Search Results: Titles starting with W from TBCL The Book Collection Library

Edinburgh: T.C. And E.C. Jack, 1898, 1898. Soft cover. Soft cover. Reprinted from the 'Centenary Edition' by Henley and Henderson. 8vo. xiii Press reviews, Portrait of Burns. pp 233 to 348. viii further Press reviews. Was originally published in salmon coloured paper wraps. [106 + 14 + 6 + 109 + 6 + 10] A very good copy showing light use; Red cloth, Top Edge Gilt. Gilt lettered spine & decorated upper cover; original salmon/brown wrappers bound in, [neat name on ffe dated 1913.] Advertisements at the back. Bound with: Ross, John D. (ed.) HENLEY AND BURNS: Th e Critic Censured. Stirling: E. Mackay & Murray Place, 1901. First Edition. The author's defense of the Scottish poet. 8vo., pp 106.

Montreal: Lovell Printing and Publishing Company, 1876. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Significant Presentation Copy. Wicksteed, G. W., Q. C. [Gustavus William, 1799-1898] Law Clerk, House of Commons, Ottawa. WAIFS IN VERSE. Signed. First Edition. Montreal, Lovell Printing and Publishing Company, 1876. 8vo., Embossed pebble grain green cloth, gilt stamped. A very good copy showing light use. Presentation Copy, inscribed on the dedication page: "Richard White Esq., of the Montreal Gazette from the Author / 27 July, 1884." Richard Smeaton White [1865 -1936] was a Canadian newspaper publisher & political figure. He sat for Inkerman division in the Senate of Canada as a Conservative from 1917 to 1936. He was publisher of the Montreal Gazette.

New York: Viking, 1992, 1992. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First editon. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo. A fine fresh copy in dw. Excellent recent movie. ".four 'sistuhs' who are trying to make it in this world we all live in--and the sometimes volotile world of Black female - Black male relationships". Spike Lee.

London: Hodder & Stroughton, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Lymington, John. THE WAKING OF STONE. London: Hodder & Stroughton, 1978. Sm. 8vo. First Edition. A fine fresh example in like dustwrapper [gentle vertical crease to front flap] of this SF / Supernatural Thriller.

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case for Henry David Thoreau's American Classic: Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished in black Nuba® with a 'sculpted' breathtaking log cabin landscape design and gold sides. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. "Book definitely NOT included"… Read More

New York: Harper & Row (1976), 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Sarton, May. A WALK THROUGH THE WOODS. New York: Harper & Row, (1976). From TBCL's Children's Bookcase. First Edition Signed and dated in 1978 by May Sarton on the front free endpaper. Oblong 8vo. 30 pp. A fine copy in illustrated paper covered boards, brown and green titles to the spine in a bright, fresh just about fine pictorial dustwrapper. With charming illustrations by Kazue Mizumura. A gentle story about May Sarton, her dog Tamas and her cat Bramble as they take a midafternoon walk in the woods.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First Edition. A fine copy in the publisher's glossy pictorial stiff card wrappers. 8vo. 64 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986, 1986. Soft Cover. Soft Cover. Uncorrected Proof. Near fine in wraps as issued. With publisher's blurbs/promo material laid in.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1975], 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo., pp 167. A fine copy in a very good or better dustwrapper [not price clipped] showing minimal rubbing at the extremities as usual & a touch of scuffing at the spine. A bright example of a very scarce & desirable Koontz title.

