Search Results: Titles starting with W from Lippincott Books

n.p.: Dawson, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine. xiv, 802 pages. Indexes. Turquoise cloth, spine title gilt. A little thumb soiling, otherwise clean & tight. "[C]ontains more than 7,900 items; this number includes about 350 additions to Allan Wake's bibliography of Yeats's own writings." Oversize book: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1990. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 273pp, index, notes, maps, photos. Dj has rippling to upper front panel with a few faint spots. In mylar protector.

Belfast: Black Staff Press, 1994. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 198pp.

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1960. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/GVG. x, 180 pp. Includes appendix and postscript. The play was presented on a BBC Scottish Service broadcast in November 1959. From the Library of Edward "Sandy" Ives, writer, singer, anthropologist, and authority on the folksongs and folklore of Maine and Maritime Canada, with his name on the ffep. See our Catalog "Ives, Edward" for more books from his collection. Very slight slant to spine, else near fine. Dustjacket price intact, with minimal fading on spine and 2 closed tears, else VG.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/Good. x, 346 pp. Map endpapers. Autobiography. Lavender cloth with light sunning, VG+ in dust jacket, which is NOT price-clipped, has some soiling, edge wear, three 1" chips; still, a bright red with woodcut portrait of author on front cover.

New York: Macmillan, 1943. Stated First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. 64 pp. From the library of Rosalind Richards, with her signature on the ffep. Rosalind Richards (1874-1964) was the daughter of novelist Laura Richards and granddaughter of suffragist and author Julia Ward Howe. Rosalind Richards wrote two children's books and A Northern Countryside, which blended local and natural history and so impressed Henry Beston that he dedicated Northern Farm to her. Edwin Arlington Robinson was a neighbor of the Richards family, and one of his biographers reported that pressed blossoms from Rosalind Richards, one of the loves of his life, were buried with him. Color worn on spine edges, else near fine. Dustjacket corners clipped but with price intact, with sunned spine, and voids on top edge.

Salt Lake City: Univ Utah Pr., 1978. First Thus . Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 94pp, drawings, maps. Board corners lightly bumped, very light dj soil, else clean, tight, near fine. Aztec eyewitness account of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico, herewith first translated from to Nahautl to English. The 90 Aztec illustrations are published here for the first time from Fr. Sahagun's manuscripts in a Florentine library. An interesting work & somewhat scarce.

Washington. D.C: Memorial Temple Committee of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial, 1913. 6th Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarto viii, 380 pp. Blue cloth, spine gilt, coat of arms gilt on front board. Color frontispiece portrait, numerous plates, facsimiles of letters, documents, maps. Near Fine

New York, N.Y.: Rizzoli International Pub., 2002. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 176 pp. Quarto. Blue cloth. Includes over 100 maps from the 17th century to the present, many in full color, with detailed description and historical context for each. With index. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 287, [2] pp. Blue cloth, stamped in black on spine and front panel. First edition of author's second novel, his first to be published in the United States. Trumbo was the subject of the 2015 film based on his life. Trumbo wrote the film scripts to Roman Holiday, Exodus, Spartacus, and The Brave One, and was blacklisted for his suspected Communist activity during the McCarthy era. This is a political novel, a satire set in Washington, D.C. during the New Deal. Previous owner's name on front free end-paper else Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with tape repair at head and tail of the spine of the jacket and some minor tears. Photos provided on request.

Portland (ME): Portland Society of Natural History, 1959. Original Wraps. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 36pp. An informative pamphlet summarizing the historical observations of sea birds in this area. With puffin sketch on front wrapper.

Loughcrew (Ireland): Gallery Books, 1999. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 129pp. In Irish, with English translations by Medbh McGuckian and Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

Moylan, Pennsylvania: Robert and Elizabeth Anthony, 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Robert Anthony. 48 pp. Green cloth, title gilt. Poems by Elizabeth; drawings by Robert. With 12 b&w full-page illustrations. Very light toning to edges. Dustjacket has soiling and a little edge wear. Presentation copy, signed by both Elizabeth and Robert, to the Huntings [Constance and Robert]. Constance Hunting was founder and editor of the Puckerbrush Press and the Puckerbrush Review and an important and influential poet in her own right. Thirty years after William Carlos Williams praised her work in Poetry, Mary McCarthy wrote "She is an exquisite poet, fully modern yet lucid, without willed obscurity." See also our listing #3853BT. NF/VG

Loanhead, Midlothian: The Water of Leith Project Group, 1987. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-. C. A. Hope. 196 pp. Gray cloth, spine title gilt, map endpapers. With appendix, tables, maps. Illustrations by C. A. Hope, Ian Temple, James Steele. Price-clipped dustjacket has wear and toning along top edge. Contents include geology, hydrology, flora, fungi, birds, fish and invertebrates, and literary associations.

Augusta (Maine): Sprague, Owen & Nash, 1869. Cloth. Fair to Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 526pp, tables, illustrations, folding colored map (1 small edgetear). There is some waterstaining to page edges & margins, light foxing, hinge cloth has parted along front panel about 2'', but hinge is sound.

Philadelphia: George H Buchanan Company, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Elizabeth Anthony. 48 pp. Blue cloth, title gilt. With 13 full-page b&w illustrations by the author. Very light toning to edges. Dustjacket has very light soiling. Presentation copy to Constance Hunting, founder and editor of the Puckerbrush Press and the Puckerbrush Review and an important and influential poet in her own right. Thirty years after William Carlos Williams praised her work in Poetry, Mary McCarthy wrote: "She is an exquisite poet, fully modern yet lucid, without willed obscurity." See also our listing #3854BT.

Mill Valley, Calif.: The Wings Press, 1938. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-. 36 pp. Light green paper-covered boards, green cloth spine, titles stamped in green. Sunning to spine and top edges of boards, a little wear at spine edges. Interior clean & tight.

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1929. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Frank C. Pape. 209, [5] pp. From the library of Roland and Donna Baughman, with their bookplate on front pastedown. Baughman, a founder of Grey Bow Press, was Curator of Special collections at Columbia University from 1946-1967. Black cloth spine with decorative gilt & black paper on boards and on slipcase. Gilt lettering worn off spine, else very good. Good only partial slip case is missing top board, gold paper label describing the plot is intact on front panel. VG/G

Boston, Massachusetts: Christian Science Publishing Society, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. [x], 110 pp. Includes index, color frontispiece. Yellow cloth, brown cloth spine, titles gilt. A touch of foxing to edges.

NY: Macmillan, 1968. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 53pp. Presented to fellow poet Philip Booth, and inscibed on the half-title. A few marginal notations in ink by Booth. A nice association copy of the author's first book which won the Lamont Prize in 1968. Top edge of cover cloth is faded, dj is yellowed along spine & top edge. In mylar protector.