Search Results: Titles starting with W from Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA

Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Anton Schonborg. The Far West and Rockies Historical Series, 1820-1875, Volume X. Thick 8vo. Pp. 345. Introduction and notes by the Hafens. Frontis. photo portrait of Jackson. Illustrated throughout with several Jackson photos. Maps, including one two-color folding. Facsimiles. Bibliography. Index. Fore-edge untrimmed; top edge stained brown. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. Laid in is the original Arthur H. Clark prospectus for the series, one sheet folded to three panels. Prospectus is Very Good, with a horizontal fold, now mellowed. The first comprehensive treatment of Jackson's diaries, with superb annotation of his youthful westward forays. A bright, fresh copy with corners sharp. CLARK & BRUNET, 104.

Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stout 8vo. Pp. 387. Preface. Illustrated throughout with b&w reproductions; fold-out plan; appendix, bibliography, index. Blue cloth with silver-stamped lettering on spine. Dust jacket price-clipped. A handsome book. Includes the publisher's prospectus, a single sheet printed both sides, with a crease where it was folded in half. Lively chronological survey of a rich period in Nevada's cultural history -- eminently readable with solid scholarship. According to the Clark bibliography, "entertainment on the frontier is a neglected field of study, and this work covers that subject as it unfolded in the mining frontier, from the theatre to gambling, prize fights benefits, glee clubs, dances, parades, and hurdy-gurdy girls." CLARK and BRUNET, 266. Bookseller inventory DDDS--DM-DW.

Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. 136. With illustrations and portraits. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge stained red with fore-edge untrimmed. A Fine copy with dust jacket showing a trifle handling. Includes the publisher's prospectus, a single sheet printed both sides, with a crease where it was folded in half. An account of Emanuel Lowenstein's life from Arizona in the 1880s through Los Angeles in the 1930s. Sheds entertaining light on Jewish life in the Southwest. According to Clark and Brunet, only 983 copies were printed. CLARK and BRUNET, 242. Dust jacket is now protected in a removable clear, archival sleeve.

Leipsig / London / New York: Karl Baedeker, 1903. Twelfth Remodeled Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good-. Wagner & Debes. 16mo. Pp. lxiv, 563. Illustrated with 30 maps and 39 plans, several in colors and/or folding out. Index. Publisher's textured red cloth over flexible boards, titles stamped in gilt on the cover and spine, blind stamped decorations, red silk bookmark ribbon, edges marbled, publisher's advertising on front endpaper, railway map on back endpapers. In the original kraft paper dust jacket with titles printed in black on a mounted kraft label. Remarkably well preserved, with cover edges very lightly rubbed, fold-out pages mildly age toned and a two-inch closed tear to the first one, outer leaves lightly foxed. Jacket edges rubbed, spine ends and corners chipped, rear flap nearly detached, short closed tears to back panel. The dust jacket has performed it's job efficiently, revealing a binding of bright cloth and reflective gilt. The first version of this travel… Read More

NP: 663rd Engineer Topographic Co, 1946. First Edition. Single sheet map. Good+. Four-color map measures 29 x 22 inches. Drafted by George D. Harney, reproduced by the 663rd Engineer Topographic Company. Short splits at fold ends, edges rubbed and age-toned. This handsome hand drawn and lettered color map depicts the routes and battles of the 84th "Railsplitters" from activation at Camp Howze Texas to landing on Omaha Beach in November 1944, the "motor march" to Gulpen, the Siegfried Line, the Battle of the Bulge, and rapid push to the Elbe Line. With detailed insets of the "Siegfried Line and Roer River Area" and "Battle of the Ardennes Area." OCLC locates this map in four institutional libraries.See also Lt. Theodore Draper's The 84th Infantry Division in the Battle of Germany November 1944 - May 1945 for a full account. Now preserved in a clear archival sleeve with acid free backing.

