Search Results: Titles starting with W from Bygone Books

York: Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, 1795. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. .Interspersed with Anecdotes Respecting Most of the Performers in the Three Kingdoms, from 1765 to 1795." Volume 4 only, with front board detached. 1st edition, 16mo, ¾ leather and marbled boards (bound by H. Wood), marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 267 pages. Condition is GOOD: front board is detached but present, spine has a few pieces missing (see photos), but text block is tight, rear board tight, pages are strikingly clean with a few faint scattered spots to first 5 pages. A shame about the board and only being volume 4 - it's a lovely book! Tate Wilkinson (1739-1803) was the theater manager in the Yorkshire Circuit during the careers of some of British theater's most famous actresses, Dorothea Jordan and Mrs. Siddons (and other Kembles) to name just two. He left us this 4 volume compilation of theater history and anecdotes as well as 4 volumes of his Memoirs.

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., 1927. Soft cover. Very Good. On the cover: "The city that every American should know." Illustrated brown paper wraps, oblong 9 1/2 x 12 1/2", 32 pages, sepiachrome photos of Washington, D.C. and 3 pages of B&O advertising w/ maps; map of the Baltimore & Ohio System on last page. Condition is VERY GOOD with slight edgewear of a few creases; very minor soiling at center from rusting staples. A tourism brochure for railroad travel to Washington DC, with many vintage photographs. Calvin Coolidge was President and he along with George Washington grace page 12.

Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1852. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st edition. 12mo, contemporary blind-stamped red cloth with gilt titles and decoration on spine, 327 pages, [8] pages publisher ads, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard of Mary and William Howitt (they are described beginning on page 144. The Howitts together wrote over 180 books! - though Bartlett repeatedly states: "you would not take her for an authoress." She is most famous for her poem "The Spider and the Fly."). Condition is VERY GOOD -: ex-library with class # on spine in white, some residue and "discarded" stamp on rear endpapers, front endpaper has "Property of Avon Free Public Library, Avon, Conn" and a penned name of Thomas Williams, light rubbing and small tears to extremities, light general soiling to boards, light scattered foxing, Take a tour of London with Bartlett, where you will meet all manner of people, places, and tales.… Read More

NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1911. Hardcover. VG. No additional printings. Book Two in a series which tells the story of The Mysteries of Life in simple, plain words. 24mo, tan cloth, decorated front cover, 113 pages. Condition is VERY GOOD / no jacket: light edgewear, tiny spot to fore edge, internally clean and tight.

NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1911. Hardcover. VG. No additional printings. Book One in a series which tells the story of The Mysteries of Life in simple, plain words. 24mo, tan cloth, decorated front cover, 105 pages. Condition is VERY GOOD / no jacket: light edgewear, a slight darkening to a portion of the front board, internally clean and tight.

NY: G.P. Putnam & Son, 1868. First Edition . Hardcover. Collectible; G+. ...comprising a bill of fare or breakfast, dinner, and tea, for every day in the year; with an Appendix, containing recipes for pickles and sauces." 1st edition, 12mo, green cloth, 134 pages, [10] pages publisher adverts (these are bound in out of order and mispaginated]. The book has been professionally repaired: a cloth reback. Condition: GOOD+ : binding is now tight, some light spotting and a few tiny tears to the endpapers, some typical browing to pages, light scattered spotting, a faint damp stain at bottom page edge throughout book, a light brownish damp stain at hinge through part of the book, a few pages have a crease and page 119 has a 1" closed tear at margin, otherwise the book is quite clean, and a nice copy of this uncommon early cookbook. "The design of this Manual is to suggest to ladies, without the trouble of THINKING [in italics], what is seasonable for the table, each day of the… Read More

Lebanon, PA: Applied Arts Publishers, 1976. Soft cover. VG+. 3rd printing (1976, c1969), 4to, stapled illustrated wraps, 40 pages, b/w illustrations (mostly photographs) throughout. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with slight edgewear at corners. Covers the "Stupendous, Colossal, Gigantic" in the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus Story: Circus parades, wagons, the Wild West, Acts and Performers, Side Shows, old-time posters, and more.

