EUROPE WITHOUT BAEDEKER. Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece & England
by Wilson, Edmund
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1947. First edition. pp. xii, 427. Red cloth.Spine and top edge are moderately faded, else a very good copy in very good dust jacket; light wear and fading on jacket spine, and a few short creased tears to extremities. First edition. pp. xii, 427. Inscribed, and signed, by Edmund Wilson, to... Read More
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The Hill School Record
by (Wilson, Edmund, Jr)
Pottstown, Pa: The Hill School, 1912. Commencement 1911(2), , November 1911, Christrmasa 1911, Hjanuary 1912, March 1912, Commencement, 1912, November, 1912. 8 vols. 4to. Wrappers. Signed by Wilson and with his signature and his cartoons in brown ink signed Edmund Wilson, Jr. . on back of Commencement Issue for 1911 and also signed by Wilson on the second copy... Read More
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THE BOYS IN THE BACK ROOM. Notes on California Novelists
by Wilson, Edmund
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1941. First edition, signed issue, limited to 100 copies, printed on special paper, signed by Edmund Wilson. 72, [2]pp. Cloth spine is lightly rubbed, lower fore-corners a bit bumped (with light wear to paper covering), else a near fine copy in dust jacket; jacket spine is tanned and nicked, with light wear at tips... Read More
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Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
by Wilson, Edmund
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First edition. Review Copy. xiv, 319 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Very good copy, without printed dust jacket. Orange review slip laid in, with pencil notes on the back. First edition. Review Copy. xiv, 319 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed Frederick Wilcox Dupee (1904-1979) was a literary crtiicand a founding editor of... Read More
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THE BIT BETWEEN MY TEETH. A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965
by Wilson, Edmund
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. First edition, advance review copy. pp. x, 694. 8vo. [Helen Muchnic maintained a close friendship with Edmund Wilson; they visited and corresponded regularly, over the course of more than thirty years]. A fine copy in fine dust jacket; publisher's printed review slip laid into the book. First edition, advance review copy.... Read More
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TYPED LETTER AND AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED BY EDMUND WILSON, to Hazel Ufford
by Wilson, Edmund
New York: The Republic, 1929. 1 page. 4to. Lightly creased where folded for mailing, few tiny tears to extremities, else very good. 1 page. 4to. A letter from Wilson to Hazel Ufford appears in 'Letters on Literature and Politics', together with this quotation by Wilson (from a letter to John Peale Bishop in 1928): "Her name is Hazel... Read More
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THREE RELIQUES OF ANCIENT WESTERN POETRY. Collected by Edmund Wilson from the Ruins of the Twentieth Century
by Wilson, Edmund
[Boston: Thomas Todd irst issue [in red decorated wrappers] [issued as a New Years Greeting by Edmund Wilson], 1954. First edition. 13 pages. 8vo. Wrappers, stapled. Slightly tanned on spine, with few small brown soil marks on front cover, else very good, with the text bright and fresh. First edition, 13 pages. 8vo. Inscribed by Edmund Wilson on... Read More
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The Shores of Light. A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties
by Wilson, Edmund
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952. First edition. pp. xii, 814. 8vo. Spine is a bit dull, slightly over-opened at title page (mended), else a very good copy in dust jacket; jacket has light wear and few thin chips to extremities, small, faint stain at base of spine (primarily visible on verso), else very good. First edition.... Read More
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AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED BY EDMUND WILSON, to Gilbert Troxell
by Wilson, Edmund
[New Haven], 1921. written on the blank verso of a torn portion of an envelope (addressed to Wilson, on recto, in Troxell's ink holograph). 12mo. Wilson has crossed out his own name and written Troxell's name on the recto (in pencil). Lightly creased and soiled, else very good. written on the blank verso of a torn portion of... Read More
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Five Plays. Cyprian's Prayer. The Crime in the Whistler Room. This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches. Beppo and Bath. The Blue Light
by Wilson, Edmund
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1954. First American edition. 541pp. Small 8vo. [Helen Muchnic maintained a close friendship with Edmund Wilson; they visited and corresponded regularly, over the course of more than thirty years]. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket; jacket is lightly dust soiled. First American edition. 541pp. Small 8vo. Inscribed, and signed, by... Read More
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The Triple Thinkers. Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects
by Wilson, Edmund
New York: Oxford University Press, 1948. First edition thus, "Revised and Enlarged Edition. pp. x, 270. 8vo. Tan cloth, small split at gutter of front cover, a very good copy. First edition thus, "Revised and Enlarged Edition" pp. x, 270. 8vo. Inscribed, and signed, by Edmund Wilson, to close friend, Helen Muchnic, in year of publication: "To Helen/... Read More
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Note-books of Night
by Wilson, Edmund
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1973. First edition, signed issue, in second (later) issue "Grabhorn-Hoyem" binding, limited to 21 copies (bound thus), signed by Edmund Wilson [only circa 10 copies of the signed issue were bound by Colt Press, and issued at the time of original publication]. pp. [viii], 113. 8vo. Black leather spine stamped in gilt, decorative blue... Read More
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China: Mother of Gardens
by Wilson, Ernest H.
Boston: The Stratford Company, 1929. First Edition. With 61 illustrations from photographs taken by the author. x, [ii], 408 pp. Printed by the Alpine Press, Inc, Boston. 1 vols. 8vo. Original decorated black cloth, t.e.g., spine a little dulled. Map not present, else internally fine. First Edition. With 61 illustrations from photographs taken by the author. x, [ii],... Read More
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China: Mother of Gardens
by Wilson, Ernest H.
