Search Results: Authors starting with W from Camphor Bookstore

Letters of Mozart and his Family: Chronologically arranged, translated and edited with an introduction, notes and indices by Emily Anderson.London: Macmillan, 1938. Hardcovers First edition thus. 3 vols 8vo xxxix, xix, xxvii, 1559 pages. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. Frontispiece to each volume, plates, fold out facsimile plates, and music examples. Includes long extracts from letters of his father, mother, sister and wife. Unmarked and in VG condition.
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The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg) An Opera in Three Acts
by Richard Wagner

G. Schirmer Inc, 1899. Complete vocal score in a facilitated arrangement by Karl Klindworth. Translated by Frederick Jameson. Bilingual German & English. Schirmer's Collection of Operas. Flexi covers - teal cloth over tan spine with gilt emobossed titles on the front and spine. 569 pp. In very good, unmarked condition - the front cover is starting to come away, fragile.

Complete vocal score for Richard Wagner's The Rhinegold / Das RheingoldIn a facilitated arrangement by Karl KlindworthBi-lingual German & English with English translations by Frederick Jameson
The Rhinegold (Das Rheingold). G. Schirmer, New York 1899. Flexi-cloth covered boards. Gilt embossed titles front and spine. 221 pp. In very good, unmarked condition

McSweeney's Books. San Francisco, CA., 2004. First Impression. Profusely Illustrated with Color and B&W Artwork featuring over 40 renowned comic artists and writers including Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, George Herriman, Chris Ware, Charles Schulz, Ira Glass, Ivan Brunetti, Gary Panter, Charles Burns. Dust Jackets unfolds into a poster. 7 x 9.5 Inches in size. 263 numbered pages.Both the book and jacket are as new.

Chicago /: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010. Softcover. In Near Fine ConditionPublished in conjunction with a Calder exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. From the Museums catalog of publications:Drawn from the MCA's in-depth holdings of Calder's work and augmented by the artist's classic mobiles, standing mobiles, and stabiles from private and public collections, this pioneering consideration of Calder's influence includes works by some of today's most interesting and engaging sculptors: Martin Boyce, Kristi Lippire, Jason Meadows, and others..
The richly illustrated book features new scholarship on Calder's creative reuse of materials by noted expert Brooke Kamin Rapaport. Scholar George Baker reassesses Calder's modernist legacy. Exhibition organizer Lynne Warren contributes an overview of current sculptural practices in relation to Calder's work, offering the first in-depth consideration of the complex and fascinating relationship between the art of this modern master and… Read More

New York: Mysterious Press. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Like New in a Very Good+ dust jacket; Dortmunder Novels; 9.10 X 6.10 X 1.10 inches; 352 pages. Inscribed/Signed by the Author on the title page. (Please see photos) Donald Edwin Westlake (1933 – 2008) was an American writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction especially comic ones, with an occasional foray into science fiction and other genres. Westlake is perhaps best-remembered for creating two professional criminal characters who each starred in a long-running series: the relentless, hard-boiled Parker (published under the pen name Richard Stark), and John Dortmunder who featured in a more humorous series. He Also wrote scripts (The Grifters and The Stepfather) and many of his books were adapted and turned into movies.

Foxfire 2: Ghost Stories, Spring Wild Plant Foods, Spinning and Weaving, Midwifing, Burial Customs, Corn Shuckin's, Wagon Making and More Affairs of Plain Living
Edited and with an Introduction by Eliot Wiggington
Anchor Press / Doubleday, New York, 1973. First edition (stated). Hardcover in the original jacket. Since the first volume published in 1972, the Foxfire books have brought the philosophy and wisdom of the mountains to millions, teaching creative self-sufficiency and preserving the stories, crafts, and customs of Southern Appalachia. 410 pp. The book is slightly cocked, but otherwise the book and jacket are unmarked and in VG condition.

Charles Lauriat, 1936. First edition. 243 pp + appendix w/ 40 illustrations. Hard cover. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, maps on end papers. 10"x7.5" Photo illustrations are clean & sharp. There is light foxing, limited to the title page and the blank page prior. Otherwise a clean, crisp copy, binding and block in excellent condition.

Adrift in Soho by Colin WilsonHoughton Mifflin, Boston, 1961. Hardcover, green cloth. First edition (stated), actually the first American edition. Boards and spine are straight, book is unmarked, and the binding is tight. Lacking the jacket. Wilson's second novel presents a vivid portrayal of beat generation characters in 1950s London.

Night and Day (Uniform Edition) by Virginia WoolfHogarth Press, London, 1938. Printing history shows this to be the 'Third Edition' but this is effectively the second edition or impression of the Uniform Edition first published in 1930. Woolf's novel about love and marriage also examines questions raised by women's suffrage. Unmarked and in very good condition, without the jacket.

The Wyeths: The Intimate Correspondence of N.C. Wyeth, 1901-1945Gambit, Inc., Boston, 1971. First printing. Edited by Betsy James Wyeth. Blue cloth spine, cream cloth boards, gilt lettering, blue ink label, pictorial endpages, yellow topstain. 8vo. 858pp. , xv + 871pp, 107 illustrations (8 in color, bibliography, index. Clean and in excellent condition. The DJ is protected in plastic.