Songs
by Woods, Margaret L
Oxford: Printed by H. Daniel, Fellow of Worcester College, 1896 Limited to 200 copies, printed at the Daniel Press. Original printed wrappers, overlapping edges. Twelvemo. Light discoloration to wrappers, two short tears.A very good, clean copy. Margaret Louisa Woods (1855-1945), who was known to her friends as Daisy, was the daughter Granville Bradley (1821–1903), dean of Westminster and schoolmaster, and the wife of Henry George Woods, who became President of Trinity College, Oxford and Master of the Temple. She was... Read More
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The Wonderful Letter-Bag of Kit Curious. By Uncle Frank
by [ Woodward, Francis Channing ]
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Company, [1852] First edition, a work for children that contains chapters on a variety of subjects, many are scientific: the boiling springs of Iceland, the properties of magnets, life among the icebergs, the wonders of Egypt, the North Pole, et. Publisher's red cloth stamped and lettered in blind with central gilt design, gilt spine, all edges gilt, yellow coated endpapers. Small octavo. Engraved half-title and seven engraved plates, including frontispiece, with tissue guards. Light offsetting from... Read More
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Fair Warnings to a Careless World, or, The Serious Practice of Religion Recommended by the Admonitions of Dying Men, and the Sentiments of All People in Their Most serious Hours: and Other Testimonies of an Extraordinary Nature. By Josiah Woodward, D.D. To which is added, Serious Advice to a Sick Person by Archbishop Tillotson. As also, a Prospect of Death: A Pindarique Essay. With Suitable Cuts. Recommended as proper to be given at Funerals
by Woodward, Josiah
London: Printed by J.D. for Brabazon Aylmer Senr & Junr, 1707 First edition. Rebound in modern vellum, title hand-lettered in ink on spine, new endpapers. . Octavo. Illustrated with six full-page cuts reminiscent of the "Danse Macabre" depicting skeletons, sepulchers piled high with skulls, and other morbid imagery Scattered light foxing throughout with greater degrees of foxing to signatures K-M. Repair to p. 15, touching text, but not affecting legibility. Union Theological Seminary's blindstamp on title-page, p. 113, and p.... Read More
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Lost Hollywood
by Woody, Jack
Altadena, CA: Twin Palms Publishers, 1987, First edition. One of 5,000 copies. Cloth. Folio. Full-page black and white photos, with descriptive text at the end. Fine in very good+ d.j. Jacket has one small, closed tear. With photographs from 1916-1933, including work byf Hurrell, Bull, Richee, Hesser, Ball, and Weston.
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An Introduction to Logic, Designed for the Use of Younger Students. Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1840.
by Woolley, John
Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1840 First editions of two scarce nineteenth-century logic books. Newman, Francis W. Lectures on Logic, or on the Science of Evidence Genrally, Embracing both Demonstrative and Probable Reasonings, with the Doctrine of Causation. Delivered at Bristol College in the Year 1836. Oxford: J.H. Parker, 1838. Twelvemo. [8], 192 pp. Full brown calf. Gilt-ruled covers, gilt spine with burgundy morocco label. . Twelvemo. . Binding extremities rubbed. Contemporary ink inscription on title of first work (H. Hull... Read More
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The Whole Art of Marbling as Applied to Paper Book-Edges Etc. Containing a full description of the nature and properties of the materials used, the method of preparing them, and of executing every kind of marbling in use at the present time, with numerous illustrations and examples.
by Woolnough, C.W
[Oxford: The Plough Press, 1985] One of 150 copies. Green cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. . Octavo. Facsimile reprint or the larger second edition of 1881 printed by George Bell, with 39 pages of marbled samples reproducing the patterns of the original, made by Katherine Davis of Payhembury. A fine copy.
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Theory of Knowledge: An Introduction
by Woozley, A.D
London: Hutchinson's University Library, [1949] First edition. Cloth. Small octavo. Former owner's rubberstamp on front pastedown. Very good in lightly edgeworn, very good d.j.
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Alien Members of the Book-Trade During the Tudor Period. Being an index to those whose names occur in the returns of aliens, letters of denization, and other documents published by the Hugenot Society.
by Worman, Ernest James, comp
London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society by Blades, East & Blades, December 1906 First edition. Half reddish-brown leather over cloth boards, original wrappers bound in. Octavo. Binding extremities lightly rubbed, some fading to front cover. Leather bookplate. A very good copy.
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Specimens of the Shasters, or Sacred Books of the Brahmins; Consisting of Songs, Legendary Tales, Etc., Written 3000 Years Ago
by Wright, Caleb
Troy, NY: Caleb Wright, 1848 First edition. Newer wrappers. Octavo. With woodcut illustrations in the text. A little light foxing. Very good.
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Lectures on India. Lecture I [-II]
by Wright, Caleb
Troy, N.Y.: Published by the Author, 1848 Later wrappers. Two volumes, ctavo. With woodcut illustrations in the text. A little light foxing. Very good. The author has travelled more than 40,000 miles for the express purpose of collecting information respecting the various races of people whose peculiar manners, habits, and superstititions he describes.
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Views of Society and Manners in America; in a Series of Letters from that Country to a Friend in England, During the Years 1818, 1819, and 1820. By an Englishwoman
by [ Wright, Frances ]
New-York: Printed for E. Bliss and E. White, 1921 First American edition with the author's additions and corrections from the first London edition. Views of Society and Manners in America is a memoir in letters by the Scottish-born abolitionist Frances Wright on government, culture, slavery, and women's rights in the United States.. Original half black morocco over marbled boards in red, green, and black; spine lettered in gilt. Expertly rebacked to style. Octavo. Some toning to boards. Later bookplate on... Read More
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Slava Bohu: the story of the Dukhobors
by Wright, J.F.C
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1940] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Frontisportrait, endpaper maps. Some light foxing, bottom edge browned. Very good in lightly edgeworn dust jacket with goudge in spinal portion. The Dukhobors are a persecuted religious sect that migrated from Soviet southern Russia to western Canada.
