Knock About Notes
by [WEST VIRGINIA AUTHORS] CORNWELL, John J[acob]
[Romney, WV: 1915]. First Edition. Inscribed on front flyleaf: "To Melvin P. Loy / whose father was long my friend," signed, dated 1939. 12mo. Green cloth hardcover; 139pp; two unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones) inserted before title page. Some small, old clear tape adhesions to front endpaper, else a tight, complete, Very Good copy. No imprint, but dated... Read More
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Women: The Under-Represented Majority
by WETHERBY, Phyllis
Pittsburgh, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (27.25cm.); two mimeographed stapled leaves; 3pp. A bit worn from handling, else Very Good and sound. "A statement to the Democratic Platform Committee Hearings, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 5, 1970," in part for the Greater Pittsburgh Area Chapter of the National Organization for Women. Unlocated in OCLC as of April, 2015.
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Way for a Sailor!
by WETJEN, Albert Richard
New York: Century Co, [1928]. First Edition. First Printing. Publisher's cloth in pictorial art deco dust jacket, red topstain; [6],408pp. A tight, clean, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap), slightly foxed, extremities a bit chipped and worn with short closed tear at bottom edge of upper panel just touching text; Very Good.... Read More
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Firebreak. Poems
by WEVILL, David
London: Macmillan, 1971. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 68pp. Fine in price-clipped, else Fine dustwrapper. Complimentary slip laid-in from London bookseller Bertram Rota.
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Forgotten Hero: General James B. McPherson
by WHALEY, Elizabeth J.
New York: Exposition Press, 1955. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Blue cloth in light blue dust jacket; 203,[1]pp. Lightly rubbed at edges, but otherwise Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $3.50), rubbed and chipped with two inch-long tears and attendant creases to front lower edge, minor dustsoil, a few spots of foxing to verso: Good or better. ... Read More
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Gallery of American Art Today; New York World's Fair [Cover Title: American Art Today]
by WHALEN, Grover A. (foreword); A. Conger Goodyear (preface); Holger Cahill, Stuart Davis, (et al.) (contributors)
[n.p.]: National Art Society, [1939]. Quato (20.5cm); dark blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; [12],13-342,[2]pp; black-and-white photographic (halftones) and illustrations throughout. Some pages of text unopened. Spine-tanned, modest shelf-wear and soil to covers, with rubbing and loss of cloth to spine ends edges of board edges, and vertical crease to... Read More
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Highgrade Doodles Poems
by WHALEN, Philip
San Francisco: Coyote's Journal, 1966. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto; (27.5cm.); tan wrappers printed in red and black; unpaginated; light wrinkle to cover- a Near Fine copy. American poet, Zen Buddhist, and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and close to the Beat generation.
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Fangst Og Forskning I Sydishavet
by [WHALING] AAGAARD, Bjarne
Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk, 1930-1934. First Edition. First printings. Octavo (25.5cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt; blu eand white decorative endpapers; I: [xvi],[414],viii pp.; II: [vi],419-1068,[2]pp; III; [556],LV,[1]pp; 3 foldings maps and one folding plate in vols I and II, black and white illustrations throughout. Title pages printed in two colors. Ownership inscriptions and stamps of Edward Mitchell. With original... Read More
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Fiasco at Fredericksburg
by WHAN, Vorin E., Jr.
State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1961. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in price-clipped dust jacket; xiii, 159pp. Ownership stamp to half-title and top edge of textblock, ownership labels to half-title and ffep, and ownership signature to title page. A few isolated instances of underlining to textblock, yet largely unmarked. Top and bottom edges of boards lightly sunned,... Read More
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![Confessions of a Novelist" [in] The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 151, no.4 (April 1933)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/997/876/1621876997.0.m.jpg)
Confessions of a Novelist" [in] The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 151, no.4 (April 1933)
by WHARTON, Edith
New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1933. Single octavo issue in original black-printed orange wrappers; pp [385]-508 + 48pp ads. Slight wear and soil; paper on backstrip slightly faded; rear wrapper partially detached; about Very Good. Includes the first appearance of Edith Wharton's personal essay, "Confessions of a Novelist", which does not appear to have been collected until the 1982 anthology... Read More
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Ethan Frome [Signed]
by WHARTON, Edith (text); Henry Varnum Poor (illustrations); Clifton Fadiman (introduction)
[Portland, Maine]: The Limited Editions Club, Inc, 1939. One of 1500 copies printed for members of the Limited Editions Club and signed by the illustrator, of which this is no.299. Quarto (28.5cm); green cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; fore- and lower-edge untrimmed; glassine dustjacket; 145pp; water-colour illustrations... Read More
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A Backward Glance
by WHARTON, Edith
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Deep blue "S" cloth (Garrison notes two bindings, without priority); titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 385pp. Subtle slant to text block, else a tight, Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap), toned at edges with a bit of... Read More
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Birdy
by WHARTON, William
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); cream cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and decoration blind embossed to front cover; blue topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; [viii],[4],5-309,[3]pp. Topstain lightly faded with faint foxing, and light sunning to upper edges of boards; Near Fine. Dustwrapper, designed by Fred... Read More
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Mis-Ka-Now-Uk (Trails)
by WHEELER, A.N.
