9.332 Ergebnisse
1998Best.-Nr. 78589London: Chatto & Windus 1998. First edition. xii 435 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. London: Chatto & Windus unknown books
1916Best.-Nr. 177838Racine WI and Chicago IL: Whitman Publishing Co 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Children's book written and illustrated by Warner Carr. Includes several color plates. A near fine copy with some minor wear and a former owner signature to the front free endpaper in an about very good dust jacket that has a large chip to the base of the front panel some small chips to the spine ends and some other minor wear. Still a pleasing copy of this book which is fairly uncommon in any dust jacket. Whitman Publishing Co unknown books
2001Best.-Nr. 81459bdMontgomery Alabama: River City Publishing 2001. Large octavo softbound stiff slick full-color illus. white wrappers 302 pp. Fine As New. From lower cover: For most people Florida means palm trees beaches and Mickey Mouse. But there’s another more timeless Florida of places like Crescent City and the St. Johns River where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s books Cross Creek and The Yearling come alive; of places like Eatonville where Zora Neale Hurston lived and St. Petersburg where Jack Kerouac died; of places like Cassadaga where you can have your fortune told; and Tallahassee where the presidency -- and our nation’s fortunes -- were twice decided. This is David Warner’s Florida. Vanishing Florida. River City Publishing, (2001). paperback books
1997Best.-Nr. 73396London: Jonathan Cape 1997. First edition. 214 pp. Pages toned cheap paper else very near fine in like dust jacket. London: Jonathan Cape unknown books
1997Best.-Nr. 71841London: Jonathan Cape 1997. First trade paperback printing. 214 pp. Pages toned else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Warner on the title page. London: Jonathan Cape paperback books
2001Best.-Nr. 71137London: Harvill 2001. First edition. xiv 193 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Edited by Michael Setinman. Foreword by William Maxwell. London: Harvill unknown books
1892Best.-Nr. 5020bdBoston: Lothrop Lee & Shepard Co. 1892. Royal octavo illustrated gold cloth hardcover 126 pp. Good with minor soiling and edgewear to covers. Photographs gladly provided upon request. Contents: Some Dogs’ Opinions of the Dog Show; Woggie’s Wonders; Mother’s Cousin Nathan; Jenny Ring; May’s Musical Bars; The Broom Fairies; Mr. and Mrs. Flyaway “At Home;” Old Tyler; “Who Lives in Mamma’s Work Bag; The Clothes-Line Imps. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1892. hardcover books
2008Best.-Nr. 164759Brighton England Gottingen Germany and Belfast: Photoworks Steidl and Belfast Exposed Photography 2008. First edition. Oblong hardcover. 72 pages. Essays by Colin Graham and Mary Warner Marien. A collection of 24 color photographs of bonfires built in Protestant communities in Belfast Northern Ireland for the annual July 12 celebrations of the defeat of James Stuart at the Battle of the Boyne. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Photoworks, Steidl, and Belfast Exposed Photography unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 1225111966. The University of Texas 1966. 8vo 120 pp. Original white cloth lettered in brown on the upper board and backstrip illustrated endpapers pictorial dust-jacket. Fine in a lightly toned dust-jacket. § Limited to 1000 copies. With entries for over 400 items from the Texas University collections including many manuscripts and letters. unknown books
2012Best.-Nr. 64996London: Jonathan Cape 2012. First edition. 375 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. London: Jonathan Cape unknown books
1984Best.-Nr. 1089901984. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 1984. 8vo xx 211 pp 106 black and white illustrations. Near Fine in original yellow cloth with a color illustrated dust-jacket in protective acetate cover. § First edition. Bentley BBS p.672: "A useful book arguing that 'Blake undoubtedly perceived archetypes of gesture and stance in the work of painters and sculptors and used them in his own art as a kind of visual vocabulary'.". unknown books
Best.-Nr. 4302bdLouisiana State University Press 1965. Set of two volumes in slipcase. Octavo gray cloth hardcover gilt letters and decorations xxvii 420 pp xxiv 679 pp. Fine in Near-Fine mylar protected dust jackets in a Very Good slipcase with lightly rubbed edges. hardcover books
1970Best.-Nr. 107991New York: Grossman Publishers 1970. First edition. Hardcover. A review copy with two press prints and two review slips laid in. Illustrated throughout out with color and black and white photographs. One of 5000 copies. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with a small tear at the base of the spine and a little wear at the base of the rear panel. Grossman Publishers unknown books
1913Best.-Nr. 135071913. DICKENS CHARLES. Warner Charles Dudley. Charles Dickens. An Appreciation. Newark: Carteret Book Club 1913. 17 p. Paper-covered boards. Near fine in dust-soiled slipcase. One of 100 numbered copies printed at the Marion Press for members of the Carteret Book Club. unknown books
1984Best.-Nr. 1025021984. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 1984. 8vo xx 211 pp. 106 illustrations. Yellow cloth in yellow printed dust-jacket. Very good. § First edition. Bentley Blake Books Supplement page 672: "A useful book arguing that 'Blake undoubtedly perceived archetypes of gesture and stance in the work of painters and sculptors and used them in his own art as a kind of visual vocabulary'.". unknown books
