Authors starting with W from John Michael Lang Fine Books

Everett, Washington: Everett High School, 1938. Hardcover 10.5" x 7.5". Off-white cloth. Some light wear, front hinge weak, many greeting notes, else a VG+ copy. A well done Everett high school (Seattle) yearbook. With the usual sections on classes, faculty, athletics, clubs, etc. ... more information

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Yakima, Washington: Privately published, 2008. Hardcover 11" x 8". 983pp. Maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. New condition. Second printing; published in an edition of fewer than 100 copies. A massive book, with details on Ferguson, the earliest school systems in the Yakima region, shared schools with Washington's Klickitat, Kittitas and Benton counties, parochial and Indian schools, and much more. With numerous illustrations. Signed by the compiler on the first leaf. ... more information

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New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1929. Hardcover 7.5" x 5". 288pp. Red cloth hardback, in dust wrapper. Near fine condition; the jacket is somewhat faded and edge worn. A novel of two men, one of whom is dying and entrusts his companion with a mission. ... more information

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Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1945. Hardcover 6.25" x 4.5". 39pp. Illustrated paper boards. Excellent condition. With b&w and color illustrations by Esther Friend. ... more information

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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963. Hardcover 9" x 5.75". 280pp. Beige and blue cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket. Second printing. This copy signed and warmly inscribed by the author on the first leaf. "A very personal view of silent movies." With much on actors, directors, studios, etc. With many black & white photo illustrations. ... more information

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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. Hardcover First edition 9" x 5.75". 224pp. Blue cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket. Laid in to this copy are three typed notes. Each of the short signed notes has good content regarding the author's writings, etc. This memoir features chapters on a life of writing and of enjoying movies, his pioneering book on the Wizard of Oz, teaching and academia, theater, etc. ... more information

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Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1969. Hardcover 10.75" x 8.25". 543pp. Dark green cloth covered hardback with gilt lettering. Fine condition. Illustrated with black and white maps and drawings. "The first expedition sent out by English adventurers for the discovery of new trades to reach the fabled Spice Islands of the East." This work is arguably the most comprehensive assembly of texts and detailed analysis of Drake's voyage. ... more information

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[New Haven]: Yale University Library, 1955. Hardback First edition 7" x 5.75". 103pp. Brown paper covered boards, white cloth spine, in the original slipcase. Small gift inscription, else near fine condition. With the three facsimile folding maps tucked into an envelope, as issued. Material on Pond, a controversial explorer of the upper Mississippi and the Canadian Northwest, is very scarce. (See the DAB entry XV, p. 61 by Louise Phelps Kellogg, and the biography by H.A. Innes (1930). The ... more information

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New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1985. Paperback First Dover edition 12" x 9". Glossy illustrated wrapper. Near fine condition. The full orchestral and vocal score of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold. ... more information

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New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1983. Paperback 12" x 9.25". Glossy illustrated wrapper. Spine slightly cocked, else near fine condition. The full vocal and orchestral score of Richard Wagner's opera Siegfried. ... more information

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New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1978. Paperback First Dover edition 11" x 8.25". Glossy illustrated wrapper. Spine slightly cocked, else near fine condition. The complete vocal and orchestral score of Richard Wagner's opera Die Walkure. ... more information

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New York: Dover Publications, 1982. Paperback 12" x 9.25". Glossy illustrated wrapper. Spine slightly cocked, else near fine condition. The complete orchestral and vocal score for Richard Wagner's opera Gotterdamerung. ... more information

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New York: The Workers Education Bureau Press, 1928. Hardcover Later printing. 9" x 6" 479pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Very good+ copy with minimal wear to boards, top edge a bit dusty, page edges lightly toned; text clean & unmarked. ... more information

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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955. Hardcover First edition 8" x 5.25". 241pp. Black paper covered hardback boards, in dust wrapper. Mild general wear, overall near fine condition; the jacket has light edge wear and rubbing. The author's second novel. ... more information

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Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963. Hardcover 7.75" x 5.25". 64pp. Tan cloth over boards in original yellow-orange dust jacket which has mild edgewear else a VG+ copy. Containing 41 poems, this is David Wagoner's third book. He has remarked about this book: "Many of the poems use the objects and creatures of the natural world, in action, to recreate dramatically the emotional and spiritual trials of man. The poems range in mood from the lyric to the satiric. They also ten... more information

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South Hackensack, New Jersey & New York: Rothman Reprints, Inc. & Augustus M. Kelley, 1971. Hardback 8.5" x 5.5". 526pp. Beige cloth. Near fine condition. This edition features a new introduction by Eleazar Lipsky. Terry was a California politician, perhaps best known for his having killed United States Senator David C. Broderick in a duel in 1859. ... more information

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1962. Hardcover First American edition 8" x 5". 329pp. Yellow and blue hardback, in dustwrapper. Fine condition; nice VG+jacket. A jazz novel. ... more information

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[No place]: [Privately published by the author], 1987. Paperback 8.5" x 5.5". 119pp. Glossy illustrated paperback. Near fine condition. This very scarce work of family history includes much detail on the Wainwright family going back to the first generation of the family in America. With many illustrations from photographs, family anecdotes, dates, and much more. It appears that many members of the family were in the American military. ... more information

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[No place]: Ouroboros Press, 2006. Hardcover First edition 8.5" x 5.25". 157pp., plus 5pp. publisher's catalog. Maroon cloth, gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket. As new condition. One of only 700 copies. "Known unto the Wise as the Crowd of Philosophers, this twelfth century treatise records the meeting of the "Hermetic Association for the Advancement of Alchemy" and gives voice to the alchemical wisdom of several centuries. From Pythagoras to the Thrice-Greatest Hermes,... more information

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Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1985. Hardcover 12" x 10". Appr. 150pp. Illustrated hardback boards, in dust wrapper. Top corner lightly bumped, else fine condition; near fine jacket. Japanese and English language verse as well as illustrations of Aijiro Wakita's art work. ... more information

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