Search Results: Authors starting with W from Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press

Dortmund: Fr. Wilh. Ruhfus, 1897. later cloth. 8vo. later cloth. vi, 76, (2) pages. Rudolf Hirsch's copy with his ink ownership stamp.

New York: The Grolier Club, 1995. paperback. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. paperback. 44 pages. This exhibition catalogue accompanies the exhibition that was held at the Grolier Club from January 25 to March 24, 1995. The catalogue lists works from the collection of Gerald and Glorya Wachs. With over twenty-five years worth of nineteenth-century poetry, this collection contains poems from famous poets including William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and others.

Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown Reprint Library, n.d.. cloth. Ramée, Pierre de la (Ramus. 8vo. cloth. 480. Reprint of the original (Paris 1855). Ramus was a 16th century French humanist and logician who converted to Protestantism, then killed in the St. Bartholomew"s Day massacre of 1572, Preface. Includes excerpts from his works, a bibliography, and table of contents.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951. cloth. Yeats, William Butler. 8vo. cloth. 390 pages. Revised and Edited by Russell K. Alspach. First edition. Near fine in very good dust jacket.

Boston: Boston Public Library, 1911. cloth-backed boards, leather spine label, top edge gilt. tall 8vo. cloth-backed boards, leather spine label, top edge gilt. xx, 236 pages. First edition. Many illustrations. Also includes a foldout map showing the branches. Spine label worn and mostly rubbed away. Covers also rubbed around edges with corners bumped.

Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1970. quarter vellum over decorated paper covered boards, cloth slipcase. small folio. quarter vellum over decorated paper covered boards, cloth slipcase. 73, (2) pages. Limited to 110 numbered copies, of which this is one of XXV numbered copies signed by the author / artist, containing one additional plate, and bound in quarter vellum spine protected by a slipcase by Ivan Ruzicka. Vellum lightly discolored yellow and the slipcase is lightly foxed. Else a pristine copy. Printed in 18 point Centaur and Arrighi on Nideggen paper. The plates, printed by hand by Mr. Wadsworth on German Copperplate Deluxe, are examples of the collograph-intaglio process. A note on the Prints: "The print medium employed in this book is relatively new and only partially explored. It relates to all the other intaglio mediums such as etching, drypoint, aquatint and engraving. The essential difference between it and the other mediums is that the plate is both built up (using a variety of… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. cloth, dust jacket. Whittier, John Greenleaf. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 262 pages. First edition. A fine copy in fine jacket.

New York: Rawson, Wade Publishers, 1980. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 287+(1) pages. A guide on how to bid and buy on all kinds of items at auctions. Acknowledgments, directory of relevant addresses, index.

Leipzig: Drugulin Presse, 1937. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. unpaginated. Written in German. Limited to 300 copies. A short autobiographical account of Waggerl's "friendship with books". sunning on pages, wear at extremities with small chips, tears, and creases.

N.P.: n.p., 1915. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 47 pages. B1-3568. "A Hand Book For Teachers, Officers and Members of Parent¬Teacher Associations...". Wagner was Commissioner of Education. Printed by Milford Chronicle Publishing Company. Ex-library copy with markings including perforated stamp on title page.

New York: AMS Press, 1971. cloth. 8vo. cloth. v, 323 pages. Reprint of the 1933 first edition. Preliminary pages creased at corners, else near fine. History of Spanish exploration of the Strait of Juan de Fuca to assert Spanish claims to the area. 13 maps, including 6 foldouts. Very scarce.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.

New York: The New York Public Library, 1996. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. 127+(1) pages. Printed by the Stinehour Press in an edition limited to 1,000 copies, set in Bembo and Gill Sans on acid-free, archival paper. A fine copy. Designed by Doug Clouse at The New York Public Library. The Pforzheimer Collection is the single most important repository of Shelley material in the Western Hemisphere. Among its unique holdings are more than 300 items in the poet's hand, including an unmatched sequence of letters to his friend and rival poet, Lord Byron. More than fifty illustrations and facsimiles.

Frankfurt: Bauerschen Giesserei, 1959. cord-tied paper wrappers, paper cover label. small 8vo. cord-tied paper wrappers, paper cover label. (32) pages printed French fold. Very fine copy of this calligraphic alphabet book.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1979. stiff paper wrappers. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xi, 109 pages. First edition, wrappered. Blurbs by X. J. Kennedy, Harold Bloom. Review copy with review slip stapled to the inside front wrapper. Stamped "Review Copy / The Wilson Quarterly" upside down on the front endpaper. Near fine in lightly rubbed black printed wrappers.

[Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1959. Single sheet folded to form 8 pages. Single sheet folded to form 8 pages. First edition. Fine.

Wiemar: Goethe-Gesellschaft, 1934. cloth, leather cover label. tall 8vo. cloth, leather cover label. (iv), (8) pages with 11 plates. The eleven plates are facsimile reproductions of autograph material. Minor wear at head of spine.

New York: The Viking Press, 1966. cloth, dust jacket. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 50, (2) pages. First American edition. Fine.

New York: The Viking Press, 1966. cloth, dust jacket. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 50, (2) pages. First American edition. Presentation by the author on the front free endpaper "A poem for Shep's poetic personality / from John / 1966." Author's printed compliments slip laid in. Head and foot of the spine and lower corners bumped, lightly chipped and soiled dust jacket with several closed tears.

New York: The Viking Press, 1975. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. Johnson, Samuel. 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 388 pages with16 pages of illustrations. A biography by John Wain who is a specialist on Samuel Johnson. He was born in the same district, went to the same university and has lived the same life of Grub Street, has had chance employment and struggles to write books. Part of the biography focuses on the preparation of the Dictionary and the mature works from Johnson's later years. Illustrated with several black-and-white paintings of Johnson and events of his life. Indexed. The dust jacket covers have a few small tears.

[London]: Covent Garden Press, 1972. stiff paper wrappers. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 34 pages. First edition. One of 600 copies. Fine.