THE NIGHT IN QUESTION
by WOLFF, Tobias
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. A collection of short stories.
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THE NIGHT IN QUESTION
by WOLFF, Tobias
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very slight foxing to bulked text edges. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. A collection of short stories. INSCRIBED for --- "with best wishes" and SIGNED by the author on 24 November 1996.
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IN THE GARDEN OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MARTYRS
by WOLFF, Tobias
New York: The Ecco Press, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Some foxing to the cloth covers. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Wolff's first collection of short stories in the second state dustwrapper with the price clipped by the publisher and a $10.95 price sticker attached.
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THREE GUINEAS
by WOOLF, Virginia
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1938). First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine, bright copy with the dustwrapper front flap laid in.
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KEW GARDENS
by WOOLF, Virginia
London: The Hogarth Press, (1927). First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Title and limitation pages with moderate foxing, light foxing scattered throughout; front board very slightly bowed, light rubbing to boards and corners. Very Good. Vanessa Bell. Third Edition and the First Illustrated Edition bound in the original brown and white paper-covered boards with Vanessa Bell's illustrations, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down; 45 pages with text printed on rectos only and with decorations by Vanessa Bell on every... Read More
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SERIOUS CONSIDERATIONS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS OF IMPORTANCE BY JOHN WOOLMAN OF MOUNT HOLLY, IN THE JERSEYS, NORTH AMERICA, DECEASED. WITH SOME OF HIS DYING EXPRESSIONS
by WOOLMAN, John
London: Mary Hinde, 1773. First Edition. Hardcover. Early owner name of Maria Gurney on the front endpaper and remnant of early bookplate of Henrietta Gurney on the front pastedown. Light wear to the spine tips and edges, but a clean, Near Fine copy. Duodecimo (4" x 6-1/2") bound in contemporary calf leather with blind rules and stamping on the covers; [vi], 137, [3] pages. Contains the following, with separate title pages for each section: Considerations on Pure Wisdom,... Read More
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AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)
by WORDSWORTH, William
5 July 1815. Framed Manuscript. Not examined out of the frame but appears to be Fine. A one-page (8" x 10") lengthy AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED by Wordsworth from a poem by Fulke Greville (Lord Brooke), a contemporary and friend of poet Philip Sidney. In full: "The chief use, then in Man of that he knows Is his painstaking for the good of all; Not fleshly weeping for our own made woes, Not laughing from... Read More
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THE MISCELLANEOUS POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
by WORDSWORTH, William
London: Longman, Hurst et. al, 1820. First Edition. Hardcover. Splitting to one or two joints, a few hinges fragile, but all covers secure; text quite clean. Very Good or better. Four volumes bound in contemporary half black morocco leather with matching corners and marbled boards. Complete with an engraved frontispiece in each volume and half-title pages in the second and third volumes. Includes some revised poems as well as a selection of new sonnets.
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LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER POEMS: IN TWO VOLUMES
by WORDSWORTH, William (COLERIDGE, Samuel T.)
Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1802. First American Edition. Hardcover. Wharton's name neatly excised on the blank margins of two text pages. Some staining on a few pages at the rear. Very Good or better and quite scarce. Two volumes bound in one in contemporary calf recently rebacked. The First American Edition printed from the Second London Edition and including the first printing of Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" in America. Shaw & Shoemaker, 3593. This copy sold... Read More
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THE POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
by WORDSWORTH, William
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1973. Hardcover. Spine evenly sunned. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. John O'Connor. Quarto (6-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter tan morocco leather and ochre-dyed linen boards with the front board embossed with a portrait medallion of Wordsworth; 300 pages. Selected and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth; designed by John Dreyfus. Illustrated with 10 full-page line drawings, with tints added by watercolor, and a score of black-and-white drawings by John O'Connor. Copy #877 of 1500... Read More
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POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: INCLUDING LYRICAL BALLADS, AND THE MISCELLANEOUS PIECES OF THE AUTHOR WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS, A NEW PREFACE, AND A SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAY
by WORDSWORTH, William
London: Longman, Hurst et. al, 1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents quite clean. Scuffing to covers, edges worn; each volume with front hinges cracked after the title or preliminaries; covers tight. Very Good. Two 5-1/4" x 8-1/4" volumes bound in period calf leather, rebacked with later brown morocco tooled and lettered in gilt, endpapers renewed. With an engraved frontispiece in each volume. The First Collected Edition of Wordsworth's poetry including the contents of LYRICAL BALLADS (1805) and POEMS (1807),... Read More
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POEMS, CHIEFLY OF EARLY AND LATER YEARS; INCLUDING THE BORDERERS, A TRAGEDY
