Search Results: Authors starting with W from 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera

New York: New York Graphic Society, 1972. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good/Verry good.

Rutland: Charles Tuttle, 1969. Hardcover. Fine in gold embossed black boards.. Large/elephant folio. 1969 reproduction of the 1869 original atlas. Unpaginated Contains 41 maps of towns and villages in Bennington County, one [1] full page color map of the state of Vermont and thirteen [13] illustrations of monuments and buildings of importance in Bennington County at back of book.

New York: Paperback Library, 1967. Softcover. Very little wear at all. Quite clean, tight and square.. Paperback Library edition #55-215; ninth printing, February, 1967. 12mo.320 pp.Ê Paperback reprint of this work first published in the 1920s. Robie was Superintendent of the Pine Terrace Sanitarium in Massachusetts. His chief crusade was for the 'normalization' of masturbation, which he saw as much less of an evil than use of prostitutes and yet something almost universally criticized in popular sex education literature. 'The most successful, most helpful and most famous book ever published on how to achieve and maintain complete sexual happiness.'.

New York: Nautical/Ziff Davis, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket which has some chipping.. 8vo. 153 pp with illustrations and maps.

8vo. 428 pp. A collection of essays and studies that unify two main themes of Knox's own work. Includes Portrait, Bibliography and Index.

New York: Knopf, 1975. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Thick 8vo., 508 pp. Illustrated with eight [8] leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos; Index. Appendixes. Bibliography. End Notes. First edition of this controversial, long-unpublished memoir by Mary Surratt's boarder.

New York: Bounty Press, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. 242 pp. Illustrated by Frederic Remington. With 387 illustrations of Indian artifacts. Wide margin, visual appealing. Illustrated throughout. A tight unmarked copy.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 44 pp. Decorative covers and illustrated endpapers. Adapted by Robert Lawrence, and illustrated in color and in black and white by Alexandre Serebriakoff. Authorized by the Metropolitan Opera Guild. The Metropolitan Opera Guild was established in 1935 to broaden the base of support for the Metropolitan Opera, promote greater interest in opera, and develop future audiences by reaching out to a wide public and serving as an educational resource that provides programs, publications, materials and services to schools, families, individuals, and community groups nationwide. The Authorized Edition of The Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. Presumed first printing thus.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 44 pp. Decorative covers and illustrated endpapers. Adapted by Robert Lawrence, and illustrated in color and in black and white by Alexandre Serebriakoff. Authorized by the Metropolitan Opera Guild. A simple retelling of the story, with main themes introduced as part of the story. The Metropolitan Opera Guild was established in 1935 to broaden the base of support for the Metropolitan Opera, promote greater interest in opera, and develop future audiences by reaching out to a wide public and serving as an educational resource that provides programs, publications, materials and services to schools, families, individuals, and community groups nationwide. The Authorized Edition of The Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. Presumed first printing thus.

New York: Avon, 1956. Softcover. Very Good in illustrated wrappers.. 12mo., First US paperback edition. Avon Book T-147. Originally published in hard cover by Harcourt, Brace in 1955.

Viking: New York, 1975. Hardcover. 380 pp. 8vo.

Philadelphia: Philadelphia National Bank, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good with some foxing along the edges.. Small quarto. 263 pp. Illustrated in black and white.Ê Bank historyÊ written primarilyÊ stockholders, depositors, and customers. It was hoped that the book would also serve a secondary purpose as a contribution to the field of American history. The focus is principally at the development of The Philadelphia National. Laid-in is a printed letter presenting the copy from Frederic A. Potts, President of the Philadelphia National Bank, dated September 19, 1953.

New York: Scribners, 2001. First Edition. Hardbound. Near fine/Near fine. First novel by this award winning writer of short fiction -.

NP: Cobra, 1978. Softcover. Good with offsetting to the covers and tape reinforcing the spine. In beige wraps.. 8vo. Perfect bound. 168 pp. With cover photos of Betty Davis, Tina Turner and Sonia Kristina of Curved Air. One of a handful of editions of buyers guides to illicit rock, pop, soul, and punk bootleg recordings. Hot Wacks was first issued in 1975. The first edition, which consisted of two volumes, had a run of only 500 copies. Since then the press runs have steadily increased as has the size of the book. These guides were originally mimeographed and stapled, then semi-professionally printed, and sold by bootleggers and collectors, usually advertised in the back pages of rock and underground magazines. They list the titles, tracklists, and sources of the records, some cover illustrations, as well as commentary on the sound quality. These guides, with illustrations of impossible to find albums, are a critical piece of vinyl rock history.

Washington D.C.: Howard University Press, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. In a lightly edge worn dust jacket. Uncommon title.

New York: Stokes, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Very good. Fair condition with faded spine lacking the scarce dust jacket.

Amistad: New York, 2020. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 171 pp. Appendix, Afterword, Glossary, Notes and Bibliography.

Old Greenwich: WE, ND. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket.. 8vo. 309 pp.Ê Illustrated with black and white reproductions. This is a reissue of the 1926 limited first edition.

Little Brown: Boston, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good on a very Good dust jacket which has some creasing and a few chips.. 8vo. 470 pp. dramatization of the English Channel battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge. Maps.

Lexington: Lexington, 1982. Hardcover. Fine in tan boards. 168 pp.Ê Tan boards with black lettering. Illustrations. Includes bibliographical references and index.