Search Results: Authors starting with W from Lippincott Books

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1981. First Edition . Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 112pp. Inscribed/signed on title page.

Cairo: S.O.P. -Press, 1962. Soft cover. GVG. 352 pp. Covers have edge wear, previous owner's name. Binding is tight, and text is clean. GVG

New York: Studio Books with Museum of American Folk Art, 1993. Paper Wrappers. Very Good. x, 134 pp with glossary, bibliography. Biographies of the artists, profusely illustrated with color photos throughout. Remnants of price sticker on half-title page, a touch of wear at corners.

New York: Scribner's, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 282 pp. 2nd book in the Maggie Summer series. Summer is an antique print dealer, as is the author, and much of the book revolves around her knowledge and dealings in the trade.

Cherryfield, Maine: Self Published, 1978. First Edition, Third Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. [viii], 92 pp. Illustrated with map, b&w photos. "This man of many careers writes autobiographically with emphasis on his more than sixty-two jam-packed years as a dance band musician." From the Library of Edward "Sandy" Ives, writer, singer, anthropologist, and authority on the folksongs and folklore of Maine and Maritime Canada. Ives was the founder and Director of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History and the editor of its annual publication, Northeast Folklore. Inscribed by the author on title page: "To: Professor "Sandy" Ives. In Appreciation. Very Best Wishes! Charlie Wakefield 12/12/80". See our Catalog "Ives, Edward" for more books from his collection. VG

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First American Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. viii, 94 pp. Yellow-green cloth. With a shamelessly racist typed letter signed dated June 21, 1976 on Farrar, Straus and Giroux stationary by someone at the firm to Drayton Simpson of the publishing firm of Walker & Company: "Drayton, Enclosed is Derek Walcott's SEA GRAPES. It is really quite good for one of his racial genes (rumour has it that he has a ghost writer). I mean to read the book you'd never know that all he does is eat bananas and play the bongos..." Walcott won the Nobel Prize for Poetry in 1992. Near Fine in dust jacket with very light wear at the head of the spine and top corners of the front and back covers else Fine.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/GVG. xii, 280 pp. Blue cloth, spine title stamped in blue, front board illustration and title stamped in blue. "A true history of this dog's life" hauling provisions over Chilkoot Pass in Alaska, hunting bear, and seeing Dawson and the Klondike in their heyday, as narrated by Shirley, a Scotch Collie sled dog. With delightful illustrations by A. L. Ripley. By the author of A Dog Puncher on the Yukon. Near Fine in dust jacket, with price of $2.50 on dj flap, with several Ripley illustrations. A fresh, sharp copy. The dust jacket is chipped at the top of the spine and has a few closed tears, but is still quite presentable. Photos provided on request.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. First Edition . Hardcover. xii, 280 pp. Blue cloth, spine title stamped in blue, front board illustration and title stamped in blue. "A true history of this dog's life" hauling provisions over Chilkoot Pass in Alaska, hunting bear, and seeing Dawson and the Klondike in their heyday, as narrated by Shirley, a Scotch Collie sled dog. With delightful illustrations by A. L. Ripley. By the author of A Dog Puncher on the Yukon. Front board a little soiled else VG. Photos provided on request.

Salt Lake City: Scallawagiana Books, 1982. Limited Edition . Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 44pp. 1/550 copies. Minor fading to wrapper edges, else fine.

Kernville: Sierra Trails Publications, 1982. Limited/Numbered . Stiff Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rogers, Jeanette. 53pp. #106/200 copies, signed on title page.

Gardiner, Maine: Bunkhouse Books, 1984. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. xvi, 760 pp, with index. Green cloth, spine title gilt, numerous b&w photos, and maps. Previous owner's name on ffep has been erased, a little soiling to fore-edge. Dustjacket has soiling to spine, tape reinforcing on inside at head of spine.