by WORDSWORTH, William
London: Edward Moxon, 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original brown cloth with a leaf of ads at the end followed by an additional collective title page and half-title page, allowing the book to form the seventh and final volume of the 1836-7 edition of Wordsworth's POETICAL WORKS. Wordsworth's last collection of new work, and somewhat scarce. This is a Presentation copy INSCRIBED by the poet on the front pastedown: "Herbert Hill/from/the Author/April 1842." Herbert Hill married Robert... Read More
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ENGLAND: A HISTORICAL POEM. Volume I
by [WORDSWORTH, William] ORD, John Walker
London: Simpkin and Marshal et al., 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Original brown cloth, recently rebacked retaining nearly all of the original spine; spine label mostly lacking. A Presentation copy INSCRIBED by the author on the front blank: "To/William Wordsworth Esq./with the author's/compliments." In addition this copy is SIGNED by the recipient on the title page: "W Wordsworth/Rydal Mount." In this volume, and in a second that was issued the following year, Ord... Read More
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THE POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, D. C. L
by WORDSWORTH, William
London: Edward Moxon, 1847. New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Full gilt-decorated green morocco leather recently and neatly rebacked (6-1/4" x 9-1/2"); xxiv, 619, [1] pages. Frontispiece portrait of the poet by W. Finden after Chantrey's bust and an engraved title page with vignette of Rydal Mount. SIGNED by the poet on the verso of a front blank: "William Wordsworth/Rydal Mount/10th June 1848." Bookplate of Edward C. Lowe on the front pastedown. Lowe was an English educator who married... Read More
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THE POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
by WORDSWORTH, William
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine in a rubbed, intact, Very Good slipcase. John O'Connor. Quarto (6-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter tan morocco leather and ochre-dyed linen boards with the front board embossed with a portrait medallion of Wordsworth; 300 pages. Selected and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth; designed by John Dreyfus. Illustrated with 10 full-page line drawings, with tints added by watercolor, and a score of black-and-white drawings by John O'Connor. Copy #473 of 1500... Read More
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE NEGRO IN AFRICA AND AMERICA
by WORK, Monroe (compiler)
(Mansfield): M. Martino, [1998]. Reprint. hardcover. Fine. Cloth; xxiii, 698 pages. Limited to only 150 copies, this bibliography covers almost every aspect of the subject. An author index is provided.
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THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL
by WOUK, Herman
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with typical rubbing and edgewear. The play based on Wouk's Pulitzer Prize novel.
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THE CAINE MUTINY
by WOUK, Herman
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Small rubbed spot and nick at the head of the spine. Near Fine. George H. Jones. Decorated leather. Limited Edition reprint of this Pulitzer Prize winner SIGNED by the author with a previously unpublished one-page preface by him. Illustrated by George H. Jones with color plates.
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HARD FREIGHT
by WRIGHT, Charles
Middletown: Wesleyan University, (1973). First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Softcover issue in pictorial wraps. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to poet Charles Simic: "For Charlie/--If you are the/mote in the devil's/eye, don't blink/Charles/Sept. 73."
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THE GRAVE OF THE RIGHT HAND
by WRIGHT, Charles
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. Minor rubbing and soiling to the dustwrapper. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper, price-clipped as usual. Poet's first trade book. This copy, as with all we have seen, has the poem on page 36 with a large printed X through it.
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THE VENICE NOTEBOOK
by WRIGHT, Charles
(Boston): (Barn Dream Press), (1971). First Edition. Softcover. Slight soiling to the covers. Near Fine. Stiff pictorial wraps. Copy #58 of 100 (of a total edition of 500 copies) SIGNED by the poet. Photograph of the poet on the rear cover by James Tate.
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THE VENICE NOTEBOOK
by WRIGHT, Charles
(Boston): (Barn Dream Press), (1971). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Stiff pictorial wraps. Copy #76 of 100 (of a total edition of 500 copies) SIGNED by the poet. Photograph of the poet on the rear cover by James Tate.
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THE GRAVE OF THE RIGHT HAND
by WRIGHT, Charles
Middletown: Wesleyan University, (1970). First Edition. Softcover. A bit more rubbing than usual, still Very Good. Poet's first trade book, the softcover issue in pictorial wraps. This copy, as with all we have seen, has the poem on p. 36 crossed out with a large printed X. Poet A. R. Ammons's copy with his SIGNATURE on the front endpaper and also SIGNED by the author on the title page.
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COUNTRY MUSIC. SELECTED EARLY POEMS
by WRIGHT, Charles
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1983). First Edition. Softcover. Spine sunned. Near Fine. Second Printing. SIGNED on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to the poet William Meredith: "For Bill,/from/Charles with/much admiration/and friendship/2 May 86."
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THE SOUTHERN CROSS
by WRIGHT, Charles
New York: Random House, (1981). First Edition. Printed red wraps. Fine. Uncorrected Proof in printed red wraps.
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