Helbeck of Bannisdale
by WARD, Mrs. Humphry
New York: Macmillan Company, 1899. Reprint. 2 volumes, small octavo (18.5cm.); original cloth in green-grey dust jackets printed in orange. Jacket spines uniformly darkened, shallow chips and tears, including to spine ends, front jacket flap of Vol. II separated but present, other flaps nearly separated at folds; Very Good in About Good, complete and exceedingly fragile dust jackets. Popular... Read More
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The Marriage of William Ashe [Limited Edition, Signed]
by WARD, Mrs. Humphry [Mary Augusta]; Albert Sterner, illus
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1905. Autograph Edition. Limited to 972 copies of which this is no. 655. Two volumes; octavo (20.5cm.); original blue gilt-lettered cloth, top edges gilt; [10],291,[1];[6],[293]-562pp.; frontispieces, 14 plates. General light shelf wear, else Very Good or better. Signed by the author on Vol. I colophon page. British author's best-selling novel, loosely based on... Read More
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William Thomas Arnold, Journalist and Historian
by WARD, Mrs. Humphry and C.E. Montague
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1907. First Separate Edition. Octavo; blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; portrait frontis; 136,[16]pp. Spine ends and corners pushed; mild external rubbing; internally clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Memoir of the Australian-born liberal academic and journalist, long-time contributor to the Manchester Guardian, by his elder sister, the novelist Mrs. Humphry... Read More
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The Case of Richard Meynell
by WARD, Mrs. Humphry; Charles E. Brock, illus
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911. First American Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original blue cloth embossed in blind and lettered in white; viii,[2],630pp.; frontispiece & 5 plates. Light wear to extremities else Very Good and sound.
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Fenwick's Career
by WARD, Mrs. Humphry; Albert Sterner, illus
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1906]. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in tan dust jacket; xi,[1],366pp.; frontispiece & 3 plates. Jacket extremities chipped and brittle with some losses, the largest measuring approx. 1x1" at spine foot affecting the "PER" of "HARPER"; additional shallow loss to spine crown; spine quite darkened with some dampstaining; some light foxing... Read More
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Public Sculpture of the City of London
by WARD-JACKSON, Philip
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Oblong quarto (21.75cm); pictorial card wrappers; xxx,520pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, with a few tiny creases lower corners of a handful of terminal leaves; Near Fine. Issued as Number 7 in the Public Sculpture of Britain series.
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History of a Ring [cover title]
by BY ONE OF THE GOVERNOR'S WARDS
Portland, ME: Berry Printer, 1877. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original pictorial stitched self-wrappers; 13pp. Wrappers rather brittle with a few tiny shallow losses, else Very Good. Satirical fable regarding the railroad industry. WILLIAMSON (Maine) I 835.
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The Ideal of a Christian Church, Considered in Comparison with Existing Practice, Containing a Defence of Certain Articles in The British Critic in Reply to Remarks on Them in Mr. Palmer's 'Narrative.' Second Edition
by WARD, W.G. [William George]
London: James Toovey, 1854. Second edition. Octavo. Contemporary half black-dyed calf over marbled boards; xiv,601pp. Ex-seminary library, with stamps to endpapers (but no other institutional markings); mildly rubbed externally, the text complete, fresh, and unmarked. A Very Good copy in an attractive contemporary binding. Ward's [1812-1882] first and principal work, a controversial criticism of the Church of... Read More
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Ghetto Silhouettes
by WARFIELD, David and Margherita Arlina HAMM
New York: James Pott & Company, 1902. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth boards; no jacket; 189pp; frontispiece; 4 inserted black and white plates; Light rubbing to boards; else tight, clean copy in very good or better condition.
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![[Drop title] Profecias sobre la Francia actual y otras naciones de Europa. Continuacion de las publicados por el doctor Refilando, en el diario La Conviccion en 13 Mayo y 11 de Setiembre de 1870](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/652/155/1308155652.0.m.jpg)
[Drop title] Profecias sobre la Francia actual y otras naciones de Europa. Continuacion de las publicados por el doctor Refilando, en el diario La Conviccion en 13 Mayo y 11 de Setiembre de 1870
by [FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR]
[Barcelona: Imp. Llorens, 1871]. First Edition. Original pictorial letterpress broadsheet (31.5x22.5cm.); top third of recto adorned with original woodcut, text printed in double columns. Faint fold lines, a few tiny chips to extremities, light soil, else Very Good to Near Fine. Fortune-telling broadsheet regarding the fate of France following the Siege of Paris in September, 1870. The author, a... Read More
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Success is a Job in New York. The Early Art and Business of Andy Warhol
by [WARHOL] WARHOL, Andy; DE SALVO, Donna M., ed; Thomas W. Sokolowski, Phillip M. Johnston, et al, texts
New York / Pittsburgh: Grey Art Gallery / The Carnegie Museum of Art, 1989. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Thick, glossy card wrappers; 89pp; illus. Mild signs of use, with faint creases to wrapper edges; still a tight, clean copy, Very Good or better. Catalogue for the 1989 traveling exhibition of Warhol's early commercial work, co-curated by the... Read More
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Camp Scenes Along The Border
by [MEXICAN BORDER WAR]
San Antonio: Dahrooge & Co, n.d. [ca. 1910]. A small tan card folding chemise containing a concertina style pull out of 20 monochrome images, titled to the front panel with space for an address for postal use, with an advertisment for the Dahrooge Co. to the rear panel. A little wear and toning to the edges of the chemise,... Read More
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Saunterings
by WARNER, Charles Dudley
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. Later printing. 12mo (15cm.); brown publisher's cloth stamped in blind and gilt; xii,289pp. Spine cocked; blindstamping worn on spine; small tear in cloth at spine base and adjacent material loss on rear panel; red edgestaining fading and toned in spots. Some leaves gently pulled. Stray pencil marks throughout. Good; intact and complete. ... Read More
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SPRING HARVEST
by Warner, Francis
Drayton, Somerset: Martin Booth, 1981. First edition. Chapbook. One of 30 copies signed by the poet of 110 printed. Attractive publication printed on Scottish Antique Laid at Skelton's Press. Spine faded, else fine in French-fold green wrappers.
