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

New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. First edition, this copy signed in ink on the title page by Eberhart. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), [12] & 68 pages. Publisher's decorated tan paper over boards lettered in gilt on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Minute snag at the bottom & top of the upper joint, otherwise Fine in price clipped Very Good dust jacket with spine sunned.Eberhart was Poet-in-Residence at Dartmouth, following his mentor, Robert Frost. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems, 1930–1965 and the 1976 National Book Award for Poetry for Collected Poems, 1930–1976.

[Stockholm, Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, not dated but published in 2002]. First edition, limited to 200 copies, this number 180, signed & titled by Schanilec in pencil just below the image. Original multi-color wood engraving printed on paper measuring 9.5 inches by 5.25 inches (sheet size), the image measures 7 inches by 3.5 inches Rulon-Miller/ Quarter to Midnight: Gaylord Schanilec & Midnight Paper Sales C41 K.
A Fine example. A stunning depiction of New York City's famed White Horse Tavern This print, which was issued separately, is one of the illustrations in Kenneth Auchincloss' New York Revisited (Grolier Club, 2002).

Cleveland, Ohio: Women Speak Out for Peace & Justice, November 1, 1970. First edition. Folio (14" x 85"), 6 pages, three stapled sheets printed recto & verso by mimeograph or similar process.
Folded once horizontally, lightly browned, trace edge wear, otherwise Very Good.
The 24th issue of this uncommon periodical. Editor Sally Chancey was identified by FBI informant Julia C Brown as a member of the Communist Party during the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings on Communist Activities in the Cleveland, Ohio area.

Pittsburgh: Know, Inc, no date [ca 1970]. First edition. 4to (11" x 8.5"), broadsheet, 2 pages printed recto & verso on pale blue paper.
Trace edge wear, otherwise Fine. The author was a founding member of the Seattle-King County Chapter of National Organization for Women. She gave numerous speeches, published poetry & several articles including Letter to My Parents on Why I Added Legally My Mother's Maiden Name to My Father's Surname. In this essay she decries the relationships between women & men in light of the advances of the women's movement, advising women to "save your sons" Acerbic throughout, in closing she adds: "Who cares about clitoral or vaginal orgasm, pussy kissing or penis thrusting if the partner is archaic? Who cares about roses, bread or books if the giver is frozen?" Quite uncommon, not found in OCLC

Eugene, Oregon: Women's Press Collective, volume 1, numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (incorrectly numbered "7"), 9, 11-12, & 13; volume 2, numbers 1, 2, 3, & 5, broken run of early issues published monthly or bi-monthly January, 1971 through August, 1972. First editions Original tabloid newspapers measuring approximately 16.5 inched x 11.25 inches, variously paginated, illustrated throughout.Folded once horizontally (as issued), some issues lightly tattered (including nicks & small tears), age tanned, Very Good or better.Founded in 1970 by Margarita Donnelly & others, Women's Press was "produced completely by women in an effort to provide communication among Eugene & Oregon women." Although the paper welcomed contributions from "women of whatever political frame," the contents champion women's liberation, feminism, & reproductive rights. This long-running & important underground newspaper ceased publication in 1987.

Framingham, Massachusetts: Published by Wallace Nutting, 1930. First edition. Tall octavo (10" x 7"), 160 pages, profusely illustrated from photographs. Laid-in is a price list in wraps dated February 1, 1932 with 8 unnumbered pages, which includes a tipped-in "discounts and Corrections" slip. Original printed stiff paper wraps.
Covers moderately soiled & toned, brief edge wear, text block starting to crack in a couple of places (still secure), otherwise Good or better.
Although primarily known for his photographs depicting the landscape and residential interiors of New England, Wallace Nutting was also a Congregational minister. He assembled a collection of antiques for use in his photography which evolved into a business manufacturing reproduction furniture.

