![New York Dissected...A Sheaf of Recently Discovered Newspaper Articles by the Author of Leaves of Grass [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/671/208/1579208671.0.m.jpg)
New York Dissected...A Sheaf of Recently Discovered Newspaper Articles by the Author of Leaves of Grass [Limited Edition]
by Walt Whitman; Emory Holloway and Ralph Adimari [intro.]
New York: Rufus Rockwell Wilson, 1936. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Rufus Rockwell Wilson, 1936 [but 1944?]. First Edition, First Issue, Limited to 750 copies of which this is no. 245. Octavo; publisher's cloth in yellow dust jacket lettered in red; xiii,[3],257pp.; portrait frontispiece & seven (7) leaves of plates. Very minor wear to jacket extremities, corners tapped,... Read More
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The Way of the White Clouds: A Buddhist Pilgrim in Tibet
by Lama Anagarika Govinda (Anangavajra Khamsum Wangchuk)
London: Hutchinson, 1966. Very Good. London: Hutchinson, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. 305 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations, complete. Rebound in recent black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and small patch of original boards mounted to front cover. No dust jacket. Light edgewear and general scuffing. Binding is sound. Binder's ticket (Edward F. Gruver Co.... Read More
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
by Andy Warhol
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First Edition, stated and with "B" to copyright page. Octavo. 241 pp. Printed dust jacket with "$7.95" price present. Yellow and red-orange boards stamped in white and black; black endpapers. Dust jacket lightly worn and creased with moderate surface scratching. Boards shelfworn with... Read More
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a: a novel
by Andy Warhol
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1968. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Octavo; 451 pp. Printed dust jacket with $10.00 price present. Black boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket rubbed with some minor wrinkling along edges; crease to front flap; a couple shallow nicks. Boards show light wear to extremities; corners... Read More
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![Astronomers at the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope: A History with emphasis on the nineteenth century [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/607/867/1544867607.0.m.jpg)
Astronomers at the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope: A History with emphasis on the nineteenth century [Signed]
by Brian Warner
Cape Town: Published for the University of Cape Town by A.A. Balkema, 1979. Very Good/Very Good. Cape Town: Published for the University of Cape Town by A.A. Balkema, 1979. First Edition. Signed by Brian Warner with brief inscription to photography historian Larry Schaaf. Octavo. 132 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped... Read More
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![Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope 1820-1831: The Founding of a Colonial Observatory, Incorporating a biography of Fearon Fallows [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/604/867/1544867604.0.m.jpg)
Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope 1820-1831: The Founding of a Colonial Observatory, Incorporating a biography of Fearon Fallows [Signed]
by Brian Warner
Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. Very Good +. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. First Edition. Signed by Brian Warner with brief inscription to photography historian Larry Schaaf. Octavo. 241 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Illustrated glossy boards. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Errata slip laid in at front. Boards show light shelfwear with... Read More
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The Cat's Cradle Book
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
London: Chatto & Windus, 1960. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Chatto & Windus, 1960. First Edition. Octavo. 186 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt; pink topstain. Price-clipped dust jacket shows light rubbing to edges and very mild toning to spine. Short abrasion to front board. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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Archive of Original Pencil Drawings and Watercolors, 1941-1945
by [Fashion] [World War II] Gladys Warren
England, 1941. Very Good. Substantial collection of original amateur artwork and fashion plates dated 1941 to 1945 by a young woman named Gladys Warren (almost all pieces signed "G. Warren," "G.W.," or "Gladys Warren"). The collection consists of nine large format watercolors (56x38cm.); one small format watercolor (32.5x23); four large format pencil sketches (56x38cm.); and twelve small format... Read More
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Who Speaks for the Negro
by Robert Penn Warren
New York: Random House, 1965. Very Good -/Very Good -. New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 454 pp. Printed dust jacket; red boards stamped in gilt with red topstain. Price-clipped dust jacket worn along edges with moderate to heavy general soiling and rubbing. Boards shelfworn and corners bumped with some general scuffing. Binding... Read More
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![Homage to Theodore Dreiser: August 27, 1871 - December 28, 1945, On The Centennial Of His Birth [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/884/949/1502949884.0.m.jpg)
Homage to Theodore Dreiser: August 27, 1871 - December 28, 1945, On The Centennial Of His Birth [Signed]
by Robert Penn Warren
New York: Random House, 1971. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition (stated). Signed by Robert Penn Warren without inscription at half title page. Octavo. 173 pp. Printed dust jacket. Brown and purple boards stamped in gilt. Red topstain. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with a tiny chip at head of spine.... Read More
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![Incarnations: Poems 1966-1968 [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/837/946/1502946837.0.m.jpg)
Incarnations: Poems 1966-1968 [Signed]
by Robert Penn Warren
New York: Random House, 1968. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1968. First Edition, stated First Printing. Signed by Robert Penn Warren without inscription at title page. Octavo. 64 pp. Printed dust jacket with $4.00 price intact. Mustard boards in tan cloth stamped in gilt. Green topstain. Dust jacket worn and creased along edges... Read More
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The World 46: The Literary Magazine of The Poetry Project, February, 1993
by Lewis Warsh [ed.]
