Search Results: Authors starting with W from McBlain Books

Parklands: Ad. Donker, 1992. 1st ed. Paperback. Fine. vi, 58p. Wrapper. 20cm.

Wageningen, 1959. Paperback. Very Good. folding map (laid in), ix, 142p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Dutch text. Dissertation.

Le Caire, 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. First item: 114p. Second item: 166p. Later quarter cloth with both wrappers bound in. 24cm. Former owner's name. French text.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1900. 2nd ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. frontis, illustrations, maps (1 folding), index, xvi, 452p. Original red cloth. 21cm. Former owner's name. No Jacket.

New York: The Overlook Press, 1976. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. numerous illustrations (many in color), 144p. Original black cloth. dj (front flap trimmed at top and price-clipped). 28cm.

Philadelphia: Baptist General Tract Society, 1834. Paperback. Good. [3], 106-120, [2]p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 17 cm. The two outer leaves are browned. All interior leaves have extensive but mostly moderate foxing. No separate wrapper present. Headed in type at top of first page No. 140 suggesting that was was No. 140 in the tracts issued by the Baptist General Tract Society. Ms. Wade had been a missionary in India and for a longer period in Burma where she probably worked among the Karen people. Wade had traveled around the country with two Burmese converts, seeking to encourage and inspire those supportive of missions among the "heathens." The Philadelphia speech was given in 1833 or 1834. Ms. Allen's attempt to reconstruct Wade's had gotten the speaker's sanction as to the correctness of facts before Wade returned to Burma.

Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1907. Seventh impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. frontis, illustrations, 110, (16)p. Original decorative cloth. dj. 20 cm. Jacket has minor edge-wear plius a lttle chipping at ends of backstrip panel. Front endpaper split along hinge. The Little Cousin Series.

Wellington: H. H. Tombs, n.d.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. frontis, illustrations, index, 131p. Original orange cloth. dj. 24 cm. Jacket somewhat browned and worn (including a few modest chips).

Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. index, xii, 106p. Original black boards. dj. 22cm.

Paris: Librairie Istra, 1963. Paperback. Very Good. index, 637p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Foxing on front cover. Unopened. French text. INSCRIBED on first interior leaf by Wagner ("To Dorothry R. Ward who helped rake together what it took to write this book very sincerely Jean Wagner"). Doctoral thesis at the Universite de Paris. We have not identified Ms. Ward.

Madrid, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 383p. Original cloth. dj. 24 cm. Spine slightly sloped. Fading along top and bottom edges of binding. Printed presentation slip (to a named recipient) from the "Director Ajunto de la Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Espanoles" taped at corners to the front free endpaper. Spanish text.

London: Printed for G. Kearsley, at Johnson's Head, No. 46, Fleet Street, 1786. 1st [and apparently only contemporary] ed. with Wakefield's "Notes.". Hardcover. Very Good. xvix [i.e. xxvi], 207p. Contemporary calf. 21cm. Cover rubbed at joints and around edges but still quite sound. Light to moderate foxing, mostly in first quarter of book.

1972. Paperback. Good. 21 x 28cm. Fold mark. Browning & wear around the edges. Produced by Joseph Papp. Lists seven (free) performances during August, 1972.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 117p. dj. 21cm. Poetry - "Their memorable, compact lines further Walcott's continuous effort to crystallize images of the Caribbean landscape and people." [jacket blurb].

New York: Holmes & Meier, 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine. Illustrated in black & white, 93p. Original blue cloth. Illustrated from cover from wrappered edition mounted on front cover. 26cm. Light cover soil. No Jacket (as published). Exhibition at University Gallery, University of Minnesota and first published by them. H & M simply pasted their publishers labels on the title and copyright pages of the Minnesota edition. For this hardcover edition, H&M had the Minnesota contents bound in blue cloth and mounted the illustrated front cover from the softcover edition.

[Sydney], 1929. Paperback. Very Good. photos, (32) unnumbered pages. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Modest cover browning. Catalog for an exhibition at the Galleries of the Education Department Building, Loftus Street August 3-24, 1929.

Paris: Plon, 1912. No statement of edition on title-page. Hardcover. Near Fine. portrait (as frontis), viii, 698p. Later 3/4 leather (marbled boards with dark blue backing and large corners). 24cm. A tiny bit of rubbing. Foxing on page edges. No jacket. French text. An appealing copy.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 247p. Cloth-backed boards. dj. 20 cm. Minor cover fading Jacket backstrip and adjacent areas dampstained, darkened and worn with chipping at top and bottom. Laid in under a jacket flap is a 1977 clipping from the New York Times of an article by Walker about her father occasioned by a look-alike she met in Cuba. Her first novel.

New York: Random House, 2004. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 213p. Orginal black boards. dj. 24 cm. A few spots on top edge of pages. SIGNED on title-page by Walker. A novel. "[T]he story of a woman's spiritual adventure that becomes a passage through time, a quest for self and collision with love." [from the jacket flap].

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 138p. Original cloth. dj. 20 cm. Jacket has some edge-wear, a short corner tear and a backstrip panel with some small spots and other wear. Former owner's name ("Yvette Le Roy"). INSCRIBED on half-title ("For Yvette for old times sake & hello [,,,] ! Alice Walker"). Short stories. Yvette Le Roy, the inscribee, owned Liberty House, a bookshop in Harlem between 1969 and 1979, which offered a place during that decade for a lot of African American authors, probably including Walker, to promote their books.