A Tourist in Africa
by WAUGH, Evelyn
London: Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1960. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); navy blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-167,[1]pp, with pictorial frontispiece and 10 plates. Spine ends gently nudged, some faint foxing to right edge of textblock and scattered throughout the margins; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with... Read More
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Unconditional Surrender
by WAUGH, Evelyn
London: Chapman and Hall, 1961. First Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 311pp. Sharp and clean, light wear to edges and spine ends and a slight bubbling of the cloth to the front board, in a bright example of the dustjacket with a little toning of the spine and some soiling of... Read More
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Officers and Gentlemen
by WAUGH, Evelyn
London: Chapman and Hall, 1955. First Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 335pp. Very light scuffing and wear to extremities and spine ends, a little bumping, clean and strong in a bright dustjacket with some shallow wear to spine ends and some slight toning of the spine panel. A very good copy. Top... Read More
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Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future
by WAUGH, Evelyn (text; illustrations)
London: Chapman & Hall, 1953. First Edition. Octavo (20cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; 51pp; frontispiece illustration, with black and white illustrations throughout. Shelf-soil to covers, gilt lightly oxidized, with light rubbing to board edges, and bookshop sticker and light soil to rear pastedown; Very Good.... Read More
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Labels: A Mediterranean Journal
by WAUGH, Evelyn
London: Duckworth, 1930. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Blue cloth, titles in gilt on spine; frontis; 209pp. Small nick to cloth at crown; a hint of fading at board edges; shadow of a removed bookplate inside front cover. A solid, VG copy, lacking the dustwrapper.
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The Literature and Thought of Modern Africa: A Survey
by WAUTHIER, Claude; Shirley Kay, trans
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, [1967]. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in blue and green photo-illustrated dust jacket; 323pp. A few short closed tears with subsequent creasing to top edge of upper jacket panel, spine a bit faded, else Near Very Good and sound. Translation of the revised French edition. Survey of French and English-language... Read More
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The Literature and Thought of Modern Africa: A Survey
by WAUTHIER, Claude
London: Pall Mall Press, [1966]. Revised Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in blue and green photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket; 323pp. Minor edge wear, else Very Good or better. Translated from the French by Shirley Kay. Survey of French and English-language political African literature.
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Thoughts on the Present Collegiate System in the United States
by WAYLAND, Francis
Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1842. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (18cm). In brown publisher's cloth, boards blind-stamped, titled in gold on spine; yellow endpapers; vi, 160, [8]pp; publisher's ads at rear. Ex-library, with nineteenth-century bookplate of Fletcher Town Library on front pastedown. A crisp copy with minor shelf wear, unfaded, with remnants of paper labels on upper and... Read More
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![The Affairs of Rhode-Island. A Discourse Delivered at the Meeting-House of the First Baptist Church, Providence, May 22, 1842 [Cover title: Dr. Wayland's Discourse on the Affairs of Rhode-Island]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/430/053/1255053430.0.m.jpg)
The Affairs of Rhode-Island. A Discourse Delivered at the Meeting-House of the First Baptist Church, Providence, May 22, 1842 [Cover title: Dr. Wayland's Discourse on the Affairs of Rhode-Island]
by WAYLAND, Francis
Providence: B. Cranston & Co. and H.H. Brown, 1842. Third Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's dark salmon card wrappers printed within double-rule; 32pp. Wrappers chipped and a bit worn, evidence of having been previously separated and recently re-stapled, some light soiling, contemporary gift inscription on title page, very occasional pencil underlining, else Good to Very Good. Address delivered by Brown... Read More
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Wayland's Monthly. No. 67 - November, 1905
by WAYLAND, J.A. [ed]
Girard, KS: J.A. Wayland, 1905. First edition. 12mo; printed self-wrappers; 45,(3)pp. Mild aging; Very Good. Single issue of Wayland's uncommon socialist periodical. This bulk of this issue dedicated to a heavily revised abridgement of Karl Kautsky's "The Class Struggle" (1892) possibly done by Wayland himself and probably unauthorized. Other contributions by J.L. McCreery, Victor Gage Kimbert, and an editorial... Read More
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![Art Folio of the Shenandoah Valley. . . in Virginia's Famous Valley, "The Daughter of the Stars" [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/308/237/1571237308.0.m.jpg)
Art Folio of the Shenandoah Valley. . . in Virginia's Famous Valley, "The Daughter of the Stars" [Inscribed]
by WAYLAND, John W.
Staunton, VA: McClure Co, [1924]. First Edition. First printing. Oblong octavo (20.5cm). Brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt; unpaginated; black and white plates. 1954 inscription by the author on front free endpaper. Lightly rubbed at corners, both hinges cracking slightly but holding, else clean and tight: Very Good. Photo book depicting notable historical and natural sites... Read More
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Anthony Wayne: A Name in Arms. Soldier, Diplomat, Defender of Expansion Westward of a Nation. The Wayne-Knox-Pickering-McHenry Correspondence
by [WAYNE, Anthony] KNOPF, Richard C.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1960). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 566pp. Tight, clean and unmarked; Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly soiled and toned with some faint ink-splashes to rear panel, still Very Good, with the $7.00 price intact on front flap. Account of the Wayne Expedition into the areas north and west... Read More
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China's Crucifixion
by WEALE, Putnam (pseud. of Bertram Lenox Simpson)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); lavender cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in dark yellow on spine and front cover; dark yellow topstain; dustjacket; [8], 401pp. A few faint streaks along topstain, else Fine, with numerous pages uncut. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), lightly shelfworn, with a few short tears; Near Fine.... Read More
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Songs of the Western Shore
by WEARE, W.K.
