Search Results: Titles starting with W from The Book Closet

New York: HarperCollins, 2002 Brown boards with blue tape binding; dj is not price clipped, but shows minor shelf wear; stated First Edition with full number line. "To Officer Bernadette Manuelito, the man curled up on the truck seat was just another drunk, which got Bernie in trouble for mishandling a crime scene, which got Sergeant Jim Chee in trouble with the FBI, which drew Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement and back into the old "Golden Calf" homicide, a case he had hoped to forget." -- from the dj

Little Brown and Company, 1999 Advanced Reading Copy

Phildadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1947 Burandy boards; gold lettering on spine, faded; spine is starting to looen, but all pages are intact; pictorial end papers; previous owner's name on ffep and title page; looks like a child got ahold of a pencil and practiced scribbling on the title page and the end papers. Pictures available upon request

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917 Green boards with embossed cover; faded gilt lettering on front; spine is completely faded and shows shelf wear; previous owner's name on ffep; 426 pages; pages are yellowed with age; pictures available upon request.

New York: Scribner, 2001 Tan boards with black spine; gold lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project with the goal of remembering Americans who have served this nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, more than 50,000 war letters discovered in basements, attics, scrapbooks, and old trunks have poured in from around the country. The best of these letters are assembled in this extraordinary collection, offering unprecedented insight into the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Vietnam, Korea, the Cold War, the Persian Gulf, and even the fighting in Somalia and the Balkans." -- from the dj

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1989 Blue boards with black lettering on spine; dj not price clipped; dj protected with Brodart cover; 383 pages. "An exciting new discovery - a major novel of the Air Force and aerial combat written by a retired, decorated Air Force officer who has flow over two hundred combat missions." -- from the dj

New York: blue rider press, 2012 Blue boards with copper foil lettering; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; full number line. "Beneath Lausanne Cathedral, in Switzerland, there is a secret buried before time began, something unknown to angles and men, until now...Marc Rochat watches over the city at night from the belfry of the cathedral. He lives in a world of shadows and 'beforetimes' and imaginary beings." -- from the dj

New York: Del Rey, 1996 Grey-green boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped. "The River flowed through all the land, deep and unstoppable, a god in his own right. His head was in the mountains; his arms embraced the outlands; his body lay at the core of all the civilized realms; his legs stretched on to the distant sea. Dark and sluggish, he rolled unchallenged, dreaming his own invincible might and glory into stark reality." -- from the dj

Radar Ave Press, 2014 Mnior bumping to edges; spine is tight and pages are clean. Book Two of The Great Way. "Having lost the prince to the madness of The Blessing, Tejohn and Cazia are the only people who know of his plan to retrieve a secret spell that might, just might, turn the tide of battle against the grunts." -- from the back cover

Radar Ave Press, 2014 Some bumping to edges. The first book of The Great Way. "The city of Peradain is the heart of an empire built with steel, spears, and a monopoly on magic...until, in a single day, it falls, overthrown by a swarm of supernatural creatures of incredible power and ferocity., Neither soldier nor spell caster can stand against them." -- from the back cover

Radar Ave Press, 2014 Minor bumping to edges; spine is tight and pages are clean. Book three of The Great Way. "what was once the Peradaini Empire is now a wasted landscape of burned, empty cities and abandoned farmlands. The Blessing, now more numerous than ever, continues to spread across the continent, driving refugees to the dubious safety of city walls. Unharvested crops mean that few strongholds have enough provisions to last the winter, although most know the grunts will take them before starvation will." -- from the back cover.

New York: Tor, 2002 Black boards with gold embossed lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover. "With 'The Way of Light,' Storm Constantine brings this awesome fantasy epic to a stunning conclusion. The sudden death of the Emperor Leonid, patriarch of the powerful Malagash dynasty, has plunged the empire of Magravandias into chaos. To preserve order, Valraven Palindrake, Dragon Lord of Caradore, reluctantly pledges his support to the young Crown Prince, Gastern, against his more ambitious brothers, Almorante and Bayard. Now the waiting begins, as rival factions gather strength for the battle that lies ahead." -- from the dj

New York: William Abrahams, 1997 "The Mulvaneys are bleesed by allt hat makes life sweet -- a hardworking father, a loving mother, three fine sones, and a birght, pretty daughter. They are confident in their love for each other and their position in the rural community of Mt. Ephraim, New York." -- fom the back cover.

Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1999 Price sticker on back of dj from Smithsonian Museum Shops $49.95. Minor shelf wear to dj; tight, unbroken spine; 207 pp. "This book, with more than 500 color photographs, is the first to cover both vintage and new wearable art. Chapters on different categories of apparel present this compelling topic at its best." - from the dj.

New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1990 First edition; grey boards with light blue binding tape; while embossed lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and slightly yellowed; dj now protected with Brodart cover. "With 'Weatherhawk' Crowder has done it again. Its subject is JAWS -- not a shark or a movie, but something far more valuable: a revolutionary radar processing unit that, it seems, half the world will beg, borrow, steal -- or kill -- for." -- from the dj

Delacorte Press, 2000 White boards with white tape binding; dj is not price clipped; full number line

Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 1998 Some edgewear to dj; price sticker on back; 143 pp. Time saving sewing with a creative touch. "Add a splash of pizzazz and style to the tried-and-true favorites of your sewing wardrobe - in a weekend! The more than 30 dress designs in these pages were made from standard, easy-to-make patterns that are familiar to all intermediate sewers" -- from the dj

New York: Penguin Books, 1999 First edition trade paperback; no spine creases; minor bumping to edges; remainder mark on bottom. "At seventeen, Ty Bonte has already learned some of life's harshest lessons. Abandoned by his mother after the accidental death of his beloved younger brother, Ty spends his days working on the family ranch with his violent, sadistic father and his nights marauding with his mean-spirited drinking buddy, Harney Rivers. When a drunken fight escalates into the near-death of a young Indian, Ty flees his Nebraska home with an arrest warrant hanging over his head." - from the back cover

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984 Blue boards with dark blue tape binding; gold lettering on spine; previous owner's address sitcker on ffeb; another previous owner's name written on back of front board; remainder stamp on bottom edge; pages are slightly yellowed with age; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "This is Susan Howatch's finest, most ambitious, and most absorbing novel to date...At its center is Oxmoon, the family manor of the Godwins, which for four generations, from the glittering years before the First World War to the present time, obsesses and haunts every member of the family, turning brother against brother, son against father, its changing fortunes inexorably linked to theirs, its decine mirroring the family's descent from Edwardiain prosperity and social position to the straitened circumstances of middle-class life." -- from the dj

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 1995 Minor shelf wear to dj; Brodart dj cover; ribbon book mark