Titles starting with W from William Dailey Rare Books Ltd ABAA

Folkestone: Dawson/Archon,, 1977.. 8vo. Blue cloth. Very good.. ... more information

Los Angeles: Southwest Museum,, 1970.. 8vo, xi, 83pp, frontispiece, 11 b&w illus. Green cloth, gilt lettered, laid-on illus., slipcase, very fine in like slipcase. . First Edition, designed and printed by Ward Ritchie. ... more information

San Francisco: The Black Vine Press for The Zamorano Club,, 1957.. 8vo, (4)pp, self-wrappers. Fine. A eulogy by Bennett printed by Harold Seeger and Albert Sperisen for the Zamorano Club in WAD's Caledonia type face. ... more information

Boston-Tokyo: Journey Editions,, (1994).. 4to, xv, 205pp, color illus. throughout. Plum cloth, gilt lettered, dust jacket, fine in like dj.. First Edition, inscribed by the author/ artist. Second printing. ... more information

Boston: Limited Editions Club,, 1936.. 4to, 291pp, photo-illustrations. Original navy buckram over patterned boards; repair to lower panel of slipcase, miniscule mark on spine & barely noticable wear to spine ends, otherwise very good.. First Edition thus, one of 1500 copies printed at the Merrymount Press, and signed by Edward Steichen. ... more information

Boston: Ticknor & Fields,, 1854.. 8vo, 357 + 8pp ads, with inserted map of Walden Pond with the imprint and facing p.307. Original brown cloth, lemon yellow endpapers. Light foxing to title, pencil signpature on endpaper, light staining to back cover, an excellent copy. Calf-backed cloth case with chemise.. First Edition, first impression, with the earliest ads, dated April, 1854. Only 2000 copies of the first impression were printed.'Not only the most famous nature book by an American, but probably th... more information

Los Angeles: Getty Trust,. Oblong 8vo, 50 photographs. Boards, dust jacket. Mint copy in original shrink wrap.. First Edition. From the 1920s to the time of his death in 1975, Evans was obsessed with the signs he found in modern America- - from billboards to gas station pumps to street graffiti to handmade announcements of a Saturday-night dance. ... more information

Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska,, (1984).. 8vo, 253pp. Blue cloth, silver lettered, dust jacket, fine in like dj.. First Edition. ... more information

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin,, 1916.. 8vo, (8), 533pp, frontispiece, plus 6 numbered b/w illustrations. Lt. brown pictorial cloth, lower board lightly soiled, mild wear to extremities, owner sig., a bright, very good copy.. First Edition, scarce in this condition. Bartlett (1876- ?), the author of three other novels and a frequent contributor of short stories to The Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeping and Red Book during the 1920s, here limns the story of a young woman working for a stock b... more information

Univ. of Pittsburgh, , 1973.. 8vo, xxiv, 429pp. Orig. navy cloth over buckram boards, fine.. First Edition, from the esteemed Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. ... more information

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin,, 1928.. 8vo, xxxii, 306pp. Orig. cloth, dust jacket by Jack Perkins. Some foxing to front endpapers & dj flap from old clippoing, dust jacket very good but for an unfortuante use of cello-tape to repair a 2 in. tear, without chipping to edges, price of $2.50 intact.. First Edition in English of Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth century. 'A landmark in modern French fiction by its treatment, in terms of a childlike dream world, of happe... more information

London: Chapman and Hall,, 1844-5.. 3 vols, 8vo. Publisher's original green blindstamped cloth, gilt lettered, hinge vol. 1 expertly reinforced, some wear to extremities, mild sunning to spines, otherwise very good.. First Edition in English, with an ALs from the author. The 1845 re-issue without Heath's illustrations; copies of the first printing are quite scarce. The autograph letter from Sue, tipped-in to front endpaper, is dated on June or July, 1834 and adressed to the baron de Mortemart-Boisse. It ... more information

Melbourne: (Huddart Parker Ltd.),, 1951.. 4to, 79pp, 33 b&w photo-illus., color headpieces, ornaments. Blue cloth, gilt lettered, dust jacket, cloth stained, bookplate, otherwise near fine in very good dj.. First Edition, Presentation Copy, 'With the Compliments of the Directors and Management of Huddart Parker Limited' slip laid-in. ... more information

New York: Dodd, Mead,, 1929.. 8vo, black cloth interestingly lettered in white with red accents, in orginal dust jacket illustrated with expressionist battle scene on all 3 panels. Very good, in a very good jacket with light wear to spine ends. . First American edition of Renn's first book. Krieg, first published in 1928, is a startling novel based on the author's experience as a German soldier in the trenches during the first World War. Renn (pseudonym of Arnold Friedrich Vieth von Golssenau, 1889-1979)... more information

London: Macmillan, , 1940.. 16mo, 32pp. Original orange stapled wrappers, very good.. Milne calls this pro-war essay an epilogue to Peace With Honor, his decidingly pacifist book written six years earlier. ... more information

New York: E. Weyhe,, 1932.. 4to, 12pp, 38 Artochrome plates. Wrappers printed in red & black with decorative design. Light wear to backstrip, embossed owner's stamp & wood-engraved bookplate of Rockwell Kent. Very good.. With original Newcombe lithograph signed in pencil. 500 copies were printed by Will Kislter after designs by Merle Armitage. The standard work on the artist. Marks p.31. ... more information

Berkeley & LA: University of California Press,, 1944.. 8vo, vi, 63-136pp, including full-page diagram and full-page map, and 2 inserted photographic plates. Original printed wrappers, light wear to spine, name stamp on front, otherwise very good.. First Separate Printing, an offprint from UC Publications in American Archaeology & Ethnology. The author was one of the two or three leading ethnologists of the peyote-eating Indian tribes, and this monograph has classic stature. The two plates each have four ... more information

London: Sidwick & Jackson,, (1964).. 8vo, blue cloth, dust jacket. Very good.. ... more information

Leningrad: Aurora Art,, (1974).. 4to, (approx. 150)pp, 64 color plates. Ochre cloth, lettered in red, dust jacket, bookplate, fine in good+ dj.. First Edition. Text in English and Russian. ... more information

Los Angeles: Wexford & Barrow,, 2011.. 4to, 293pp, b/w illus. Pictorial wrappers. Mint copy, signed by the author on the title.. Revised edition of the history of the town near Palm Spring where an amazing aquifer of hot mineral waters was found. This new edition adds a most useful index. ... more information