Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art
by Wolfflin, Heinrich
Dover Publications, 1950. Very Good. Wolfflin, Heinrich. Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art. New York: Dover Publications, 1950. xvi, 237pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed.
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Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art
by Wolfflin, Heinrich; Hottinger (translator), M. D.
Dover, 1950. Good. Wolfflin, Heinrich. Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art. Hottinger (translator), M. D.. NY: Dover, 1950. 237pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with bumped edges and creased front cover. Annotations and marginalia on a few pages..
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Art and its Objects: Second Edition, with Six Supplementary Essays.
by WOLLHEIM, Richard.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1980).. First printing of this edition.. xv + 270 pp w/bibliography. Very near fine in like dust jacket with price sticker on front flap. INSCRIBED by Wollheim, “For Kitaj himself / with much love & thanks / Richard - / 62 Elm Park Road, 2 . xi . 80.”
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Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi
by Wolpert, Stanley
Oxford University, 2001. Fine. Wolpert, Stanley. Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi. Oxford, UK: Oxford University, 2001. 308pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Brown 1/4 cloth. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with light rubbing. Price clipped.
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![Y.M.L.A. Miss Clara Barton. This Celebrated Woman Will Deliver Her Famous Lecture, Work and Incidents of Army Life, Before the Young Mens' Literary Association at Morrison... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/038/985/1768985038.0.l.jpg)
Y.M.L.A. Miss Clara Barton. This Celebrated Woman Will Deliver Her Famous Lecture, Work and Incidents of Army Life, Before the Young Mens' Literary Association at Morrison... [caption title]
by [Women]: [Civil War]: Barton, Clara
[Morrison, WI, 1867. Broadside, 26.75 x 20.25 inches, printed on thin paper. Old folds, some creasing, edges occasionally a bit frayed with a few small nicks or tears, a couple of minor losses along folds. Overall very good condition. A striking and seemingly unique surviving broadside advertising a January 26, 1867 lecture by Clara Barton entitled "War & Incidents of Army Life," part of a popular post-Civil War lecture series she delivered across the United States. Barton spent two... Read More
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![[Manuscript Legal Document Formalizing the Sale of a Family of Five Enslaved Persons to Lois G. Adams of Mississippi]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/863/215/1769215863.0.l.jpg)
[Manuscript Legal Document Formalizing the Sale of a Family of Five Enslaved Persons to Lois G. Adams of Mississippi]
by [Slavery]: [Mississippi]: [Women]
Madison County, MS: November 12, 1842. [1]p. Old folds, minor foxing and toning. Very good. A somber document memorializing the sale of an entire slave family to a Mississippi woman in 1842. Here, local official Hugh A. Lawson documents Lois G. Adams's purchase of "the following named slaves to wit -- Paul & his wife Letsy and their three children Monroe Simon & Halsett Alford." The document seems to document the family's last name as "Alford," perhaps providing a... Read More
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We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past
by Woodson, Jacqueline
Scholastic, 1997. Very Good. Woodson, Jacqueline. We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past. NY: Scholastic, 1997. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good.
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All the President's Men
by Woodward, Bob and Carl Bernstein
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. Fine+. 1999. Hardcover. Signed EASTON PRESS Woodward & Bernstein "President's Men" Watergate 1999 w/ COA - Fine unread condition from a single owner Easton collection, signed and with certificate of authenticity as issued. ; Signed by Author .
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The Final Days
by Woodward, Bob and Carl Bernstein
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. Fine+. 1999. Hardcover. Signed EASTON PRESS Woodward & Bernstein "The Final Days" Watergate - Fine+ -Unread condition from a single owner Easton collection, signed and with certificate of authenticity as issued. Signed by Woodward ONLY. .
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Flush
by Woolf, Virginia
Harvest, 1961. Very Good. Woolf, Virginia. Flush. NY: Harvest, 1961. 185pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light bumping and yellowing.
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Frank Wootton: 50 Years of Aviation Art
by Wootton, Frank
David & Charles, 1992. hardcover. Good/Good. 11x0x12. Oversize, coffee table book. Dust jacket and book are in good condition with only minor wear. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations.
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David L. Hostetler, the carver (signed)
by Wootten, Richard ; Louis Zona; Barbara Bays; Lyntha Scott Eiler; Terrill E Eiler
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1992. Hardcover. VG-. Black color illustrated dj with yellow text, blue boards with gray text. xiii, 111 pages. Color and bw illustrations. Signed by Hostetler, other materials laid-in by artist. Inscribed to Richard York. Contents: Acknowledgements -- Foreword / Glenn C. Randall -- Artist's statement / David L. Hostetler -- Preface / Richard Wootten -- Of growth and change -- Artist and mentor. Chronology one -- Off to New York City. Chronology two... Read More
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United Auto Workers Strike and Collective Bargaining Press Photo Archive, Demonstrations at Chrysler and Ford Plants, 1960s-70s
by United Auto Workers
1961. [Labor Organizing] United Auto Workers strike and labor photographs documenting national contract disputes, factory shutdowns, collective bargaining, and picket line action across the American auto industry during the 1960s and 1970s. The group records major UAW conflicts involving General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, including the 1961 General Motors bargaining deadline, the 1967 Ford strike in Los Angeles, and the 1973 Chrysler contract dispute led by Leonard Woodcock and Douglas Fraser. These conflicts grew from fights over wages, speedup,... Read More
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The American Accountant; or, Schoolmasters' New Assistant: Comprised in Four Books. The Third Edition, revised and corrected by R. Patterson.
