Search Results: Titles starting with W from Dark and Stormy Night Books

Texas: Texas Tech Press, 1944 628pp. In brown publisher's cloth covers with gold raised lettering and an outline of the State of Texas. Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel (1890 - 1969) was a Texas politician, radio-host and Governer of Texas. Condition: Covers lightly worn. Pages lightly age-toned.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1900 Hard cover, 8vo, in green cloth with vivid print cover illustration by the artist Ida Waugh in orange, olive and black ink, the titles in gold to front and spine. 211pp. First American edition. (Printed in England in 1906.) A tissue-guarded frontispiece black and white heliotype reproduction of Waugh's is accompanied by an additional four illustrations within the text. Condition: Very Good. Exterior is generally bright and shows minimal wear, notwithstanding an area of staining to the rear board about two inches long. The interior has a small tear at hinge of floral-printed endpaper where remains of a small former owner's label was not wholly removed. Otherwise clean and gently age toned. One small stain to fore edge of text block, not seen on the shelf.**The story concerns the misadventures of a twin brother and sister, sent from their New York home in order to give their mother a rest after delivering her fifth child. High-jinks ensue when the twins… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 1995 First Edition Thus. Hard cover in orig. slipcase, 8vo (6 1/8 x 9 3/8 inches), in decorated paper-covered boards, with orange cloth to spine; black printed labels in gilt; illustrated map endpapers;172 pp. Introduction by Owen Chadwick new with this edition. Sixteen black and white illustrations by book illustrator Alexy Pendle. Condition: Fine, in a Near Fine slipcase. The Warden of a Barsetshire almshouse is suspected of fiduciary irregularities in this classic of Victorian literature, first published in 1855. The first installment in Trollope's Basetshire Chronicles series, made into the 1982 BBC mini-series, "The Barchester Chronicles." . Hard Cover. Fine . Illus. by Alexy Pendle.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906 372pp + foldout map + 8pp ads. Reprint of 1912. Sales Agents listed for America, Australia, Canada and India. Printed by R. & R. Clark Ltd., Edinburgh. Contains 75 full page color illustrations, with labeled tissue guards. Publisher's original trade blue cloth binding with floral design in yellow and greens. Titles, standards and top edge are gilt. **CONDITION: Good. Both the covers and spine remains bright. There is a notable crease to front board, and a four inch vertical break to rear board, however. Some edgewear to corners and rubbing at head of spine. Front hinge damaged, and rear is less so. Otherwise, internally the colors remain bright and item is clean. Browning, as expected, to end papers and flies but no foxing apparent. Rear fly is chipped. Interior age toning is mild, and interior text is clean. Still, this maintains shelf appeal and readability despite any faults. **English Artist Frederick Whitehead R.B.A., (1853-1938) provides some… Read More

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928 145pp. Illustrated novel by Edith A. Sawyer about feudal Japan in the 1860s. Condition: Very Good or better in Very Good dust jacket, which has small mark to front and small piece missing from tail of spine. Now protected in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good-.

New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1913 Hard cover 8vo in attractive trade decorated binding printed with a landscape scene in cream and dark green upon a lighter green cloth. Titles in cream to front and spine, 388 pp. plus 7 page publisher's catalogue. Benziger Magazine order blank laid in. Condition: Very Good Plus or better, with slight sunning to spine, edges a bit dusty and mildly toned. Author Rev. Michael Earls (1875-1937) was a Massachusetts-born Jesuit priest who earned a literary masters degree from Georgetown University before entering the seminary. He wrote poetry, novels, short stories and a play in addition to teaching English at Holy Cross University in Worcester, who have his archival material. Not surprisingly, the novel is a somewhat heavily-messaged Catholic reflection on marriage and duty, but not without a good bit of drama and suspense. A young woman, Elenora Gomez, has been raising her younger siblings after the death of her parents, and she has been… Read More

Surrey, England: Wentworth Club, 1993 166pp. Condition: Book is about Fine, dustjacket has light wear at corners and a few marks/creases.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

