Oddballs: The Remarkable True Stories of Forty Unique, Strange, Peculiar, Extraordinary & Generally Odd People, Told in Prose and Wood Engravings…With an Introduction by Barry Moser
by Westergard, Jim
This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details.[Vancouver, British Columbia:] Heavenly Monkey, 2011 First edition. One of thirty copies, signed by Westergard. Out of print upon publication. Bound by Claudia Cohen in dark blue Japanese cloth with gilt black morocco spine onlay. . Small folio. Forty mounted engravings. A fine copy. A delightful book, featuring darkly humorous illustrations of notable oddballs, including Salvador Dali, Aimee Semple McPherson, Howard Hughes, Gelett Burgess, Rasputin, Timothy Leary, Sir Arthur... Read More
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The Refusal. By the author of the "Tale of the Times," "Infidel Father," &c.
by [ West, Jane ].
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orne, 1810. First edition of a novel dealing with Regency mores. Contemporary black morocco over drab boards, gilt spines. Three volumes, twelvemo. . Boards a bit stained. A very good, clean copy. West (1758-1852) was a self-taught writer who sought to advance her family through her writings. She wrote plays and poetry, and is especially known for her novels, The Advantages of Education (1793) and A Gossip's Story (1797), the latter of which... Read More
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Seeing California with Edward Weston
by Weston, Edward
[n.p.: Automobile Club of Southern California, [1939] Quarter black cloth over pictorial boards. Quarto. Over 100 black and white photographic reproductions from the work of Edward Weston. Binding extremities lightly rubbed, endpapers foxed. A very good copy of a scarce book. Without dust jacket. Includes a preface by Weston, reprinted from 'The Magazine of Art,' January, 1939. Photographs of the California Coast, the Sierra Nevadas, Death Valley, the Redwood Highway, Monterey Bay, Lake Tahoe, the Owens Valley, Point Lobos,... Read More
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The Weldron Family; or, Vicissitudes of Fortune. A story of real life in New England… By Maria — author of a poem entitled "Susan's Visit," "Luzette,' &c. &c
by [Weston, Maria.]
Providence, [Rhode Island]: Weeden and Peek; Crosby & Nichols (Boston), 1848 First edition. Though OCLC lists 28 copies worldwide (all within the United States), this is very scarce in commerce. Publisher's dark brown blindstamped cloth with gilt title on spine. . Twelvemo. Title page browned (perhaps from a previously laid-in insert). Light foxing otherwise. Mild shelf wear to spine. Signature of previous owner in pencil on frontmatter. A good or better copy. An ambitious story of... Read More
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Morality and the Self
by Weston, Michael
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1975 Boards. Octavo. Light shelfwear. Very good+ in like d.j.
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Mr. Lincoln's Navy
by West, Richard S., Jr
New York: Longmans, Green, [1958] Second printing. Cloth. Octavo. Very good in lightly rubbed, lightly soiled d.j.
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Reproduction of Thompson and West's History of Los Angeles County California with Illustrations
by Thompson & West
Berkeley: Howell-North, 1959 Cloth. Oblong folio. Facsimile reprint with black and white illustrations; text in three columns. Fine in chipped dust jacket.
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Contes à mes petits élèves
by Wetzell, Mme
Paris: J. Langlumé, 1846 First edition. Contemporary blue decorative boards, with later blue decorative board spine. . Twelvemo. Engraved title and eleven plates, one to illustrated each of the tales in the book, all hand-colored. Plates lightly browned, intermittent light foxing. A very good copy. This is a series of lessons in conduct. Each story deals with a child's failing to behave properly, and concludes with a good result when the child learns to behave well.
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The Gods Arrive
by Wharton, Edith
New York: D. Appleton, 1932 Blue cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Octavo. Back hinge starting to crack. A very good copy in very good jacket. Jacket has light edgewear and light dampstain on back cover.
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Jacob Lawrence American Painter
by Wheat, Ellen Harkins
Seattle: University of Washington Press, [1986] First edition. Cloth. Quarto.l. Some small paint stains on bottom edges of covers. Otherwise fine in fine d.j.
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Attention
by White, A.R
Oxford: Basil blackwell, 1964 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Near fine in partially faded, very good d.j.
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XXIV Short Love Poems
by Whiteman, Bruce
[Sherman Oaks, California: Ninja Press, 2002] One of 135 copies signed by both Campbell and Bruce Whiteman. XXIV Short Love Poems commemorates the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of Bruce and Deborah Whiteman. . Accordion binding. Blue-and-gold pastepaper (by Claire Maziarczyk) over boards. Japanese raw silk spine.Bound by Campbell with assistance of Karen Skove Chu. . 5 in. x 5 in. . With three small cyanotype prints (photographed by Carolee Campbell), bordered in navy, and mounted on printed gold rectangles. The prints... Read More
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The Invisible World is in Decline
by Whiteman, Bruce
Toronto: Coach House Press, [1984] First edition (no hardcover issue). Pictorial wrappers. Octavo. A little soiling to covers. Very good+.
