Search Results: Titles starting with W from Cat's Cradle Books

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1960. Hard Cover. Good in Good dust jacket. Exlibrary markings. Binding and hinges sound. Text, on off-white pages, is clean and unmarked, with a few bent corners, a mild, barely visible bend to tip of top corner through portion of text; cloth over boards is clean, with a bit of fraying at head of spine; jacket flaps glued to pastedowns; abrasion on rear free endpaper caused by pocket removal. A close examination of Du Bois' role as an important figure and leader in the history of race relations in the U.S. Ex-Library; 8.5" (23.5 cm) tall; 282 pages.

Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. A nice crisp, bright copy, clean and unmarked inside and out, bound in black embossed paper-covered boards; extreme tips of a few upper corners bent; binding shows no apparent wear; dust jacket is clean, bright, and unmarked, with only very minor shelfwear. Illustrated with b&w plates. ; Biography of Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911), the Gilbert in Gilbert and Sullivan, the "most brilliant dramatist of Victorian England" and forerunner of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. 9.5" tall; 374 pages.

Poughkeepsie, NY: World War 1 Aeroplanes, Inc, 1987. Softcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is sound. Pages clean and bright. Wraps have light overall shelf wear. Typescript font. Many short articles on various aspects of aviation during World War I. Cover photograph: USAF Museum's DH-4M-1 on dollies after restoration, being wheeled to display site. ; 11.0" tall; 80 pages.

Poughkeepsie, NY: World War 1 Aeroplanes, Inc, 1982. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is sound. Pages clean and bright. Wraps have light overall shelf wear. Typescript font. Many short articles on various aspects of aviation during World War I. Cover art: nose detail, Knowlton D.VII. 11.0" tall; 80 pages.

Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1974. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings. Square, sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed, lightly shelf worn with overall light soiling. ; Book is in the German language. Study of the growth and evolution of the West German economy. ; Ex-Library; Vol. 128; 266 pages.

Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Cloth over boards has very light edge rubbing. DJ has light shelf wear. ; Study of the Fugitive group at Vanderbilt University (John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren and others) who conceived and helped to launch the Agrarian manifesto published in 1930, "I'll Take My Stand."; Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures; Vol. 24; 9.25" (23 cm) tall; 96 pages.

New York: Julian Messner, Inc, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Illustrated by Floyd Sowell. Signed by author with inscription to the Carolina Playmakers on ffep. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, slightly tanned pages. Cloth over boards is clean with gently bumped corners. DJ is shelf worn, edge worn with shallow closed tears, faded spine, clipped corner. ; Plays included: The Pledge; Harvest for Lola; Get on Board, Little Childen; Look Behind the Mask; Automa. ; Drawings; 9.5" tall; 128 pages; Signed by Author.

Washington: Robert B. Luce Inc, 1967. Hard Cover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. A sound, tight, square copy, clean and unmarked inside and out, with crisp, bright text; binding shows very light rubbing at corners, spine ends, and extremities, o/w no notable defects; dust jacket clean and unmarked, with light rubbing, fading at spine, wear at head of spine, crease to front flap, and a small tear at front fold. Autobiographical account of the twelve years the author and her sister spent in a Communist prison on trumped-up charges in a mass arrest of all Rumanian nationals working for the U.S. and British Legations in Bucharest, 1949-1961. 8.25" tall; 227 pages.

Potsdam, NY: Wallace Stevens Society, Inc, 2003. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Iain Jacobs. Square, tight binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. ; Contents: Altieri, Intentionality as sensuality in Harmonium. Eeckhout, A translator's experience with the transformations of Wallace Stevens' poetry. Harrison, Wallace Stevens and the Noh tradition. Clippinger, Breaking against the waves of silence: the voice of being in Wallace Stevens and William Bronk. Bohm, The identity of the "green queen" in "Description without Place." Olson, Stevens and Auden: antimythological meetings. Poems, reviews, news and comments. Cover Art; 9.0" tall; 106 pages.

Potsdam, NY: Wallace Stevens Society, Inc, 2007. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by William Otremsky. Square, tight binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wrappers have light edge rubbing. ; Contents: Hicok, "Companions in Disguise: The Conjuries of Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore"; Berger, "Moore after Stevens: Beyond the Last Thought"; White, "Pragmatist Poetics in Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore"; Weinfield, "Stevens' Anatomy"; Vander Zee, "Printed Evils and Painted Veils: Anecdote of an Error by Frank Lentricchia." Poems, reviews, notes and comments. Cover Art; 9.0" tall; 100 pages.

