Search Results: Authors starting with W from Locus Solus Rare Books

ZĂĽrich: Verlag "die Liga, 1935. First edition. Slight toning; edge of wrappers a bit rubbed with a couple of small nicks.. 8vo, 213pp; pictorial wrappers. Voices of Germans living outside of Germany reflecting the growing danger of war coming from the Hitler regime.

Berlin. -. Part of upper corner torn off, affecting address slightly; folded for mailing.. One page, approx. 5-1/2 X 8-3/4 in. Hans Wachenhusen (1823-1898) author of novels and travel literature.

Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber, 1863. First edition. Tanning to endpapers, first and last leaves; slight lean, shaken; binding rubbed and bumped, still a sound copy.. 12mo, 443pp; original cloth-backed boards. Delicate one-volume edition of the full libretto to Wagner's masterpiece, with a 24-page foreword by Wagner written for this edition.

New York: Riverrun Press, 1967. First Edition. Lightly toned; cover used; very good. 4to, (56)pp; printed wrappers. Inscribed on the title page: "10 May 1970, Remember, Diane. that poems extend our lives no matter what else happens, Diane..." The recipient was the poet and writer D.H. Melhem. The second state, with the price of $2 indicated on the front flyleaf.

(New York): Targ Editions, 1982. First edition. Trifle rubbed, issued without jacket.. 8vo, [67]pp; pictorical cloth-backed boards. One of 250 copies signed by Wakoski, the entire edition.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1979. First American edition. Cloth. Covers soiled, shelfworn; good only in edgeworn dust jacket with some tears. 8vo, [58]pp; cloth. Boldly signed "Derek, March 87" on the front flyleaf.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1976. First American edition. Fine in dust jacket with one short closed tear. 8vo, (84)pp, cloth. Briefly inscribed and signed on front flyleaf.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000. First edition. Cloth. Fine in a slightly rubbed dust jacket.. Large 8vo, 163pp; white cloth. Includes 26 reproductions of Walcott's paintings, in an homage to Camille Pissarro. This copy has been inscribed by Walcott on the front endpaper to poet Quincy Troupe and his wife. An excellent association copy.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. First edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in a rubbed dust jacket with chips to the top and bottom of the spine.. 8vo, 71pp; cloth-backed boards. Signed and dated by Walcott on the front flyleaf in 1984.

New York: Progressive Party, 1949. Ink notation to rear wrapper, otherwise fine.. Narrow 8vo, [8]pp pamphlet in printed self-wrappers, stapled. Abridged version of a speech the former Vice-President delivered over CBS radio.

London: J. Dodsley, 1768. First Edition. Penciled ownership signature; short marginal tear to frontispiece leaf; faint offsetting from frontispiece and plate with double portrait affecting their facing pages; covers rubbed. 4to, frontispiece; xv, 134, addition with errata and instructions to binder on verso; contemporary three-quarter leather and marbled boards. Hazen 19.

Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1904. First Edition. Attractive bookplate on front pastedown; a bit of spotting to endpapers; all but two tissue guards absent, still a nice, sound copy.. Small 8vo, 128pp; contemporary paste-paper boards with leather spine label. The author's uncommon first book.

Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1914. First Edition. A small chip to the upper corner and a few minor wrinkles, but essentially a fine, bright, without wear or damage to the delicate spine.. 8vo, 231pp; printed wrappers. Walser's first substantial collection of short fiction, with thirty illustrations to the text as well as the title vignette (which is repeated on the front wrapper) by the author's brother.

Frauenfeld & Leipzig: Huber & Co, 1917. First Edition. Spine renewed; hinges tender; a delicate book printed on cheap paper, this is a sound copy.. 16mo, 85pp + ads; original printed boards. From the second issue, with the cover-illustration credit to Otto Bamberger correctly printed at the copyright notice. (It had previously been erroneously credited to Karl Walser). Published as number 9 in Huber's series "Schweizerische Erzähler.

York: Printed by Wilson, Spence, and Mawman . ., 1796. Rear cover detached; wear to hinges and binding edges; armorial bookplate on front pastedown.. 4to, frontispiece portrait of Walton; liv, [2], 518, [2]; contemporary diced calf with marbled endpapers and edges. An attractive copy of the first Zouch edition, complete with all seven engravings in addition to the frontpispiece. Bookplate of Stafford Northcote and with his ink inscription on the first blank identifying the book as a gift from his father, 1814.

London: John Major, 1825. First Major edition. Bookplates of H. Walter Webb and Leila Howard Codman; two catalogue descriptions pasted in; tips, edges, and spine-bands rubbed.. 8vo, xviii, 503pp with publisher's ads in rear; engraved portraits inserted; finely bound in full crushed levant morocco with elaborately gilt-tooled spine in six compartments with raised bands; t.e.g. This edition, collecting all of Walton's Lives together for the first time, followed Major's edition of The Compleat Angler by two years and was meant as a companion volume.

London: Tho. Newcomb for Richard Marriott, 1670. First collected edition. Nineteenth-century owner's ticket to front pastedown; ink inscriptions, sizeable chip to p. 9-10 of Donne with loss of text; small chip to B4 (p. 15-16) of Hooker; F1 (p. 65-66 of Donne) missing; Hooker mispagination from 157ff.; generally soiled, with occasional small chip; endsheets discolored from binding leather; covers worn, backstrip partly separated.. 8vo, [2], [xii], 88, 79, 140 (i.e. 120), 104pp; contemporary panelled calf. Walton's Lives, short biographies of notable poets and clergymen, appeared serially and were here collected together for the first time in a single volume. The life of Sanderson was written in 1678 and did not appear together with these four until 1825, well after Walton's death in 1683. As with other copies of this edition, this one bears several small ink corrections to the text believed to be by Walton himself.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles National Guardian Committee, 1960. Pencil notation in upper corner; folded twice; very good. Handbill leaflet, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. Announcement of a lecture by Vincent Hallinan, lawyer and 1952 presidential candidate on the Progressive Party ticket. Hallinan had visited Francis Gary Powers, the American pilot captured when his U-2 spy plane was shot down while on a reconnaissance mission of the Soviet Union in 1960.

NP: NP, 1954. Complete, intact, with some separation at perforation, and in fine condition. Single sheet of eight stickers, separated by perforations, each measuring about 2 X 3-3/4 inches. A series of protest stickers, issued in the wake of the fatal H-Bomb test in the Pacific amid growing fear of nuclear war. There are four designs, each printed twice in two different color combinations: "Ban the H-Bomb!", "Let Kids Grow Up!", "Talking Is Better Than Dying!", and "Truce! No Troops to Indo-China." each sticker also urges people to write President Eisenhower or your congressman. A rare survival from the Cold War.

Los Angeles: Committee Against Anti-Semitism and Renazification of West Germany, 1960. Neat pencil notation; fine. Mimeograph leaflet, printed on two sides of a single leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 14 inches. Leaflet calling for peace and opposition to German reunification. The map in question, which serves as a cover image, was reproduced from a placard then circulating in West Germany. It shows the divided condition for Germany - including portions of Poland and Russia that had been part of Hitler's conquest - under German-language slogan calling for reunification.