From a Place Which Is No Longer Named
by WALDRIDGE, Robert
Moorhead, MN: Dacotah Territory Chapbook / Territorial Press, 1973. First Edition. Small oblong octavo (17.5x18.75cm.); publisher's brown photo-illustrated staplebound card wrappers; 20pp. A hint of wear, else Fine. Dacotah Territory Chapbook no. 3.
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Place Names in Glamorgan
by [WALES] JONES, Howard C.
Risca, Newport: Starling Press, 1976. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 55pp; illus. Moderate external wear to wrappers; Very Good.
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In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
by WALKER, Alice
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Second Printing. Octavo (21cm); goldenrod cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 138, [6]pp. Spine lean, else Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $6.50) and lightly shelfworn, with sunning to spine and some rubbing to spine ends and corners. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's fourth book, and first collection... Read More
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Possessing the Secret of Joy
by WALKER, Alice
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); orange cloth spine over light gray paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 286pp. Trace foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Fine. Dustwrapper, designed by Vaughn Andrews with illustration by David Shannon, unclipped (priced $19.95), with light creases to extremities... Read More
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The Third Life of Grange Copeland
by WALKER, Alice
New York: Avon Books, 1971. First Avon Edition. Octavo (18cm); illustrated wrappers; red edge-staining; 255, [1]pp. Some trivial wear to extremities, faint glue ridge and a few rubbed spots to spine; Near Fine. First paperback edition of the author's second book and first novel.
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The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult
by WALKER, Alice
New York: Scribner's, 1996. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Blue-grey paper backed in whtie cloth, in white and grey jacket; 302pp; black and white illustrations. Remainder mark to lower edge. Pushed at head and tail, else Fine in lightly rubbed, Near Fine jacket. "A Meditation on Life, Spirit, Art, and the Making of the Film The... Read More
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Steel: the Diary of a Furnace Worker
by WALKER, Charles Rumford
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Publisher's black cloth, titled in yellow on spine and front cover; 157pp. Spine lettering somewhat age-darkened; mild toning to text; a tight, solidly Very Good copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Walker's first book, a memoir of two years spent "undercover" as a rank-and-file worker at U.S. Steel in 1919,... Read More
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![A Sermon, Preached in Brooklyn, Connecticut, at the Installation of Rev. Samuel Joseph May, November 5, 1824 [Inscribed and Signed by May]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/672/952/1356952672.0.m.jpg)
A Sermon, Preached in Brooklyn, Connecticut, at the Installation of Rev. Samuel Joseph May, November 5, 1824 [Inscribed and Signed by May]
by WALKER, James
Boston: John B. Russell, 1824. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 40pp. Wrappers a bit toned along extremities, stitching snapped and signatures starting to separate, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the subject at head of title page: "Mrs. Prescott / from her friend / Jos. May." Table of contents added in manuscript below the printed... Read More
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Lakota Belief and Ritual
by WALKER, James R.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982. Second printing. Red cloth in white dust jacket; [xxx],329,[1]pp. Bumped at spine ends, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $21.50), lightly rubbed: Very Good or better. [62585].
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language; or, Sheridan's Dictionary Improved
by WALKER, John
Dublin: P. Wogan, 1806. Stated fourth edition. Octavo (21.5cm). Contemporary calf, amateur rebacking; plain endpapers; xx,78pp, largely unpaginated. Sound and sturdy, though generally rubbed and worn rebacked with tissue with original spine label laid down, losses to first two blanks, minor worming to prelims, occasional spotting but largely clean: Good or better. Second Dublin edition of "one... Read More
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language: In which not only the meaning of every word is explained and the sound of every syllable distinctly shown, but, where words are subject to different pronunciaitons, the reasons for each are duly considered, and the best pronunciation is selected
by WALKER, John
Hartford: S. Andrus & Son, 1851. First Pocket Edition [But Reprint]. 12mo (15cm.); publisher's brown blind-tooled morocco, gilt-lettered spine, all edges marbled; 336pp. Boards quite rubbed, hinges cracked and both covers nearly separated, shallow loss to both spine ends, front flyleaf trimmed, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown; Good only, albeit internally sound. From the library of Ben and... Read More
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Unless the Wind Turns
by WALKER, Mildred
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; beige cloth, with titles stamped in red on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; 235pp. Rubber-stamp of a bookshop/lending library to front pastedown, with two small sticker-pulls to front endpaper and rear pastedown; tight, clean, and Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny... Read More
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Engineers of Independence: a Documentary History of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775-1783
by WALKER, Paul K.
