Authors starting with W from Glenn Books

London: Callow and Wilson, Medical Booksellers, 1827. THREE VOLUMES. This is an extra-illustrated copy, one of a kind. Apparently prepared by the author's widow. Signed in ink in each volume "In Gratitude and reagrd, the author's widow". The portion of the page just above the notation has been excised, probably an old owner's signature. Volumes have been rebacked at some point, probably early 20th century. Covers are cross-hatched with a floral border. Some quires have loosened and hav... more information

San Francisco: John Howell , 1921. Gray paper-covered boards. One of 50 copies specially bound with 40 reproductions of titles by photostat. This copy is not numbered. Covers are worn and water-stained. Stain at top edge of the first few pages only. Water-staining at bottom edge throughout near left edge, remaining in margin, never near text. Front hinge weak. Name in ink on front free endpaper which is partially detached in lower third. Internally very clean with exception of above noted stains. A rare fir... more information

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press , 1937. Revised and extended by Charles L. Camp. Leather spine label. Minor wear. One of 600 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Dates are rubrified. 428 listings. A finely-printed edition of the classic bibliography first published in 1921. L. Revised, Limited Edition. Salmon Cloth. Minor Wear/No Jacket. Tall Octavo. ... more information

Des Moines, Iowa: Henry J. Walker, 1961. Stated volume one (all published). "Another of those ridiculous books filled with preposterous statements.". The author believed J. Frank Dalton was James. See Six-Guns 2283 for citation. 283pp.. First Edition. Orange Cloth. Minor Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

London, New York: Eyre and Spottiswoode, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Spine lettered in gilt. Vellum slightly soiled. Small chip at top of front cover marbled paper. Previous owner's fine bookplate on front pastedown with slight off-setting onto adjacent page. Color frontispiece portrait of Walton, nine additional color illustrations at front of nine of thirteen chapters. Tail pieces and first letters of chapters in black and white. All illustrations by Frank Adams. This edition was limited to 450... more information

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1946. Wrappers. Good. First. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Minor soiling only. Illustrated throughout. This is Technical Manual 38-402.. ... more information

London: Constable and Company, 1925. Gilt lettering spine and front cover. Text includes notes on hunting songs by Warburton. Eight mounted color plates by LIONEL EDWARDS illustrated the trials and joys of the hunt as well as those of the fox. Light spotting on covers and endleaves. 128pp.. First Edition.. Forest Green Cloth.. Light Edge Wear.. Small Quarto. ... more information

London: Vanity Fair, 1905. Matted print. A Vanity Fair Supplement color lithograph titled "He insists that his pen is mightier than his sword". Lithograph by Vincent Brooks Day and Son. The illustration shows Mr. Egerton Castle in brown fencing garg, holding a rapier. Castle graduated from Sandhurst, served in the military, in 1885 published an authoratative history of fencing titled, "Schools and Master of Fence, From the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century". Sir Leslie Wa... more information

Topeka, Kansas: T.J. Kellam Publisher, 1885. Corners and spine ends frayed. Rear cover spotted. Spine gilt remains bright. Pencil note on title-page (first edition of Eugene Ware's poems). Ware, who wrote poetry under the nom de plume of Ironquill, was an officer in the Civil War, then edited the Fort Scott Monitor beginning in 1872. These poems were compiled by Mr. Kellam, clipped from newspapers. 600 copied of this first issue were printed. See Kanzana #226. 157pp.. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Minor We... more information

New York: Bonanza Books The life and exploits of the Utah highwayman and outlaw. He went from cattle rustler to highway banditry, holdups, and bank robbery. Illustrated with photographs, including frontispiece photo of the author. Originally published by the Caxton Press in 1940. 337pp.. Reprint. Orange Cloth. Nearly Fine./Minor Chipping.. Octavo. ... more information

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company., 1926. Blue cloth spine. Top edge gilt. Owner's stamp on front endleaves. A beautifully illustrated book, providing a wealth of information for the collector, scholar and dealer in fine antiques, with an emphasis on textiles. 237pp.. First Edition. Illustrated Boards.. Corner Wear./No Jacket. Quarto. ... more information

Bristol : John Wright and Sons, 1911. Spine lettered in gilt. Spine sunned to brown. Original wrappers bound in. Illustrated throughout in black and white, some plates with red blood vessels. Covers just a bit scuffed. Several pages of advertisements for medical products at the end. Large sections on bandaging, splints, and proper transport of the wounded or injured, some with military personnel. Several drawings of litters, carriers, and stretchers, one of a "motor ambulance". 246pp. + adverts.. ... more information

London: James Nisbet and Company, 1884. Hinges, spine ends professionally repaired. Cover border designs and titles in gilt. All edges gilt. Cloth lightly wrinkled on rear cover. Illuminated title page in colors and gold. Beautiful chromolithographic illustrations with heavy gold borders found on verso of three leaves. Twenty-one leaves illustrated on recto with Gothic text in black and borders incorporating vignette scenes with elaborate designs in gilt and a wide diversity of colors. Seventeen illuminated... more information

Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1950. Pictorial dust jacket. Bookstore sticker at top of front panel. Yellow map endpapers. Illustrated with maps, drawings, graphs, and photographic reproductions.Chapters on early days before the railroads, financing, land-grants, meals by Fred Harvey, labor relations, rail line development. Appendices, references, and index. 500 pp.. First Edition. Yellow Cloth. Nearly Fine/Light Edge Wear. Thick Octavo. ... more information

Bloomington, Indiana: Illinois Wesleyan University Press, 1954. Lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Reports of Major John Wesley Powell's Explorations: 1867-1874. Five chapters, each dated, with an appendix. 138pp.. First Edition. Green Cloth. Minor Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

London: Walter Smaith and Innes., 1890. Front cover vignette of a falcon with a sparrow hawk in its talons. Spine lettered in gilt. Spine is rubbed and extremities are frayed. Black endpapers. Full-page illustrations by G.E. Lodge. Chapters on birds of prey, mountain foxes, autumn berries, the gamekeeper, British wild pigeons, and much more. 301pp.. First Edition.. Lime Green Cloth. General Moderate Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

Kansas City, Missouri: Kansas City Posse,Westerners, 1965. Lettered in gold on front cover. #30/250 copies signed by the author and Byron B. Wolfe, the illustrator. Illustrated throughout with cattle brands. Frontispiece showing a blacksmith and cowboy discussing a branding iron under construction. Printed by the Lowell Press. 27pp.. Limited Edition. Green Cloth. Minor Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

London: Arrowsmith , 1924. Quarter tan cloth. Twelve plates in color, eight in black and white mounted on heavy grey paper. Fifty decorations in the text. A beautifully constructed anthology of poetry from the Bible, Blake, Burns, Donne, Milton, Keats and many other sources. 162pp. + index of first lines.. First Edition.. Paper-Covered Boards. Moderate Corner Wear/No Jacket. Quarto. ... more information

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. From the blurb, "a purely fanciful tale, a little nightmare produced by the high living of a brief visit to Hollywood". 164pp.. First American Edition. Gray Cloth. Light Edge Wear and Soiling/Chipped Dust Jacket. Small Octavo. ... more information

New York, London: E.P. Dutton, Griffith-Farran, 1881. Tan cloth spine. Edges worn, corners rounded. Front free endpaper missing. Color illustrations throughout accompanying charming pieces of verse. "Children like holly berries, dear little robin said; gather them, bunch them together. Mix with the green, the red." Unpaginated.. First Edition. Color Pictorial Boards. General Moderate Wear.. Small Quarto. ... more information