Search Results: Authors starting with W from Grampy's Bookcase

Text is clean and unmarked din a square and tight binding. Card holder is attached to the back free end paper. Library Stamps on the top and bottom edges of the text block. DJ has been protected with a plastic cover with very minor wear. A solid copy. From the front DJ cover, "The culture of Greece seen through its greatest writers from Homer to Galen - in the best English translations." Introduction by A. H. Auden.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Inscription on the front free endpaper. Back binding has slight smudging. Illustrations throughout. Text is age-toned. A good solid volume. From the back cover, "Mr. Anderson...early in his career developed an interest in horses, an interest which soon absorbed him completely and eventually dominated his work. Beginning with drawings and etchings of horses, which the artist made largely for his own instruction and pleasure, he became a specialist in this field."

555 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in tight covers. Previous owner's name is on the outside top front corner of the half title page. Slight foxing on the top of the text block.

Vol. I 366 pp.; Vol II 324 pp.; Vol III 340 pp. Texts are clean and unmarked with tight and square bindings. The corners on each volume are somewhat worn. Tops and bottoms of spines have some wearing as well.

465 pp. Several underlined passages in an otherwise very good copy in bright and tight covers. From the back cover, "...this anthology provides a sustained in-depth look at the range of women's writing from the late seventeenth until the end of the eighteenth century."

Text is clean ad unmarked in a square and tight binding. Color photographs throughout. Only defects are a corner of the front free endpaper has been removed and a slight small ding at the bottom edge of the binding. DJ is bright and unmarred. From the front DJ flap, "Most people have never heard of the bonobo, an intriguing member of the great ape family, despite the fact that bonobos are as close to us as their much better known relatives, the chimpanzees...Bonobos form a gentle matrimony , offering a provocative alternative to the male-based model of human evolution that emphasizes man the hunter and tool maker."

In bright "As New Condition". Illustrated by Barbara Firth. Full page color illustrations included.

Text is clean and unmarked. Back binding has smudges and is cracked at the margin. Binding is loose. Inside of the front and back binding and the front and back free end papers are covered with penciled writings. Illustrations throughout.

In "As New Condition." Attached to the front inside cover is a reproduced letter from Thomas Gage dated April 18, 1775. Also attached to the back free end paper is a reproduction of "The Deposition of Paul Revere prepared for the Massachusetts Provincial Congress". Fully illustrated throughout. Graved and painted by Christopher Bing.

Text is bright, clean, and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Volume appears unused. Price clipped DJ is intact with two small chips and other minor wear along the outer edges. From the front DJ flap, "Professor Waith offers something new in sixteenth and seventeenth century English dramatic criticism; he takes a pro-heroic view of his topic, with emphasis on the positive aspects of 'heroic energy'. The focus of attention is on seven English tragedies by Marlowe, Chapman, and Dryden, in which the hero is remarkably different from the 'standard' tragic hero."

276 pp. Previous owner's name is on the upper outside corner of the front free end paper. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Book appears not used. The outer edges of the covers and spine are slightly faded. DJ is in fine condition.

Text is clean and unmarked in a bright, and square binding. Gilt lettering on the spine is clear and bright. Top of the text block has foxing and dark age toning. "At the time of Emerson's death. he was recognized as the foremost writer and thinker of his country; but this recognition had come only gradually. The candor and the vigor of his thinking had led him often to champion in popular causes, and during his earlier years of authorship his departures from Unitarianism orthodoxy were viewed with hostility and alarm. In the Abolitionist movement also, he took a prominent part, which brought him the distinction of being mobbed in Boston and Cambridge."

626 pp. 1,120 illustrations, including 1,028 full color plates. Very clean and unmarked book. Tight binding, appears unread. Small closed tear at the top of the DJ spine. Minor fading on the DJ.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. price clipped DJ is protected in a plastic cover. Card holder is attached to the back free end paper. Library stamp on the top of the text block.Library labels on the back of the plastic cover. From the front DJ flap, " 'The Age of Enterprise' marks America's turning point into the industrial world. It was a time when tinkerers were more common than thinkers, when patents were more prevalent than prizes, when periodicals, clubs, secret societies, and fiction flourished...Although the era was sometimes called the Gilded Age, Robert Walker leaves superficiality behind and he cuts into ' the way it really was,' with quick and deft pen."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Previous owner's name written on the front free end paper has been marked over. DJ is slightly worn around the edges with a small chip on the top DJ spine. The back DJ is somewhat crinkled. From the Introduction, "The thirty-third Vice-President of the United States is not to be understood simply as an extraordinary growth of the reform administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, dating from 1933. he is a product of a much longer growth, a family growth. Many of the traits, gifts, convictions and mannerisms of Henry Agard Wallace which may at first seem hard to understand become more clearly explicable in the light of some knowledge of his family, and particularly of the patriarchal 'Uncle henry' Wallace of Iowa, his grandfather."

Text is clean and unmarked in a bright, tight, and square binding. DJ is worn around the edges with several small chips. From the front DJ flap, "Though systems theory and technology are employed in an ever-increasing ranch of research endeavors, many behavioral scientists view cybernetics, information theory, and general systems research as an unintelligible jumble, perhaps useful but nearly impossible to comprehend and reduce to manageable terms."

169 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Previous owner's name and address on a front free end paper. A small label attached to a front free end paper. From the New Pocket Classics series. Introduction of fifty pages includes "The Life of Scott". Illustrations by A. Gladys Peck.

Volume Five of this mid-19th century edition series. Text has foxing and stains on the text margins throughout. The front free endpapers and title page are detached but included. Chip is out of the top of the spine. Corners of the binding are worn.

There is foxing and stains throughout the text. Writing only exists on the free front and back end papers and a contents page. Back binding is loose but attached. One of the front free end papers is missing a piece. Corners of the binding are worn. This is Volume Four from a 19th century edition of this work.

Text is clean and unmarked. very small corners are out of the back cover. Previous owner's name is on the top of the front cover. From the "Ten Cent Classics" series.