Bibliotheca Piscatoria, a Catalogue of Books on Angling, the Fisheries and Fish-Culture, with Bibliographical Notes and an Appendix
by Westwood, T[homas] and T[homas] Satchell
London: W. Satchell, 1883. First edition. xxiv, 397, [1], [20, John Grant catalogue], [2, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth, t.e.g. Slightest traces of rubbing, near fine. First edition. xxiv, 397, [1], [20, John Grant catalogue], [2, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Nice copy of the essential, classic, angling reference work.
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Foxglove Bells: A Book of Sonnets
by Westwood, T. [Thomas]
Brussels: J.H. Briard, 1856. First edition. viii, 72 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth gilt, slightly darkened, blind stamped covers, a.e.g. A nice copy overall. First edition. viii, 72 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation copy inscribed by Westwood "from the author, Feb. 1861", and with a 4-page ALS dated Oct 28 /63 and addressed "Dear Sir" laid... Read More
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El Greco and His School. I. Text and Plates. II. Catalogue Raisonné
by Wethey, Harold E.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962. With 405 plates. xiv, 125; x, 276 pp. 2 vols. 4to. Original brick cloth. Fine set in lightly rubbed dust jackets. With 405 plates. xiv, 125; x, 276 pp. 2 vols. 4to.
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Two portrait photographs of Gertrude Wettergren
by (Wettergren, Gertrude) Van Vechten, Carl
New York, 1935. 1 vols. Apx. 13-1/2 x 11 inches. 1 vols. Apx. 13-1/2 x 11 inches. The Swedish contralto Gertrude Wettergren (1897-1991), made her debut there in Stockholm in 1922 as Cherubino. She was engaged at the Stockholm Royal Opera for more than 25 years. She also sang all over Europe and in the USA, making her Metropolitan... Read More
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American Fishing Books, A Bibliography from the Earliest Times up to 1948, together with A History of Angling and Angling Literature in America
by Wetzel, Charles M.
Newark DE: Privately Printed, 1950. First edition, no. 141 of 200 copies, one of about 80 hand bound by the author. Illustrated. 235 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original 3/4 black morocco, blue cloth sides, gilt spine title and sporting devices, A FINE COPY. First edition, no. 141 of 200 copies, one of about 80 hand bound by the... Read More
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American Fishing Books, A Bibliography from the Earliest Times up to 1948, together with A History of Angling and Angling Literature in America
by Wetzel, Charles M.
Newark DE: Privately Printed, 1950. First edition, No. 153 of 200 copies, this one of about 80 copies hand bound by the author. Illustrated. 235 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original three quarter black morocco, blue cloth sides, gilt spine title and sporting devices. Light binding wear, internally fine. Custom dark blue morocco backed folding box. First edition, No.... Read More
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American Fishing Books, A Bibliography from the Earliest Times up to 1948, together with A History of Angling and Angling Literature in America
by Wetzel, Charles M.
Newark DE: Privately Printed, 1950. First edition, no. 35 of about 80 copies hand bound by the author, from a total edition of 200. Illustrated. 235 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original 3/4 black morocco, blue cloth sides, gilt spine title and sporting devices, A FINE COPY. Bookplate of Joseph Delaplaine Bates. First edition, no. 35 of about 80... Read More
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Trout Flies: Naturals and Imitations
by Wetzel, Charles M.
Harrisburg, Pa: The Stackpole Company, 1955. First edition, number 88 of the Deluxe Issue, signed by the Author. Illustrated by the Author. 29 plates, 12 of which are hand-colored by the author. 152 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Padded brown calf. About fine. First edition, number 88 of the Deluxe Issue, signed by the Author. Illustrated by the Author.... Read More
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The Last Mile, A Play in Three Acts. Preface by Warden Lewis E. Lawes, of Sing Sing Prison
by Wexley, John
New York: Samuel French, 1930. First edition. 128pp. 8vo. Cloth and boards. Very Good. First edition. 128pp. 8vo. Classic prison drama that was made into 2 movies in 1932 and 1959. Inscribed on front pastedown: To Barrett Clark (1890-1953)/ with hope that you will/like the next as well as this/ John Wexley/ 7/10/30/ California." Clark was... Read More
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Money to Burn
by Weygand, James Lamar
Nappanee, Indiana: Press of the Indiana Kid, 1972. Edition of 100. 24 pp. 6 cm. x 4.5 cm. 64mo. Yellow boards with green printed illustration on frontispiece and black text along spine; fine. A fold-out facsimile advertisement from 1906 at center of book and envelope bound into rear contains shredded money residue. Edition of 100. 24 pp. 6... Read More
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A Gentleman of France
by Weyman, Stanley
London: Longmans, Green and Co. and New York: 15 East 16th Street, 1893. First edition of the author' only Triple Decker. 24 pp. of ads. 3 vols. 8vo. Publisher's red-brown cloth lettered in black; shelf wear, a few inner joints starting, some soiling, foxing, Very good. First edition of the author' only Triple Decker. 24 pp. of ads.... Read More
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Group of 13 novels, most with gift inscriptions to HRH Edward, Prince of Wales, from Viscount Esher
by Weyman, Stanley John
London: Various publishers, 1920. Later editions. Some illustrated. 13 vols. 8vo. Uniformly bound in 3/4 green calf, panelled spines gilt, t.e.g., by Hatchards, leather a little rubbed, internally fine. Formerly the possession of HRH Edward, Duke of Windsor. Later editions. Some illustrated. 13 vols. 8vo. Best known for his novel, Under the Red Robe, Weyman, after an unsuccessful... Read More
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The Whale. Photographs by Chuck Koosmann. Text by David Ledlie
by (Whale River) Koosmann, Chuck
[Afton, Minnesota]: White Pine Prints, 2012. First edition, one of 100 copies printed. Full color illustrations from photographs. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Black cloth. As new in dust jacket. First edition, one of 100 copies printed. Full color illustrations from photographs. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Lavishly illustrated work on the Whale River Salmon Camp, founded in 1967 by... Read More
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Whale Hunting with Gun and Camera
by (Whales) Andrews, Roy Chapman
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1916. First edition. Illustrated. xxi, 332 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Spine faded, minor rubbing. Very good. First edition. Illustrated. xxi, 332 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With the author's cut signature tipped-in to flyleaf.
