James Walter Wright (44 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.65.

Condition: New. SUPER FAST SHIPPING.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Gordon Davies; James Leech; Kenneth Rush; Walter Wright; John Dunscombe; John Crawley; Tim Loakes (illustrator). May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.36.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stiff pictorial wraps. Covers mildly tanned, with light creasing to top back cover corner. 160 pp., illus. CONTENTS include "Decline of the Left" (Mills), "Suicides" (Pavese), "Nathanael West at Brown" (Light), also work by Berry, Connell, Levertov, more. Book.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 49, No 7, pp. 675-716, Maps, Illus, Extracted from orig vol, thus self-wrps (Pamphlet), VG.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 61, pp. 1171-1190, Map, Illus, Extracted from orig vol, the Recased in Orig Journal Covers (Pamphlet), VG.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . B07QQC95GP Trade Paperback. No Statement of later printing on the copyright page. Tight sound unmarked copy in Good to Very Good condition. No Signature.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good Paperback.

Binding copy: lacks back and webbing. Book 1. Incidents in the life of Jesus. Book 2. The sayings of Jesus. Book 3. Jesus: the revelation of God. First pr. in 1937. Illustrated by Map (folding) at end. Reissue edition. Binding is Hardback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by Davies, Gordon; James Leech, Kenneth Rush, Walter Wright,John Dunscombe, and Alex Murray (illustrator). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Wraps. Goulding, James; and Wright, Walter (illustrator). Presumed first edition. 12 p. Includes illustrations. Color illustrations inside front and back cover. On July 30, 1939 the first production unit of the Defiant aircraft flew in the first of the formal trials. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.

Condition: Neuf.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. 288pp. Stated: "First American Edition 1968". Blue boards with brilliant gilt lettering on spine. Glossy dustwrapper not price-clipped ($4.95), in full front cover alternating blue and green horizontal stripes for names of conversants superimposed in white letters, split title lettering in white over purple across top and bottom front cover, enclosing list of conversants. Only slightest hint of thin line rubbing across top of spine; one place on front cover top edge where a finger caught the dw edge and bent it back with residual nugatory, aspiring curved crease; some intermittent minor, small spot purplish ink smudges to white of rear cover (perhaps incurred during manufacture of purple dw itself): Now in Brodart mylar, which forgives these insolent peccadilloes mightily. Solid copy. Appears Unread: tight binding, sharp corners, no rubbing wear, no previous owner names. Clean text.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Walter Huber, Fred Herz, T.J. Hellman, Inez Mexia, William E. Colby, Joseph Dixon, H.P. Rankin, Frank H. Lewis, Philip S. Carlton, William H. Wright, Lee L. Stopple, Quong Jue, R.L. van Oosting (illustrator). First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1925. First Edition. Vol XII, No. 2, for 1925. This was published during a several-year time period when the Sierra Club did not stipulate the month of an issue, just the volume, the number, and the year- monthly designations for such an infrequent publication having always been somewhat unnecessary in any case. Original printed wrappers, 9 1/4" x 6 1/4", 102 pp. + unpaginated photographic plates, features and ads, including a plate fold-out with two panoramic wide angles, from Mount Hamilton, by William H. Wright. Very Good plus, really quite close to near fine; the major flaw being the common one that circuit binding (yapp binding) was used, in which cover edges were intentionally extended out beyond page edges, but over time the extended part becomes pressed inward somewhat (see scan). One notable rear-cover chip at top, about 1" x 1.5". Otherwise, just occasional very small points of cover wear. A very handsome copy. See scans. Binding sturdy, contents fine. See scan of contents page for the lineup of stellar club writers and their always engaging and adventurous topics. In addition to the graphics mentioned above, this issue is chock full of photographic plates by the club's best photographers, as well as others. In addition to a serious passel of photos by Walter Huber and Fred Herz, there are photo contributions by T.J. Hellman, Inez Mexia, William E. Colby, Joseph Dixon, H.P. Rankin, Frank H. Lewis, Philip S. Carlton, William H. Wright, Lee L. Stopple, Quong Jue, R.L. van Oosting, and several uncredited. SC2.