Washington DC: Historical Division, Office of Administrative Services / Office of the Chief of Engineers, (1981). First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 403pp; maps; illus. Straight, tight and unmarked; a Near Fine copy.
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The Continuing Struggle: Communist China and the Free World
by WALKER, Richard Louis
New York: Athene Press, [1958]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xii,155pp. Some wear and light foxing to jacket extremities, lighter portions dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound.
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The Solitaries. Poems 1964-5
by WALKER, Ted
New York: George Braziller, 1967. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 57pp. Fine in very Near Fine dustwrapper, a shade darkened on spine panel, unclipped (priced $3.95 on front flap). The poet's second published collection, winner of the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize (Poetry Society of London) for 1967.
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Fox On a Barn Door
by WALKER, Ted
New York: George Braziller, 1965. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 53pp. Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper, a shade darkened on spine panel and with a couple of small scuffs at base of front panel; unclipped (priced $3.95 on front flap). The poet's first published collection, winner of the 1964 Eric Gregory Award. Laid in is... Read More
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![The Future of Fiction (The Review of Contemporary Fiction - Vol.16, No.2, Spring 1996) [Signed by David Foster Wallace]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/008/698/1687698008.0.m.jpg)
The Future of Fiction (The Review of Contemporary Fiction - Vol.16, No.2, Spring 1996) [Signed by David Foster Wallace]
by WALLACE, David Foster (editor); FRANZEN, Jonathan, William T. Vollmann, and Bradford Morrow, et al. (contributors)
Normal, IL: The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1996. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); glossy photo-illustrated card wrappers; [6],7-193 + [23]pp ads. Signed by guest editor David Foster Wallace at the upper margin of his contribution ("Quo Vadis – Introduction"). Light wear to extremities, old price sticker to lower rear wrapper, with a faint, tiny moisture stain to upper right corner... Read More
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Girl With Curious Hair
by WALLACE, David Foster
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); bluish-grey paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in metallic blue on spine; dustjacket; x,373,[1]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $17.95), with some trivial surface wear, and trace of crinkling at the crown. Wallace's second book and first collection of short... Read More
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The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
by WALLACE, David Foster (novel); Michael Pietsch (editor; editor's note)
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); black paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine and publisher's logo blind embossed to front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 548pp. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper, designed by Mario J. Pulice with artwork by Karen Green, unclipped (priced $27.99), with trace soil and trivial surface wear;... Read More
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Oblivion: Stories
by WALLACE, David Foster
Boston: Little, Brown, 2004. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 green paper over boards, quarterbound in blue paper with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 329pp, [1]. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket.
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
by WALLACE, David Foster
New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2005. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); white and red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine, and publisher's logo embossed onto front cover; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-343,[1]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, some scuffs and faint staining to covers, though contents are fresh; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $25.95), showing light external... Read More
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![Oblivion: Stories [Advance Reading Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/247/820/1685820247.0.m.jpg)
Oblivion: Stories [Advance Reading Copy]
by WALLACE, David Foster
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. First Edition. First Printing, an advanced reading copy, with agent's contact information on sticker to front wrapper. Softcover. Octavo (23.5cm); white paper wrappers; 328pp. Trace soil, with small crinkle to edge of front wrapper and tiny corresponding marginal tears to first pages of text, and vertical crease to rear wrapper; Very Good.... Read More
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Our Russian Ally
by WALLACE, Donald Mackenzie (Sir)
London: Macmillan, 1914. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Stitched pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 23pp. Covers slightly discolored and dusty; brief pencil date to cover, scattered pencil underlining within - Very Good. Argues for Russian allyship against Germany in WW1, while acknowledging that "...as to barbarism, there is no doubt that in the general march of civilisation Russia long remained... Read More
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The Feathered Serpent
by WALLACE, Edgar
Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [8],325pp. Jacket extremities rather rubbed and worn, bottom right-hand quarter of upper jacket panel torn and crudely reattached with old tape repair to verso and still suffering small loss slightly affecting image, spine just a hint... Read More
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The Man Who Knew
by WALLACE, Edgar; William A. Kirkpatrick, frontispiece
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, [1918]. First Edition. Octavo (19.75cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 342pp. A number of small losses and closed tears to jacket extremities, a couple just touching text without loss of sense, general dust-soil to both jacket and cloth, cloth spine rather dulled, hinges cracked but holding, else About Very Good overall, in... Read More
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