Search Results: Authors starting with W from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

London &c, 2002   ¶ Only edition. 212 lots, including the autograph manuscripts of Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder 1858 £534,650 ($841,470) and the autograph libretto for Tristan und Isolde 1857 £204,650 ($322,092). (Sotheby's sale no. L02306, 6 December 2002.)   ||| Collation: 270 x 210 mm: Pp [1-8] 9-182 [183-184].  Illustration: Numerous color and monochrome illustrations and facsimiles.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine. Price-list laid in. .

New York: Warner Books / A Time-Warner company, 1993 ¶ FIRST EDITION (with statement "First Printing: November 1993" and code "10 . . . 3 2 1" on the title verso). ||| Collation: 127 x 190 mm: Pp. [vii], 197 [198-199]. Binding: Quarter brown boards, dust-jacket. Condition: A fine copy. Reference: ISBN 0446516538. .

New York: Warner Books / A Time-Warner company, 1993 ¶ FIRST EDITION (with statement "First Printing: November 1993" and code "10 . . . 3 2 1" on the title verso). ||| Collation: 127 x 190 mm: Pp. [vii], 197 [198-199]. Binding: Quarter brown boards, dust-jacket. Condition: Near fine; ower free endpaper barely wrinkled (by the binder). Reference: ISBN 0446516538..

Kempten (Bavaria): Verlag fuer Heimatpflege, 1983 *** FIRST EDITION; comprising sixty-one poems in Allgaeu dialect, with ten tinted illustrations after Otto Sieber. Out of print and evidently very scarce: KVK has only a revised edition 1984 (SuStB Augsburg only). -- Provenance: Sonnenalp (Ofterschwang, Bavaria), stamp on endpaper. . First edition of the author's first book. Pictorial boards. 190 x 120 mm. Pp [1-4] 5-86 [87-92].

First edition (only edition), describing "Perturbations at present unexplained, indicating the existence of a trans-neptunian planet having a mass twice that of the Earth" (Annals 75.2 [1913] 240). -- Pluto was discovered in 1930, but Pickering's work suggested a large group of bodies. Recent studies have indeed discovered two groups of asteroid-like objects beyond Neptune. -- -- Collation: Quarto (299 x 247 mm, 11¾ x 9¾ inches): Fifty-six leaves, paginated [109]-162 [163-164 blank], complete as issued. Diagrams, charts, tables. Binding: Printed wrappers, as issued. Condition: Remarkably fine, as shown. (Series: Annals of the astronomical observatory of Harvard College [1855- ] volume 61, part 2.) -- References: W. G. Hoyt "W. H. Pickering's planetary predictions and the discovery of Pluto", Isis 69 (1978) 551-64; P. M. Sadler "William Pickering's search for a planet beyond Neptune", Journal for the history of astronomy 21 (1990) 59-64; Sotheran 2064246n.

Offprint from: The Yale University library gazette (New Haven), volume 64, no. 1/2 (October 1989), 1989     Cover title.  Collation: 229 x 147 mm: Fifteen leaves, paginated 10 [10 bis] 11-37 [38].  Illustration: Full-page portrait, one facsimile.  Binding: Printed wrappers, yapp edges.  Condition: Fine.  Provenance: The author, ca 1990, with his printed compliments-slip laid in..

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961   ¶ "FIRST EDITION" of this influential survey; including remarks on Burmann, Wright, and the Spanish lipogrammatists, with a paragraph from Gadsby (1939) on page 48. The latter, we note, was already such a rare book that Pierce was obliged to quote from it at second hand, never having seen a copy himself. (We also note that Pierce's secondhand quotation is more accurate than the second edition of Gadsby 2004, which -- for example -- 'corrects' Wright's spelling "carolling" in chapter 1.)  (Series: Harper modern science series; edited by James R. Newman.)   ||| Collation: In 16s (209 x 140 mm): 160 leaves, paginated [i-vi] vii-xi [xii], 1-305 [306-308].  Illustration: Diagrams, tables.  Binding: Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt, publisher's device in blind, plain wove endpapers, yellow-and-red headbands, all edges trimmed and plain. Pictorial dust-jacket, priced $6.50.  Condition:… Read more

Lincoln (Nebraska): University of Nebraska Press, 1986     ¶ An interesting reference to Wright's famous lipogram Gadsby, showing the deterioration of Wright's text as it is copied and recopied by writers who don't have access to the first edition (1939) -- which was, and is, almost unobtainable. On page 53 here, Motte quotes Queneau 1964 quoting Pierce 1961 quoting Wright 1939: Pierce had it right ("carolling", "No"), but now Motte has it wrong ("caroling", "no"). The conclusion seems obvious enough, that there is no substitute for the first edition.   ||| Collation: 228 x 151 mm: 112 leaves, paginated [i-vii] viii-xiii [xiv], 1-209 [210 blank].  Illustration: Diagrams, tables.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Very good.  .

New York: The Gregg publishing company, 1944 *** "A Monthly Magazine for Secretaries, Stenographers, and Typists", edited by John Robert Gregg (1867-1948). The present number includes two articles on proper names (in shorthand, pages 477-79) and numerous articles and texts meant to further the war effort, among them "A chance to serve at the front with the Red cross on D-day" (in shorthand, page 510). OCLC 6614243 (part).. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. A very good copy.. In 32 (234 x 155 mm): Pp. i-iii [iv], [463]-520, v.