(3 Book Set) Pupils' Self-Instruction Arithmetic, Book One: Formal and Problem Percentage; Book Two: Applications of Percentage; Book Three: Mensuration
by Ward, Mary A.
New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1932. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 3/4". x, 209pp.; xii, 206pp.; xii, 237pp. Mild rubbing, bumps, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of brown cloth over boards. Toning to edges of text blocks. Previous owner's name and stamp to endpapers. Very occasional penciled notation to pages. Pages are mostly clean. Bindings are sound. An overall solid set of these 3 books on arithmetic. This set is heavy... Read More
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She's One Sweet Show Girl: Theme Song for the First National Production of Show Girl with Alice White
by Ward, Ted; Grossman, Edward; White, Alice; [McEvoy, J. P.]
New York: Famous Music Corporation; Harms Inc, 1928. Wraps. Good +. Wraps. "Dazzling charms and an angel face, Dimpled arms that can sure embrace....May drink a bit and maybe swear some, May shrink a bit and maybe dare some, But...She's one sweet Show Girl!" This 1928 sheet music doesn't just know the tune, it knows how to serve face, specifically that of Alice White (1904–1983), the star of movies like Broadway Babies, Hot Stuff, Sweet Mama, and more.... Read More
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![The True Description of Cairo: A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View, Volumes I, II, and III [COMPLETE 3-VOLUME SET]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/430/154/1735154430.0.l.jpg)
The True Description of Cairo: A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View, Volumes I, II, and III [COMPLETE 3-VOLUME SET]
by Warner, Nicholas
Oxford: The Arcadian Library and the Oxford University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 13 7/8" X 9 3/4". Volumes I and II are bound in red cloth over boards, stamped in gilt, with black and white pictorial dust jackets. Mild shelfwear to dust jackets and bindings, firm and sound. Volume III is a large folded map within a matching slipcase. Folding map in excellent condition; slipcase is edgeworn and bumped, with... Read More
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Maurice Utrillo V.
by Warnod, Jeanine
Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1983. Leather_bound. Very good. Leather_bound. 12 1/4" X 9". 96pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of red leather over boards. Sunning to spine. All edges gilt. Faint musty smell to pages, else pages clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. An overall attractive Easton Press edition of this collection of works by French painter Maurice Utrillo.
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(6 Issues of Vampirella Magazine) Issue No. 72, September 1978; Issue No. 74, December 1978; Issue No. 87, May 1980; Issue No. 104, April 1982; Issue No. 107, August 1982; Issue No. 109, October 1982
by Warren, James (Ed.)
New York: Warren Publishing, 1982. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 11" X 8". Rubbing, toning, chipping, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Age-toning to pages and to edges of text block. Wraps of Issue No. 109 feel loose on text block, but remain intact. Pages of all volumes are free of marks and notation. Bindings are sound. Each magazine features art, comics, and articles as well as advertisements for traditional "geek" culture items like Star Wars... Read More
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Sports Endocrinology
by Warren, Michelle P. (Ed.); Constantini, Naama W. (Ed.)
Totowa: Humana Press, 2000. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 7 1/4". x, 486pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Expert physicians and researchers in sports medicine comprehensively review what is known about how such activity effects the endocrine system and how in turn these evoked hormonal responses affect many other organs and systems of the body.... Read More
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Hand-Book of Religious Instruction
by Washburn, Francis T.
Boston: Unitarian Sunday School Society, 1884. Pamphlet. Good. Pamphlet. 6 1/4" X 4 1/4". iv, 31pp. Rubbing, toning, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. "Unitarian Sunday School" written in pencil at front cover. Age-toning to pages and to edges of text block. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this 1884 pamphlet of religous instruction.
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Family Meal SIGNED FIRST EDITION
by Washington, Bryan
New York: Riverhead Books, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. Stated First Printing. 9 1/4" X 6". 306pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine backed in white and lettered in purple. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Cam is living in Los... Read More
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Thicker Than Water: A Memoir SIGNED FIRST EDITION
by Washington, Kerry
New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. Stated First Edition. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 311pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in blue paper over boards with spine lettered in white. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry... Read More
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The Death of Things: Ephemera and the American Novel
by Wasserman, Sarah
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. Paperback. Very good +. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 296pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century literature-and its relevance to the twenty-first century "Nothing ever really disappears from the internet" has become a common warning of the digital age. But the twentieth century was... Read More
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Ridge Runners and Swamp Rats
by Waterman, Charles F.; Dickey, Charley (Foreword); Foley, Shepard H. (Illust.)
Clinton: The Amwell Press, 1983. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiii, 347pp. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of brown cloth over boards. Boards are warped. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Foxing to endpapers. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. An admittedly worn, but overall solid copy of this collection of stories about the outdoors.
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How to Teach Silent Reading to Beginners (Lippincott's School Project Series)
by Watkins, Emma
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1922. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good. Ex-Library. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5". 133pp. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of blue cloth over boards. Inked library writing to spine. Slight lean to spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Sticker from Ar'Lyn Worth School in Atlanta, Georgia, to front paste-down. Borrower's ticket and library pocket tipped in at rear endpapers. School stamp to title page. Age-toning to pages. Pages are free of marks... Read More
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Richard Wagner: A Biography FIRST EDITION
by Watson, Derek
New York: Schirmer Books, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good +. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 352pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Brown cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall solid First Edition copy of this in-depth profile of controversial German composer, Richard Wagner.
