Search Results: Titles starting with W from Uncommon Works

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981. First Edition. Cloth. Walt Disney. A very good plus first edition in a very good dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with silver Disney motif on front cover and silver title stamping on spine. Sunning to bottom edge. Binding is sturdy and square. Previous owner's gift inscription on first free endpaper. Silver pictorial dust jacket showing closed tears at crown, foot, and front edge under 1". Color illustrations throughout. 248 pp. including filmography. Folio. Retells 19 fairy tales, folk tales, fables, and poems illustrated with scenes from Walt Disney films. Also includes a brief history, analysis, and filmography of the Silly Symphonies, 75 short films produced between 1929 and 1939.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Very Good. First printing. Very Good. This edition is limited to 750 copies and the type has been distributed. Unnumbered copy. Quarter cloth leather spine with grey paper boards. Corners wearing, leather missing 1/8" at head of spine. Leather has a long thin indentation on front. Raised bands. Pp. 1-10 have small, uniform chip on lower right. Cream endpapers. Pages clean and sound. Thick paper. Embossed English department stamp, no other markings, not ex-library. 265 pp. including notes. Small quarto, 8 x 11 inches tall. Includes fascimiles of Whitman's original MS and letters.

Toronto: William Briggs, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. A very good plus first edition. Green cloth boards. Binding is tight, sturdy and square. Gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Heavy shelfwear to tail of spine. Bumped corners. Pages are clean and bright. No dustjacket. 123 pp. 5 x 7 1/2 inches tall, duodecimo.

New York: Macmillan, 1952. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good +. A very near fine two-volume set, complete, in a very good plus slipcase. Only flaw to books is previous owner's bookstamp on first free endpaper of each volume. Blue cloth boards with red and gold title stamping to spine. Green slipcase has lost a bit of cloth on the top, shows shelfwear on front edge, and unopened cracks at corners with sunning stripe to rear. xiv, 989 pp. : maps. Octavo A remarkable account of the military aspects of the American Revolution. Ward provides graphic portrayals of the fortifications, the terrain over which battles were fought, the part the Indians played, the technology of gunnery and the hundreds of details that go to make up the broad scope of the War of the North, the War of the South, and the War of the Border. ---worldcat

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +/very good. A very good plus first edition, as stated, in a very good dust jacket, Brown cloth boards with brown warrior motif on front cover and brown title stamping. Map endpapers. Previous owners bookstamp on first leaf. Illustrated with black and white photos (all present), Mull just starting to show on page 655. Dust jacket has been tape-repaired and shows loss to crown and top edge, and red wash to front inner flap. Closed tears less than 3/4" to rear jacket. See photos for other jacket wear. Jacket now proetcted in clear archival mylar. 655 pp. including index. Octavo. This definitive account of the rise of the Zulu nation under the great ruler Shaka and its fall under Cetshwayo has been acclaimed for its scholarship...In 1879, armed only with their spears, their rawhide shields, and their incredible courage, the Zulus challenged the might of Victorian England and, initially, inflicted on the British the worst defeat a… Read More

Austin: Eakin Press, 1984. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +/very good +. A very good plus / near fine first edition, inscribed by the author on the first free endpaper. Blue cloth boards, no bumps or rubbing, binding is a bit soft. In an unclipped, very good plus dust jacket showing a crease and slight rubbing to lower left front of jacket and miniscule wear to top right edge of jacket. xiv, 393 pages : illustrations, portraits. Octavo. Gut-wrenching, scared-as-hell story of a group of W.W. II college-age kids who flew B-25 Bombers in the South Pacific by the seat of their pants and wreaked havoc on Japanese military aspirations. Nine out of ten of the 354th didn't make it back.... R.E. Peppy Blount was one of these survivors." Front flap

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company., 1968. Early Printing. Hardcover. Fine/good. A fine example of Webster's second or the W2 in a good dust jacket. Appears barely used, with no markings or flaws to book. Brown cloth with gold title stamping and blue accents. Indo-European language tree end papers. Original good dust jacket for 1968 shows chipping and two 1.5 inch tears plus many small closed tears at top edge of jacket. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Maps, illustrations. 2129 pp. plus appendices. One of the most collectible of modern dictionaries. Extra shipping charges billed at actual cost.

