Authors starting with W from Bauman Rare Books

1899. FIRST EDITION. (WERNER COMPANY, publisher) WAGNER, Arthur L.; KELLEY, J.D. Jerrold. The United States Army and Navy. Akron: Werner Company, 1899. Large oblong folio (18 by 14 inches), publisher's leatherette gilt with pictorial vignettes on front cover, all edges gilt. $2200. First edition, with 43 vivid color lithographs of battle scenes, soldiers and sailors in uniform, and navy vessels in action. "The Werner Company of Akron seems to have been at the forefront of new developments in pri... more information

1814. FIRST EDITION. (WALKER, G.). The Costume of Yorkshire, Illustrated by a Series of Forty Engravings, being Fac-Similes of Original Drawings, with Descriptions in English and French. London: Printed by T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, et al., 1814. Folio (10 by 14 1/2 inches), contemporary full black straight-grain morocco, gilt-decorated spine, Greek-key gilt cover borders, raised bands, all edges gilt. $3600. First edition, with 40 beautiful fully hand-colored aquatint plates, including "the firs... more information

1962. SIGNED. WALLACE, Irving. The Twenty-Seventh Wife. London: Arthur Barker, 1962. Octavo, original black cloth gilt, photographic endpapers, original dust jacket. $200. First English edition of Wallace's novelistic biography of Ann Eliza Young, the last wife of Brigham Young, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Best, Irving." From the collection of Wallace's influential literary agent Paul Gitlin. Wallace's second book recounts, in a novelistic fashion, the sensational st... more information

1826. WALPOLE, Horace. Anecdotes of Painting in England; with the Account of the Principal Artists; and Incidental Notes on Other Arts; Collected by the Late Mr. George Vertue… with Considerable Additions by the Rev. James Dallaway. London: Shakespeare Press for John Major, 1826-28. Five volumes. Royal octavo, full contemporary straight-grained morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, original ribbon ties. $1800. A magnificent set, printed at the Shakespeare Press and beautifull... more information

1891. WALPOLE, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Oxford, Edited by Peter Cunningham. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1891. Nine volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco, raised bands, top edges gilt. $2200. Limited edition, number 53 of only 100 large-paper copies printed on handmade paper, with dozens of full-page mounted India proof portraits. "It is as a letter-writer that Walpole attains his highest point. In these epistles to Mann, to Montagu, to Mason, to ... more information

1833. WALPOLE, Horace. Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford, to Sir Horace Mann, British Envoy at the Court of Tuscany… Edited by Lord Dover. London: Richard Bentley, 1833. Three volumes. Octavo, 19th-century full brown calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, black morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. $600. Second edition of Walpole's letters to Sir Horace Mann, published in the same year as the first. Horace Walpole is among the small group of writers of whom it may be said that their... more information

1806. WALPOLE, Horace. A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland. London: John Scott, 1806. Five volumes. Octavo, contemporary full black straight-grain morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and boards, all edges gilt. $1100. First enlarged edition, edited by Thomas Park, beautifully bound with 125 aquatint portraits. First published in 1758 in two volumes at Walpole's famous Strawberry Hill Press, this Catalogue contains extensive notes on famous British autho... more information

1927. WANG, Feng-Chow. The Adventures of Hsi Men Ching. [New York]: Library of Facetious Lore, (1927). Large octavo, original three-quarter yellow morocco gilt, raised bands, burgundy morocco spine label, patterned paper boards, top edge gilt, uncut and partially unopened. $650. Splendid limited private-press edition, number 408 of only 750 copies, of this erotic book, allegedly an instrument of murder but in truth a charming literary fraud perpetuated over generations, illustrated with eight full-page li... more information

1875. [FISHER, Captain Robert J.]. Officers of the United States: Army and Navy: Prisoners of War. Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. [Cincinnati: Ehrgott, Forbriger, 1864]. Broadside measures approximately 24 inches by 31 inches, handsomely framed. $4500. Handsome engraved broadside listing officers imprisoned at Libby Prison in Richmond, "the most notorious prison after Andersonville" (Boatner, 482). Contains at top center a Union war eagle nestled in the Stars and Stripes; four separate cartouches ... more information

1909. SIGNED. WARD, Mary Augusta Arnold. The Writings of Mrs. Humphrey Ward. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin (Riverside Press), 1909. Sixteen volumes. Octavo, three-quarter brown morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and unopened. $2500. Superb limited "Autograph Edition," number 217 of only 750 copies, of the works of turn-of-the-century novelist Mary A. Ward, signed by her in Volume I, profusely illustrated with fron... more information