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The Voyages of Giovanni da Verrazzano 1524-1528
by Wroth, Lawrence C
[New York:] Published for the Pierpont Morgan Library, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1970 First edition. Blue cloth. Quarto. Facsimiles, plates, bibliography and index. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket lightly edgeworn.
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Travels in North America 1822-1824
by Wurttemberg, Paul Wilhelm, Duke of
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1973] First edition. Cloth. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has a little edgewear and a 1" tear near the top corner of the front cover.
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Wyeth at Kuerners
by [Wyeth, Andrew]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976 First edition. Cloth. Oblong folio. With 370 reproductions, of which 315 had never been reproduced before. A little fading at bottom edge. Else fine in fine d.j.
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Boscobel; Or, the Compleat History of the Most Miraculous Preservation of King Charles II. After the Battle of Worcester, September the 3d, 1651. To which is added, Claustrum Regale Reseratum; or The King's Concealment at Trent. The Fourth Edition, Adorn'd with Cuts. With a Supplement to the Whole.
by [Wyndham, Anne]. [Blount, Thomas]
London: Publish'd [i.e., written] by Mrs. Anne Wyndham. Printed for J. Wilford… 1725 Early twentieth century polished calf, rebacked with gilt-decorated spine laid down. Gilt triple-rule borders on covers, gilt inner dentelles. Top edge gilt. . Three parts in one (Parts I and II of Boscobel, plus Claustrum Regale Reseratum), twelvemo.. . With three separate title-pages. Engraved frontisportrait in Part I; engraved title for Claustrum Regale…at the beginning of Part II, folding engraved map of Boscobel and elaborate engraved... Read More
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The Eternal Olympics: The Art and History of Sport
by Yalouris, Nicolaos
New Rochelle, New York: Caratzas Brothers, 1979 Burgundy cloth, stamped in gilt. Quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with one short tear.
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Ne Collage
by [ Yamashiro, Ryuichi ]
[ Tokyo: 1977] Wrappers, with acetate dust jacket and wrap-around band. Folio. A fine copy. Born in 1920, Ryuichi Yamashireo is a graphic designer actively working in Japan. The works shown in this book are from his Ne Collage Exhibition at The Ginza Shisheido hall in Tokyo, November 1977.
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Robert Adam
by Yarwood, Doreen
New York: Scribners, [1970] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. With 32 pages of plates and 8 line drawings. Light shelfwear. Near fine in lightly soiled very good+ d.j.
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The Royal Captives: A Fragment from Secret History. Copied from an old manuscript.
by Yearsley, Ann
Dublin: Printed by J. Stockdale, 1795 First Dublin edition, first published in London earlier in the same year. All editions of this book are uncommon. OCLC records nine copies of the present edition (only five in the United States). This is the author's only novel.. Contemporary tree calf with red morocco spine label and gilt seal stamped on spine. . Two volumes in one, twelvemo. . Separate title-pages for each volume. With half-title in volume one (not called... Read More
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Memoirs. Autobiography-First Draft. Journal
by Yeats, W.B
New York: Macmillan, [1973] First U.S. edition. Cloth. Octavo. Very good in very good dust jacket. Jacket has one-inch tear at top of front cover and light edgewear.
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The Second Coming & Other Poems
by Yeats, William Butler
[Los Angeles: The Plantin Press, 1970] One of a small number of copies, the limitation of which is not stated, printed for friends of Saul and Lillian Marks. Printed gray wrappers. . 6.25 in x 4.5. A fine copy with the original mailing envelope. The Second Coming contains eight of Yeats' poems, including the much-loved titular poem, "The Stolen Child," and "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death.
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The Yellow Barn Press. A History and Bibliography
by [ Yellow Barn Press ]. Walsdorf, Jack, compiler
. Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 2001 One of 175 copies.. Quarter black Oasis goatskin over DePol patterned paper boards. Leather spine label titled in gilt. Quarto. With twenty-two color plates and fifty-eight illustrations, many of them John DePol's wood engravings. Printed on Zerkall paper in Eric Gill's Perpetua A fine copy with the prospectus in a black cloth clamshell case. Neil Shaver (1924 - 2019) started the Yellow Barn Press in Council Bluffs, Iowa in... Read More
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Haggadah and History: A Panorama in Facsimile of Five Centuries of the Printed Haggadah from the Collections of Harvard University and the Jewish Theological Seminary.
by Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, [1975] Natural linen with gilt front cover and spine. Thick octavo. With 200 facsimile plates, reproducing representative pages from rare printed Haggadahs in two of the world's outstanding Judaica collections, Harvard and the Jeswish Theological Seminary. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has several shot tears and some edgewear.
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The Best of 3D Books
by Yokoyama
[Tokyo: Rikuyo-sha Publishing, Inc [1989] Boards, with pictorial dust jacket. Quarto. Color illustrations. Light crease in front cover, small tear in jacket at head of spine. Very good+, tight and clean. Text in Japanese and English. A beautiful book on pop-up books, flapped books, panoramas, hole books, and other visual trick books. Includes over 100 examples of the bst work from the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and other countries. Reference material about such books is uncommon.
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