Leipzig: Verlag von Theodor Weicher, 1924. unknown. Hardcover. Very good/missing. Title drawing and book decoration by Willi Geissler / Rudolstadt. A very good unknown, but early edition. Text in German Fraktur. Blue cloth boards with black Fraktur font titling on cover and spine. Sunning to spine and top edge of back cover. Binding a bit soft. Hinges are perfect. Previous owner's name inked on first free endpaper. Title drawing and book decoration by Willi Geissler / Rudolstadt.Missing dust wrapper. 581 [2] pp. 5 x 7 3/8 inches tall, duodecimo. Strong anti-Semitic stance, presented here for historical perspective only. Paul Schulze-Berghof was later a disseminator of the Nazi Zarathustra Myth.

New York: New American Library, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/missing. A near fine first printing, as stated, and bound upside down. Laid in with contemporary color news photos of the Kennedy family. Green quarter cloth under decorated burgundy paper boards. Top corners rubbed. Green end papers, no markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. Missing dust jacket. 205 pp. Duodecimo, 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches tall.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. As new/as new. A fine first edition, first printing in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Appears unread. 299 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates. Octavo. The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys who Flew the B-24s over Germany, by historian and best selling author Stephen Ambrose, was a New York Times best selling non-fiction book published in 2001. It details the lives and World War II experiences of pilots, bombardiers, navigators, radio operators and gunners flying B-24 bombers of the U.S. Army Air Force against Nazi Germany. The book entails a recounting of George McGovern's exceptional career as a chief pilot of a B-24 with the 455th Bomb Group in Italy, encompassing 35 bombing missions. With the odds of surviving all 35 missions as low as 50 %, the bomber crews flew during dangerous daylight hours, in risky tight flying formations, and despite bad weather and assaults of heavy, deadly, flak from ground-based German… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Very good +/very good +. A fine first edition, first printing. Inscribed to "Kitty" by the inimitable Willie Nelson on the title page in 1992. Complete number line. Blue paper covered boards under all American red quarter cloth. Deep blue endpapers. In a very near fine, unclipped original dustjacket. 334 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, index. Octavo.Contents: Let me be a man; Family Bible; Night life; Write your own song; I gotta get drunk and I sure do dread it; It's not supposed to be that way; On the road again; The healing hands of time, Willie Nelson is more than just a singer whose albums have captured this country's imagination for more than thirty years: he is the nearest thing we have to the poet laureate of America's heart and the heartland. Told with frankness, warmth and earthy humor, here is Willie's story: his Depression-era childhood; his stormy… Read More

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998. Limited Edition; Signed edition; First Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Eric Powell. A fine, signed limited first edition in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Nolan on the limitation page, number 400 of 450 copies. [Novella Seies no. 6]. Appears completely unread. Burgundy cloth binding. Fine dust jacket. Illustrated. 111 pp. Octavo. Halloween night, 1997. Two young couples are participating in a candle-lit seance. They're giggling. Joking around. They're not believers — even though the seance is taking place in the infamous Winchester House. Even though the spirit they are trying to contact is the legendary Sarah Winchester...But when the candle hisses out and the room plunges into darkness, their smiles soon turn to screams — and suddenly they believe...It's one year later, and David Kincaid, well-known investigator of the paranormal, is hot on the trail of Lyn Lucero, the missing younger sister of a long-time friend in… Read More

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Eric Powell. A fine, signed limited edition in a fine clamshell slipcase. Signed by Nolan on the limitation page, "O" of 26 lettered copies. [Novella Seies no. 6]. Appears completely unread. Burgundy clamshell slipcase. Burgundy cloth binding. Fine dust jacket. Color illustration. Traycased Hardcover Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather clamshell box and Smyth sewn with a satin ribbon page marker. 111 pp. Octavo. Halloween night, 1997. Two young couples are participating in a candle-lit seance. They're giggling. Joking around. They're not believers — even though the seance is taking place in the infamous Winchester House. Even though the spirit they are trying to contact is the legendary Sarah Winchester...But when the candle hisses out and the room plunges into darkness, their smiles soon turn to screams — and suddenly they believe...It's… Read More

London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2019. Reprint. Pictorial boards. As new/none as issued. W.W. Denslow; John R.Neill. An as new deluxe edition of this classic work. Black, silver, and gold pictorial boards. 19th printing. Original publisher's price and ISBN label on back of book. 480 pp. Octavo. This beautiful new edition collects together the best of L. Frank Baum's Oz works, taking material from the very first 1900 publication of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and subsequent novels including Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz and The Lost Princess of Oz.

