Search Results: Authors starting with W from Bygone Books

Madison, NJ, U.S.A.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1974. Hardcover. VG+/VG. 2nd printing. 234p. black cloth. Condiotion is VERY GOOD+ / VERY GOOD jacket: faint spotting to top page edge; jacket has sl. edgewear; price-clipped (in mylar). A study of Madame de Merteuil, Jane Eyre, Emma Bovary, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Tony Buddenbrook.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG. Edward Gorey.. 1st edition (stated), nearly square octavo, pictorial cloth, unpaginated, color illustrations throughout, Library reinforced binding (not an ex-library book!). Condition: VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD jacket: slightly cocked, faint spotting to top page edge, otherwise clean and tight with no markings; jacket has slight wear to spine extremities, rubbing to spine head, price-clipped, very faint soiling, "Holt Library Edition" sticker. A nice copy of this Wahl / Gorey classic.

Frederick Warne, 1992. Soft cover. As New. The Original Peter Rabbit Calendar 1993. "The World of Peter Rabbit" celebrating 100 years of Peter Rabbit, from the original and authorized stories by Beatrix Potter. F. Warne & Co. 1992. 11x12" - brand new in original plastic wraps, unopened. "Each month tells the tale in pictures of one of the first 12 Peter Rabbit stories. And as an added bonus there is a set of 40 character stickers to highlight important dates." Condition is NEW with very slight wear to the plastic wraps.

Rutland, VT: Academy Books, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition, 4to, red cloth with gilt titles, 210 pages, b/w photographs throughout, pull-out map, index. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: very faint spotting to page edges, owner name on fep; slight discoloring to jacket at top edge, old price sticker on rear panel. Nice copy of this uncommon book. Stone structures and other cultural relics have been found in the Green Mountains of Vermont as well as precise alignments with ancient astronomical events such as summer and winter solstices... who built them??

St. Albans, U.K.: H.A. Richardson Ltd., 1954. Soft cover. NF. Reprint of 1954 (originally published in 1946). 12mo, illustrated stapled wraps, [48] pages, b/w illustrations, photographs. Condition is VERY GOOD+ : a few owner notations on last page, otherwise like new.

New York: Rizzoli, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hugh Palmer. 1st ed. 4to, green boards, 224 pages, bibliography, index, 177 illustrations (77 in color) and special photography by Hugh Palmer. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: nearly new, slight rubbing mark to spine gutter and along top edge; jacket has slight wear along top edge. A lovely copy of this lovely book, filled with images of how the gentry lived, dressed and were entertained in their houses in the country and Town during the Georgian and Regency Periods - the wallpaper, the furniture, the workings of the kitchen - and all with informative extracts from Austen's letters and novels.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1996. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Hugh Palmer, photographs. Small 4to, stiff wraps, 224 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b/w, a Directory of Georgian Designs, bibliography, index. Condition: VERY GOOD with very light edgewear. Previously published as "Jane Austen's Town and Country Style," this is the 1996 edition with corrections. Expounds on the visual style of Jane Austen's era - the furniture, fabrics, and interior design to include wallpaper, china, glass. A must-have for the Jane Austen reader!

NY: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company [ n.d. ]. First Edition . Soft cover. Collectible; VG. Emma Clark.. 1st printing, no date, (a) 311 L.W. on rear cover. 12mo, unpaged stapled pamphlet wraps, three-tone color illustrations. Condition: VERY GOOD with light edgewear, crease at top corner rear cover, pencilled owner name in "This Book belongs to..." Lovely and fun illustrations of some of our favorite nursery rhymes.

Boston: D.C. Heath, 1899., 1899. Soft cover. VG-. 45p. wrappers; 6 1/2", deckled edges, linen paper. VERY GOOD - with chipping around edges of paper wrappers, browning to eps; interior pages clean and tight.

