Search Results: Titles starting with W from Crow Hop Rare Books

Cynthiana, Kentucky: The Hobson Book Press, 1945. First Edition. 82 pp. VG+ in an about VG clipped dustjacket (creasing and edgewear, soiling and light chipping). A scarce book of poems from McGregor, who was formerly Superintendent of two Sioux reservations, Rosebud Reservation and Pine Ridge Reservation, in South Dakota. The dustjacket flap describes McGregor as well qualified “to interpret the real Indian character to the white man.” In his Introduction, McGregor writes, “Cruel and unjust as it is, the Indians must follow the white way of life and share some of the good things and suffer from the bad. They will eventually be absorbed by the white race they have loved and hated, imitated and fought, praised and condemned.” Poems include “Chief Crazy Horse,” “The Sioux Meat Supply,” “Sioux in World War Two,” “Sioux Winter Count,” “White Schools,” “Sitting Bull,” “Mixed Marriages,” and “Indian Mother Speaks.”

Notebook containing lecture notes and notes from readings belonging to Lt. (J9) Lester Moore, United States Navy. VG+, browning to pages, 2” of covers at tail separated from spiral binding. Moore (1924-2009) graduated for the United States Naval Academy in 1946 before serving seven years as an officer in the Navy Submarine Service. This Sprial Composition Book, Marginal Ruled, presumably from his time at the Academy in the mid 1940s, contains handwritten lecture notes on recto and versos of all but two of the 54 pages. Equations, drawings, and charts throughout. Touches on chemical warfare, poisons, chemical and vomiting agents and their psychological effects, incendiaries, decontamination, effects of radiation on the body and fall out problems. An intriguing peek at the warfare concerns being taught at the Naval Academy during the decade of the second World War.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1981. Review Copy, with slip laid in (notes the book will be published on January 7, 1982). SIGNED by Boyle on title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dustjacket.

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1949. First Printing. VG+ in a VG price-clipped dustjacket (chipping to spine extremities, edgewear). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1950.

[Beverly Hills], 1927. One-page leaflet/broadside, 5” x 9” folded for mailing. With original mailing envelope from “The Fairplay Institute,” Los Angeles. Postmarked Jan. 4, 1927. Addressed to Harry C. Frank, Delaware, Ohio. Apparently issued to accompany the Beverly Hills “float” that won First Prize in the Rose Parade of 1927. Wagner humorously describes “shaded drives and beautiful homes wherein shine all the brightest stars of Movieland,” with “two swimming pools to every bible,” minus the “glue factories, lovely sewers, ridiculous building permits and other ‘advantages’” of the surrounding “Loss Angylees.” Wagner (1872-1942) was a left-leaning former newspaper artist who, upon moving to Los Angeles, began to write about the burgeoning film industry for the Saturday Evening Post. He wrote and directed films in Hollywood, became friends with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Will Rogers, Upton Sinclair, and Charlie Chaplin (he was also his publicist). In 1929, Wagner founded his… Read More

New York: H. L. Lindquist Publications, 1949. First Printing. 198 pp. Drawings by the author and photographs by Arthur F. and James Waldo Fawcett. VG+ (toning to boards, spine rubbed) in a bright VG or better unclipped dustjacket (stamp inside flap, rubbing, chipping on spine). "The Story of the experiences of America's Number One Girl Circus Fan, following the Big Show over the map of the United States."

[Charlotte]: Palaemon Press, 1978. Illustrated by Edward Richter. VG+ hardcover in blue papered boards, with title pastedown on front cover (sunning and soiling to spine, small bump to upper corner, white mark on back panel). First Edition, issued without dustwrapper. Stamped “Review Copy” (not one of the 330 copies mentioned on the limitation page) and SIGNED by Garrett and INSCRIBED by publisher and Garrett bibliographer Stuart Wright in the year of publication. Uncommon thus.

Candia, New Hampshire: John LeBow/Ascensius Press, 1996. One of 150 copies in wrappers (out of a total edition of 476 copies) SIGNED and numbered (#67) by the author, additionally SIGNED by the illustrator Dina Knapp. A light indentation or wrinkle to lower edge.

New York: Negro Digest/Black World/Scholastic, 1969. 17” x 22”. VG (horizontal and vertical folds, as issued, with wear at folds). Image of eyes accompanied by the poem “What Color is Black” by Barbara D. Mahone (“black is the color of / the feeling that we share / the love we must express / the color of our strength / is black.”

San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2006. Cover art by Rachell Sumpter. First Edition. Original brown boards as issued, with blurb band intact on back cover. Near Fine. A novel about a Sudanese refugee fleeing civil war in the 1980s.

Portland, Oregon: Kilham Stationery and Printing Company, 1921. Illustrated stapled wraps (5" x 7"). 17 unnumbered leaves with beautiful hand-colored illustrations that accompany poems about the beach and the sea.No copies in trade as of October 2023 and only 4 holdings in OCLC (NYPL, Brown, Oregon, Buffalo and Erie).

