Search Results: Authors starting with W from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

New York: Delacorte Press, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Good/good. Shulevitz, Uri. 92p. 1st printing. Back bottom cover corner cloth worn to cardboard, jacket front flap clipped on bottom edge, large chips on top back edges with corners worn and edges scraped. A Seymour Lawrence Book. Color illustrations. (10-1/4"x7-1/8")

St. Louis: The Queen's Work, 1954. Stapled wraps. Very good. 24p. 8th printing (1963) Wrap corners lightly worn. Pamphlet warning of the hazards of dating. Scarce, 3 copies located in institutions (1/20) (6"3-3/8")

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968. (1st Edition). Cloth. Good/very good. Carle, Erle. Unpaginated (approx. 31p.) 1st printing. Cover cloth faded and spotted front, back, and edges, jacket has a few scrapes. Color illustrations by Erle Carle. (8-1/4"x8-1/4")

Madeira Park, BC; Kobe Japan: Harbour Publishing; Su Press, 1992. (1st Edition). Hardcover. Very good/very good. 168p. The Powell Street Festival is a free 2-day event centered around the Powell Street area of Vancouver's historic Japanese Canadian neighborhood held since 1977. Here, Wakayama creates "an intimate photodocumentary, weaving together his extraordinary photographs from fifteen years of the Festival" with oral histories of Japanese Canadians. [From the front jacket flap] Includes glossary. B&w photographs. (12-1/4"x9-1/4")

New York: Lancer Books, 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 141p. Cover corners scraped, no creases on spine.

Death Valley, California: Death Valley 49ers, 1962. Stapled wraps. Very good. 43p. 2nd printing (1972) Scrapes on front. B&w map. Recounts Manly's pioneer journey to California in 1949, with focus on the travel to Death Valley and Manly's rescue of his traveling party. (8-1/2"x5-1/2")

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. New Edition. Cloth. Good. [xii], 324p. Foldout plates at 84 and 245, last page and page edges foxed, spine has a hole that has penetrated through to last half of pages at gutter, cover corners worn. Memoirs of the 19th century Irish pianist and composer. (7-1/2"x5")

New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1990. Softcover. Very good. 26p. Cover corners lightly worn. Includes selected bibliography and a list of selected exhibitions. Color plates. (9"x11-1/2")

New York: John Day Co., 1958. (First Edition). Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Hodges, C. Walter. 188p. Cover edges lightly rubbed, price clipped jacket is rubbed with spine sunned and small closed tears to edges. B&w illustrations by C. Walter Hodges. (8-1/4"x5-5/8")

London: B.T. Batsford, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good +. 120p. Jacket has 1-1/2" tear on front bottom edge at spine and smaller tear on top back edge. Contemporary photographs and illustrations of ordinary people and royalty showing how they dressed for special and other social occasions at the turn of the 20th century. Includes further reading. B&w photographs. (7-1/2"x10-1/4")

Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., 1941. (1st Edition). Cloth. Very Good. 253p. Signed by author and illustrator on title page. Cover corners bumped. B&w illustrations by Warren A. Ruby. (9"x6-1/8")

Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Press, 1986. Trade Paperback. Good+. 171p. Cover edges worn with crease on front bottom corner, former owner's name and phone number on half title page. (8-5/8"x5-3/8")

New York: Southern Music Publishing, 1942. Wraps. Good +. 5p. Corners creased with small tears along fold. Sheet music for the song from Der Fuehrer's Face, originally titled A Nightmare in Nutziland or Donald Duck in Nutzi Land, an "animated anti-Nazi propaganda short film produced by Walt Disney Productions." Spike Jones and His City Slickers released a version of the song before the film's release, which Dr. Demento popularized on his radio broadcast in the late 20th century. The film won the 1942 Academy Award in the Animated Short Film category. (12"x9")

New York: Dell Publishing, 1928. Mass market paperback. Fair. 238p., 2 pages of Dell mystery titles. Name on front, cover very creased with tears along spine folds. Dell Mapback no. 49. Cover illustration by Gerald Gregg.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. Cloth. Good +/good. 245p. Name and date on front endpaper, blind stamp on title page, endpapers toned, page edges spotted, jacket foxed with chips to corners and holes on back flap fold. Third novel by the Jewish American author published posthumously after his untimely death at 36. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. (8-1/4"x5-3/4")

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. Good +/good. 184p. Name and date on front endpaper, blind stamp on title page, spots on top page and cover edges, endpapers toned, jacket foxed with corners worn and chipped with 2" creased tear at top front corner repaired on inside with tape. Fourth novel by the Jewish American author published posthumously after his untimely death at 36. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. (8-1/4"x5-3/4")

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961. Cloth. Good +/good. 279p. Name and date on front endpaper, blind stamp on title page, endpapers toned, bottom front cover corner bumped, jacket foxed and corners worn with holes on back flap fold. Basis for the film about a Holocaust survivor who operates a pawnshop in East Harlem, New York, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Brock Peters. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. (8-1/4"x5-3/4")

Girard, Kansas: Appeal Publishing Co., [1920]. Stapled wraps. Very good. 57p.; 7p. of publisher's titles. A bit of pencil marginalia, wraps and page edges toned. [Gibbs; 124a - noted variant with "Forword" corrected] (5"x3-1/2")

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, [1927]. Stapled wraps. Good +. 64p. Pages toned, ink stamp on front, spine fold torn, cream wrap edges sunned. [Gibbs; 810b] (5"x3-1/2")

New York: Macmillan Co., 1915. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 130p. Cover spine faded, corners bumped, gilt on front cover rubbed, looks as if a book plate on front pastedown was neatly removed with paper glued over removal. (7-5/8"x5-1/8")