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![Commemorative Exercises at Unveiling and Dedication of the Ft. Meigs Monument September 1, 1908 [cover title: Record of Exercises at the Dedication of the Fort Meigs Monument]...To which is appended an interesting diary of Capt. Daniel Lewis Cushing, Commander of the Grand Battery](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/680/031/1692031680.0.m.jpg)
Commemorative Exercises at Unveiling and Dedication of the Ft. Meigs Monument September 1, 1908 [cover title: Record of Exercises at the Dedication of the Fort Meigs Monument]...To which is appended an interesting diary of Capt. Daniel Lewis Cushing, Commander of the Grand Battery
by [WAR OF 1812] [OHIO] OBLINGER, F.J.
Toledo: Maumee Valley Pioneer and Historical Association, (1909). First Edition. Octavo. Stapled wrappers; 94,(2)pp; illus. Covers worn, chipped at corners and with partial splits at bound edge; contents complete and generally clean; Good or better. Includes transcripts of the various addresses delivered at the dedication of the Monument; illustrated with halftones of the monument and principal figures.... Read More
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An Address of Members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, to their constituents, on the subject of the war with Great-Britain
by [WAR OF 1812] [SULLIVAN, George et al]
New-York: C.S. Van Winkle, 1812. Octavo (22cm.); removed; 32pp. Stock a bit brittle and toned, final leaf separated but present; Good or better overall. Oft-reprinted letter signed by more than two dozen members of the Federalist Party attacking changes made by the Thomas Jefferson administration and the declaration of war against Britain in the years following his presidency. SABIN... Read More
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An Address of Members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, to their constituents, on the subject of the war with Great-Britain
by [WAR OF 1812] [SULLIVAN, George et al]
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1812. Octavo (22.5cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 24pp., printed on pale grey stock. Light chipping to extremities, else a Very Good or better, unopened copy. Oft-reprinted letter signed by more than two dozen members of the Federalist Party attacking changes made by the Thomas Jefferson administration and the declaration of war against Britain in the years following... Read More
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DODECA: A Monthly Review of Poets & Poetry (Nos. 11 and 12)
by Warr, A.M. (ed.); Inman, Will; Congdon, Kirby, [et al.]
New York: Dodeca, 1976. First Edition. Stapled paperback; 8.5" x 11"; No. 11 (20pp), No. 12 (24pp). Dodeca was a bi-monthly review of poets and poetry that ran from 1975 to 1976 and was sold at Cody's, Gotham Bookmart, and other well-known bookstores throughout the country. No. 11 and 12 with contributions from Will Inman, and others; No. 12 focuses on Kirby... Read More
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Acknowledgment to Life: the Collected Poems of Bertram Warr
by WARR, Bertram
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1970. First Edition. Wrappered issue. Octavo; pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 92pp. Small (
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Acknowledgment to Life: the Collected Poems of Bertram Warr
by WARR, Bertram
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1970. First Edition. Cloth issue. Octavo; cloth boards; dustjacket; 92pp. Fine in a price-clipped and slightly edgeworn dustwrapper, Very Good or better. Posthumous collection of work by the Nova Scotia poet, killed in action over Germany in 1943. Edited, and with an introduction by Len Gasparini. The cloth issue is rather uncommon.
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Rumors of Light
by Warren, Eugene (Gene Doty)
St Louis MO: GrafikTrakt, N.D.. First edition. 16-fold broadside, created as the first publication of GrafikTrakt, designed and printed by Ted Smith at Hope Press, St. Louis. It is the second publication of the poet, who is also known as Gene Doty, University of Missouri professor. Limited to 500 copies. This one shows light wear, about very good. ... Read More
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Liberals and Communism: The "Red Decade" Revisited
by WARREN III, Frank A.
Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); bluish-gray cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; 276pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with minute wear to extremities. "In this volume the author seeks to gauge objectively the true nature and extent of Communist influence on left-liberal thinking in the thirties by... Read More
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Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory
by WARRE, H.
Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1970. Limited Edition. #1551 of 1950 copies printed. Landscape octavo (22.5cm). Cream buckram, stamped in gilt and orange, in green paper-covered slipcase titled on white paper label; cartographic endpapers; 26pp; 71 plates, a few in color. With blank Imprint Society order form laid in at front. Henry Warre was a British Army officer... Read More
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Grateful Dead 365
by WARREN-GEORGE, Holly
New York: Abrams, 2008. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. (oblong, thick- 24 cm x 16.5 x 4 cm) 744pp; illustrated; pictorial boards, decorated foreedge of textblock; Fine, lacking dustjacket, as issued.
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The Preservation of Health. With Remarks on Constipation, Old Age, Use of Alcohol in the Preparation of Medicines
by WARREN, John C.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854. 16mo (17cm). Brown cloth, titled in gilt; plain endpapers; 140pp. Straight and tight, corners bumped, cloth rubbed over spine: Very Good. "The text of Warren's 1846 Physical education and the preservation of health is reproduced in full, with twenty-two pages of new matter" (Hoolihan). Warren argued that the American educational system... Read More
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