Search Results: Authors starting with W from Turn and Temper Books

Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover: Fine. No dust jacket. Tight, clean, and crisp with no writing or marks. Feels unread.

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition:. Riverside Edition. Near Fine condition textured blue cloth boards with bright gilt spine lettering and gilt upper page edges. Minor wear on the tips and spine top. The binding feels tight and unread, with no marks. The full title page states: "New and Revised Edition". This is the updated 1888 Edition. Essays are as follows: I. Uses of Great Men; II. Plato; or The Philosopher and Plato: New Readings; III. Swedenborg; or The Mystic; IV. Montaigne; or The Skeptic; V. Shakespeare; or The Poet; VI. Napoleon; or, The Man of the World; VII. Goethe; or, The Writer.

Gryphon Editions, Inc., 1988. Special Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover. Special Edition. Fine. Leather bound, Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. First Gryphon Edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Atlantic Monthly Press / Little Brown & Co, 1976. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Consuelo Hanks. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fourth Printing of this Pulitzer Prize winning exploration of the life and traditions of crabbers on the Chesapeake Bay. 304 pages, illustrated. The book has a written gift inscription on the front endpaper (dated 1976). Otherwise, the content is clean and the binding is crisp. There is minimal bumping on the tips. The dust jacket is price clipped and has fading around edges and minor stains on back, with tip chipping.

Arcadia Publishing, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. 160p., profuse b&w photography, hardbound in 10x7 inch black papered boards and dust jacket. Boards are crisp and tight, feel unread. DJ without blemishes, scuffs, or rips. A fine copy.

Prentice Hall Direct, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover is Near Fine with penciled price markings only and one page tip curled. Otherwise pristine. DJ is Fine with no flaws. Mylar cover. $10.95 cover price intact. gold w/white lettering 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1949. First Edition . Hardcover/Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Roetter, Sonia. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No DJ. 484 pages with 136 figures. Some wear along the tips, and bumps at base of the spine. Minor discoloration to covers. Binding is tight. Previous owner's and department stamp on first blank page (free endpaper)

Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in dark maroon cloth with spine lettered in gilt in excellent condition with only minor soiling of boards, clean text throughout. ix+ 277 pp. In near fine dust jacket with minor wear at the extremities.The essays collected in this companion volume to "The Letters of E.B. White" were selected by White himself. E.B. White was an award winning essayist, critic, and storyteller whose work often appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly and others. He is best remembered for the three children's books he authored: Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of The Swan.

The Franklin Library, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Franklin Library. Crisp and clean, and feels unread. Book issued in dark brown cloth with gold trim. Gilt to all of the page ends. Decorated endpapers. No dust jacket, as issued. Gorgeous condition.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Large, sturdy book, black spine, light blue boards, silver lettering bright on spine, 332 pages. DJ glossy front and back, white spine. DJ and book, both Fine. Tight and feels unread.

London: The Folio Society, 2009. Special Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Folio Edition. Hardcover with fine blue cloth covers decorated in silver and orange gilt. Silver slipcase with the contoured front edges. Feels new and unread--clean throughout and crisp opening. Boards and slipcase are immaculate with no bumps or scuffs. Illustrated with a few photographs.

London: Folio Society, 2002. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Many color and black and white photos. Scarce in the U.S. Fine condition in fine slipcase; both seem as new and unread. Bright gilt ornaments on front and back boards; bright gilt lettering and borders on spine; Black and white illustrations on slipcase.

Little Brown & Co, 1978. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Trade Edition with the "T10/78" code on the copyright page; A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket, with only slight rubbing to the board and jacket edges. Dust jacket price-clipped. SIGNED by the author to a tipped-in page for friends of the author and publisher. An exceptional copy of this sequel to "The Winds of War". Housed in a mildly bumped slipcase. Not remaindered, not ex-library. Signed by Author(s).