Disciple & Master
by WITKIN, Joel-Peter and Pierre Borhan
New York: Fotofolio, 2000. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 120 pages. Features an introduction by Pierre Borhan. A terrific collection that pairs some of Witkin's best images with the artworks that inspired them. Includes 57 duotone and quadratone illustrations by Witkin and Walker Evans, Henri Cartier Bresson, Charles Negre, Diane Arbus, Weegee, and others. A clean very near... Read More
Offered by Jeff Hirsch Books
Electricity (Parts 1-3)
by Witkowski, J. F.; I. C. S. Staff
Scranton, PA: International Textbook Company, 1945. International Library edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 98pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Navy blue cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and an embossed title on the front cover. Publisher's blue stain on the text block edges. Marbled-effect endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Text block cracked at... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
Manhattan Night
by Wolff, William Almon
New York: Minton, Balch & Company. Very Good+. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good solid copy, slight wear to extremities, large and attractive custom bookplate (Alex and Lois Webster) on front pastedown]. Mystery novel, of sorts, centered around New York's nightlife; one critic at the time noted that "although there is a murder... Read More
Offered by ReadInk
Chinese Dishes for Foreign Homes. A Revised and Enlarged Edition of the Popular "Chinese Dishes"
by Wong, Nellie C
Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good. Red hardcover boards, string-bound sheets, strings have presumably Chinese coins attached. Light stain to front cover, else a nice copy. Nellie Choy Wong was the first Chinese woman to publish a Chinese cookbook in English. She was stolen from her parents and sold into slavery at age 8 before escaping... Read More
Offered by Crooked House
A Warrior Who Fought Custer. Interpreted by …
by (Wooden Leg) Marquis, Thomas B.
Minneapolis: Midwest Company, 1931. First edition, second issue with Caxton Printers on spine of binding and jacket. Illustrated with photographic plates, maps. [xii], 384, [6] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Very good in very good dust jacket (some minor rubbing and staining). First edition, second issue with Caxton Printers on spine of binding and jacket. Illustrated... Read More
Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.
The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Volume Three 1925-1930
by Woolf, Virginia; Bell (editor), Anne Olivier; McNeillie, Andrew
Harcourt, Brace, 1980. Very Good. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Volume Three 1925-1930. Bell (editor), Anne Olivier; McNeillie, Andrew. NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1980. 384pp. Indexed. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with light bumping. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with rubbing and bumping. Short tears in spine head and remainder slash on bottom edge.
Offered by Weller Book Works
The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Complete First Edition Five Volume Set.
by Woolf, Virginia; Bell, Anne Olivier ( Edited by)
New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. Book. Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All five volumes are First American Edition stated, with letter line BCDE . Introduction by Quentin Bell. Complete five volume set in dark navy blue cloth covered boards with gilt device to fronts and gilt lettering to the spines. The set... Read More
Offered by Dale Steffey Books
The Good Companions
by Woollcott, Alexander
New York: Privately Printed. 1936. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book, privately printed in New York. A casual essay on the development of the seeing eye dog. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 23 pp .
Offered by Beasley Books
Shouts and Whispers Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights
by Woollcott, Alexander
New York: Century Company. 1922. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine, slight fading to the spine and a bit of soiling to the top edge of the text block. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pp .
Offered by Beasley Books
Mrs. Fiske Her Views On Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production
by Woollcott, Alexander
New York: Century Company. 1917. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very good+ with foxing throughout the book, a slight lean and abrasion on the front paste down. Still a nice looking copy, illustrated with photographs. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 229 pp .
Offered by Beasley Books
Marin County Civic Center
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
Marin County: Marin County Civic Center, 1957. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff wraps. 28 pages. 20 x 27 cm. Printed in red and black with black and white and color plates. Wright's dedication and introduction to the founding of the center and detailed analysis of all the components of the Civic Center. Plans and commentary on the construction. ... Read More
Offered by Roy Young Bookseller, Inc.
Frank Lloyd Wright Yamagiwa; Lighting Collection
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
Np: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Nd. Stiff board folder. Orig. black stiff folder with FLW logo on cover.. Sixteen 28 x 22 individual sheets on glossy stock presenting his lamp designs in brilliant color with details of each design on back cover and laid-in the black stiff folder the "Weissgram" a supplier of Wright products located in Pittsburg.... Read More
Offered by Roy Young Bookseller, Inc.
The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
New York: Horizon Press, 1960. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers.. Approx. 28 leaves. 25 x 20 cm. Illustrated in black and white on glossy stock -- photographs and plans.
