Search Results: Authors starting with W from Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA)

Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Sport i Turystyka, 1989. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 400 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated by numerous color plates, black & white photographs, facsimiles, etc. Biography of Jan Kasprowicz (1860-1926); biografia. The author has written a lengthy inscription (over 30 words) on the half-title page, dated 1991 Chicago, and signed by the author. Text is in Polish..

Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1972. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 253 pages with index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Minor rubbing to the extremities of the unclipped dustjacket; protected in archival mylar. Monograph 53 to The American Ethnological Society; Robert F. Spencer, Editor. Previous owner's name neatly on front endpaper..

Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1974. Book. Very good+ condition. Paperback. First Edition. Oblong octavo (8vo). 45 pages of text. Paperback binding with minor shelfwear. Illustrated by twenty-five black & white photo reproductions of works by Francis Ho, Douglas Tucker, Richard Humphrey, Roy Quan, Eugene Tagawa, Donn Leber, Robert Jensen, David Azose, Michael Gesinger, Dean Glandon, Robert Killien, Joel Rogers, Stamatis Tsitsopoulos, Norman Lundin, Richard Busher, Wesley Wallace, Christian Staub, Johsel Namkung, Dennis Wilson, Bill Ritchie, Ted D'Arms, Gerald Grady, Jim Cummins, Michael Arst and Jeff Reynolds. A publication of the Department of Graphic Design of the School of Art, University of Washington. Three pages with small creases at top corner..

New York: Macmillan, 1954. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo (8vo). vi, 201 pages. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear, including a tiny tear to the top of the spine. Unclipped dustjacket with minor to moderate sunning to the spine, a few tiny chips/areas of minor loss from rubbing, and a few small tears and creases; protected in archival mylar. The text is clean and unmarked. Jacket design by the Strimbans. First American edition. Stated: First Printing..

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: The Haunted Bookshop, 1979. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 264 pages with index. Hardcover binding in almost new condition. Map illustrated dustjacket; price-clipped and slightly shelfworn; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with historic photographs and a large folding "Map of the Gold Regions in British Columbia" compiled from sketches and information by James Douglas, C. B. Governor of B.C. and Vancouver Island, and from data obtained from the miner Gust[avas] Epner in 1862. First thus edition; number 968 of 1000 copies signed by Eleanor Eastick, who researched, annotated and indexed this never before published work written in the 1920's. Under the name on the dedication page (To Jack Barnes) is written in Eastick's hand "September 16, 1899 - May 2, 1985.".

Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company, 1990. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 128 pages of text including an index, and a list of addresses of buildings and the date of construction or inception. Pictorial laminated cloth; hardcover. Dustjacket with the slightest of shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with numerous historic photographs, as well as several in color..

Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1983. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). viii, 192 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding in almost new condition. Unclipped dustjacket with a tear on the front panel and minor shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with photographs of Lillian D. Wald, Rebecca Gratz, Amy Leavy, Henrietta Szold, Emma Lazarus and Emma Goldman. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

East Lansing, MI: published by author, 1994. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Oblong quarto (4to). 168 pages oftext including an index. Hardcover binding in about new condition. Unclipped dustjacket is slightly shelfworn, and slightly sunned on front panel; protected in archival mylar. Contains approximately 175 aerial images in vivid color, many of which are panoramic. Book measures 11.25 inches in height, and almost 14 inches in width..

New York: Thomas Crowell, 1903. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Music; opera. [xviii], 71 pages of text. Measures 19.9cm (height). Hardcover binding; red blind stamped cloth; small spot on back cover; gilt lettering; top edge gilt. The text is printed in red and black. Adhesive residue on the front pastedown endpaper. A few page edges are chipped and/or torn from careless opening pages that were previously uncut/unopened. Contains five black-and-white illustrations by Franz Stassen (1869-1949). Retold by Oliver Huckel (1864-194). Printed by Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941) at the Merrymount Press, Boston. Richard Wagner (1813-1883). First edition..

Holbrook, AZ: Petrified Museum Forest Museum Association, 1971. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Quarto (4to). 32 pages of text. Full colour photography. Minor sunning at spine and top-edge of paperback binding..

New York, NY: Derrydale Press, 1930. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto (4to). xxv, [iii], 249 pages of text including an index. Original brown hardcover cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine and front cover with minimal shelfwear. Minor spotting to the rear cover. The top edge of the closed page edges is coated in gilt, with the other page edges deckled. Approximately one dozen pages have small spots of brown foxing to the page edges or margins. Previous owner's bookplate neatly affixed to the inside front cover. Contains illustrations by Lynn Bogue Hunt, Edgar Burke, William J. Schaldach, Bert Cobb, and others. Limited to 850 copies. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1844. Book. Very good- condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 45 pages of text followed by [iii] pages of publisher's advertisement. Original yellow printed wrappers are moderately worn and soiled, with some small tears. A few pages are creased at a corner. Pierced by four holes near spine where this was likely string bound with other items at some point. Title continues "...A Church Without A Bishop' in a Series of Letters originally Published in the Commercial Advertiser." The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1974. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 288 pages of text including a bibliography and index. Hardcover cloth binding with minimal shelfwear. Price-clipped dustjacket with minor rubbing to the extremities; protected in archival mylar. Text is illustrated with six maps, and the endpapers are map-illustrated. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown..

New York: Wilson-Erickson Inc., 1936. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Octavo (8vo). xiv, 184 pages of text including an index. Original cloth binding is slightly scuffed on the spine, with minor shelfwear. No dustjacket. Contains 11 illustrations. Limited edition of 650 copies signed by the author on a special limitation page, of which this is number 222. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

Algonac, MI: Reprint Review, 1981. Book. Paperback. First Edition. 8 pages of text; 28cm; green paper; vol. 1, #1 only issue published. Books about books;.

New York: Harry N Abrams, 1992. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto (4to). 336 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. The unclipped dustjacket with minor rubbing and shelfwear, including a few small indentations to the rear panel. Contains 404 illustrations, including 100 color plates. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

Algonac, MI, 1981 Book. Near fine condition. Paperback. Books about books; 8p.; 28cm; green paper; .

Surrey, Great Britain: Almark Publishing, 1973. Book. Very good+ condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 136 pages of text. Paperback binding with a small bump to lower corner; otherwise almost new condition. Contains over 150 black & white photographs..

no place: Walker Arms Company, Inc., 1982. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. Guns; firearms; xii, 630p.; 28.1cm; paper wrapper rubbed; profusely illus.; 54p. gun parts price listed inserted..

Washington, D. C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1973. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). [x], 78 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minor shelfwear and soiling. Unclipped dustjacket is moderately sunned on spine, with minor soiling and shelfwear; protected in archival mylar..