Search Results: Authors starting with W from Catron Grant Books

L-W Book Sales, 1995 112 pp, color illustrations on every page. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are bright and undamaged.. Large Format Softcover. As New. 8.5" x11".

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1995 xv, 464 pp Text is clean, tight and unmarked.Paper covers are clean, bright, intact.. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Lexington, Kentucky: Headley-Whitney Museum, 2000 39 pp. with b/w photographs throughout. Printed on matte cream-colored cardstock.Text pages and cover are pristine with minimal signs of wear.. 1st Edition. Stapled Softcover. Near Fine. 8.5" x 11". Exhibition Catalogue.

Colorado Springs, CO: Dream Zion Publishing, 2011 273 pp. with a few line drawings in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Several authors have signed their names in the table of contents. Covers are bright and undamaged.. By Authors. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

London: Archibald Constable and Co., 1900 London: Archibald Constable and Co., 1900 vi, 452 pp with myriad B&W drawings and photos in text and large folding map bound-in at rear. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Map is undamaged save for a closed tear near spine. Endpapers have light glue staining, front hinge is tender, there is a contemporary booksellers sticker (Van Siclen Bibliopole, New York City) Red buckram boards with gold-stamped titles on spine have a little bumping to tail of spine which has caused the start of a split in fabric, else clean and undamaged. Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell, (1854-1938) was a British explorer, Professor of Tibetan, Professor of Chemistry and Pathology, British army surgeon, collector in Tibet, philologist, linguist, amateur archeologist, Doctor of Laws, and author. He traveled extensively in India throughout the 1890s (including Sikkim and areas on the borders of Nepal and Tibet) and wrote about the Tibetan Buddhist religious practices he observed there.… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980 231 pp with color photography and B&W charts and illustrations on every page. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, pristine except for an "in memory of." stamp on front endpaper. Orange cloth boards and DJ are "as new." Discussions of the desert wildlife on every continent by the former director of the Desert Biome Project of the U.S. International Biological Program. In mylar jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. Fine/As New.

John Wiley & Sons, 1955 367 pps. plus Preface and Table of Contents. B/W phtographs, diagrams and charts throughout. Text clean, tight, bright and = apart from owner's signature inside front cover - unmarked. Spine cracked but holding. Indigo cloth boards show wear but gold printing on spine VG.. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 5.75" x 8.5".

U.S.A.: Wiley, 2001 212 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is bright and undamaged.. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

Universe Books, 1970 Universe Books, 1970 Text is clean, tight and unmarked. B&W and color illustrations. DJ is VG with light rubbing along front edge. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good.. First American Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good.

U.S.A.: Texas Western Pr, 1984 U.S.A.: Texas Western Pr, 1984 xxvii, 208 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Dedication by author on half-title page. Dust jacket, now in mylar wrapper, has some rubbing and edgewear. Signed by Author on Half Title Page. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.. Signed by Author(s). Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

National Geographic, 2000 252 pp with 8 color plates. A first-person account of the tragic 1998 attempt to kayak down Tibet'sTsang Po river as it drops off the Tibetan Plateau to the plains of India. A good companion account to Michael McRae's "The Seige of Shangri-La." Text is clean, tight and unmarked, immaculate. Dust jacket is bright and undamaged. #001916. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine.

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1888 459, plus 21 pages of advertisements. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, toned. Previous owner's name in pencil on front endpapers. Beige cloth decorative boards are rubbed and darkened.. Harcover. Fair Minus/No Jacket. 4 1/2" x 7".

Harper & Bros., 1893 Harper & Bros., 1893 578 pgs. Text clean, tight, toned but unmarked. Front and back cover szplit but holding. Worn cloth cover with corner bumping but gold stamping held up well. Dedication in fountain pen inside cover. Book sale notation on title page in ballpoint. By the author of Ben-Hur; 19th Century literature. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 5" x 7".. First Edition.. Hardcover. Fair.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926 586 pp. with a B&W illustration frontis. Text is clean, tight and unmarked.Contemporary dedication on the front endpaper. Dark blue boards have a very handsome Deco-ish Aztec gold and black design on the front with some dulling of the gold.. Fifth Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket.

U.S.A.: University of California Press, 2004 340 pp with B&W illustrations in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is bright, intact with slight rubbing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

University of California Press, 2007 University of California Press, 2007 282 pp with B&W illustrations in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is bright and undamaged. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Illus. by Kirkland, Ken. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. As New/As New. Illus. by Kirkland, Ken.

Cambridge , MA: Cambridge University Press, 1958 Cambridge , MA: Cambridge University Press, 1958 287 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Grey cloth boards are clean, undamaged. Dust jacket has some edgewear at spine ends. Now in mylar wrapper. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: John Murray, 1913 London: John Murray, 1913 317 pp with a frontpiece , ten full-page and twelve half-page illustrations from drawings by the author plus thirty-eight photos.Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Yellow cloth boards with a ibex skull stamped on front are clean and bright with some sunning to spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Wallace, Frank.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Wallace, Frank.

U.S.A.: University of Texas Press, 1993 U.S.A.: University of Texas Press, 1993 329 pp with two maps and B&W illustrations in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are bright and undamaged. Trade Paperback. Near Fine.. Paperback. Near Fine.

Suffolk, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 2006 127 pps. with full-color photographs throughout. Pale blue endpapers.Text is clean, tight, bright, unmarked and unused. Navy blue cloth boards with bright gold-stamping on front cover and spine are clean and undamaged. Black DJ with 4-color photograph of gems and large white title is bright and intact.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8.75" X 8.75".