A Boy's Own Story
by White, Edmund
New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc, 1982. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Signed by White in ink on title page. First version of DJ, with Sontag quote on back. 8vo.
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The Works, in Natural History, of the Late Rev. Gilbert White, A. M. Comprising The Natural History of Selborne; The Naturalist's Calendar; and Miscellaneous Observations, Extracted from his Papers. To which are added, A Calendar and Observations by W. Markwick, Esq. F.L.S. in Two Volumes
by White, Rev. Gilbert
London: Printed for J. White by T. Bensley, 1802. Half Morocco. Very Good. 8vo. viii, 392, 300 pp. With two hand-colored ornithological plates, one of which is folding. Two other plates, one folding as well. Lovely copy of eighteenth century classic and seminal work of natural history which still makes for highly enjoyable reading. As important as the many specific observations White made is his example as a close observer of the natural world which all lovers of... Read More
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The Natural History of Selborne; With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and The Naturalist's Calendar
by White, Rev. Gilbert, with additions and supplementary notes by Sir William Jardine. Edited, with further illustrations, a biographical sketch of the author, and a complete index, by Edward Jesse
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Full Calf. Very Good. Lovely full-calf binding, with gilt centerpiece figure of a bird, a subtle blindstamped perimeter band, animal figures in gilt placed in spine compartments. The calf itself has a pleasing and warm speckling that sets it apart. 8vo. 19 by 12.5 cm. xxiv, 416 pp. Many engraved plates. Occasional light foxing, but mostly clean. Slight, even warping of the boards, but other than light wear, the binding has an uncommon... Read More
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The Natural History of Selborne; With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and The Naturalist's Calendar
by White, Rev. Gilbert, with additions and supplementary notes by Sir William Jardine. Edited, with further illustrations, a biographical sketch of the author, and a complete index, by Edward Jesse
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Blindstamped cloth. Very Good. 8vo. xxiv, 416 pp. With 40 hand-colored illustrations and steel engraved frontis. The lovely animal plates are similar to those found in Jardine. Frontis has foxing. Otherwise, but for occasional light and trivial soiling, a clean and tight copy. Some fading of gilt decoration on spine. Repair along front gutter. Darkening along both gutters. Wear along spine tips.
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Paris of To-Day
by Whiteing, Richard
New York: The Century Co, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Castaigne, Andre. 4to - over 9¾. 249 pp. with profuse black and white illustrations, many full page. A lovely treatment of Belle Epoque Paris, the year of the 1900 Paris Exposition, and the time that the story of "Gigi" takes place. Here is Paris at its cultural height. Blue decorated cloth with considerable soilage, and some wear in corners, spine extremities. Interior tight, heavy stock glossy paper... Read More
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Virginia: A Hand-Book: Giving Its History, Climate, and Mineral Wealth; Its Educational, Agricultural and Industrial Advantages
by Whitehead, Thomas
Richmond, VA: Everett Waddey Co, 1893. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. vi + 357 pp. Valuable survey of all aspects of Virginia in 1893. Small chip, upper right front cover. Minor soilage. Overall, VG or better.
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Math Notebook
by Whiting, Harris Jon
Holliston, Massachusetts, 1821. NA. Good. Federalist period student's math notebook, with much of the writing by a calligraphic hand (at least by today's standards). About 50 leaves. One loose page. A few page ends torn out. Age toning, and some insignificant soiling. Wear to the top page. No binding. Probably complete, other than torn out pages.
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Leaves of Grass
by Whitman, Walt
Philadelphia: David McKay. Printer: Sherman & Co., Philadelphia, 1884. Cloth. Very Good. This is a Philadelphia reprint of a Boston edition issued in 1881, which edition is regarded often as the seventh edition of this work which Whitman actively revised continuously until his death. The Boston reprint was issued by James R. Osgood, and the plates for that 1881 edition were used by Philadelphia publisher Rees Welsh in an 1882 issue. Rees Welsh then turned over the plates... Read More
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Bridges. A Study in Their Art, Science and Technology. Illustrated with Photographs and Drawings of Old and New Bridges of Many Lands
by Whitney, Charles S.
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1929. First Edition. Cloth. Fine. No bridge un-turned, no bridge too high, no bridge too low, in this comprehensive, profusely illustrated, exhaustive survey of the subject through history. 4to. 31 by 24 cm. 363, [2] pp. Light wear.
