![A Streetcar Named Desire: A Play [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/302/566/1699566302.0.m.jpg)
A Streetcar Named Desire: A Play [Signed]
by Tennessee Williams
London: John Lehmann, 1949. Near Fine/Very Good. London: John Lehmann, 1949. First U.K. Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 112pp. Light wear to jacket margins, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, small paper scars to verso not showing through to exterior, endpapers unevenly toned; overall a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Signed by... Read More
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Nation-Building and Community in Israel
by Dorothy Willner
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. Very Good/Very Good. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. First Edition. Price-clipped dustjacket shows some tugging at head of spine, but is clean and crisp with no chips, tears, or marks. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not an ex-library copy.
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The Influence of Genius, a Poem
by James Brydges Willyams
London: J. Hatchard, 1816. Very Good. London: J. Hatchard, 1816. Octavo; 174pp + 1p of errata + 1p of publisher's prospectuses. Calf with gilt outer border on front panel and blind-stamped inner border and ornaments. Rebacked in matching leather with new leather spine label, lettered in gilt. Reproduction marbled endpapers. Textblock edges ornamented in a brown abstract "marbling"... Read More
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![Between the Big Parades [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/140/795/1671795140.0.m.jpg)
Between the Big Parades [Signed]
by Franklin Wilmer Ward
New York: Frederick M. Waterbury, 1932. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Frederick M. Waterbury, 1932. First Edition. Signed by Ward to Lieutenant Colonel J. Tabor Loree at front free endpaper, "In affectionate remembrance of a close comradeship along the Rio Grande, in South Carolina and on the British front in the Great War." Octavo. 284pp. Illustrated dust jacket.... Read More
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![Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Examination of the Black Experience in Religion [Kenneth Rexroth's copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/665/743/1473743665.0.m.jpg)
Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Examination of the Black Experience in Religion [Kenneth Rexroth's copy]
by Gayraud S. Wilmore
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1972. First Edition, stated. Octavo; [xvi], 344pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $7.95 price intact; bound in black cloth with red lettering to spine. Jacket edgeworn with a few tiny chips and tears at spine ends, smudging down folds, and some dust soiling and toning... Read More
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Outdoor Advertising
by Wilmot Lippincott; Percival White [intro.]
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1923. Very Good. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 340pp. Thirty-two color plates; black and white illustrations including frontispiece. Dark green cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Stain to bottom of front boards; wear to extremities with shallow loss to top of spine, minor fraying, and brief exposure. Binding gives... Read More
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This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches
by Edmund Wilson
New York: The New Republic, 1937. Very Good +. New York: The New Republic, 1937. First Edition. 12mo (19 cm); 298pp+1ad. Publisher's cream illustrated wrappers with yapp edges, deckled fore-edge and mostly unopened pages. Lightly soiled and toned with minor chips and rubbing to extremities. Pages clean. A Very Good or better copy of a collection of three... Read More
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The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature
by Edmund Wilson
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1941. Very Good/Very Good -. Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in crimson and grey decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [8],295pp. Moderate wear and a few small chips and closed tears to jacket margins, spine panel significantly sunned with long... Read More
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To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
by Edmund Wilson
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 509 pp. Printed dust jacket. Red boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket shows a few nicks to extremities and spine; general scuffing and staining; spine toned at verso. Boards lightly shelfworn and corners slightly bumped; soiling... Read More
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Discordant Encounters: Plays and Dialogues
by Edmund Wilson
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. Very Good. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's tan cloth over blue patterned cloth, spine lettered in blue, faded blue topstain; 297pp. Light wear to cloth margins including small loss of cloth at top edge of upper cover, edges toned, light foxing to textblock, else Very... Read More
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Poets, Farewell!
by Edmund Wilson
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition, with Scribner's seal to copyright. Octavo (21.5cm); [viii],78pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; boards in brown cloth with gilt lettering and black cloth spine. Jacket has been restored with tissue backing, showing evidence of some prior tears, creasing,... Read More
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![The Hot L Baltimore [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/450/669/1695669450.0.m.jpg)
The Hot L Baltimore [Signed]
by Lanford Wilson
New York: Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Mermaid Dramabook, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Mermaid Dramabook, 1973. Book Club Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's boards in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; xiv,153pp. Moderate wear and shallow chipping to jacket margins, corners bumped, textblock a bit toned,... Read More
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Devil Take the Hindmost: A Year of the Slump
by Edmund Wilson
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First Edition with "A" on copyright page. Octavo; publisher's crimson cloth, gilt-lettered spine; viii,[2],313pp. Light shelf wear, spine cloth a bit faded, textblock toned, else Very Good and sound. Collected pieces of "straight reportage" on the first years of the Great Depression. ... Read More
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Weaver of Tales: Persian Picture Rugs / Persische Bildteppiche: Geknupfte Mythen
by Karl Schlamminger and Peter Lamborn Wilson
Munchen: Callway Verlag, 1980. Very Good/Very Good. München: Callway Verlag, [1980]. First Edition. Square quarto (28.5cm); publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 198pp.; full color illus. throughout. Moderate wear and a few small chips and closed tears to jacket margins, corners nudged, contemporary bookseller sticker of the Textile Museum to front jacket flap; Very Good and sound. Bilingual... Read More
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Year Book of the Society, Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, 1894-1913, and Catalogue of Military Land Warrants Granted by the Commonwealth of Virginia to Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution
by Samuel M. Wilson [ed.]
