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by Wilbur, Richard
Harcourt Brace, 1991. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 12 mo. Humorous poems illustrated by the author. Wilbur has and continues to write some of the best poems of his generation and some of the silliest, as if he were both the Frost and the Nash of this era. Fine. Small green square sticker on the back panel, otherwise Near... Read More
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New Zealand Party's Firm Stand. World Communist Differences
by Wilcox, V.G.
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1965. First edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; 85pp; Mild soil to covers; else Fine.
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![The Devil Died Last Night?: A Modern Parable [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/674/657/1364657674.0.m.jpg)
The Devil Died Last Night?: A Modern Parable [Signed and Inscribed]
by WILDER, Franklin
New York: Vantage Press, 1987. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 146pp. Author inscription to ffep. Trivial pulling to spine crown of boards, else a tight, clean, new-appearing copy. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket, with a small closed tear to top and bottom edge of jacket. Near Fine in Very Good jacket.
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The Delaware
by WILDES, Harry Emerson (text); HOFFMANN, Irwin D. (illustrations)
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); dark grey cloth, blocked and titled in hunter green and gilt on spine; pictorial endpapers; dark grey topstain; dustjacket; xii,[2],3-398,[6]pp; illus. Spine ends gently nudged, mild sunning to spine, with thin cracks to hinges, some dust-soil and foxing to text edges, and a tiny bookseller's ticket to... Read More
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Lady Windermere's Fan & The Importance of Being Earnest
by WILDE, Oscar; Tony Walton (illus.)
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1973. Octavo (26.5cm). Full dark green leather stamped in gilt, all edges gilt; red silk moiré endpapers; x,114,[iv],125,[1]pp; color plates, black and white in-text illustrations. With silk ribbon bookmark. A handsome, Fine copy. From the Collector's Library of Famous Editions. Two plays in a tête-bêche binding. [63791].
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![Salomé: Tragéde en un acte [Text in French]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/175/396/1287396175.0.m.jpg)
Salomé: Tragéde en un acte [Text in French]
by WILDE, Oscar; Aubrey Beardsley, illus
Boston: John W. Luce & Co, 1920. Reprint. Slim octavo (19cm); dark red publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt (front); 53pp, 12 plates (missing one). Boards mildly worn and soiled, some rubbing to extremities; textblock toned along edges and page margins; foxing and soiling intermittent throughout; some passages marked in pencil; gift inscription on ffep. Else Very Good, scarce. ... Read More
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![The Angel that Troubled the Waters and Other Plays [Limited Edition, Signed by the Publisher]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/612/064/850064612.0.m.jpg)
The Angel that Troubled the Waters and Other Plays [Limited Edition, Signed by the Publisher]
by WILDER, Thornton
New York: Coward-McCann, 1928. First Edition. Limited to 2000 copies of which this is no. 346. Small octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards, cream pictorial dust jacket printed in red and blue; [2],149pp. Jacket spine toned, a few tiny chips and short closed tears, none affecting text; Fine in Very Good or better jacket, better than usually seen. Signed by... Read More
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The Woman of Andros
by WILDER, Thornton
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930. First Edition. Small octavo (21cm). Gray cloth (hardcover); dustjacket; 162pp. Spine cloth slightly foxed, else a clean, tight copy in unclipped jacket (priced $2.50 on front flap) with general light toning & soil; Very Good. Overall a quite decent copy of Wilder's third novel, published in the first year of the Depression... Read More
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The Merchant of Yonkers: A Farce in Four Acts
by WILDER, Thornton
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1939. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); tan cloth-covered boards, with title labels on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 180pp. Light sunning to spine and board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper, price-clipped, tanned, with 0.5" chip to lower spine panel, and tiny chips and tears to extremities; Very Good. Expanded from John... Read More
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![The Angel that Troubled the Waters and Other Plays [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/336/363/791363336.0.m.jpg)
The Angel that Troubled the Waters and Other Plays [Limited Edition, Signed]
by WILDER, Thornton
New York: Coward-McCann, 1928. First Edition. Limited to 775 copies of which this is no. 222. Octavo (24.5cm.); original boards in blue unadorned dust jacket; [2],xvi,[17]-149,[2]pp.; plain photographic portrait frontispiece, title page ruled in blue, blue decorative endpapers. Jacket spine a bit darkened, else Fine. Signed by the author on limitation page.
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![Our Century: A Play in Three Scenes [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/102/713/808713102.0.m.jpg)
Our Century: A Play in Three Scenes [Limited Edition]
by WILDER, Thornton
N.p.: Century Association, 1947. First Edition. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 548. 12mo (18cm.); original gilt-lettered cloth in matching slipcase, glassine dust jacket; [8],20pp. Fine. Printed at the Eureka Press and bound by the Lakeside Press.
