Search Results: Authors starting with W from Crooked House Books & Paper

Harper & Row, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Sendak, Maurice. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Wahl on front endpaper. Pictorial boards with matching dust jacket, 9.25" x 7.25". Dust jacket has shallow chip and some closed tears to front panel, price of $2.95 intact. A delightful story with plenty of illustrations for Sendak fans.

Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 7x5x1. 1st US printing stated. Chartreuse cloth binding with black lettering to spine, blue endpapers, 8-3/8" tall, 84 pp. Light foxing to foredge, some discoloration to gutter; dust jacket has very small closed tear to top of front hinge, original price of $8.95 intact. Walcott was a Saint Lucian poet & playwright of English, Dutch, and African descent who won the Nobel Prize in 1992.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Full green cloth with silver, dark green, and orange mosaic design to front cover, spine and rear cover, gilt lettering to front and spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, 9" tall, 168 pp., illustrations by Frank Du Mond and John Reinhard Weguelin. Slight wear and turning in to spine ends, closed tear to frontispiece, dulling to front cover and spine. A spectacular binding with Arts and Crafts simplicity enhanced by a knot-like flourish for the title box, complete with opposing cross and crescent designs.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Christy, Howard Chandler. Signed by Author(s). Light blue cloth with embossed gilt title, 8vo, 233 pages, black and white illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy though out, signed by 'Mary A. Ward'; Boards are dust soiled and edge worn with a few mottled drops on covers, deckle edge pages are age toned with no markings, binding is sound; no dust jacket. Two volumes, numbered no. 2 of a limited printing of 350 copies.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). First edition, signed by Lynd Ward on blank preliminary page, price of $2.75 present on front flap, date on title page, 4to, 85 pages, alternating pages of text and illustrations throughout; spine ends a touch pushed, dust jacket edge worn with a couple of tiny tears at top edge and one half inch chip out at head of spine, gold award sticker on front cover. This was Lynd Ward's first book as both author and illustrator, and it earned him the 1953 Caldecott Medal. With scant text, the pictures tell most of the story, and tell it well. Ward created the illustrations with casein paint, an ancient milk based medium, and the resulting images are soft and inky, and richly detailed. The book represents long-standing relationships between people and animals on many levels, while painting a picture of a beautiful friendship.

Two prints by Lynd Ward, 13" x 19", titled and signed in pencil by him. "Middletown" is numbered 191/250. Printed on very thin paper with light wear to edges.>

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. First printing stated; gray cloth, 4to, 174,[1] pages, lush black and white illustrations on alternating pages with blank versos, illustrated endpapers. Tiny spot of soiling on bottom rear board tip; price-clipped dust jacket is edge worn with a bit of soiling on rear panel, short closed tear at head of spine, now in protective mylar cover. Lynd Ward's beautiful wordless story of a lonely boy and his travels with an imaginary winged pony.

London: The Sylvan Press, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 8vo, 221 pp. Moderate fading to spine, presentation bookplate (from Directors of Grosvenor, Chater & Co. to Edward Burrett, Esq) and later owner's bookplate (designed by Reynolds Stone) to front endpaper. Burrett was a typographer & designer, founder of the Penmiel Press.

London: William Collins, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Red and white decorated paper over boards, 8vo, 46 pages, 8 plates in color, 30 illustrations in black and white, #90 in the Britain in Pictures series; very faint foxing to endpapers, dust jacket now protected in mylar.

New York, New York, U.S.A: Random House Inc, 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. A hint of wear and fading at board edges. Price clipped dust jacket with mild rubbing and edge wear, now in protective mylar cover. 64 pages.

Yale University Press, 1958. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Full blue cloth boards in yellow dust jacket, 10" tall, 696 pp. Fine copy in price-clipped dust jacket with slight edge wear. Well illustrated, foreword by Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Extra postage required for international or priority shipping.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8x5x1. Full number line; 8vo, 372 pages, black and white photographs. John Waters dishes up stories of his life and the people in it. Studded with cameos, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp, Kathleen Turner, Patricia Hearst, and Tracey Ullman and illustrated with photos from Water's own personal collection.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover, green & tan striped paper-covered boards with paper labels on spine & front cover. Her most popular play was adapted to the Broadway musical & film after her death, becoming an even greater sensation.

New Directions, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition stated. Full purple cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, light blue typographic dust jacket, 8-3/4" tall, 99 pp. Minor toning to jacket, small ink scribble near DJ price. Poems from the Welsh poet who was close friends with Dylan Thomas, and also served as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park.

New Directions, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Decorated paper-covered boards in matching dust jacket, 9" tall, 92 pp. Light crease to title page, toning to pages. Poems from the Welsh poet who was close friends with Dylan Thomas, and also served as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park.

Atheneum, 1962. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Red cloth boards under brown & orange DJ, 8vo, 87 pp. Slight toning to top edge of inner flaps.

Dodd, Mead & Company, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Watson, Wendy. First edition, no statement of later printing. Hardcover, red cloth binding with white and black decoration and lettering, 9-1/4" tall, 53 pp. Light wear to corners, front cover has iindentation as if something heavy with two staples laid on top of the book for a long time. Dust jacket shows rubbing to both panels, price clipped.

The Queen Anne Press, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Reynolds Stone. Red cloth binding under grey printed dust jacket. Most of the spine panel is missing from the jacket and there is some edgewear; priced as if it wasn't present, but the Reynolds Stone illustration on the front panel is still in nice shape.

by author. Soft cover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Green card covers, 8-1/2" x 5-5/8", 103 pp. Inscribed by author on title page, minimal wear. Amateur historian's account of this Pacific Northwest event.

San Buenaventura, California: Junipero Serra Press. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Miniature hardcover in white leather with gilt illustration and lettering, 3 x 2 inches, 10 pages, all edges gilt, tiny silver Lilliput bookseller's label on rear paste-down, no other notable flaws. Limited press run of 300 copies, designed by Francis Braun. 0