Andrew & Nathaniel Plimer; Miniature Painters Their Lives and their Works
by Williamson, George Charles
London: George Bell & Sons, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Pebble grained slate blue cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 163 pages. 31.5 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 211 of 325 bound in Lady Margaret Critchton-Stuart Hand-Loom linen. Title page printed in red and black. Multitude of full page miniatures with multiple images... Read More
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Madame De Pompadour
by Williams, H. Noel
London & New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First edition. leather_bound. Full crimson morocco. Aeg. Fine. 431 pages. 26 x 20 cm. Bound by Zaehnsdorf with 16 full page photogravures with tissue guards. Title page printed in red and black. Madame de Pompadour was no ordinary King's mistress: she was a great political force who made and unmade... Read More
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Early English Watercolours and some Cognate Drawings by Artists Born Not Later Than 1785
by Williams, Iolo A.
London: The Connoisseur, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. tan cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 266 pages. 200 plates. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER M288. "An important survey of English watercolors. Erudite and interesting....Includes lesser-known artists and figure painters. Bibliographical references in footnotes.
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American Scenery; Or, Land, Lake and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature. From Drawings by W.H. Bartlett Engraved In The First Style Of The Art, by R. Wallis, J. Cousen, Willmore, Brandard, Adlard, Richardson, &c
by Willis, Nathaniel Parker & William H. Bartlett
London: George Virtue, 1840. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth decorated in blind and gilt, front and back covers with gilt arabesques and lettering at spine. Aeg. Five Vols. Very good. Bartlett, William H. 48, 106, 96, 140 (4), 52, 28 x 22 cm. 117 steel engrave plates with tissue guards. Originally published in Thirty parts at... Read More
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Manners and Murders in the World of Louis Napoleon
by Williams, Roger L.
Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Orig. black cloth. Near fine. 206 pages. Contains the Thunderhead murders.
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The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
by Williams, Tennessee
New York: New Directions, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Very good in nicked dust wrapper, head and foot. 118 pages. 20.4 x 13.5 cm. Clean, bright copy with $3.75 priced dust jacket. First edition, second issue, with pp. 19-22 tipped in and Scene Two starting on p.21.
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The Rose Tattoo
by Williams, Tennessee
New York: New Directions, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper, lacking small portion lower left front corner. 144 pages. 20.4 x 13.5 cm. Heavily annotated with marginal notes, apparently with Director commentary noting music interludes, animal sounds, phone ringing, instructions to cast as to pace and emotion, etc. In original dust... Read More
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Baby Doll The Script For The Film; Incorporating The Two One-Act Plays Which Suggested It -- 27 Wagons Full of Cotton & The Long Stay Cut Short/or/The Unsatisfactory Supper
by Williams, Tennessee
New York: New Directions, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. yellow cloth. Very good in nicked and worn dust wrapper. 208 pages. 20.4 x 13.5 cm. Clean, bright copy with $3.00 priceddust jacket, owner label free front endpaper.
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A Streetcar Named Desire; With A Foreword by Jessica Tandy and an Introduction by the Author
by Williams, Tennessee
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover. Orig. leather spine and decorated boards. Fine in fine slipcase. Hirschfeld, Al. Unpaginated. 32.5 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000, with line drawings illustrations by Al Hirschfeld, and signed at colophon by him. With LEC Monthly Letter for the tile laid-in, noting a description of the binding: "... Read More
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A Streetcar Named Desire; With A Foreword by Jessica Tandy and an Introduction by the Author
by Williams, Tennessee
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover. Orig. leather spine and decorated boards. Fine in fine slipcase. Hirschfeld, Al. Unpaginated. 32.5 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 1538 of 2000, with line drawings illustrations by Al Hirschfeld, and signed at colophon by him. With LEC Monthly Letter for the tile laid-in, noting a description of the binding: "... Read More
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English House Design A Review Being a Selection and Brief Analysis of Some ofthe Best Achievements in English Domestic Architecture from the 16th to the 20th Centuries together with Numerous Examples of Contemporary Design
by Willmott, Ernest
London: B.T. Batsford, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth, gilt front cover and spine lettering bright. Teg. Near fine. 228 pages. 25 x 17 cm. 155 illustrations in black and white, mostly photographs with many house plans to scale. List of Architects whose work are illustrated. Indices. Fresh, clean copy.
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British Tobacco Cards: Complete Set of 50 Cards Depicting Allied Army Leaders WWI
by Bristol & London. W.D. & H.O. Wills
London: W.D. & H.O. Wills, 1919. Hardcover. Loose leaf binder and cards. Fine. 50 color lithograph portraits, each 7 x 3.5 cm presenting a variety of Allied military personnel of the Allied side during World War I: Russian, French, English, Romanian, Belgian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Etc. Reverse of card provides biographical details. All cards bright, clean and fresh housed... Read More
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Candlesticks
by Wills, Geoffrey
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1974. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 120 pages. 27 x 22 cm. 117 black and white photographs. Bibliography.