Potsdam, NY: Wallace Stevens Society, Inc, 2002. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wrappers have light edge rubbing. ; Contents: MacLeod, "Introduction"; Perloff, "'Pound/Stevens - Whose Era? ' Revisited"; Rae, "Bloody Battle-Flags and Cloudy Days: The Experience of Metaphor in Pound and Stevens"; Mao, "How to Do Things with Modernism"; Filreis, "Stevens/Pound in the Cold War"; DuPlessis, "Genius for Sale!"; LoLordo, "Poets/Readers: Whose Era?"; Altieri, "The Pound/Stevens Era"; Surette, "Pound vs. Stevens: Old Wine in New Bottles or New Bottles for Old Wine"; poems, reviews, news and comments. 9.0" tall; 154 pages.

Potsdam, NY: Wallace Stevens Society, Inc, 2005. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wrappers have light edge rubbing. ; Contents: Goldstone, "The Two Voices of Wallace Stevens' Blank Final Music"; Jaeckle, "'These Minutiae Mean More': Five Editions of Wallace Stevens' 'Esthetique du Mal'"; Roy, "From Deconstruction to Decreation: Wallace Stevens' Notes Toward a Poetics of Nobility"; Shinbrot, "The Lyric Element and the Prosaic World in 'The Idea of Order at Key West': Helgeson, "Anding and Ending: Metaphor and Closure in Stevens' 'An Ordinary Evening in New Haven.' " Poems, review, news and comments. 9.0" tall; 112 pages.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Softcover. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Wraps are clean with minor edge rubbing. ; Narrative of the gradual collapse of Eastern European communism starting with the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and culminating in the 1989-1991 revolutions. ; 9.0" tall; 336 pages.

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Beacon Press, 1974. Hard Cover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has light edge wear, creasing on back. Autobiography of resistance in Nazi Germany during WWII. 8.25" (21 cm) tall; 248 pages.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Hinges sound, binding shaken. Pages clean, tanned. Paper over boards is heavily worn, expecially at spine. Joints between spine and boards are split. Paper over spine is torn with wear to extremities. Joints had been repaired with tape at one time, but the adhesive has dried and the tape has fallen off. White adhesive remnants on front, back, and spine. Interior is in good condition; rebinding would benefit this imporant volume. ; This edition had 750 copies. Includes notes for lectures, anti-slavery notes, the eighteenth presidency, introductions intended for American editions of "Leaves of Grass," introduction to the London edition, manuscript "to the foreign reader." Appendix is a variant manuscript of introductions intended for the American editions of Leaves of Grass, and oriiginal draft of poem, "A Starry Midnight." Notes. ; Ex-Library; 10.75" tall;… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has very minor edge rubbing. ; Biography of English writer and critic Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894). 9.5" tall; 372 pages.

Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1978. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Third Edition. Book is sound, tight, and clean and unmarked inside and out, in a blue cloth binding; text is crisp and bright; binding shows almost no wear; dust jacket shows minor soiling (rear only) and light to moderate shelfwear. Illustrated with b&w plates, drawings, maps. ; Author of several sailing books, Eric Hiscock "tells of his adventures and mishaps as a novice single-handed yachtsman in cruises to Ireland, the west of Scotland, and Brittany, with a full account of the building of his yacht Wanderer II and exciting episodes that include riding out a gale to a sea anchor and rescuing three mysterious people from a burning motor cruiser."; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches; 244 pages.

Raleigh, N.C.: Jarrett Press & Publications, 2001. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author with additional inscription on half-title page. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear including minor edge rubbing, slight curling at corner. ; Autobiography of Cowboy Jim Gregory, who journeyed across the United States by horseback in the 1950s. ; 8.5" (23.5 cm) tall; 287 pages; Signed by Author.

New York: Dramatists Play Agency Inc, 1928. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Cloth over boards is shelf worn with small stained areas. ; Feminist anti-war play originally produced on stage in 1915 and made into a film in 1916. ; 7.75" tall; 50 pages.

Lexington, MA: Lexington Books D. C. Heath, 1972. Hard Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright text pages. Cloth over boards has light shelf wear. Cliometric study of the costs and gains of war for nations fighting within coalitions. Ex-Library; 9.25" (23.5 cm) tall; 224 pages.