Authors starting with W from John Michael Lang Fine Books

Everett, Washington: Everett High School, 1938. Hardcover 10.5" x 7.5". Off-white cloth. Some light wear, front hinge weak, many greeting notes, else a VG+ copy. A well done Everett high school (Seattle) yearbook. With the usual sections on classes, faculty, athletics, clubs, etc. ... more information

Yakima, Washington: Privately published, 2008. Hardcover 11" x 8". 983pp. Maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. New condition. Second printing; published in an edition of fewer than 100 copies. A massive book, with details on Ferguson, the earliest school systems in the Yakima region, shared schools with Washington's Klickitat, Kittitas and Benton counties, parochial and Indian schools, and much more. With numerous illustrations. Signed by the compiler on the first leaf. ... more information

New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1929. Hardcover 7.5" x 5". 288pp. Red cloth hardback, in dust wrapper. Near fine condition; the jacket is somewhat faded and edge worn. A novel of two men, one of whom is dying and entrusts his companion with a mission. ... more information

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1945. Hardcover 6.25" x 4.5". 39pp. Illustrated paper boards. Excellent condition. With b&w and color illustrations by Esther Friend. ... more information

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963. Hardcover 9" x 5.75". 280pp. Beige and blue cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket. Second printing. This copy signed and warmly inscribed by the author on the first leaf. "A very personal view of silent movies." With much on actors, directors, studios, etc. With many black & white photo illustrations. ... more information

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. Hardcover First edition 9" x 5.75". 224pp. Blue cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket. Laid in to this copy are three typed notes. Each of the short signed notes has good content regarding the author's writings, etc. This memoir features chapters on a life of writing and of enjoying movies, his pioneering book on the Wizard of Oz, teaching and academia, theater, etc. ... more information

Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1969. Hardcover 10.75" x 8.25". 543pp. Dark green cloth covered hardback with gilt lettering. Fine condition. Illustrated with black and white maps and drawings. "The first expedition sent out by English adventurers for the discovery of new trades to reach the fabled Spice Islands of the East." This work is arguably the most comprehensive assembly of texts and detailed analysis of Drake's voyage. ... more information

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1985. Paperback First Dover edition 12" x 9". Glossy illustrated wrapper. Near fine condition. The full orchestral and vocal score of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold. ... more information

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1983. Paperback 12" x 9.25". Glossy illustrated wrapper. Spine slightly cocked, else near fine condition. The full vocal and orchestral score of Richard Wagner's opera Siegfried. ... more information

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1939. Hardcover 9.75" x 7.25". 182pp. Blue illustrated cloth. Bookplate, very mild soiling, else near fine condition. This edition of the German folk classic features 48 full page color plates by legendary illustrator Arthur Rackham. ... more information

New York: The Workers Education Bureau Press, 1928. Hardcover Later printing. 9" x 6" 479pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Very good+ copy with minimal wear to boards, top edge a bit dusty, page edges lightly toned; text clean & unmarked. ... more information

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963. Hardcover 7.75" x 5.25". 64pp. Tan cloth over boards in original yellow-orange dust jacket which has mild edgewear else a VG+ copy. Containing 41 poems, this is David Wagoner's third book. He has remarked about this book: "Many of the poems use the objects and creatures of the natural world, in action, to recreate dramatically the emotional and spiritual trials of man. The poems range in mood from the lyric to the satiric. They also ten... more information

South Hackensack, New Jersey & New York: Rothman Reprints, Inc. & Augustus M. Kelley, 1971. Hardback 8.5" x 5.5". 526pp. Beige cloth. Near fine condition. This edition features a new introduction by Eleazar Lipsky. Terry was a California politician, perhaps best known for his having killed United States Senator David C. Broderick in a duel in 1859. ... more information

[No place]: Ouroboros Press, 2006. Hardcover First edition 8.5" x 5.25". 157pp., plus 5pp. publisher's catalog. Maroon cloth, gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket. As new condition. One of only 700 copies. "Known unto the Wise as the Crowd of Philosophers, this twelfth century treatise records the meeting of the "Hermetic Association for the Advancement of Alchemy" and gives voice to the alchemical wisdom of several centuries. From Pythagoras to the Thrice-Greatest Hermes,... more information

Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1985. Hardcover 12" x 10". Appr. 150pp. Illustrated hardback boards, in dust wrapper. Top corner lightly bumped, else fine condition; near fine jacket. Japanese and English language verse as well as illustrations of Aijiro Wakita's art work. ... more information

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. Paperback 8" x 4.5". [3pp.] Bound in the original purple sewn wrappers. Small unobtrusive stamp on the rear wrapper, else a near fine copy. The 100th pubklication of the Black Sparrow Press. ... more information

Palo Alto, CA : American West Publishing Company, 1970. Hardback First edition Octavo. 198pp., with index. Fine in a near fine jacket. With many photo illustrations. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Hardcover 7.75" x 5.25". 154pp. Gray cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; the jacket has a very small chip at the tip of the spine and a light bit of soiling, else near fine condition. A very nice copy. Second printing. Chinese poetry translated by Waley, a highly regarded Sinologist ... more information

New York: Greenwood Press, 1969. Hardback 8.5" x 5.5". 83pp. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine condition. A study of economics, with sections on currency, banks, mixed currencies, charters, bank resources, banking systems, etc. The original edition published in 1857 is quite scarce. ... more information

Seattle: University of Washington, 1983. Paperback First edition 15.75" x 10.25". Single color printed sheet. FINE condition. Walker was doing a reading at the University of Washington, presumably to promote her Pulitzer Prize winning novel 'The Color Purple.' Alice Walker is one of the key figures of modern American letters, and one of America's greatest African American / Black literary figures. ... more information