Search Results: Titles starting with W from Irving Book Company

London: Constable, 1968. Later Printing. Hardcover. Good. Text generally clean and bright. Hinges starting from bottom, binding otherwise sound. Jacket moderately soiled.. 12mo. 5.5 x 8 in. xxxi, 330, [1] pp. Original brown boards in pictorial dust jacket. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 1970 ownership signature in ink to front flyleaf, several notes in pencil to endpapers, and 'valued perhaps more for love of life | than for worth as a poet' inscribed on verso of dust jacket.

New York: Modern Library, 1939. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Good in good jacket. Spine cocked; lightly sunfaded at edges, with small dampstain just to lower corner of upper board. Jacket moderately worn & chipped. Text clean & bright.. 16mo. 4.375 x 6.75 in. xx, 285, [5] pp. Toledano Binding Style No. 7 in dark brown balloon cloth, titled & ornamented in gilt with Kent torchbearer device to upper cover & ML device to spine; endpaper maps; in 95-cent purple pictorial dust jacket.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1922. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good. Spine-faded, with some edge fading and chipping to joints; detached ribbon marker. Binding sturdy and tight, text clean and bright.. Warwick Goble. Medium 8vo. 6.25 x 8.5 in. Illustrated with 16 color plates (complete) by Warwick Goble. Bound in three-quarter green levant morocco over green cloth, with matching endpapers; titled in gilt on spine, all eges gilt.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1917. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Light rubbing to extremities. Binding square & sound, text clean & bright.. 16mo. 4.5 x 6.75 in. [vi], 410 pp. ML Binding Style 1, brown leatherette ('limp croft leather'), with gothic Boni & Liveright device in gilt on upper cover, gilt title to spine; with brown marbleized endpapers and catalogue of 18 titles (C2) preceding title page. A Modern Library edition from the very first year of publication (July 1917). No. 12 of Modern Library's list of 100 Best English-language Novels of the Twentieth Century. Crisp.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Light rubbing to extremities, especially at crown & foot of spine; traces of soiling to covers. Contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown, pleasant bookseller's ticket to front free endpaper. Binding sound, text otherwise unmarked & bright.. 16mo. 4.5 x 6.75 in. [vi], 410 pp. ML Binding Style 1, dark brown leatherette ('limp croft leather'), with gothic Boni & Liveright device in black on upper cover, black title to spine; with green & brown marbleized endpapers and catalogue of 50 titles (C4) preceding title page, indicating a spring 1918 publication date. This is an extremely rare & unrecorded binding variant: whereas Modern Library titles published in this first binding style are by design titled & ornamented in gilt, this binding is peculiarly stamped in black. A most welcome addition to any ML collection.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1939. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Spine toned, light edgewear, with lightly bumped fore-corners. Some light foxing to preliminary and end pages, text otherwise clean and bright.. 8vo. 6 x 8.75 in. [vi], 308 pp. Original cranberry cloth, titled in gilt. Inscribed by author CHARLES ALLEN LLOYD to North Carolinia historian, scholar, & newspaper man Darley Hiden Ramsey on front flyleaf in year of publication.

Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam, 1944. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Fine in very good, rubbed slipcase.. 8vo. 6 x 9 in. 1274, [2] pp. Full brown morocco, titled, ruled & ornamented in gilt, five raised bands; all edges gilt with marbled endpapers and red & black thumb-cuts. Presented in deluxe original matching marbled slipcase with felted interior. 'The Largest Abridgement of Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition.' Frontis. portait of NOAH WEBSTER. An uncommonly handsome, gift-worthy copy of this standard dictionary.

New York: Sheed and Ward, 1938. First American Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library, with usual markings restricted to endpapers. Binding square & tight, text otherwise clean & bright. Lacking dust jacket.. Crown 8vo. 5.125 x 7.5 in. x, 63, [1] pp. Original green cloth. Charming dedication by Martindale to the Most Rev. Richard Downey, Archbishop of Liverpool, preceding text. Approbations. Uncommon.

London: Sheed and Ward, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good indeed in like, price-clipped jacket. Previous ownership signature to front pastedown and flyleaf. Binding square and tight, text otherwise clean and bright.. Crown 8vo. 5 x 7.5 in. x, 63, [1 blank] pp. Original sky blue cloth, in cream dust jacket titled in green. Charming dedication by Martindale to the Most Rev. Richard Downey, Archbishop of Liverpool, preceding text. Approbations. A nice copy of the First Edition of this uncommon title.

