![Helen and Others [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/554/278/1509278554.0.m.jpg)
Helen and Others [Signed]
by WISTER, Marina
New York: Macmillan, 1924. First Edition. Limited edition. Number 75 of 350 signed and numbered copies. Octavo (24cm). Brown paper over boards, backed in black cloth, in black card slipcase, titled on paper labels; plain endpapers; [xiv],112pp. Signed by author on limitation page. Lightly rubbed at spine but generally clean: Very Good. Slipcase rubbed and chipped at edges but... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
Worthy Women of Our First Century
by WISTER, Mrs. O. J.; Agnes Irwin
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1877. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Purple cloth stamped in black and gilt; brown coated endpapers; 328pp. Bookplate of Mary Morison; bookseller's ticket of W. B. Clarke & Carruth, Boston. 1877 ownership inscription to flyleaf. Rubbed and scuffed, with minor wear to cloth, spine sunned, internally clean. Short biographies of notable women from Virginia,... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lady Baltimore
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Macmillan, 1906. First Edition. Special issue, no. 99 of 200 signed copies on Japanese vellum, of which 100 were for sale. Octavo (22.5cm). Brown boards backed in cream, stamped in tan and gilt; plain endpapers; [xiv],406pp; frontispiece and 12 inserted place, additional in-text illustrations. Author's signature on limitation page. Lightly rubbed at edges, minor dustsoil to spine,... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
![Padre Ignacio or the Song of Temptation [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/030/894/1510894030.0.m.jpg)
Padre Ignacio or the Song of Temptation [Inscribed]
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1911. First Thus. First separate printing. 12mo (18cm). Light blue cloth with color pictorial paper onlay to front board; plain endpapers; [iv],[68]pp; frontispiece. Inscribed by Wister on front pastedown. General mild rubbing, but clean and sound: Very Good. With a lengthy inscription in Wister's hand, in which he recounts the publication history... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
A Journey In Search of Christmas
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1905. Reprint. Octavo (23cm). Red cloth stamped in green, black, and gilt, top edge gilt; yellow, black, and white pictorial endpapers; [vi],[94]pp; frontispiece, two inserted plates, and tinted pictorial border decorations throughout. Text reprinted from Lin McLean (first published 1898). Lightly faded and scuffed, with minor scattered foxing: Very Good.
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
Philosophy Four: A Story of Harvard University
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Macmillan, 1903. First Edition. First printing, with "Set up and electroyped April, 1903" on copyright page. 12mo (17cm). Green cloth stamped in black and red; white and red patterned endpapers; [96],[6]pp; 6pp publisher's ads at rear; frontispiece portrait. Lightly rubbed but generally clean and bright: around Near Fine. First separate printing of Wister's story of... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
The Pentecost of Calamity
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Macmillan, 1915. First Edition. 16mo (17.5cm). Red paper titled on white paper labels to front and spine, in cream dust jacket and protective brown cloth wrapper; 148,[8]pp; 6pp of publisher's ads at rear. Lightly rubbed, front board and spine faded along bottom edge, Very Good. Jacket rubbed, lightly dustsoiled, cracked at spine folds, with large loss to... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
![Padre Ignacio or the Song of Temptation [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/967/078/1690078967.0.m.jpg)
Padre Ignacio or the Song of Temptation [Inscribed]
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1911. First Thus. First separate printing. 12mo (18cm). Light blue cloth with color pictorial paper onlay to front board; plain endpapers; [iv],[68]pp; frontispiece. Inscribed by Wister on front pastedown. General mild rubbing, but clean and sound: Very Good. Engraved bookplate of noted author and bibliophile Frederick Woodward Skiff to front pastedown. Inscribed by... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
Two Appreciations of John Jay Chapman
by WISTER, Owen; John Jay Chapman
New York: The Marchbanks Press, 1934. First Edition. Privately Printed. Octavo (23cm); blue paper stapled wrappers, with paper title label mounted to front cover; black and white photograph (halftone) frontispiece; [ii],[2],3-32,[2]pp. Date stamped to gutter of p.3. Lightly sunned, with dust-soil, ripple to edge back cover, and tarnished staples; Very Good+. Includes John Jay Chapman's "A Master... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lady Baltimore
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Macmillan, 1906. First Edition. First printing, with "Published April, 1906" on copyright page. Octavo (19.5cm). Green cloth stamped in black and gilt; [xiv],406,[2]pp; 2pp of publisher's ads at rear; 13 inserted plates, and additional in-text illustrations by Vernon Howe Bailey and Lester Ralph. Lightly cocked, lightly rubbed at extremities, dirt to pp.20-21, else clean: Very Good. ... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
![Padre Ignacio [Signed by Illustrator]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/031/894/1510894031.0.m.jpg)
Padre Ignacio [Signed by Illustrator]
by WISTER, Owen; Zack Hogg (illus.)
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1925. Reprint. Octavo (21cm). Black cloth with color pictorial onlay to front board; [viii],65,[1]pp; frontispiece and three plates. Inscribed by the illustrator on section title to Cortland Smith. Embossed stamp and manuscript ownership inscrpition of Hudson Library. Sound but rubbed, spine sunned, frontispiece partly detached: around Very Good.
