Search Results: Titles starting with W from Crooked House Books & Paper

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Navy blue cloth with gilt titles, 8vo, 411 unopened pages; endpapers toned from adhesive; clipped dust jacket is edge worn and toned, now protected in mylar. An attractive copy of this novel of a small Minnesota town and its people from the literary editor for the Chicago Daily News.

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First printing stated, no date on title page. Full blue cloth binding with purple & gilt decoration and lettering to spine, 10-1/4" tall, 266 pp., color and b/w photography. Mild discoloration to page edges, previous owner has made their own index of desserts to rear endpaper (in pencil); dust jacket chipped at head of spine removing some letters from authors' names, foxing and small stain to rear panel, DJ price intact to front flap. The Waldorf-Astoria is famous for many reasons, not least for its fine food.

New York, NY: Modern Library, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Modern Library Edition, Toledano binding style G7, black cloth, blank endpapers, interior of dust jacket blank, 632 pages plus publisher's list; price clipped dust jacket now protected in mylar cover. A vintage first Modern Library Giant Edition of John Hersey's historical novel.

Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Beige cloth with burgundy lettering & decoration, 8vo, 338 pp. Minor toning to DJ. One of the greatest American mystery writ-ers, Rinehart's work was the basis for the "had-I-but-known" style of mystery, as well as the phrase "the butler did it," when one of her novels was adapted to be a musical.

New York: Random House, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Blue cloth, 8 x 6 inches, 259 pages; boards are clean and rich with the smallest amount of shelfwear, free end papers a bit age toned, otherwise pages are crisp, binding square and tight, previous owners name written on free end papers. No dust Jacket. A Random House wartime book.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1935. Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5. Wheeler, M.L. and W.C. Not paginated; previous owner's bookplate pasted on front end paper. A very sweet vintage copy with lovely color illustrations throughout the book.

Harvard University Press, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 9x6x1. First printing with full number line. Red cloth boards in mauve and red DJ; 9-1/2" tall; 337 pp. Fine in near fine jacket. Traces the theory and practice of religious leaders, philosophers, intellectuals, and men of letters who used deception to cloak dissident beliefs.

The Women's Missionary Society of the Evangelical Association, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Photo of author dated 1914, this was probably published 1915-1925. Hardcover, blue paper-covered spine over woodgrain paper covered baords with Japanese painting style decoration, blue endpapers, 7-3/4" tall, 123 pp., tipped-in b/w photos showing some of the converted Japanese, the grounds, and a few missionaries. An outsider's view of Japan, largely concerning the mission and its converts.

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Signed by the author on title page, full orange cloth with gilt titles, 8vo, 90 pages. Previous owner's name on front endpaper, lightly edge worn dust jacket with a bit of smudging and light soiling. A collection of poems by a WWII WAC sergeant dealing with various aspects of army life, including inspection, physical training and furlough.

University of California Press, 1999. Soft cover. Fine. 9x6x0. Trade paperback, 8vo, 263 pp. No flaws to note.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Miguel Covarrubias. Third printing, October 1926, same year as first edition. Blue cloth spine over printed paper-covered boards under the famous DJ illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias. Light wear to spine ends; DJ has shallow chipping at head & tail of spine, toning, small chips to edges of jacket, including one which removes much of the "P" of "Printing." A good copy of this jacket which is difficult to find in old editions.

Southern Illinois University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 5x1x7. Magenta cloth boards under white dust jacket, short 8vo, 322 pp. A novel of the South; Lumpkin's reputation was hurt by her far-left politics during the Great Depression.

Oyez, 1970. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Dark pink & white covers, stapled binding, 37 pp. Edition of 1000 copies.

London: The Two-Horse Press, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Mackley, George. Signed by Illustrator(s). Signed by George Mackley, limited edition #18 of 250 copies. Yellow handmade paper over green cloth spines, separately bound suite of engravings, house in slipcase. Near fine condition with owner's inscription and a few notes in pencil, suite near fine with faint crease to four of the prints, slipcase has toning at edges, light wear, ink scribble to bottom panel. -- Named by the Grolier Club as one of the best books of the 20th century (A Century for the Century.) A beautiful combination of natural history and fine art.

Random House, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First printing stated. Full dark red cloth boards in red & ivory dust jacket, 8-1/4" x 5-5/8", 269 pp. One small stain to front panel of jacket, rubbing to rear panel, some darkening overall, DJ price of $2.00 intact. Book itself has wrinkle in cloth to front panel, almost certainly a binder's flaw. Overall, a very nice copy indeed. Stories of "the little man.

Ames, Iowa: Iowa State College Press, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Fifth printing; full blue cloth with red titles, 8vo, 516 pages, illustrated with drawings and black and white photographs, pictorial endpapers. Slight bow to spine, clean and bright with sound binding, slight musty odor; dust jacket rubbed and edge worn with lightly sunned spine, now in protective mylar cover. 924 recipes for special occasions, large and small, designed for those who love the art of cookery and enjoy sharing it with others.

Smithsonian American Art Museum / University of California Press, 2010. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 10x9x0. William T Wiley. First printing (2010) with full number line. Paperback with flaps, full color illustrations throughout.

Jonathan Cape / Harrison Smith, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Tan cloth boards under photographic dust jacket. Discoloration to boards near edges, biopredation to inner hinges; jacket with edgewear which is minor except for a 1/2" deep diagonal chip to rear panel. Jacket has wrap-around photo of union strikers. Covers the Danville strike of 1930-31, and the Elizabethton, Gastonia, Marion strikes as well. Although largely dealing with white union workers, "Negroes" do have several entries in the index.

Little, Brown and Company, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 10x0x10. Azarian, Mary. Signed by Illustrator(s). Glossy boards under matching pictorial dust jacket; 10-1/4" square. Signed (name only) by Azarian on title page, review slip laid in.

University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine copy in DJ with some fading to spine. Pitt Poetry Series, and Soto's third book published. Soto is a Mexican-American whose "poems are sure, spare evocations of the wonder and violence of life in the barrio and beyond.