Kansas City, KS: Bev-Ron Publishing Company, 1969. VG or better in illustrated covers with plastic comb binding (soiling on covers and affecting first few pages, sticker remnant). 104 pp with an additional 14 pages in rear including Index and advertising and order forms. The front cover reads "Perfect Gift for the Ladies Back Home" and includes a sticker of the Stephen Foster Memorial, White Springs, Fla.Contains sections on Appetizers, Soups, Salads, Fruits and Vegetables, Citrus, Bread, Rolls, & Pastry, Meat, Seafood, Poultry, WIld Game, Casseroles, Cakes, Cookies, Original Honey Recipes, Desserts, Candy, Preserves, Beverages.

Mission, KS: Circulation Service, 1979. Spiral comb binding. VG (a bit of staining to inside covers affecting a few pages, soiling and edgewear). 84 pp. along with 38 page section entitled "Basic Kitchen Information" that was provided by National Live Stock and Meat Board, U.S. Deptartment of Agriculture, Armour and Co., and Wheat Flour Institute. "The Ways and Means Committee of The Devenger Place Ladies' Auxiliary...[has] endeavored to combine the practical with the unusual in order to provide an outstanding book of favorite foods that will be treasured and enjoyed by all." Sections include: Appetizers, Pickles, Relish; Soups, Salads, Dressings, Sauces; Main Dishes--Meat, Seafood, Poutlry; Main Dishes--Egg, Cheese, Spaghetti, Casserole; Vegetables; Bread, Rolls, Pies, Pastry; Cakes, Cookies, Icings; Desserts; Candy, Jelly, Jam, Preserves; Beverages, Miscellaneous. Uncommon.

Forbes Co. Boston (Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Co. operated in Boston 1862-1930). 11.5" x 31.5" Litho on thin original paper that is linen backed and whitewashed. Seems to have been a placard (and perhaps the original was also affixed to blue linen). Overall VG. Circa. 1882 (Sparks launched in 1880, and it seems that this is the Grand Opera House in Brooklyn, which opened in 1881). Edouin was a famous English-born comedian who spent considerable time in the States after 1870. He also performed in a number of minstrel shows, and it seems by the images of this litho that this was part of these performances as well. Unrecorded in OCLC and auction records.

Washington, D.C.: The Armagh Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. 48 pp, illustrated, with a handwritten correction to a poem (p. 44) in the author’s own hand. Small softcover, VG+, with what looks to be an imprint of a paper clip that runs over the lower edge of the book. Limited to 550 copies, 50 of which were signed. While this is not a signed copy, inserted into the book is a handwritten one-page letter from the author to Maxine Kumin, dated June 1987, which warmly talks about their conversations at the Library of Congress and this, her first book, which she sent to Kumin, saying she would be pleased for her to comment on it. SIGNED in full by Sanders, with a postscript that mentions that the book “is meant to be a contemporary form of a medieval Book of Hours.” Uncommon.

New York: Viking , 1994. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Boyle on title page in the year of publication. Laid in is a publisher's promotional bookmark. Near Fine in Near Fine unclipped dustjacket.

Poughkeepsie, NY: Father Tree Press/Warp Graphics, 1986. Portfolio in illustrated envelope, which includes a suite of 10 individual "portraits" of the wolves (plus one on cover), originally realized in charcoal pencil. 14.5" x 11". VG+ or better prints and portfolio in a VG envelope.Wendy Pini is the creator (with her husband Richard) and illustrator of ElfQuest, a wildly popular fantasy series of comics first published in 1978.In May of 1986, Pini was invited by Dr. Erich Klinghanmmer, Director of Wolf Park in Battle Ground, Indiana, to spend time sketching the wolves at the park. She and her husband, Richard, had been supporters of the park and "its aim to inform a largely unaware public of the complexities and ecological significance of the lupine social system." Uncommon--no copies in OCLC or in commerce as of October 2023.

[n.p.]: Palaemon Press Limited, 1979. First Edition, limited to 235 copies, numbered 1-200, this being #180. SIGNED by Welty on the limitation page. 13[1] pp. Near Fine in striking green boards. First appeared in a slightly different form in the "Junior League Magazine" November, 1941.

New York: The Viking Press, 1980. First Edition. 79 pp. Near Fine a VG+ dustjacket (touch of rubbing). Winner of the Walt Whitman Award for 1978 (judged by Louis Simpson). Dustjacket praise from May Sarton, Maxine Kumin, and May Swenson. "With the Compliments of The Academy of American Poets" card laid in. Michigan native Snow's second book, her first collecton of poetry.

Double-sided 8.5” x 11” printed in red and black political flyer/broadside. “Working People Need Their Own Candidates! Gus Hall for President, Jarvis Tyner for Vice-President. Vote Communist in ’72! For Peace, Jobs, Freedom!” Issued by the Hall-Tyner Illinois Campaign Committee (Chicago), stamped as such on both sides (national headquarters were in New York, NY). Photo of Hall and Tyner on front, with their platform on reverse (“End the War in Southeast Asia Now! End Racism! End Poverty! End the Wage Freeze! Tax Big Business, Not Working People! End Police Repression! Provide Jobs and Job Training for All Youth! Equality for Women!”). Also included is subscription information for Daily World (the only Marxist-Leninist daily in the U.S.) and People’s World (the West Coast working class weekly). Unrecorded in OCLC.