Authors starting with W from Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA)

Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Sport i Turystyka, 1989 400 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated by numerous color plates, black & white photographs, facsimiles, etc. Biography of Jan Kasprowicz (1860-1926); biografia. The author has written a lengthy inscription (over 30 words) on the half-title page, dated 1991 Chicago, and signed by the author. Text is in Polish.. Signed. First Edition. Ha... more information

Dresden, Germany: Walterschen hofbuchhandlung, 1829. 208 pages of text. Original blue paper wrappers, bound in three quarter leather with cloth boards circa 1910. Binding is in excellent condition, with minor shelfwear to extremities. Illustrated by a frontisportrait of Wackerbarth. Previous owner's bookplate (circa 1900) on front pastedown endpaper, with stamp on title page, and name and a few notes on the reverse of the title page: Henry von Wackerbarth. Text is very lightly browned, with minor foxing... more information

Basel: Schweighauser, 1846 viii, 254 pages of text, in German. Hardcover; bound in brown three-quater leather with marbled paper-covered boards. Gilt spine lettering and decoration in six compartments with raised bands. Minor sunning of spine and minimal rubbing to extremities. Endpapers are decorative marbled paper. One decoration on title page, and decorative initials throughout text. Minor spotting to title page and last page of text. Altfranzösische. A clean, tight and attractive copy of this pu... more information

Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1972 253 pages with index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Minor rubbing to the extremities of the unclipped dustjacket; protected in archival mylar. Monograph 53 to The American Ethnological Society; Robert F. Spencer, Editor. Previous owner's name neatly on front endpaper.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+ condition/Very good+ condition (DJ). Octavo (8vo). ... more information

Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1974 45 pages of text. Paperback binding with minor shelfwear. Illustrated by twenty-five black & white photo reproductions of works by Francis Ho, Douglas Tucker, Richard Humphrey, Roy Quan, Eugene Tagawa, Donn Leber, Robert Jensen, David Azose, Michael Gesinger, Dean Glandon, Robert Killien, Joel Rogers, Stamatis Tsitsopoulos, Norman Lundin, Richard Busher, Wesley Wallace, Christian Staub, Johsel Namkung, Dennis Wilson, Bill Ritchie, Ted D'Arms, Gerald ... more information

New York: Macmillan, 1954. vi, 201 pages. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear, including a tiny tear to the top of the spine. Unclipped dustjacket with minor to moderate sunning to the spine, a few tiny chips/areas of minor loss from rubbing, and a few small tears and creases; protected in archival mylar. The text is clean and unmarked. Jacket design by the Strimbans. First American edition. Stated: First Printing.. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good+ condition/Very good- condition (DJ). Octa... more information

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: The Haunted Bookshop, 1979 264 pages with index. Hardcover binding in almost new condition. Map illustrated dustjacket; price-clipped and slightly shelfworn; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with historic photographs and a large folding "Map of the Gold Regions in British Columbia" compiled from sketches and information by James Douglas, C. B. Governor of B.C. and Vancouver Island, and from data obtained from the miner Gust[avas] Epner in 1862. First thu... more information

London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh MacDonald, 1926. Original orange and white cloth binding with a slightly darkened spine, and minor rubbing, soiling, a touch of sunning to the extremities, and a few small spots of discoloration to the rear board. Minor separation of text block following page 40, remaining intact and attractive. A few tiny spots of light soiling to the edge of the page margins here and there; very minor. Previous owner's bookplate affixed neatly on the inside of the front cover. Con... more information

Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company, 1990 128 pages of text including an index, and a list of addresses of buildings and the date of construction or inception. Pictorial laminated cloth; hardcover. Dustjacket with the slightest of shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with numerous historic photographs, as well as several in color.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition/Near fine condition (DJ). Octavo (8vo). ... more information

New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. xlii, 193 pages of text. Original hardcover binding with minor rubbing to the extremities, slight darkening to the spine, and minor discoloration to the rear board. No dustjacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper "To Mr. + Mrs....in sweet remembrance of a wonderful day and a delightful drive through Minneapolis [signed] Charles Wagner 1 Nov 1904." Additionally inscribed and signed by M. Xavier Koenig in French, thanking them for ... more information

East Lansing, MI: published by author, 1994 168 pages oftext including an index. Hardcover binding in about new condition. Unclipped dustjacket is slightly shelfworn, and slightly sunned on front panel; protected in archival mylar. Contains approximately 175 aerial images in vivid color, many of which are panoramic. Book measures 11.25 inches in height, and almost 14 inches in width.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition/Very good condition (DJ). Oblong quarto (4to). ... more information

Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Publishing House, 2000. xlii, 269 pages of text. Hardcover binding in almost new condition. Unclipped dustjacket in almost new condition; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Includes a color photograph printed on Kodak paper which is stamped by Steiger, and appears to be signed and inscribed by him. Steiger is one of the many contributors to this work. First edition. . Signed. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition/Near fine condition (DJ). O... more information

Budapest: Konemann Music, 1993 [ii], 274 pages. Paperback binding with minimal shelfwear; almost new condition. Facsimile reproduction of a 19th Century score.. Reprint edition. Paperback. Very good+ condition. Quarto (4to). ... more information

Budapest: Konemann Music, 1994 443 pages. Paperback binding with minimal shelfwear; almost new condition except for minor crease to rear cover. Facsimile reproduction of a 19th Century score.. Reprint edition. Paperback. Very good+ condition. Quarto (4to). ... more information

New York: Thomas Crowell, 1903 Music; opera; fine printing; [xviii], 71p.; 19.9cm; red blind stamped cloth; small spot on back cover; gilt lettering; top edge gilt; glue residue on front endpaper; Oliver Huckel 1864-1940; frontis.; illus. listed after Contents; printed by Daniel Berkeley Updike 1860-1941, Merrymount Press, Boston; maybe book design, penciled signature on front flyleaf by Bruce Rogers 1870-1957.. Hardcover. ... more information

Holbrook, AZ: Petrified Museum Forest Museum Association, 1971 32 pages of text. Full colour photography. Minor sunning at spine and top-edge of paperback binding.. First Edition. Paperback. Very good condition. Quarto (4to). ... more information

New York: Schocken Books, 1969 viii, 126 pages of text including a bibiography and an index. Hardcover binding in almost new condition. Unclipped dustjacket with small chips to bottom of spine, moderate sunning to spine, and slight shelfwear; protected in archival mylar.. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition/Very good- condition (DJ). Octavo (8vo). ... more information

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. xii, 472 pages of text including bibliography and index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Price-clipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. No student markings.. First English edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition/Very good+ condition (DJ). Octavo (8vo). ... more information

Maple Ridge, British Columbia: published by author, 1972 75 pages. Three stories: Lost mine of Pitt Lake, B.C.'s oldest church, and Canada's first train robbery. Some shelfwear and staining. Illustrated with photos.. First Edition. Paperback. Good condition. Quarto (4to). ... more information

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1974 288 pages of text including a bibliography and index. Hardcover cloth binding with minimal shelfwear. Price-clipped dustjacket with minor rubbing to the extremities; protected in archival mylar. Text is illustrated with six maps, and the endpapers are map-illustrated. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition/Very good+ condition (DJ). Octavo (8vo). ... more information