Search Results: Titles starting with W from Chanticleer Books

New York: Macmillan, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Rear endpapers darkened from newsprint laid in, minor spotting to back of frontispiece, top edge spotted, else about very good in moderately worn jacket. (ix), 535 pp., illustrated; octavo, original green cloth, jacket. The authorized biography of William Butler Yeats by a longtime friend of Yeats and his family. The text makes much use of a lifetime of the author's correspondence, as well as notebooks, diaries, etc.

San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1963 . First edition. Paperback. Some discoloration to wrappers but about very good. 299 pp, printed wrappers. Printed letterpress in handset Caslon type in an edition of 750 copies

NY: Macmillan, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Original maroon ribbed cloth; small octavo (5.25 x 7.5 inches); xix, 278 pp. + publisher's cataloge at rear. Top edge a bit dusty, corners lightly bumped, else near fine Seven essays on the class war in the United States, published shortly after London's failed campaign as the candidate of the Socialist Party for mayor of Oakland. Essays include The Class Struggle; The Tramp; The Scab; The Question of the Maximum; A Review; Wanted: A New Law of Development; and How I Became a Socialist. Only 2530 copies printed in the first edition. BAL 11885, Sisson & Martens p. 22; Woodbridge 33.

Jamestown, NY: Journal Press, 1923. Sixth Edition. Boards moderately worn and with occasional inoffensive stains to text. . Brown cloth with titles stamped in black, octavo, 310 pp., including many leaves of advertisements front and rear. Corrections slip printed in red mounted to front pastedown, additional typed corrigenda laid in. Signed recipes of all kinds, interleaved with a few blank "Memoranda" pages. Originally published in 1888, this edition considerable expanded. Bitting p. 617; Brown 3882 (both for 1888 first edition). Not in Cagle & Stafford.

New York: Spring Valley Water Co. (printed at the Martin B. Brown Press), 1906. First edition. Paperback. Wreppers moderately worn, especially spine, faint dampstain to margin of bottom corner, still quite presentable. Folio, original printed wrappers, 103 pp., including 48 pages of text, 16 double-page folding maps, 12 double-page folding photographs. Hermann Schussler was Chief Engineer of the Spring Valley Water Co., the private corporation responsible for the water supplying San Francisco.

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, entirely clean and unworn. Original pictorial gray cloth with cover design blocked in black, white, blue, and gilt; 12 mo, v, [2], 360 pp., gravure frontispiece and 4 full-page illustrations. Rabbi Henry Iliowizi (1850-1911) was born in Russia, educated in Germany, and for many years is service as an educational administrator for the Anglo-Jewish Association and Alliance Isrealite Universelle in North Africa.

New Bedford (et al): New Bedford Whaling Museum, The Kendall Whaling Museum, Ten Pound Island Book Co., 2001. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Hardcover. Very good, quite clean and unworn. ix, 746 pp., frontispiece; oblong quarto, original maroon cloth with gilt titles. Compiled in 2 sections: lists of voyages alphabetized by ship's master, and by vessel name.

London: George Armstrong, 1950. First edition thus. Hardcover. Slight fading to covers, else fine. 121 pp, profusely illustrated; octavo, blue cloth with gilt title. A point by point repudiation of Harry Houdini's accusations against Jean Robert-Houdin, as published in his 1908 "The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin."

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1983. Limited edition. Hardbound. Fine/fine. Original purple cloth binding; octavo (6.75 x 10 inches); 84 pp. Photo frontispiece, plus several b/w illustrations. Errata slip laid in. Fine in fine glassine jacket. Limited to 550 copies

New York: John Day, (1931). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in about very good jacket with moderate toning to jacket spine, light edgewear . 280 pp., octavo, original tan cloth with title and rules in red, pictorial jacket. Inscribed by Robert Andrews to fellow author Dan Steele: "For Dan Steele with the sincere hope of Robert Andrews that Dan Steele will like Robert Andrews' book as well as Robert Andrews is sure he will like Dan Steele's book." Robert Hardy Andrews (1903-1976) was a successful writer of fiction, screenplays and adaptations. His credits include "The Hairy Ape" (1944) adapted from Eugene O'Neill's play; the story adaptation of Conan Doyle's "His Last Bow" for the 1942 film "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror" starring Basil Rathbone; the screenplay for the 1948 film "Man from Colorado" starring Glenn Ford and William Holden. The 1932 film version of "Windfall" was titled "If I Had a Million." This story of a millionaire bequeathing $10 million dollars to 10 random people - a… Read More

