Search Results: Titles starting with W from Collectible Books

PLEASE NOTE! 1813 sixth edition printed by James Ballyntyne. 175 pages. 6.5 x 4 inches. Leather bound with gilt borders on covers, and faulted by edgewear to covers and chipping to half of the spine. The binding is tight and pages are bright, clean, and crisp. Concerns French conquest of Switzerland, and was first published 1806 in London. Priced for spine restoration.

Fifth edition thoroughly revised. 1887 on COPYRIGHT and TITLE pages. Published by Lippincott. 76 pp. Burgundy cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Lightly soiled and rubbed. Nice clean pages with NO cracking, handwriting, marks or tears. 7.5 x 5.25 inches.

SIGNED Fifth Printing. Farrar Straus & Giroux. Dj is edgeworn and publishers $5.95 price is present at top flap corner, but the bottom front flap corner is clipped. Pasted to fep is authors note, "";For Brian's copy of 'What I'm Going To Do, I Think', with my best wishes Larry Woiwode"";. Present on pastedown is Brian's bookplate. Some spotting or staining is present to page edges and the margins of a few pages. and mailed with trackable in the USA. .

1. Scarce in rare dustjacket. 1926 copyright by Century Co. New York & London. No date on title page. viii + 251pp. 8 x 5.5 inches. Dark red cloth with black lettering. Book and dustjacket in Very Good+ condition. NO wear on the cloth. Dust jacket has one 1/4 inch tear with slightly darkened spine. There is spotted foxing on the foredge, and the first few pages are lightly tanned. The rest is clean, tight and bright. Behind the front flap on the front pastedown there is a fine custom bookplate of YMCA notable Gilbert Beaver.

1. Scarce. First ed. Title page continues from above, ""by William L. Keese. Illustrated. New York and London. G.B. Putnam's Sons. Knickerbocker Press. 1885.""; Top edge gilt with side and bottom edges cut. 230 pages. Red cloth with bright gilt to emblem on front cover and on spine title. Light rubbing and soiling to cloth. NO thread loss or chipping. 8"" x 5.5"". Binding and interior pages in exceptionally fine, clean and tight condition. (For bio on Burton see editorial review on reprint ISBN: 0809325721) Scarce.

1. Stated first American edition. Faulted by browning to inside flaps, pastedowns and front end paper. Otherwise clean, bright, tight and unread. Untorn pictorial dustjacket is faintly surface rubbed.

1. FSG first edition, first printing. Dustjacket and book like new but for very faint spotting on textblock edge and inside dj cover.

1. A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago 1892. ""Annual American Catalogue 1886-1900"" states, ""Special large paper edition, illustrated with thirty handsome photo-gravure portraits, printed on paper especially made for the book, and daintily bound in white and gold, gilt top, in a box. Edition limited to 375 numbered copies."" The box is missing, but the dustjacket is nearly intact! Number 116, 221pp., indexed. 8.25""; x 5.5""; Original white cloth with blue and gold designs to spine and front cover. Top edge gilt, textblock foredge roughcut, b&w printed tissue guards over exquisite plates. Light spots of foxing to endpapers. One signature not bound. Strong spine lean. Dj with small chipping at corner ends, slight wear to top edge, and a few tiny holes. Dj spine sunned and missing most of top 3/4""; and bottom 1/4"" allowing exposed cloth a light tan.

1996. SIGNED by two editors and printer. Fine in a fine slipcase, both bound in brown cloth with gilt to design and letters on spine and covers. Limited first edition of 100 copies. ""Women in the Life of Southern California: An Anthology Compiled from Southern California Quarterly""; Edited by Doyce B Nunis, Jr., Pictorial editor: Jennifer Watts. xx + 2p + 431pp + colophon stating, ""500 copies designed by Ward Ritchie were printed by Sultana Press/Dual Graphics Inc. and bound by Roswell Bookbinders. Of these 100 copies are specially bound and signed by the editors and printer."" Contains collected biographies of historically significant women, including b&w photos and index.

1. SIGNED. Limited to 100 copies. ""Women in the Life of Southern California: An Anthology Compiled from Southern California Quarterly"". Edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.; pictorial editor, Jennifer A.Watts. 1st ed. 1996. Copyright by Historical Society of Southern California. xx,[2],431,[1]pp. Slipcase and book in brown cloth with gold designs to covers and spine. Fine condition. On the colophon page, ""Five hundred copies designed by Ward Ritchie were printed by Sultana Press/Dual Graphics Inc. and bound by Roswell Bookbinders. Of these one hundred copies are specially bound and signed by the editors and printer."" 3 signatures follow. 18 articles selected from three decades of writings describing 19th & 20th century women's history thru the lives of notable immigrants and natives. Fine photos, illustrations, tables, biographies and index.

1. SIGNED and inscribed by author on fep. 1981 Simon & Schuster. First Edition. Numberline: 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . Very slight fade to rear top dj edge, and to textblock edges; very faint rub on dj back panel. Else as new, clean, bright and tight. Appears unread.

SIGNED by the author. Experimental poetry written and performed by Monica Gazzo, ""...an Argentinian-born, Italian-raised writer and perfomance artist whose work has been presented throughout Europe and the United States since the 70s..."". Staple bound in pictorial wraps. Unpaginated. ""Presented for the first time at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, California, on August 16 and 17, 1985...music by Joan La Barbara...sound by Jennifer Ware. Set construction by Judith Ogus from a painting by Frida Kahlo..."" Text and 5 b&w illustrations.

1. Published by Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1894. Rare true first edition with 1894 on title page. 194 pages. 4.75 x 7 inches. Pressed gold gilt designs to spine and front cover. Front cover letters to title and author in green. All page edges are gold gilt. Light rub and soil to white cloth. No cloth fraying. Inside very clean, bright and tight. Author's first published book. Whiting published 21 works within the following 17 years. Each of 5 chapters are titled and introduced by a full-page poem of a famous poet, with 5-6 subtitles per chapter. From an 1895 New York Times review, ""...thoughtful essays devoted to the engendering of human happiness, friendship. and the salvation of society. One chapter, entitled 'Exclusiveness and Inclusiveness,' is of singular excellence..."" Timeless advice.