![[Drop title] A Farmer for Congress](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/777/473/1340473777.0.m.jpg)
[Drop title] A Farmer for Congress
by Carl Vrooman
[Bloomington, IL]: Democratic Agricultural Committee for 17th Congressional District, 1946. Near Fine. [Bloomington, IL: Democratic Agricultural Committee of 17th Congressional District, n.d. but 1946.] Octavo (23cm.); bifolium. Light toning to extremities, else Near Fine. Campaign flyer supporting the (failed) congressional bid of Carl Vrooman, former Assistant Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson. The text is comprised... Read More
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![The Turn of the Years: The Season's Course / As Old as the Century [Limited Edition, Signed by Pritchett and Theroux]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/009/386/1578386009.0.m.jpg)
The Turn of the Years: The Season's Course / As Old as the Century [Limited Edition, Signed by Pritchett and Theroux]
by V.S. Pritchett; Reynolds Stone [engravings]; Paul Theroux [intro.]
Salisbury, Wiltshire: Michael Russell, 1982. Near Fine/Very Good+. [Salisbury, Wiltshire]: Michael Russell, [1982]. First Edition Limited to 150 signed copies of which this is no. 28. Slim 12mo; publisher's green cloth, pictorial paste-on to upper cover, in original glassine dust jacket; 48pp.; woodcut frontispiece, illus. throughout. A hint of shelf wear, glassine a bit wrinkled, else a Fine... Read More
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![The Emperor of Gladness: A Novel [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/314/640/1702640314.0.m.jpg)
The Emperor of Gladness: A Novel [Signed]
by Ocean Vuong
New York: Penguin Press, 2025. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Penguin Press, 2025. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo (24.7cm); illustrated dust jacket with $30.00 price intact; boards in wine cloth with copper lettering to spine, [xii],402pp. Jacket is crisp, with some bumping at head of spine. Boards sturdy and square with matching bump to head... Read More
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Out for a Million
by V. [Vladimir] Krymov; Malcolm Burr [trans.]
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1935. Very Good. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1935. First English-language Edition. Octavo; 347pp +4 ads. Publisher's red cloth with black lettering. Red topstain. Missing dust jacket. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends, with some smudging and finger-soiling to surface. Spine a bit cocked and darkened. Light bump to top corner of... Read More
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History of Chapel Street Church. A Discourse delivered on the twentieth anniversary of the origin of the Chapel Street Church and Ecclesiastical Society
by W.T. Eustis, Jr.
New Haven: Chapel Street Ecclesiastical Society / J.H. Benham, 1858. Very Good. New Haven: Published by the Chapel Street Ecclesiastical Society / J.H. Benham, Printer, 1858. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cream glazed wrappers printed within decorative border; 24pp. Moderate wear and spotting to wrappers, light dust-soil, else a Very Good, internally fresh and sound copy.
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Belfast: Control Zone
by Bonnie Donohue and Warner Wada
Boston: Tyler Offset Workshop, 1985. Very Good. Boston: Tyler Offset Workshop, 1985. First Edition. Large, slim folio (40.5cm); publisher's white pictorial staple bound card wrappers; [40]pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Some toning to wrapper and textblock margins, else Very Good and sound. Collaboration between two video artists on the ongoing Troubles of Northern Ireland.
