Search Results: Authors starting with W from Black Paw Books

New York Historical Society, 1953. Softcover. Very Good. Illustrated history of the early American circus by then Director of the New York Historical Society, R.W. G. Vail. Octavo, 24 pp. Stapled wraps. Clean, unmarked copy.

University of York, 1967. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo, 35 pp. Stapled wraps. From private collection of Boston-area historian. Bottom corner of text block gently bumped. Booklet's pages remain clean and unmarked.

Chicago: William B. Thorsen, 1955. Softcover. Good+. 12"tall x 9 1/.4" wide. pp. 24. Stapled. From the library of Pulitzer Prize winning Lincoln biographer, David Herbert Donald. Text shows wear along spine and edges with 2" tear along front crease.

Arrowsmith, 2006. Softcover. Very Good. Short story based on the author's experiences during the Sudanese Civil War. "Hemingway and Co. could learn something about writing about war from Wal. As far as I know, this is the only published story by this powerful writer." - Askold Melnyczuk. Octavo, 8 pp. Stapled wraps. Wraps show some minor rubbing. Scarce.

London: John Murray, 1821. Hardcover. Good. Considered a classic in political literature, Waldegrave's Memoirs provide insight into the political landscape of mid eighteenth-century Britain. 4to, 176 pp. Frontispiece (portrait). Contemporary leather. From private collection of Frederick A. Hagar. Leather is scuffed and worn; label on spine, chipped. Some foxing. A few pages show cursory penciled notes, lines, and checkmarks in margins.

Softcover. Very Good+. Back by popular demand, Doyle has again been stirred by the Omniscient One - this time to confront Devlin who's scheming to murder the kind rector who had taken him in seven years earlier, so that he can assume autonomy over all church matters and funds. Does Doyle arrive in time to save the rector? Who are the survivors, and does Devlin again squirm free? In this epic novel, the sailboat is ultimately returned to Ireland, and two new clairvoyants emerge. Eventually, it becomes apparent that anyone who's traveled in the vessel seems affected in some profound way. But that realization isn't gained until the sailboat is navigated all the way to the Indian coast, where it's abandoned so that its operator can reach a treasured destination. Is that same operator Haimish Devlin? Does he reach his destination, and what becomes of the people he encounters? Those who have yet to read Naked Brunette needn't worry because the short story "Beware Father Time" has been incorporated into The… Read More

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. Work offers a glimpse into the personal interactions and shared moments between Walpole and the Berry sisters, providing insights into their relationship and the historical context of that time. One of 500 printed copies. Quarto, 174 pp. Paper-covered boards with blue cloth backstrip. From private collection. Light wear to boards. Endpapers show a little foxing. Name printed on ffep.

Celtica, 1996. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo, 96 pages. In wraps. From private collection. Scarce.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Harvard Theological Review, 1938. Softcover. Good. Three dates have been suggested for the celebration of the festival of Adonis at Athens, all of which have found adherents in recent years. Deubner, relying solely on the apparent evidence of vase-paintings, as interpreted by Hauser, placed the Adonia at the beginning of autumn. The only argument in favor of so late a date, that bunches of fresh grapes appeared in representations of the κῆποι 'Aδώνιδος' was disposed of by Nock, who pointed out that grapes were also kept until the feast of Choes, Anthesterion 12." Reprint from Harvard Theological Review, Volume 31 , Issue 1 , January 1938 , pp. 65 - 72. 8-page article in stapled wraps. From private collection. Handrwiting on upper wrap. Edges of text block show some creasing and bends.

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 218 pp. Cream paper backstrip over gray, paper-covered boards, with paper label on spine. From private collection. name marked out on front pastedown. Endpapers are a little discolored. Uncommon.

Gregg Publishing, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. Facsimile reprint of 1844 edition. Octavo, 601 pp. Black cloth. From private collection of local historian. Faint foxing to edges of book block. Very tip of a few pages bumped. Previous owner's name printed on ffep. No dust jacket (presumed as issued).

London: Macmilland and Co., Ltd, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. In two volumes. Tall octavo. Vol. I: xxi, 446 pp. with fold-out color map of Indian Empire; Vol II: xi, + map of Pegu+ 450 pp + [2] pp. publisher's advertisements. Bound in green cloth with decorative gilt stamp of eagle on front boards. 1917 inscription from author to Austen Chamberlain on half-title page. Corners and edges of boards lightly bumped. Faint dampstain to corner of first volume's frontispiece.

New York: Max N. Meisel, 1918. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Yidish-language work. 24 cm tall. 93 numbered pages + index. From private collection. Book was poorly bound and text cracks down to binding in several pages; that said, none of the pages is loose.

London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817. Hardcover. Very Good. First-hand account of Richard Watson, an Anglican clergyman and academic who served as the Bishop of Llandaff from 1782 to 1816. Large quarto (11.5" tall). 551 pp. Leather binding. From private collection. Leather is scuffed and spine label chipped. Armorial bookplate of George Holding Rickards on front pastedown. Front and back endpapers show minor insect damage.

Boston: William Parker; B. Merriam & Co. Printers, Brookfield, 1816. Hardcover. Fair. Corrected and accommodated to the Use of the Church of Christ in America." 1 51/2" tall x 3 1/2" wide. 283 + 234 pp. + table. In original calf binding. Fair condition. Several pages missing from end of book, including the first half of the table. Endpapers chipped and worn. Dampstain along inside margin of first couple of pages.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. This historical novel follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople, the mother of Roman Emperor Constantine I, to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Fist American Edition. Octavo. 247 pp. Tan cloth. From private collection. Dust jacket is heavily worn and now protected in an archival mylar cover.

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Center for Archaeological Invesstigation, 1989. Softcover. Very Good. Scholarly work presents the findings of archaeological surveys and testings conducted in the late 80s in response to a realignment of Illinois Route 3 in Alexander County. Quarto, 167 pp. with black & white illustrations and maps. In wraps. Wraps are agetoned along edges. Light wear to corners of book block.

Dr. A. Petermanns Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt, 1913. original folded map. Original folded map entitled Routenkarte der Hilfsexpedition des deutschen Observatoriums am Ebeltofts-Hafen zur Rettung der Mitglieder der Schroeder-Stranz-Expedition, Mai 1913 by Kurt Wegener (Dr. A. Petermanns Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt, 1913). Map is approximately 28 inches tall x 22 inches wide. Scale: 1:250,000. 4 colors. German language map shows the route taken by the rescue party in Ebeltoft, Denmark to save the Schroeder-Stranz expedition. Minor spotting to map along creases.

Princeton Architectural Press, 1997. Softcover. Very Good+. From the Japanese Zen Garden to Andr Le Notre's Versailles, the history of landscape reveals that every garden embodies a philosophy. Focusing on the metaphysics, aesthetics, and theology of the seventeenth century, Allen Weiss's analysis offers new insight into the major gardens of this period: Vaux-le-Vicomte, Chantilly, and Versailles. Octavo, 111 pp. In wraps. From private collection. Book remains clean and unmarked.

London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1914. Hardcover. Good. Complete in two volumes. Tall 8vo. in red cloth. Retired library copy (properly deaccessioned with discard stamps). Usual stamps and markings. Spines are discolored and splotched. Offered here as a solid reading and reference set.