Search Results: Titles starting with W from DuBois Rare Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 208 p. 21 cm. Black cloth over boards, white lettering to spine and front cover. Book Condition: very near fine; with gentle pushed spine ends, brilliant fresh yellow top stained edge, clean and unmarred text block; likely unread. Dust Jacket Condition: Notoriously fragile jacket bright and fresh with light wear to extremities, rubbing to panels, small closed tear to rear panel at top edge. Theroux's first book.

New York: Norton, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 272 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. Tall 4to. Red cloth over boards, gilt spine lettering. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Conditon: Some crinkling to spine ends, with superficial rubbing to panels; Very Good. Signed by artist [Robert Gambee] on ffep: Best Wishes, Robert Gambee.

London: The Wallpaper* Group, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Very Good. 234pp. illus. many color. 30cm. Tall 4to. Softcover. Perfectbound Magazine. The famous full lenticular cover. Book Condition: Very good. Torn at foot of spine, creasing to corner of lower cover, wear to extremities. Lenticular cover very bright and vibrant, interior unmarred. The Global Style Special. Content includes: Studio Lines, Andreas Gursky, The technocrafters, Hollin Hills, Neon accessories, Dining tables, and Hanoi.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 239 pages 23 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original orange cloth over boards,black lettering stamped to spine and upper cover. Book Condition: bits of wear to bottom edge, gently pushed spine ends, gray topstain nice and fresh. Dust Jacket Condition: small kerfufuel to crown of spine, closed tear to near top edge of front panel with some loss at corner; bright, vibrant colors with none of the usual fading to spine. Warmly inscribed by author. Basis for 1979 film co-written and directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Ken Wahl, John Friedrich, Karen Allen and Toni Kalem.

Monte Carlo/Boston: André Sauret/Boston Book and Art Shop, 1963. Lithograph. Fine. Original stone lithograph in black on stiff wove stock. 12.5" × 9.5". Printed by the Atelier Mourlot, Paris and featured in the second volume of Chagall's Catalogue Raisone: Chagall Lithographs II, edited by Andre Sauret and published in 1963. Print condition: Fine, bright, fresh; a pristine print.

New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 309 p. 22 cm. 8to. Publisher's original blue cloth, black title box with gilt spine lettering. Book Condition: Gently pushed spine ends else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: A few nics to the edges, spine toned, red crayon marking to front cover.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984. First American Edition, First Printing so stated with no additional printings. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 568 pp. 8to. Hardcover. Black cloth and ochre coloured paper over boards, gilt and red lettering. Book Condition: Very Good + (at least). Lettering fresh and sparkly, binding square and tight, text clean, gently read if at all. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good to VG+, fresh colors and appearance with mild rubbing and crinkling in the usual places. Closed tear the length of an eyelash at spine tail. Flaps show some toning, not clipped, features a dab of white out over the price. Translated from the Spanish original: "La Guerra al fin del Mundo", by Helen R. Lane. Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2010.

New York: Knopf, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 336pp. Hardcover. Octavo. Signed by author.

New York: Random House, 1994. Advance Uncorrected Proof/First Edition, First Printing. Wraps/Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 253 p. 8to. Laminated blue patterned wraps. Initials in felt tip on ffep else fine. Signed by author on title page. Plus: 1st printing of first trade edition. Book Condition: Date in fine hand on ffep, spine ends pushed, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Mild wear to extremities with a few crinkles at the edges. A sharp, signed set.

Saint Paul, Minn: Graywolf Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: A Demeter Press, Book Quadrangle, The New York Times Book Company, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. xiii, 176 p. : Ill ; 23 cm. Hardcover. The skinny top and bottom of the cloth a little grotty, as is the jacket. Top, fore and bottom text block edges speckled. Interior of book pristine, unread even, while the light colored jacket (lemon yellow) shows dirt but v. little wear. Birds that have the good fortune to reside where fruit is plentiful basically do not have to work for a living. That is to say while their unlucky cousins to the north are more or less looking for fruit 24/7/365, those in the tropical zones can barely fly across town without getting bonked on the head with a pound or so of your ripest and sweetest. So. What do the male birds in the tropics have to worry about? Well, they need to have great big colorful plumage, ginormous beaks, crazy colors or some such if they want to be in the game when it comes to the females. Can't be easy to just sit around and try… Read more

Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service with the cooperation of the United States Geological Survey, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Photo Illustrated Wraps. Near Fine. 118 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Prepared in conjunction with an exhibition presented by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Very Good -. 30 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Softcover. Perfectbound wraps. Book condition: spine and edges abraded, covers creased; rounded corners; binding sound with no splitting along spine-the usual fatal flaw...interior unmarked and unmarred. A rare first printing, Introductory series to the modern arts, 3.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Very Good. 32 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Softcover. Perfectbound wraps. Book condition: spine and edges abraded, covers creased; rounded corners; binding sound with no splitting along spine-the usual fatal flaw...interior unmarked and unmarred. A rare first printing, "A companion and supplement to a booklet issued earlier by the Museum of Modern Art, What is modern design?" "Introductory series to the modern arts, 4."

New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Quarterbound burgundy cloth and green paper over boards gilt spine lettering. A small amount of rubbing to the DJ. One 1/16th inch crinkle to top of DJ near spine else Fine.

New York: Viking Press, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +.

Nashville: Broadman Press, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Very Good+. 112pp. 20cm. Thin 8vo. Hardcover. Publisher's original forest greeb cloth over boards, silver lettering to spine. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good at least; light wear to the extremities, teeny nicks, curlings, and creasings to edges. An extraordinary copy of a book that is scarce to the the trade. The author has warmly inscribed and dated the ffep, signed the title page and added reference to a bible verse, glued in an original typescript of her poem "Beauty", and pasted another devotional offering to the end page! An overflowing of devotional good wishes from the author to the lucky recipient all still present and in lovely condition. Near Fine in Very Good + dust jacket. Hardcover. "A Mississippi native, Appleby went to OBU and Oklahoma State University. She was the first person to respond to the call to missions at Falls Creek Baptist Assembly. Oklahoma… Read more

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Very Good +. 263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Softcover. Perfectbound wraps. Dog-eared corners to front panel else fine. This catalog published on the Occasion of the Exhibition Held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 25 February - 30 May 2010 "Biennial Exhibition 2010" curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari.

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Stiff Wraps w/ Stiff Cardboard DJ. Near Fine/Very Good +. 23 x 17 cm. 396 gatefold pages with 222 ills. (100 foldout posters, 159 col.). Softcover. Stiff wraps with Stiff cardboard dust jacket. Glow in the dark lettering to spine (on dj). Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket condition: small split at crown of spine, faint signs of handling, else fine. From the publisher: The 2006 Whitney Biennial catalogue, with 800 pages (they are counting the doubling effect that occurs with the unique gatefold) and more than 200 images. Uses an innovative book format in order to present a remarkable artists' section called "Draw Me a Sheep." (borrowing its title from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince") the "Draw Me a Sheep." section is a collection of individual artist pages done as a series of four-panel "poster" foldouts. By inviting each artist to create a page for the book, "Draw Me a Sheep" presents an image from… Read more

London: Orion, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.