Boston: The Stratford Company, 1929. First Edition, signed on the half-title. With 61 illustrations from photographs taken by the author. With map. [vi], x, [i] ,408 pp. 1 vols. Large 8vo [26.5 x 18 cm.]. Original decorated black cloth, t.e.g. First Edition, signed on the half-title. With 61 illustrations from photographs taken by the author. With map. [vi],... Read More
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Recollections of a Player
by Wilson, Francis
New York: Printed at the DeVinne Press, 1897. No. 104 of 120 copies printed on American hand-made paper. Extra-illustrated, with photographs, theatre programs, an ANS and ALS from Wilson, and numerous marginal pen-and-ink sketches, including 32 labeled portraits of actors. 1 vols. 4to. Three-quarter green morocco, marbled boards, t.e.g. Extremities and joints rubbed. Head of spine chipped. No.... Read More
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Original typed manuscript entitled “The Soviet Frontier,” some pencilled manuscript corrections
by Wilson, Helen Calista
New York, 1938. 19 pages. 1 vols. 4to. Sheets paperclipped together. Stain and tears from clip, some light soiling and wear, newspaper clippings browned and brittled, some with losses, but generally in good condition. 19 pages. 1 vols. 4to. Helen Calista Wilson immigrated to Russia in 1923 with an international group heading to a “Utopian industrial” colony in... Read More
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The Rod and the Gun. Being Two Treatises on Angling and Shooting
by Wilson, James and [A.K. Killmister]
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, North Bridge, 1840. First Edition. Illustrated. xii, [ii], 439 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Spine rebacked in modern calf and marbled boards. Bookplate of Colonel Henry A. Siegel and another. First Edition. Illustrated. xii, [ii], 439 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.
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[Works] The Dramatic Works of John Wilson. With Prefatory Memoir, Introductions and Notes
by Wilson, John
Edinburgh: William Paterson, London: H. Sotheran & Co, 1874. One of 150 large paper copies. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cream cloth, printed paper label. Some spotting and soiling of cloth and label, spine darkened, some spotting of endpapers and short tear along lower inner hinge. One of 150 large paper copies. 1 vols. 8vo.
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The Foresters
by [Wilson, John]
New York: Wilder & Campbell, 1825. First American Edition. 360pp. 1 vols. 8vo (in half sheets). 3/4 calf over marbled boards, marbled edges. Joints and top edges rubbed, some foxing, bookplate on front pastedown, signatures on title-page of Emma C. Embury. First American Edition. 360pp. 1 vols. 8vo (in half sheets). A novel by the astoundingly incompetent Professor... Read More
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![Heads of Mpongwe Grammar; containing most of the Principles needed by a Learner. [BOUND WITH]:A VOCABULARY OF THE MPONGWE LANGUAGE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/858/138/1523138858.0.m.jpg)
Heads of Mpongwe Grammar; containing most of the Principles needed by a Learner. [BOUND WITH]:A VOCABULARY OF THE MPONGWE LANGUAGE
by [Wilson, Rev. John Leighton]
New York: Mission House 23 Centre Street, 1879. First Edition. 59; 54pp. 8vo. Original cvloth, staining to covers, fine internally. First Edition. 59; 54pp. 8vo. A Gabonese language.
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The Californian Salmon. With an account of its introduction into Victoria
by Wilson, Sir Samuel
Melbourne: Sands & McDougall, Printers, 1878. First separate edition. Frontispiece albumen photograph of the Trout Ponds at Ercildoune. Pp. [i, title], [ii, blank] [1, preface], [2, blank],[3]-131, [1, imprint]. 1 vols. 8vo. Recent full green morocco, spine titled in gilt. Fine. First separate edition. Frontispiece albumen photograph of the Trout Ponds at Ercildoune. Pp. [i, title], [ii, blank]... Read More
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![A Summer Ramble in The Himalayas with Sporting Adventures in the Vale of Cashmere. Edited by "Mountaineer". [Introduction by James Hume]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/325/556/1189556325.0.m.jpg)
A Summer Ramble in The Himalayas with Sporting Adventures in the Vale of Cashmere. Edited by "Mountaineer". [Introduction by James Hume]
by [Wilson, W., Editor]
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1860. Frontispiece. iv, [1]-358, [2, ads]pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth, original spine laid down, VG, some minor foxing. Frontispiece. iv, [1]-358, [2, ads]pp. 8vo. Yakushi W181
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Typed Letter. On White House stationery to Pres. Charles G. Washburn declining an invitation to be present on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute
by Wilson, Woodrow
The White House, Washington, 1914. 2 pp. 1 vols. 6"x 8 1/2. Matted, glazed and gilt framed. Docketing note in pencil "CGW 5/18/14." Signature a bit faded. Some very minor foxing. Otherwise Fine. 2 pp. 1 vols. 6"x 8 1/2" Washburn was a friend to Presidents Taft and T. Roosevelt. He was also a member of the House... Read More
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Typed Letter, signed (“Woodrow Wilson”) to author/publisher John Martin at “John Martin’s House” in New York City
by Wilson, Woodrow
Washington, D.C., 1914. One page, on White House stationery, with conjugate blank. 1 vols. 4to. Slight toning and burn marks from from previous framing. One page, on White House stationery, with conjugate blank. 1 vols. 4to. Interesting wartime letter from President Wilson to the children’s publisher Morgan Shepard (aka John Martin): “I am deeply interested in what... Read More
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A Treasury of Great Reporting. "Literature Under Pressure" from the Sixteenth Century to Our Own Time. With a preface by Herbert Bayard Swope
by (Winchell, Walter) Snyder, Louis L. and Richard B. Morris, Editors
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967. Third paperback printing of the revised and enlarged second edition. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. White wrappers, lightly soiled. Internally fine. Third paperback printing of the revised and enlarged second edition. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Inscribed "For Dick Clurman: Thanks for giving your ear and hand in 1967 when so many other N.Y.C.... Read More
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