London: H. Fisher, & P. Jackson, 1832 215 engraved black and white illustrations after paintings by Thomas Allom and George Pickering (complete). Hard cover, quarto (measuring 9 x 11 ¼ inches) in half calf over cloth covered boards, all edges gilt, with six raised compartments and gilt title to spine, marbled end papers, and 220pp. There are two title pages (one pictorial) ,215 engraved views.(There are 4 full-page views and 211 half-page views in total.) Thomas Allom (1804-1872), architect, artist and illustrator, was a founding member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and worked on the mid nineteenth century rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament with Sir Charles Barry. Condition: Good: Boards are scuffed at corners and edges, somewhat stained, and with a two-inch tear to the bottom hinge, re-glued. Within, there is water staining affecting the top of the illustrated title page and some few beyond. Moderate foxing mostly to margins of plates appearing in first quarter of volume. Some… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984 Hard cover with dust jacket, 192 pp. Another cracking good biblio-mystery from the British author who, in real life, is an esteemed dealer in antiquarian books. Mild-mannered librarian Henry Franklin is a specialist in Arabic manuscripts, whose detection services are required to crack the case of the theft of priceless ancient materials stolen from British museums and libraries. International adventure ensues. Condition: Very Good Plus, with a Very Good Plus dust jacket. Front board has a couple of small dents and one front corner is minimally bumped. The pages and edges of text block remain clean and bright, and the binding is tight. The dust jacket has small edge wear at upper front and lower left corners, some pinpoints of wear on front, and at head of spine.. First edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+.

North Salem, New York: The Adventure Library, 1994 Hard cover, 8vo., in half gray buckram over illustrated paper covered boards, the titles printed in gilt upon olive green labels to the spine, map end papers, xxiv, 397 pp. Condition. Very Good Plus, with some rubbing to the boards, one small discoloration on the rear board. Otherwise sound, firm and bright. This was one of Australian-born war correspondent and travel writer Alan Moorehead's (1910-1983) best known books about the history of African exploration, complete with many illustrations, photo reproductions and maps. The Victorian push to find the source of the White Nile began in 1856, and ended in 1888 with Richard Burton and John Speke's discovery of Lake Victoria. (The Blue Nile, another branch, was addressed in a separate title.) Part biography, part novel-like prose, Jeremy Bernstein who writes the Preface, recommends the author's ability to size up a place or person with a concise elegance. A classic read in exploration and discovery.… Read More

London / Toronto / Boston: John Lane, The Bodley Head / Copp Clark Co. / Lamson, Wolffe & Co., 1895 Hardcover, 12mo.,( measuring 5 x 7 ¾ inches) in reddish brown colored cloth with a black tomahawk design to front board, and the titles and publishers' firm "The Bodley Head" in gilt to the spine, 88 pp. Collation: [viii], 88, 16pp. publisher's advertisement "List of Books in Belle Lettres " Catalogue, dated 1895. Illustrator E.H. New. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., London and Edinburgh. The Catalogue is uncut. Condition: Very Good. One bump, and very minor wear to remaining corners, on remarkably still-bright boards. Eighth inch loss to head of spine makes a quarter-inch split to top joint; foot of spine has minor wear and a sixteenth inch split. Printed on laid paper, which is age toned, yet otherwise clean and free of markings.**Canadian Author, poet and performer Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) was the daughter of a chief of the Six Nations, with Mohawk ancestry, and an English… Read More

New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1977 219pp. Signature appears on half title page. Features the premier of Sleuth Amos McGuffin, who must solve the murder of a troubled friend in sunny Sausalito. Condition: Very Good, in a Good dustjacket. Some foxing to top and bottom of text block. Dust jacket with some small tears, plus two larger ones at head and foot of spine. D/j spine sunned. Some soiling to jacket. Otherwise interior is very clean and bright. . Signed by author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Boston, Mass./ Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin & Company/ Riverside Press, 1881 Electrotyped and Printed at H.O. Houghton & Company. Hard cover 12mo, (measuring 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches) in brown cloth with pictorial sprig of beach roses intertwined in gilt with title along front board and continuing to spine, 272 pp. Top edge gilt. The first nine poems in this collection are under the "Wild Roses of Cape Ann" heading; another 88 verses are included.**Author Lucy Larcom (1824-1893) was a Massachusetts-born poet and teacher who spent a decade working in the Lowell mills. She was a friend of John Greenleaf Whittier and his sister. Whittier was a mentor to Larcom, helping the Beverly, Mass. native break into the Boston literary scene, and providing ongoing editorial advice. Much of their correspondence has been preserved, and is a testament to a truly warm friendship based on mutual interests. The Poem "J.G.W., (dated 1877)" on page 176 is about Whittier. Condition Very Good with only very minor wear to… Read More

