Search Results: Authors starting with W from James Arsenault & Company

[ca. 1880s]. Albumen print cabinet card, 5.25" x 3.75" on 6.5 x 4" white mount, photographer's stamp in lower right coner of image, a.e.g., ink title on mount. CONDITION: Very good, strong tonality. A cabinet card of German composer Richard Wagner, looking to his left and wearing a cravatte. Franz Luckhardt, an Austrian photographer, specialized in portraits of famous people, particularly artists. Three of his cabinet card portraits-of composer Franz Lizst, pianist Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein, and cellist Jacques Offenbach-are held at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1948. Hardcover. 12mo (7.5" x 5.25"), black cloth. [3], 191 pp. First edition. Stated printing of 3000 copies, although known to be 3068.CONDITION: Good, upper fore-corner bumped, creases to half-title and title page; dust jacket very good, minor rubbing, a few light stains.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Warren Photo, 1872. 2 vols. Folio, half brown leather with brown cloth over boards, beveled edges, raised bands, gilt rules and volume numbers at spine, "Peter Hulme Harvard '72" stamped in gold on upper cover of each volume. Vol. 1: 3 pp. index (partially printed and partially manuscript), 124 photos on 124 leaves; Vol. 2: 2 pp. index (partially printed and partially manuscript), 81 photos on 81 leaves. All photos albumen prints, image sizes ranging from approx. 4.5" x 3.5" (the portraits) to 5.75" x 7.75" (outdoor scenes). All subjects are identified in the index pages. A marvelous two-volume Harvard University class album comprising 205 original photographs, picturing the administration, faculty, students, and campus scenes, including images of a number of notable figures.Vol. 1 features photographs of 124 members of the class; Vol. II comprises photographs of the administration, including the president, the ex-president, the chaplain, and the dean, as well as faculty.… Read More

Hartford: Published under the Authority of The General Assembly, By Hudson & Goodwin, 1812 [or 1813]. Engraved By Abner Reed, E. Windsor. Hand-colored engraving, 36.5" x 44.25" plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into original 8vo covers, half red leather and marbled paper boards, gilt title "Connecticut" and gilt rules at spine. CONDITION: Good, spotting mainly in the lower left quadrant, which seems to be endemic to case map examples, as evident in copies at Harvard and the Library of Congress, which can be viewed online. The first state of this scarce, important, and very fine map of Connecticut, offered here in desirable case map form, with beautiful original color. This large and impressive map depicts the entire state of Connecticut, as well as narrow portions of adjacent states, the whole of Long Island Sound, and part of Long Island. A circular cartouche incorporating the Connecticut coat-of-arms appears in the lower right corner along with a fine calligraphic dedication to… Read More

London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1970. Hardcover. 8vo, teal cloth with title, author, and publisher gilt-stamped at spine. 155 pp., numerous b&w illus. CONDITION: Very good in good dust jacket.

Elizabeth-Town: Printed and Sold by Shepard Kollock, 1796. Hardcover. 18mo (17 cm), brown calf. Vii, 240 pp, [3] pp. Early inscribed bookplate inside lower cover, early notations in ink on two sides of back flyleaf, owner signature on verso of upper cover. Stated first American edition. A volume of reflections by Isaac Watts, a British theologian best known for the writing of popular hymns such as "Joy to the World" and Come Ye that Love the Lord." It is said that Emily Dickinson adopted her meter style from Watts' hymns, which were sung in her Amherst church. Affixed to the rear paste-down is a hand-made decorative bookplate reading "Alanson Rittenhouse this book Presented to him by his Friend the Rev.nt James McLaughlin. December 6, 1809" A note on the endpaper opposite reads "Bought at the Vendue After the death of Alanson and Mary Rittenhouse December 5th, 1844 by John T. Risler, price 20 cents." Inside the back flyleaf reads: Found in Shanty Shop, Trenton, N. J. Oct 19, 1948. Price 20 c.! J. R.… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall LTD., 1932. Hardcover in unclipped dj. Sm 8vo (7.75" x 5.25"), patterned red and black cloth. Frontis. map, vii, [2], 10-303 pp. CONDITION: Very good, light spotting to fore-edge and lower edge of text block, touch of foxing to a few leaves; very good dj with light wear to head and foot of spine panel, lightly toned spine panel. An attractive example. First edition of Waugh's third novel, "First published .. October, 1932.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991. Hardcover with dj. 4to (11.25" x 8.5"), green cloth. xix, 281 pp. b&w illus. throughout. Inscribed by author on ffep. CONDITION: Near fine/near fine. First edition. Inscribed by Webb, "From one old New York lover to another old New York lover, Todd Webb 1/22/92." From the library of poet Richard Aldrich.

Pasadena, California: Twelvetrees Press, 1984. Hardcover in black cloth slipcase with illus. on front panel. 4to (13" x 11.25"), white linen. [6], 95 pp., [5], numerous full-page, gravure plates on uncoated stock, laid-in artist statement and holiday card from the Webbs. Author inscription at title reading, " Best Wishes to Jo and Dick. Todd Webb." CONDITION: Very good, light foxing to edges of covers, clean throughout; near-fine case with faint spots and rubbing. First edition, inscribed by author and photographer Todd Webb to poet Richard Aldridge and his wife Jo of Phippsburg, Maine. One of five thousand copies.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. Hardcover. 4to, tan cloth. [212] pp., b&w illus. Spine faded with some loss of lettering, somewhat soiled.

