Search Results: Titles starting with W from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 263 p. "An informal history of the part played by the western states in the Civil War." Inscribed and dated by Lewis on the half-title. From the James S. Copley Library, with the San Diego newspaper publisher and philanthropist's bookplate to the front pastedown. Original tan cloth binding, with blue titles. Internally crisp and clean. Small bookseller's label to the rear pastedown, with a few small, unobtrusive bits of tape from an old dust jacket protector to the pastedowns and the verso of the dust jacket. Some mild rubbing to the dust jacket, which is price-clipped; otherwise very good. Inscribed by Author.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 316 p. Introduction by Sir Martin Conway. Frontispiece portrait, with 47 plates and a folding map. Includes a chapter on the dogs of Constantinople. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Scattered minor foxing, with some dust staining to the top edge. The boards are a bit shelfworn, more so at the corners and tips; else about very good.

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 441 p. Frontispiece, with 24 textual photographs. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with elaborate gilt decorations and a ribbon marker. A fine copy in the original sateen dust jacket, which is a trifle sun faded along the spine, and the publisher's slipcase.

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The poet's first book, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Cassity on the half-title: "For Mr. + Mrs. Morton, this collection of stills from the late movie, Turner Cassity, 13 Oct 1966". Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with black and blue titles. Some mild foxing along the edges and to the dust jacket; otherwise very good.

Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Water architecture in South Asia represents some of the most beautiful and spectacular building achievements of the region. This study provides an holisitic approach to the subject, suggesting common links and regional contrasts between types of water architecture in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Five types of water structures are identified. Their development is traced from simple to more complex forms, considering how these accomodate secular and religious functions, and present expressions of sacred and royal authority. This publication is the first reference work on the subject." Volume XXIV in the Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology series. Quarto: xiii, 266 p. with 45 textual figures and 290 plates (some color). Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Some faint evidence of moisture along the extremities, with some light wear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good.

New York: Grove Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by the author to character actor and filmmaker Paul Bartel on the front flyleaf. Best known for his black comedy Eating Raoul (1982), Bartel was also a noted bibliophile who collected writers like Harry Crews, David Mamet, and Norman Mailer who shared his jaundiced view of America and his fondness for rough language and grotesque humor. Set in a radio station studio during "The Century of Progress Exposition" at the 1934 Chicago World's Fair, this pair of dramas focus on a poor young factory worker who invents an engine that runs on water and a radio-show host who helps listeners with their personal problems. Octavo. Original cloth binding, with blue titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Los Angeles: VION Publishing Company, Inc, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Authorized biography of the Austro-Hungarian-born American competitive swimmer and actor. Best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and '40s, Weissmuller (1904-84) won five Olympic gold medals and set 67 world records. Frontispiece illustration, with textual photographs. This copy is inscribed by Johnny Weissmuller on the title page. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. A bit of dust staining and spotting to the top edge. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn, with some unobtrusive staining; otherwise very good.

New York: Random House, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Novel based on Schulberg's Academy Award-screenplay for On the Waterfront (1954). Octavo. Original ivory cloth binding, with black and brown titles. Typical uneven loss of the dust jacket laminate; else very good.

New York: Random House, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author's second novel, which revolves around the mishaps of its narrator, Fred Trumper, a floundering late-twenty-something graduate student with serious commitment and honesty issues. Octavo. Original yellow paper-covered boards over a blue cloth spine, with light blue titles. The bottom corners are very lightly bumped; else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This book surveys the application of the recently developed technique of the wavelet transform to a wide range of physical fields, including astrophysics, turbulence, meteorology, plasma physics, atomic and solid state physics, multifractals occurring in physics, biophysics (in medicine and physiology) and mathematical physics." Tall octavo: 453 p. with numerous textual figures (some color) and tables. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. Light bump to the spine heel; else fine in a fine dust jacket.

London: Macmillan, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Peter Lovesey on the title page. This is No. 5 of 7 copies especially signed by the author at Post Mortem Books on June 28, 1983, with a printed card and the original receipt laid in. Winner of the Silver Dagger Award, this is the eighth novel featuring Victorian era detective Sergeant Daniel Cribb and his assistant Constable Thackeray. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with silver titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Review copy, with the publisher's slip and promotional material laid in. The fourth Hoke Moseley crime novel. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1995. Paperback. Very good. Original paper wrappers. A very good copy.

New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A study of German culture between the two wars, this seminal work brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power. Octavo. Original dark gray cloth binding, with gilt and red stamping. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket.

London: The Fleuron, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Wood Engravings by Paul Nash. London: The Fleuron, 1925. First edition, limited to 525 copies printed at the Curwen Press. An early collection of verse, illustrated by British surrealist painter and war artist Paul Nash (1889-1946). Small octavo. Original decorative paper-covered boards over a black cloth spine, with gilt titles. Typical mild toning to the contents. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Light fading and wear along the extremities of the boards; otherwise very good in a clear acetate dust wrapper.

Chatsworth, California: Windsor Publications, Inc, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Profusely illustrated. Chatsworth, California: Windsor Publications, Inc., 1989. First edition. Pictorial history of the Southern California city located 19 miles east of Downtown Los Angeles in the eastern San Gabriel Valley. Signed by the author on the half-title. Quarto. Original cream cloth binding, with gilt titles. The dust jacket is a bit edgeworn; otherwise very good.

Los Angeles: Percy H. Booth, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 100 copies, and signed and dated by publisher Percy Booth on the title page. A native of Tennessee, Walker (1798-1876) became a frontiersman in Missouri before reconnoitering the Far West under Captain Benjamin Bonneville. Walker's detachment of Bonneville's company were the first white men to make a westward crossing of the Sierra Nevada (1833) and perhaps the first to see Yosemite. He later led an expedition with J.B. Chiles (1843) and was a guide on Fremont's second and third expeditions (1844, 1845-46). Six illustrations and a folding map, with textual decorations by Lawrence A. Patterson. Quarto. Original printed paper-covered boards over a brown leather spine, with a printed paper spine label. A fine copy.

Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Frontispiece portrait, with textual illustrations and maps, including one folding. First edition, limited to 2,064 copies. "At the time of the publication of this work, J. Ross Browne had yet to receive solid biographical treatment.This work is principally documentary in nature, although the author provides a thorough assessment of Browne's significance at the end of the book. Also included is a bibliographical listing of the writings of Browne in serial publications and in books, documentary reports and pamphlets." Volume XIII in the Western Frontiersman Series. Original red cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Negligible crease to a corner of the folding map. Small ex-libris label to the front flyleaf. A bit of wear to the corners and tips; otherwise a very good copy. Clark, R. and P. Brunet: The Arthur H. Clark Company, #99.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 354 p. 23 illustrations. "In recent years the study of western history has been transformed by scholarship on the actual experiences of the women who settled the West. The essays gathered here, first presented at a 1984 conference sponsored by the Southwest Institute for Research on Women, analyze and interpret this new body of research." From the James S. Copley Library, with the San Diego newspaper publisher and philanthropist's bookplate to the front pastedown. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with blue titles. Internally crisp and clean. Mild bumping to the corners and tips, with light edgewear to the dust jacket. A very good copy.

Ruidoso, New Mexico: Frontier Book Company, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A treatise on gunmen named Smith, some well known, others not so well known." Signed by Bartholomew on the half-title. Original cloth binding, with red titles. Minor production error to the front endpaper. The dust jacket is a bit shelfworn, with a mild stain to the bottom corner of the rear panel; otherwise about very good. Adams, R.: Six-Guns and Saddle Leather, #154. Signed by Author.