1979Best.-Nr. 17653scsBerkeley: University of California Press 1979. First Edition. Octavo orange cloth hardcover gilt letters 204 pp. Fine in a Fine mylar protected dust jacket. Recent American literature is a survivors’ literature suggests Warner Berthoff in this summary characterization of American writing since the Second World War.A chapter looking back to Henry Miller in prose and Wallace Stevens in poetry as major forefunners of these postwar developments leads to final questions of where and how for literature the creative impulse can still find effective expression. University of California Press, [1979]. First Edition. hardcover books
1977Best.-Nr. 30372Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press 1977. First edition. 154 pp. Very near fine in dust jacket. Edited and with a preface and essay by Tim Prentki. A collection of critical essays concerning the poetry and dramatic work of Francis Warner including essays by Harold Hobson Paul Hewison Lesly Burnett and Robert Burchfield. Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press unknown books
1855Best.-Nr. 68092Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo and Co 1855. First edition. 23.5 cm. Frontispiece of Caldwell viii 17 - 454 pp. 2 blank 8 pp. publishers ads for new and valuable medical books and a 46 pp. publishers catalogue of other valuable books. Original embossed publisher's brown cloth. Some foxing else very good. "The chief source of Caldwell's life is the caustic Autobiography. which has been called 'the choicest repository of medical scandal in existence'."--DAB. Caldwell was a proponent of polygenism. Chapter XV includes an extensive catalogue of Caldwell's writings. With a pencilled presentation inscription from Warner. Sabin 9893. Lippincott, Grambo, and Co unknown books
1874Best.-Nr. 020942Hartford: American Publishing Company 1874. Hardcover. Library bookplate on the front pastedown with gift label below and small ink stamp of donor on front endpaper; unobtrusive blindstamp on front blanks title page and several pages following; contents very clean. Binding is tight and but for very minor fraying at the spine tips and a small section of the spine discolored is in very nice condition. About Fine. Original gilt-decorated black cloth. Early but not first printing of Mark Twain's first novel its title giving name to the peculiarly American era it describes. Illustrated with plates and engravings. BAL 3357. Issue without ads at rear. Though the title page is dated 1874 it otherwise matches with all of BAL's first issue points but for two: pages 352 and 353. This copy also with the first issue of page vii Eschol Sellers page 246 and page 280; other points are later issue. Both hinges cracked but tight the front reinforced internally with binder's tape. American Publishing Company hardcover books
1818Best.-Nr. 66570New York NY: Printed and published by C. N. Baldwin corner of Chatham and Chamber Streets 1818. Disbound. 22.5 cm. 124pp. Old Worcester Co. Law Library stamp on title page. A few neat ink annotations in margins. The jury deliberated only 15 minutes before acquitting Baldwin whose charges were supported by independent investigation. The affair undermined public confidence in lotteries and led the NY legislature in 1819 to pass a law prohibiting any new lottery licenses and imposing strictures on existing ones. Not found in McCoy. BEAL 13269 OCLC: NY Hist SocC. Vassar LA Cnty Lib. Huntington Yale Univ. Med. Yale Univ. Law US Supreme Court State Lib. of IA Harvard Univ. Harvard Univ. Law Univ. of NV Las Vegas Univ. of PA Univ. of London. Printed and published by C. N. Baldwin, corner of Chatham and Chamber Streets unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 65683New York NY: Friendship Press 1940. First edition. 8vo. 95pp. Rust brown cloth with illustration of children gathering beans on front cover. Corners worn covers slightly soiled. Birthday inscription. Signed by the author and dated March 1940. On the verso of the title page it states: "Plans and procedures for using Children of the Harvest will be found in 'A Primary Teacher's Guide on Migrants' by Armilda B. Keiser." Gertrude Warner in her introduction to the book directed to her young readers asks them to think about how food their family buys gets onto their pantry shelf: "When you eat these things next time just stop a minute and think about the people who picked them." She suggests it might be children just about their age and that if they would like to do something to thank those children they can write to the Council of Women for Home Missions in New York City for instructions on how to send thank-you presents to the children who work in the fields. Friendship Press unknown books
2013Best.-Nr. 9024097Baton Rouge: LSU Press 2013. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original cloth covered boards. Matching slipcase. LSU Press hardcover books
1925Best.-Nr. 9019089London: Chatto & Windus 1925. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in the publisher's original blue & black patterned cloth over boards green spine label stamped in green. Spine and edges are partially faded as usual with this edition. Some shelfwear to extremities. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1986Best.-Nr. 9019521Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1986. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Bound in the publisher's original cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Previous owners name and dates in ink on ffep. Louisiana State University Press hardcover books
1984Best.-Nr. 9018007Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1984. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Includes bibliography. Previous owners name and date in ink on fffep. Louisiana State University Press hardcover books