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Group of 8 whaling manuscripts, including drawing of original lance design
by (Whaling) [Moulton, Augustus, ascribed to]
[New Bedford, MA, 1840. 8 single leaves; paper browned and tearing at old folds. A group of documents related to whaling and particularly the innovations of Dr. J.D.B. Stillman's improved harpoon, including two drawings diagraming the harpoon, described thus: "A whaling lance inserted into the body of a whale makes the whale an accessory in his own capture... Read More
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Manuscript logbook of the whale ship Henry Clay, Captain Samuel P. Skinner
by (Whaling)
Various places, 1852. 24 pages on lined paper, in ink in legible hand. 4to. Half buff-patterned calf and marbled boards. Several pages removed, wear to head of spine. 24 pages on lined paper, in ink in legible hand. 4to. The manuscript log book of the third and final voyage of the 385-ton whaler Henry Clay out of Nantucket.... Read More
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Autograph Manuscript of his review of Edith Wharton's autobiography (A Backward Glance), entitled "A Fiend for Destiny
by (Wharton, Edith) Pritchett, V[ictor] S[lawdon]
[Northampton, Mass, 1972. 3-1/2 pp. 1 vols. 4to. With numerous deletions and corrections; small chip from top of first page, else very good; accompanied by a retained copy of the typescript (also with a few corrections), with his name and address typed at the upper right corner. 3-1/2 pp. 1 vols. 4to. A sharp, brilliant, and often funny... Read More
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Autograph Letter Signed, to Mr. Adams, Framed with Photographic Portrait
by Wharton, Edith
1919. One leaf, recto and verso, on plain light blue stationery. Frame 18" wide x 13" high; double window on recto, single window on verso. About fine (small stains in bottom margin); framed with black-and-white photographic portrait of Wharton. One leaf, recto and verso, on plain light blue stationery. Frame 18" wide x 13" high; double window on... Read More
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Twelve Poems
by Wharton, Edith
London: Medici Society, 1926. First edition. Copy number 6 of 130 numbered copies (of which 100 were for sale). [viii], 51, [5] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth and paper covered boards, without dust jacket, as issued. Covers lightly tanned and foxed, endpapers tanned, with some scattered foxing on both pastedowns, a very good, otherwise bright copy. First edition.... Read More
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The Poetical Works
by (Wharton, Edith) Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1893. Reprinted from the Revised American edition, Including Recent Poems. 630 pp. 8vo. Original gilt-lettered red morocco, a.e.g., remnant of spine laid-in, front board and flyleaf detached, worn and rubbed. Reprinted from the Revised American edition, Including Recent Poems" 630 pp. 8vo. INSCRIBED by Edith Wharton on the half title, with a short... Read More
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Ethan Frome
by Wharton, Edith
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First edition, first issue, with unbroken type on page 135; in this copy, the top edges are not gilt. 195, [4, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red gilt-lettered red cloth. Bookplate. Very good. Bookplate of Frederick and Jane Hodgdon. First edition, first issue, with unbroken type on page 135; in this... Read More
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Jacob Lawrence American Painter
by Wheat, Ellen Harkins (with contribution by Patricia Hill)
Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, in association with the Seattle Art Museum, 1986. First edition. Frontispiece portrait of Jacob Lawrence, and numerous reproductions of his paintings in color and black and white. 1 vols. 4to. Brown polished cloth lettered in gilt. discreet owner's signature on flyleaf, otherwise a mint copy in dust jacket. First edition. Frontispiece... Read More
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Cries of London [Cover Title]
by Wheatley, Francis
N.p. [London: Graves], 1900. One of 250 color copies (total edition of 500). 13 hand-colored, stipple-engraved plates (numbered 1-13) copied by G. Appleton from the original plates by Schiavonetti, Vendramini, Cordon, and others, after paintings by Francis Wheatley, captioned in English and French; issued without title page or letterpress. 1 vols. Folio. Late 19th-century red morocco. One of... Read More
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Remarkable Bindings in the British Museum, Selected for their Beauty or Historic Interest
by Wheatley, Henry B.
London: Samson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1889. First edition, this one of 25 copies printed on Japanese paper. 62 Monotint ortho-chromatic plates. 143, [1]pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original limp paper over boards. Randeira bookplate. First edition, this one of 25 copies printed on Japanese paper. 62 Monotint ortho-chromatic plates. 143, [1]pp. 1 vols. 4to. Brenni 313; Appleton... Read More
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Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston
by (Wheatley, Phillis)
London: Archibald Bell, 1773. State B.. Engraving, on laid paper. Sheet size: 183 x 134 mm. Plate mark: 165 x 110 mm. Lightly toned at margins, faint soiling. State B. Engraving, on laid paper. Sheet size: 183 x 134 mm. Plate mark: 165 x 110 mm. Phillis Wheatley was the “‘first colonial American woman of any race to... Read More
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