A Forgotten Friend of India: Sir Charles Forbes 1st Bart
by Wadia, Ruttonjee Ardeshir
Baroda: Padmaja Publications, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. SCARCE. Small 8vo. Grey paper coverd boards with black title to front board and to spine. Small spot of browning to front board and to spine. Minor browning to end pages. Else is clean and bright. Green and blue dust jacket with green and white... Read More
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The Mayor's Bicentennial Ball for the Benefit of the Arts. October 30, 1976. "Program Plus Four
by Waesche, James F.
Baltimore: the Mayor's Bicentennial Ball Committee, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Very good in blue paper covered boards with gilt title to front board. Minor edgewear and rubbing to hinges. Previous owner's address sticker to top edge of front free end page. Else is pristine with illustrations and advertisements throughout. Includes the supplement and folio collection laid... Read More
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From Gaul to De Gaulle: An Outline of French Civilization
by Wagner, Monique
New York: Peter Lang, 1989. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. SCARCE. American University Studies, Series IX: History, Vol. 43. Fine in white and green glossy paper covered boards with black title to front board and to spine. Pristine interior with illustrations throughout. Index, 326 pages + photgraphic illustrations at rear. French History. FREHIS/102915.
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![Bionos kai Moschou ta leipsana [printed in Greek characters]. Illustrabat et emendabat Gilbertus Wakefield](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/574/781/1556781574.0.m.jpg)
Bionos kai Moschou ta leipsana [printed in Greek characters]. Illustrabat et emendabat Gilbertus Wakefield
by Wakefield, Gilbert (Earl of Aberdeen), editor
London: T. Bensley, 1795. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Scarce. This edition is printed in Greek and Latin. Bion ( onos) was an ancient Greek bucolic poet from Smyrna, probably active at the end of the second or beginning of the first century BC. He is named in the Suda as one of three canonical bucolic poets alongside Theocritus... Read More
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A Pinch of Experience
by Walford, L.B.
New York: John W. Lovell, 1891. Paperback. Good in Wraps. Paperback. SCARCE. Good in wraps. Most of spine is missing. small 8vo. Literature. LIT3/4032.
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Lord De Villiers and His Times: South Africa 1842-1914
by Walker, Eric
London: Constable & Company, Ltd, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. With laid-in two page letter and postcard from Walker to Cornelis Willem de Kiewiet, and with de Kiewiet's ownership signature on the free front endpaper. Eric Anderson Walker (September 1886 – February 1976) was King George V Professor of History at the University of Cape Town... Read More
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Mary Pickford: The Queen of the Silent Film Era
by Walker, George A.; Cari Beauchamp, introduction; Tom Smart, afterword
Toronto, 2020. Softcover. Fine. Softcover. Trade edition of a limited edition pictorial biography of silent film star Mary Pickford. Signed by George Walker on the title page. (Some copies are signed in reverse or mirror.) Noted wood engraver George A. Walker celebrates the life of Mary Pickford (1892-1979), a silent film star whose groundbreaking contributions to the motion... Read More
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Book of Hours: A Wordless Novel Told in 99 Wood Engravings
by Walker, George
Toronto: The Porcupine's Quill, 2010. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. "Although international politics is often central to discussions of 9/11, "Book of Hours" focus on innocent life lost adds emotional urgency to the issue of who and what is responsible ... [It] is called "Book of Hours" because it is an exploration, condemnation, and celebration of our culture's devotion to... Read More
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Ink and Paper. A Printmaker's Art
by Walker, George
Toronto: Firefly Books, 2023. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Quarto. Signed in brown ink to title page with small illustration and an inscription in mirror image by George. A wonderful tribute to the art of George Walker. "Ink and paper are my muses. Using hand press printing and printers' ink to create original prints has absorbed me for at least... Read More
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On the Dependence of the Refractive Index of Gases on Temperature. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Vol. 201, pp. 435-455
by Walker, George W.
London: Dulau and Co, 1903. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. VG in green wraps with black lettering on covers. Technical. TEC111170.
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Judith Wright
by Walker, Shirley
Melbourne [etc.] Oxford University Press, 1981. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. First edition. Bound in paper orange wrappers titled in black on spine and front cover. Spine has faded to very light orange. Lightly creased, rubbed, and soiled, with bumped corners. 213 pages. BOB/111716.
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Stalemate at Panmunjon
by Walker, Wilbert L.
Baltimore: Heritage Press, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st ed. very good navy blue boards; gilt title on spine; edge of spine and corners worn; very good minus dj w/mended open tear top front cover, rear scuffed; pages very clean and bright; 158 pp. Korean War. MIL/10082.
