Search Results: Titles starting with W from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

Tampa, Fla.: Tribune Press, 1943. [104] pages. Original illustrated glossy wraps. 23 x 15 cm. Foxing to spine, light soiling to covers. Small scrape to base of title page; internally clean. Very good. FIRST EDITION. A collection of editorial cartoons about World War II reprinted from the Tampa “Morning Tribune.“ George Robert White (1901-1964) worked for the “Tribune“ from 1934 to 1964 and his cartoons were always featured on the front page. Approximately half of the cartoons in the book are from the period before U.S. entry into the war and present dire warnings about the growing militarization and territorial expansion of the Axis nations and the folly of American disengagement. The remainder of the cartoons celebrate Allied military victories and promote the U.S. war effort. Typical of prevailing American wartime prejudices, White depicts the Japanese with racist caricatures throughout the volume. Scarce. No other copies were found for sale at the time of cataloging (March… Read More

[Charleston, S.C.: Historical Commission of Charleston, 1942?] Title page states: "Reprinted from the Historical Appendix of the Year Book of the City of Charleston for the Year 1940." Turnbull notes: "The Year Book for 1940 was not published until 1942." Publisher from slip inserted before title ("Compliments of the Historical Commission of Charleston, Daniel Ravenel, Chairman.") [1] page, pp.190-257, plus four plates, three of which are portraits. [22.7 cm.] Original printed blue wraps. Very good. Light vertical crease throughout. Some faint soiling to wraps. Slight evidence of erasure at head of title, but interior otherwise clean. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, an offprint. A biographical study of the earliest researchers to examine the impact of climate on yellow fever in the American South.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. Published as part of the "American Forestry Series." xiii, [1], 401 pages. Original cloth. [23.5 cm.] About fine in good plus dust jacket. Just a hint of fading at head of front cover, still an excellent copy. Jacket is sun-faded and has two tiny chips, not affecting text. FIRST EDITION. Numerous maps, photographs, and charts in the text.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937. 16 pages. Original printed gray wraps. [22.8 cm.] Near fine. Tiny spot to front wrap, still a nice copy. FIRST EDITION. Harry Estill Moore (1897-1966) was a professor of sociology at the University of Texas and the author of numerous books. This pamphlet was the first separate publication under his own name. The following year, he was the co-author (with Howard W. Odum) of "American Regionalism: a Cultural-Historical Approach to National Integration.

Jackson, Tenn.: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1960. 131 pages, plus portrait frontispiece and four leaves of plates. Original gray cloth. [20.9 cm.] Very nearly fine in like dust jacket. Book has some barely discernible evidence of spotting to covers. Dust jacket shows some very light rubbing. Still an excellent copy. First of this edition, with a new title, the text corrected against the original manuscript, and a new introduction by Bell Irvin Wiley. The first edition of 1919 appeared with the title reading simply: "The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone." The author served in Company H, 6th N.C. Infantry, from July, 1861, to November, 1863, when he was captured and imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland. Before his capture he participated in most of the important battles of the Army of Northern Virginia, including Gettysburg. "Because of the daily weather observations contained herein, Malone has been called `the unofficial meteorologist for the Army of Northern Virginia'." --CWB I,… Read More

Boston and N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Co., [printed by] Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1936. 400 pages. Original light blue cloth. [23.3 cm.] A good plus copy in fair to good dust jacket. Spine a little faded, some spotting to cloth, light foxing to endpapers. Jacket has several very small chips and several tears, with a number of non-archival tape repairs to verso; one tape repair to front panel (6.5 cm long), with transparent, but slightly toned tape; moderate foxing to spine panel; and some creasing. Upper corner of front flap is clipped with loss to last two digit of price ["$2." remains]. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the front free endpaper. Basis for the 1938 film starring Claude Rains.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, [1967]. 298 pages. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Original cloth. [23.5 cm.] About fine in near dust jacket. Book has a light trace of dust soil to top edge. Jacket has tiny tear (less than one quarter inch) to head of spine, neatly repaired with archival tape on verso, and faint mark to rear panel. Still a nice copy. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the title page, with his generic presentation inscription ("With the compliments of the author").

Greensboro, N.C.: Piedmont Press, 1963. 401 pages, plus frontispiece and four leaves of plates. Original black cloth. [23.3 cm.] A near fine copy in very good dust jacket. Faint foxing to title page and a few other pages (due to contact with plates), still a nice copy. Jacket shows some light rubbing and two minuscule tears, with no loss. FIRST EDITION. WARM PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the front free endpaper. TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, laid-in. The inscription and both letters are addressed to Tempie Harris Prince, of High Rock Farm, Rockingham County, North Carolina, whose pictorial bookplate appears on the front pastedown. William Swaim was editor of the Greensboro "Patriot" from 1829-1835, where he promoted the manumission of slaves and various reforms. He was the maternal grandfather of William Sydney Porter, a.k.a. O'Henry.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. 246 pages. Original black cloth. Top edge stained maroon. [23.3 cm.] Very nearly fine in near fine dust jacket. Gutters of beige endpapers a little faded, two tiny spots to fore-edge. Jacket shows the slightest hint of sun to spine panel and some minor rubbing. FIRST EDITION. A historical novel depicting the prominent New England family from colonial times to the 20th century.

. New York: The Bowling Green Press, [printed and bound by William Edwin Rudge, Mt. Vernon, N.Y.], 1928. 34, [1] pages. Original white paper spine and blue paper covered boards, lettered in gilt. [23.2 cm.] Near fine in original unprinted parchment dust jacket. Spine a trifle sunned, upper corners slightly bumped. Jacket sunned on the spine panel and a little wrinkled with several tiny tears on the top edge. FIRST EDITION. One of 800 copies set by Bertha M. Goudy at the Village Press, Marlborough, N.Y., using types designed by Frederic W. Goudy. The text is an essay on Lincoln's legacy by the English playwright, John Drinkwater (1882-1937).