Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman 1855... 1888. Authenticated & Personal Book (handled by W.W.)... Portraits from Life... Autograph
by Whitman, Walt
[Camden, NJ]: Printed for the Author by Ferguson Brothers, 1888. Signed Limited Edition. Limited edition. Signed by Walt Whitman on the title page of Leaves of Grass. Additionally inscribed by Whitman's literary executor, Horace Traubell, on front free endpaper to a Philadelphia doctor, "To Norton Downs from Horace Traubell / April 1893 / In memory of Walt Whitman and gratefulness for services to him + to me." [ii], 382, 374, 140, 2 pp. With three inserted portrait... Read More
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Leaves of Grass
by Whitman, Walt
[Camden, NJ], 1889. Near Fine. One of only 300 copies of Leaves of Grass printed in commemoration of Whitman's 70th birthday, boldly signed by Whitman on the title page, with six portraits of Whitman, including the famous original mounted frontispiece photograph with a butterfly resting on his finger. In publisher's flexible leather wallet-style binding with flap extending around the fore edge and with pocked on inside back cover (BAL's A binding), all edges gilt. Near Fine with rubbing... Read More
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Leaves of Grass
by Whitman, Walt
Brooklyn: [Fowler & Wells], 1856. Second edition. Very Good. Second edition, one of only 1,000 copies rumored to have been printed, per Myerson. iv, 5 - 384, [1] pp, tissue-guarded frontispiece, advertising page at rear. Bound in publisher's green cloth, blindstamping to boards, gilt stamping to front board and spine. All edges speckled red, yellow endpapers. Very Good, skillfully rebacked with original spine cloth laid over. Mottling and fading to cloth, fraying at corners and head and tail... Read More
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Leaves of Grass
by Whitman, Walt
Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co, 1882. Reprint. Very Good. Reprint utilizing slightly altered plates from the 1881-82 Boston edition. Signed by Walt Whitman on the first blank sheet, inscribed "J. William Thompson from the author." Thompson was London lawyer who corresponded with Whitman, occasionally ordering books directly from the author. Bound in publisher's mustard cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good, cloth soiled, lightly mottled, worn at spine ends. BAL 21419.
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Leaves of Grass
by Whitman, Walt
Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co, 1882. Very Good. Seventh edition, one of the fourth through the seventh printings that have no differentiation. 382 pp. with portrait of Whitman inserted after p. 28. Bound in publisher's dark mustard cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with minor mottling to cloth and shelf wear, tiny stain to rear cover, a few small reading stains to contents. An attractive copy. MyersonA.2.7.d-g.
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Leaves of Grass
by Whitman, Walt; Helen Vendler [Introduction]
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2014. Limited Edition. Fine. Limited edition. Copy #208 of 275. Bound in half green goatskin stamped in gilt with the title and drawing of grass, oak plywood boards, stained and sealed, with a green cloth interior hinge. House in publisher's full green cloth slipcase with titling and grass drawing stamped in gilt. Fine with prospectus in a slipcase with minor rubbing. The 100th book from Arion Press based on the 1855 text of... Read More
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Thirty Years Among the Dead
by Wickland, Carl
Los Angeles: National Psychological Institute, 1924. First Edition. Near Fine/Good. First edition. 390 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Former owner's bookplate on paste down, else Fine. In the rare dust jacket, chipped at the head with a circular tear in the spine, a few other small tears. A spiritualist work on the afterlife, mediumship, and psychic/paranormal phenomena by a Swedish-born born psychiatrist with impressive credentials who turned away from conventional medicine and science in the early... Read More
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The Cruise of the FooFoo Special Jr.
by Widner, Art
Schenectady: Larry Shaw / A Cerfew Publication, 1943. Very Good. Ca. 1945. An undated science fiction fanzine. Bound in publisher's side-stapled blue wraps. Very Good with toning and wear, light creasing and a horizontal crease to the center. A scarce zine.
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Ace of Pentacles
by Wieners, John
New York: James F. Carr & Robert S. Wilson, 1964. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Wieners on copyright page and inscribed, "To my Friends only a generation ago." 72 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in rare original unprinted jacket, torn and chipped, Fair. The poet's second book.
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Invitation
by Wieners, John
[Santa Barbara]: Unicorn Press, 1970. First Edition. Fine. First edition. Signed by John Wieners, copy #7 of 200 hard-bound copies. Single sheet folded twice and pasted into brown paper covered boards with printed cover label. Fine. Contains three poems: "Invitation," "Loss," and Apparition." From the collection of Douglas Calhoun, editor of Athanor Journal.
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King Solomon's Magnetic Quiz -- for R C.
by Wieners, John
Pleasant Valley, NY: Kriya Press of Sri Rama Ashrama, 1967. Illustrated broadside. Copy #19 of only 100. Very Good+ with tiny tear and crease along left side.
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Invitation
by Wieners, John
[Santa Barbara]: Unicorn Press, 1970. First Edition. First edition. Signed by John Wieners, copy #104 of 200 hard-bound copies. Single sheet folded twice and pasted into brown paper covered boards with printed cover label. Fine. Contains three poems: "Invitation," "Loss," and Apparition.