New York: Poetry Project, 1993. Very Good+. New York: Poetry Project, 1993. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers illustrated by Lori Landes; [4],108pp. Very light shelf wear, else Near Fine. Contributors include Alice Notley, John Ashbery, Diane di Prima, and many others.
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Broken Run of Twenty-Two Issues of "The Nation
by [Spanish-American War]
New York: The Nation, 1898. Very Good -. New York: The Nation, 1898. Twenty-two volumes; quartos (30.5cm.); uniformly stitched self-wrappers. Collection comprises the following issues: Nos. 1714 (May 5, 1898), 1716-19, 1721, 1724, 1730-2, 1734, 1736-7, 1746-7, 1751-2, 1754, 1762-3, 1766, & 1770 (June 1, 1899). Condition ranges from Near Fine to Good only, with a few of... Read More
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Collection of Fourteen Stereoviews
by [Spanish-American War]
V.p., 1898. Very Good. V.p.: 1898-1901. Collection of fourteen stereoviews relating to the Spanish-America War and related American politics. A few rubbed at extremities, else a Very Good, still quite bright collection. Photographs as follows: 1. Jarvis, J.F. "LOAD! 1st Kentucky Volunteers--Porto Rican Army." Washington, DC: J.F. Jarvis, 1898. 2. Jarvis, J.F. "A part of Gen.... Read More
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A Military Album Containing Over One Thousand Portraits of Commissioned Officers Who Served in the Spanish-American War
by [Spanish-American War]
New York: L.R. Hamersly Co, 1902. Very Good-. New York: L.R. Hamersly Co., 1902. Presumed First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's black blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 262pp.; photographic portraits throughout. Boards rather bumped along margins, especially corners, brief white soil to spine crown, spine cloth a shade dulled, uneven fading to rear cover, hinges cracked but holding, faint finger-soil... Read More
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The Triumph of Isis, a Poem. Occasioned by Isis, an Elegy
by [Thomas Warton]
London: W. Owen / J. Barrett, 1750. Very Good. London: Printed for W. Owen at Homer's Head near Temple-Bar; and sold by J. Barrett in Oxford, 1750. Third Edition. Quarto (25cm.); removed; 16pp. (A-B4). Title page (serving as upper wrapper) a bit ink stained and starting to separate, textblock uniformly toned, else Good to Very Good. The... Read More
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![Voyages de M. Le Marquis de Chastellux dans l'Amerique Septentrionale dans les annees 1780, 1781 & 1782 [WITH] Examen Critique des Voyages dans l'Amerique Septentionrale, de M. le Marquis de Chatellux [sic]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/826/022/1618022826.0.m.jpg)
Voyages de M. Le Marquis de Chastellux dans l'Amerique Septentrionale dans les annees 1780, 1781 & 1782 [WITH] Examen Critique des Voyages dans l'Amerique Septentionrale, de M. le Marquis de Chatellux [sic]
by Marquis de Chastellux; J.P. Brissot de Warville
Paris / Londres: Prault, 1786. Very Good. Three volumes bound in two (see below); octavos; full contemporary gilt-ruled calf, gilt spines in six compartments, red spine labels, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Leather a bit scuffed with some flaking of gilt, tiny losses to Vol. I spine ends, scattered foxing to textblocks, short split to Vol. I folding... Read More
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Collection of Twenty-Four Menus from Washington Establishments, ca. 1900 to 1980
by [Washington, DC - Food and Dining]
Washington, DC, 1900. Very Good. Washington, DC: 1900-1980. Collection comprised of twenty-four (24) menus ranging from small broadsides to 8pp. ribbon-bound folios. Moderate wear to most examples, as well as the occasional coffee, chocolate, or wine stain--one New Year's Eve menu is especially wine sloshed, but we're not here to judge. Overall a Very Good collection. Complete list... Read More
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The Home Book of the Picturesque: or, American Scenery, Art, and Literature
by Washington Irving; William Cullen Bryant; James Fenimore Cooper; et al [contribs.]
