Search Results: Authors starting with W from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This book focuses on the cultural processes by which the idea of a Yugoslav nation was developed and on the reasons that this idea ultimately failed to bind the South Slavs into a viable nation and state. The author argues that the collapse of multinational Yugoslavia and the establishment of separate uninational states did not result from the breakdown of the political or economic fabric of the Yugoslav state; rather, that breakdown itself sprang from the destruction of the concept of a Yugoslav nation. Had such a concept been retained, a collapse of political authority would have been followed by the eventual reconstitution of a Yugoslav state, as happened after World War II, rather than the creation of separate nation-states." Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with silver titles. Tiny remainder mark to the bottom edge; else fine in a fine dust jacket.

Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. 366 photographs. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996. First paperback edition. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Near fine.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is copy 14 of 300 copies signed by Richard Wagener. Additionally inscribed and dated by Wagener to Gordon Van De Water, past president of the Zamorano Club, once on a prefatory blank leaf and again on the colophon. One of the leading American wood engravers, Richard Wagener has created a visual account of his wanderings throughout California in this lavish new work. In thirty original prints and short prose pieces describing them, he chronicles a journey that begins and ends in Los Angeles with stops in the San Jacinto Mountains, the Antelope Valley, Sonoma County, and the Sierra Nevada. Like John Muir and Gary Snyder, Wagener is a wanderer, explorer and observer of California, creating a poetry of place through both words and images, all born of actual experience. Not since Paul Landacre mastered the aesthetic and technical challenges of wood engraving in the early twentieth-century has any California artist… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. This is the first book to relate modern dynamical systems theory to both cosmological models and cosmological observations." Tall octavo: 343 p. with textual figures and tables. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1974. Trade paperback. Near fine. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A crisp and clean copy.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Inscribed and dated by Wakeman on the front flyleaf. Special Library Binding (not an ex-library copy). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Author.

Balboa Island, California: Paisano Press, Inc, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 175 p. Illustrated by Katherine F. Clarke. First edition, limited to 700 numbered copies signed by Ardis M. Walker and Katherine F. Clarke. This copy is marked "Publisher's Copy" and inscribed by the publisher to California historian Richard Pourade opposite the limitation page. Ardis M. Walker, a grandnephew of Joseph Reddeford Walker, the Mountain Man for whom Walker Pass is named, tells a panoramic story of the Kern River country and its historical evolution. From the James S. Copley Library, with the San Diego newspaper publisher and philanthropist's bookplate to the front pastedown and a presentation label from Pourade on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with pictorial black stamping. Some general minor browning and wear along the extremities of the dust jacket; otherwise a very good copy. Signed by Author.

Kernville, California and Henderson, Nevada: Ardis Walker and Roy E. Purcell, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes. Illustrated by Roy E. Purcell, partially in color. First edition, #68 of 500 sets designed by Roy Purcell and printed by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press. As one of the first 110 copies, each volume contains an original etching hand-pulled, numbered, and signed by Purcell. The first volume is signed by both Walker and Purcell; the second volume is signed by Purcell and inscribed by Walker. Also, laid in is a printed Christmas poem from Gayle and Ardis Walker. Oblong quarto. Original linen bindings, with decorative brown stamping. A fine set, housed in the publisher's slipcase. Signed by Author.

San Diego and New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 463 p. San Diego and New York: Harcourt Brace Javonovich, 1991. First edition. Anthology of poems written over three decades, interspersed with commentary by Walker on the relationship of the poems to the political and spiritual issues of the time, and her own development as poet and person. An American writer whose novels, poems, and short stories are noted for their insightful treatment of African American culture, Alice Walker (b.1944) is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple (1982), which depicts a black woman's struggle for racial and sexual equality. Signed by Walker on the title page. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Author.

Balboa Island, California: Paisano Press, Inc, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illustrated by Katherine F. Clarke. First edition, limited to 700 numbered copies signed by Ardis M. Walker and Katherine F. Clarke. Ardis M. Walker, a grandnephew of Joseph Reddeford Walker, the Mountain Man for whom Walker Pass is named, tells a panoramic story of the Kern River country and its historical evolution. Gray cloth binding, with pictorial black stamping. Some light browning along the extremities of the dust jacket; otherwise a near fine copy. Signed by Author.