np: np, nd (circa early 1930s). Original edition. Paperback. Minor wear to wrapper edges, very good. [38] pp. tab indexed in 17 categories, original color pictorial wrappers, 5 x 5 inches, bound with a tassled gold cord. Probably just post-prohibition (Volstead Act lasted from 1919 to 1933) wine list from San Francisco's finest hotel. Selections include rare vintages from France and Italy (Chateau Yquem Lur-Saluces 1924 for $8.00) as well as a couple pages of California wines. The latest vintages on the list are from 1930, the earliest is a Grand Chambertin Burgundy from 1911 ($8.50). A glass of Grande Fine Champagne Napoleon 1811 can be enjoyed for $1.00 while standard cocktail fare runs .30 -.50 cents. Whiskies, gins, rums, brandies, aperitifs etc. are all on offer, but no vodka! 2 pages of beers and 3 of soft drinks conclude the list. The lovely cover illustration is "Courtesy of Indian State Railways Magazine.

San Francisco: Wine Publications, 1962. First edition. Paperback. Owner name stamp to front cover and title page, publisher address hand-corrected in ink on title page, some toning and smudges to wrappers, else very good. (32) pp. (including wrappers), orginal wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, illustrated. Complete instructions for the amateur home wine maker to make grape and other fruit wines. Maynard Amerine was Chairman of the Department of Viticulture and Oenology at the University of California, Davis. Gabler 7756

London: Augener Ltd., (1931). Very good. Single sheet, 12 x 18 inches, folded to 4 12 x 9-inch pages. "Winter Field" was published in the 1926 Golden Cockerell Press collection "Pellagea and Other Poems."

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., (1945). Early reprint. Hardcover. Fine in near very good pictorial dustjacket with crease to front jacket panel. xvi, 504 pp., with illustrations from photographs, line drawings by Theresa Garrett Eliot; octavo, original cream cloth with title stamped in green. Dustjacket. "The tracing of the evolution of the gods of men in a search for the innermost motive of society."

San Francisco: Southern Pacific Co. Passenger Dep't, 1909. First edition thus. Moderate edgewear, but a well-preserved copy, very good. Original pictorial wrappers. Originally published in 1909 in "Times Magazine" (New York) and "Lady's Realm" (London). The Sunset Magazine printing includes 2 illustrations not found in the earlier printings. The short story was collected in the March, 1910 Macmillan publication "When God Laughs." Woodbridge #712, Sisson & Walker #116

Stockton, CA: Occidental Publishing Co. (Formerly Monarch Book Co.), 1894. First edition thus. Moderate soiling to boards, watermark to top margin of title page and frontispiece (not affecting image), leaves browned, else very good.. 527 pp. (pagination, but this a sampling of about 100 pages), frontispiece photograph, engraved text illustrations. Quarto, original white oilcloth pictorial boards stamped in black, floral endpapers. Prospectus and subscription blanks at rear. Scarce salesman's dummy for this popular cook book. 12 sales recorded on subscription blank - mainly for Sacramento customers. For the published book, Axord, Bitting, and Brown all list the Chicago edition only. Axford p. 429 (for Chicago, 1901 ed.), Bitting p. 354 (for Chicago 1901 ed.), Brown 567, 576 (Chicago, 1894, 1901). Stockton imprint not listed on OCLC. Salesman’s dummy not recorded.

NY: teNeues, (2004). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket and moderately scuffed slipcase. Folio, original pictorial boards, unpaginated text and 126 duotone photographs. Autographed on title page by Stefan May.

New York: Random House, (1999). First edition. Hardcover. Small (less than pencil eraser size) dent to front board, else fine in near fine jacket. Quarto, original white boards, full-page color and black and white photographs throughout, jacket. Portrait photographs of women from all walks of life.

London: Dean & Munday, nd (circa 1830). Spine with later paper tape reinforcement, moderate staining and wear throughout, old ink penmanship practice to inside of front wrapper mostly obscured by Edward Arnold bookplate. Overall a serviceable "good" copy. Chapbook, decorative wrappers, 14 x 9 cm, (5) - 35 pp., folding 3-panel handcolored frontispiece. The story is based on Charles Perrault's "Le Petit Poucet," originally published in 1697. English versions are variously titled Hop-o'-My-Thumb, Little Thumbling, Little Thumb, or Little Poucet. This copy from the library of Edward Arnold (born 1825). His son, Andrew Arnold, in his preface to "A CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY FORMED BY EDWARD ARNOLD. THE GROVE, DORKING, SURREY. PRIVATELY PRINTED 1921, writes: "To his family, at any rate, the collection of Chap-books is very interesting, for my father, so far as I know, never bought any. He inherited them in the same way as some of the French furniture, Sevres and, Dresden china. He always set great store on… Read More

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1963. FIrst edition, 525 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Hardcover. Fine. Original natural linen and decorative boards; folio (10 x 15 inches); unpaginated (54 pp); 21 color plates The paintings reproduced in the book belonged to Edwin Grabhorn