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st edition [no additional printings noted], 8vo, gray cloth, 585 pages, chronological table, bibliographical note, index. Condition: VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: light rubbing to book edges, faint spotting to pages edges; jacket has light edgewear, one small chip to rear panel. Derived from the newspapers in the Burney Collection of the British Museum, this book offers a view of the world of 1792-93 through the eyes of a contemporary reader of the London daily papers.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1893. Hardcover. VG-. 13th edition, blue decorative cloth, top edge gilt, 237 pp, b/w illustrations, ribbon bookmark. Condition: VERY GOOD- / no jacket: light edgewear; owner bookplate; front hinge slightly loose. Wharton covers such topics as: the Meschianza, New York balls and receptions, the American Philosophical Scoiety, the Wistar parties, old love letters, and Philadelphia dancing assemblies. See also Wharton's companion volume "Colonial Days and Dames.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott,, 1898. Hardcover. G+. E. S. Holloway.. 9th edition (1898, first published in 1895). 12mo, blue decorative cloth, top edge gilt, 248 pp, b/w illustrations, frontispiece photograph of Gunston Hall, VA. Condition: GOOD+ : a mildly cocked spine, small tear to spine head gutter, brownish stain to front board, some scattered soiling to rear board and spine, internally clean throughout. Wharton covers topics on colonial days in America: women in the early settlement, early poetesses, colonial dames, old landmarks, weddings and merry-makings, and legend and romance. See also Wharton's companion volume "Through Colonial Doorways.

New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+. 1st edition. 12mo, Greenish/gray cloth with gilt lettering, 205 pages with publisher ads; frontispiece of Whitman house in Camden NJ. The Fiction, Fact and Fantasy Series, edited by Arthur Stedman. VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: slight rubbing to spine extremities.

New York: Random House, 1929. Limited . Hardcover. Collectible; VG. Limited edition of 700 copies printed by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston. 12mo, blue decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt, 248p, introduction by Emory Holloway. Condition is VERY GOOD / no jacket: some sunning to the boards at edges and spine, spine head and tail are chipped, some pages are unopened. A nice copy of this "temperance" novel by Whitman, originally published in 1842.

York: Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, 1795. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. .Interspersed with Anecdotes Respecting Most of the Performers in the Three Kingdoms, from 1765 to 1795." Volume 4 only, with front board detached. 1st edition, 16mo, ¾ leather and marbled boards (bound by H. Wood), marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 267 pages. Condition is GOOD: front board is detached but present, spine has a few pieces missing (see photos), but text block is tight, rear board tight, pages are strikingly clean with a few faint scattered spots to first 5 pages. A shame about the board and only being volume 4 - it's a lovely book! Tate Wilkinson (1739-1803) was the theater manager in the Yorkshire Circuit during the careers of some of British theater's most famous actresses, Dorothea Jordan and Mrs. Siddons (and other Kembles) to name just two. He left us this 4 volume compilation of theater history and anecdotes as well as 4 volumes of his Memoirs.

Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 1975. Soft cover. G. Reprint edition (originally published in 1946) 8vo, wraps, 89 pages, Welsh on verso - English on recto, b/w illustrations, map. Condition is GOOD: a poorly bound book so many of the pages are detached from the binding (all pages are present and in fine condition with no markings), covers have very slight wear, owner inscription inside front cover. A great reading reference copy... An analysis of the contribution of Wales to the growth and development of the United States (for instance, did you know that Yale University was named after a Welshman, Elihu Yale??)

NY: Macmillian, 1896. Hardcover. G. 323p. gilt decorated; gray boards. Condition is GOOD / no jacket: edgewear; stains to back cover; water stained on top 1/2 of pages thruout book; (sl. ripped) but does not affect reading or enjoying the book; owner name.

NY: Macmillan, 1905. Hardcover. G+. Later printing [this new edition first published in 1892 by Macmillan]. 24mo, green cloth with gilt titles, top edge gilt, 274 pages, [4] pp publisher ads. Condition is GOOD+: a few tiny tears to spine head and tail, front free endpaper has been removed, half-title has 1/2 inch tear at hinge, a faint browning to pages at edges, owner name on fep.

NY: Wendy Lamb / Random House, 2006. Hardcover. NF/NF. 3rd printing, 8vo, burgundy boards, 232 pp. NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: book has a "Vermont Reads 2007" sticker on the front endpaper; jacket has sticker on front panel, otherwise appears unread. A fictional account based on the 1910 photograph of a young Vermont mill worker by Lewis Hine. The book was chosen for the Vermont Humanities Council Vermont Reads program in 2007.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 0-394-54418-8. 1st edition [stated], 8vo, gray boards, 638 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: faint spotting to top page edge, jacket is price-clipped.