Search Results: Titles starting with W from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

New York: Privately Printed, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Octavo, 270 pages, cloth; dj edgeworn, A large memorial volume about William F. Buckley, Sr. With sketches by A. Derso, and photogravures. After a checkered career as a lawyer in governmental affairs in Mexico - ending with his life-threatened expulsion, WFB had success as a wildcat oil man in Texas

New York: Dodd Mead & Co, ( 1898). First American edition. 16mo. Good +. 19 plates of T.H. Robinson. 12mo, 309pp., pictorial boards worn at spine, inscriptions on endpapers Fantasy about Christian mythology. Related to his "W.V. HER BOOK", and, "IN MEMORY OF W.V." Illustrated with 19 plates by Thomas Heath Robinson, the eldest of the three artistic Heath Robinson brothers. The character of W. V. was inspired by Canton's daughter, Winifred, who died young.

Paw Paw, IL: Published by the Author, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. As New/issued without. 8vo; xiv, 118 pages, brown cloth Inscribed by Zeman to fellow Potawotami historian, James Dowd, whose help is acknowledge in the Preface. With a Christmas card with a handwritten message about this book from Zeman. "The story ... told here is meant to provide as accurate and as comprehensive an account of one people and the events they influenced that figured in the history of the Midwest in the period from the mid 1700s to about 1850. It focuses on the Potawatomi Indians, and, in particular, Wabansi, one of their leaders - Preface." Portrait of Wabansi by Charles Bird King, plus 18 other maps and illlustrations, including by David Duncan Larson.

Chicago Plan Commission, 1912. First edition. Octavo. Good. Jules Guerin, maps, photos. Small 4to, 147 pages, tawny cloth, some soiling This is an abridged presentation of Burnham's PLAN OF CHICAGO for the use of the Chicago schools, and a very useful study. It is also a puff piece. The first sentence proclaims, "Chicago is destined to become the center of the modern world, if the opportunities in her reach are intelligently realized, and if the city can receive a sufficient supply of trained and enlightened citizens." With Jules Guerin illustrations, and questions for study. Maps, photos.

New York: Viking Press, ( 2014 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 12mo, 183 pages, clothbacked boards; signed copy sticker on top panel; in a dj protector Signed by the Author as "Craig Jhnson.". First-time collection of these 12 tales which reveal Sheriff Longmire when he is off-duty - including getting trapped in a porta-john! Introduction by Lou Diamond Phillips. " I love playing Walt Longmire. I wish I could be Walt Longmire. He is decent, humble, toiugh, a student of history, a lover of beer and he is always, always his own man." - Robert Taylor.

( Cambridge UK ): Prickly Pear Press, ( 1993 ). First Edition. stapled wrappers. Very Good. 16mo, 21 pages, white wrappers a bit soiled Prickly Pear Pamphlet No. 2. Sahlins was a University of Chicago anthropologist. " WAITING FOR FOUCAULT " might be said to be a structuralist's rejoinder to the post-structuralist vogue which swept through anthropology in recent years. It was given as an after-dinner speech at the fourth decennial conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists held at Oxford in July, 1993." "The pamphlets will be provocative and entertaining, cheap and pocket-sized. Like the prickly pear, they will come in several colours - red, yellow, green and more besides."

New York: Sheed & Ward, ( 1960 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Good/poor. Octavo, 282 pages, two-tone cloth; dj heavily chipped at spine The Scripture passages flow continuously on the left-hand pages, with a matching commentary, paragraph by paragraph, on the facing pages. With passages indexed at the end.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. First edition thus. Quarto. Very Good. Edward Steichen photographs. Quarto, 290 pages, cloth, clothbacked boards (rubbed), no glassine dj, worn publ's slipcase, inked name of ... Laird on free endpaper, short tear at head of spine, waxy stain at heel of slipcase, Copy no. 507 of 1500 copies signed by Steichen, whose photos of Walden Pond beautify the book. {Borst A2.26]. Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby. Printed at the Merrymount Press.

Galesburg, IL: Mail Printing Company, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Photogravures. 16mo, 93 pages, green cloth. Scarce. Written for school children, 8th to 12th grades, by the Supt. of Schools in Viola, IL. Tipped-in ANS to Mr. Clay (probably Hon. Henry Clayu of Tamaroa, IL, who is acknowledged in the Preface), sending this book. Also laid in is a postcard, with an initialed holographic notes explaining a change which will occur in the 2d edition (of at least 16 editions). Maps, photogravures.

