The Free City: A Book of Neighborhood
by WHITE, Bouck
New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1919. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original green cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in darker green; [8],314pp. Spine quite toned, else Very Good and sound. Proposal for municipal collectivism, federal democracy, and political pluralism by Christian socialist and founder of the "Church of the Social Revolution." White was by this time an ex-member... Read More
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LXXXV CV: Two poems in Five Essays
by Whiteman, Bruce (trans.); Gaius Valerius Catullus
N.p.: Lyceum Press, 2006. First Edition. Red wrappers with printed label; 12 mo.Translations of Catullus. Number 4 of 200 numbered and signed (by Whiteman) copies; attractively printed and bound by Wm Erik Voss at the press.lightly wrinkled edge, but still Fine.
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Lincoln Dodge, Layman
by WHITE, Charles L.
New York: Mission Press, [1911]. First Edition. 12mo (15cm.); publisher's maroon pictorial card wrappers printed in black and yellow; [4],177pp. Small white soil spot to upper cover, light shelf wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. Novel by the secretary of the Baptist Home Mission Society, describing a group of Society men, including a judge, a doctor, and a... Read More
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The Growth of The Red Army
by WHITE, D. Fedotoff
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's bright red heavy grain cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xiv], 486pp. Very light wear and soiling, a solid durable book, internally clean with some thumbing to the prelims and some erased pencil notes to the rear pastedown, in a complete and solid dustjacket with some chipping and... Read More
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The Fox of Peapack & Other Poems
by WHITE, E.B.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1938. First Edition. First Printing, with the publisher's "H-N" code on copyright page. Octavo. (21cm); green cloth, blocked and titled in black and gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii,137,[3]pp. Light wear and gentle sunning to spine ends, offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers, with a small patch of rubbing to upper rear... Read More
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The Lady is Cold
by WHITE, E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929. First Edition. First Printing (harper code C-D, Mar. 29'). Octavo (21cm); in the first issue binding in pictorial paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; xii,96pp. A few tiny bumps to board edges, light wear to spine ends and corners, else a clean, Near Fine example, lacking... Read More
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The Second Tree From the Corner
by WHITE, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks)
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954. First Edition. M-C code on copyright page. Octavo (21.5cm); dark green spine over blue paper-covered boards, with titling and decoration stamped in yellow on spine; dustjacket; 253pp. Previous owner's name inked to upper front endpaper. Faint sunning to spine ends, with light rubbing to lower board edges, and front lower corner gently tapped... Read More
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50th Anniversary History Book of the New York Photo-Engravers Union No. 1, I.P.E.U. of N.A.
by [WHITE, Edward, compiler] NEW YORK PHOTO-ENGRAVERS UNION NO. 1
New York: New York Photo-Engravers Union No. 1, 1944. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); original brown blind- and gilt-embossed cloth; unpaged; illus., mostly photographic, a few in color. Boards a bit rubbed, else Near Fine. Scarce WW2-era year book honoring current and former members of the Union, including those who were serving the country as well as members who served... Read More
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The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience. The West of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister
by WHITE, G. Edward
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Brown cloth hardcover; dustjacket; [6],238pp. Tight, unmarked copy, Near Fine, in crisp, clean dustjacket, Near Fine.
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![Memoir of Samuel Slater, the Father of American Manufactures. Connected with a History of the Rise and Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in England and America [Presentation Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/638/101/1447101638.0.m.jpg)
Memoir of Samuel Slater, the Father of American Manufactures. Connected with a History of the Rise and Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in England and America [Presentation Copy]
by WHITE, George S.
Philadelphia, 1836. Second Edition. Octavo in fours (24cm). Original purple ribbon-embossed cloth, gilt title to spine; plain endpapers; 448pp; frontispiece and 21 plates on inserted leaves. Contemporary presentation inscription in pencil to f.f.e.p.: "Mr. Clarke with the respects of the Author." Ex-library, with bookplate, spine label, and stamps of the Redwood Library. Sound, cloth heavily faded, minor splits to... Read More
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A Centennial Discourse Delivered Before the Congregational Society in the Third Parish of Dedham, January 17, 1836
by WHITE, John
Dedham: H. Mann, 1836. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's green wrappers printed in decorative double rule; 34pp. Smallish triangular loss at bottom wrapper margin not approaching text, wrapper extremities slightly chipped and worn, shallow losses at spine ends, else Very Good, internally sound. SABIN 103409.
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While Washington Burned: The Battle for Fort Erie 1814 [Inscribed]
by WHITEHORNE, Joseph
Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1992. Octavo (24cm). Red paper over boards, in red pictorial dust jacket; [xii],227,[1]pp; black and white illustrations. Inscribed by author on title page. Very slight rubbing at edges, else Fine, in lightly rubbed, Near Fine jacket. [63407].
