Search Results: Authors starting with C from The FW Collections

HOLLOWAY, Laura C. THE LADIES OF THE WHITE HOUSE; or, in the Home of the Presidents. Being a complete history of the social and domestic lives of the presidents from Washington to the present time- 1789-1881. With numerous engravings on steel and wood. Philadelphia: Bradley & Company, 1881. First edition thus, updated through 1881. (The first edition was printed in 1870.) Large , brown cloth decorated in black & gilt, a.e.g; 736pp. boards rubbed. Bradley & Company, 1881. Hardcover.A Complete History of the Social and Domestic lives of the Presidents from Washington to the Present time---1789-1881. Numerous engravings on steel and wood

Published to mark the centenary of Einstein's birth, the book explains the salient ideas of relativity in plain language. A very good clean hardback in unclipped dustwrapper. 178 pages including index. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams. All pages intact, clean and unmarked

1980 , fine all pages clean and unmarked, Follows the building of a house from the drafting of the plans to the housewarming party.

Bantam, 1995. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine and unclipped. 1st Edition. Dorothy Cannell award-winning author of The Thin Woman, The Widows Club, and How to murder your mother-in-law, spins a diabolically comic tale of hapless romance and suspicious death. All Pages clean and unmarked

A Whitman Tell a TAle book, pages starting to yellow but are clean and unmarked

Row, Peterson and Company, New York, Evanston, IL, 1941. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hoopes, Florence and Margaret Hoopes (illustrator). Second Edition. School book. Corners lightly nudged. Yellow and red lettering and illustrations to spine and front board, green cloth-covered boards, illustrated by two children beside a large spinning top. Full color illustrations to every page. Unmarked. Tight binding. 204 pp with word list. The Alice and Jerry Books Reading Foundation Series. Contains: Alice and Jerry and Jack stories (Quack-Quack The Fisherman; The Toy Mender; Pears for Pauline); Moving Day; Bobby and Billy Were Twins; Grandmother's Ride. VERY TIGHT AND CLEAN COPY. Pages clean and unmarked

Random House. Condition: fine All Pages clean and unmarked. slight rub on edges of spine

John C. Winston Co., Chicago & Philadelphia, 1950. Hardcover. Condition: good+, No Dust Jacket This is a 1950 reprint of the 1934 first edition. shelf wear rubbing to some of the corners and edges. Decorated title page.; 504 pages;illus., There are numerous black and white illustrations by Willy Pogany, as well as 21 in color, including the frontispiece. 504 pages, including the index and glossary. cover loose Lamont school primary room

all pages Intact, clean and unmarked

Poster WWII Business as usual- America Open Your eyes
This specific poster was designed by Jean Carlu, and it was commissioned, for a WWII-themed issue of Fortune, by Francis Brennan, an explanation for the series was printed on the back:
Size: 11.25 X 14.5

Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain"), Henry James, Ernest Hemingway—Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of these American literary icons in her newest work of prose fiction, poignantly and audaciously reinventing the climactic events of their lives. In subtly nuanced language suggestive of each of these writers, Oates explores the mysterious regions of the unknowable self that is "genius"—for Edgar Allan Poe, a belated encounter with bizarre life‑forms utterly alien to the poet's exalted Romantic aesthetics; for Emily Dickinson, resurrected in the twenty-first century in a "distilled" state, a belated encounter with blundering humanity and brute passion of a kind excluded from the poet's verse; for the elderly, renowned Samuel Clemens, a belated encounter with impassioned innocence, in the form of "the little girl who loves you"; for Henry James, an aging volunteer in a London hospital during World War I, a belated encounter with the physicality of desire and the raw… Read More