Central City, Colo.: Chas. Weitfle, ca. 1880. Stereoview on gray mount. Series description etc. printed on verso. Stereoview of curving train-track beds and creeks through the Colorado Mountains. CONDITION: Good +, light wear.

London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1799. 4to, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt in compartments with green morocco gilt label. xxiv, 464 pp., plus sixteen maps and plates (one map folding and hand-colored), including frontispiece. Weld, an Irishman, arrived in Philadelphia in late 1795 at the age of nineteen. His observations during two years of travels through eastern North America and Canada, told through a series of letters, comprise one of the most popular narratives of the day. Story wrote that "his account of Canada (letters 21-25) is a clear and sustained description of an area and a way of life that pleased him more than had the United States." Weld made one trip south as far as Virginia, as well as crossing Pennsylvania and New York. He said that he left the United States "without a sigh, and without entertaining the slightest wish to revisit it." The engraved plates are after sketches by the author. The map, with its borders and those of the states colored by hand, shows the east coast… Read More

Pittsburgh: United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1864. 16mo (6.875" x 4.5"), printed beige wrappers. vii, 13-154 pp. CONDITION: Very good, dampstains to wrappers and light wear to extremities. A revised edition of this work by an important abolitionist whose writings were a source of information and inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe. Originally published in 1837 in The Anti-Slavery Examiner, this Biblical argument against slavery underwent several editions. Weld's introduction recounts how, "When first published, many copies were sent through the post-office into the Slave States Most of these were publicly burned at their places of delivery," but one copy, which "fell into the hands of Rev. Wm. H. Brisbane, a slaveholding Baptist clergyman and editor in that city" found that, in writing a refutation of Weld's arguments, "the faith he scouted had become his own. He left his native state, made his slaves free, settled them in Ohio, and pulished an able work, vindicating the Bible from… Read More

Poughkeepsie, New York: The Artists and Writers Guild, Authorized American Edition, 1935. Paperback. 4to ( 29 cm x 23.5 cm), pictorial color wrappers. 26 pp., numerous color illus. A charming 1935 reproduction of an original H. G. Wells illustrated manuscript, written when he was a boy, with printed text below. Appearing on the verso of the title page is a printed author inscription to Miss Marjory Hicks, and an excerpt of an 1898 letter from Henry Hicks explaining the origins of the story. CONDITION: Very good, light wear, wrappers toned, spine rubbed, interior clean and very appealing.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1857. Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 6.5"), blind-stamped brown cloth. xxiv, 588 pp., numerous b&w illus. with one fold-out map and one full-page map. Bookplate of Edward Stanton Fickes on front pastedown. CONDITION: Good, ex-library, spine rubbed, head and foot of spine chipped, 1.5" tear at rear cover near spine-edge, library ink stamp on ffep and a later front endpaper, circulation card pocket pasted to rear endpaper. An account of an early American voyage to Honduras in search of gold and other valuable metals.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Hardcover in original glassine. Sm 8vo (7.5" x 5"), decorative red paper over boards. 53 pp., laid-in 2" x 3.5" "Season's Greetings" card signed by Margaret McElderry. CONDITION: Good, sunned covers and spine, light wear at extremities, moderate foxing throughout; perished spine of dj repaired with tape. Stated first edition: "This first edition of Short Stories is limited to fifteen hundred copies, privately printed for the friends of the author and her publishers as a New Year's Greeting." The Season's Greeting card is from legendary editor and children's book publisher, Margaret McEldery, one of Welty's correspondents and the Children's Books Editor at Harcourt at the time of this publication. REFERENCES: Underdown 2009, at A Profile of Margaret McElderry; Record # 173 in the Mississippi Archives' Select correspondence collection of Eudora Welty.

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1938. Hardcover. 8vo (7.625" x 5.5"), blue cloth, stamped black titles, original color dj, publ. list printed inside dj. Pictorial endpapers, b&w frontis., 209 pp., [2] pp. publ. ads. First edition. A very nice copy in jacket of the third title in the Dot and Dash adventure series, by the author of the earliest Nancy Drew mysteries. CONDITION: Very good, dust jacket with small chips, tears, and creases at extremities, toning to inner hinges, clean and fresh covers and text.

New York: D. Appleton And Company, 1912. Hardcover Sm 8vo (7.75" x 5.25"), gilt red cloth. 367 pp., 7 pp. of publisher's ads. CONDITION: Good, minor wear at extremities, spine sunned, light spotting on front and back cover, contents clean. First edition, first printing. With number 1 on last page.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1907. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (7.75" x 5"), gilt red cloth. Frontis. lithograph, 633 pp., 4 pp. of pub. ads. CONDITION: Good, spine sunned, covers worn, front inner hinge cracked. First edition,

New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc. 1946. Hardcover. 4to, pictorial cloth. 95 pp., numerous b&w and color illus. Adapted from Gilbert and Sullivan by Opal Wheeler, illustrated by Fritz Kredel. CONDITION: Good in fair dust jacket.