Offered by Roy Young Bookseller, Inc.
Frank Lloyd Wright Staircase
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
Np: Np, Nd. Stiff Wraps. Orig. decorated front cover. Very good. 19 x 20 cm. Fold out illustrated in color and black and white on glossy stock. Toning to front cover.
Offered by Roy Young Bookseller, Inc.
[Coronet] Master-Builder; Concerning Frank Lloyd Wright. Stormy Petrel Of Architects
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
Coronet, 1937. First printing. Paper. Orig. tan paper. Very good. 14 pages. 19 x 14 cm. Photographs in color and black and white. Article by Meyer Levin.
Offered by Roy Young Bookseller, Inc.
Drawings for a living architecture
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
Published for the Bear Run Foundation, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 14x11x1. Oversize Hardcover First edition with price-clipped dust jacket (now in an archival protective wrapper). The jacket does have some chipping and small tears along the edge (as do most copies listed). otherwise binding is sound, pages are clean and unmarked (except for previous owners name... Read More
Offered by Ed's Editions Bookstore
ALS to Noverre Musson
by Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd
Taliesen, 1940. First edition. Wraps. Near fine. Wright, Frank Lloyd. Two leave, 18 x 27. Musson was an architect in Taliesen from 1935-1937. Letter in blue ink chastises Musson for going out on his own, chiding him, noting the endeavor (Taliesen) was a great one, and stating, "I would have liked to have seen you part of it."... Read More
Offered by Roy Young Bookseller, Inc.
Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930
by Frank Lloyd Wright
Princeton University Press, 1931. Decorative Boards. Near Fine. A crisp, bright copy of the 1931 1st edition. Tight and VG+ to Near Fine in its decorative beige boards, with just a bit of very faint soiling at the panels. Internally, one discreet small name --and address and date-- at the front free endpaper (that of John M. Gaus... Read More
Offered by Appledore Books
Southwest Indian Drypainting
by WYMAN, Leland C. (text); David P. McAllester (foreword); Douglas W. Schwartz (general editor)
Santa Fe / Albuquerque: A School of American Research Book / University of New Mexico Press, 1983. First Edition. Octavo (26cm); oatmeal cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and rear cover; dustjacket; [xxiv],[2],3-320pp; colorful photographs, black-and-white photographic halftones, and illustrations throughout. School of American Research Southwest Indian Arts Series. This copy is from the library of... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
How to Take Your Grandmother to the Museum
by Wyse, Lois; Goldman, Molly Rose; Gay, Marie-Louise
c1998. Fine. Wyse, Lois. How to Take Your Grandmother to the Museum. Goldman, Molly Rose; Gay, Marie-Louise. New York: NP, c1998. 48pp. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Spine lightly faded.
Offered by Weller Book Works
MASTERPIECES OF SNUFF BOTTLES IN THE PALACE MUSEUM
by Xia, Gengqi, et al. [Compiled by]
Beijing: Forbidden City Publishing House, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto, 218 pages. In Good plus condition. Paperback binding. Spine red with white and black lettering. Faux dust jacket. Covers have slight wear including mild soiling, faint sunning and minor edge wear. Slight cocking to the spine. Text block has very slight wear. Slight scratches and scuffs to the title... Read More
Offered by Second Story Books
Manana
by Xitu, Uanhenga
Lisbon: Edições 70, 1978. 185p. paperback, first several pages not bound in properly, but later glued in place. Moderate handling wear, especially to spine. A decent reading copy. Second edition. Colecção Autores angolanos, 11.
Offered by Bolerium Books Inc.
LOS SENTIDOS AL AIRE
by Yañez, Agustin
México: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Departamento de Literatura, 1964. color port., b/w illus., color pict. wrps. Full page illustrations, vignettes, and cover illustration by Moreno Capdevila.
Offered by Beverly Karno Books, Inc.
Liars in Love
by YATES, Richard
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1981. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 272 pages. Anthology of short stories from the writer of "Revolutionary Road." A clean and tight very near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a near fine dust jacket with some of the usual sunning to the spine. ... Read More
Offered by Jeff Hirsch Books
The Vixens.
by YERBY, Frank.
NY:: Dial Press,. Good in Good dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. A novel. First edition. Previous owner's name and date (1947) on front free endpaper, uniform age toning throughout text block, else good in a good (edge worn with a few small chips, age toning) dust jacket. .
Offered by Grendel Books