Balboa Island, California: Paisano Press, Inc, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illustrated by Katherine F. Clarke. First edition, limited to 700 numbered copies signed by Ardis M. Walker and Katherine F. Clarke. Ardis M. Walker, a grandnephew of Joseph Reddeford Walker, the Mountain Man for whom Walker Pass is named, tells a panoramic story of the Kern River country and its historical evolution. Gray cloth binding, with pictorial black stamping. Some general minor browning along the extremities of the dust jacket; otherwise a near fine copy. Signed by Author.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Compiled over the course of 31 years, this is as detailed and authoritative a zoological taxonomy as you can find, with the animals divided by genus, and profiled by size, weight, common and latin names, range, unique physical and biological attributes, and behavioral traits. Profusely illustrated. Quarto, two volumes. Black marker over previous owner's address on the front flyleaf in both volumes; otherwise a very good set, housed in the publisher's slipcase.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 32 pp. photographs and illustrations. First edition, with a page of Walker's typed manuscript with handwritten corrections laid in. Landmark survey of California literary history, built upon the personal histories of eight key figures: Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Prentice Mulford, Ina Coolbrith, Charles Warren Stoddard, Joaquin Miller, Henry George, and Ambrose Bierce. One particularly noteworthy aspect of Walker's work was his acknowledgement of the parallels between Twain's development as a writer with his life in California and Nevada. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Unobtrusive bookplate to the front pastedown. Some light wear to the dust jacket; otherwise an especially crisp copy. Better than very good.

Totnes, Devon, United Kingdom: Prospect Books, 1994. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. Quarto. Original lavender paper wrappers. Light bump to the bottom corner of the contents; else a crisp and clean copy.

Chicago: The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Limited to 1,000 copies. Signed and dated by Kara Walker on the title page. Artist's catalogue produced on the occasion of Walker's exhibition "Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon my Passage through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such may be Found, by Myself, Missus K.E.B. Walker, Colored". Reproduces both cut-outs and watercolors featured in the exhibition, along with a number of installation views, interspersed with a series of provocative texts from Walker (b.1969), exploring her "Inner Plantation". The recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, Walker (b.1969) is regarded as among the most prominent and acclaimed Black American artists working today. Quarto. Full cloth binding, with a gold-leaf oval motif on the front panel and decorative black stamping. Issued without a dust jacket. Minor scuffing to the gold motif, as is often the case; else very good… Read More

Upton-upon-Severn, Worcester, England: R.W. Walker Publishing, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Textual photographs and maps. Upton-upon-Severn, Worcester, England: R.W. Walker Publishing, 1985. First edition. "This book commemorates over 2,000 British and Commonwealth officers who perished during the campaign, describing the actions in which they were involved and where they are buried or commemorated." Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Some general light wear; else a near fine copy in like dust jacket.

New York: F.S. Crofts & Co, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 397 p. 278 textual figures. "An unusually complete and practical guide to costume in all ages, organized by historical periods and countries and with special attention to the nineteenth century. Detailed descriptions are supplemented with working patterns, suggestions as to color, materials, etc. and a wealth of illustrations." The "First Lady of American Educational Theatre," Walkup (1887-1976) taught costume and the history of theatre at the University of Arizona, and founded the Children's Theatre at the Pasadena Playhouse. Quarto. Original blue cloth binding, with dark blue stamping. Internally crisp and clean. Light wear to the corners and tips. The dust jacket is a trifle sun faded along the spine, with just a hint of edgewear. Better than very good.

New York: Centaur Books, Inc, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 145 p. Over 100 illustrations, including 25 in full color, by David Wenzel. First trade edition. A book in the mold of Brian Froud's Faeries, purporting to be the results of a Norwegian archaeological expedition working under northern England that discovered the dwarf remains and artifacts. Signed by both Walsh and Wenzel on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original blue buckram binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Author.

London: Macmillan, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Minette Walters on the title page. Journalist Roz Leigh is drawn into the disturbing world of Olive, a huge, menacing woman imprisoned - perhaps wrongly - for the murders of her sister and mother. Octavo. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles. Typical light toning to the contents. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket.

A single-sided flyer for a GI Teach-In held Saturday, August 10, [1968] at Provo Park in Berkeley, California. The flyer features a black and white photographic image of a weary soldier leaning against a tree and smoking a cigarette with the caption: Bring Him Home. The program for the event advertised G.I. speakers, Vietnam veterans, an open mic, and bands. The flyer states: "During the April 27th Mobilization Against the War, servicemen from bases throughout the Bay Area participated in the antiwar actions. This was the first time that active G.I.'s joined with students to protest the war. We must involve these GIs, we must encourage their opposition; they are being sent to kill and be killed in a senseless war." The event was hosted by the Student Mobilization Committee, which was formed in 1966 to coordinate opposition to U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam among college and high school students. Originally named The Vietnam Day Committee, the SMC organized protests on campuses and in various… Read More