Paris: Chez Barrie Frères and George Barrie & Son, [1891]. First Thus; Astral Edition. Full leather. Very good. Louis Leloir; Maurice Leloir; Jacques Leman; Edward Heduouin. Scarce (one copy in Worldcat). A exquisitely bound, very good first thus, limited edition in full crushed Levant morocco leather with gold tooling. Number 35 of 100 copies on Japan Vellum paper that were offered by subscription only. Binding is sturdy and square. All edges in brilliant gilt. Marbled endpapers. Over 150 engravings, some colored, all with captioned tissue guards. Original title pages to each play are reproduced in French. Text in English. Heavy rubbing to all joints, with dye transferring to one's fingers from rubbed joints. Rubbed corners. Still a lovely and prestigious set, even with the flaws noted below. Quarto, 9 x 12 inches tall. Illustrations by Mm. Louis Leloir, Maurice Leloir, Jacques Leman [and] Edmond Hedouin Heavy set will require additional postage billed at actual… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good +. A fine, complete, two volume set with both dust jackets and original slipcase. Buckram over blue cloth with sketch done in silver. Gold title stamping to spine. Burgundy endpapers. Previous owner's stamp to first blank leaf. Volume one dust jacket showing shelfwear at crown. Volume 2 dustjacket shows sunning and wear at crown. Pictorial slipcase is very good plus showing only moderate shelfwear. All plates present. Vol. 1. 601 pp., 24 plates; Vol. 2, 709 pp., 24 plates. Octavo. The editor has tackled, in these two volumes, a most difficult task: a compilation of selected readings dealing with major archeological excavations on every continent save Australia. The editor is to be congratulated for the general balance attained by the selection of articles....In both volumes nearly all footnotes have been eliminated. Where footnotes are of unusual importance or interest, however, they have been incorporated into the text in… Read More

New York: P.F. Collier and Son Company, 1919. Early Printing. Cloth. none as issued. A very good, three volume early printing. Olive green blind stamped boards with gilt title stamping.fronts, maps (1 folded), facsimiles.Volume I: Missing first free endpaperVolume II: Dampstain to top left cover, corners bumped, tear at crown 3/4".Volume III: Binding is soft, front board creased, paint spot to spine. v. 1. Beginning with the causes of the war and the invasion of Belgium in 1914 and carrying the history of the war to the close of 1915v. 2. Beginning with the attack at Verdun early in 1916 the story of the war and of American aid is carried to the close of 1917v. 3. Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919

Tübingen: R. Wunderlich, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Two fine books by Heuss included in this offering, one a first edition (Würdigungen : Reden, Aufsätze u. Briefe aus d. Jahren 1949 - 1955). In original, fine dust covers. Duodecimo.

Baltimore: CD Publications [Cemetery Dance], 1994. Limited Edition; First edition. Cloth. As new/as new. Mark Nelson. A Fine first limited edition in a fine dustjacket and slipcase. As New. SIGNED by the suthor and the illustrator on the limitation page. This is number 400 of 500 copies printed. Slipcased Limited Edition of 500 signed and numbered copies featuring a comic book script, the comic, and an essay not collected in the trade edition, with introductions by Joe R. Lansdale. Yellow cloth boards, red endpapers. 227 pp. plus unnumbered pages. Octavo. The weird. The terrible. The fantastic. The real. It's all here in Joe R. Lansdale's latest and best collection yet. Stories from the dark side, the light side, and all shades in between, this is a masterful collection by one of the short story's modern masters. It doesn't get any stranger, more original, or better than this.Sample these fantastic and horrible delights from the mind of Joe R. Lansdale:•… Read More

Flagstaff: Museum of Northern Arizona, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. Fine. Fine in original paper wraps. From the private library of Larry Southwick. Illustrated with black and white photos, maps, charts, graphs and drawings. 74 pp. Quarto, 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall.