Versatile Yankee: The Art of Jonathan Fisher, 1768-1847
by Winchester, Alice
Princeton: Collector's Imprint Edition, The Pyne Press, [1973] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Forty full-page color illustrations. Very good+ in edgeworn dust jacket with 3/4" x 1 1/2" chip at bottom.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's Preface to This Side of Paradise. Edited by John R. Hopkins.
by [Windhover Press]. Fitzgerald, F. Scott.
Iowa City: The Windhover Press, and BruccoliClark, 1975 One of 150 copies. Brown linen with printed paper label on front cover. . Tall, narrow octavo. . Tipped in portrait of Fitzgerald from a drawing by John Thein. Printed on Rives Heavy mould-made paper. A fine copy.
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Overcoming Foundations: Studies in Systematic Philosophy
by Winfield, Richard Dien
New York: Columbia Univ. Press, [1989] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.
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The May-Blossom; or The Princess and Her People. From Original Illustrations by H[enry]H[etherington] Emmerson. With Verses by Marion M. Wingrave. [Engraved and Printed by Dalziel Brothers].
by Wingrave, Marion M
New York: A.C. Armstrong and Son, [1881] First American edition. The London edition was published in the same year. Illustrated boards with blue cloth spine. Floral patterned endpapers. Quarto. Chromolithographic frontispiece, title-page, and half-title. Sixty-four chromolithographic illustrations, including twenty-one full page illustrations, plus chromolithographic and text illustrations. Binding extremities slightly rubbed, light wear to crown and tail of spine. Minor soiling to boards. The occasional small stain. Very light offsetting from plates. Repairs to gutter margins of endpapers.... Read More
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Daniel Berkeley Updike and the Merrymount Press of Boston Massachusetts 1860/1894/1941
by Winship, George Parker
Rochester, NY: Printing House of Leo Hart, 1947 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Text illustrations, two pieces of ephemera in front pocket. Very good, without d.j.
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The Grolier Club 1884-1950: An Informal History
by Winterich, John T
New York: The Grolier Club, 1950 First edition. One of 1,250 copies, designed and printed by the Press of A. Colish, New York. Boards. Octavo. Plates. Fine.
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Early American Books & Printing
by Winterich, John T
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1935 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Offsetting to front endpapers from an old insert. A very good copy.
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A Primer of Book Collecting
by Winterich, John T
New York: Greenberg, [1926] First edition. Blue cloth with paper spine label. Top edges stained yellow. Lacking the dust jacket. . Octavo. Ernest Dawson has hand-numbered pages 207 and 208; page 208 is an ad for Dawson's Bookshop, which has also been inscribed by Dawson across the upper left hand corner: Please consider this / a personal invitation / Ernest Dawson." Corners and binding extremities rubbed. Spine label lightly worn with minor soiling. Yellow edges have a few discoloring stains.... Read More
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The Giant Weapon
by Winters, Yvor
Norfolk, CT: New Directions Poets of the Year, [1943] First edition, wrappers issue. Wrappers. Octavo. Small tears at head and foot of spine, a couple of small spots. Very good.
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The Unconscious Origins of Berkeley's Philosophy
by Wisdom, John Oulton
London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1953 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has some minor fading.
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A Bibliography of the Writings of Joseph Conrad (1895-1921). Second Edition--Revised and Enlarged
by Wise, Thomas J
London: [Dawsons of Pall Mall, reprint of:] Printed for Private Circulation only by Richard Clay & Sons, 1921 [1972] Cloth. Octavo. Fine in near fine d.j.
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The History of the Pestilence (1625), Edited with an introduction and notes by J. Milton French
by Wither, George
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1932 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in partially browned, price-cliped d.j. with cellophane tape repairs.
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Notebooks 1914-1916
by Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1961 First edition. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine. Octavo. Fine in lightly chipped d.j.
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Philosophische Bemerkungen
by Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, [1964] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Bottom edges of covers lightly worn. Very good in fine d.j.
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Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics
by Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1956 First edition. Navy cloth with gilt spine. . Octavo. Parallel texts, in German and English. Light shelfwear. Near fine in very good dust jacket with several short tears and faded spine.
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Three Years' Internment in Santo Tomas.
by Witthoff, Evelyn M. and Geraldine V. Chappell.
Kansas City, Missouri: Beacon Hill Press, [1945]. First edition. Original paper wrappers printed in pinkish red with photo reproductions of Witthoff and Chappell. . Octavo. Light soiling and wear. Contemporary pencil signature (Mrs. William C. Parker) to half-title. Very clean internally. A very good, fresh copy of this prisoner of war memoir written by a woman medical doctor and nurse. Between 1942 and 1945, seventy-seven American woman medical professionals working with the Army and Navy, among... Read More
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Schweizer Hotelplakate. Swiss Hotel Posters. Affiches des hotels suisse. Manifesti albergatori della svizzera 1875-1982
by Wobmann, Karl, [ed.]
Luzern: Biregg Verlag, [1982] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Color illustrations of 170 posters. Fine in fine d.j. Text in German, French, Italian and English.
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Plakate aus alter Zeit. Deutsch/English/Francais
by Wobmann, Karl
[Zurich:] Varia Press, [1986] Cloth. Quarto. Color illustrations of twenty-nine posters from the collection of the Plakatsammlung des Museums fur Gestaltung, Zurich. Fine in fine d.j. Posters from the period 1870-1927.
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Touristikplakate der Schweiz / Tourism Posters of Switzerland...1880-1940
by Wobmann, Karl, ed
Stuttgart: A.T. Verlag, [1981] Second printing. Quarto. With 180 full-color illustrations of tourism posters from the fifty-year period. Fine in fine d.j. Text in English, French, German and English.
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Cosmologia Generalis, Methodo Scientifica Pertractata, qua ad Solidam, Inprimus dei atque Naturae..
by Wolf, Christian
Francofurti et Lipsiae 1737 Second edition, revised. Contemporary stiff vellum with title in manuscript on spine. . Quarto. Engraved plate of geometrical figures at rear. Title-page in black and red. New endpapers. A little soiling to text, but overall a very good, clean copy. Wolff (1679-1754) was a German rationalist philosopher, who lectured in physics, mathematics, and natural philosophy in Halle during the first two decades of the eighteenth century, but fell out of favor for holding impious views. He... Read More
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Religious Philosophy: A Group of Essays
by Wolfson, Harry Austryn
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1961 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good, partially faded d.j.
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![[Broadside:] "'Woman Suffrage Co-Equal with Man Suffrage.' (Quoted from the Platform of Principles of the American Federation of Labor)."](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/956/497/1566497956.0.l.jpg)
[Broadside:] "'Woman Suffrage Co-Equal with Man Suffrage.' (Quoted from the Platform of Principles of the American Federation of Labor)."
by [ Woman Suffrage Party. Catt, Carrie Chapman.]
New York Woman Suffrage Party of the City of New York, [n.d., ca. 1910]. This broadside was issued by the Woman Suffrage Party to demonstrate solidarity between the labor movement and suffragists. Quotes by three labor leaders are printed here, including one by UK Labour Party founder Keir Hardie that reads, "I would advise all the Workers of America to work for Woman Suffrage…My message to them is COURAGE." Another quote by American Federation of Labor president Samuel Gompers reads,... Read More
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![Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason Because…" [Pro-suffrage broadside.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/379/548/1592548379.0.l.jpg)
Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason Because…" [Pro-suffrage broadside.]
by [ Woman's Suffrage ]. Nation Woman's Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
New York: [National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company Inc., n.d., ca. 1917] Probably printed ca. 1917. An earlier printing by the Libbie Printing Co. (Boston), which was printed with the name of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association rather than the NAWSA, states "Because 5,000,000 women in the United States are wage workers…" This flier states the number as "8,000,000," which conforms with a holding at the University of Houston dated 1917. . Orange paper sheet printed in black. . Broadside (7... Read More
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Lettere ad una giovane sposa
by [Women]
Torino: Presso la Vedova Griringbello & Comp., 1831 Publisher's pink printed wrappers, a little soiled. . Small octavo. Minor chipping at spine extremities, and minor foxing. A very good, appealing copy, entirely uncut. The text includes twenty-one letters on various subjects, including confidence, prudence, jealousy, self-love, religion, conviction, friendship, the dance, conversation, domestic economy,etc. The final portion of the text is a guide to studies, including fine arts, science, geography, theatre, poetry, and novels. The author... Read More
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![[Three pamphlets and a typed letter from the Oregon Equal Suffrage Association.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/268/604/1603604268.0.l.jpg)
[Three pamphlets and a typed letter from the Oregon Equal Suffrage Association.]
by [ Women's Suffrage].[ Duniway, Abigail Scott]
[Portland, Oregon: Oregon Equal Suffrage Association, 1906.] Letter dated May 16, 1906. These items encourage voters to support the 1906 women's suffrage ballot measure in Oregon. Women's suffrage appeared on the ballot in Oregon six times (in 1884, 1900, 1906, 1908, 1910, and 1912), which was more than any other state. The pamphlets are as follows: "Is it Just?" (which argues that women should have the right to vote if Black men did, and cites the success of equal suffrage... Read More
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