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Autograph Album with Inscription and Poem by John Greenleaf Whittier Dated 1875
by Whittier, John Greenleaf
Amesbury, MA, 1875. Full Calf. Good. The poem epitomizes Whittier's aphoristic reads: "Mine evening's, thine the morning's star, Across the distance faint and far, I take my life's experience thus: Not what we seem but what we are, Not what we take, but what we give, Not what we preach, but how we live, Availeth us." The inscription was written to Etta Goodrich, whose album this was, and who probably was a neighbor of Whittier's, based on a... Read More
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Snow-bound. A Winter Idyl
by Whittier, John Greenleaf
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. Second Issue. Quarter Leather slipcase. Cloth boards. Book itself is full cloth. Very Good. With a tipped in signed autographed letter from Whittier tipped into the prelims. The letter, dated 1883, states that the "Household Edition" and the "Red Luxe Edition" are both complete, along with a few other words. 8vo. 18.5 by 12 cm. 52 pp. Light wear to book itself. Slipcase has moderate wear, with some rubbing of the leather. Still... Read More
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Vieilles Chansons et Rondes Pour Les Petits Enfants Avec Accompagnements De Ch. M Widor
by Widor, Ch. M.
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1931. Hardcover. Good. Monvel, M. B. De. Oblong 10.5 By 9 Inches. 47 pp. Delightful pastel color illustrations to children's songs. Illustrations offer light humor and whimsy and strike winsome note of fantasy. Some roughness or loose seams along the edges. Fair amount of soilage to fabric of boards. Minor chipping to endpapers. Leaves have considerable age toning, as inevitable with paper stock, but otherwise clean. A good copy.
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Vieilles Chansons et Rondes Pour Les Petits Enfants Avec Accompagnements De Ch. M Widor
by Widor, Ch. M.
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. Monvel, M. B. De. Oblong 10.5 By 9 Inches. 47 pp. Delightful pastel color illustrations to children's songs. Illustrations offer light humor and whimsy and strike winsome note of fantasy. A remarkably clean and bright copy. There is some soilage to fabric of boards, but it is comparatively minor. Binding is tight, and pages are clean with the low end of toning of the pages, an inevitability given the paper stock.... Read More
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The Tiny Tots: Their Adventures
by Wiederseim, Grace G.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1909. First edition. Paper pasted onto boards and cloth. Very Good. 12 full-page color illustrations facing text pages. 4to, 12 by 9 inches. Ultra-cute round faced girl(s) depicted fishing, playing as a soldier, having a table accident, etc. A few leaves with closed tears now repaired (no tape or other hideous measures employed) but still visible. Some minor soil smudges. The cover has edgewear.
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La Petite Maitresse de Pension; Lecture, Ecriture, Géographie, Histoire
by Wightman, Julia P.
Paris: Chez les Marchandes de Nouveautés. Box. Very Good. Scarce, with only known copy at the Morgan Library. (Only copy recorded on OCLC First Search.) N.d., circa 1820. With 32 cards, half with a question (Demande), half with an answer (Reponse), all with hand-colored illustrations. The "Demande" cards all depict Biedermeier period domestic scenes, the "Reponse" cards are of objects, each card showing an assortment of objects akin to a trophy. The hand-coloring is across-the-board rich and exquisite.... Read More
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The Sphinx
by Wilde, Oscar
London (and New York): John Lane, The Bodley Head. Printed by Spottiswoods, Ballantyne and Co. Ltd., London, Colchester and Eton, 1920. Limited Edition, First Edition Thus (with Alastair illustrations). Decorated Cloth (Gilt impressed). Very Good Plus. Alistair [Hans Henning Otto Harry Baron von Voigt]. Limitation of 1,000 copies -- the colophon informs us that the stones upon which the plates were printed were destroyed by the German invasion of Belgium during the early phase of the First World... Read More
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Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play About a Good Woman
by Oscar Wilde
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh, 1893. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Minus. 8vo. 21.5 by 16 cm. 8.5 by 6.25 inches. [18], 132, 14, [2] pp. With publisher's list of books in the back. In this first edition, apparently only 500 copies were printed! The pages are heavily toned, per the norm for the paper stock, but clean otherwise. The binding is tight.... Read More
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Aus der Kinderwelt
by Wildermuth, Ottilie. Illustrated by E. Kepler, E. Klimsch and D. Pletsch
Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft. Hardcover, paper pastedown on boards, cloth spine. Very Good. N.d., circa 1890. Small folio sized, 12 by 9 inches, 30 by 24 cm. 82 pp. Six color plates, all chromolithographic, and front cover. With many black and white text illustrations. With many short stories. Light wear to covers. Pages are age toned.
