very Good. Stories By Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence Among Others.

New York: Liveright, 1966 "Black and Gold" Liveright edition, possible first, 1966 black boards with gold and red printing, gold facsimile signature on front board. Ex-library. Boards have tape stains, light wear to corners. Binding is loosening slightly. Usual library markings, no major flaws. Clipped DJ had a large chip missing from upper front panel prior to application of library protective cover which is glued to dj. Some soiling. Frontispieces: charcoal portrait from a portrait by David Siqueiros and Photo from a photograph by Walker Evans. Includes introduction by Brom Weber, editor and introduction by Waldo Frank to the Collected Poems, which he assembled after Crane's death by drowning in 1932. This work is also dedicated to Waldo Frank, of whom Wikipedia says, "Frank, Munson and [Hart]Crane were all preoccupied with a mystical interpretation of American history in which America appears as a visionary place where the spiritual regeneration impossible in the old world is a… Read More

New York: Indian Head Books, 1991 This Is A History, As Stated, Of The Last Of The Indian Wars In The United States, With The Intent To Preserve A Knowledge Of The People And Events At That Time. Prominent In The List Of Characters Are General Custer, His Wife And Some Of His Officers, Geronimo, Quanah And White Bear. Introduction, Notes And Index Are Included As Well As Some Black And White Photographs.

UK: Hutchinson, 1989 First edition, beautiful collection of twelve poems with full size colour illustration of a woodland animal for each. Peter Weevers is an English artist living in France. He has a wonderful animated website which has free dot fr in it so you can admire his work which seems to me to be very classic. somehow his Alice in Wonderland and his animals of the Wind in the Windows variety seem as if he had always been their illustrator, and not really because they are derivative, just because they are so suitable in the classic style. Old price in ball point pen on ffep, else like new. In pictorial boards, no jacket as issued.

New York: Parents' Magazine Press, 1974 Very Good Copy Of This Parents 1974 Edition. Very Light Rub To Extremeties. No Writing Or Marks.

New York: Parents' Magazine Press, 1977 Very nice stated first edition, first printing full number line, a retelling of The Fisherman and His Wife (with a happy ending), starring Gertie & Gus, the bears. Cover shows light wear, slight rub to spine top and tail and corners. Sewn binding, clean crisp interior no writing or marks.