London: Cresset Press, 1947. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Fine Literature. 8vo. Pp. xvi; 78. Text is in Russian on verso pages, English on recto. Index of first lines. Foreword by Dr. C. M. Bowra. One of 1500 copies, of which this is no. 638. Tan linen with gilt lettering stamped on over and spine. Former ownerís name on ffep, else an attractive copy in a perfect dust jacket. A handsome book production; Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Nekrasov, Fet, Maikov, Nadson and Apukhtin comprise the poets in this fine anthology. The Maurice Bowra foreword alone is worth the price of admission. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1960. Second Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Barbara Corrigan. 8vo. Pp. 308. Illustrated with occasional line drawings by Barbara Corrigan. Bound in bright yellow cloth with an island vignette on the front board, blue lettering stamped on spine. In the illustrated dust jacket, price-clipped. A humorous take on life in Waikiki, speckled with historical and cultural references.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Lee Thayer. 8vo. Pp. 406. With a Whiteoak family tree. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. In the full-color illustrated dust jacket, with $2.50 price intact. A notably fresh copy of the First Edition. A novel of the author's Jalna series documenting the Whiteoak family, this volume concerning the family's part in the the beginning of WWII, and a character's involvement in "the heroic epic of Dunkirk" (dust jacket copy). The dust jacket illustration, by Lee Thayer, presents a tableau in full saturated colors. Dust jacket now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First Edition. Full leather in Leather Clamshell Case. Very Good-. 12mo. Pp. 357. Vignette title page. With the engraved map of Walden Pond opposite p. 307, with imprint appearing clearly. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Bound, without ads, in late 19th or early-20th century brown morocco, neatly rehinged, with gilt lettering on spine that has five raised bands. Corners worn. An elegant binding, handsomely restored. Housed in a smart clamshell case, quarter brown pebble grain morocco over brown cloth, gilt lettering and blindstamp devices on spine with raised bands. The first printing of the first edition, without the publisher ads, listed as the first citation by Borst (Henry David Thoreau A Descriptive Bibliography). A cornerstone of American literature. BAL 20106; Borst A2.1.a; GROLIER American 100, 63.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+. Walker Evans. 4to. Pp. 111. Frontis. Black & white photography by Walter Evans. Foreword by Evans' executor John T. Hill, including a quoted letter by Walter Evans. Essay by Gilles Mora. Illustrated throughout with black & white photography by Walter Evans. Bound in black cloth with titles embossed on spine. In the dust jacket, price of $35.00 intact on front flap. Brings together over 80 black & white photographs taken by American photographer Walter Evans (1903-1975) during a three-week visit to pre-revolutionary Cuba in 1938. Dust jacket is now preserved within a clear, removable archival sleeve.

San Diego New York London: Harcourt Brace and Company A Harvest Book, 1999. Reprint. Paperback. Near Fine. Thick 8vo. Pp. xvii, 526. Illustrated with a 16-page section of black and white photos. Index. Bound in stiff photo-illustrated wraps. Slight superficial scuff on fore-edge, else Fine. Inscribed by John Lewis on the half-title page. Inscription in black ink reads, To Walt and Marie, Keep the Faith, John Lewis 9-4-04. Walt Crowley and Marie McCaffrey are perhaps best known as founders of HistoryLink, the online encyclopedia of Pacific Northwest history, and the first US website devoted to regional history. Crowley and McCaffrey also collaborated on an extensive list of books documenting Seattle history. In that capacity, Crowley's positions as a city planner, local television commentator, and speechwriter served him well. Notably, Crowley's civic activism during Seattle's 1960s political unrest endeared a kinship with John Lewis. Now protected with a clear, removable archival jacket.

Thick 8vo. Pp. xvii, 526. Illustrated with a 16-page section of black and white photos. Index. Bound in stiff photo-illustrated wraps. Slight superficial scuff on fore-edge, else Fine. Inscribed by John Lewis on the half-title page. Inscription in black ink reads, To Walt and Marie, Keep the Faith, John Lewis 9-4-04. Walt Crowley and Marie McCaffrey are perhaps best known as founders of HistoryLink, the online encyclopedia of Pacific Northwest history, and the first US website devoted to regional history. Crowley and McCaffrey also collaborated on an extensive list of books documenting Seattle history. In that capacity, Crowley's positions as a city planner, local television commentator, and speechwriter served him well. Notably, Crowley's civic activism during Seattle's 1960s political unrest endeared a kinship with John Lewis. Now protected with a clear, removable archival jacket.

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. R. Pallen Coleman (dust jacket illustration). 8vo. Pp. 350. Bound in bright red cloth with black lettering and vignette stamped on front board, black lettering on spine. Light foxing to endpapers. In the dust jacket with some foxing on spine and rear panel. Dust jacket shows a comely lass, standing against a wall, neglected but for a framed portrait eyeing her. Dust jacket, illustrated by R. Pallen Coleman, features a bookmark as part of the front flap, which remains intact. Please see HELLER and CHWAST, Jackets Required, p. 78 ("the full-figured woman [as opposed to just a portrait of a woman's head] was only second to the full face in eye appeal"). Now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Seattle: Helix, 1967. First Printing. Single loose sheet. Very Good. Walt Crowley. Color offset print on heavy stock measuring 23 x 17.5 inches. Edges lightly age toned, and with light creases, now mellowed. Cover offprint two-color poster from a 1967 issue of the Seattle underground bi-weekly, the work of Walt Crowley depicting the horror of the Vietnam conflict, featuring, among others, the masters of war. Although dated 1966, the artwork ran as a centerfold in Helix Vol. I No. 4. May 16, 1967. The poster was printed in three variants: blue (seen here), brown and a shade of orange-sepia. Helix joined a burgeoning underground press then including groundbreaking alternative papers the East Village Other, the Los Angeles Free Press, the Fifth Estate and the Berkeley Barb. Founded by Paul Sawyer, Paul Dorpat and Lorenzo Milam, it sprang from their intellectual fervor at the Free University, an alternative thinktank they also founded. Eventually star-illustrator Walt Crowley assumed editorship. This… Read More

