Pioneer Tales of the North Platte Valley and Nebraska Panhandle: A Miscellaneous Collection of Historical Reference Material Anecdotal and Reminiscent, as Written or Compiled by A.B. Wood
by A.B. Wood
Gering, NE: Courier Press, 1938. Very Good. Gering, NE: Courier Press, 1938. First Edition. Octavo. 288 pp. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Rubbing to gilt at spine and front and boards lightly worn at extremities. Binding sound. Ownership inscription of Robert L. Antsey dated 1940 to front free endpaper, and pages otherwise... Read More
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Most Women..
by Alec Waugh; Lynd Ward [woodcuts]
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1931. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1931. First Edition with publisher's colophon to copyright page. Octavo. 323 pp. 7 full-page woodcuts by Ward, including frontispiece; decorative chapter headings. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price present. Blue boards stamped in copper. Dust jacket shows general rubbing... Read More
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The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760-1860
by Gillen D'Arcy Wood
New York: Palgrave, 2001. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Palgrave, 2001. First Edition. Octavo. 273 pp. Black and white illustrations. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black boards with spine lettered in gilt. Dust jacket lightly rubbed and creased along edges with a touch of fading to spine. Spine ends of boards nudged and corners lightly bumped. Binding is... Read More
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Reading Diesels Volume 1: The First Generation
by Dale W. Woodland
Laury's Station: Garrigues House Publishers, 1991. Very Good/Good. Laury's Station: Garrigues House Publishers, 1991. First Edition. 215 color photographs plus additional document reproductions. Five-color system map on front endpapers. Pictorial dust jacket. Army green boards stamps in gold front panel and spine. Dust jacket lacking large triangular chip (2" x 1.5") and additional thin strip (3.5") at bottom... Read More
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The Death of Sweet Mister [Signed Limited Edition]
by Daniel Woodrell
Harpenden, UK: No Exit Press, 2002. Very Good +. New York: No Exit Press, 2002. Limited Edition of 1000, this being number 75. Signed by Woodrell on limitation page without inscription. Octavo. 189 pages. Photographic wraps with red wrap-around band. Wraps show light shelfwear and curl towards fore edge. Sound in binding and pages unmarked.
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![A Sermon Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Ephraim T. Woodruff, A.M. to the Pastoral Care of the Church of Christ in North Coventry. On the 8th of April, 1801 [Half title: Mr. Woodruff's Ordination Sermon]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/949/762/1600762949.0.m.jpg)
A Sermon Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Ephraim T. Woodruff, A.M. to the Pastoral Care of the Church of Christ in North Coventry. On the 8th of April, 1801 [Half title: Mr. Woodruff's Ordination Sermon]
by Hezekiah Woodruff
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1801. Very Good -. Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1801. First Edition. Octavo; stitched self-wrappers; 23,[1]pp. ([A]-C4, collated complete). External leaves heavily spotted and rather worn with shallow losses and closed tears not approaching text, textblock uniformly browned, else a Good to Very Good example. Uncommon ordination sermon serving up the standard advice to... Read More
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Valedictory Address, Delivered December 6, 1837, at the Close of the Seventh Collegiate Yeaer of the University of the State of Alabama
by Alva Woods
Tuscaloosa, AL: Marmaduke J. Slade, Printer, 1837. Very Good. Tuscaloosa, AL: Marmaduke J. Slade, Printer, 1837. First Edition. Octavo. 52 pp. Wraps, removed. Light chipping and soiling to wraps; loss along spine of front and rear wraps; binding sound; pages unmarked. Overall a Very Good copy of Woods' farewell address to the University of which he was President... Read More
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A Sermon Delivered at the Tabernacle in Salem, Feb. 6, 1812, on occasion of the ordination of the Rev. Messrs. Samuel Newell, A.M. Adoniram Judson, A.M. Samuel Nott, A.M. Gordon Hall, A.M. and Luther Rice, A.B. Missionaries to the Heathens in Asia. Under the Direction of the Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
by Leonard Woods
Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1812. Very Good. Boston: Printed and Sold by Samuel T. Armstrong, Cornhill, 1812. Octavo; removed; 44pp. (lacking half title page, otherwise collated complete). Textblock uniformly toned, light wear to margins, else Very Good and sound. Sermon delivered during the ordination of the first group of missionaries sent out by the American Board of... Read More
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Negro Makers of History
by Carter G. Woodson
Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc, 1928. Very Good. Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 362pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Brown cloth boards stamped in black; topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Boards worn with chipping and minor fraying to extremities; corners bumped; staining and scuffing. A bit shaky in binding but overall holding.... Read More
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Negro Orators and Their Orations
by Carter G. Woodson
Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc, 1925. Very Good -. Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1925. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's green cloth boards stamped in gilt; 711pp. Boards worn with patchy staining as well as a larger area (12x9cm) of discoloration to rear board. Binding sound; dust soiling to top edge; pages unmarked. A Good to Very... Read More
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Over the Range to the Golden Gate
by Stanley Wood
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co, 1904. Very Good. Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1904. Revised Edition, First Printing. Slim octavo (23 cm); 340pp. Illus. throughout. Boards full bound in dark teal cloth with gilt and black stamping. Map of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad systems laid in at front with previous bookseller's catalogue... Read More
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A Sermon, Preached at the Ordination of Mr. John Marsh, to the pastoral care of the First Church in Wethersfield, Connecticut, January XII, 1774
by Samuel Woodward