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The Skin of Our Teeth
by Wilder, Thornton
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. First Edition of the Pulitzer Prize winning play, which starred 8vo.Tallulah Bankhead, Florence Eldridge and E. G. Marshall, and included in the cast a young Montgomery Clift. 8vo. 142 pp. Tiny spots on edges. DJ has edgewear, including one jagged chip about two/three inches long but narrow, and some soiling. Still DJ is mostly intact and remains attractive.
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![[Fine Binding] The Bridge of San Luis Rey](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/176/495/1571495176.0.l.jpg)
[Fine Binding] The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Wilder, Thornton. Woodcut illustrations by Clare Leighton
London, New York and Toronto: Longman, Green and Co. Printer: The Westminster Press, London, 1929. First Edition Thus. Full Morocco -- inlay is of calf. Very Good Plus. A beautiful pictorial inlay binding, depicting the precarious pedestrian bridge at which the protagonists meet their fate when the ancient pedestrian bridge snaps in the modern classic novel by Wilder -- the novella that won the young WIlder the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 and established him as a major American... Read More
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The Ides of March
by Thornton Wilder
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. First Edition. Cloth, with Quarter Morocco Slipcase and Chemise. Fine/Very Good Plus. This is Wilder's first novel after his string of big hits, and instant classics, on Broadway. Like the plays, though, Wilder is venturesome in approach, here embracing the hoary form of the epistolatory novel but applying it in a highly original manner. As the title might suggest, this novel is a retellng of the story of Julius Caesar, his times... Read More
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![[Framed Poster] Scribner's for March](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/704/098/1729098704.0.l.jpg)
[Framed Poster] Scribner's for March
by Wildhack, Robert J.
1907: Scribner's, 1907. Framed. Fine. A most evocative early 20th century promotional poster issued by Scribner's with its cover art for the March 1907 issue of its monthly magazine. Capturing a long gone era when the automobile was still a novelty, with a well-dressed lady and her driver, probably love interest but possibly a paid chauffeur, wearing thick goggles, a thing before substantial windshields and when driving an automobile, whatever the circumstance, could be regarded as sport. The... Read More
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[Framed Poster] Scribner's for September. Now Ready. Price 25 Cents
by Wildhack, Robert J.
1906: Scribner's, 1906. Framed. Fine. A most evocative early 20th century promotional poster issued by Scribner's with its cover art for the September 1906 issue of its monthly magazine. Featuring a comely well-dressed woman, all in white, including her parasol, intently reading, possibly a missive from a man courting her. The artist is bold in the utter simplicity of the imagery, and his trusting a washed out palette, here suggestive of a sun-drenched day of late Summer. With... Read More
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![[Framed Poster] Century. July. Fiction Number](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/749/128/1729128749.0.l.jpg)
[Framed Poster] Century. July. Fiction Number
by Wildhack, Robert J.
New York: Century Magazine, 1913. Framed. Fine. A most evocative early 20th century promotional poster issued by Century Magazine with its cover art for the July 1907 issue of its monthly magazine. Almost abstract in its composition while fully representational of the pretty young woman standing and reading on a beach, the design is simple, elegant, even sublime, a testament to the best of poster art. No fussiness clouds its point. The printing is of a quality that... Read More
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![[Japonisme] Business Printed Announcement Letter with Japanese Illustrated Decoration and Japanese Stamps](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/527/605/1615605527.0.l.jpg)
[Japonisme] Business Printed Announcement Letter with Japanese Illustrated Decoration and Japanese Stamps
by Wild, Josh
1899. NA. Matting. Very Good. A piece of ephemera whose interest lies not in its content but rather its embrace of Japonisme. It is especially telling that it does so in a communication in which it would seem doing so in all likelihood would be utterly superfluous as well as irrelevant to the message. We do recognize that the unidentified company may have had a strong nexus with Japan in its business, whether its location or presence, a... Read More
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