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The Cabala
by WILDER, Thornton Niven
London: Longmans, Green and Co., LTD, 1926. First U.K. Edition. In second issue dustjacket. Octavo (20cm); beige cloth-covered boards, with titling in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 230pp. Bookshop sticker to rear pastedown. Shelf-soil, with light dampstains to spine and covers, rubbing to board edges, off-setting to endpapers, and very occasional pencilled marginal notes; Good. Dustwrapper, redesigned by publisher to... Read More
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![The Woman of Andros [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/701/951/1399951701.0.m.jpg)
The Woman of Andros [Limited Edition, Signed]
by WILDER, Thornton
New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1930. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 260 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.37. Octavo (26 cm.); blue cloth-covered boards titled in gilt on the cover and spine; top edge in gilt; deckle page edges; 105pp. Spine is toned; corners gently rubbed; a Very Good+ copy... Read More
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by WILDER, Thornton; Amy Drevenstedt, illus
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First American Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original tan decorative cloth embossed in green and black, green topstain, green pictorial dust jacket; 235pp.; map endpapers, frontispiece & text illus. throughout. Jacket extremities chipped and rubbed with small loss to top edge of upper panel affecting the title's "THE," additional loss to top edge of... Read More
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![Journeys of the Soul: Anthropological Studies of Death, Burial, and Reburial Practices in Borneo [Borneo Research Council Monograph No.7]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/581/835/1687835581.0.m.jpg)
Journeys of the Soul: Anthropological Studies of Death, Burial, and Reburial Practices in Borneo [Borneo Research Council Monograph No.7]
by WILDER, William D. (ed)
Phillips, ME: Borneo Research Council, Inc, 2003. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xiv,366pp. Fine, apparently unread copy in the original dustwrapper, crisp and unworn. Issued as No. 7 in the series of Borneo Research Council monographs.
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The Panglima Muda; A Romance of Malaya
by WILDMAN, Rousevelle
San Francisco: Overland Monthly Publishing Company, 1894. First Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's rather elaborately designed brown and green cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. 139pp. +1pp. ads to rear. Scuffing and bumping to extremities, light fraying to spine ends, and some dulling of the rather cheap gilt. Internally clean, bookplate of J. Max Beers... Read More
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Sonnets
by WILD, Peter
N.p. [San Francisco]: Cranium Press, 1967. First, Limited Edition. Edition of 475 copies. Octavo; hand-sewn, printed thick paper wrappers; [24pp]. Fine copy in the original unprinted glassine dustjacket. Printed letterpress by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press.
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Mad Night With Sunflowers
by WILD, Peter
Sacramento: Runcible Spoon, 1968. First Edition. Edition of 500 copies. 12mo. Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; text mimeo-printed on newsprint; [24pp]. Mild dusting and wear; text paper slightly age-toned; Very Good. Cover illustration by Barbara O'Connelly & D.R. Wagner.
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![Whar' the Hand o' God Is Seen [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/039/513/1546513039.0.m.jpg)
Whar' the Hand o' God Is Seen [Inscribed]
by [WILD WEST] CRAWFORD, Captain Jack
New York: New York Lyceum Publishing, 1913. Revised and enlarged. 12mo (19cm). Dark red cloth stamped in gilt; [ii],163,[1]pp; frontispiece, one additional plate. Lengthy authorial inscription on recto of frontispiece. Sound, lightly rubbed, with abraded and marked patch on front board, else generally Very Good. John Wallace "Captain Jack" Crawford (1847-1917) was an army scout on the... Read More
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Fo' Meals a Day
by WILEY, Hugh
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original cloth-backed decorative boards in grey pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; [8],306pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with a few tiny chips and losses, none affecting text, some spotting and dust-soiling, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Fifth novel to feature the adventures of Wildcat, a black migrant,... Read More
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![Alcestis and Other Poems [Inscribed & Signed to William Lyon Phelps]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/146/169/1127169146.0.m.jpg)
Alcestis and Other Poems [Inscribed & Signed to William Lyon Phelps]
by WILEY, Sara King
New York: Macmillan Company, 1905. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth, top edge gilt; [8],60pp. Spine a hint toned, else Near Fine. Inscribed and signed to the noted American author and critic William Lyon Phelps on front free endpaper (author signature "Sara Wiley Drummond").
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The Story of Teen Challenge, New York
by [WILKERSON, David]
Brooklyn: Teen Challenge, (1967). Edition not stated. Staple-bound pamphlet, 8-1/4" x 5-1/4"; 30pp; illus. Chips to wrapper edges, covers slightly toned; about Very Good. Recruiting pamphlet, aimed at teenage readers, for the teen-outreach evangelist Dave Wilkerson and his ministry, which was aimed at providing Bible-centered rehabilitation of teen substance abusers, delinquents, and prostitutes. Photographic illustrations throughout of the ministry's... Read More
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Class Forces in the Development of Free Public Education in the U.S.
by WILKERSON, Doxey A.
[New York]: Jefferson School of Social Science, 1955. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); original yellow pictorial mimeographed wrappers; 10,[1] typescript leaves. Fine. Excerpted from an unpublished manuscript by the educator, Civil Rights activist, and leading member of the Communist Party, from which he resigned in 1957. This piece was originally prepared in 1940, and covers the 17th-century through the mid-19th-century.... Read More
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Flying The Arctic
by WILKINS, George H.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First American Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's ribbed copper colored cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. 336pp. Light scuffing and bumping to corners and spine ends, gilt a trifle dulled, strong, and sharp; internally clean, bookplate to front flyleaf; photographic plates. A very good, handsome copy, lacking its dustjacket. An... Read More
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Flying Saucers; Uncensored
by WILKINS, Harold T.
New York: Citadel Press, 1955. First Edition. 8vo. 21.5cm x 14.5cm. Publisher's blue cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in black to spine, light wear and scuffing to extremities and spine ends, in a clean, strong example of the dustacket with some light wear and fraying to edges. A very good copy with a little inoffensive wear. 255pp. Internally clean. An early... Read More
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