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lady Baltimore
by WISTER, Owen
Macmillan: Macmillan, 1906. First Edition. Special issue, no. 30 of 200 signed copies on Japanese vellum, of which 100 were for sale. Octavo (22.5cm). Brown boards backed in cream, stamped in tan and gilt, in original tan dust jacket; plain endpapers; [xiv],406pp; frontispiece and 12 inserted place, additional in-text illustrations. Author's signature on limitation page. Lightly rubbed at edges,... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
Owen Wister's Medicine Bow
by WISTER, Owen; Tryntje Van Ness Seymour, photographs
Salisbury: Lime Rock Press, 1981. First Edition. First printing. Regular issue of 500 copies (of a total edition of 600 copies). Quarto. Green cloth hardcover, titled in gilt; 90pp; illus.
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
A Straight Deal or the Ancient Grudge
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Macmillan, 1920. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth titled on paper labels to front and spine, in cream dust jacket; [viii],287,[1]pp. Straight, pushed at spine ends, two small dark stains to edges of front board, endpapers discolored, Very Good. Jacket dustsoiled, rubbed at edges, large chip to lower front corner and smaller chips to lower... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
![When West Was West [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/034/894/1510894034.0.m.jpg)
When West Was West [Inscribed]
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Macmillan, 1928. First Edition. First printing, with "Published May, 1928" on copyright page. Octavo (19cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind; [viii],449,[1]pp. Inscribed on half-title "For O. W. H. & F. D. H. from their affectionate O.W. June 16. 1928."—i.e., from Wister to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Lightly rubbed and spine-sunned, internally clean: Very Good. ... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880-1919
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Macmillan, 1930. Second printing, June 1930. Octavo (24cm). Dark blue cloth in yellow dust jacket;[vi],372,[2]pp; frontispiece and 15 black and white halftone plates. Straight and sound, but rubbed at bumped at spine ends and corners, endpapers toned, else internally clean: Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced $4.00) but heavily rubbed with minor dustsoil, several chips, and large loss... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
Padre Ignacio: or the Song of Temptation
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1911. First Thus. First separate printing. 12mo (18cm); light blue cloth with color pictorial paper onlay to front board; glassine dustjacket; [iv],[68]pp; inserted illustration at frontispiece. Previous owner's name inked on front endpaper. Top left corner of cover illustration very slightly peeled, dust-soil to upper edge of textblock, two tiny spots to upper front... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
![The Pentecost of Calamity [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/974/688/1680688974.0.m.jpg)
The Pentecost of Calamity [Inscribed]
by WISTER, Owen
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. First Edition. Octavo (17.5cm); red cloth-covered boards, with paper title labels on spine and front cover; [6],7-148,[12]pp; illus. Inscribed by author on half-title, "Written in great sadness April + May 1915; delivered on June 9, 1915 at Commencement, Trinity College, Durham, N. C. / O. W. / by Owen Wister June 24, 1916".... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
![When West Was West [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/080/371/1499371080.0.m.jpg)
When West Was West [Signed]
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Macmillan, 1928. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt; [viii],449,[1]pp. Title page printed in black and blue. With author's signature below halftitle, dated May 28, 1928; author's card laid down on front pastedown, with pencil note; manuscript poem on folded paper tipped in on front free endpaper; and typed poem formerly... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
Henry Augustus Coit: First Rector of Saint Paul's School Concord, New Hampshire
by [WISTER, Owen] CARTER, James
New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1915. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and blind ruling and titling to front cover; 149pp; photographic frontispiece portait, with two photographic (halftone) illustrations on glossy pages. Owen Wister's ownership signature inked to front pastedown, with pencilled notes to endpapers. Modest rubbing with... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
The Virginian; A Horseman of The Plains
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Macmillan, 1904. First Theatrical Edition. Octavo. 20cm. Publihser's deep red cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. [xii]; 509pp. Photographic frontispiece. Some minor wear to extremities and bumping to spine ends, some areas of sunning, in a very fragile dustjacket with the front panel seperated neatly along the spine and some sections... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
Witches; Investigating an Ancient Religion
by [WITCHCRAFT] LETHBRIDGE, T.C.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's deep blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xi]; 162pp. Light bumping and edgewear to extremities, otherwise sharp and strong, with a slight bow to the boards; internally clean; in a strong, solid dustjacket with some unsightly spotting and staining and a little marginal fraying and... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
William Carlos Williams and James Laughlin; Selected Letters
by WITEMEYER, Hugh [Editor]
New York: Norton, 1989. First American Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xxiii]; 293pp. Strong and handsome, very light wear to the cloth, a little light scuffing to corners and some mild bumping to spine ends; internally clean and fresh, bookplate to front pastedown, lengthy inscription to front flyleaf, pencil marginalia throughout, and... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
Language and Art in the Navajo Universe
by WITHERSPOON, Gary (text); Clifford Geertz (foreword)
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1982. Softcover. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper wrappers; 214pp; colorful plates. Light shelf-wear; Very Good+. Focuses on linguistics of Navajo culture with a focus on classifying interaction, objects at rest, and direction. [87268].
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
Africana Acquisitions: Report of a Publication Survey Trip to Nigeria, Southern Africa, and Europe, 1972
by WITHERELLE, Julian W.
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1973. First Edition. Quarto (25.75cm.); original brown pictorial card wrappers; [4],122pp. Fine.
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books