Worcester, MA: by the Author, 1942. First Edition. 12mo. Printed textured card wrappers; 54pp. Minimal external wear; Very Good or better. Poems, all referencing Wheeler's extended residence in the far Canadian Northwest; illustrated throughout with photographs by the author. Includes a few compositions in the Cree language. Research suggests that Wheeler was the first postmaster of Bitumount, on the... Read More
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![Buffalo Days: Forty Years in the Old West [Extra-illustrated]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/097/678/1563678097.0.m.jpg)
Buffalo Days: Forty Years in the Old West [Extra-illustrated]
by WHEELER, Homer W.
New York: A. L. Burt, 1925. Octavo (21cm). Brown cloth stamped in orange; [xiv],361,[1]pp; frontispiece portrait. Extra-illustrated, with numerous clipped illustrations laid down in blank areas in the book. Minor edgewear, slight superficial abrasion to cloth on front, small stain to upper rear board, rear hinge partially cracked, else sound and clean: Very Good. A unique and intriguing copy... Read More
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Imperialismo y Dictadura
by WHEELOCK ROMÁN, Jaime
[Managua]: Editorial Nueva Nicaragua, [1985]. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's card wrappers; 243pp. Wrappers a bit worn and soiled, else Very Good and sound. Detailed study of the dictatorial Somoza regime by a member of the Sandinista Liberation Front.
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Rock and Shell: Poems 1923-1933
by WHEELWRIGHT, John
Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1933. First edition. First printing. Deluxe issue. One of 200 specially signed copies, of a total edition of 500. Octavo. Maroon cloth; dustjacket; 87pp. Tight, straight and clean, Very Good or better. In the original printed dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap), slightly soiled with small chips and stains; just VG. Inscribed by the author,... Read More
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![The Bright Doom: A Book of Poems [Inscribed Presentation Copy to Michel Farano]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/419/767/1508767419.0.m.jpg)
The Bright Doom: A Book of Poems [Inscribed Presentation Copy to Michel Farano]
by WHEELOCK, John Hall
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 80pp. Inscribed on flyleaf: "For Michel Farano / who actually knows some of these poems by heart," signed by Wheelock, undated. A tight, Near Fine copy. In original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap), slightly chipped and edgeworn; partially separated along front spine-fold;... Read More
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![Poems Old and New [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/369/909/1498909369.0.m.jpg)
Poems Old and New [Inscribed]
by WHEELOCK, John Hall
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Cream cloth in patterned red, blue, and black dust jacket; [xx],203,[1]pp. Lengthy inscription on f.f.f.e.p. to Charles Dunn, dated 1956. Lightly bumped and rubbed at edges, minor smudge to cloth over front board: Near Fine. Jacket rubbed at edges and sunned at spine: Very Good.
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Rock and Shell: Poems 1923-1933
by WHEELWRIGHT, John
Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1933. First edition. First printing. Deluxe issue. One of 200 specially signed copies, of a total edition of 500. Octavo. Maroon cloth; dustjacket; 87pp. Tight, straight and clean, Near Fine. In the original printed dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap), quite clean with a brief closed tear to rear panel just a bit of dusting... Read More
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SOURCE CODES
by Wheeler, Susan
Applecros, West. AUS: Salt, 2001. First Edition. Original wrappers (no hardcover issue); 8vo. 107 pp. Inscribed by the poet to critic Harold [Bloom], and signed "with much love & admiration, Susan". Fine. Wheeler chairs the Creative Writing Department at Princeton, and is a regular in the Best American Poetry Series, including The Best of the Best 1988-1997, edited by... Read More
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A Concise History of Italy
by WHELPTON, Eric
New York: Roy Publishers, 1964. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 240pp. Ownership signature on front free endpapers. Bottom edge of front board mildly bumped, some toning to endpapers, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Jacket showing minor shelf wear, spine mildly sunned. Very Good.
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THE INGATHERING OF LOVE
by Whigham, Peter
[Santa Barbara]: N.p., 1967. First Edition. Tan wrappers; thin 12 mo. Work in Progress 1. One of 500 numbered copies (#420) printed by Noel Young. Long poem in a series distributed by Unicorn Press. Unicorn label on back inside cover, limitation corrected on colophon, and a printed prospectus (attractively printed presumably by series printer Young in red) of sorts... Read More
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The Whipple Report: Journal of an Expedition from San Diego, California, to the Rio Colorado, from Sept. 11 to Dec. 11, 1849
by WHIPPLE, A. W.
Los Angeles: Westernlore press, 1961. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Brick red cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, in pale blue dust jacket printed in red; [i]-v [6]-100,[2]pp. A firm copy, lightly rubbed: Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced $5.50), sunned at spine, loss at base of spine, gently rubbed: around Very Good. Great West and Indian Series XX.... Read More
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A Time for Anger. An Address by Albert Whitehouse, Director, Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO at the Public Relations Seminar, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, April 16, 1959
by WHITEHOUSE, Albert
Washington DC: Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO, (1959). First Edition. Staple bound pamphlet. Slim octavo (9" x 4"); printed glossy paper wrappers; 16pp. Clean and free of significant wear; Near Fine. Transcript of Whitehouse's speech to Harvard MBA candidates, a surprisingly strident attack (given the audience) against big business, conformity, and the society's loss of cohesion in the... Read More
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