This is the first book of Mari Sandoz's sister's major effort to round up and publish the letters of Mari Sandoz for the six years before her first book, OLD JULES, was published in 1935. The material of which this is a part ,was originally published in four separate volumes starting in 1972. does not have the slipcase. Signed by Mari Sandoz. ( may need more detailed research by those 0rganizations dedicated to her memory and works.) On June 5, 1950, Mari Sandoz walked across the stage of the Nebraska Coliseum during the annual commencement ceremony of the University of Nebraska. Before a crowd of well over 2,000, she shook Chancellor Rueben Gustavson's hand and proudly accepted an honorary Doctorate of Literature.The degree stated, "Mari Susette Sandoz, distinguished Nebraska historian, biographer, novelist, story writer." For the 54-year-old Sandoz, the honor not only assuaged her academic insecurities—she had neither high school diploma nor formal college degree—but it validated twenty years… Read More

1945 reprint of 1944 original edition. Collins, London & Glascow, 1945. Hard Cover. Sherwood, G.L. (illustrator). Reprint. Scarce. 34 pages.of charming full page coloured illustrations by G.S. Sherwood to all the well known Alice poems. 9 in x 12 in. Title page illustrated with delightful color plate. 12 verses all illustrated with wonderful color plates. One page loose at spine mended neatly with tape. Unpaginated, hinges loose, Pages in very good condition, no writing tear or creases. Yellow end papers with library residue. Blue cloth with gilt illustration on upper cover. Edges and spine worn. no dust jacket, 1/4 of spine cover separated

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940, 1940. First Edition. Number 341 of a limited edition of 520 numbered and signed by Willa Cather. Only 498 of the 520 Limited Edition were offered for sale. Fine copy in Dust Jacket, Slipcase not present. Book was printed on Rives Liampre All-Rag Paper. Each copy signed by the Author. Cather's Last Novel. Octavo, original half gilt-stamped green cloth, top edge gilt. Fine in the original dust jacket. Willa Cather's "last novel is a tour de force of narrative, returning once again to history as a series of tales told and tales remembered. A Pre-Civil War novel set in the Virginia of Cather's early childhood, Sapphira and the Slave Girl intertwines the escape narrative of an enslaved African American, with the imperious, proud, and vengeful mistress of the house" (Modern American Women Writers, 45).

Lucy Gayheart is a study of the effect that Lucy has on others told in retrospect her own point of view. The story opens twenty-five years after Lucy's death, when her memory is still fondly cherished by the residents of her small hometown: "In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart. Most of the novel takes place during the year before Lucy's death, when she is in her early twenties and is just beginning to understand herself and to make choices about her future.

This is Book One of Two . 1972, Has Ink Doodling on the front Cover, Ink writing on the inside cover and facing page. this facing page has a 5 inch piece torn from it. all inside pages are clean and unmarked. corners bumped

A personal glimpse into the life of one of the most influential twentieth-century philosophers covers his involvement with the existentialist movement and false accusations associating him with Hitler and Nazism. During 1888 in Turin, Italy, Nietzsche wrote three of his most important works - Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and The Antichrist. As she recounts the dramatic births of those books, Chamberlain paints a portrait of the majestic baroque city in which Nietzsche spent the last sane year of his life before his famous mental breakdown damaged him permanently. Nietzsche in Turin is both a remarkable book of travel literature and a unique biography of one of our most celebrated, though often misunderstood, thinkers. In Chamberlain's account, Friedrich Nietzsche emerges as a gentle, tortured man, dominated by his rigorous mind and his love of music, and soothed by the strangely otherworldly city of Turin.All pages clean and unmarked

197 pp This copy, published 1922 in original dark brown cloth, tanning end papers (light brown to start with). Previous owner's name, very neat in longhand, ink, on first fep. Binding square and tight, very clean, binding edges lightly worn, Cloth on Boards spotted. Macmillans Pocket edition

Penguin Books. Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Pages clean and Unmarked

Provides a pictorial journey through America's two favorite amusement parks, with stops along Main Street and in Adventureland, Tomorrowland, Frontierland, and Fantasyland. Clean pages and unmarked. Dust Cover good but soiled, Water Stain on corner of front cover