Authors starting with W from Charles Agvent

(Mansfield): M. Martino, [1997]. Reprint. Fine. Octavo. Limited to 175 copies, this important work is the standard in the field of Swiss travel and topography. In all, 7500 fully described books are arranged regionally & chronologically, with collations and frequent annotations. Covers books on the Alps, including various accounts of ascents. Included is a comprehensive 60-page index as well as the supplement, originally separately published a decade after the original publication. Text in German and ... more information

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New Haven: Yale, 1935. First Edition. Small leather bookplate. NF in VG dw.. ... more information

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Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1982. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Fine in glassine. One of 750 hardcover trade copies, this a review copy with slip laid in. ... more information

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Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1986. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Fine in glassine, as issued. One of 250 numbered & SIGNED copies. ... more information

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Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1993. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Fine in glassine, as issued. One of 125 numbered & SIGNED copies. ... more information

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Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Fine in glassine, as issued. There were a total of 250 numbered & signed copies, including 50 with a MANUSCRIPT POEM by Wakoski bound in. This copy has the poem bound in but is marked "Presentation Copy" and is INSCRIBED on 27 April 1980 "To Arthur, the scribe,/the opening, inevitably, is through the/hand holding the pen, transforming/paw & claw. Let us not lose the movement/of the cat who leaves his print, an old/... more information

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New York: Wilson Co., 1936. First Edition. VG in worn dw. 6 plates. 192 pages. Includes a chapter on unfinished novels. ... more information

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n.p.: Minn. Center for Book Arts, 1988. Broadside. Fine. A 9" x 14" broadside, one of 150 numbered and SIGNED copies by the Nobel Prize-winning Caribbean poet. ... more information

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Hartford: F. D. Bolles & Co., 1818. First Edition. calf. Very Good. ...THROUGH THE STATES OF MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, NEW-JERSEY, NEW YORK, CONNECTICUT, RHODE-ISLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, NEW-HAMPSHIRE, VERMONT, AND OHIO, TOGETHER WITH A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE, HIS INAUGURAL SPEECH AND FIRST MESSAGE; AND HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE PRINCIPAL PLACES THROUGH WHICH HE PASSED. ORNAMENTED WITH A PORTRAIT OF THE PRESIDENT. Duodecimo (12mo: 3-7/8" x 6-7/8") bound in contemporary tree calf with ... more information

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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1970). First Edition. hardcover. Fine in dustwrapper with touch of foxing at rear. Very nice copy. Author's second book & first novel. ... more information

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New York: Harcourt Brace Johanovich, (1981). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. Beautiful copy!. A collection of stories published before THE COLOR PURPLE. ... more information

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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942. First Edition. cloth. Fine in just about Fine dustwrapper with no tears or chips. African-American poet's first book, with an introduction by Stephen Vincent Benet. ... more information

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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1992. hardcover. Fine in slipcase. Large folio (18-1/2" x 22-1/2") bound in full imported red Japanese linen in a slipcase covered in black cotton with a gray leather label inset. Walker's most popular poem has been printed letterpress and strikingly illustrated with six fine lithographs by Elizabeth Catlett in this beautiful book. One of only 400 numbered copies SIGNED by the author and by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. ... more information

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New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1925. First. Wraps. Very Good. Quarto. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Walkowitz to fellow artist Jean Charlot. ... more information

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New York: Bernhardt Wall, 1922. First Edition. cloth. Very Good. Quarto (7-3/4" x 10-3/4") bound in green boards with a green cloth spine and gilt morocco spine label. Copy #7 of 250 copies of this work with each of the 21 pages being an ORIGINAL ETCHING by Wall. SIGNED by Wall and Lynch. Some wear to the binding, contents very nice. ... more information

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New York: Bernhardt Wall, 1920. First Edition. cloth. Very Good. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in gray boards with a red cloth spine and an etched title laid down on the front cover. This famous and eloquent eulogy for a dog served as the subject matter for Wall's very first etched book. Copy #53 of only 125 copies designed and printed by Wall with each of the 15 pages being an ORIGINAL ETCHING by Wall. SIGNED by Wall. The front board is pulled away from the inside joint of Wall's crude bindin... more information

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New York: Norton, (1989). First Edition. Slight bumping to corners. NF/NF. Acclaimed author's second book, a collection of stories. ... more information

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New York: Norton, (1989). First Edition. Pictorial Wraps. Fine. ARC. Acclaimed author's second book, a collection of stories. ... more information

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New York: Knopf, 1987. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. Photos. ... more information

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New York: Harper Brothers, 1903. Decorated cloth. Fine, bright set. Two volumes bound in decorated green cloth of this handsome reprint illustrated from drawings by William Martin Johnson and photographs, with nearly every page illustrated with a drawing in the margin. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper of the first volume: "Crawfordsville,/Nov. 21st, 1904./Dear Madam,/I can do little more/than write my name/here, and wish you/every happiness of life./Lew Wallace/Mrs. Beers... more information

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