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The Red-Man, or, the Destruction of a Race; Disjointed Fragments; Essays
by William Waddell
St. Louis: Press of Perrin & Smith, 1909. Very Good. St. Louis: Press of Perrin & Smith, 1909. First Edition. Octavo (7" x 5.25"); 155p. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Covers bumped at corners and spine ends, with some scuffing down joints and a small dampstain to back. Opens easily to between gatherings, but binding is holding... Read More
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![Women in Struggle No. 1: Wages for Housework [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/633/618/1700618633.0.m.jpg)
Women in Struggle No. 1: Wages for Housework [wrapper title]
by Wages for Housework Collective; Judy Ramirez, Selma James, Priscilla Allen et al. [contributors]
Toronto: Wages for Housework Collective, 1975. Very Good. Toronto: Wages for Housework Collective, 1975. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green staple bound wrappers; 29pp. Light rubbing to edges; price in pen to front, "Wages for Housework Collective" stamp to rear with Toronto address; additional stamp below. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Very Good or better. Includes a series of short... Read More
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![A Man Unafraid: The Story of John Charles Fremont [Signed and Inscribed by Wagner]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/449/254/1595254449.0.m.jpg)
A Man Unafraid: The Story of John Charles Fremont [Signed and Inscribed by Wagner]
by Herbert Bashford; Harr Wagner
San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publishing Company, 1927. Very Good. San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publishing Company, 1927. First Edition. Signed by Wagner on front free endpaper without dedication "With sincere good wishes to 'a soul remembering a good friend.' Harr Wagner, Dec. 17, 27." Octavo; 406pp. Two mounted color illustrations (including frontis) with 16 black and white plates, all... Read More
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Every Man's Tour
by M. Wahbey
Jerusalem: Moslem Orphanage Press, 1931. Very Good. Jerusalem: Moslem Orphanage Press, 1931. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm); staple bound self-wrappers; 7pp. Old folds lines, brief oxidation at staples, else Very Good and sound. Unrecorded brochure advertising the motor-car tours organized by M. Wahbey to Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Samaria, Damascus, Petra, Jerash, and Amman. Each location includes a short... Read More
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Vers la Fin de l'Ontologie: Etude sur l'introduction dans la metaphysique par Heidegger
by [Martin Heidegger] Jean Wahl
Paris: Societe d'Edition d'Enseignement Superieur / SEDES, 1956. Very Good -. Paris: Société d'Édition d'Enseignement Supérieur / SEDES, 1956. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's card wrappers printed in purple and green; 257pp. Wrapper extremities and textblock quite toned due to inferior paper quality, slightly later (1964) ownership signature to front half title, else a Good to Very Good, internally... Read More
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Roseanna
by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
New York: Pantheon Books, a Division of Random House, 1967. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Pantheon Books, a Division of Random House, 1967. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 212 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$4.50" price present. Green boards decorated in blue, yellow, and red; purple topstain. Most likely ex-library though with markings removed (more info below). ... Read More
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The Century of Tung Ch'i-ch'ang 1555-1636 Volume I and Volume II
by Wai-Kam Ho; Judith G. Smith [eds.]
Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / University of Washington Press, 1992. Very Good +. Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / University of Washington Press, 1992. First Edition, wrapper issue. Two quarto volumes. 465 p.; 603 p. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated wraps. Wraps are lightly worn along edges with... Read More
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The Crystallised Carbon Pig
by John Wainwright
New York: Walker and Company, 1967. Very Good-/Very Good. New York: Walker and Company, [1967]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.95); 256pp. Light wear to margins, dark glue residue to jacket corners and racing endpapers from having been previously tipped down, shallow paper scar at jacket spine crown, cloth... Read More
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The Book of Ceremonial Magic: Including the Rites and Mysteries of Goetic Theurgy, Sorcery and Infernal Necromancy
by Arthur Edward Waite
New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1969. Near Fine/Very Good +. New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1969. First Thus, originally published in 1896 under the title "The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts." Octavo; 338pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket; red cloth boards stamped in black. Mild rubbing and creasing to dust jacket; price written in... Read More
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Lettres sur les Contes de Fees Attribues a Perrault, et sur l'Origine de la Feerie
by [Charles Perrault] Anonymous [C.A. Walckenaer]