1790. FIRST EDITION. WARREN, Mercy. Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous. Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1790. Octavo, modern full calf. $1200. First edition of an important collection of early American verse, dedicated to George Washington. Mrs. Mercy Warren was a poet, an early feminist and a fierce proponent of the Revolutionary cause. "Possessing uncommon talent for literature and politics, and enjoying through both her husband and brother an enviable intimacy with those high in the Revolutio... more information

1930. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. WASHBURN, Bradford. Bradford on Mt. Fairweather. Exploring the Famous Alaskan Peak. New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Octavo, original blue cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. $600. First edition, signed by Bradford Washburn on the front free endpaper. Illustrated with 31 photographs and three maps sketched by the author. Washburn's narrative recounts his experience as leader of the six-man expedition that set out in 1930 to explore the southern and so... more information

1821. WASHINGTON, George. Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States. [Philadelphia]: J. Coffin (Charles H. Parker, scrivener; Charles Toppan, engraver), circa 1821. Large copper-engraved broadside, measuring 28 by 38 inches. Handsomely framed, entire piece measures 45-1/2 by 33-1/2 inches. $17,500. Large, finely engraved broadside of Washington's famous valedictory, embellished with Thomas Sully's "Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences." A magnificent piece.... more information

1865. SIGNED. WATKINS, Carleton E. Outline of the Cathedral Rocks. Yosemite, circa 1865. Original albumen photograph, measuring 8 by 12 inches. $6500. Original albumen landscape photograph of the Cathedral Rocks at Yosemite, inscribed in pencil on the verso: "Outline of the Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite, C. Watkins, W-A14." "Of all the great 19th-century landscape photographs, those of Carleton E. Watkins are the most perfectly poised between document and art" (Parr & Badger, 13). Cre... more information

1961. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. WAUGH, Evelyn. Unconditional Surrender. London: Chapman & Hall, 1961. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $4600. First edition to the final work in Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy, signed by him on the title page. The Sword of Honour trilogy, a fictionalized account of Waugh's experiences in World War I, is considered by many to be his best work, and is routinely counted among the best depictions of the war. Unconditional Surrender, the last volume ... more information

1834. FIRST EDITION. WEBSTER, W.H.B. Narrative of a Voyage to the Southern Atlantic Ocean…. London: Richard Bentley, 1834. Two volumes bound as one. Thick octavo, modern three-quarter black morocco gilt, raised bands, brown morocco spine label, uncut. $1250. First edition of Dr. Webster's account of the sloop Chanticleer's expedition, with five aquatint plates and two maps (one folding), handsomely bound. Dr. William Henry Bayley Webster "was the surgeon on board this British expedition... more information

1868. WEILL, Alexandre. Mysteres de l'Amour: Philosophie et Hygiene. Paris: Amyot, 1868. 12mo, early half brown crushed morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers. $600. Early edition in French of Alsatian author Alexandre Weill's translation from Hebrew of his mentor's treatise on the philosophical and practical elements of love. Alexandre Weill "was a prolific author, publishing over 40 books and hundreds of articles in a variety of French and German journals. …His f... more information

1971. WEISGAL, Meyer. So Far: An Autobiography. New York: Random House, (1971). Octavo, modern full blue morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. $525. First American edition, inscribed by Weisgal on the half-title: "To Harold and Libby: Dear Friends, I dedicate this book and this inscription to you with Love and Affection – Meyer, Sept 13/72." Born in Kikl, Poland in 1894, Weisgal emigrated to the U.S. in 1905. In the twenties and thirties he served as national secret... more information

1942. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. WELTY, Eudora. The Robber Bridegroom. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $4500. First edition of Welty's imaginative first novel, inscribed, "With best wishes to Prudence Hedderly-Smith. Eudora Welty." In a 1965 interview Welty recalled The Robber Bridegroom: "I had such a good time writing it! I had been working for the WPA or for the Mississippi Advertising Commission… I had to do a lot of reading ... more information

1712. FIRST EDITION. (WENHAM, Jane) (BRAGGE, Francis). Witchcraft Farther Display'd, Containing An Account of the Witchcraft practis'd by Jane Wenham of Walkerne, in Hertfordshire… An Answer to the most general Objections against the Being and Power of Witches… The Tryals of Florence Newton, a Famous Irish Witch. WITH: A Full and Impartial Account of the Discovery of Sorcery and Witchcraft, Practis'd by Jane Wenham… Also her Tryal at the Assize. London: E. Curll, 1712. Octavo pam... more information