Search Results: Titles starting with W from Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA

London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. Half Leather. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. iv, 491, [1]; iv, 375, [1]; iv, 372 pp., frontises, plates. First English edition. In early calf with corners with pebbled cloth over boards; all edges marbled. Light shelfwear, but quite a presentable set; each volume with a previous owner bookplate on the front pastedown. Bleiler calls it "Sensationalism, anti-Jesuitism, and primitive socialism all in one long, complex sprawling novel." Here offered with 102 of the 104 plates called for by Sadleir. It is fairly difficult to find issues with any plates, much less a near complete copy in such nice condition. Sadleir 3159; Bleiler 1565.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. ix, [1], 60 pp. First edition, first printing. Signed by Nemerov. Publisher's cloth-backed boards with dust jacket. A bright, fresh copy in similarly sharp dust jacket.

Cumberland, MD: Eddy Press, 1910. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. 12mo. [10], 181 pp., frontis, plates, ports. First edition. As issued, in publisher's cloth with title in gold on the front cover and spine. Binding is quite attractive with light silverfishing that has been skillfully colored so this book presents very well; early owner name on the front free endpaper; a couple leaves with a pencil bracket in the margin; light and occasional finger smudging, otherwise clean. A Captain of Company D, 37th Virginia Infantry. The "account is revealing only for the 1861 campaigns in western Virginia" CWB I, 181; Dornbusch II, 1444.

New York: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1960. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. xxx, 362 pp. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Harwell. In original binding with dust jacket. A very nice copy with with limited wear; jacket is rubbed at the head of the spine, but present well; price intact on the top of the front flap.

Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. [2], 61-144 pp. plates, illus. Off-print from BAE Bulletin 186. In original wrappers; all plates present as called for. Previous owner stamp on the front cover and the title page else clean.

Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 1968. Soft Cover. Very Good+ binding. Quarto. xviii, 345, [10] pp., frontis, illus. Signed and inscribed by Williams on the title page. In publisher's wrappers. Light shelfwear only; previous owner stamp on the front cover and the first blank, else contents are clean. Author's compliments card laid in.

1796. 4" x 1.75". One signed by Daniel Carroll of Duddington and one by Notley Young. Ticket #6696 signed by Young "will entitle the possessor to such Prize as may be drawn to its Number, in Lottery No. 1, for cutting the CANAL through the City of Washington to the Eastern-Branch Harbour." The second ticket (#3032) is for a "Quarter Part of such Prize...." Daniel Carroll of Duddington and his uncle Notley Young were significant landowners in the District and this canal was surely an attempt bring value to their land. While the fundraising via lottery around 1796 was largely ineffectual. It wasn't until a decade later when Congress funded the work that the canal was started in earnest. It was finished in 1815 and as these things go, largely out of use by the mid-19th century. In 1871 it was filled in. These two lottery tickets are a glimpse into the nascency of Washington D.C. Light toning and with a scalloped left edge, these are wonderful examples of two different signers and two different versions.

Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2000. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Oblong octavo. [36] pp., illus. Laid in is a tri-fold leaf with title page and essay by Deborah Tall. Elegant accordion-fold presentation in midnight blue cloth in heathered gray slipcase with ribbon pull. A series of waterfall photographs, taken throughout the United States and offering intriguing urban images in addition to the more typical scenic views. Deborah Tall's accompanying essay on waterfalls and representations thereof is laid in.

New York: Elisabeth Sifton Books, Penguin Books, 1985. Soft Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. vi, [2], 91, [2] pp. First paperback edition. Signed by Ashbery on the title page. Trade paperback. Light wear to the extremities, but generally a nice, clean copy of Ashbery's Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize- and Bollingen Prize-winning collection of poems.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1955. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. xii, 333, [3] pp. First edition. In brick-colored cloth, lacking the dust jacket. A fairly presentable copy with a bit of staining to the textblock edge; binding is only a trifle soiled; first several leaves have a gentle crease to the bottom corner. Contents are clean.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. x, 275, [1] pp. First edition, signed and inscribed by Donoghue on the front free endpaper. As issued, in cloth backed boards; very light foxing to the top-edge; contents clean; dust jacket is lightly shelfworn and now in a mylar over; price intact.

Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1969. Original Wrappers. Near Fine binding. 12mo. [28] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 207 copies. Printed in black, red, blue, and green on Shadwell sewn into blue Fabriano Cover with a jacket of the same paper with vignette title stamped in blind on the front. A clean, bright copy of this collection by an award-winning U.S. Poet Laureate. Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 25.

Printed by Gaylord Schanilec, 1996. Original Wrappers. Near Fine binding. 11" x 8." [4] pp. Printed bifolium sewn into Moriki wrappers with grasses and flower petals in the paper. A bright, fresh copy of this wedding program with on a few spots of minor toning where a few of the petals have offset to the paper. Uncommon piece of Schanilec ephemera. Rulon-Miller B.122.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. [8], 243, [1] pp. First American edition. In publisher's cloth-backed boards with dust jacket. A bright copy in near fine condition but for some foxing to the textblock edges and a remainder stamp on the bottom edge of the textblock; dust jacket has a closed tear at the top of the front fold, but is largely crisp and clean except for minor toning at the top of both flaps. A nice copy of the American first edition of this fairly early novel by the Nobel laureate.

London & West Burke, VT: Gefn Janus Limited, 1998. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. 16mo. [16] pp., illus. Half-sized facsimile. French-fold accordian book nestled in Thai gold-threaded burgundy paper in a white, lidded box with a pink sleeve titled in black. The original edition has hand-printed lithographs with rubber stamped text and shoe images drawn by Johanknecht. It was issued in 1985 in an edition of 30 copies. This is a bright, fresh copy of O'Callaghan's satirical monologue from the point of view of a shoe addict. Not in Fine, Janus Press -- Fifty Years. Details are taken from a 2006 Janus Press catalog.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1865. Hard Cover. Good binding. 12mo. 276 pp. First edition. As issued, in publisher's brown cloth with title in gold on the spine. Wear to the cloth in the joints and some chipping to the head of the spine, nevertheless, binding is solid; corners a bit frayed; contemporary owner name on the front free endpaper otherwise, contents are clean with only light toning. Sabin 20500.

Cambridge: Yellow Moon Press, 1986. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good+ binding. Oblong 12mo. [24] pp. First edition thus, signed by Bly on the title page. As issued, stapled into printed wrappers. A bright, clean copy of this translation by a beloved American poet.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. Hard Cover. Good binding/near Very Good dust jacket. Large octavo. [10], 116 pp., illus. First edition, first printing; signed by Singer and Zemach. As issued, in publisher's cloth with dust jacket. Cream colored cloth is fairly soiled and stained; previous owner name on the front free endpaper and the half title; small stain to the fore-edge of the last several leaves, visible in the margin of those leaves; dust jacket is generally shelfworn; retailer's (F. A. O. Schwartz) price tag over the publisher's price. While not the freshest copy, this presents fairly well in its dust jacket and uncommon with signatures and inscriptions by both author and illustrator. Additionally, beneath Zemach's inscription is a small drawing. Singer was a Nobel Laureate and this present title was one of four Newberry Honor Books in 1968.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Soft Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. xii, 90 pp. First Edition. Signed by Stone on the title page. Very light shelfwear, only.

New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1916. Hard Cover. Good binding. Octavo. 410 pp., frontis, maps, plates. First edition. As issued, in orange cloth; all plates are present as called for. Spine is darkened; a significant snag and resulting closed tears to the cloth has been suitably mended; covers are a trifle soiled; contents are largely clean; hinges starting, but holding. Gift inscription from a Greenbrier manager to Granville Valentine; and later an inscription by Valentine gifting this book to "Wilton"; Wilton's bookplate on the front pastedown. Valentine was a member of a prominent Virginia family. Krick calls this a "well written" book and notes that the author "deals primarily with the history of the place from the 18th Century to its resurgence after the Civil War. A chapter on the Battle of Dry Creek, August 27-28, 1864, will interest students of the war, as will a description of the successful effort to thwart David Hunter's eager torch" Neale Books 297.