Search Results: Titles starting with W from Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB

Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1987. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +/very good. Black cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, unclipped dust jacket, foxing at top of pages. First edition, signed by author on title page. 215pp. In the back is a song sheet called "Walking Across Egypt" words and music by Clyde Edgerton, arranged by Barbara Penick.

London: Methuen & Co, 1928. Later Edition. Cloth. Good. Walter Dexter. Blue cloth, blind-stamped on front, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, white spot on front cover, wear to extremities, endpapers have map of Paris. Fourteen (14) reproductions in colour by Walter Dexter and 32 illustrations from works of art. Triangular stamp on rear endpaper, presumably from a bookstore. 260 pp. 23rd edition.

n.p.: Beacon, 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Clement Micarelli. 7" x 4-1/2" perfect-bound paperback. Covers very lightly soiled, else a fine, unread copy. Cover art by Clement Micarelli. A pseudonymous work; the author also published under the name Ray Damon, but we have been unable to unearth more about him/her/them. 156 pp.

Universal Publishing/Beacon, 1960. First Editon. Paperback. Good +. 7 x 4 1/4 inches (18.5 x 11.5 cm), paperback, spine slightly slanted, mild creasing to spine. 156 pp.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good-. Ethel F. Everett. Green cloth with illustration edged in gilt paste down on front and gilt lettering on spine. Darkening to some of page edges. Illustrated by Ethel F. Everett. Illustrated frontispiece plus 7 other color plates. Dj has color illustrations on front, spine, and back. Dj has wear and chips to extremities. This is the only edition with this illustrator. This is part of The Children's Bookshelf series. 282 pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1916. First Thus. Cloth. Very good. Jessie Willcox Smith. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt lettering and past-down illustration on front cover. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. Half title page has signature of illustrator below a pasted 2" x 3" picture of her. This book was Smith's favorite of those she illustrated. Frontispiece color plate. Slight crease on page. Light foxing on prelims. Eleven additional color plates. Additional illustrations on nearly every page. Most are black and green line drawings. First thus. 362 pp.

New York: MacMillan, 1800. Cloth. Good/No dust jacket. Noel Paton and Percival Skelton. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and gilt design at top and bottom of front cover. Spine has gilt lettering and gilt design. Black and white frontispiece with tissue guard and black and white engraved illustrations in text and on capitals at chapter beginnings. 310 pages.

Gulfport, FL: Konglomerati Press, 1979. Limited Edition. Cloth. Very good. Jeanne Meinke. 6 1/4" x 7 3/4" (16 x 19.5 cm) green cloth with 1/4 tan cloth, paper label of title on front and spine. Has mylar cover. Limited edition #44 of 275 copies. Book of poetry with drawings by Jeanne Meinke. Unpaginated, 20pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972. First Edition. Cloth. Very good -/good. Red cloth, with blue and white lettering on spine, unclipped dust jacket, wear to spine and closed tears. Previous owner's name in ink on front free endpaper, with ink number scratched through. Residue on rear pasted down endpaper. Signed by author on title page. 306 pp.

Washington DC: Howard University Press, 1980. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/good. Red cloth with blue lettering on spine, title blind- stamped on front, remainder mark at bottom of pages. Dust jacket price clipped, heavily chipped with one open tear on back. Memoir, fiction, poetry and drama. 450 pp. First edition.

Yokahama, Japan: Yamagata Press, 1946. 5th Edition. Wrappers. Good/fair. 6 x 8 inches (15 x 20 cm) Sewn silk wrappers , with decorative dust jacket. These volumes are in English and associated with the Fujiya Hotel in Miyanoshita, Hakone. Ilustrations throughout. Fifth Edition. Volume 1 - Sewn silk wrapper, dust jacket is ripped and loose, with 3 1/2 inches missing from bottom of spine. Several pages are creased but intact, foxing on pages, some pages untrimmed, but no printing within fold. Previous owner's name and date of 1947 on front endpaper. 200pp. Volume 2 - Dust jacket has some small rips, previous owner's name and date on front endpaper. 207pp.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott. First. Cloth. Very good. Lois Lenski. Red cloth with light blue illustration and lettering. Spine has red lettering in blue boxes. Wear along edges. Blue endpapers. Line drawings throughout. Part of the Roundabout America Series. 128 pages.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1952. First. Cloth. Fine. Lois Lensky. Dark red cloth, light blue lettering and designs on front cover and spine. Line drawing illustrations throughout by author. Roundabout America Series. 128 pp.

New York City, 1918. Broadside. Very good. 12" x 9-1/2" (30.5 x 24 cm). Age toned paper. Reprint of an article published in 1918. The title comes from a quote by a Methodist anti-alcohol activist who states, "We must have prohibition in order to end this Catholic Church business. They cannot exist without booze." The rest of the broadside attacks Methodists for opposing alcohol (which Christ used) but not opposing birth control, divorce, and remarriage, which the author considers evil.

New York: Arno Press, 1975. Reprint. Cloth. Very good. Orange cloth, with "The Arno Series on Homosexuality" in purple print on front and back cover. White lettering on spine. Endpages have age toning. 206pp. This is one of a series of LGBTQ books reprinted by the Arno Press. Copyright is 1935 by the Modern Library. Very good condition.

Verlog: C. Bertelsmann, 1957. First Edition. Boards. Very good. 4 3/4 x 7.5 (12 x 19 cm), black boards with pictures of colorful parrots, black lettering on front and spine, Edges of spine are rubbed. Full page illustrations of parrots throughout. 49 pp. Text in German.

New York: Perma Books, 1956. Paperback. Very good.. 7.5 x 4.5 (18.5 x 12 cm), paperback, tight copy, some creasing on spine, imprint on back of spine from possible clip-on bookmark. Some age toning to front flyleaf. 437 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Later printing. Cloth. Very good. N.C. Wyeth. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, full color plate pasted on front. Light mold on back cover. Decorative endpapers, bookplate 2 1/4" x 3 1/4" pasted down on front endpaper. Half title page has "N.C. Wyeth" written in pencil. Title page has color illustrations. Later printing. Nine color plates by N.C. Wyeth. 413 pp.

New York: Alberta Publishing Company, 1920. First Edition. Boards. Very Good/Poor. 5x 7 3/4 inches (12.5 x 11.5 cm), dark blue boards with bright gilt lettering on front and spine. Dust jacket has back panel and spine but large rips in front with front flap laid in. This book is by the spirit of Thomas Carlyle as told through William J. Bryan. 236 pp.

Bobbs-Merrill, 1911. First. Cloth. Near fine. Howard Chandler Christy. 9-3/4" x 7-1/4" (24.5 x 18.5 cm). Dark green cloth with illustrated pastedown. White lettering on spine. Every other page has black and white drawing with a touch of color. Pages with text and some of the pictures have a grape arbor border. Unpaginated. Near fine.