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Robert L. Lipman, A.C. Lovekin, J.S. Hutchinson, James K. Moffitt, Ansel F. Hall, Frank A. Williamson, C.O. Schneider, W. Harris, Con L. Grover, Frederick H. Morley, Walter L. Huber, Chester Versteeg (illustrator). First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1923. First Edition. Vol XI, No. 4, for 1923. This was published during a several-year time period when the Sierra Club did not stipulate the month of an issue, just the volume, the number, and the year - monthly designations for such an infrequent publication having always been somewhat unnecessary in any case. Original printed wrappers, 9 1/4" x 6 1/4", 115 pp. + numerous unpaginated photographic plates, features and ads, including a fold-out map (Grouse Meadows to Vidette Meadow) and a fold-out wide-angle photograph by W.H. Wright. Gray stapled wraps, rather than the usual medium brown. Very Good; circuit binding (yapp binding) was used, in which cover edges were intentionally extended out beyond page edges, but over time the extended part becomes pressed inward somewhat (see scan). Some damage at inside front hinge area, and some spine sunning and abrasion. A handsome copy. See scans. Binding sturdy, contents fine. See scan of contents page for the lineup of stellar club writers and their always engaging and adventurous topics. In addition to the graphics mentioned above, this issue is chock full of photographic plates by the club's best photographers, as well as others, including Robert L. Lipman, A.C. Lovekin, J.S. Hutchinson, James K. Moffitt, Ansel F. Hall, Frank A. Williamson, C.O. Schneider, W. Harris (an 1867 shot), Con L. Grover, Frederick H. Morley, Walter L. Huber, Chester Versteeg and several uncredited artists. SC2.

Condition: New. SUPER FAST SHIPPING.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. Ansel Adams, Lewis F. Clark, Joel H. Hildebrand; Marjory Dickieson; Marjory Bridge Farquhar; Walter A. Starr; W.E. James; George Shochat (illustrator). First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1935. First Edition. February, 1935 [Vol XX, No. I]. Original printed wrappers, tall octavo. Near Fine - and in this case, the near fine is just about as near to fine as it can get. No salient flaws; faint cover dust (scan) and - that's it. No other flaws. Very, very high grade example. Binding is, of course, sturdy. See scans. 118 numbered pp.(with some illustrations) + 24 black and white photographic plates. Nine photographs are by the great Ansel Adams; other contributors from the posse of photographic talent in this issue were: Lewis F. Clark, Joel H. Hildebrand; Marjory Dickieson; Marjory Bridge Farquhar; Walter A. Starr; W.E. James; and George Shochat. Several topical sketches sprinkled throughout, as well. Articles (see scan of contents page) byJoel H. Hildebrand; Dan De Quille; Francois E. Matthes; Joseph Grinnell; Cedric Wright; Ruth R. Currier; Louise Hildebrand; Doris F. Leonard; Elmo A. Robinson; Walter A. Starr; David R. Brower; Angus E. Taylor; and editor Francis P. Farquhar. And as always a variety of regular and special departments. Please review all scans. l-sc2.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Ansel Adams, Lewis F. Clark, Joel H. Hildebrand; Marjory Dickieson; Marjory Bridge Farquhar; Walter A. Starr; W.E. James; George Shochat (illustrator). First Edition. Yosemite National Park Naturalist's copy. Very Good. See scans and description. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1935. First Edition. February, 1935 [Vol XX, No. I]. Original printed wrappers, tall octavo; 118 numbered pp.