New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Spine slightly cocked; some rubbing to fore-corners, a bit of soiling at spine. Binding tight, text unmarked. Lacking dust jacket.. 4to. 7.25 x 10.25 in. Unpaginated. Original yellow quarter-cloth over illustrated tartan paper. Fully illustrated with reproductions of black & white drawings by ROBERT LAWSON; endpapers illustrated in green. This is the First Trade Issue, inscribed by illustrator ROBERT LAWSON with drawing, and signed by author MUNRO LEAF, at half-title. Uncommon thus. Caldecott Honor Book.

Ditchling, Sussex: S. Dominic's Press, 1921. Paperback. Very good indeed. Some light toning along the spine. Very light spotting to inside covers. Binding secure, text otherwise clean and bright.. Pamphlet. 4.125 x 5.75 in. [ii], 13, [5] pp. Stout dark grey printed wrappers, sewn. An essay by ERIC GILL, illustrated by Gill with two wood engravings. Peacock device on cover and title page from an engraving by DESMOND CHUTE. Printed by Gill from Caslon O.F. on Batchelor handmade paper. A nice copy overall. 'Listen! In the Isles of Arran they give and are given in marriage. Yet their women are entirely covered by their shawls, and they have crucifixes instead of mirrors in their bedrooms.' GILL 7.

Charleston, West Virginia: Tribune Printing Company, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Good only. Binding shaken; covers mottled & moderately worn. Previous ownership signature to rear pastedown. Musty. Text otherwise unmarked.. 8vo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 1017 pp. Black quarter-cloth over grey boards. Illustrated with reproductions of black & white photographs, charts, etc. Scarce.

New York: A.S.P.C.A., 1942. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Lightly worn.. Pamphlet. Single sheet folded into 4 panels, printed on both sides. 3.5 x 6 in. War-time ASPCA dog brochure (‘Form 516'). Illustrated with 8 reproductions of black & white photographs + big sad dog by N.A. Gray. 'A WELL-MANNERED DOG is respected.'. A curious piece of dog history & americana. Scarce.

(Baltimore): (Johns Hopkins University Press), 1994. First Separate Edition. Paperback. Very good. Wrappers lightly edgeworn and lightly soiled. Binding secure.. Stapled wraps. 6 x 9 in. [28] pp. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; inscribed to Karl Maurer on front cover by author DANIEL TOMPKINS. Uncommon.

(New York): Harper Collins, 2000. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Good only. Moderately soiled, heavily worn. Somewhat marked up, in pencil and pen. Binding secure.. 7.25 x 9 in. xliv, 508, [2] pp. Original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with several markings, altoid wrapper.

(New York): Harper Collins, 2005. First Perennial Edition. Paperback. Very good. Very lightly browned at margins of textblock. Binding square and tight, text clean and bright.. Small 8vo. 5.25 x 8 in. 318, 16 pp. Publisher's pictorail wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. Early ML Printing. Hardcover. Light rubbing to edges of spine, else nearly fine. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright. Lacking dust jacket.. 16mo. 4.25 x 6.625 in. [vi], 342, [4] pp. ML Binding Style 2, brown 'limp croft leather' (leatherette), with gothic Boni & Liveright device in gilt on upper cover, gilt title to spine; Brodzky endpapers. North Carolinia historian, scholar, & newspaper man Darley Hiden Ramsey's copy, with his ownership signature to front flyleaf & half-title.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Moderate wear to extremities. Previous ownership signature to front flyleaf, text otherwise unmarked. Binding square and tight. Lacking rare dust jacket.. 16mo. 4.5 x 6.625 in. 342, [4 blank] pp. Toledano Binding Style No. 1 in original dark blue 'limp croft leather', gothic Boni & Liveright device in gilt to upper cover, titled in gilt on spine; with uncommon plain light blue endpapers. First Printing, with publisher's 66-title catalogue (C5) preceding title page. Andes 54.1.1B. Toledano 54.1.

London: Phoenix Press, 2001. First Phoenix Press Edition. Paperback. Very good indeed.. Demy 8vo. 256 pp. Original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.

Dallas: New London Press, 1979. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Fine.. Thin 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. 72 pp. Blue cloth; without dust jacket, as issued. A libretto from Edgar Allan Poe's story. Signed by John Gardner on front flyleaf; this Trade Issue, perhaps erroneously, includes colophon page (one of 250 copies), unnumbered & unsigned. Uncommon thus.