Search Results: Titles starting with W from Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller

Krakov: Centralny Komitet Zydow Polskich, 1946. First edition. Softcover. g. Octavo. 197 (7)pp. Original illustrated wrapper with black lettering on cover and spine. Collection of essays and poetry; various photos and drawings. An illustrated chronology. Text in Polish. Wraps and block with some age-toning. Wraps and interior in overall good condition.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Later printing. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. 75, 95pp. Bound in three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards with gilt lettering on black label of spine, gilt ruling and tooling and raised bands. Original tan wrappers bound in. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. "These extracts, fragmentary and incomplete, from Mr. Hunt's instructions, were jotted down on backs of canvases and scraps of drawing paper, without knowledge of shorthand. Their publication has been requested by artists in Europe and America." (Helen M. Knowlton, First series). "The Talks on Art were written for mere students, but great artists read them. You may say that they are contradictory; but they were addressed to different students. Some needed hasty-pudding, some Albert Dürer." (W. M. Hunt, Second series). Binding with light wear along edges, light scuffing, and rubbed. Binding and interior in overall very good condition.

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. g. 8vo. x, 209pp. Half vellum over paper covered boards. Interesting book on poetry. Untrimmed page edges. Book is in good condition.

France: U.S. Seventh Army, 1945. Hardcover. g. Collection of five items documenting the April 4th 1945 Passover Seder organized in France for the Jewish soldiers by U.S. Seventh Army Lieutenant Colonel Chaplain Max A. Braude. 1) Braude's typed letter, addressed to "Darling" and dated Friday Afternoon 23 March 1945 enthusiastically recounts the "fun" of planning a Seder under conditions that are in "a constant state of flux...Several days ago we had not as yet received Haggadahs for Passover so yours truly ingeniously decided to photostat the haggadah portion of the abridged prayer book - except that there was no one to do offset printing and so a cut was made which should have been perfect except as you see no one could read Hebrew - so the Hebrew Text is UPSIDE DOWN - yet I think - in fact I am almost certain that it represents (sic) the first Hebrew Printing on the Continent since its liberation." The letter also mentions his sermons for Friday evening services, asks his darling to "keep a… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934. First edition. Softcover. vg. Octavo. XXIX, [1], 297, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over burgundy with gold lettering on spine and blind-stamped printer's device on front cover. This remarkable study presents statistical data of the daily wage rates of common labor, for the most part agricultural workers and laborers in the building trades, from 1700 to 1790, in three sections of England. Spine and edges of wrappers slightly age-toned. Wraps in overall good+, binding and interior in very good condition.

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1927. Second edition. Hardcover. vg. 12mo. 285pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over cloth with blue-stamped border and lettering on front cover and blue-stamped lettering on spine. Printer's device on title-page. Fascinating work being a popular fiction novel first published in 1925. Some age-wear on dust-jacket with rubbing and creasing along edges and chipping on upper left part of front cover and at bottom of front joint. Dust-jacket taped on binding. Minor offsetting on endpapers. Dust-jacket in overall fair, binding in good+, interior in very good condition.

New York: Ferrar & Rinehart, 1930. Hardcover. g. 8vo. xiv, 362 pp. Light blue cloth binding w/o dj. Edges faded and spine sunned. Head and tail of spine bumped. Some yellow stains to back. Inscribed by previous owner. Frontis. Illustrated with b/w photographs and some drawings. In good condition.

San Francisco: Loosestrife Editions, 2007. First edition. Signed by Hernandez on verso of half-title. Folio. Unpaginated. Original gray cloth with gray lettering on yellow debossed label of cover, in original illustrated dustjacket, red lettering on spine.

Wien: Gerlach & Wiedling, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Oblong quarto. 1 leaf (Title), 80 loose plates (as issued). Original illustrated cloth portfolio, with string ties. Collection of 80 striking artistic landscape photographs depicting forests, trees, meadows, gardens and foregrounds. Martin Gerlach's splendid photographs are reproduced in collotype, and each plate is numbered at verso. Portfolio soiled on covers, rubbed along edges, and frayed at head of spine. Moderate foxing and soiling to title. Title in German. Portfolio in overall fair to good-, interior in good+, plates in very good condition.

Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. near fine. Oblong quarto. 72 pages. Photo-illustrated blue-green dust jacket, with pink and grey lettering on the cover and spine. Photo-illustrated stiff paper boards. Signed by German photographer Michael Lange in silver marker on the front free endpaper. This beautifully printed work collects Lange's atmospheric images of the forest, capture with remarkable sensitivity and attention to the subtleties of light. Text at rear in English and German. Dj, binding and interior in near fine condition overall.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Good condition. Octavo. 357pp. Original brown clothe with blind-stamped decor and ruling on covers, blind-stamped ruling and gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated title page. With one full page, reduced plan of Walden Pond, 1846, bound in between pages 306 and 307. A reduced 1846 plan of Walden Pond bound in, facing page 307 with S. W. Chandler & Bro. Lith imprint. Title page dated 1864 but missing advertisements at rear. Walden is Thoreau's best known work, reflections on simple living in natural surroundings, compressing the two years, two months and two days he spent at Walden Pond into a single calendar year, symbolizing human development using the passage of the four seasons. Though Walden wasn't popular when published, it later was regarded as a classic of American literature. Contemporary newspaper clipping with Thoreau portrait and facsimile signature laid in. Binding with light wear along edges, chipped head (a qurater inch) and… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. 186pp. Introduction by Clive Barnes. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original dj. Minor rubbing to edges. Some creasing and minor chipping to dj. "Waldman makes the image of the theater live on the insides of our brains." Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs. In very good condition.

Lodz: Centralna Zydowska Komisia Historyczna, 1946. First edition. Softcover. g. Octavo. 48pp. Original white wrapper with black lettering on cover. Detailed account of the fight and resitance of the total destruction of the Jews of Bialystock. One fold-out map at rear. Text in Polish. In good condition.

New York: Harper & Row, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. g+. Quarto. 199 (5)pp. Original dustjacket over gray cloth with blind-stamped lettering on cover; light gray on spine. Gray endpapers. A selection of distinctive duotone photographs including "... portraits, street scenes and what Hilton Kramer has called Evans' "special landscape... the objects and structures and surfaces and spaces of American life: in which he saw something poetic, something to be valued and 'save'" - rooms, roads, churches, banks, shops and signs, all eloquent of the people who created, inhabited or abandoned them." (Publisher). DJ with wear and creasing along edges and spine; few small stains. Binding with some discoloration at top, lighter at bottom. Blind stamp of library of Michael Levee on front endpaper. Light foxing at top of half-title and title page. Book block slightly waved. DJ and binding in overall good-, interior in good+ to very good condition.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Fourth edition. Hardcover. vg. 4to. vol.1: xliv.; 568pp.; lxi. vol.2: viii. 569-1362pp.; xxv. Vol.1: Red cloth with gilt lettering. Spine very slightly cocked. DJ very good condition. Vol.2: Red cloth with gilt lettering. DJ very good condition. Profusely illustrated with Ernest Walker's b&w photographs. 2 volume set considered to be "...the most comprehensive---the preeminent---reference work on mammals." As new.

Vienna: IVAM/Collecció Centre del Carme, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. near fine. Large oblong quarto. 104pp. Green cloth, lettered in black on the front cover and spine. Illustrated throughout with 82 full-page photographic plates (some in color). Each plate captioned in English. The same captions are printed at rear in Spanish. Catalog of an exhibition at IVAM, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern. A beautiful near fine copy.

New York: Paragon House, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. g. 8vo. vii, 326 pp. Green boards with black spine and d/j. In good condition.

London: George Virtue, 1844. First edition. Hardcover. poor to g. Quarto. (10) 224 (8)pp. Original color illustrated blue paper-covered boards with black lettering on cover. Frontispiece steel engraving with tissue guard. Title page steel engraving. Foreword: "...a clear, connected, and accurate view of the City, by gradually tracing its progress from the earliest period of authentic history, restoring its past appearance by careful study of existing data, and exhibiting its present condition, in a series of Views 'chosen with express reference to historical illustration,' and in which the 'local character' should be the only object, and where, at every step, the past and present should be compared." Illustrated with 19 full page steel engravings , including one fold out map, and numerous in-text illustrations and tables. List of illustrations at front and eight pages of valuable publications at rear. Binding rubbed with some staining and chips along edges and corners. Spine missing though front and… Read More

London: George Virtue, 1844. Hardcover. fair. 4to. 224 pp., 8 pp. ads. Half leather over blue and gold decorative boards.Forty-four b&w illustrations, including fold-out map w/colored walking paths. Corners bumped, some chipping, covers faded. Fair condition.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Limited ed. Hardcover. vg. 1/1500. 4to. x. 545pp. plus illustrations Half black cloth over brown cloth with green star of David illustration on front board and green and gold lettering to spine. Light green endpapers. Frontispiece drawing. The Wall tells the riveting and compelling story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey documents the Warsaw ghetto not just as an emblem of Nazi persecution, but also in universalistic terms as man's confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty. Beautifully illustrated with twelve aquatints by William Sharp; his autograph appears at rear endpaper. Minor scuffing to cover. Head and tail of spine bumped. Edges rubbed and bumped, affecting interior leaves. Overall in good to very good condition. John Richard Hersey was an American novelist and journalist. During World War II he covered the fighting in both Europe (Sicily) and Asia (Battle of Guadalcanal… Read More