(with some illustrations) + 24 black and white photographic plates. Binding is gray, as opposed to the medium russet of some other examples of the same issue; see comparable scans at item # 61204. Very Good; rubber stamp saying "Park Naturalist - Yosemite National Park, Calif." appears twice at front cover, and there is some sunning at and near the spine; no other flaws. Contents bright and clean, binding very firm. Nine photographs are by the great Ansel Adams; other contributors from the posse of photographic talent in this issue were: Lewis F. Clark, Joel H. Hildebrand; Marjory Dickieson; Marjory Bridge Farquhar; Walter A. Starr; W.E. James; and George Shochat. Several topical sketches sprinkled throughout, as well. Articles (see scan of contents page) byJoel H. Hildebrand; Dan De Quille; Francois E. Matthes; Joseph Grinnell; Cedric Wright; Ruth R. Currier; Louise Hildebrand; Doris F. Leonard; Elmo A. Robinson; Walter A. Starr; David R. Brower; Angus E. Taylor; and editor Francis P. Farquhar. And as always a variety of regular and special departments. Please review all scans. LSC2.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 248, xvi pages, [18] pages of plates : illustrations (4 color), 1 fold-out ; portrait ; 21 cm. ; green and orange cloth with designs ; no dustjacket ; OCLC: 9504907 ; LC: SB411 ; Dewey: 583.305 ; Contents: The early rose / Frank W Halliday -- The rose on the air / J Horace McFarland -- The Allentown rose-garden / C Chester Yost -- More municipal rose-gardens / Robert Pyle -- The garden value of rose species / E H M Cox -- The committee on old roses / Mrs. Francis King -- The duties of the old-rose committee / Stephen F Hamblin -- The old roses of California -- Francis E Lester -- Breeding new roses / George C Thomas -- Rose-breeding in Rhode Island / Josephine Brownell, Walter D Brownell -- A rose foundation / William Crocker -- Breeding better roses / Rev George A Schoener -- Roses from your ice-box / Persis Smallwood Crocker -- The wax treatment for dormant plants / James A Neilson -- The canker scare / R Marion Hatton -- Rose-disease investigations / L M Massey, Bruce Parsons -- The Central East, a symposium -- Roses along Lake Erie: Mentor, Sandusky, Toledo / Melvin E Wyant, Harry B Neumeyer, Paul Fakehany, Charles G Smith -- Roses in and around Detroit / E Genevieve Gillette -- Southeastern Ohio / Mrs. John B Wagner -- Along the Ohio River / Marie Bauer -- Roses in Cincinnati / R J Conners -- Roses in the Blue Grass /. C S Crouse, Maude M Crouse -- Roses in Eastern Indiana / Alexander McGalliard -- No roses without work / Mrs W D Bostick -- Protecting roses in Indiana / Mrs Berenice M Harrison -- Roses in Northern Indiana / A L Hubbard -- Time of planting and winter protection in Michigan / Charles M Greenway -- Roses can be grown in Illinois / E I Lanter -- Roses near the Mississippi / Dr. Ralph Graham -- Roses in industrial Illinois / Perry Wilson -- Roses in "Egypt" / Hon. Kent E Keller -- The rose-mindedness of Ontario / J Horace McFarland -- Roses in the Rocky Mountains / Maud Chegwidden -- Rugosa roses on a Kansas farm / Carol L Martin -- Why I prefer Spring planting / Agnes Fules Huntington -- Caring for a small rose-garden / Mrs Louis Hurd -- The modern way of feeding roses / Dr G J Raleigh -- Abolishing rose-bugs / Ruth O Ericson -- Failure and success in rose-growing / G F Middleton -- My lifetime with roses / E Gurney Hill -- Tributes to Ernest Henry Wilson -- Wilson, the explorer and teacher / Richardson Wright -- Wilson, the lover of plants / E H M Cox -- Frederick Loveless Atkins / Leonard Barron -- Three fine rose men pass on -- J C N Forestier / J H Nicolas -- John Hickman Dunlop / A J Webster -- Sing Sing's rose man / Lewis E Lawes -- Abyssinia as a land of roses / Franklin P Adams -- Roses in Brazil / Eudoro Ramos Costa -- The 1920 rose summer in Europe / J H Nicolas -- The American Rose Society in Europe / Robert Pyle -- The international rose test-gardens / Dr SPencer S Sulliger -- Roses abroad -- Name, names, names / E S Trott -- Proof of the pudding, 1931 -- Radio rose talks -- Rose notes -- New roses of the world ; wear to covers, else G. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Special Edition. Full leather bound edition. Raised bands on spine with gilt lettering. Gilt page edges and cover design. Ribbon page marker. Marble design endpapers. Book is new and sealed in publishers shrinkwrap. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Wrappers. Folio. [28] pp. Foreword by Max Kozloff, edited by Jack Sonenberg and designed by Rudi Bass. Folio. Textured paper wrappers with French flaps. Fine. Limited to 100 copies. This copy is un-numbered. A collection of poems by David Antin, Paul Blackburn, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Clayton Eshleman, Anthony Hecht, Stanley Kunitz, Denise Levertov, Walter Lowenfels, Joel L. Oppenheimer, Allen Planz, Jerome Rothenberg, Frank Samperi, Gilbert Sorrentino, Charles Stein, Tony Towle, and James Wright.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. JAMES GOULDING, P. ENDSLEIGH CASTLE, WALTER WRIGHT ETC. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Illustrated Paper covers (Stapled paperback, 235 x 180 mm approx. Variously 10- 14 pp + covers, 5 profile, scale colour drawings of aircraft featured to inside front cover with colour side view of same with markings of air forces using them to inside rear cover, many b/w photos, detailed and authoritative text and technical specs. Of interest to both model makers and aviation/ military historians. Opportunity to secure a collection of 46 issues between 1964 and 1967 including the scarce No I. S.E.5A and many other famous aircraft incl No 5 Vickers F.B.27 Vimy, No 6 Bristol Bulldog, No 9,The Albatros D V, No 21 Bristol Fighter, No 25 The Fokker D.VII ie Mainly WWI but a few latter craft incl No 197 Hawker Tempest I-VI. Good - very minor shelf wear/ soiling. Graded as "good" only because previous owner has carefully and very neatly, employed masking tape back to back down spines to form tabs to most of them so they could be retained in spring back loose leaf stamp album type binders. A few also look as if they have been cut down very slightly - but hasten to add no loss of text. No previous owner names contents clean). Please see our images of the actual collection offered for sale.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Wrappers. Folio. [28] pp. Foreword by Max Kozloff, edited by Jack Sonenberg and designed by Rudi Bass. Folio. Textured paper wrappers with French flaps. Fine. Limited to 100 copies. This copy is un-numbered. A collection of poems by David Antin, Paul Blackburn, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Clayton Eshleman, Anthony Hecht, Stanley Kunitz, Denise Levertov, Walter Lowenfels, Joel L. Oppenheimer, Allen Planz, Jerome Rothenberg, Frank Samperi, Gilbert Sorrentino, Charles Stein, Tony Towle, and James Wright.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Leake, Gerald; Baumhofer, Walter M.; Green, Bert; Flagg, James Montgomery; Grout, Stephen; Gardner, Erle Stanley (illustrator). First Edition. 58 pages. This very special issue contains part 1 (of 2) of "I Killed the Czar - at last the truth of history's most famous and mystery-shrouded massacre - On his deathbed one of the actual assassins (Peter Zacharovitch Ermakov) breaks his long silence". Fortuitously, when we acquired this copy we were thrilled to discover that laid-in are pages 39-48 of the August 3, 1935 issue, containing the entirety of part 2 of this important article. Other features include: Public Sweetheart Number One - Part III; The Case of the Caretaker's Cat - Part VII; Inside the Number Racket - what lies behind America's most amazing case of gambling fever?; Times Have Changed in Tennis - now it's a spotlight for chiselers! Short stories include: The God-Inspired Idiot; The Donkey with a Lion's Heart; Love Letters of a Prizefighter and a Hollywood Extra; Flight. Many ofther features. Ads include: Wrigley's Gum, Spud Cigarettes; Pontiac Six (very nostalgic red and black one-page ad), Goodyear tires, Dentyne Gum; Pennzoil; Nice color back cover ad for Chesterfield Cigarettes features Turkish girl preparing tobacco leaves for baling. Above-average wear. Contents yellowed with age. A worthy copy of this historically important issue.

Vintage photograph of director William Wyler, writer Jan Struther, and actor Walter Pidgeon accepting Radio City Music Hall Oscarette awards for the 1942 film "Mrs. Miniver." Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with file stamps. Based on Struther's 1940 novel, about the experiences of an unassuming British housewife during World War II. The film was the highest grossing release of 1942, and received six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress for Greer Garson. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly edgeworn, with ink residue on the recto. National Film Registry.