Lexington, KY: Published by the Society / Westerfield-Bonte Company, 1913. Very Good. Lexington, KY: Published by the Society / Westerfield-Bonte Company, 1913. First Edition. Octavo. 363 pp. Color and black and white plates, complete. Three-quarter blue over yellow cloth stamped in gilt; floral endpapers. Boards show light shelfwear; corners bumped; moderate scuffing and soiling, predominantly to rear board;... Read More
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Reflections Upon Some of the Subjects in Dispute, Between the Author of the Divine Legation of Moses, and a Late Professor in the University of Oxford
by A Layman [Andrew Wilson]
London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by W. Griffin, 1766. Very Good. London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by W. Griffin, [1766]. First Edition. Octavo. 118 pages. Bound in 19th century boards with leather spine and tips with gilt lettering to spine. Chipped at extremities with loss to bottom of spine. General scuffing and... Read More
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Wilson's Quarter Century of Photography. A collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art
by Edward L. Wilson
New York: Edward L. Wilson, 1887. Very Good. New York: Edward L. Wilson, 1887. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown gilt-lettered cloth; xv,[16]-548pp.; illus. throughout. Moderate shelf wear to extremities, spine a bit darkened, textblock lightly toned, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy.
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![The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950 [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/490/730/1703730490.0.m.jpg)
The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950 [Inscribed and Signed]
by Francille Rusan Wilson
Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Very Good-/Very Good. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, [2006]. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (24cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],356pp. Moderate shelf wear to jacket margins, spine panel a bit sunned with tiny loss at crown, faint soiling to textblock fore-edge, boards rather warped; Good to... Read More
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![Diplomat Between Wars [Signed and Inscribed Frederic and Mabel Stimson]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/098/571/1715571098.0.m.jpg)
Diplomat Between Wars [Signed and Inscribed Frederic and Mabel Stimson]
by Hugh R. Wilson
New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1941. Very Good. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1941. First American Edition. Signed by Wilson to Ambassador Frederic Stimson and his wife Mabel with brief inscription at front free endpaper. Octavo; 344pp. Blue cloth boards with spine lettered in gilt; dark topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Light shelfwear; corners bumped; spine toned.... Read More
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Memoir of George Wilson
by Jessie Aitken Wilson
Edinburgh / London: Edmonston and Douglas / Macmillan and Co, 1860. Very Good-. Edinburgh / London: Edmonston and Douglas / Macmillan and Co., 1860. First Edition. Thick octavo (23cm); publisher's dark brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, brown glazed endpapers; xii,536pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Boards a bit scuffed, light fraying at spine ends and corners, hinges starting to crack but... Read More
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![The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales; Embracing Recent Changes in Counties, Dioceses, Parishes, and Boroughs: General Statistics: Postal Arrangements: Railway Systems, &c.; and Forming a Complete Description of the Country [Six volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/444/415/1544415444.0.m.jpg)
The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales; Embracing Recent Changes in Counties, Dioceses, Parishes, and Boroughs: General Statistics: Postal Arrangements: Railway Systems, &c.; and Forming a Complete Description of the Country [Six volume set]
by John Marius Wilson
Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co, 1872. Very Good. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., [ca. 1870-1872]. Early printing, no dates but prospectus to beginning of first volume with reviews dated 1866 and referencing up to volume III. Two volumes bound in six quartos. 1192, vi; 1199, [2] pp. 22 colored maps, complete. Bound in embossed publishers pebbled cloth with... Read More
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![Bottles on the Western Frontier [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/029/848/1535848029.0.m.jpg)
Bottles on the Western Frontier [Signed and Inscribed]
by Rex L. Wilson
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1981. Very Good. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1981. First Edition. Signed by the author on half title with brief inscription "To Larry -- with warmest best wishes. Rex". Quarto; xvi, 144pp. Illustrated glossy covers. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Covers lightly rubbed along edges with no chips, tears,... Read More
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The Process and Empire of Christ; from his birth to the end of the mediatorial kingdom; a poem, in twelve books
by Elhanan Winchester
Brattleboro': William Fessenden, 1805. Very Good. Brattleboro': William Fessenden, 1805. First American Edition. 12mo; full contemporary calf, gilt-ruled spine; iv,[5]-352pp. Light scuffing to leather extremities, lacking spine label and endpapers, dark dampstaining to margins of first twenty and final ten leaves, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown; nevertheless, a Very Good, still quite attractive and sound copy. ... Read More
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![A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten [Uncorrected Advance Reading Copy] [Signed by Winch]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/290/737/1717737290.0.m.jpg)
A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten [Uncorrected Advance Reading Copy] [Signed by Winch]
by [James Forten] Julie Winch
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Very Good. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Uncorrected Advance Reading Copy. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's glossy pictorial wrappers; x,481pp. Light shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. Signed and dated Feb. 6, 2002, by the author on title page. Advance review copy with promotional letter from the publisher laid in. The first... Read More
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Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700 (Three Volumes)
by Donald Wing
New York: Columbia University Press, 1951. Good +. New York: Columbia University Press, 1945-1951. First Editions. Quartos (28.5cm); I: [xviii],562pp; II: [xii],520pp; III: [xii],521pp. Publisher's brown cloth with red title squares and gilt lettering to spine. All volumes moderately edgeworn with bumping and rubbing at corners and spine ends; spine lettering and red title squares largely rubbed away... Read More
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