The First Christmas
by WALLACE, Lew
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1902. First Thus. Octavo (21cm). Original purple cloth, stamped in silver and gilt, top edge gilt, with original grey typographic dust jacket; plain endpapers; [xii],[109]pp; frontispiece and three plates laid down on inserted leaves, with marginal ornaments printed in orange throughout. Bookplate of G. F. Mitchell. Straight and tight, gently rubbed, with fading along... Read More
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The Author
by Wallace, Robert
Cleveland OH: Bits Press, 1983. First edition. Blue sewn wrappers; thin 8vo. Number 63 of 94 numbered and signed copies. Signed at the colophon and also on a card from the author laid in, reading "Hope you're amused -- Bob Wallace." Long humorous poem referring to and dedicated to John Updike. Near fine.
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Gauchos and Tom-Toms: Being Wanderlusting Letters from Bert to Bookie Through South American and Africa
by WALLENSTEIN, Bertram M.; Philip David Bookstaber, ed
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, [1932]. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original buckram in tan pictorial dust jacket; 220pp.; photographic frontispiece, 14 leaves of photographic illus. Jacket extremities and spine toned, spine also partially quite darkened by dampstain, a handful of chips along extremities. Contents Fine in About Very Good jacket. Front free endpaper inscribed: "To Eleanor [?] - Who knows... Read More
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Deep in the Hearts of Men
by WALLER, Mary E.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1924. Fourth Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover, in tan printed dust jacket; ix,[1],459pp. Minor shelf wear, outer jacket panels and flap folds a bit dust-soiled, slight spine lean, else Very Good or better. A novel of coal miners set in New Hampshire, West Virginia, and... Read More
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Forty-Two Lives in Treatment: A Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
by WALLERSTEIN, Robert S.
New York: Guilford Press, [1986]. First Edition. Large octavo (25.75cm.); publisher's boards in tan dust jacket; xv,[1],784pp. Light wear to jacket with minor wrinkling, spine a shade sunned, else Very Good or better.
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GOLDENHAIR AND THE TWO BLACK HAWKS
by Waller, Sir John
London: Salatticum Press, 1971. First edition. Duodecimo; gold embossed boards; onion skin printed dustjacket; 32pp.; foreword. Waterstain to fep, and some corresponding wrinkling to "vellum" dustwrapper; Good. Printed (paper folded in quarters) Christmas/New Years card with the poet's cartoon design referring to his recent heart attack; and a newspaper article re: the poet skipping his operation to honor an... Read More
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Historians' Guide to Early British Maps
by WALLIS, Helen, ed.; Anita McConnell
London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1994. Octavo. Cloth boards titled in gilt on front cover and spine; ix, 465pp. Trivial shelf wear to boards, including some mild bumping to top and bottom edges of boards, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Near Fine. In publisher's series "Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks.
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The Niece of Abraham Pein
by WALLIS, J.H.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1943. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light blue cloth, with titles stamped in maroon on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [8],9-320pp. Gentle sunning to spine, light foxing to cloth, some external wear, upper corners bumped (though still sharp), with very faint foxing to endpapers and right edge of textblock; hinges... Read More
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Sixty Years on the Brazos: The Life and Letters of Dr. John Washington Lockhart, 1824-1900
by WALLIS, Lockhart Jonnie, Mrs.; Laurance L. Hill
Ann Arbor: University Microfilms / Argonaut Press, 1966. Octavo (24cm. Orange cloth, titled in gilt on black spine panel; [xii],336pp; black and white illustrations. Tight and square, with mild spine-sunning: Very Good or better. Reprint of the 1930 original.
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The Corpse in the Green Pyjamas
by WALLING, R.A.J. (Robert Alfred John)
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1935. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); black bords stamped in green on cover and spine; dustjacket; 305pp.; spine ends gently rubbed, still a Fine copy. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00) chipping and tears to the extremities, badly scuffed front panel- Good only.
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Socialism As It Is: A Survey of the World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
by WALLING, William English
New York: Macmillan, 1912. First Edition. Octavo. Red textured cloth; 452pp+ads. Solid, straight copy; endpapers lightly soiled and creased; Very Good.
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Splinters from an African Log
by WALL, Martha
Chicago: Moody Press, [1960]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's two-toned cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 319pp.; illus. and photographs throughout, map endpapers. Some minor edge wear to jacket extremities, including a few tiny closed tears, rear panel a bit foxed, top textblock edge rather dusty, else Very Good and sound. Memoirs of a missionary nurse in West Africa. ... Read More
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Special Report. Fayette County, Tennessee: Tragedy and Confrontation
by WALLS, Dwayne
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Side-stapled wrappers; 36pp. Fine. On racial conflict in Somerville and Fayette County Tennessee during the summer and fall of 1969.