by WORKMAN, Benjamin
Philadephia: William Young, 1796. Book. 8vo, contemporary full calf, spine ruled in gilt; pp. [iv], [4]-220, (4, publisher's ads.] Piece missing from margin of one leaf, just touching a few numbers,, but a very good, sound copy. The fourth American book on mercantile accounting, first published in 1789, by the head of the mathematical at the University of Pennsylvania. This copy interestingly inscribed, "Sophia Robinsons book, present from my brother." Evans 31660..
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The ambassadors records: Eleventh-century reports of Sung embassies to the Liao
by Wright, David Curtis
Bloomington: Indiana University, 1998. 1 x 7.5 in., [4], iv, 93, [1]; printed paper wrappers; perfect bound in cloth spine; fine. Papers on Inner Asia No. 29.
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Photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright
by WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD; STEICHEN, EDWARD; JONES, GARETH
New York: np, 1931. first edition. Very Good. Edward Steichen. EXCEEDINGLY RARE AND IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPH OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BY EDWARD STEICHEN; INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT TO WELSH JOURNALIST GARETH JONES. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT ON VERSO: "To Gareth Jones / Frank Lloyd Wright". Also with Steichen's New York Studio stamp (80 W. 40th Street) and a signed autograph note by Gareth Jones: "Urgent. This photograph is valuable. I should like it untouched and returned to Edgar Jones, Eryl, Porthycastell... Read More
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![JOHNSON'S WAX: Administration & Research Center [Cover Title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/653/379/1769379653.0.l.jpg)
JOHNSON'S WAX: Administration & Research Center [Cover Title]
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
(Racine, WI): [n.p.], 1950. Near fine.. Midcentury album of original black-and-white exterior and interior photographs of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Johnson Wax Adminstration Building and Research Tower in Racine, Wisconsin, completed in 1939 and 1950 respectively. The S.C. Johnson Administration Building, an open-plan forest of tubular concrete and graceful ovoid desks, is the only Wright-designed corporate headquarters building that remains operational today. Upon its opening, it was praised as one of Wright's greatest buildings, with one journalist wishing... Read More
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White Man, Listen!
by Richard Wright
Garden City, NY: Doubl;eday & Company, 1957. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. The 1957 stated 1st edition of this Richard Wright "impassioned plea for understanding on the part of the white people of the world". Tight and Near Fine in a bright, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket, with mild chipping at the spine ends and very light soiling along the rear panel. Octavo, internally very clean, with no writing or markings to speak of.
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Native Son (The Biography of a Young American): A Play in Ten Scenes
by Paul Green and Richard Wright
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A bright, very sharp copy of the 1940 stated 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine (one small, neat name at the top of the front pastedown) in a very crisp, price-intact ($2.00), Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of very light chipping and wear along the spine ends, and faint creasing at the front panel's lower-edge. Still though, eminently presentable and very attractive. Octavo, produced for the... Read More
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Don't Look Contemporary Drawings From an Alumna's Collection
by Wyckoff, Elizabeth
Wellesley, MA: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, 2007. Softcover. VG. Color illustrated wraps with blue text on spine, French flaps. 133 pp, transparent page prior to title. Many color illustrations. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., Sept. 19-Dec. 9, 2007.
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No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems
by Xiaobo, Liu
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Forewordby Vaclav Havel. Bound in publisher's original quarter black cloth gold paper boards with silver lettering on spine. Edited by Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao, and Liu Xia, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.
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Transforming agriculture in Taiwan. The experience of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction
by Yager, Joseph A.
Ithica and London: Cornell University Press, 1988. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 301, [3]; fine in dampstained dust jacket. "This book is the first comprehensive description of JCRR's experience over the entire period of its existence. Joseph Yager addresses such major topics as the success of Taiwan's land reform and the central role of farmers' associations in introducing technology, credit, and other essential innovations.
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In God's Name; An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I.
by YALLOP, David
New York: Bantam Books, 1984. hardcover. very good(+)/very good(+). Illustrated with b/w photographs. xi + 339 pages. 8vo, black cloth backed black boards, d.w.(areas of mild wear; small tears to edges of rear panel). New York: Bantam Books, (1984). First edition. Forecorners bumped. Very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper
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THE AMERICAN BLACK CHAMBER
by Yardley, Herbert O.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931. Hardcover. Octavo, 375 pages. In Good condition. Bound in the publisher's black cloth bearing red lettering to the spine. Boards have slight plus wear including moderate sunning and slight tilt to the spine with shaken binding. Text block has slight plus wear including age toning to the edges with deckled fore edge. Cracked front hinge at the fly leaf. Frontispiece. Illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column CC. 1412723. FP New Rockville... Read More
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The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems
by Yeats, W. B.
Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1924. limited. hardcover. very good. Limited edition, one of 500 copies. Book very good, slight tanning, a couple of small paper pieces from title attached to spine are missing, front and rear free end papers are discolored.
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