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Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist
by Watson, John B.
Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1919. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. This 1919 first trade edition of the work of John B. Watson, founder of behaviorism as a psychological school, comes from the personal library of Anders Ericsson (1947-2020), “The Expert on Experts,” the late cognitive psychologist known for his influential work on deliberate practice and expert performance. 8 3/8" X 5 5/8". xi, [iii], 429pp. Bound in blue cloth... Read More
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The Architectonics of Meaning: Foundations of the New Pluralism (With a New Preface)
by Watson, Walter
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xvii, 205pp. Rubbing, toning, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Foxing to endpapers. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Architectonics of Meaning is a lucid demonstration of the purposes, methods, and implications of philosophical semantics that both supports and builds on Richard McKeon's and other... Read More
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Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism
by Watts, Sheldon
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xvi, 400pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book is a major and wide-ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity-plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, and yellow fever/malaria-over the last six... Read More
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The Old Exchange and Custom House 1767-1970
by Way, William
Charleston: Rebecca Motte Chapter, 1970. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/4". 24pp. LIght foxing and toning to pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this history on the Old Exchange and Custom House, a Charleston landmark and the site of some of the most important events in South Carolina history.
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Tourist Season SIGNED FIRST EDITION
by Weaver, Brynne
New York: Slowburn: A Zando Imprint, 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Brynne Weaver in ink to HMS Carnage bookplate affixed to half-title. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 376pp. Very mild shelf wear to unclipped dust jacket. Bound in bright blue paper over boards with hand holding rose stamped in silver to upper board and spine lettered in kind. Gentle shelfwear to binding,... Read More
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Spinning on a Dream Thread: Hermann Hesse, His Life and Work, and His Contact with C.G. Jung SIGNED LIMITED EDITION
by Weaver, Rix
Perth: Wyvern Publications, 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good +/good. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Sined by the author in ink to title page. This copy is hand numbered 4 of 500 Limited Edition copies. 9" X 5 3/4". xi, 210pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Rubbing, toning, creasing, and wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine lettered in silver. Dust-spotting to top edge of... Read More
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Beyond Cooralong (A Story of Early Western Australia)
by Weaver, Rix
Perth: C.H. Pitman, 1945. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". 255pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Wear to jacket with rubbing, creasing, chipping, and toning to covers, corners, and edges. Tears and corners and to head and tail of spine. Top 1/2" of rear flap is completely torn away. FOxing to inside of jacket. Bound in brown cloth over boards with spine lettered in black. Gentle bumps to corners.... Read More
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All These Years
by Weaver, Rix
Perth: Paterson Press Ltd, 1946. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 4 3/4". 274pp. Bound in blue cloth over boards wiht spine lettered in black. Wear to boards with rubbing to covers and edges. Gentle bumps to corners. Lean to spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Bookseller's ticket to front paste-down. Toning to gutters of endpapers. Previous owner's stamp and inked inscription dated 1946 to front free endpaper. Age-toning to pages. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding... Read More
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![The Graduate [Book Club Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/889/903/1408903889.0.l.jpg)
The Graduate [Book Club Edition]
by Webb, Charles
New York: The New American Library, 1963. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good +/good. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 191pp. Light rubbing and toning to covers and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Blue cloth over boards with spine lettered in red. Slight lean to spine. Previous owner's name-sticker to inside of front paste-down. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: When Benjamin Braddock graduates from a small Eastern college... Read More
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Eric Voegelin: Philosopher of History
by Webb, Eugene
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". ix, 320pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A search for an understanding of the order that can be found in history, and within the human being who is the subject of history, has resulted in a large and complicated body of work by this contemporary... Read More
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![(3 VOL FIRST EDITION SET) Empire of Man Series: March Upcountry, March to the Sea, [and] March to the Stars](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/580/984/1745984580.0.l.jpg)
(3 VOL FIRST EDITION SET) Empire of Man Series: March Upcountry, March to the Sea, [and] March to the Stars
by Weber, David; Ringo, John
New York: Baen, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. All volumes stated first printing, with full number line present. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". All volumes present nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jackets. Mild shelfwear to dust jackets, with occasional gentle bumping to extremities. Bound in paper over boards, with spines lettered in gilt or metallic red. Mild shelfwear to bindings, with occasional bumping to head or tail of spines. Bindings are firm... Read More
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A Dictionary for Primary Schools
by Webster, Noah
New York: Huntington and Savage, 1833. Leather bound. Fair. Leather bound. 5 3/8" X 4 3/8". vi, 341pp, plus one leaf of testimonials. Original leatherbound boards with black gilt-stamped title label to spine. Heavy wear to binding, with boards exposed at extremities and edges of spine, heavy scattered rubbing and chipping. Spine mostly disintegrated, with title label present but peeling away. Warping to boards. Lean to spine. Hinges cracking, mostly detached. Previous owner's name to front pastedown and... Read More
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