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The Deaths of the Two Dans
by [walking bird press] Bryan, Tara, book artist
Cumberland, Iowa: walking bird press, 1987. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. 33 of 44 copies. Set in 12 point Bembo Cagado and printed on Okawara by the author. The illustrations by Lester Dore are printed on Tairona paper made by Marta Gomez. A poignant story from artist Tara Bryan about the deaths of two men named Dan, as the title... Read More
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The Romance of a Great Port: The Story of Saint John New Brunswick. Souvenir of the Transportation Festival Held on the Occasion of the Silver Jubilee of His Majesty King George V.
by Wallace, Frederick William
Saint John: Saint John Harbour Commisioners, 1935. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo. Very good in illustrated green paper wrappers with black and silver title to front wrapper. Minor creasing and fading to edges. Interior is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. 64 pages. Canada CAN/9262.
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Two Volumes
by Wallace, Lew; William Martin Johnson, illustrator
London: Jas. R. Osgood, McIlvaine &C, 1892. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. A scarce and handsome edition of this most famous work by Lew Wallace, originally published in 1880 by Harper and Brothers. It is considered to be "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century." It became a best-selling American novel, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's... Read More
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Petrarch's Poetics and Literary History
by Waller, Marguerite
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Presentation Copy. 8vo. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Interior is bright, crisp and clean. 163 pp. Classical Literature. CLA/5172.
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Plymouth
by Walling, R.A.J. (editor)
Plymouth: Underhill, 1900. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Small 8vo. Very good in maroon snake skin patterned stiff paper wraps with black title to spine. Minor edgewear to edges. Interior is clean and bright with fold out map and illustrations on near every page. Includes advertisements. 71 pages. English Travel. TRA11122.
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Discourse on the Life and Character of George Peabody Delivered in the Hall of the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, February 18, 1870, at the Request of the Trustees
by Wallis, Severn Teackle
Baltimore: the Peabody Institute, 1870. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo. Grey paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper. Minor soiling and chipping to wrappers. Interior is clean and bright with many pages unopened. 60 pages. BALT/063015.
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Spain: Her Institutions, Politics, and Public Men: A Sketch
by Wallis, S.T.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Wallis was also the author of Glimpses of Spain, or Notes of an Unfinished Tour in 1847, which was published in 1849. At that time, he was asked by the U.S. government to return to Spain on official business, where he was able to observe its... Read More
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Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third
by Walpole, Horace
London: J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1768. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Lacks frontispiece and illustration of the king and queen. In a modern full leather binding with binder's stamp of S. Russell Hawe of Lorton, VA to rear pastedown. Brown and green title / author labels to spine. Gilt rules, raised bands, and embossed decorations to spine. Minor rubbing... Read More
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All Souls' Night. (Tauchnitz Edition. Collection of British and American Authors Volume 5118)
by Walpole, Hugh
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1933. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Sir Hugh Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist. He was a prodigious writer and novelist who was very popular in the United Kingdom and North America in the 1920-30s, but has largely been neglected since. He was a companion of and was influenced by many contemporary British/American authors,... Read More
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Lettres sur l'Angleterre our Voyage Dans la Grand-Bretagne
by Walsh, M. Le Vicomte
Paris: L.F. Hivert, 1830. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st edition. Very good in 1/2 leather and marble paper boards. Wear at edges and corners. Marbled endpapers. 6 black and white plates. Sporadic foxing. TRA3/12200.
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Ueber die Scheinbare Polaritat des Lichtes bei den Talbot'schen Linien
by Walter, B.
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Vg in wraps German. GER1111151.
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Bible Lands. Quarterly Paper of The Jerusalem and the East Mission. No.113, Vol.VII. July, 1927
by Ward, Algernon, ed. Bearder, Noel J., assistant editor
Leicester, UK: W. H. Lead, 1927. Paperback. Very Good -. Paperback. Very good minus in original pictorial wrappers, side-stapled. Chipping and tearing along rear fore edge of wrapper; soiling to some portions of wrapper. Light soiling to a few portions of interior; top corner of several pages folded over in rear; no loose pages. Illustrated with b/w photos.... Read More
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Down in the World
by Warden, Florence
New York: J.S. Ogilvie, 1892. Paperback. Good. Paperback. VERY SCARCE. Florence Warden (1857-1929) was a British actress and writer. She was born Florence Alice Price, but changed her name to Florence Warden for her stage career. She was also a prolific writer who wrote many novels under her stage name. Her first novel, The Wolf at the Door,... Read More
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