Search Results: Titles starting with W from Frogtown Books, Inc.

Viking Press, 1991. First Edition. hard Cover. fine/fine.

Thompson Products, 1935. First Edition. Hardback. very good - some discoloration to the foredge of the pages.

New York: Century Co, 1917. Signed Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine condition./Very good condition. The slipcase is worn and soiled.. Louis Raemaker. Two Volumes.

New York: Hyperion, 1999. Stated First Edition. 8vo. Green paper covered boards. Black cloth spine stamped in gold. Book is fine./Dust jacket also fine.. For more than fifty years, it was stored in a soldier's footlocker. One of the most remarkable tales of American military history, This book is one man's chronicle of his incredible 159-day escape from the infamous Bataan Death March and harrowing voyage across the enemy-held Pacific in a leaky, wooden boat during World War II.

4to. 10-5/8" x 7-5/8". Perfect bound softcover. Unpaginated. A couple of tiny stains on fore-edge, otherwise fine condition.. Sorry I cannot give much information about this book. There are illustrations, some in color, from which I have deduced that it is a soldier's manual showing scenes of military tactics for desert warfare.

Scribners. Sangamon Edition. hard cover. very good.

Garden City: Doubleday & Co, 1974. Tall 8vo. 119 pp. Blue cloth stamped in gold on spine. Purple endpapers. Purple speckled bottom edge of text block. Book in fine condition./Price clipped dust jacket with white mark on front panel. 1" closed tear at top edge. Some rubbing along edges.. Illustrated with haunting woodblock prints by the author.. The Warlock of Westfall is the tale of Samuel Swift, a lonely, eccentric bachelor in his late seventies who lives the life of a recluse near the village of Westfall, Massachusetts. His loneliness leads him to invent an imaginary family, and the discovery of his "family" leads to his arrest, trial, and execution as a disciple of the devil. But there is more to this story of a community's fight against Satan, as the reader will discover in this beautifully illustrated historical novel.

New York: Baker and Scribner, 1851. Sixteenth Thousand. Cloth. good - some chipping to the spine, hinges are solid.

Harpy Trophy, 1989. 1st Harpy Trophy Edition. paperback. fine.

New York: Farrar, Strauss and Young, 1952. First Edition. 8vo. Beige paper covered boards with beige spine stamped in green. 242 pp. Margins of covers a little faded. Some darkening to fore-edge and top edge. Corner of ffep clipped. Overall a tight, clean very good copy./Price clipped dust jacket a little darkened along the margins. Some wear at top of spine. Crisp, sturdy and colorful.. Photo illustrated..

Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1946. First Edition. 8vo. Cream colored paper covered boards stamped in orange and black. 185 pp. A clean, tight, beautiful copy, almost as new but for a little bowing at the fore-edge of the front cover.. Illustrations by K. Alexander. This little collection of stories presents a delicate literary problem. According to the proprieties of the occasion it is necessary first to determine the exact nature of the narrations. Deliberation reveals certain facts which require thoughtful attention. The accounts which follow are not fables for the reason that a fable often relates to animals humanized in their moral or intellectual qualities. It would be equally untrue to refer to these writings as myths, for mythology is concerned with divine beings and the conduct of those beings as preserved in the religions histories of old times. It would be equally inappropriate to refer to these productions as legends, for legendry records the events of celebrated heroes,… Read More

1978. First Edition. Hardcover. fine/very good. Parnall, Peter.

Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1945. Fifth Revised Edition. 8vo. 9-5/16" x 6". Beige paper covered boards. 127 pp. Front cover is slightly bowed. But, overall this book is tight, clean, unmarked and in near fine condition.. With six illustrations by J. Augustus Knapp. Dedicated to the band of Silent Workers - known in this world as the Lords of Compassion and the Brothers of the Shining Robe, - who labor eternally with the Children of Men in the name of the Great Father, this volume is dedicated by the author, that it may bear witness to the spiritual truths which they serve. Contains these stories: Nature's Homage; The Maker of the Gods, The Master of the Blue Cape; The Face of Christ; The Guardian of the Light; THe One Who Turned Back; The Glory of The Lord; The Last of the Shamans.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. Third Printing. Sky blue paper covered boards. Midnight blue spine stamped in silver and sky blue. 8vo. 325 pp. including index. Fine condition./Jacket near fine.. Illustrated with black and white photographs.. An enthralling story, told with clarity and authority.

New York: Viking, 1938. First edition. Unpaginated small 4to. Pictorial paper covered boards. Yellow cloth spine. Book is in fine condition. Just a touch of shelfwear on bottom edges of cover./Jacket has seven carefully tape repaired closed tears. Some edgewear and front panel looks to be clipped, however the price of $1.00 is printed on the back jacket flap!. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. Wee Gillis's father's relations were all Highlanders, stalking stags, while his mother's relations were all Lowlanders, raising long-haired cows, and he had to make up his mind which he would be. The sturdy Scotch way in which he solved the problem provides Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, creators of Ferdinand, with a second perfect story in which they see eye to eye on everything. A Caldecott Honor book for 1939. Robert Lawson loved to draw! 33 full page pen and ink drawings. Green and white pictorial endpapers.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1983. The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature, a limited edition collection is published under the auspices of The American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. (There is no hint of what the limitation is). 8vo. bound in Blue-green leather with ornate gold tooling. All edges gilt. Silk moiré endpapers. Fine condition.. Illustrated by Henry Bugbee Cane. Decorative initials in the limited edition are the work of Steve Salerno.. This lovely printing is a great gift item.

H. C. Peck, 1860. First Edition. Brown Cloth. fine.

The Preservation Press, 1989. First Edition. Soft Cover. fine. Photo Illustrated.

Boston: Chapple Publishing Company, Limited, 1918. 8vo. 9" x 6-1/2". Beige cloth covered boards stamped in dark blue and red. A little wearing away along the front joint about 1" down from top and two small pin holes farther down joint. Touch of light finger soil on fore-edge. Overall a very good copy.. A Voice from the Soldiers and Sailors Overseas -People and Places Visited in the War Zones With 40 illustrations..

Printed in Czechoslovakia T 534: Hampster Books, no date. No edition mentioned. 4to. 9-7/8" x 7-1/2". Color pictorial paper covered boards. Red cloth spine. 78 pp. Black and white pictorial pastedown endpapers. Charming pen and ink illustrations. Very good condition..