Search Results: Titles starting with W from E. C. Rare Books [ABA / ABAC]

W. VOCABULARY OF THE SHOSHONE LANGUAGE. Hill, George Salt Lake City. 1877. Original blue-green printed wrappers 36pp., near fine in a striking full black morocco clamshell case. Very minor wear and soiling. Near fine. First edition, issued by the author. George W. Hill, a Mormon Indian missionary, had taught Shoshones in their own language at Fort Limhi in 1855 and his vocabulary lists words spelled as phonetically as the English alphabet will allow, and with it any person may learn to speak the dialect so that an Indian can understand him. Hill's work is considered the third vocabulary for these languages, after Huntington (see below) and Gebow. Signed on front wrap by Geo[rge] Reynolds. Reynolds was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a long-time secretary to the First Presidency of the LDS Church, and a party to the 1878 United States Supreme Court case Reynolds v. United States, the first freedom of religion case to issue from that court. Great… Read More

Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies; Edinburgh: W. Creech, 1801 Second edition, revised. 4 Vols, 8vo Original full tree calf bindings, marble end papers, Frontice portrait; four different woodcut vignette title-pages. Very clean and bright text and endpapers, minimal to no foxing. The first attempt at a posthumous collected edition of Burns' works, edited by James Currie and first published in 1800 in Liverpool for the benefit of Burns' widow. Included is Currie's substantial life of Burns, which was reprinted throughout the 19th century; extensive selections of Burns' correspondence; tributes to Burns; and previously unpublished poems and songs, most notably "Auld lang syne" on page 122 of volume 4. With the book plate of Julian Wood Glass. Julian Wood Glass Jr. was a descendent of Mary and James Wood, who settled the site now called Glen Burnie in the late 1730s and founded the city of Winchester then called Frederick Town in 1744. Julian and his half-sister, Sunny, grew up in Nowata,… Read More

17 volumes, octavo Finely bound by Root & Son in ½ light blue Morocco, elaborate gilt tooling to spines in compartments separated by raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. Very good condition, Vol I has signs of light water stain to first few leaves including portrait, it is lightly stained not affecting text, spines are uniformly sunned yet still a handsome set. Engraved half-titles and title pages. A very attractively bound library set of Byron's works, complete with the three Don Juan volumes added to the edition, including all his poems and plays, letters and journals, and the Life by his friend Thomas Moore. As well as the sympathetic biography written by his friend and literary executor Thomas Moore. DNB admires "the skill with which Moore constructed his portrait" and proclaims his biography "indispensable for students of Byron." (The memoir Byron had entrusted to Moore for publication after his death was determined to be too scandalous to see print and was burned in the… Read More

THE WORKS OF BOOTH TARKINGTON
Seawood Edition Complete set 27 vols
Tarkington, Booth
Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York (1922-1932)
Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1922. Hardcover. top page edges gilt, others not trimmed; each volume numbered 254 of 1075; Vol. I signed by the publisher on limitation page, and signed by Tarkington under the portrait frontispiece.
A very handsome set in ½ Maroon Morocco maroon cloth side with richly gilt spines certainly a nice display of a large set.
The Works of Booth Tarkington, Seawood Edition, 27 volumes (1922-1932), contains no first printings. This Seawood Edition was limited to 1,075 numbered and registered copies. Vol. I bears a portrait signed by the author. The volumes were issued originally in blue boards with tan grained linen back with tan paper labels on spine. Both the Autograph Edition and the Seawood Edition were initiated by Doubleday, Page and completed by Doubleday, Doran.
Ref, A Bibliography Of Booth… Read More

The Works of John Fiske 1898 - 1899 Handsome edition - gilt top edge of the text block; ½ brown Morocco binding; marbled end papers and sides; illustrations and maps (some are fold-out and some are in color). Each volume complete as stands from a larger set of 24. The set includes the following titles:
The Discovery of America - With Some Account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest (in 2 volumes) *
The Critical Period of American History 1783-1789
The American Revolution (in 2 volumes)
Beginnings of New England, or The Puritan Theocracy in its Relation to Civil and Religious Liberty *
Old Virginia and Her Neighbors (in 2 volumes)
Very fine condition, bookplate of Mabelle Florence Swift on the front pastedown of each volume, very minor chip to head of one vol all joints are sound and in good shape.
Fiske was considered "one of the most important intellectual influences in the last quarter of the 19th century. He was probably the most admirably fitted among all his contemporaries to lead… Read More

THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF EUGENE FIELD. Eugene Field. Published by - New York - Charles Scribner's, 1911. A collection of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field. Only eight volumes out of the original complete set of 12 twelve volumes. The set consists of:
Little Book of Profitable Tales, Second Book of Verse, Poems of Childhood, Holy Cross and Other Tales, The Sabine Farm, The House, Second Book of Tales, Sharps and Flats I.
Eugene Field, Sr. (September 2, 1850 November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. Field worked as a journalist for the St. Joseph Gazette in Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1875. Field soon rose to become city editor of the Gazette. He became known for his light, humorous articles written in a gossipy style, some of which were reprinted by other newspapers around the country. It was during this time that he wrote the famous poem Lovers Lane about a street in St. Joseph, Missouri. From 1876 through 1880 Field… Read More

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1904. Riverside Press. Edition: Riverby Edition. 1/2 Brown Morocco Gilt Spines. The Writings of John Burroughs. Author: Burroughs, John. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company. Publication Date: Copyright 1904. Printer: Riverside Press. Edition: Riverby Edition. Individual title(s): Vol. I. Wake-Robin (251 p.), Vol. II. Winter Sunshine (261 p.), Vol. III. Birds and Poets (269 p.), Vol. IV. Locusts and Wild Honey (255 p.), Vol. V. Pepacton (263 p.), Vol. VI. Fresh Fields (309 p.), Vol. VII. Signs and Seasons (289 p.), Vol. VIII. Indoor Studies (287 p.), Vol. IX. Riverby (354 p.), Vol. X. Whitman (299 p.), Vol. XI. The Light of Day (248 p.), Vol. XII. Literary Values (205 p.), Vol. XIII. Far and Near (287 p.), Vol. XIV. Ways of Nature (279 p.),Bound in ½ Brown Morocco, elaborate gilt spines marble sides and endpapers very good condition.Consecutive volumes, I-XVIII of XXIII, the Riverby Edition, an ongoing publication of Burroughs' writings was completed in 1923 with a total of… Read More