New-Haven, CT: Thomas and Samuel Green, 1774. Very Good. New-Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, [1774]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); removed; 30,[2]pp. (collated complete with half title page); typographic decorations. Light finger-soil else Very Good and sound. Contemporary ownership signature of Phineas Wright to half title page and p. [5] with his note "given by the Revd. Mr.... Read More
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While Rome Burns [Limited Edition, Signed]
by Alexander Woolcott
New York: Viking Press, 1934. Very Good. New York: Viking Press, 1934. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies printed on all-rag paper of which this is no. 316. Tall octavo (26cm.); publisher's cream linen, pictorial embossed copper paper paste-on to upper cover, spine lettered in silver foil; [2],viii,328pp. Cloth dust-soiled and quite toned along margins, especially spine, spine... Read More
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The Common Reader: Second Series
by Virginia Woolf
London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1932. Very Good. London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1932. First Edition, first printing. Octavo. 270pp. Green cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt; dark topstain. No dust jacket. Boards lightly worn and scuffed with moderate general soiling. Slight lean to boards... Read More
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While Rome Burns [Inscribed and Signed]
by Alexander Woollcott
New York: Viking Press, 1934. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Viking Press, 1934. Thirteenth Printing in the year of publication. Large octavo; publisher's cloth in tan pictorial price-clipped dust jacket printed in red and black; viii,328pp. General edge wear to jacket extremities including a number of short closed tears never approaching text, tiny soil spot to front panel,... Read More
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Mrs. Fiske: Her Views of Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production
by Minnie Maddern Fiske; Alexander Woollcott
New York: Century Co, 1917. Very Good/Good. New York: Century Co., 1917. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white decorative dust jacket printed in blue-grey; [8],229pp.; portrait frontispiece, photographic illus. throughout. General shelf wear to jacket and cloth extremities including two rather substantial losses to the former affecting text without loss of meaning, at top margin of front... Read More
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Rendezvous in Black
by Cornwell Woolrich
New York: Rinehart & Company / Murray Hill Mystery, 1948. Very Good/Very Good+. New York: Rinehart & Company / Murray Hill Mystery, [1948]. First Edition with Rinehart logo on copyright page. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's boards in blue pictorial dust jacket by Robert Ritter retaining original price ($2.00); [8],273pp. Light wear to jacket and board margins, spine panel a... Read More
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Cover Charge
by Cornell Woolrich
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Very Good. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Second Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's green cloth, red and gilt titling to upper cover and spine; 286pp. Light soil to cloth, brief exposure to corners and minor fraying at spine ends, front hinge starting but holding, else a Very Good copy. The author's... Read More
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The Time of Her Life
by Cornell Woolrich
New York: Horace Liveright, 1939. Very Good -. New York: Horace Liveright, 1939. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm); 301pp. Missing dust jacket. Boards full bound in cream-yellow cloth with black and red stamping. Red top stain and uncut fore-edge. Boards generally dust soiled, rubbed, bumped and worn at extremities with minor abrasions to front cover. Spine creased and... Read More
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The Black Path of Fear
by Cornell Woolrich
Garden City: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1944. Very Good. Garden City: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1944. First Edition, stated. Octavo (20.5 cm); [viii],183pp. Publisher's gray cloth with black lettering and logo to front and spine. Lacks dust jacket. Boards are square, with a small spot of soiling at top front,... Read More
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Dead Man Blues
by William Irish [pseud. Cornell Woolrich]
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company / Story Press Book, 1948. Very Good +/Very Good +. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company / Story Press Book, 1948. First Edition, stated. Small octavo (19cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); 224pp. Light edge wear to jacket and board margins, else a Very Good or better example. Collection of... Read More
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I Married a Dead Man
by William Irish [pseud. Cornell Woolrich]
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1948. Very Good -. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1948. First Edition, stated. Octavo; publisher's mauve cloth, black spine titling; 254pp. Boards rather scuffed with brief exposure at spine ends and corners, occasional soil spots to cloth and textblock, endpapers toned, notes to rear free endpaper verso neatly effaced, else a Good to Very Good... Read More
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The Paris That’s Not in the Guide Books
by Basil Woon
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1931. Very Good. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1931. Reprint. Octavo. 269 pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt; topstain; map of Paris endpapers. No dust jacket. Boards worn along edges with brief exposure to corners and mild rippling to spine. Boards give a little but overall binding sound and... Read More
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Law and Obedience: The Arguments of Plato's Crito
by [Plato] A.D. Woozley
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979. Very Good/Very Good. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979. First American Edition. Octavo; 160pp. Printed dust jacket; green cloth boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges and spine a touch sunned. Boards also worn along edges with spotting to cloth sizing... Read More
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Impartial Inquiries, respecting the progress of the Baptist denomination
by Noah Worcester
Worcester, MA: Leonard Worcester, 1794. Very Good-. Worcester, MA: Leonard Worcester, 1794. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 28pp. ([A]4 B-C4 D2, collated and complete); woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Spotting to title page and final leaf (serving as wrappers), stitching loose and gatherings starting to separate, else a Good to Very Good, sound copy. Contemporary ownership signature of an Ebenezer... Read More
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