![A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language...to Which is Prefixed an Abstract of the Principles of English Pronunciation...Abridged for the Use of Schools, by an American Citizen [William Safire Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/504/366/1279366504.0.m.jpg)
A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language...to Which is Prefixed an Abstract of the Principles of English Pronunciation...Abridged for the Use of Schools, by an American Citizen [William Safire Copy]
by John Walker
Philadelphia: Griggs & Dickinson, 1832. Good. Philadelphia: Griggs & Dickinson, 1832. Standing Edition, Greatly Improved. 24mo; 413pp. Contemporary brown leather with black title card to spine. Boards rubbed and bumped along edges and corners, with chipping at head of spine and leather worn away and cracking at bottom exposing gatherings. Split starting to front joint, but binding is... Read More
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![Jubilee [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/765/591/1695591765.0.m.jpg)
Jubilee [Signed]
by Margaret Walker
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (22cm); illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; boards in green cloth with blue stamped lettering; green topstain; map endpapers; [xiv],497pp. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along folds and spine ends, with creasing... Read More
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![Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/292/050/1718050292.0.m.jpg)
Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius [Signed and Inscribed]
by Margaret Walker
New York: Amistad / Warner Communications, 1988. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Amistad / Warner Communications, 1988. First Edition; Stated First Printing. Octavo (24cm); 428pp. Publisher’s dust jacket with $22.00 price intact; boards quarter-bound in tan and black cloth with silver stamping to spine; tan endsheets. 16pp of black and white photos. Dust jacket bumped and scuffed;... Read More
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A Poetic Equation: Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker
by Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker
Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1974. Very Good-/Very Good. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's cloth, black endpapers, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($6.95); xiii,[5],135pp.; halftone photographic illus. throughout. Ex-public library with usual markings, moderate shelf wear and light wrinkling to dust jacket, faint pencil note on front free endpaper ("Nathan... Read More
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Collection of Thirty Glass Slides Depicting the Newly-Completed Hoover Dam
by [Hoover Dam] [Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co.] H.A. Wallace
Boulder City, NV, 1940. Very Good. [Boulder City, NV]: [1940]. Collection of thirty glass slides (slides measure 8x10cm.; images measure 4.5x6cm.); housed in original wooden lidded and clasped box (34.5x12.5x10.5cm.). Five of the plates show hairline cracks, one plate with crack crudely repaired with old tape, else an excellent collection, all images bright and easily discernible. Collection... Read More
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The Murder Book of J. G. Reeder
by Edgar Wallace
Garden City, NY: The Crime Club, Inc./ Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1929. Very Good +. Garden City, NY: The Crime Club, Inc./ Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929. First US Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 308pp. No dust jacket. Boards full bound in black cloth with red stamping. Generally dust soiled, lightly scuffed, bumped and rubbed at extremities. Page edges... Read More
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![The Broom of the System [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/686/098/9780140098686.OL.0.m.jpg)
The Broom of the System [Signed]
by David Foster Wallace
New York: Penguin, 1987. Very Good. New York: Penguin, 1987. First Edition, wrapper issue, published simultaneously with the Viking hardcover. Signed by David Foster Wallace without inscription at title page. Octavo; illustrated wraps; 467pp. Mild shelfwear and toning; a few smudges; slight curling to corners; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy of Wallace's debut novel.... Read More
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Dope Runners
by Gerald Grantham [pseud. John Wallace]
South Melbourne, Australia: Crime Book Publishing Co. Proprietary Limited, 1940. Very Good -. South Melbourne, Australia: Crime Book Publishing Co. Proprietary Limited, 1940. Presumed First Edition with no other printings listed. Octavo. 284 pp. + publisher's advertisements. Red cloth stamped in black. No dust jacket. Boards a bit warped and lightly worn along edges, with a... Read More
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20-20 Vision: In Celebration of the Peninsula Hills
by Wallace Stegner; Committee for Green Foothills [contribs.]; Phyllis Filiberti Butler [ed.]
Palo Alto, CA: Green Foothills Foundation, 1982. Very Good. Palo Alto, CA: Green Foothills Foundation, 1982. First Edition. Slim oblong quarto (21 cm); 36pp. Staple bound in pictorial card wrappers with price intact at back cover ($4.95). Black and white photographs throughout. All edges bumped and creased with minor soiling, foxing, and scuffing to covers. Book warped but... Read More
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Stanford Short Stories Nineteen Forty-Eight
by Wallace Stegner [ed.]; Eugene Burdick; Harry Muheim; et al [contribs.]