San Francisco: Bacon & Company, 1879. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original green decorative blind- and gilt-embossed cloth; 204pp.; engraved author portrait frontispiece. Boards rubbed with spine foot rather frayed and corners rumpbed, textblock a bit shaken in binding, else About Very Good overall. Poetry of the American West by the California and Nevadan pioneer and silver miner. The author's... Read More
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![MAUMAU AMERICAN CANTOS [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/629/537/1581537629.0.m.jpg)
MAUMAU AMERICAN CANTOS [Inscribed]
by Weatherly, Tom
New York: Corinth, 1970. First Edition. One of 3000 copies. Original printed wrappers; square 8vo. 47pp. Inscribed and signed by the author in 1985 with reference to "Sinai"---and with a four line poem in Weatherly's holograph on page 5. Also, 3 mss. corrections to the text, also signed. Near Fine. Weatherly's first book designed by Joan Wilentz. Most of Weatherly's... Read More
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Squaring Off: Mailer Vs. Baldwin
by WEATHERBY, W.J.
New York: Mason / Charter, 1977. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 217pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, price-clipped and spine-sunned, with light wear and a few short tears to extremities. The journalist's "series of portraits: of both Mailer and Baldwin as emerging artists, as spokesmen of an... Read More
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Ideas Have Consequences
by WEAVER, Richard M.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1948]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Blue cloth with spine titles stamped in black and gilt; dustjacket; vi,190pp. Straight and tight, with a few spots of marginal discoloration to text, still Very Good or better. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.75 on front flap), lightly chipped with a few closed tears, darkened... Read More
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The Spring of Joy: Poems, Some Prose Pieces, and the Unfinished Novel "Armour Wherein He Trusted
by WEBB, Mary; Normal Hepple, illus.; Walter de la Mare and Martin Armstrong, intro
London: Jonathan Cape, [1937]. First Thus. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in black decorative price-clipped dust jacket, blue topstain; 383pp.; color frontispiece and three plates, additional text illus. throughout, decorative endpapers. Light chipping and shelf wear to jacket extremities, corners a bit bumped and boards very slightly bowed, else a Very Good, still quite fresh copy.
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Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil-Rights Days as told to Frank Sikora
by WEBB, Sheyann, Rachel West Nelson, and Frank Sikora
University, AL: University of Alabama Press, [1980]. First Edition. Octavo (22.25cm.); original cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; xiv,146pp.; photographic frontispiece and illus. throughout. Minor wear to jacket extremities, else Very Good or better. Memoirs of two young African American women who were children living in Selma, Alabama, during the Selma Voting Rights Movement.
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Methods of Social Study
by WEBB, Sidney and Beatrice
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1932. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in grey printed dust jacket; vii,[1],263,[1],4pp. Jacket spine a bit toned, a hint of shelf wear and dust-soil else Very Good or better. A superlative copy. A late but important cumulative sociological survey ranging "from Trade Unions and Co-operative Societies, through Parish Vestries to Municipal Councils up... Read More
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All-American VIII: Nature's Way
by WEBER, Bruce, Nan Bush, and Nathaniel Kilcer (editors)
New York: Little Bear Press, 2008. First Edition. Reportedly one of 5,000 copies. Quarto; tape-bound photographic wrappers; unpaged; illus. A few red smudges to spine, else a Near Fine copy. Eighth installment of Weber's lavishly-produced "All-American" series, with chapters featuring Nina Simone, Oatsie Charles, and Zevulon Glixman, with text by David Halberstam, Stephen Dunn, and others.
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Sam Shepard
by WEBER, Bruce
New York: Little Bear Press, 1990. First Edition. Quarto; red cloth, with black and white photo of Shepared mounted to front cover, and title stamped in black on rear cover; photographic endpapers; [32]pp; illus. Small, faint patch of dustiness to rear cover, else Fine without dustjacket, as issued. Handsome edition dedicated to profiling the late American actor, author, playwright,... Read More
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The German War Artists
by WEBER, John Paul; Robert Mills, intro
Columbia: The Cerberus Book Company, 1979. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 151pp. Illustrated in color and b&w throughout. Some mild foxing to boards and jacket. textblock unaffected. A tight, clean, unmarked copy. Minor shelf wear to jacket, including a few closed tears to top and bottom edges of jacket. Very Good.
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Cubist Poems
by WEBER, Max (poetry); A.L.C. [Alvin Langdon Coburn] (foreword)
London: Elkin Matthews, 1914. First Edition. Small octavo (16.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; fore- and lower-edge untrimmed; 63pp. Spine-tanned, with shelf-soil, light rubbing to board edges, and off-setting to endpapers; Very Good. Weber studied at Brooklyn Pratt Institute, and later with Henri Marisse in Paris. This... Read More
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Stephen's Green Revisited
by WEBER, Richard
Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1968. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 64pp. Fine, in crisp dustwrapper slightly faded at spine panel and extremities, VG+. The poet's second published collection.
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