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1852. Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1852. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's dark blue decorative cloth embossed in gilt, all edges gilt; 188pp.; steel engraved frontispiece and eleven (11) plates, added engraved title page (collated complete). Minor scuffing to cloth extremities with brief exposure at corners and spine ends, foxing to endpapers and title... Read More
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Mount Ascutney
by Vivian E. Washington
New York: Cornet Press Books / Reflection Book, 1958. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Cornet Press Books / Reflection Book, 1958. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth in grey decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); 66pp. Moderate wear and soil to dust jacket margins including closed tear to top edge of rear panel very slightly affecting... Read More
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![Marionettes [with] A Memory of Marionettes [Limited Facsimile Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/050/203/1675203050.0.m.jpg)
Marionettes [with] A Memory of Marionettes [Limited Facsimile Edition]
by William Faulkner; Ben Wasson
Oxford: The Yoknapatawpha Press, 1975. Very Good. Oxford: The Yoknapatawpha Press, 1975. Limited Facsimile Edition, numbered 84 of 510 copies (10 reserved for publisher) on colophon at rear. Octavo (21.5cm); 51pp. Illustrations throughout. Publisher's faux-distressed boards. Pamphlet, A Memory of Marionettes [(21.5cm); viiipp], in side-stapled black wraps. Housed in brown clamshell case. Boards are sturdy and square with... Read More
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![The Man Who Killed the Deer [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/553/838/1688838553.0.m.jpg)
The Man Who Killed the Deer [Signed]
by Frank Waters
Denver: University of Denver Press, 1942. Very Good/Good. Denver: University of Denver Press, [1942]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in cream dust jacket printed in green retaining original price ($2.50); [6],311pp. Dust jacket soiled and significantly worn with extensive tape repair along spine and spine edges, losses at spine ends, corners bumped, else a Very Good copy... Read More
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Arts, Antiquities, and Chronology of Ancient Egypt: From Observations in 1839
by George H. Wathen
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. Very Good. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. First Edition. Octavo. 272 pp. Twelve plates; numerous in-text illustrations. Recased with original spine laid down and new endpapers. Light edgewear with brief exposure and minor scuffing. Binding sound. Mild spotting and dust soiling chiefly to preliminaries, and pages otherwise unmarked. Overall... Read More
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Chicago
by Maurine Watkins
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. Very Good-/Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's decorative boards in yellow printed dust jacket; ix,[3],111pp. Dust jacket quite chipped and dust-soiled with a few soil spots to upper jacket panel, top inch of spine panel missing affecting title text, boards also quite rubbed and worn, contemporary ownership... Read More
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Night Over Day Over Night
by Paul Watkins
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Near Fine/Very Good +. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First Edition, stated. Octavo (22 cm); 293,[1]pp. Publisher's khaki pictoral dust jacket with price intact ($17.95). Boards quarter bound in gray paper and khaki cloth with black and gilt stamping to spine. Fore-edge deckled. Dust jacket lightly scuffed and rubbed with spine... Read More
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