Search Results: Titles starting with W from bookwitch

Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio, softcover, near fine in green pictorial wraps with painting of young Mozart (about 10) in Court dress from 1763 on cover. 332 pp. of sheet music (no words). Prefaces and b & w photos of paintings of Mozart precede the sheet music. No markings.

Prentice Hall (1973), 1973. Hardcover. Good/No Dj. Octavo, hardcover, good in white spine, beige boards with caricature of Fields on cover. No dj. First edition, 1973. 510 pp. including index. Photographs, private papers, scripts, and sketches reveal the life, character, and career of the comedian W. C. Fields,

Self published, Sidney, Ohio. circa 1930's., 1930. Paperback. Good. Tall thin octavo, vintage paperback on steel working; burgundy wraps. Author was 50 years a factory steel worker. At the time this was written he said he'd answer free all questions on steel work. Gives brief history of metal working. Tells how to build a furnace, forge heat, temper steel, water annealing, tempers, welding, how to unite cast iron, hardening shovels, taps and dies, hardening thin edge tools and lots more. Lots of hints. 41 pp.

New York New Home Library 1943, First Thus, 1943. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Octavo, hardcover, boards bright and clean. Front hinge broken, pages age-toned else good. No dj. All pages edged in red. One of the most eminent authors and critics of our time guides you to the great writing of today and shows you that good reading is pleasant reading. In this book he selects more than 130 examples of short stories, poetry, letters, biography, novelettes, light verse, and essays. Good reading copy.

Charles Scribner's Sons, N.Y., no date but about 1976.,, 1976. Hardcover. Good/Good. Small quarto, hardcover, stamp on inside cover else good in good, lightly faded white pictorial dj. 110 illustrations, 128 pages. First printing. Maugham was extremely reticent about his private life; only since his death has this reticence been pierced. The many facts of his life, professional and personal, are represented here by the novelist and screenwriter Frederic Raphael, whose interest in Maugham was first aroused by a visit he paid to 'the Old Party' in 1954. He not only maps out the events in Maugham's life against the assorted environments in which he worked and lived, but also analyses and assesses most of the important writing, showing where and how Maugham got his ideas and what he made of them

Irving Berlin, Inc., Irving Berlin, Inc., 1931, 1931. Paperback. Fair. Quarto, softcover, blue pictorial wraps. Vintage sheet music from the 30's. Tape at edge (browned) 5 pages (loose, took tape off), good playing copy with ukulele (or banjo) arr. by May Breen. Lyrics in English and French. A few notations on music and browned tape at edges. "The Wabash moon was shining upon a loving pair.".. "Why Dance?" sheet music on back cover...

Random House Children's Books, 2000, 2000. Hardcover. New. George Booth. Octavo, hardcover, new in bright yellow boards with Seuss writing as Theo LeSieg. An I can read all by myself book. Wacky things happen like a shoe on the ceiling, a palm tree was growing out of the toilet, a mouse was chasing a cat, everywhere he went things were out of whack. About 24 pp. with large illustrations, few words.

Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, (1989), 1989. Hardcover. Collectible, Fine/Fine. Royal octavo, hardcover, fine in fine black and red and white pictorial dj in brodart sleeve. First Edition, first printing. Clean and unmarked. 495 pages, with index. A startling, and wrenching history on the veterans of all our wars. Their account of the treatment of veterans throughout our history contradicts what all of us have been taught was the honor and glory of our past wars.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1951,, 1951. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 12 mo, hardcover, good, early edition with only one published after this one in Hardy Boy series. Tan pictorial boards with light stain on cover, brown lettering. 214 pp. Red and white endpapers. . All boys from 10 to 14 who like adventure will love these books. The Hardy boys help solve these thrilling cases after school and during vacations. Here two unexplainable plane crashes near an airport on the East Coast involving uranium isotopes give the boys a challenge.

