Authors starting with W from Bartlebys Books

Boston, N.E.:: Printed by J. Allen, for Nicholas Buttolph,, 1714.. First edition. Small 12mo. xi, (1), 168 pp. The sermons were delivered between September 30, 1711 and November 12, 1713, all concerning in some fashion a fire that destroyed Wadsworth's Boston church October 2, 1711, with a preface giving an account of the fire. Sabin 100909. Evans 1721. Trimmed closed in places, without taking text, owner's name on pastedown, lacking all blanks. Still a good solid copy. Contemporary calf (rubbed, c... more information

London:: Sampson Low, Marston, Seale & Rivington, ,, 1879.. First edition. 8vo. xii, 300 pp. Illustrated, eight blue & fawn lithographic plates, folding map. Little hunting except in one chapter substantially dealing with the region's game. Original blue-gray cloth (rubbed); moderate foxing, small blind stamp on the front free endpaper, otherwise a very good copy. ... more information

Hartford, (CT):: Silas Andrus,, 1820.. Second edition, with a new preface. 12mo. 348 pp. Engraved frontis. port. Contemp. calf (rubbed), leather spine label. Some foxing, especially to frontispiece and title page, but a very good, solid copy. (1729) ... more information

1975.. Oil painting on canvas, 17 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches, the palate bright but carefully modulated. In a two-inch wide oak frame. Fine condition but for one tiny chip from a patch of impasto (in a distant highrise). Walker (1921-1993) was a self-taught African-American artist, born in Kentucky but brought up by relatives in East St. Louis, which he featured in many of his works. During the phases of his career, he adopted different stylistic approaches from descriptive and narrative to abstract an... more information

Boston:: Little, Brown,, 1888.. First edition. 8vo. 69 pp. Frontispiece view of Walker's plantation house in Albemarle County, Virginia. First publication of a manuscript account of a trip into what is now Tennessee and Kentucky. Clark's Travels in the South Volume 1 #169. Howes W-43: "Earliest recorded visit into interior Kentucky by a white man." Contemporary black leather (lightly soiled), gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt title on upper cover, top edge gilt (publisher's deluxe binding... more information

New Haven, (CT):: Yale U. Press,, 1942.. First edition of the author's first book, in the "Yale Series of Younger Poets" series. Tall 8vo. 58 pp. Very good. Tan cloth, printed dust jacket (shallow chip at head of spine extending along upper edge of rear panel). (#3744) ... more information

Washington, (DC):: Printed at the Globe Office,, 1844.. First edition. 8vo. 20 pp. [printed double-column]. Passionate voice for annexation and the expansion of slavery. Disbound pamphlet. ... more information

Camden, SC::: Camden Chronicle Print,, (c1933).. 8vo. 48 pp. Illustrated, plates. Original printed stiff wrappers (darkened at the edges, spine ends somewhat worn); offset to two pages from laid-in clippings (no longer present). First edition. Includes brief biographical sketches of prominent members. OCLC locates four copies (New York Public, Library of Congress, Duke, South Carolina). Turnbull V, p. 354. ... more information

[Richmond? :, 1862?].. Broadside, 11 ´ 4 inches, printed on yellow paper. Nine eight-line verses, dated "Fort Lafayette, 1862," within an ornamental border. Near fine copy with light creasing and edgewear. Rare. First edition. A rousing call to arms, beginning "Awake and to horse, my brothers!" Wallis (1816-1894) was a Baltimore lawyer who argued vociferously against the doctrine of military necessity and was imprisoned for his dissent in September 1861 for 14 months at Fort Lafay... more information

in a partly printed document, 8 x 5 inches, completed in manuscript and signed 31 December 1864 by D.W, Dyer, a captain in the New York Quartermaster's Office, on behalf of Quartermaster General Van Vliet. Passage on the U.S. Transport Arago was to be provided for W.D.N. Barnard. Folded; small chip in lower edge, small hole in margin, but very good. ... more information

London:: Henry Colburn,, 1828.. First edition. 8vo. xix, (1), 591; viii, 730 pp. 13 plates, two folding, one hand-colored, and two folding maps. The author was "His Majesty's Charge d'Affaires in that Country [i.e., Mexico] during the Years 1825, 1826, and Part of 1827." His extensive travels allowed him to amass information on the political and economic state of Mexico at the time. Streeter called this a "classic book on Mexico" and noted that there was a brief, but accurate po... more information

London:: Rowland Ward,, 1903.. Fourth edition" (i.e., the fourth separate compilation). 4to. xiii, (1), 495 pp. Illustrated, frontispiece portrait of Ward, plates. Original gilt-stamped blue-green buckram, zebra stripe endpapers. Some foxing, but a very good copy. ... more information

Edinburgh:: A. Constable and Co.,, 1819.. 8vo. Three volumes: lxiv, 552; xii, 571; xii, 588 pp. Two folding maps, one hand-colored. Somewhat later roan-backed marbled boards (corners bumped), gilt title and ornamentation on spines; bookplate on front pastedown of each volume, spines rubbed, foxing through text of each volume, especially heavy to the plan of Washington, D.C., but a very good, crisp copy. First edition, first issue (printer's slug on verso of final leaf dated "1818"). Howe... more information

(Rochester, NY):: University of Rochester,, 1927.. First edition. 12mo. 85 pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page; he was a prominent lawyer and legal historian. An essay delivered as the sixth Cutler Lecture at the University of Rochester, it criticizes those who would minimize the "great man" theory, particularly against the founders responsible for our Constitution. Owner's name on front wrapper, else very good. Original gray wrappers (slightly soiled). (#4302) ... more information

4to. 1 page, approximately 50 words. In part: It would be foolhardy for anyone to think that a presidential campaign is any push-over." Folded, else fine. ... more information

Boston:: Printed by John Wilson & Son,, 1855.. First edition. 8vo. 20 pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece of the tree, with tissue guard, double-page map (a small facsimile of Bonner's 1722 map of Boston). Olive cloth, covers stamped in blind with ruled and floral borders surrounding small central stamps of "The Great Tree" (gilt on the front, blind on the rear). Partially faded, especially from a little damping to the spine. Very good with some staining to inner margins of leaves. A ver... more information

Boston:: Charles C. Little and James Brown,, 1840.. First edition. 8vo. 407 pp. Sabin 101518. Larned 2814: " Really an essay on the constitutional history of Massachusetts, with notices of the more eminent judges and lawyers of the colonial era." Original brown cloth (joints a little frayed), gilt spine title; endpapers foxed, but a very good copy. ... more information

Tuskegee, AL:: Tuskegee Institute Press,, 1904.. 8vo. (5) pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Very good.  First separate edition, an offprint of an article that first appeared "In The Tradesman for January, 1904." Not in Work or Blockson Collection. OCLC locates three copies (New York Public, California State Library, California-Davis). ... more information

[Tuskegee, AL]:: Tuskegee Institute Steam Print. .. First edition. 8vo. 13 pp. [printed double-column]. Caption title: Negro Education not a Failure. Not in Work or Blockson Catalogue. Not recorded on OCLC. Original printed glossy cream wrappers (some insect damage to surface), stapled; creased; some color pencil underlining (partially erased). Very good. ... more information

(NY:: The World's Work Press,, 1906).. First separate edition, an offprint from The World's Work, April 1906. Small 4to. 18 pp. [printed double-column]. Illustrated. Not in Work or Blockson Catalogue. Not recorded on OCLC. Original yellow-green wrappers (creased), stapled; some color pencil underlining. Very good. ... more information