Search Results: Authors starting with W from Elk River Books

Austin: Western Publications Inc., 1974. Staplebound. Very good. Quarto (28 cm), pp. 72. Vol 48, No. 1. Pictorial wrappers, "Special Treasure Edition." A few dog-eared pages, wrappers have light wear.

Johannesburg, South Africa: University of Witwatersrand, 1967. Paperback. Very good. Quarto (29.5 cm), pp. x, 87. Green paper wrappers. Organized by subject, with indices to authors, geography, and minerals. Wrappers are sunned, former owner's name inside front cover, light edge wear. Written by Wallace as a thesis for a degree in librarianship, and meant to update the 1950 bibliography of Swaziland written by Johanna Arnheim.

Los Angeles: Nicholas Lawrence Books, 2006. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Quarto (30 cm), pp. 326. Pictorial boards with matching jacket. Heavily illustrated with color, black and white photos. Includes appendices, as well as epilogue by Noell Neill. Jacket and boards with very slight edge wear. From the estate of Margot Kidder, who succeeded Neill in the role of Lois Lane.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Quarto (28 cm), pp. 280. Later printing. Beige boards, pictorial jacket. Includes principles, practices, climatic data, bibliography and index. Stamp on free front endpaper, and a handful of pages have highlighting. Jacket and boards with moderate edge wear.

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Octavo (21 cm.), pp. 251. Black boards with gilt spine text. Very slight bumping and wear.

Novato, CA: New World Library, 2017. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by Alan Watts' daughter, editor and artist, Joan Watts on title page. Octavo (23.3 cm), pp. xvi, 600. Brown boards with gilt titling, tan speckled endpapers. Gray illustrated jacket. Includes several plates of drawings and photographs. Very slight bumping to spine ends, else fine. One of the most reknowned articulators of Zen Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies, Watts was the author of more than 20 books including The Wisdom of Insecurity and The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are. The editors are Watts' daughters.

Charlottesville: Hampton Roads, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (22 cm), pp. 314 plus eight plates of photographs. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Blue boards with red spine text. Light bumping to top of spine and dampstaining to bottom of back board and bottom back of jacket.

New York: Bloomsbury, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by author on title page. Octavo (24 cm), pp. 293. Green boards, pictorial jacket. This is the Pushcart Prize-nominated author's first novel.

1981. Staplebound wraps. Very good. Signed by Wells on title page, # 263 of 500 copies. Octavo (21.5), unpaginated. Staplebound, with pictorial wrappers. Gift inscription on title page, wrappers with moderate wear, tear at top staple. Black and white photos throughout. Biography of a famed Northern Michigan fishing guide, James "Rainbow Jim" Coster III, co-authored by his grandson Orie Wells.

Managua: Ediciones Monimbo, 1983. Paperback. Good. Presumed first edition. Quarto (29.5 cm), pp. 95. Pictorial wrappers have moderate wear, upper right corner crimped, binding is frail but intact. Former owner's name on title page. Text by Uruguayan leftist writer/journalist Galeano accompanies Wessing's striking black and white photography depicting the politics of every day life, as well as graphic violence, in war-torn Guatemala and in the aftermath of the 1973 military coup in Chile.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 147. Signed and inscribed by author on front pastedown: "For Ed- who knows far better than I how much he contributed, who does not know as well as I how much it was appreciated. Ray B. West / Iowa City, Oct. 20, 1952." With bookplate on free front endpaper "From the Library of Edward F. McGuire." Navy blue boards with gilt titling, blue and yellow jacket. Boards are worn at extremities, with crimped corners. Jacket has a few small chips and closed tears, and one spot where the color bled through onto the underside. West was a professor at the University of Iowa during the early stages of its development as a preeminent writing program, where he founded The Western Review quarterly literary magazine.

New York: Forge, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 304. Cream-colored cloth boards with red metallic lettering. Signed by author on title page. Brand new.

New York: Tom Doherty, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 320. Signed by author on title page. Black cloth with brown spine titling. Pictorial jacket. A Barnaby Skye ("Skye's West") novel. "In this sweeping novel of the early West, Skye and his wives and son cope with radical change as the wilderness vanishes, the buffalo are slaughtered, and the government puts the tribes on reservation lands. How can people born and bred to tribal life learn to live another way? Their struggle takes the Skyes from the Crazy Mountains in Montana to St. Louis and the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming."

New York: Forge, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/fine. Signed by author on title page. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 349. Navy boards with gilt titling. Publisher's promotional materials laid in. Boards show bumping at tail of spine.

New York: Forge Books, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 320. Signed by author on title page. Black boards with gilt titling.

New York: Forge Books, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 318. Signed by author on title page. Black boards with silver lettering.

New York: Walker & Company, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 182. Signed by author on title page. Brown-orange boards with bright gilt spine text. Minor bumping on top and bottom of spine, small spot of discoloration on front. Jacket has light wear, sitcker residue on back. Remainder mark on bottom of text block.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Blue cloth with black quarter cloth and silver titling. Illustrated with photographic plates. Minor bumping on spine ends. Price-clipped jacket with moderate soiling and edgewear. Memoir of the Montana Senator whose individualism gained him the respect and ire of both Democrats and Republicans during the 1920s, 30s, and 40s.

New York: Forge, 2001. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (24cm), pp. 383. Black boards with gilt text on spine. Inscribed by author on title page, "For Steve, I admire your courage." Jacket has light wear at head/tail of spine, small closed tear.

New York: Forge, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 349. Navy boards with gilt titling. Pictorial jacket. From Wheeler's popular Barnaby Skye series. As new, gift quality condition.