Search Results: Authors starting with W from La Playa Books

Penguin USA, December 1986. Hardcover . Used. A square, tight and unmarked copy.Fine in fine slipcase.

University Press of America, January 1984. Hardcover . Used - fine/No Jacket. A square, tight and unmarked copy. No dust jacket.

Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1994. Hardcover . Used - very good. 9vo; 492pp. <b>Limited to 150 copies</b>. signed by the editor, Nunis. Except for a slight musty odor, book is 'as new', in a slightly soiled slipcase.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955. Hardcover . Used - fine. Lacking dust jacket. Exactly 4 pages with a single notation in the margin, pp. 147, 301, 389 and 433. Navy publisher’s cloth near fine with gold titles on spine very bright. Ownership names in ink on front pastedown and FFE, otherwise square, tight and clean.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1966. First Printing stated. Hardcover . Used - very good/Near very good. Square 8vo. Small 'Pelican Capitola' sticker on front pastedown. Otherwise, a square, tight, and unmarked copy. Light foxing to board extremities. $3.25 price unclipped, yet bottom of flap is clipped, dj with light foxing at extremities, and a 1/2' chip missing from head of spine. Dj now protected in removable mylar.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1884. Hardcover . Used - very good. Full leather stab binding with corded thread with 4 of 7 spine threads broken, binding threads intact. AEG with trivial rubbing. Mild fading to front panel leather with titles in gilt still bright. Tasteful bookplate of Lionel Utley Ridout on front pastedown.

San Diego: San Diego Aerospace Museum, 1989. Softcover . Used - near fine. 4to; 33pp. Superficial wear to covers and a slight 1' vertical fade band to front cover at fold. Basically looks nearly 'as new'.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1953. First. Hardcover . Used - very good/Near very good. sm 8vo; 241pp. Very slight spine lean. Top edge of textblock dust stained. In unclipped (no price) dj which is moderately rubbed and with light wear to extremities. The colorful dj remains bright (spine with just a bit of fade), and is now protected in a removable mylar cover.

Simon & Schuster, January 2011. First. Hardcover . Used - fine/Fine. First Edition. Author's first book. Signed by author on title page. A square, tight and unmarked copy. No remainder mark. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.

Durham: Pig Press, 1981. Softcover . Used - fine. 12mo. A square, clean, tight copy with a few tiny, what we believe to be paper pigment marks on covers.

Berkley Books, 1990. First. Hardcover . Used - fine/Fine. First Edition. 8 authors have signed their contributions, including: Linda Grant, Faye Kellerman, Karen Kijewski, Janet LaPierce, Meg O'Brien, Gillian Roberts, Sarah Shankman, Marilyn Wallace (who has also signed the title page). No ISBN, so appears to be a book club edition. A square, tight and unmarked copy. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.

Berkley Press, 1991. First. Hardcover . Used - fine/Fine. First Edition. The following 11 authors have signed their contributions: Marilyn Wallace, Nancy Pickard, Sarah Shankman, Maxine O'Callagan, Marcia Muller, Margaret Maron, Melodie Johnson Howe, Wendy Hornsby, Mary Bowen Hall, Linda Grant, and Janet Dawson. Marilyn Wallace (editor, and forewrod contributor) has additionally signed the title page. No ISBN, so appears to be a bookclub edition. A square, tight and unmarked copy. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.

Chicago: Belford-Clarke Co., 1890. Hardcover . Used - very good. Large 12mo., owner name, first blank, square, tight and clean copy, extremities and rear cover rubbed, front cover beautifully decorated in gilt, spine faded slightly.

Viking, April 2018. First. Hardcover . Used - fine/Fine. First Edition. Signed by author on title page. A square, tight and unmarked copy. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1924. Hardcover . Used - near very good. 8vo; 304pp. Limited to 250 large paper copies, signed. Two bookplates (front pastedown and ffe, respectively) of Edward Laurence Doheny (with '175A' handwritten at bottom) and Carrie Estelle Doheny, and Robinson's (LA Dept store) sticker on rear pastedown, with the price of $12.50. A square, tight and unmarked copy (except previously mentioned bookplates, store sticker). Light rubbing to cloth spine and paper covered boards, with some board exposure. Covers and spine age toned, spine label also affected, and although lettering is dulled, it is still legible.

New York University Press, 1969. First. Hardcover . Used - near fine/Near fine. lg 8vo; 365pp. First Edition thus. Very faint foxing to textblock edges, in unclipped ($12.50) dj with some age-toning, otherwise 'Fine'. DJ now protected in a removable mylar cover.

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1949. Hardcover . Used - near fine/Near very good. 8vo; 376 [L]pp. Bookplate of Californiana collector, John Patrick Ford, ffe. n price-clipped dj with tiny chips to extremities, the dj now protected in a removable mylar cover.

Univ of New Mexico Pr, November 1993. First. Hardcover . Used - fine/Fine. First Edition. Inscribed by author on half title and signed by author on title page. A square, tight and unmarked copy. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1907. Hardcover . Used - very good. Appears to have been recased, with well-matched new endpages and retaining spine. Front cover bright, TEG.

Pan MacMillan, June 2004. First. Hardcover . Used - fine/Fine. First Edition. Signed by author on title page. A square, tight and unmarked copy. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.