UK, Jellycat. Hardcover. Good/No Dj. Kirsten Irving. Oblong octavo, hardcover, name on inside cover and rube to back board else VG board book in padded green pictorial boards with sleepy owl on cover. Little Owl is silly; when the moon is high and night school begins, this little bird can't say awake. The book is a "hoot".

Scholastic, 1978, 1978. Paperback. Very Good. Squarish octavo, softcover, VG in green pictorial wraps. A Science Book About Nocturnal Animals, animals that are awake at night and sleep during the day. Clean, unmarked, well preserved. 64 pp. including index.

Bramhall, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Henry Kane. Octavo, hardcover, VG in good white and orange dj. Clean and unmarked. 354 pp. Introduction by Basil Willey. Illustrated by Henry Kane.(appear to be woodcuts) This Harvard graduate retreated to a pond in Massachusetts to contemplate nature and live simply and examine the state of things which he disagreed with such as Mr. Polk's war, slavery and other political issues. He refused to pay taxes to support these institutions and was thrown in jail.

White Plains Peter Pauper Press 1966.,. Fine/Very Good. Thin 12 mo, hardcover, previous owner's name on endpaper else fine in near fine red and beige pictorial dj. 62 pp. This Harvard graduate retreated to a pond in Massachusetts to contemplate nature and live simply and examine the state of things which he disagreed with such as Mr. Polk's war, slavery and other political issues. He refused to pay taxes to support these institutions and was thrown in jail. Emerson tried to tallk him into conforming and Thoreau told Emerson if he was any kind of a man, he'd be in jail beside him! Includes Cliffs Notes, 76 pp., black and yellow softcover.

Signet, NY, 1999, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. Mass market paperback, VG in brown and white pictorial wraps. 150th anniversary edition. 305pp. 14 pp of preface and introduction. This Harvard graduate retreated to a pond in Massachusetts to contemplate nature and live simply and examine the state of things which he disagreed with such as Mr. Polk's war, slavery and other political issues. He refused to pay taxes to support these institutions and was thrown in jail.

MacMillan/McGraw-Hill, 1997. Paperback. Fine. Sarah Snow. Small oblong quarto, softcover, fine in red pictorial wraps. Level 1 easy reader. Grade 1, vocabulary, comprehension. pictures and easy words: a pig, a cow, etc.

NY, NY, Crown Publ. Inc., 1987, First American Edition.. Very Good. Quarto, hardcover, fine in somewhat edgeworn blue pictorial dj. 306 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Maps. Endpaper maps. Modern expedition that followed Capt. Robert Falcon Scott's 1912 route across Antarctica to the South Pole.

Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1994, 1994. Hardcover. Collectible, Fine/Fine. Octavo, hardcover, fine in fine white pictorial dj. First edition, first printing, 307 pages. In 1852, a fourteen-year-old orphan and her elderly guardian, accompanied by a tough drover and his crew, take several thousand sheep from Iowa to California, returning by way of the Isthmus of Panama, to raise money to save the girl's home from a villainous debt collector.

Delacorte Press, 1991, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, fine in VG yellow pictorial dj. 256 pp. A descendant of the Cherokee recounts his experiences walking the nine-hundred-mile Trail of Tears, describing how he grew to understand his people's tragic history. Map endpapers showing the trail route.

Putnam Publishing Group, The, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2002, 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Quarto, hardcover, fine in near fine gold pictorial dj. The sequel to "The Artist's Way". Discover and recover the creative self with a sense of origin, proportion, perspective, adventure, personal territory, boundaries, momentum, discernment, resiliency, camaraderie, authenticity, and dignity.

Knopf, 1950, 5th printing., 1950. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo, vintage hardcover in turquoise cloth; no dj. Spine sunned, corner wear; interior good, tight, clean. This is the Jewish ghetto wall of war-torn Warsaw, where the searchers found an archive in the rubble, buried there by Levinson. 632 pp. 5th printing edition.