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The Zapotecs: Princes, Priests, and Peasants
by WHITECOTTON, Joseph W.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); tan cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [xiv],[2],3-338pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and map illustrations throughout. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper, unclipped... Read More
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Little Soldier ABC
by [JUVENILE LITERATURE - A.B.C.'s] Illustrated by "C.W." [Constance White?]
New York: M.A. Donohue & Co, 1911. Small quarto. Color pictorial wrappers; 10pp; illus. A nicely-preserved copy, lightly soiled on exterior, else clean and sound: Very Good. Includes 4 color-printed text illustrations and six printed in sepia. An attractive martially-themed ABC book that includes some Civil War veteran imagery; of all the illustrators of the period with initials "C.W."... Read More
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L'Homme et L'Oeuvre
by WHITE, Kenneth
[France]: Grasset & Fasquelle, 1987. Softcover. Octavo (21cm); yellow paper wrappers; [6],7-42,[6]pp. Text entirely in French. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his ownership stamp blind embossed to front endpaper. Trivial surface wear, else Near Fine. Explores the life and works of Kenneth White. [86411].
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The A'coma Indians; People of the Sky City. A paper from the Bureau of American Ethnology, Annual Report 47, 1929-1930
by WHITE, Leslie A.
Glorieta, NM: Rio Grande Press, 1974. Second Printing. Quarto. 28.5cm. Publisher's cream cloth titled and decorated in green and pink gilt to spine and front board. 192pp. + Index. Some light bumping to corners and spine ends, otherwise clean and bright; internally clean and fresh, bookplate to verso front flyleaf, illustrated throughout. A very good copy indeed. From... Read More
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The Tree of Man: A Novel
by WHITE, Patrick
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); beige and blue cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in blue on spine; dark blue topstain; dustjacket; [vi],499,[5]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, gently sunned at spine, rear panel, and flap folds, with a few tiny nicks, tears, and attendant... Read More
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Jungle Doctor Operates
by WHITE, Paul; Lola Jones, illus
Sydney: George M. Dash, [1944]. First Edition. Small, slim octavo (18.75cm.); original pink pictorial boards; 126pp.; photo-illustrated endpapers, text illus. thorughout. Spine a bit sunned, light shelf wear, else Very Good. Memoirs of an Australian medical missionary in Tanzania.
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The Man Who Invented Florida [Advance Copy, With Signed Bookplate Laid In]
by WHITE, Randy Wayne
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); glossy pictorial card wrappers; [x],294,[2]pp. Bookplate signed by the author is loosely laid in. Light wear, publicist's business card stapled to inner front wrapper; Near Fine. Attractive advance copy of the third Doc Ford novel.
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North of Havana [Signed bookplate laid-in]
by WHITE, Randy Wayne
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. First Edition. First Printing. Signed bookplate loosely laid-in. Octavo (23.5cm); purple paper backstrip over blue paper-covered boards, titled in gilt on the spine; dustjacket design by Walter Harper; 241pp.; Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $22.95) minor wrinkle at the tail of spine, Near Fine. "Ford gets a call from his... Read More
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Gold
by WHITE, Stewart Edward (novel); Eugene F. Saxton (text); Thomas Fogarty (illustrations)
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); green cloth-covered boards with pictorial front cover, and titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [x],[2],3-437,[17]pp; colorful frontispiece illustration, with three additional colorful illustrations on glossy pages, and black and white illustrations throughout. Lacking dustjacket. Light rubbing to board edges, with faint tanning to edges of... Read More
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The Story of California: Gold - The Gray Dawn - The Rose Dawn
by WHITE, Stewart Edward
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. Octavo; full orange cloth with printed paper spine label; dustjacket; 437+395+369pp. Tight, straight, and clean - Near Fine; in the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap), very lightly rubbed with a tiny nick at crown of spine panel, Near Fine. Omnibus edition of White's three interwoven California novels: Gold... Read More
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The Leopard Woman
by WHITE, Stewart Edward; W. H. D., Koerner (illus.)
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; vi,[2],313pp.; frontispiece, 7 plates. Chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, 3-inch loss to jacket spine foot, closed tear to upper jacket panel affecting the "STEW" in "STEWART"; cloth a bit rubbed at spine ends, else interior near fine. Overall a... Read More
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England Have My Bones
by WHITE, T. H.
New York: Macmillan, 1936. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Blue and white cloth, titled on white spine panel, in matching black and white dust jacket; plain endpapers; [viii],334pp. Bookplates of Neil McKnight and James Glen Mead to front endpapers. A straight copy, edges lightly rubbed, corners bumped, front free endpaper rippling slightly from bookplate glue, endpapers lightly... Read More
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Mistress Masham's Repose
by WHITE, T.H.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1947. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20cm); grey cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and front cover; illustrated map pastedowns and endpapers; lower edge of textblock untrimmed; dustjacket; 224pp. Slight spine lean, with tanning to spine and edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper clipped (priced 8s. 6d. net) with light shelfwear,... Read More
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