College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, (1981). First Edition, Review Copy with slip laid-in. Quarto (10.25" x 9"), 111 pages, illustrations throughout including drawings, maps, tables, charts, & photographs. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Covers lightly spotted & soiled, modest foxing mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise Very Good in soiled dust jacked with trace edge wear & wrinkling (mostly at the rear panel), about Very Good.
"Were the Austronesians hapless travelers on fragile craft, drifted at the mercy of the waves to the far-flung islands of the Pacific? Or were they intrepid seafarers whose exploratory voyages covered much of the great ocean on seaworthy canoes capable of being sailed against the wind? This book addresses these questions in one of the most thorough discussions of Austronesian sailing canoes ever attempted…" Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Butler, Indiana: Higley Press, (1946) Second edition, "revised & enlarged." Small 8vo, 143 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in black on the spine & upper cover, in dust jacket.
Light foxing mostly at pastedowns & endpapers, text a bit tanned, otherwise Very Good in dust jacket with modest edge wear (including a couple of short, closed tears), lightly soiled & sunned.Includes exciting chapters, complete with proposed solutions,on "The Marijuana Menace," "White Slavers," "The Social Evil - Prostitution," "Gambling," "The Beverage Liquor Traffic," and our favorite, "Making a Religion Out of Immorality."

Philadelphia: J. Murray Jordan, (1897). First edition. Oblong octavo (7.25" x 10"), 40 unnumbered pages providing captioned illustrations from photographs. Publisher's original embossed, pictorial, stapled stiff paper wraps.
Covers lightly soiled, small loss at the lower front cover, edges moderately worn & rubbed, otherwise Very Good.
Beginning with an image of the Inauguration of President William McKinley and concluding with depictions of Cabin John Bridge and the Great Falls of the Potomac in nearby Montgomery County, Maryland, this splendid souvenir view book is quite uncommon. OCLC Worldcat locates 2 copies only (accession number 33135862) at the New York Public Library & Georgetown University.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1924. First edition, this copy signed in ink at the first blank page by Weber and Fields, with the bookplate of author and Warner Music Group executive Stan Cornyn at the front pastedown. 8vo, xii, [2], 15 - 345 pages, plus 20 unnumbered leaves of plates, pp. 319 - 345 providing an appendix of printed music. Original gilt-lettered green cloth. Lacking the dust jacket.Moderate wear at the spine extremities & corners (including a couple of nicks), spine gilt a bit dull, brief gift inscription, light toning & foxing, a good or better copy."Messrs. Weber and Fields are but the mediums to tell the story of two young American boys born in the ghetto, raised in the slums, with all the disadvantages of foreign parentage of that particular period, who by their lives and their living became shining examples of true American manhood ..." ~Excerpted from the Introduction.

Charleston, West Virginia: Education Foundation, Inc, 1963. First edition, this copy Inscribed, Signed & Dated by the author in ink at the first blank page. 8vo, vii, 304 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & upper cover without dust jacket (as issued). Promotional pamphlet with order form laid-in. Dornbusch/ Military Bibliography of the Civil War II: 1499B.
Spine & margins a bit sunned, lightly soiled, occasional foxing mostly at the edges of the text block, Very Good.
"The unique position of West Virginia as first to feel the impact of the war, its divided loyalties, its contributions to manpower to both the Federal and Confederate armies, is told at length. Also there are sketches of some unique personalities who operated during the war years." ~Excerpted from the promotional brochure.

[Omaha, Nebraska]: Union Pacific Railroad Company, 1932 (taken from date on map). 8vo (9" x 4"), 23 & [1] pages, with illustrations from photographs & a single page map showing the route of the Union Pacific system. Original pictorial, stapled stiff paper wraps. Moderately soiled & lightly rubbed, staples rusted, otherwise Very Good.Contents include: Colorful Canyons of Scenic Splendor; Yellowstone, Weird and Magnificent; California - The All-Year Paradise; Colorado - Nearest of the Rockies; The Vast, Evergreen Pacific Northwest; Escorted Tours of the West.

New York: Narine & Company, Printers, no date (ca. 1857). 4to, bifolium, pale blue paper, single sheet folded forming 4 pp. (one blank), with woodcut illustration of a 3-masted schooner. Not found in OCLC as of 1/17/2022. Old folds, creasing, foxing, staining, good or better."Baron de Wetterstedt's Patent Metallic Composition, or Copper Paint, for the Preservation of Vessels' Bottoms, whether sheathed or not, has been fully tested and extensively used in England, France, and the United States, during the last eight years." ~Excerpted from the text.

Danbury, Connecticut: Danbury Printing Co, 1941 First edition 8vo, unpaginated [64 pp], occasional illustrations. Original pictorial stapled paper wraps Not found in OCLC as of 3/9/2020.
Wraps with edge wear including small losses, margins browned, lightly soiled & rubbed, Good or better.
A charming cook book which begins with a fanciful short story before turning to inspiring recipes from Ms Tottle's famed Spinning Wheel Inn at Redding Ridge near Fairfield, Connecticut. Her restaurant empire eventually expanded to include the Spinning Wheel Mill at Southport & a location in Sarasota, Florida.

New York: , 2006. First editions, issued together. Two octavo volumes (9.75" x 6.5"), unpaginated, profusely illustrated mostly from photographs. Printed paper wraps, White Magic perfect bound, Clap Clinic staple bound.
Trace of wear at the spine extremities, otherwise Fine.
An extremely provocative collaboration between Snow, who died of a drug overdose in 2009 just before his 29th birthday, and actor Leo Fitzpatrick who played the central character in Larry Clark's "Kids."

Atlantic Beach, Florida: no publisher, volume 1, number 1, December, 1970. Single sheet measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches folded once vertically forming 4 pages. Not found in OCLC as of 4/2/23.
Trace of soiling, otherwise fine. Probably a one off, we find no indication of further publication. Includes a poem by Cynthia Woodworth entitled "For Her."
"WHITEBOOK will grow, of course. Each issue will exceed in quality its predecessors, and additional pages will be added. To maintain free notices, we must of necessity restrict the volume of general-interest content - there are legions of other fine women's journals which print recipes, expound on the problems of suburbia, etc. There is only one WHITEBOOK and it will be unique, we pledge. It's yours!"

No place, no publisher, no date (ca. 1946). Original camera-ready political cartoon by Bishop. Pencil, pen & ink on thick paper measuring 12 inches by 10 inches, verso blank, signed lower right.
Lightly toned, small tear in the top margin (not affecting illustration), slight edge wear, pinhole lower left margin, otherwise Very Good or better.
Quite possibly the work of Daniel Bishop, the art work is characteristic but the signature is not. Additionally, the text provides "Knudson's 20% Tax Reduction" but almost certainly refers to Congressman Harold Knutson (R. Minnesota) who introduced legislation to that effect in 1946.
Regardless, a really cool piece which depicts a grinning Uncle Sam slicing pie with the lion's share for "Money Man" while "Labor" requires a magnifying glass to see his portion.

New York: The Viking Press, (1983). First edition, this copy signed in ink by Westlake at the ffep. Octavo (9" x 6"), [11] & 2 - 191 pages. Publisher's black paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered white cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Slight sunning at the upper margin, otherwise fine in near fine dust with a 1/4 inch tear at the top edge of the rear panel.
The fifth title in Westlakes's John Dortmunder series. Westlake, a three-time Edgar Award winner, was named a Grand Master in 1993 by the Mystery Writers of America, the society's highest honor.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (2005). First edition, limited to 150 copies, this number 135, signed by Kunitz. 8vo, 146 pp. including illustrations in color from photographs. Publisher's gilt-lettered tan cloth, in plain green cloth slipcase. A fine copy in very good lightly rubbed slipcase.The last book by Kunitz who was twice Poet Laureate Consultant to the Library of Congress.

Amity, Oregon: Sand Lake Press, (1989.) First edition, first printing, this copy signed & dated in black marker on the title page by Worth Mathewson. 8vo (8.25" x 5.5"), [5] & 186 pages Publisher's gray cloth lettered & decorated in silver on the spine & upper cover
Lightly soiled, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, minor occasional foxing, otherwise Very Good.
Collects articles apparently originally published in Outing Magazine including contributions by Thomas G Farrell, Percy M Cushing, HS Canfield, Lyn Bogue Hunt, Frank E Kellogg, & others Two other volumes were published later
"Wildfowling Tales is a collection of some of the best accounts of our literary heritage Of course hunters of those past eras shot vastly too many ducks and geese A few were starting to understand this even as they wrote But aside from such overkill, these fellows were just like the duck hunters I know today We have always exulted in wild weather, incoming waterfowl, and strong-swimming dogs " ~Excerpted from the… Read More