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Edmund Dulac
by White, Colin
New York: Scribners, [1976] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 181 illustrations, 32 in color. Minor shelfwear. Near fine in fine d.j.
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Logic and Ontology in Heidegger
by White, David A
Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, [1985] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.
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English Illustration: 'The Sixties': 1855-70. With numerous illustrations by Ford Madox Brown, A. Boyd Houghton...[et al.]
by White, Gleeson
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co 1903 2nd impression. Rebound in library cloth. Many plates, some in photogravure. Rossetti, Crane, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Tenniel, Birket Foster, etc. Bookplate & rubberstamp. A good, clean copy.
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A Miscellany of Type. Compiled at Whittington
by [ Whittington Press ]
[Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Printed and Published by The Whittington Press, 1990] One of 530 copies, of which 460 copies were bound as this one. Quarter reddish brown linen buckram spine over patterned boards with gilt spine. Folio. Illustrated with numerous wood-engravings, sketches, and three tipped-in full-color plates. Wood engravings by Howard Phipps, Robert Gibbings, Olive Kennedy, and others. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. A fine, bright copy in a slightly soiled, near fine board slipcase. John Randle,... Read More
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A Miscellany of Type Compiled at Whittington.
by [ Whittington Press. Randle, John, compiler ]
[Andoversford, Gloucester: Whittington Press, 1990] One of fifty-five copies of this special edition, out of a total edition of 530 copies. Quarter-bound in Nigerian Goatskin over patterned boards. This is one of fifty-five copies in this special binding, containing a separate portfolio of broadsides of types and ornaments. . Quarto. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper in a variety of faces and colors. Displays over twenty types. Woodcut illustrations by Richard Kennedy, Miriam Macgregor, Gwenda Morgan, Hellmuth Weissenborn... Read More
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The Metaphysics of Evolution and Other Essays (New and Republished)
by Whittaker, Thomas
London: Williams & Norgate, 1926 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Spine faded, binding extremities lightly rubbed. A good, tight copy.
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English Sporting Prints.
by Wilder, F.L
London: Thames and Hudson, [1974] First edition. Cloth. Quarto.,. With 96 color plates. Front hinge slightly loose. Very good in fine dust jacket.
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Illustrated by Arthur Wragg
by Wilde, Oscar
London: Castle Press, [1947] First edition thus. Cloth. Octavo. Black and white illustratioins. Very good in dust jacket with several chips around the edges and a couple of short tears. The illustrations are grim and excellent. The illustrator contributes an introduction.
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Salome. A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde, with Sixteen Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley
by Wilde, Oscar
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1930 Red cloth with front cover design stamped in blind in an all-over design by Bearsley, spine stamped in gilt. Quarto. Light shelfwear. Near fine in dust jacket. The jacket is browned at the spine, and there is a tear along the front hinge, rendering it in two pieces, but the image of the Beardsley design on the front cover is bright and attractive. A few short tears on the jacket otherwise.
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The Selfish Giant: A Fairy Tale.
by Wilde, Oscar
[Larchmont, NY: Peter Pauper Press n.d. ] One of fifty copies reserved for F. Kay Kaplan and André Durenceau out of a total edition of 750 copies. This copy is inscribed by Kaplan and Durenceau to prominent Los Angeles bookseller Jake Zeitlin and his wife Josephine: "to Mr. and Mrs. Jake Zeitlin. Memories of a pleasant evening. Red cloth spine, decorative paper over boards. Front cover blocked in silver with title printed in black borders. White paper dust-jacket,... Read More
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime. A Study of Duty
by Wilde, Oscar
[London]: Privately printed, [1904]. First separate edition, a pirated edition produced by Leonard Smithers, one of 300 copies. Original blue-gray printed wrappers, uncut. . Quarto. One inch tear along back joint, Top corner of front cover and bottom corner of back cover torn, a few other small chips. Bookplate of the American collector, Henry W. Poor. A very good copy of a fragile book. The first story written after Wilde's embrace of homosexuality.
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Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf. L'Envoi
by Wilde, Oscar
London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1904 First British, and first separate, edition of this essay. One of 200 copies. Original gray wrappers, lightly browned, light offsetting to fly-leaves. . Octavo. Title-page in red, green, and black. Former owner's bookplate A very good copy of a fragile book.
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