Search Results: Titles starting with W from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

Rockford, Il: WCF Publications, 1999. Volume one only of this exhaustive study of cartridges produced by the W.R.A. Co. and their variants, with numerous color & b/w photos of Winchester cartridge boxes. A second volume appeared in 2003. Glossy white hardcover, as pictured. Light wear, near fine, unmarked. Text clean; [10], 364 pages; index, bibliography, many figures, b/w & some color photos. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Quarto.

North Salem, NY: Adventure Library, 2002. Handsome reprint of this western classic. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. Light wear, some fading to top edge, obtrusive name & note on free endsheet, bookplate opposite half-title. Text clean; xiii, [5], 217 pages + note on the series; b/w plates mostly from paintings by Miller, b/w photos, map endsheets. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Alfred Jacob Miller. Octavo.

Philadelphia & New York: Chilton Company, 1960. "The unvarnished account of submarine combat life and shore leave escapades by the Yeoman of this famed but ill-fated ship"; under "Mush" Morton, the Wahoo sunk more Japanese ships than any other submarine at the time, before failing to return from its seventh cruise - the author, present on the ship's previous four cruises, had left for additional training just before. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the stated second printing, in the same year as the first. Light wear to book, minor bumping to corners; jacket edgeworn with some chips, creases, short tears, hint of spine fade, ink note on flap. Text clean; ix, [3], 210 pages, 8 b/w photo plates. . Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. Novel of two white children, survivors of an airplane crash in the Australian bush, who are rescued by an aboriginal youth, and cultural confusions that arise - with tragic results; basis of the acclaimed 1971 Nicolas Roeg film. The author was born and raised in Australia, and worked in the interior desert region depicted in the novel. Appears to be the first American edition, dated 1961 on the title page - though First Edition is not stated, as was Doubleday's normal practice: they did not always do this on books published earlier elswhere, which this was two years previous, as The Children. Slim hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, minor stain on free endsheet; jacket rubbed & lightly chipped with some foxing, tiny tears & creasing to lower front panel. Text clean; [126] pages, line drawings.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Noela Young. Small Octavo.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976. Scholarly study of battles over the 'establishment clause' of the First Amendment from 1951 to 1971. A dedication copy: INSCRIBED on the first page by the author to one of the dedicatees, a former teacher, whose signature and date are also on the first page. Hardcover, full black cloth, silver spine titling. Jacket absent. Light general wear, minor creasing to a few pages. Text clean; xiii, blank, 394 pages; index, appendices.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Large Octavo.

Framingham, MA: Old America Company, 1936. Memoir by the minister, antiquarian & photographer. First edition. Hardcover, full green cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to book; jacket rubbed with small waterstain to spine, several large edge chips, mostly to the upper back panel & head of the spine. Text clean; vii, blank, 295 pages; index, résumé, six b/w photos.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Large Octavo.

New York: Golden Press, 1967. First printing of the Little Golden Book edition of Thumper, an excerpt from the Disney film Bambi. Copyright 1942, but published circa 1967. Number D119, first printing with A inside rear cover. Hardcover, no jacket, color covers. light wear, minor rubbing. Text clean; 24 pages, mostly color & a few b/w illustrations.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Walt Disney staff. 6½" by 8".

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1947. Later printing ("J") of Disney's tale of a misfit elephant. Hardcover, as pictured, listing 90 LGBs and 9 Disney titles in the series. Light wear, but some discoloration & small stain to covers. . Later Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Walt Disney Studio staff. 6¾" by 8".

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. Early ("E") printing of the Disney classic. Hardcover, as pictured, listing 78 LGBs and 8 Disney titles in the series. Light wear, a little chipping & light staining. . Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Walt Disney Studio staff. 6¾" by 8".

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. First printing ("A") of the Disney version of the childhood classic. Hardcover, as pictured, listing 52 LGBs and 5 Disney titles in the series. Shows some wear, chipping, upper outer corner bumped. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Walt Disney Studio staff. 6¾" by 8".

Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. Study relating Benjamin's autobiographical work to his anti-fascist ideas. Part of WSUP's Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series. First edition (first printing) Hardcover, full teal cloth, silver titling. Light wear to book & jacket, near fine. Text clean; 309 pages; index, bibliography, notes.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

London: Walter Morley, 1912. Guide to this interesting philatelic sideline, featuring pictures of the stamps and lists of papers noting which stamp each used. Slim hardcover, full green cloth, gilt titling. Light wear, endsheets tanned. Text clean; 55 pages, figures.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 6¼" by 9½".

Webster City IA: Fred Hahne Printing, 1976. "The story of an early Iowa narrow gauge railroad and its struggle for survival...told...by a veteran railroad man"; the train ran from Lehigh to Judd, starting in 1875. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To my favorite cousin Harris Manny with the best of good wishes. A. P. Butts." Butts put in nearly 48 years on the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railway before retiring in 1956. Brown hardcover, gilt titling. Light wear to book, small stain & tiny holes to front panel of jacket, short tear to rear panel. Text clean; 120 pages; b/w photos, crude maps, a few reproductions of old documents. . Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7½" by 9½".

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1958. Biography of a basset hound, once well-known in the Massachusetts towns of Hamilton & Wenham, in Essex County, where he apparently wandered freely if dolefully. Stated third printing, still in the original year of publication. Slim brown hardcover. Light wear to book; minor tanning to endsheets; jacket lightly rubbed with minor chipping, one short tear, light stain to the margin of pages 56-59. Text clean; [6], 126 pages; gloomy line drawings.. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Erich Sokol. Small Octavo.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. Fugitive from fallen Jerusalem travels the ancient world, meeting spiritual masters. Stated first edition. Hardcover, grey cloth spine over blue boards, silver titling. Light wear to book, endsheets lightly tanned, gift note on free endsheet; jacket edgeworn with some chipping. Text clean; vi, [2], 247 pages, map endsheets.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

Cape Town, S. A.: C. Struik, 1966. Steedman lived at the Cape for some ten years and made an extensive natural history collection, with which he returned to England. Volume two only, of two. Number 698 of 750 sets published, number 18 in Struik's Africa Collectanea series. Full green simulated leather, gilt spine and decoration. Lower spine and upper rear corner bumped, name and date on first page, jacket rather badly rubbed, edgeworn, with small bare patch where a sticker was removed. 358 pages plus index, illustrations. Reprint of 1835 original. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 6" by 9".

Copenhagen/London: H. Hagerup/Macmillan and Co., 1936. Study of nomadic peoples, including legends, causes, psychology; hunter-gatherers, nomads, gypsies, vagabonds; the author was a Finnish diplomat who wrote a number of books on diplomacy, sociology, and anthropology. Recently rebound in full green cloth, paper spine label. Hint of wear, externally near fine; pages show light creasing. Text clean; xvi, 375 pages; index, extensive bibliography.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Quarto.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. Account of the rivalies of the Crimean War; published in the UK as 'The Vainglorious War'. First American edition. Hardcover, full black cloth, gilt titling. Light general wear, corners a bit bumped & rubbed; price-clipped jacket shows a little edgewear & minor chipping. Text clean; xvii, blank, 348 pages; index, bibliography, appendices giving, mostly, orders of battle; b/w plates, map endsheets.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2016. Early years of the American Revolution, before the Declaration of Independence. SIGNED by the author on the title page. First printing (first edition) with full number string. Blue hardcover, silver titling. Light wear to book & jacket; minor bump to base of spine. Text clean; x, [2], 467 pages + note on the author; index, bibliography, notes, appendixes, maps, b/w illustrations.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

New York: Random House, 1974. Novel satirizing life at an elite university, infidelity, the late '60s/early '70s student unrest, generation gap, sexism, feminism; filmed in 1977. Third printing, SIGNED by the author on the free endsheet. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; minor tears to jacket, scuffed area to endsheet, likely from label removal; top edge foxed/spotted. . Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.