Search Results: Authors starting with W from Koster's Collectible Books

Corporate Impact, 1998. third printing. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Paperback Softcover: Extra heavy paper stock covers are illustrated front and back. Title on front and on spine. Endpapers and pages are spotless. Poignant news articles about losses at sea. This book provides the answers to questions, did the passengers and crew survive, what was she carrying?. Illustrated. Nice tight binding. . ISBN: 0966131207.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Good++. Hardcover. Clean red cloth boards. Light foxing to foredges. Text pages are crisp and clean. Red dust jacket is worn at corners and spine ends. Two inch creased closed tear to upper left front jacket corner. Looks good in protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Very Good, No Dust Jacket Special Interest Publicaties BV First Edition, 2011 square 8vo, B/W Illus, Hardcover Hardcover. Volume VII. Crisp glossy black and white photo illustrated boards. Text pages are crisp and clean. Very nice gold photo illustrated dust jacket has some light scuffing and looks great in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Good+, Fair University of Washington Book Store Limited Edition, 1929 8VO, B/W Illus, Hardcover Hardcover in dust jacket. Limited edition of 350 copies, of which this is #348 and is SIGNED by Geraldine Farrar. Blue cloth boards with gold on front board and spine. Boards are damp spotted and rubbed. Corners and spine ends lightly frayed. Endpapers tanned and foxed. Text pages are clean. Tattered dust jacket is chipped and soiled throughout. Large pieces missing to front of jacket, jacket spine is completely gone. Held together in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Sequoia S. A. Lausanne, 1964. facsimile reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Spieghel Der Zeevaerdt is a 1964 facsimile reprint written in Dutch, of the original 1584-1585 edition. It has the 1584 and 1585 editions bound together in a large folio volume with black leather spine and green cloth boards. Light shelf wear. Slight scuffing to boards. Gold compass rose on front board, title in gold on spine. Text is clean and crisp. Some foredge foxing. Movable celestial chart is present and intact. Sold together with this volume is a second volume entitled The History of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer and his Spieghel der Zeevaerdt by Dr. C. Koeman. This book was written in English, as an introduction to the facsimile reproduction of De Spieghel der Zeevaerdt and is the history of the origins of Dutch navigation, as well as the story of the origins of Dutch maritime cartography and of the development of charts and seamen's guides. It is 72 pages long. Bound in… Read More

Akademiai Kiado, 1985. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Hardboard: Laminated illustrated boards. with title on frontboard and on spine. Clean endpapers. Frontispiece and text printed on coated stock. Fascinating text. Nice tight binding. . ISBN: 963-05-3578-5.

Good++, Good++ Meador Press 2nd edition, 1938 8VO, B/W Illus, Hardcover Hardcover in dust jacket. Blue cloth boards show soil and bumping. Spine damp spotted. Ink inscription on first endpaper. Text pages are clean. Illustrated dust jacket is soiled and rubbed. Edge wear chipping throughout. Chipped at corners and spine ends. Looks good in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Good++, No Dust Jacket Crestline Publishing 1978 4TO, B/W Photos, Hardcover Hardcover. Grey leather-like binding with red metallic illustration and title on front board and on spine. Light edge wear. Spine sun faded. Fore edge soil/ tanning. Text pages are clean. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Double Diamond Press, 1993. paperback first edition. Very Good+. Softcover: Extra heavy color illustrated paper stock covers. Frontispiece and text pages are spotless. Originally created and premiered in 1987 at the Daily Texan, the student newspaper. Illustrated. Nice tight binding . ISBN: 0-9636660-0-2.

Trolley Talk, 1976. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Paperback Softcover: Semi-glossy 'white' paper covers are lightly soiled and oxidized. Title and color -photo on front. Lower front cover lightly creased. Pages/ photos are printed on coated paper. Curved-side cars, altered milford cars, remodeled trailers, the 100's, winton shops, work equipment power, trackwork, buses maps, anecdotes etc. Illustrated. Nice tight staqpled binding . ISBN: 0914196162.

Historical Aviation Album, 1974. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Softcover: Shelfwear along lower edge. Photo-illustrated front cover. Ryan Airlines and its 'Brougham are discussed and reviewed. Nice tight binding. . ISBN: 911852-76-x.

Historical Aviation Album, 1974. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Paperback Softcover: Extra heavy paper stock covers have title and photo on front. Minor soil. Title on spine. Endpapers are clean. Title and text pages are clean. This is a fascinating account of the making of a monoplane. Vintage photos throughout. Nice tight binding. . ISBN: 091185276x.

Alfred Knopf, 1947. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover: 'Bird stickers' on front and back inside paste-downs. Brown illustrated boards with title on frontboard. Title on spine. Boards are rubbed and worn on edges and corners with some foxing. Page edges are foxed. Text and illustrations printed in Sepia. Illustrated title page. Lovely story of a horse that never grew to full-size. Nice tight binding. .

Very Good, No Dust Jacket DC Comics 3rd printing, 2011 4TO, Color Illus, Hardcover Hardcover in slipcase. Crisp black cloth boards lightly rubbed. Color illustration tipped in on front board. Title in gold on front board and spine. Text pages are crisp and clean. Very nice color illustrated slipcase shows light wear/scuffing. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Soni Reprints Agency, 1984. reprint. Hardcover. Good++/Good++. Hardcover. 1984 Soni Reprints Agency Indian Reprint of the 1931 2nd edition. Bright blue cloth boards with titling in gold. Boards show light edge wear. Foredge soil and foxing. 2 Card catalog index cards with typed book information stapled to first free endpaper. Previous owner stamp on foxed endpaper as well. Text pages are clean. Beige illustrated dust jacket is unevenly sunned. Edgewear chipping and creasing, light soil. Looks good when placed in protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Smithsonian Institution, 1925. Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 5 hardcover portfolios each containing 80 loose color plates as well as a softcover pamphlet containing descriptions of each plate. 5 matching blue cloth portfolios with dark green ties. Smithsonian Institute emblem on front covers. Titles in gold on spine. A total of 400 beautiful loose color plates, some slight wave to plates. Plate description pamphlets in each volume show some light edge wear and soil to covers, text pages are clean. Volume I plate pamphlet states "Text only for volume one reprinted 1950" on verso of title page. All other pamphlet volumes and plates themselves are marked 1925. Each of these portfolio volumes are contained in plain black cardboard boxes that are chipped and worn. A few split edges, chips missing. Volume one box is missing one edge completely. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Journal of the League of World War I Aviation Historians, 2002. Paperback. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Softcover: Glossy, color illustrated paper covers with title on front and on spine. Title, text, photo pages are printed on glossy coated paper. Pages are crisp and clean. Vintage Illustrated. nice tight binding.

Very Good, Good++ Ariel Books Stated 1st, 1953 8VO, 152 pgs., B/W Illus, Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. Clean yellow cloth boards with title and vignette on front board. Title on spine in black. Light soil to spine. Endpapers tanned, text pages are clean. Yellow illustrated dust jacket has a few short tears, edge wear and soil. Looks nice in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Guggenheim Museum, 1996. Paperback. Good++/No Dust Jacket. Softcover. Red, white and black paper covers with title in white on spine. Covers show light soil and scuffing/rubbing. Text pages are crisp and clean. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Vendome Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in dust jacket. Very nice grey cloth boards with title in gold on spine. Text pages are crisp and clean. Margin edges lightly tanned. Beautiful photos throughout. Very nice color photo illustrated dust jacket has some scuffing/rubbing and looks nice in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.