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Alfred Corning Clark Neighborhood House Cook Book
by Wills, Grace T.
New York: C.B. Darrow, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth lettered in black. Very good. 83 pages. 18 x 12.5 cm. The author was a social worker, and Clark a notable American philanthropist and patron of the arts. This work is more a chapter in philanthropy, the half title reading "Receipts for Very Economical Cookery." Its recipes,... Read More
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Widows Grave And Otherwise
by Wilmarth, Cora D. (Compiler)
San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth decorated in red and black. Near fine. Unpaginated. 19.5 x 12 cm. Clever spoof "Widow. Noun. Feminine at times. Singular Always." Bright, clean copy, interior illustrated and decorated in black and red. Bookplate.
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Samuel Pepys's Spanish Plays
by Wilson, Edward M. & Don W. Cruickshank
London: Bibliograhical Society, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth, orange spine label. Fine.. 196 pages. 25 x 18 cm. Reproductions in the text. Bibliography. Indexes. Oxford Bibliographical Society: for Years 1977 and 1978.
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Christopher In His Sporting Jacket
by Wilson, John [Christopher North]
New York: McClure Phillips, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth spine and thick gray boards. Very good. 133 pages. Eight hand-colored etchings by Alex M. McLellan, and with a host of black and white vignettes by the latter. Introduction by William Aspinwall Bradley. Orig. published in BLACKWOOD for September, 1828. An exquisite idyll of natural boyhood in Scotland.... Read More
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The Life of William Blake
by Wilson, Mona
London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter vellum and marbled boards. Very good. Blake, William. 397 pages. 27.5 x 19 cm. Twenty-four illustrations. Notes. Index. Limited edition, copy 630 of 1480 printed on Vidalon paper by the Chiswick Press. Spine spotted as usual. Owner inscription.
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History Of The British Expedition To Egypt; To Which Is Subjoined A Sketch Of The Present State Of That Country And Its Means Of Defence; Illustrated With Maps And Portraits of Sir Ralph Abercromby
by Wilson, Robert Thomas
London: T. Egerton, 1803. Second edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf slight front cover abrasion at lower left margin. Near fine. (xxi) 387 pages. 27 x 21.5 cm, engraved portrait, two folding tables, three folding maps, one colored in outline. Half title. Sidney Smith in a contemporary review, noted (Edinburgh Review), "The best of the English accounts is... Read More
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Piranesi As Architect And Designer
by Wilton-Ely, John
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 186 pages. 30 x 23 cm. More than 165 plates, seven in color. Co-published by the Morgan Library, written by a noted Piranesi scholar. As new copy in publisher's shrink wrapped protective plastic.
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Daniel Berkeley Updike and the Merrymount Press of Boston Massachusetts 1860-1894-1941
by Winship, George Parker
Rochester: Leo Hart, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine. 141 pages. Forty illustrations, all of which are title page designs. With four page pamphlet laid-in at front cover pocket. A tribute to Updike and review of his work, and that of the Merrymount Press. Owner inscription.
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I.M. Pei A Profile In American Architecture
by Wiseman, Carter
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990. First edition. Orig. black cloth front cover silver insert, spine lettere in white. Fine in fine illustrated dust wrapper. 320 pages. 28.5 x 23 cm. Signed presentation copy by Carter in ink "To Cheri for help on this work." 333 illustrations, 60 in color. Notes. Bibliography. Catalogue of Works. Almost as new... Read More
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A Botanical Arrangement Of British Plants; In Medicine, Diet, Rural Economy And The Arts. With An Easy Introduction to the Study of Botany, &c. &c
by Withering, William
Birmingham: M. Swinney for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1792. Second edition. Hardcover. Vols. I-II contemporary marbled boards rebacked in brown calf with leather spine labels; Vol. III in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, corners worn, boards rubbed, spine foot worn. 3 vols. Very good. 1151 pages Vols. I-II, and 503 pages Vol. III. 21 1/2 x 14... Read More
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Buddhistische Plastik In Japan
by With, Karl
Wien: Anton Schroll, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated boards, front cover paper label. Very good. No text. 29 x 22 cm. .224 full-page black and white illustrations. Descriptons in German. Interior contents fresh and clean, binding firm.
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Gods Of Earth And Heaven
by Witkin, Joel-Peter
Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth, front cover lettered in gilt. Fine in fine matching slipcase. Unpaginated. 33 x 25.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 56 of 100 signed by Witkin on the dedication leaf, "To my mother who gave me life." Contents are images in black and white and color photographs printed recto only... Read More
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