The Gates of the Forest
by Wiesel, Elie
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Translated by Frances Frenaye. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.95), a tidemark on the top edge of the back panel. White paper on the boards, lightly bumped. Square and firmly bound with a dark top stain, clean internally. One of Wiesel's... Read More
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Tuesday
by Wiesner, David
New York: Clarion Books, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Wiesener on the second front endpaper. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (15.95). Quarter blue cloth with light blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Wiesener's children's book that is "a visual burlesque of the improbable, with antecedents in animated cartoons, silent movies,... Read More
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The Arabian Nights
by Wiggin, Douglas; Smith, Nora A.
New York: Scribner's, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Maxfield Parrish. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Early Reprint. About Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($1.50), generally toned and soiled, lightly rubbed and chipped at the edges. Black cloth, lightly pushed at the corners, with gilt lettering on the spine, pictorial pastedown on the front panel. Square, front... Read More
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Marm Lisa
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. About Very Good in the publisher's cloth, generally toned, lightly rubbed at the bottom edge. Square with some reading wear on the binding, a contemporary Christmas inscription on the front endpaper and a pasted-in telegram inside the front board.
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For Love of the King; A Burmese Masque
by Wilde, Oscar
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Cream boards, soiled and bumped, gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, clean internally. The first appearance of this posthumously published pantomimic play originally written around 1894 as a gift... Read More
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Epistola; In Carcere Et Vinculis
by Wilde, Oscar
Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Translated by Max Meyerfeld. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped (no price), generally toned, multiple chips at the edges and spine. Quarter orange buckram with black paper on the boards, rubbed at the fore-edge and pushed at the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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The Duchess of Padua
by Wilde, Oscar
New York: Privately Printed, 1905. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Fair. Red wraps, faded at the spine and edges, a few gouges at the spine, generally rubbed and lightly soiled. Square, first signature loose, all others firmly attached. An apparent pirate copy by Charles Connington, a scarce copy in any condition.
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The Duchess of Padua
by Wilde, Oscar
London: Methuen and Co, 1908. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Fair. About Near Fine. Cream cloth, lightly soiled, with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, errata slip tipped-in after the copyright page. A well-preserved copy in a custom slipcase of this lesser-known play from the author... Read More
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The Young King and The Star-Child
by Wilde, Oscar
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, [n.d.]. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated. Very Good, no jacket. Light green buckram, rubbed and faded at the edges. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean, bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise. Published as part of Page's Cosy Corner Series of young adult books.
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Lady Windmere's Fan
by Wilde, Oscar
Paris: [Leonard Smithers], 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Limited to 250 copies, of which this is number 115. About very good in the original plain brown cloth, toned in spots, rubbed at the edges and corners. Square, bound with some reading wear on the binding, a semi-circle in the lower quarter of the front endpaper has been... Read More
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De Profundis
by Wilde, Oscar
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1909. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. With additional Matter. Edited and with a Prefatory Dedication by Robert Ross. About Very Good, lacking the jacket. Quarter blue buckram with light blue-grey paper on the boards and spine edge, generally rubbed and toned. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, foxed at the endpapers... Read More
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The Eighth Day
by Wilder, Thornton
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, rubbed and bumped at the edges, a few short closed tears. Quarter blue cloth with blue cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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The Skin of Our Teeth; A Play in Three Acts
by Wilder, Thornton
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. With an ALS from Wilder to Yale Printer Emeritus Carl Rollins. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), bumped and with a few shallow chips and short closed tears at the edges. Orange cloth, lightly bumped at the corners, with brown paste-down labels... Read More
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Our Town
by Wilder, Thornton
New York: Coward-McCann, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.00), lightly toned, a few shallow chips at the edges. Brown cloth, faded at the edges, with blue paste-down labels on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a blue top stain, clean internally. A nicely... Read More
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Vietnam and the Pacific Rim Strategy
by Wiley, Peter
Boston: New England Free Press. Paperback. Good. Good. Pink wraps faded at the spine and lower edge. Firmly bound with two staples, some underlining throughout. A reprinting of Wiley's article that originally appeared in a 1969 issue of Leviathan.
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
by Wilhelm, Kate
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1989. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrations by Pat Morrissey. Introduction by Pamela Sargent. Fine. Red leather with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges, sewn-in bookmark, and with the original laid-in receipt, unused bookplate, and Collector's Note. Part of the Masterpieces of Science Fiction series.
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The Cat and the Canary
by Willard, John
New York: Jacobsen Publishing Company, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Very Good in a less than Fair jacket, only a portion of the front and back panels remain. Brown buckram, bumped at the corners, with black ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, former owner's name on the front endpaper. A photoplay... Read More
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Something about a Soldier
by Willeford, Charles
New York: Random House, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Advanced Uncorrected Proofs. Near Fine. Red wraps, lightly rubbed, label taped onto the front. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Willeford's memoir about his time in the U.S. Army during the Great Depression.
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All Hallows' Eve
by Williams, Charles
New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Introduction by T.S. Eliot. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.75), faed at the spine, generally rubbed, some soiling. Blue cloth, bumped at the corners, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The final supernatural novel from the British... Read More
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Other Tongues - Other Flesh; A Startling Sequel to The Saucers Speak!
by Williamson, George Hunt
Amherst: Amherst Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.00), generally toned, lightly rubbed. Green cloth, rubbed at the bottom edge, with green ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, lightly soiled at the endpapers, clean otherwise. Williamson's work that lays out a history and theory of... Read More
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Fifty Days That Changed the World
by Williams, Hywel
London: Folio Society, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Sealed in the publisher's shrink wrap, presumed first edition. Fine in a Fine slipcase.
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The Humanoids
by Williamson, Jack
New York: Grosset and Dunlap. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Science Fiction Classics. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped (100100), generally rubbed and faded at the edges, a larger chip at the foot of the spine. Brown paper on the boards with blue ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a... Read More
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Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction
by Williamson, Jack
New York: Bluejay Books, Inc, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Williamson on the title page. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($15.95), a crease down the front flap, lightly bumped at the edges. Quarter blue cloth with brown paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Williamson's memoir about his writing career,... Read More
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The Alien Intelligence
by Williamson, Jack
Carrollton: P.D.A. Enterprises, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Period illustrations by Paul & Morey. New Illustrations by Kenneth Hafer. Limited to 1,000 copies, this copy inscribed by Williamson on the title page. Near Fine. Blue wraps, faintly rubbed, a few stray stains. Square and firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. The first volume in the... Read More
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The Humanoids
by Williamson, Jack
New York: Grosset and Dunlap. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Science Fiction Classics. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (100100), lightly rubbed, a few shallow chips at the edges. Brown paper on the boards, pushed and the foot of the spine, with blue ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound... Read More
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