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1948. Very Good +/Very Good +. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1948. First Edition. Octavo (22.2 cm), x, 154pp. Publisher’s orange and cream dust jacket intact with price ($3.00). Boards full bound in tan cloth with orange stamping on the spine. Dust jacket toned all over with creases, minor tears and chips at... Read More
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The Lure of the Labrador Wild: The Story of the Exploring Expedition Conducted by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.
by Dillon Wallace
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1905. Very Good+. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, [c. 1905 but ca. 1913]. Presumed Eleventh Edition. Octavo; contemporary full crushed teal morocco double-ruled in gilt, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, housed in custom cloth slipcase; [2],339pp.; photographic frontispiece, fifteen (15) leaves of plates, folding map bound in rear.... Read More
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The Terrible People
by Edgar Wallace
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Very Good-. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth lettered in black; [6],336pp. Margins a bit rubbed and worn, spine a shade toned and ends frayed, top textblock edge foxed, else a Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Crime... Read More
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Again Sanders
by Edgar Wallace
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First Edition, stated. Octavo (19.8cm); illustrated dust jacket with $1.00 price intact; boards in orange cloth with black lettering; pattered green endpapers; 312pp. Jacket edgeworn with a few shallow chips and tears; spine faded, with a small circle of extra fading... Read More
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![Curved Light [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/113/186/1626186113.0.m.jpg)
Curved Light [Signed]
by Alan Wall
London: Bellew Publishing, 1994. Fine/Near Fine. London: Bellew Publishing, 1994. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; 158pp. Just About Fine condition. Signed by Wall on title page. The author's first novel, preceded only by the poetry collection "Jacob" the previous year.
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![Glimpses of Spain; or, Notes of an Unfinished Tour in 1847 [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/482/183/1585183482.0.m.jpg)
Glimpses of Spain; or, Notes of an Unfinished Tour in 1847 [Inscribed and Signed]
by S.T. Wallis
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, yellow glazed endpapers; xii,[13]-384pp. Boards a bit scuffed at corners and spine ends, endpapers darkened and textblock heavily foxed, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by the author. ... Read More
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Night Light
by Douglass Wallop
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1953. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1953. First Edition. Octavo. 378 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price present. Dark blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket shows general rubbing with some slight chipping and creasing along edges. Boards are lightly worn at... Read More
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Sir Charles Bell: His Life and Times
by Gordon Gordon-Taylor and E.W. Walls
Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd, 1958. Very Good/Very Good. Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1958. First Edition. Thick octavo (22.5cm); publisher's boards in cream dust jacket, pictorial paste-on to upper jacket panel; xii,288pp.; color portrait frontispiece, half tone and color plates throughout. Light shelf wear, small blue soil spot to rear jacket panel, corners bumped, ownership... Read More
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![Guanzi: Political, Economic, and Philosophical Essays from Early China, a Study and Translation. Volume Two, Chapters XII, 35 - XXIV, 86 [Volume Two only]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/743/067/1690067743.0.m.jpg)
Guanzi: Political, Economic, and Philosophical Essays from Early China, a Study and Translation. Volume Two, Chapters XII, 35 - XXIV, 86 [Volume Two only]
by W. Allyn Rickett [trans.]
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Very Good +. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. First Paperback Printing. Octavo. 579pp. Orange printed wraps. Light rubbing to edges and curling to corners; binding sound and pages unmarked. Very Good or better.
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Tropic Death
by Eric Walrond
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Very Good. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Second Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's black cloth, yellow titling, dark topstain, bright yellow illustrated endpapers; 282pp. Corners slightly bumped, textblock a bit browned, else Very Good and sound. The Afro-Caribbean author's short story collection, this printing following the first by just two... Read More
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Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes, with Embellishments by C. Lovat Fraser
by Walter de la Mare; C. Lovat Fraser [illus.]
London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1924. Very Good. London: Constable & Company, Ltd., 1912. Limited First Edition, signed by the author and numbered 43 of 250 copies on limitation statement opposite Contents. Gray paper-covered boards with beige cloth and leather title card to spine. ix, 127p. Sixteen color plates including frontis, all present. Some pages still uncut at... Read More
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Cadmus Henry
by Walter D. Edmonds; Manning de V. Lee [illus.]
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [10],137pp.; illus. throughout. Light shelf wear and soil to dust jacket, else a Very Good or better example.
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Wilderness Clearing
by Walter D. Edmonds; John S. deMartelly [illus.]
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); xi,[1],156pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, spine panel toned, else Very Good and sound. The first work for a young adult readership by the author... Read More
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960. First Edition. Octavo. 320 pp. Milton Glaser-illustrated dust jacket with $4.95 price intact. Black and pink boards. Dust jacket lightly chipped at extremities with adjacent creasing; a couple short closed tears; quarter-sized stain to spine. Light wear to edges of boards and binding sound. Ownership... Read More
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![Familiar Wild Birds [Four volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/355/958/1652958355.0.m.jpg)
Familiar Wild Birds [Four volume set]
by Walter Swaysland; Archibald Thorburn [illus.]
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1883. Very Good +. London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1883. Four volume set consisting of First, Second, Third, and Fourth series. Date of 1883 to title page of first volume and remaining volumes presumably later and lacking dates. Octavos. 160 color lithograph plates including frontispieces, complete. Bound in uniform brown quarter morocco over... Read More
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Zodiak
by Walther Eidlitz; Eric Sutton [trans.]
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931. Very Good. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1931. First American Edition, stated, with I-F publisher's code (September 1931). Octavo; [xii], 328pp. Beige cloth-covered boards with red and gray lettering and decoration. Missing dust jacket. Boards are square, with some smudging and scuffing to cloth. Spine a... Read More
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