Die Technik Der Psychoanalyse
by WITTELS, Fritz
Munich: J F Bergmann, 1926. First Edition. Softcover. Text entirely in German. Octavo (25cm); tan paper wrappers; 221pp; illus. Library stamp to title page. Lightly tanned, with crease to upper front corner, and slight ripple effect to upper wrappers and margins of text; Very Good. Explores the development of pyschotherapy. [85725].
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Outlaw Trails: A Yankee Hobo Soldier of the Queen [Inscribed]
by WITTEN, George
New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1929. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Light brown cloth stamped in red; 252pp; frontispiece portrait. Lengthy inscription to halftitle: "To my Dear Bunty [?], the pal who has stuck to me through all the trials of entering the field of authorship—this first copy of my first book is lovingly inscribed...Feb. 7, 1929."... Read More
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, New Series - Volume 36 1946: History of the Chinese Society Liao (907-1125)
by WITTFOGEL, Karl A. and Feng Chia-Sheng; John de Francis, Esther S. Goldfrank, Lea Kisselgoff, & Karl H. Menges
Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society / Lancaster Press, Inc, 1970. Reprint, softcover. Quarto (30cm); green paper wrappers; [xviii],752pp; black-and-white illustrations throughout with concluding fold-out map illustration. Lightly tanned with modest shelf-wear, and creases to lower front wrapper and lower margins of the start of text; Very Good. First published in 1949 and reprinted in 1961, this text... Read More
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Parnall Aircraft: Since 1914
by WIXEY, Kenneth E.
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1990. Octavo (22cm); navy blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-240pp; photographic frontispiece with halftones and 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 has trivial surface wear,... Read More
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Requiem for a Black American Capitalist
by WMS-FORDE, Bily
New York: Troisème Canadian/Willifo Associates Inc, 1975. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 285pp, [3]. Top edge lightly foxed, else Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket, with with scattered foxing to extremities. Novel of a black man's attempt to rise above his circumstances and environment, "who sets out... Read More
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Piccadilly Jim
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1931. Reprint. Octavo (19cm). Red cloth, titled in black on front and spine; plain endpapers; [iv],363pp. A straight copy, spine faded, head and tail rubbed and pushed, pages lightly toned at edges: Very Good. MCILVAINE A20a 9.
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Sunset at Blandings
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Original brown cloth, stamped in white, with pictorial dust jacket; orange endpapers; [vi],216pp; 4 illustrations and title-page vignette. Straight and sound, bumped at head, foxing at edges of textblock, not affecting interior, overall Very Good or better. Jacket unclipped but with small label covering prive of... Read More
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Week-End Wodehouse
by WODEHOUSE, P.G.; Hilaire Belloc [introd.]
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1951. Reprint. Octavo (19cm). Original teal cloth, stamped in gilt, blue topstain; plain endpapers; 431pp; decorations by Kerr. Straight, spine sunned, pencil erasures to f.f.e.p.: Very Good. MCILVAINE B6b.3.
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The Ice in the Bedroom
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Black paper over boards, backed in black cloth, titled on spine in white, yellow, and red, facsimile signature on front in yellow, in original pictorial dust jacket with black and yellow design on front, unclipped (priced $3.75); yellow endpapers; [vi],246,[2]pp. A clean copy, lightly faded along extreme... Read More
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Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Original green cloth, titled in gilt, in original dust jacket; plain endpapers; [192]pp; list of Wodehouse titles to rear jacket flap and facing t.p. A straight copy, corners bumped: Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced £2.20), wrinkled, slighly shorter than boook (trimmed at edges), else whole: Good. MCILVAINE A95a.... Read More
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No Nudes Is Good Nudes
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Orange paper over boards, backed in dark orange cloth, titled in black on spine, in original cream dust jacket, titled in orange with pictorial design in blue and purple; plain endpapers; 220pp; list of titles facing title page. Former owner's signature to front free endpaper. A... Read More
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Printer's Error
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
San Francisco: Paper Crane Press; The Wodehouse Society, 1990. First Thus. 12mo (18cm). Stapled pamphlet in grey paper wraps; 12pp; illustrated by Gene Holtan. Lightly rubbed, faded along spine, else Very Good or better. Keepsake issued by the Wodehouse Society "to commemorate the visit of Col. Norman Murphy to San Francisco." Contains a poem whose narrator murders a printer... Read More
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Sam the Sudden
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: Methuen, 1925. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Red cloth, lettered in black on front and spine; plain endpapers; viii,248,8pp; 8-page publisher's catalogue at rear, dated 825. Armorial bookplate of Laurence H. Neave Middleton to front pastedown. A straight copy, cloth rubbed at extremities, with small stains to both boards, spine lightly sunned, head and tail pushed, endpapers... Read More
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The White Feather [Black's Boys' Library]
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: A. & C. Black, 1923. Reprint. Octavo (19cm). Publisher's red cloth, stamped in black; plain endpapers; [viii],284pp; list of Wodehouse titles on half-title verso; color frontispiece. Bookplate of Douglas R. Vining; embossed mark of Sellicks, Booksellers, Plymouth. Sound, rubbed, spine faded, front hinge beginning to crack, occasional spots of foxing: Good or better. Reissue of an early Wodehouse... Read More
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Laughing Gas
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1936. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Red cloth, titled in black on front and spine; plain endpapers; 311,[9]pp; 8pp of publisher's ads at rear. Bookplate of Douglas R. Vining. A straight copy, rubbed at edges, spine faded, edges of textblock lightly foxed: around Very Good. MCILVAINE A56a.
