The American Civil War: 365 Days
by Wagner, Margaret E.; Gallagher, Gary W.; Virga, Vincent
New york: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 2nd Printing. Small Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 9x2x6. Second printing. Ink names on front endpaper. 2006 Small Hard Cover. Unpaginated. Presented in 12 thematic sections, this visual history of America's epochal conflict features more than 500 items drawn from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress, including... Read More
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Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo: Discoverer of the Coast of California (Special Publication No. 17)
by Wagner, Henry R
San Francisco: California Historical Society / Lawton R. Kennedy, 1941. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Limited edition, one of 750 copies. Light stain to bottom margin corner of first few pages and top margin corner of last few pages. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked. 1941 Hard Cover. 94 pp. 8vo. Published in celebration... Read More
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The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie (The Ring of the Niblung [Nibelung])
by Wagner, Richard; Armour, Margaret
London: William Heinemann, 1910. First Thus. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Rackham, Arthur. First trade edition thus. Rebound by Zaehnsdorf with new marbled end sheets. Edges a bit rubbed, a few minor blemishes to boards, owner bookplate on front endpaper. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 1910 Full-Leather. ix, 182 pp. Dark brown full leather, morocco spine labels,... Read More
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Archie, Volume 1: The New Riverdale
by Waid, Mark; Staples, Fiona; Wu, Annie; Fish, Veronica
USA: Archie Comic Publications, 2016. 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 6x0x10. First printing. Minor general wear. 2016 Soft Cover. 176 pp. ARCHIE, one of the longest-running titles in comic book history, is rebooted here in this full-color collection that brings together two of the most talented creators in comics, Mark Waid and Fiona Staples. Together they create... Read More
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Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America
by Waisman, Charlotte S.; Tietjen, Jill S
New York: Collins, 2008. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10x1x8. First edition. Jacket spine head rubbed. 2008 Large Hardcover. 259 pp. Most people have heard of Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, Margaret Sanger, and Eleanor Roosevelt. But did you know that a female microbiologist discovered the bacterium responsible for undulant fever, which then led to the... Read More
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The Emerald City of Las Vegas
by Wakoski, Diane
Santa Rosa, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. Trade Paperback. Good. 5x0x8. Spine toned, 1/2 inch closed tear on front edge, crease down front wrapper, 2 inch surface tear and sticker on rear wrapper, ink name on front flyleaf. 1995 Trade Paperback. 202 pp. A collection of verse by the poet associated with the deep image and confessional schools,... Read More
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The Tour of James Monroe, President of the United States, through the Northern and Eastern States, in 1817; His Tour in the Year 1818; together with A Sketch of His Life; with Descriptive and Historical Notices of the Principal Places through which He Passed
by Waldo, S. [Samuel] Putnam
Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1820. Second Edition. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Second edition. Edges rubbed, leather drying, lightly foxed throughout, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1820 Full-Leather. xii, [13]-348 pp. 12mo. Frontispiece of James Monroe. Howes W-29. Sabin 101012. A biographical sketch of the fifth president of the United States, with an account of his election, inauguration,... Read More
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Princes of Wales
by [Wales]; Palmer, Alan
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x5x1. First edition. An excellent copy. 1979 Hard Cover. x, 254 pp. Alan Palmer examines the dramatic and colourful, and sometimes tragic, lives of these princes, concentrating on their time as heirs to the throne rather than their reigns, and he ends with an assessment of... Read More
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The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult -- A Meditation on Life, Spirit, Art, and the Making of the Film The Color Purple Ten Years Later
by Walker, Alice
New York: Scribner, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author on bookplate adhered to front endpaper. "Autographed copy" sticker on front jacket panel. 1996 Hard Cover. 302 pp. The personal memoirs of Alice Walker consider how fame, illness, betrayal, and the Pulitzer Prize have impacted her personal life,... Read More
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Down Below: Aboard the World's Classic Yachts
by Walker, Matthew
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1980. 2nd Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 1x7x1. Walker, Matthew. 2nd printing. 1980 Soft Cover. vi, 135 pp. Color photographs depict the luxurious, and, often, surprisingly spacious accommodations below decks on contemporary yachts, schooners, and ketches.
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Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women
by Walker, Alice; Parmar, Pratibha
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 7x1x9. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by Alice Walker without inscription on title page. 1993 Hard Cover. 373 pp. 8vo. The author of The Color Purple travels to Gambia, Senegal, and Burkina to interview a group of women trying to eliminate the traditional practice of female clitoral... Read More
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Repression, Resistance, and Democratic Transition in Central America
by Walker, Thomas W.; Armony, Ariel C
Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 2000. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 6x0x9. First edition. An exceptional copy. 2000 Trade Paperback. xxvi, 301 pp. For Central America, the last third of the twentieth century was a time of dramatic change in which most countries shifted from dictatorships to formal political democracy. The process of transition in most Central American countries... Read More
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Deathstar Voyage: A Downtime Mystery Cruise
by Wallace, Ian
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1969. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8x5x0. Book club edition. Edge wear to jacket. 1969 Hard Cover. 180 pp. A trip to Frolic Street, a wild shopping center on a space station.
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The Prince of India or Why Constantinople Fell, in Two Volumes
by Wallace, Lew
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 6x4x1. First edition, later state (dedication present). Boards lightly soiled, top edge lightly foxed. 1893 Hard Cover. vii, 502; v, 578 pp. Complete in two hardcover volumes. Original blue cloth, gilt titles, decoration of the logo of the Ottoman Empire (sickle moon & star) with... Read More
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Infinite Jest: A Novel
by Wallace, David Foster; Bissell, Tom
New York: Back Bay Books, 2022. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 6x1x9. New. Reprint. An exceptional copy. 2022 Trade Paperback. xv, 1079 pp. A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential... Read More
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Infinite Jest: A Novel
by Wallace, David Foster; Bissell, Tom
New York / Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2023. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 6x2x9. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. An excellent copy. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 2023 Hard Cover. xv, 1079 pp. A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy,... Read More
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The Broom of the System (Penguin Classics)
by Wallace, David Foster
New York: Penguin Books, 2016. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 1x5x7. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy. 2016 Trade Paperback. 467 pp. "Published when David Foster Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel... Read More
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The Day of Uniting
by Wallace, Edgar
New York: The Mystery League, Inc, 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 7x5x1. Thurston, Eugene (jacket art). First edition. Jacket edges rubbed. Spine leans to the right, page ridges foxed. 1930 Hard Cover. 286 pp. Eugene Thurston jacket art. The story is set during World War I, and follows a group of print shop workers as they... Read More
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The Arranways Mystery
by Wallace, Edgar
New York / Chicago: A.L. Burt Company, Publishers, 1932. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Lacks jacket. Minor wear to corners. 1932 Hard Cover. 312 pp. The secret return of a stolen gold up to Arranways Hall... the subsequent murder of Keith Keller... were they part of the same pattern of mystery and death that seemed to trap... Read More
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Memories of Fifty Years
by Wallack, Lester; Hutton, Laurence
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Limited edition. Numbered 225 (of 500 copies). 1889 Hard Cover. xiv, 232 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt, illustrated with portraits and facsimiles. Includes two fold-outs, frontispiece portrait and numerous plates. Autobiography of a prominent American actor and dramatist. Introduction... Read More
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (The Player's Edition)
by Wallace, Lew
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901. Photoplay Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Photoplay edition. An excellent copy. 1901 Hard Cover. x, 551 pp. Green boards with gilt titles and gilt illustration of Comedy and Tragedy faces on front board, Ben-Hur cameo on front board, top page ridge gilt. "Ben-Hur" is a historical novel by Lew Wallace,... Read More
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
by Wallace, Lew
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 7x5x1. Reprint. Later state with 11-word dedication, 12-page terminal ad. Rear board soiled, front hinge starting, ink gift note on front endpaper. 1880 Hard Cover. 560 pp. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt titles and gilt star on front board. Ben-Hur is the remarkable saga of a man... Read More
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Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
by Waller, Douglas
New York: Free Press, 2012. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x8. First paperback printing. Edge wear. 2012 Trade Paperback. xii, 466 pp. He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals - the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, "Wild Bill" Donovan... Read More
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A Question of Loyalty
by Waller, Douglas
New York: Harper Perennial, 2005. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x1x8. Second printing. Remainder mark on page base, minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2005 Trade Paperback. 439 pp. A Question of Loyalty plunges into the seven-week Washington trial of Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell, the hero of the U.S. Army... Read More
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A Guide to Mediumship and Psychical Unfoldment
by Wallis, E.W. & M.H. [Edward Walter]
London. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. No publisher or publisher date stated. No jacket. Boards soiled, front hinge starting. some pencil marks. 310 pp. In three parts: Part I. Mediumship Explained; Part II. How to Develop Mediumship; Part III. Psychical Powers: How to Cultivate Them.
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