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Tropic Death
by WALROND, Eric
New York: Collier Books, 1972. First Collier Books Edition. Octavo (18cm); illustrated wrappers; 192pp. A Fine, unread copy. Attractive reissue of the Guayanese author's first book, which first saw publication in 1926. Tropic Death features "stories and sketches of poor blacks in the West Indies and Panama, reflecting the speech, rhythm, and myths that exist among a people faced... Read More
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Dictionary of Psychotherapy
by WALROND-SKINNER, Sue
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; [v], 379pp. Very slight sunning to top edge of boards, crown of board and jacket spine trivially pulled, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Dust jacket showing trivial shelf wear, mild age-toning to interior flaps. Near Fine.
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An American Answer to Intolerance. Teacher's Manual No. 1: Junior and Senior High Schools
by WALSER, Frank et al.
New York: Council Against Intolerance in America, 1939. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's green card wrappers; 116pp.; staplebound bibliography pamphlet in chemise mounted inside rear cover. Light wear and a hint of toning, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to title page and rear cover, else Very Good and sound.
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Thomas Wolfe Undergraduate [Signed]
by WALSER, Richard
Durham: Duke University Press, 1977. First Edition. Firsting Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [x],[3],4-166pp. Signed by Walser on title page. A Fine copy. Dustjacket has trivial surface wear, with a tiny red mark on front flap, and gentle sunning to spine and lower rear panel; Near Fine. Includes... Read More
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The Black Poet: being the remarkable story (partly told by himself) of George Moses Horton a North Carolina Slave
by WALSER, Richard
New York: Philosophical Library, (1966). First Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Blue-gray cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 120pp. Fine copy in slightly rubbed dustwrapper, with a few brief, closed tears to margins; Very Good.
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IDIR EATORTHA AND MAKING TENTS
by Walsh, Catherine
London: Invisible Books, 1996. First Edition. Glossy white illustrated wraps; small 4to. 85 pp. Irish poet. Illustrated by Didi Baldwin. Minimal marking to wraps. Clean text throughout. Near fine.
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quaking aspen grove
by Walsh, Phyllis
LaCrosse, WI: Juniper Press, 1985. First Edition. Printed wrappers, single sheet pasted to covers; thin 32mo. Haiku/Short Poem Series Number 18. One of 300 copies printed at Sumac Press. 10 haiku. Fine.
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Shooting [...] Field and Covert [Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes]
by WALSINGHAM, Lord and Ralph Payne-Gallwey; Gerald Lascelles and A.J. Stuart-Wortley, contrs.; Harper Pennington, C. Whymper, J.H. Oswald Brown, and G.E. Lodge, illus
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1887. Second edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in dark brown, blue, and white, gilt spine; xv,[1],357pp.; engraved frontispiece, 10 leaves of plates, including one photograph, additional text illus. throughout. General shelf wear to extremities with some exposure at corners, rear hinge cracked, holding strong but with webbing slightly exposed; externally quite... Read More
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Corporeal Orgasm* and Personality Development in the Human Male (a spoof in the manner of Freud)
by WALSTEDT, Joyce Jennings
[Pittsburgh: Know, Inc, 1970]. First Edition. Quarto (27.25cm.); two typescript leaves staplebound at top left-hand corner. Minor wear from handling, manuscript number to top right-hand corner as issued. The asterix from the title refers to "Total body orgasms of trunk, limb and head." Feminist psychotherapist's first separately published piece, apparently unlocated in OCLC as of April, 2016.
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Love You Good, See You Later
by WALTER, Eugene
New York: Scribner's, 1964. First Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's lime green cloth spine over black paper covered boards, titled an decorated in dark green to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 183pp. Very light wear to edges and extremities, a very good copy indeed in a bright, attractive pictorial dustjacket. Internally clean. Previous bookseller's price label to front flyleaf. A... Read More
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The Shape of Snakes [Limited Edition, Signed]
by WALTERS, Minette
London: Macmillan, 2000. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 600 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author. Octavo (24.25cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's matching gilt-stamped cloth slipcase. Fine in a Fine slipcase, still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Handsome edition of the Edgar Award-winning author's eighth novel.... Read More
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The Sculptress [Signed]
by WALTERS, Minette
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1993. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [x],308,[2]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Subtle tanning to text edges, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced £14.99). The English author's second novel.
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