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Mr. Mulliner Speaking
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Blue publisher's cloth, stamped in blue on front and spine; [x],334pp; list of other Wodehouse titles at front; frontispiece. A straight copy, spine faded, extremities rubbed, endpapers foxed but text clean: Very Good. Preceded by the first UK edition. MCILVAINE A40b.
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The Little Warrior
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Original tan cloth, stamped in green; plain endpapers; 384pp. Straight, but rubbed, lacking flyleaf at rear: around Good. Published in the UK as Jill the Restless. MCILVAINE A25a.
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The Old Reliable
by WODEHOUSE, P.G.
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1951. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; [9],10-234 + [2]pp ads. Light wear to extremities, hint of sunning to spine, with faint foxing to text edges, preliminary, and terminal leaves, and a short tear at upper front endpaper; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket.... Read More
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Mulliner Omnibus
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1935. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Original green cloth, stamped in black, with grey topstain; plain endpapers; 864pp; halftone frontispiece portrait. Straight but rubbed, spine darkened, foxing to endleaves, occasional fingersoil: Good. Collection of stories narrated by Mr. Mulliner. MCILVAINE B5a.
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Heavy Weather
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1933. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's black cloth, stamped in red; plain endpapers; [iv],314pp. Straight and sound, rubbed, paper browning, discolored glue at gutter between half-title and title-page, else Very Good. The fourth full-length novel in the Blandings Castle series. The American edition preceded the first UK edition by two weeks. MCILVAINE... Read More
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Mike at Wrykyn
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
New York: Meredith Press, 1953. First American Edition. First American edition thus. Octavo (21cm). Original light grey-green cloth, in original jacket; mustard yellow endpapers; x,255pp. Pushed at tail, front free endpaper scuffed, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $4.95), gently rubbed, minor dustsoiling: Very Good or better. Republication of the first part of Mike, a school story first published... Read More
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The Girl on the Boat
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1922. First U.K. Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Rebound in half orange morocco, with original cloth laid down on front and spine; plain endpapers, renewed; [i]-vi [7]-312, [8]pp; four leaves of publisher's ads at rear. Straight and tight, cloth lightly rubbed, spotting to edges of textblock, occasional minor foxing: Very Good. Preceded by the first... Read More
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Uncle Dynamite
by WODEHOUSE, P.G.
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, [1948]. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo; orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 250pp, [2] ads. Bookplate to front pastedown, else Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dustjacket, quite bright, with a single short tear and three discreet tape mends verso. An attractive copy of the second Uncle... Read More
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The Luck of the Bodkins
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1936. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Light green cloth, stamped in black on front and spine; plain endpapers; [vi],298pp. A straight copy, spine sunned, extremities rubbed, head and tail pushed, occasional light foxing: Very Good. MCILVAINE A54b.
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The Mating Season
by WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1949. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Orange cloth, stamped in black on boards and spine; plain endpapers; 246,[2]pp; 2pp of publisher's ads at rear. A sound copy, rubbed, with light soil to cloth, spine much sunned, lightly foxed: Good. MCILVAINE A69A.
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