Menston, Yorkshire: Scolar Press, 1971. Facsimile . Hardcover. Near Fine. Unpaginated. Facsimile of 1645 Edition. Illustrated with facsimlie manuscript pages. "Edmund Waller (1606-1687) was deeply involved in the political life of this times. Although a moderate supporter of reform in 1640, in 1643 he was arrested by parliament for plotting with the king. He went into exile in 1645...and played no part in the publication of the first two editions of that year." From the library of Charles Bell, writer, poet, and Rhodes scholar. Bell's Greenville, Mississippi childhood included classmates Walker Percy and Shelby Foote. His first novel, The Married Land, Houghton Mifflin, 1962, was praised by William Carlos Williams. Bell's work includes three volumes of poetry, two novels, and an audio-visual opus, "Symbolic History.

London: Andrew Melrose, 1909. First English Edition . Hardcover. GVG. 307, [1] pp , plus 4 pages of publisher's ads. Waller's 3rd novel originally published by Little Brown in 1904. Inscription reads, 'To the Junior member of the firm of Messers Little, Brown & Company with the "English Compliments" of Mary E. Waller.' Waller, a Vermont native, would have been living on Nantucket at the time. Brown cloth spine with very thin wood veneer on boards. Lacks ffep.

New York: Doubleday Doran, 1939. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. [x], 307 pp. Green cloth, spine title gilt, 'HW' embossed on front board, green top edges, Near Fine. Price-clipped dustjacket has edge wear, previous owner's stamp on front pastedown, VG.

New York: G.W. Carleton & Co, 1871. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 300 pp. Green cloth with title in gilt shield on spine, purple endpapers. First edition of the author's fifth book, a novel set in ancient Persia. Walworth wrote rather lurid historical novels, his best known being Warwick. His personal life would have made a classic second rate novel of the period. The son of a popular judge in Saratoga Springs, he married his ste sister. Early in the marriage it turned out Walworth was a wife beater. After years of separations and increasingly odd behavior Mansfield moved to New York City. The letters he sent to his wife included death threats, and in 1873, Francis Hardin Walworth, his 19 year old son, resolved the situation by going into the city and fatally shooting his father. Wright II 2621. Original owner's name on ffep ornamented by beautifully drawn flourishes. Spine slant, edge wear, some foxing throughout. Good

Lancaster, New Hampshire: Bisbee Press, 1953. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. x, 116 pp. Light green cloth, title gilt on spine. Frontispiece, appendix, map of camp. "...a look into the history of a successful camp for American boys reveals principles that are undated and that must continue to animate the policy of camps that would succeed.

Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1926. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. xvi, 350 pp. Index. Brown cloth, titles and decorations gilt on front cover and spine. Corners and spine edges bumped, thumb soiling. Dustjacket has sunned spine, edge wear. Text is in GERMAN.

New York: Anglo-American Publishing, 1900. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. [vi], 154, [20] pp. Tan cloth stamped in black. top edges gilt, frontispiece. Includes 20 pages of ads and newspaper accounts about Wardner. Bookplate and previous owner's name on front pastedown, one leaf loose with tape stains on that and adjacent leaf, pencil notes on rfep.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1966. First Edition . Hardcover. GVG/Good-. Translated from the German, edited with commentaries. 160 pp, with appendix. Red cloth, spine title gilt. Would be Very Good except the binding is warped. Dustjacket is sunned, with one closed tear, and a 1" chip out of the front. Inscribed on title page "For Deana & Charles Bell - hoping that they will soon return to Sewanee. Thad Lockard Sewanee 7 April '80". From the library of Charles Bell, writer, poet, and Rhodes scholar. Raised in Greenville, Mississippi, Bell's schoolmates included Walker Percy and Shelby Foote. Bell's Greenville, Mississippi, childhood included classmates Walker Percy and Shelby Foote. His first novel, The Married Land, Houghton Mifflin, 1962, was praised by William Carlos Williams. His works include three volumes of poetry, two novels, and an audio-visual opus, "Symbolic History".

New York: A & W Publishers, Inc, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Unpaginated. Brown cloth, spine title gilt, color photographs of dogs. A little wear at corners, light foxing to tops. Dustjacket has a closed tear along top edge. INSCRIBED by Warner on ffep; that owner's bookplate on front pastedown.