Halifax, NS: Bureau of Information and Publicity, 1947. Soft cover. Very Good. Nova Scotia Bureau of Information. Where to Stay in Nova Scotia, 1947. Halifax, NS: Bureau of Information and Publicity, 1947. 8vo, stapled wraps, [48] pages, map in center. Condition is VERY GOOD with minor edgewear, staples have some typical rust, internally clean and tight.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. 1st edition, 8vo, lime green paper-backed boards, 285 pages, index, b/w illustrations. Condition: NEW book / NEW Jacket: brand new. An absolutely essential book in Austen literary criticism.

NY: Frederick Warne, 1968. Hardcover. VG+/VG-. Christine Price.. No additional printings noted; unpaged; 5 1/2" oblong; pictorial boards; reinforced binding (but NOT a former library book); VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD- jacket: sl. edgewear at spine head and tail; jacket has lt. edgewear, spine tail has a 1/4" missing chip; a few sm. closed tears.

Philadelphia: Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1926., 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Frederick Richardson. 12mo, illustrated boards and endpapers, color illustrations throughout the text, 116 pages. Condition is VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: appears unused, with just the slightest rubbing to extremities, a penciled name on contents page [ "Eleanor" ], otherwise completely clean and tight. A lovely copy, rare in this condition.

Boston: Little Brown, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. George Eliot. Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot, with a biographical memoir. Reprint edition [originally published by Roberts Brothers 1873], 16mo, blue cloth decorated in black, gilt titles, red page edges, 358 pages, index. Condition: VERY GOOD+ : very slight rubbing to spine head and tail and corners, spot to top page edge, owner name on front endpaper dated 1904, tiny bookstore label on fep [Chas. E. Lauriat Co., Boston]. A very nice copy of this collection of Eliot's words; it includes excerpts from her novels and poems. George Eliot, pseud of Mary Ann Evans (1819-80).

NY: Columbia University Press, 1990. First paperback edition . Soft cover. VG-. 0231072511 1st paperback edition [number line], 8vo, 269 pages, bw/ illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD- : slight edgewear, some scattered underlinings to the "Vindication ..Women" chapter, otherwise a great clean and tight working copy.

Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. LIKE NEW/LIKE NEW. 081301106x 1st edition [NAP], 8vo, navy cloth, 169 pages, bibliography. NEAR FINE book / NEAR INE jacket: like new.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st edition, 8vo, gray cloth, 320 pages, bibliographies.VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: slight spotting to top page edge, otherwise appears unread; jacket has very light edgewear, toning to spine.

Williamstown, MA: Corner House, 1968. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1968 reprint edition of the original 1922 publication. 8vo, dark green boards, 319 pages, bibliography. Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD jacket: book has an owner name on fep; jacket has light edgewear along top edge. An early (1922) attempt at trying to understand the role of women in the colonial period in America, women until then largely ignored. The author made extensive use of diaries, letters, and other contemporary sources available to create an absorbing portrayal of women in both the northern and southern colonies. There is of course much more known today, but an informative and eye-opening read nonetheless.

Chicago: Woman's World,, 1922. Soft cover. Collectible; VG. ...being a selection of tested recipes for every month, and properly balanced menus for each day in the year." 10.25" tall, 66p, stapled wraps, color and b/w illus, illus covers. VERY GOOD : lt. edgewear, rubbing to spine, sm. tear at fore edge, 1" closed tear bottom edge rear cover, owner name and date (1922) on verso of cover. Article titled "The A, B, C of Balanced Menus" by Winifred Harper Cooley.

Washington, DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts Thamese and Hudson, 1990. First Edition . Soft cover. NF. No additional printings stated, quarto stiff wraps, 176 pp, color and b/w illustrations, bibliography, biographical list of British and Irish Women Silversmiths. Condition is NEAR FINE: as new, has a small faint stain on fore edge.

NY: Paddington Press, 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 0846701138 1st edition [NAP], 8vo, mustard boards, 190, [2] pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: book has gentle bumping to top corners, otherwise like new; jacket has slight edgewear. The women troubadours flourished in Provence (Southern France) between 1150 and 1250, the great period of troubadour poetry.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. First American edition . Hardcover. NF/NF. 0195198565 Introduction by General Editor David Daiches. 1st Am. edition, 8vo, brick-red boards, 223 pages, b/w illustrations, short bibliography. NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: appears unread.