Columbia, South Carolina: Camden House, 1998 Hardcover. 8vo. 157pp. In publisher's black cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. Condition: Near Fine. Very light foxing to edge of textblock visible when book closed. From the series Masterworks of the German Enlightenment. ** Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (1733-1811) and Moritz August von Thümmel (1738-1817) were popular German authors, here with two of their best works, in modern translation by John R. Russell. ** "Wilhelmine", published in German as "Wilhelmine, oder der vermählte Pedant" in1764, is comic prose. "The Life and Opinions of Master Sebaldus Nothanker", pubished in German as "Das Leben und die Meinungen des Herrn Magister Sebaldus Nothanker" between 1773 and 1776, tells the fictional story of Sebaldus Nothanker, a minister, is a moralistic tale, but sheds light on the daily life of 18th century Germany. . First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Concord, Massachusetts: Sign of the Vine, 1903 [Four titles sold here as a set.] Hard cover, various sizes, in graduating color, paper-covered boards, various pages, 1903, First Edition. This was the complete output of famed American graphic designer Will H. Bradley designed at his home studio called The Sign of the Vine in Concord, Massachusetts and features all his own artwork and some hand-lettered typography process lithographed with zinc plates. Printed at the Heintzman Press, Boston. Colophon in each reads : "Arranged and Put into Type by Will Bradley, and Issued from The Sign of the Vine, Concord, Massachusetts." CONDITION of entire set, OVERALL: Very Good Plus, with specifics noted below. **First item, RABBI BEN EZRA, by Robert Browning, first published in 1864, 16mo, (4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), grey paper-covered boards, cream end papers, unpaginated ,[24pp.],unopened, untrimmed, rubricated title page with sprays of transitional art deco roses (which pay some tribute to Glasgow artist… Read More

Kittery Point, Maine: The Pepperrell Association, 1901 Paper wraps. Octavo. 14pp. Condition: Good. Covers soiled and split at spine but holding. ** Sir William Pepperrell (1696 - 1759) was a merchant and soldier in colonial Massachusetts, known for his leadership of the 1745 expedition that captured the French fortress of Louisbourg during King George's War. He was born in Kittery, Maine, where he remained a lifelong resident. OCLC 23683469.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good.

Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg, 1983 Reprint. Hard cover, 12mo., 276pp. In publisher's full brown leather-like binding with four raised bands to spine, maroon spine label lettered in gold, paint speckled textblock edges, cream colored paper stock, 276pp., Fourteenth Printing. ** A modern publication (a faux facsimile, if you will,) of old American recipes, drawn from publications such as "The Compleat Housewife, or Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion" (1742) as well as more modern contributors. Entries include "Williamsburg Beef Steak Pye", "Ham and Egg Pudding (A Spring Dish)", "Madison Cakes", "King's Arms Pecan Confections", and "King's Arms Green-gage Plum Ice Cream". Full-page illustrations included are: "The Kitchen of the Governor's Palace at Williamsburg", "The Market Square Tavern Kitchen", "The Blair Kitchen & Herb Garden", "A Moral & Physical Thermometer" and "The King's Arms". . Hard Cover. Fine.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927 Hard cover, 8vo, First Edition, 64pp.** Scarce long poem about Willie Lamberton, a farmer's son, and his relationships in his rural community. American Poet Elizabeth Manning. Condition: Very Good with slight wear to corners and head and tail of spine. Medium toning.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930 267pp. A novel by Pamela Hinkson (1900 - 1982), set in Brittany, France, and concerning an American man's arrival in the old-world society of French aristocracy. Condition: Very Good interior, but boards marked and lightly worn, with a couple of scratches.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1928 Hard cover, 8 vo., in publisher's green cloth with gilt "TH "monogram design to center front, and titles in gilt to spine, with unclipped dust jacket in tan with black print, 202 pp. In mylar protector. Printed R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. CONDITION: Very Good : Ffep has ghost from the original application of binding glue near the gutter. Very slight wear to head, tail of spine. Interior is clean, tight and gently age toned. Many pages unopened. D/J: Good, with sunning to spine, a loss at head of spine, split at front joint, and some damage to rear at top. This was the valedictory volume of poetry written by English poet Hardy, who died the same year. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.