Chicago: The Blackfriars, University of Chicago, 1926. First edition. 4to, 59 pages, pictorial wrappers, corner bumped, spine worn.  Book and Lyrics by Walker Davis and William Bager. Includes the incomparable "Campus Women", and "Wally ! Wally ! I'm Wicked"

Pasadena, CA: Pentrex, ( 1998 ). Second Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. Large Quarto, 431 pages, maroon cloth, title-page bumped at fore-edge Trains fascinated Disney from his childhood. He had built a 1/8th size Carolwood Pacific Railroad to circle his property in Holmby Hills. Inspired, he then considered an adjoining theme park. Mrs. Disney contributed the Foreword, and various private episodes from their life together which eventually resulted in The Magic Kingdom. Broggie's father, Roger, helped Walt to create the railroad.

Pasadena, CA: Pentrex, ( 1998 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Large Quarto, 431 pages, maroon cloth; DJ has a shallow, vertical scratch on rear panel, Stated First Edition, with a numberline ending in '2'. Trains fascinated Disney from his childhood. He had built a 1/8th size Carolwood Pacific Railroad to circle his property in Holmby Hills. Inspired, he then considered an adjoining theme park. Mrs. Disney contributed the Foreword, and various private episodes from their life together which eventually resulted in The Magic Kingdom. Broggie's father, Roger, helped Walt to create the railroad.

New York: Walt Disney Productions, ( 1940 ). First Edition. stapled wrappers. Good. Quarto, rubbed, corners curling This is the Program for attendees of this animated film. Artist Kay Nielsen contributed to the art here. Here are pictures of the live models for the forthcoming cartoon feature, "Bambi". Other persons photographed here, as visitors to the studio include Robert Benchley, Kirsten Flagstad, George Balanchine, Edwin Hubbell, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, etc.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. very good/good. photos.. 8vo, 381 pages, cloth; torn dj Photos.

New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. fine/near fine. 12mo, 225 pages, brown cloth partially unopened, 1 leaf torn; vg dj soiled Mrs. Keller nursed Walt Whitman during his last illness, and re-creates Whitman's final period

New York: Julian Messner, ( 1941 ). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Rafaello Busoni. 8vo, 278 pages, blue cloth; nicked dj Poet's account of a poet. Illustrated by Rafaello Busoni.

London: John C. Nimmo, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Portrait, 4 ills.. 4to, 160 pages, two tone cloth, t.e.g., cloth ribbon, small dark spot on rear cover A Large-paper edition. With portrait and 4 illustrations.

New York: Phaedra Inc., ( 1966 ). First Edition. Fine/very good. 8vo, 111 pages, blue cloth; very light edgewear to dj with 1/4th in. at top of rear panel, 1/8th in. tear at top of top panel.` With a "Foreword" by Vladimir, this translation is by his son, Dmitri - with revisions by his father. It first appeared in a Russian emigre at Paris. The performance of the play in 1939 was frustrated by the German army. "It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail." - Foreword.

New York: Pocket Books, ( 1967 ). First Printing. Very Good. 16mo, 156 pages, black wrappers, rear wrapper creased horizontally, inked name on first page; stiff, possibly unread, light edgewear, a bit convex With a "Foreword" by Vladimir, this translation is by his son, Dmitri - with revisions by his father. It first appeared in a Russian emigre at Paris. The performance of the play in 1939 was frustrated by the German army. "It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail." - Foreword.

London: E. Appleyard, 1845. Roscoe's Library edition. Hardcover. Very Good. linecuts. 8vo, 554 pages, half black leather, extra gilt spine, rehinged Possibly the first book appearance in English of Sue's August 25, 1845 letter to his dedicatee. "This romance was one of the most popular specimens of the roman feuilleton, the episodic, melodramatic novel published by the cheap dailies of the mid-nineteenth century. The Jew who refused hospitality to Jesus has been doomed to a life of sorrow and wandering until his last descendant shall have died. ... It is an interesting, very compelling story, as good as the best of Alexandre Dumas, per - THESAURUS OF BOOK DIGESTS." Illustrated with linecuts.