Racine, Wisconsin: A Whitman Book Western Publishing Company, Inc, 1972. First Edition. Color Wrappers. Authorized Edition. Tall, narrow 4to (39 inches tall). Unpaginated. A coloring book with only five of the pages colored with crayon. Bound in die-cut stiff wraps printed in color. A particularly bright copy of a scarce coloring book, with the cover showing only slight evidence of wear.

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1946. First Edition Thus. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+. Alvin Lustig (dust jacket). 12mo. Pp. xix, 306. Green cloth, Futura bold titles stamped in gilt on the spine. In the Alvin Lustig illustrated dust jacket, unclipped ($1.50). Cloth spine ends rubbed. Dust jacket with slight edge-wear. Please see photos. Issue number 16 in the New Classics Series, "$1.50 reprints of important modern works of literature," in this instance the classic 1913 French novel of first love and romantic idealism. First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1928, reprinted here with a few alterations to the Delisle translation and to the introduction by Havelock Ellis.With Lustig jacket illustration and lettering in earth tones. Please see Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig by Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger, p. 25. Dust jacket now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve. .

New York: Macmillan Company, 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover with Slipcase. Very Good+/Slipcase VG; Glassine G+. Small 4to. Pp. ix, 139. Frontis. color illustration. Illustrated with reproductions of paintings, photographs and plans on coated paper, three plans folding out. Black half cloth over sea-green paper covered boards, glassine dust jacket, art paper leaves untrimmed and uncut/unopened, beige cloth slipcase with paper label printed in black. Edition limited to 350, this copy hand-numbered 29 and signed in ink by the author on a preliminary leaf. Board edges very lightly rubbed, glassine jacket edge chips and mellowed creases to flaps, slipcase edges rubbed and light soiling. Story of the ship that inspired Masefield, with a selection of verses. A handsome production, well-preserved.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. 364. Frontis. illustration. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Touch of dust soiling to top edge. Inscribed by the author on the half-title. Inscription reads, "To Dr. Bouwen (?) from Nina Cust / August, 1939." The author's address is added in pencil on the rear free endpaper ("Mrs. Henry Cust / 17 Hyde Park Gate / London SW17"). The subjects were the author's mother (Victoria) and grandmother (Lady Emmeline). Young Victoria published selected recollections in A Young Traveller's Journal of a Tour in North and South America during the year 1850 (London: T. Bosworth, 1852), which is now rare. Indeed the volume at hand is now scarce. A handsome, presentable copy. .

Seattle: Real Comet Press, 1987. First Thus. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Pp. 263. With a one-page note from the Real Comet Press publisher, Catherine Hillenbrand, followed by a nine-page introduction by Douglas Kellner. Profusely illustrated throughout with gruesome b&w photos. Bound in full black cloth with white lettering stamped on front cover and spine. Slight evidence of former dampness affecting lower fore-edge corner (see photo), else Fine in a perfect dust jacket. (Please note that aberrations in photo are a result of glare, not dust jacket defect.). The first printing of this handsome edition of Friedrich's monumental agitprop. Friedrich's threat to the rising National Socialists was so significant that the Nazi Party commandeered his anti-war museum. With perverse irony, the museum transitioned to a tavern for the SS. Dust jacket is now protected in a clear, archival (and removable) sleeve.

Indianapolis New York: The Bobbs Merrill Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. [vi], vii-ix, [7], 17-314. Frontis. Black & white photograph of Butte, Montana, 1872. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs on glossy stock. Bound in tangerine cloth with red lettering stamped on cover and spine. Small newspaper clipping pasted to rear endpaper - a note about Marcus Daly's wealth at date of death. Two white marks on cover; slight wear to head and tail of spine, but generally clean. In the color illustrated dust jacket, with original price of $3.00 intact on front flap. Dust jacket worn at edges. Withal, a bright, presentable copy. Marcus Daly, William A. Clark, F. Augustus Heinze and others created immense wealth by mining Butte's "richest hill on earth." The story has been told many times, yet Glasscock's account is perhaps the liveliest and, for us, the most readable. Copper tycoon Clark, the one-term senator from Montana who bought his… Read More