New York: Phaedra Publishers, 1966, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition in English of Vladimir Nabokov's last play written in the 1930's. 8vo. 111 pp. A fine copy in blue cloth, black titles to the spine in a bright, fresh near fine dustwrapper. Juliar A19.1, Variant A, with white endpapers, the last two thirds of the pages printed on an acidic paper and red, black, white and pink dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: George Bell And Sons, 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first issue. 8vo. original Blue cloth with gilt on the cover & spine. 389pp with 2 pages of publisher's ads. One of Wells' famous "Scientific Romances" highly sought after. Illustrated by A. C. Michael with sixteen black & white plates. A solid very good copy, the spine extremities very neatly & archivally mended. The book block clean & blemish free. An extraordinary story of a mechanic carried off in a balloon;", is a remarkable rarity, being a future war novel which uses the viewpoint of ordinary people and deals primarily with the effects of aerial warfare on those ordinary people. the shape of Wells's argument brings him to a conclusion very different from that characteristic of the future war novels written before 1914: civilization is virtually obliterated, and the Scientific Age is brought to an end." - Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 72. Survey of Science Fiction… Read More

New York, London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1898. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case for H.G.Wells WAR OF THE WORLDS A Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished in black Nuba® with a 'sculpted' graphic design of the invaders with grey sides. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. "Book definitely NOT included" When you place your order:… Read More

New York: Warner Books (1981), 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. A Near fine copy in dustwrapper. Basis for the film starring Michael Douglas.

New York: D. Appleton and Co., [1931], 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Chambers, Robert W. WAR PAINT AND ROUGE. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1931. First edition. [An Historical Novel of the French & Indian Wars times]. 8vo., 379pp. A near fine copy in peppled red cloth, stamped gilt to the spine & upper cover. In a very good dustwrapper that was neatly backed on the verso with brown paper tape. Small number code on top right of DJ. Notwithstanding, the book presents nicely.

Easthampton: Warwick Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. First Edition, Limited to 445 Numbered Copies of this keenly observed collection of Viet Nam War poetry, taken from notes written down during poet John Barr's three tours of duty in Vietnam, Signed by him and illustrator and printer Carol Blinn on the limitation page. This copy additionally Inscribed by Carol Blinn. Tall 8vo. 26 pp. Fine in hand-sewn Japanese Chiri paper wrappers, as issued. Printer's prospectus laid-in.

Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1977. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Signed by Author. Findley, Timothy. THE WARS. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1977. First Edition. Family Copy. Inscribed on the ffe: "Against Despair / For Father & Mother / With all my / Love / Tiff / Your book.". Tiff's dad has pasted an article on the 'Longboat' on the verso of the ffe with his neat commentary - "Longboat is mentioned on page 48 of Tif's marvelous book / A.G.F. 77". THE WARS was the GGA / Governor General's award winner for fiction in 1977. $8500.

London: Batsford, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. [Beaton, Cecil] Stein, Gertrude. WARS I HAVE SEEN. Signed. London: Batsford, 1945. "A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war". First Edition. 8vo., 191pp. Blue cloth stamped darker blue title to spine. A near fine copy in a superb, bright panorama dustwrapper illustrated by Cecil Beaton. [Bookseller's sticker at the top of the inside flap]. Inscribed in a later hand by Stein in blue fountain pen at the bottom of her Cecil Beaton frontis. portrait, to John James, an American journalist living in France to whom she inscribed a number of books: "To John James who says Ma''am so ? from Kentucky / Always / Gertrude Stein / May / 46". Stein lived until July of 1946. Probably the toughest Stein Item to find signed & virtually impossible to find as a Presentation Copy. An extremely good example. In "Wars I Have Seen" (1945),… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. King, Captain Charles. WAR-TIME WOOING. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. First Edition. 8vo., 195pp. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth, gilt lettered at the spine. Frontis. Plus 7 b&w full page llustrations. A very good copy showing light use.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Deming, Barbara. WASH US AND COMB US. Signed. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972. First Edition of American feminist and author Barbara Deming's well-received book of short stories Inscribed to Mary Meigs, longtime partner of Marie-Claire Blais. "For Mary - with love always - and from Jane (Jane Verlaine)". Additionally with a hand written note, "Sending copy to M-C (Marie-Claire Blais) through publisher. Love to you both - B". 8vo. 162 pp. A bright, fresh copy in blue cloth, (minor fade at the edges), green titles to the spine in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper. A nice association copy.

London: Andre Deutsch, (1983), 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First UK edition of the Author's first book. 8vo. A fine copy in dw. Highly acclaimed effort. Scarce.