Search Results: Authors starting with W from InkQ Rare Books LLC

Fine. JBS-324. Dan Waldorf, et al. Doing Coke: An Ethnography of Cocaine Users and Sellers. Washington, DC: The Drug Abuse Council. 1977. Octavo. 76pp. Orange and white wrappers with white lettering to cover, saddle stapled.  .

Slight sunning to board edges; jacket lightly toned and chipped. Very good. KWH-493. Alice Walker. The Third Life of Grange Copeland. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1970. First edition. Inscribed by Alice Walker to half-title: "for Joe, / Whose questions / have meaning. / Best wishes, / Alice Walker."  Octavo. 247pp. Publisher's red cloth over grey hardcover paper boards, stamped in silver to spine, original unclipped dust jacket with cover art by Hal Siegel and listing a retail price of $5.95. .

Minor shelfwear; light toning; jacket creased and torn, with slight loss at spine and front cover panel. A very good copy in a good jacket. SJK-37. Lew Wallace. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1925]. Photoplay edition. Octavo. 491pp + 7pp ads. Illustrated with b/w photo stills from the 1925 MGM film. Publisher's red cloth, stamped in black to spine and front cover, Harper's imprint to spine tail, housed as issued in original illustrated Grosset and Dunlap jacket. .

Spines slightly leaning, extremities gently rubbed, bumped, and edgeworn; hinges lightly cracked; minor uniform toning throughout; ink ownership signature to first blank of volume two. About very good. LMM-181. Alfred Russel Wallace. Studies Scientific & Social (Vols. I & II). London: Macmillan and Co., 1900. First edition. Two small octavo volumes. 532; 535pp (indexed to each volume). Illustrated with numerous woodcuts and b/w photos, folding map to volume one. Errata slips. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt to spines and front covers. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Light wear to boards, slightly sunned to upper board edges, offsetting to endleaves. Very good. HFP-140A. [Maurin Binding] Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton. Boyd Hanna, illustrator. The Compleat Angler: or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, with the Second part by Charles Cotton. Mount Vernon, VA: The Peter Piper Press, [1947]. Illustrated edition.  Octavo. 219pp. Illustrated by Boyd Hanna. Handsomely rebound in green half-morocco over cloth boards by Maurin. Stamped in gilt to spine, four raised bands, top edge gilt, endleaves in green..

Slight soiling and wear to boards; scattered foxing and staining to textblock edges; light uniform toning throughout; jacket rubbed, creased, chipped, and dampstained. A very good copy in a good jacket. JBS-440. Robert P. Walton. Marihuana: America's New Drug Problem. A Sociologic Question with its Basic Explanation Dependent on Biologic and Medical Principles. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1938. First edition.  Octavo. 223pp (indexed). Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in silver to spine, original pictorial dust jacket. Salesman's copy, with pencil notes and business card to rear pastedown. Scarce in jacket.  From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and Drugs. .

Spine slightly creased and leaning; board edges lightly rubbed and bumped; ink inscription to front free endpaper; bookplate to front pastedown. Very good. JJA-25. Isaac Watts. Divine and Moral Songs for Children. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866. First edition. Octavo. [116]pp. Profusely illustrated by various artists. Publisher's green decorative cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, all edges gilt, endleaves in yellow, housed in crude handmade dust wrapper.   .

Rubbing at extremities; slight foxing to free endpapers with a bright and clean text block; lacking scarce dust jacket. Very good. LMM-257. Robert Byron & Christopher Sykes, as Richard Waughburton. Innocence & Design.  London: Macmillan & Co., 1935. First edition. Small octavo. 312pp. Publisher's green cloth ornamental boards with gilt lettering to spine, maps and black and white illustrations. Robert Byron's only novel, written with Christopher Sykes, in the form of topographical and architectural essays. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Spine slightly leaning and darkened; extremities gently rubbed, bumped, and soiled; foxed to endleaves; minor uniform toning throughout. Very good. LMM-160. A. J. B. Wavell. A Modern Pilgrim in Mecca and a Siege in Sanaa. London: Constable & Company, 1912. First edition. Octavo. 349pp (indexed). Illustrated. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

A fine copy. JBS-304. Terry Webster. Needing Cocaine. Center City, MN: Hazelden Foundation, 1985. Octavo. 46pp. Wrapper with black front cover, saddle-stapled.  .

Light wear to boards, minor insect loss to jacket edges. Very good. JHN-186. Stanley G. Weinbaum. A Martian Odyssey and Others. Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1949. First edition.  Octavo. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, unclipped dust jacket.

Spines lightly sunned; boards gently rubbed and worn; backstrip to volume 3 starting; cloth slightly wrinkled on both volumes. Very good. CDK-608. H. G. Wells. The War of the Worlds (Pearson's Magazine, Vols. 3 and 4. January -through June and July through December, 1897). London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 1897. True first edition, serialized in nine parts, and preceding the Heinmann edition by a year. Two quarto volumes. 712; 752 (indexed). Illustrated by Warwick Goble. Handsomely rebound in contemporary brown half-leather over burgundy cloth boards by D. Titus Williams of Carmarthen, Wales, UK, stamped in gilt to spines, edges speckled red. Housed custom quarter leather over marbled book-backed clamshell case, with spines lettered and decorated in gilt. Please note: this book is unusually heavy (approx. 12 lbs.) and will require extra postage to ship.  .

Extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, spine ends faded, dust jacket clipped, rubbed, lightly soiled, and lightly faded to the spine. A very good copy of the 1st UK edition, with its rear cover still very much intact. LMM-173. Nathanael West. A Cool Million. London: Neville Spearman, 1954. First British edition. Twelvemo. [139]pp. Publisher's red cloth-covered boards, original dust jacket. "Perhaps my greatest scouting disappointment occurred at Brock's. One day, as I was descending to the basement, which Norman eventually filled to the very brim, I saw what looked to be a perfect copy of Nathanael West's A Cool Million, a few steps down, under a few novels. I had never seen the book before, and was very excited, only to discover, when I pulled it out, that rats had chewed off the back cover. I remember the shock of disappointment to this day." - Larry McMurtry, Books: A Memoir. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Light wear to boards; minor staining to front endleaves; title-page slightly offset from frontispiece; bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Very good. HFP-454. Hewett Wheatley. The Rod and Line: or, Practical Hints and Dainty Devices for the Sure Taking of Trout, Grayling, Etc. London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1849. First edition. Twelvemo. 157pp + 32pp catalogue. Illustrated with nine color plates by H. Adlard. Bound in decorative brown cloth by Remnant & Edwards of London, stamped in gilt to spine, patterned endleaves. Housed in modern custom cloth clamshell box. Original two-sided drawing captioned "Col. Hawkins's Plan" laid-in. .

Minor shelfwear; slight sunning to spine ends and board edges; light toning to endleaves; jacket a bit rubbed, chipped and torn. Very good. AYW-297. A. B. C. Whipple. G. A. Little, illustrator. Tall Ships and Great Captains: A Narrative of Famous Sailing Ships Through the Ages and the Courageous Men Who Sailed, Fought or Raced Them Across the Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960. First edition.  With occasional ink and pencil annotations and notes by William Goldman, presumably used in research for Goldman's novel The Princess Bride.   Octavo. 216pp (indexed). Illustrated with drawings by G. A. Little. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, front cover in blind, original unclipped dust jacket. From the library of Oscar-Winning screenwriter and author William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / The Princess Bride / Marathon Man). His personal copy, with official ink-stamp from his estate. .

Minor wear; glassine lightly sunned and chipped; slight rubbing and wear to slipcase. Very good. SJK-414. Thornton Wilder. Jean Charlot, illustrator. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. New York: The Limited Edition Club, 1962. Limited edition, No. 198 of 1,500 numbered copies. Signed by the illustrator.  Quarto. 137pp. Illustrated in color by Jean Charlot. Publisher's black cloth over beige pictorial cloth boards, stamped in gilt to spine, front cover in gilt and black, original glassine dust wrapper. Housed in original card slipcase. Publisher's newsletter laid-in.   .

Slight spine lean; darkened to spine; slight discoloration to boards; slipcase sunned, rubbed, and bumped, with minor loss to edges. very good. SJK-393. Thornton Wilder. Rockwell Kent, illustrator. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1929. Limited edition, No. 194 of 1,929 numbered copies. Signed by Thornton Wilder and Rockwell Kent.  Quarto. 120pp. Illustrated in color by Rockwell Kent. Publisher's pictorial cloth boards, leather title strip to spine, housed in original card slipcase.  .

Sunned to spine; extremities rubbed and bumped; light toning, occasional edge tears. Very good. NPD-537. Paul Beuve. A[dolphe] Willette (artist, 1857 - 1926). Iconographie de A. Willette (De 1861 A 1909). Paris: Charles Bosse, 1909. Limited edition, No. 94 of 174 numbered copies on Arches paper, from a total limitation of 200. Small quarto. (6), viii, 81pp. Illustrated with 7 hors-texte heliogravure and copperplate engraved plates (5 in color), 13 text vignettes, (3 in color), 1 monochrome illus. after Rouveyre printed on brown paper, and 3 additional color plates. Bound in green quarter morocco over mottled paper boards, titles in gilt to spine, five raised bands, marbled endleaves. With pochoir plate of Willette's Chasseur de Vincennes engraved by Devanbez, and an illustration after Willette's Marianne et L'Ours du Nord laid-in. Text in French.   From the collection of renowned Parisian publisher and bibliophile Edouard Champion, with his numbered catalogue ticket to front pastedown. .

Sunned to spine, backstrip peeling at spine tail; extremities gently rubbed, sunned, and bumped; light uniform toning throughout. About very good. LMM-563. Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire. New York: A New Directions Book, 1947. First edition. Octavo. 171pp. Publisher's pictorial hardcover paper boards with cover art by Alvin Lustig. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Creased and worn to wraps. Very good. JBS-399. [INSCRIBED] S. Clay Wilson. Selected Works. New York: Hansen Fine Arts, 1982. First edition. Exhibition catalog for a show at the Museum of the Surreal and Fantastique, N.Y.C. Inscribed by S. Clay Wilson: S. Clay Wilson / To Jack - Its The / Dead.. Its The Dead.. / Its The Goddamn / Dead. / Happy New Year / 1982.  Quarto. 15pp. Illustrated. Black paper wraps, staple-bound. .