Search Results: Authors starting with W from Alba's Books

Chicago: D.W. Moody, 1926. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo. Foldout map. Author was known in early Western life as Dan Moody, The Indian Scout. IIncludes ads at the rear seeking agents to sell Moody's Rattler (""Just out, rings like a bell, Baby absolutely refuses to part with it"") and Moody's New Racer ((""perfected by Mr. D.W. Moody after more than five years almost night and day study and the expenditure of his fortune""). Includes foldout map of the Battle of Red Mountain. Original brown wrappers with Native American in headdress. A clean, bright, unmarked copy. Extremely scarce.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Cyrus Cuneo. Out of print and scarce. In this third book of the A.J. Raffles series, we continue to join gentleman thief Raffles and his sidekick Bunny on their burglaries, the characters based partly on the author's friends, Oscar Wilde and his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, and partly on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Essays celebrating the centennial of The Soul of Black Folks. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked. Out of print.

London: The Technical Predd Ltd, 1942. Third Edition Revised and Enlarged. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo. Diagrams. The third revised and enlarged edition of this famous manual embodying the results of over forty years' practical horological experience--a wealth of practical information of incalculable value to watch and clock repairers and makers. Noted watchmaker John V. Sunkel's copy with his signature and no other markings. A clean, bright, tight copy.

Sydney, Australia: New Century Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Duodecimo. A clean, unmarked copy in alike jacket with a couple of edge nicks protected by the Mylar cover.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Feliks Topolski dj art. "The most penetrating portrait of Churchill, and the most vividly life-like portrait, that anyone has yet produced"" - B.H. Liddell-Hart. Book is fine and unmarked. Except for price-clipping, the jacket is also fine and protected by an archival Mylar plastic cover.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Photographs. Stated first edition. A comprehensive, engagingly written historical and analytical study of cells, with partial focus on heredity, by a noted professor of physiology at the University of Chicago. A fine, unmarked copy in a very good dust jacket with a few edge nicks. Extremely scarce.

Henry Holt, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Robert Gibbings.

Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Fine/Near fine. A centenary history, well illustrated and documented. Illustrated with photographs. Binding is cloth boards.

Boston: Quinlan Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Photographs. Single date on copyright page. Groundbreaking memoir of a Black frogman in the U.S. Navy who later became a police officer in San Diego. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is near fine save for a 1/2"" v chip to the top edge of the front panel. Protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover. Uncommon.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Plate Illustrations. A superb copy.

Russell Brothers, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 1/4"" chip at spine crown; tables tipped onto endpaper; P/O name on title page; else near very good, tight and clean. Extremely scarce.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photographs. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy with two very small nicks at the spine corners of the jacket. protected by a Brodart plastic jacket cover.

Simon & Schuster, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Photographs. Probably the definitive history of the Klan, with an extensive bibliography. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Mylar jacket cover.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943. Third Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Small lower corner chip to dj, which is price clipped, but otherwise whole and attractive, and protected by a Mylar dj cover. Scarce in dj.

The Naylor Company, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Full-page Illustrations. Chip does not affect title. Still a presentable copy in a Mylar archival jacket cover. Large chip on bottom of dj.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Howard Simon. Stated first edition. Introduction by Mina Lewiton for this edition. A fine, unmarked and unclipped copy in an archival Mylar jacket cover.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Out of print. Binding is qtr. leather.

Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. In a Mylar jacket. Out of print.

Chicago: T.M. Meldrum, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Claron S. Wagar Photo Plates. Original blue gilt cloth with over 100 photo plates on quality heavy paper protected by tissue interleavings. Covers rubbed, especially at edges; spine edges worn; front hinge starting. Text block is fine and clean. Still an attractive copy in bright gilt, deserving of bindery restoration.