Paris: Baudouin Freres, 1826. Very Good. Paris: Baudouin Freres, 1826. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's tan pictorial wrappers bound in modern metallic marbled green boards with new endpapers; edges untrimmed; [6],218pp. Contemporary bookseller ticket, institutional ex libris and a stamp to preliminaries. Light wear to boards; binding sound; wraps toned with light spotting; a few stray annotations and... Read More
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![Three Plays: The Last Carnival; Beef, No Chicken; A Branch of the Blue Nile [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/468/651/1563651468.0.m.jpg)
Three Plays: The Last Carnival; Beef, No Chicken; A Branch of the Blue Nile [Signed and Inscribed]
by Derek Walcott
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. First Edition. Signed by Walcott with brief inscription to previous owner at front free endpaper. Octavo. 312 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $22.50 price intact. Light brown and beige boards stamped in gilt. Jacket is crisp with very faint... Read More
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![Omeros [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/542/815/1721815542.0.m.jpg)
Omeros [Signed]
by Derek Walcott
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. First Edition, stated. Signed by Walcott with brief inscription to previous owner at title page. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; slate cloth stamped in gilt; 325pp. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed along edges; chip to top front corner; pin prick to rear panel. Mild shelfwear... Read More
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![In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 [Uncorrected Proof]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/334/567/1699567334.0.m.jpg)
In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 [Uncorrected Proof]
by Derek Walcott
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. Very Good +. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. Uncorrected Proof. Small, slim octavo; publisher's light olive card wrappers printed in black with repeating Cape logo; 78pp. Very light wear and toning, else a Very Good to Near Fine example. Early uncorrected proof copy in generic publisher's wrappers of the Saint Lucian poet's first... Read More
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A Windmill Near Calvary
by Keith Waldrop
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1968. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); [viii],56pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with $4.95 price intact; boards in patterned green and white cloth with tile square to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with some bumping at top corners and head of... Read More
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The County Families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled & untitled aristocracy of Great Britain & Ireland
by Edward Walford
London: Robert Hardwicke, 1860. Very Good-. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1860. First Edition. Large, thick octavo; publisher's gilt-stamped cloth, brown glazed endpapers; xxx,[2],865,[3],60pp.; pictorial ads bound in rear. Cloth rubbed at extremities, spine ends a bit frayed, hinges rather crudely reinforced, textblock shaken in binding, contemporary ownership signature at head of title page, else a Good or better copy... Read More
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![[Poster] Louis Satchmo Armstrong, 1900-1971](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/415/828/1299828415.0.m.jpg)
[Poster] Louis Satchmo Armstrong, 1900-1971
by Zdzisław Walicki
1975. Very Good. Text on poster: Louis Satchmo Armstrong // P[olskie] S[towarzyszenie] J[azzowe] with trumpet logo // 1900-1971. Date: 1975. Height x width: 95.5cm x 67cm. Printing information: lower left corner: logos of KAW and WAG. Condition: No visual flaws. Walicki studied at the College of Fine Arts in Łódź, and became professor at the College of... Read More
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![The Third Life of Grange Copeland [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/103/506/1694506103.0.m.jpg)
The Third Life of Grange Copeland [Signed]
by Alice Walker
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21cm); illustrated dust jacket; charcoal boards with red cloth spine with silver lettering; [viii],247pp. Price-clipped jacket is lightly shelfworn, with some scattered smudges and dust-soiling and a small spot of sticker residue to rear panel. Boards are square with... Read More
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![Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/262/588/1695588262.0.m.jpg)
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning [Signed]
by Alice Walker
New York: The Dial Press, 1979. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: The Dial Press, 1979. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (21cm); publisher's dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; red boards and blue cloth spine with gilt lettering; [viii],53pp. Ex-District of Columbia Public Library, with the usual markings. Jacket in mylar cover and affixed to pastedowns, but... Read More
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Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You In The Morning: Poems
by Alice Walker
New York: Dial Press, 1979. Near Fine/Fine. New York: Dial Press, [1979]. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped dust jacket; vi,53pp. Corners gently tapped, else Just About Fine. Lovely copy of Walker's third poetry collection preceding "The Color Purple" by three years.
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