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Poetry and the Social
by Wieners, John
Candia, NH: John LeBow, 1997. Signed by John Wieners underneath his printed name. Copy #3 of 100. 9 3/4" x 16 3/4" broadside, single-sided. Near Fine, bright and attractive.
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Cybernetics; or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Actualitees scientifiques et industrielles; 1053
by Wiener, Norbert
Cambridge, MA: The Technology Press, 1948. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. 194, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine with lean to spine, light wear and toning to covers, contemporary bookseller ticket inside front cover, and ink inscription to title page. Light toning to contents and several penciled lines to margins. A nice copy of this foundational work in the field of cybernetics, a term coined by the author.
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The Tempter
by Wiener, Norbert
New York: Random House, 1959. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, signed by Norbert Wiener on the front free endpaper and warmly inscribed to former dean of residence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Frederick G. Fassett, "in token of many years' friendship." Wiener was a mathematician and professor at MIT, and is best known for his book, Cybernetics. Bound in publisher's black cloth with titles stamped in green and silver on the spine.... Read More
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Night
by Wiesel, Elie
London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First British edition, first printing. Foxing, light dust soiling and light wear to edge of page block, else Near Fine. In a Very Good dust jacket, which is foxed and lightly worn. A sharp copy.
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Night
by Wiesel, Elie
New York: Hill and Wang, 1960. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine with softening to spine ends, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a tape repair to the bottom corner of the front panel extending onto the front flap, light edge wear and light rubbing. Wiesel's autobiographical novel about his experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald at the height of the Holocaust... Read More
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Night
by Wiesel, Elie
New York: Hill and Wang, 1960. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First American edition stated, first printing. Signed by Elie Wiesel on the half title page and inscribed to the former owner, "For Arthur - all best wishes [signed] Elie Wiesel Dec. 7 '72." Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with light edge wear, faint foxing to edge of text block. Former owner's bookplate at front paste down with details written... Read More
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Night
by Wiesel, Elie; Francois Mauriac [Foreword]; Stella Rodway [Translator]
London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1960. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First British edition, first printing. 139 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black lettering. Near Fine with foxing to all edges; small imperfection to bottom edge of front free endpaper else fine. In Very Good unclipped dust jacket, lightly worn, spine and back panel lightly toned with foxing; staining to "N" in Night on front cover. The acclaimed Holocaust memoir.
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La Nuit [Night]
by Wiesel, Elie
Paris: Les Editions De Minuit, 1958. First Edition. Near Fine. First French edition, preceding the first English edition. 178, [1] pp., text in French. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine with lean to spine, and light toning and scattered foxing to covers and contents. Rare, particularly in this condition. Abramowitz A2. Elie Wiesel, liberated from Buchenwald at the age of sixteen, waited ten years to write his testimony. His first effort was in Yiddish, a 253-page... Read More
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Night
by Wiesel, Elie; Francois Mauriac [Foreword]; Stella Rodway [Translator]
London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. First British edition, first printing. 139 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with black lettering. Very Good+ with foxing to edges, former owner's name written on front free endpaper, in Very Good+ dust jacket, lightly worn, spine and back panel a little toned, price-clipped. An attractive copy of the acclaimed Holocaust memoir.
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Children's Rights and The Republic of Childhood Vols. I-III (Four matching volumes all inscribed by Wiggin to her husband)
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas; Nora A. Smith
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. A set of four matching volumes on child-rearing and education. Signed by Kate Douglas Wiggin on the front free endpaper of each volume, inscribed to her second husband, George Christopher Riggs, beginning in 1894 before their marriage on March 30, 1895. The three volumes of The Republic of Childhood are all first editions. Four small octavo volumes bound in uniform half crushed terra cotta morocco, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Near... Read More
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Penelope's Postscripts
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. First Edition. Good. First edition. Signed by Kate Douglas Wiggin, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "P.S. This is the last of Penelope, Francesca, and Salemina! [signed] Kate Douglas Wiggin." Beneath that "Helen Ingersoll [illegible] this book. I did nothing but write it. K.D.W." [[viii], 217 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth lettered in blue. Good only with dampstain to fore edge intruding into margins of some pages towards the middle of the book, top... Read More
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The Principles of Judicial Proof: As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General Experience and Illustrated in Judicial Trials
by Wigmore, John Henry
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1913. First Edition. First edition. xvi, 1179 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with spine lettering mostly rubbed off, occasional marginal notations and underlines to text in pencil and ink by former owner, whose name is written on the paste down. A rare work by an American legal scholar, one of the foremost authorities on legal evidence.
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Up from Eden: A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution
by Wilber, Ken
Garden City, NY: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1981. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Ken Wilber, warmly inscribed to former owner on front free endpaper, dated Sept. 17, 1982. xii, 372 pp. Bound in publisher's boards with red cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Very Good, top edge foxed, a few pencil notes in margins, former owner's emboss to a few pages, in a Very Good dust jacket, a little edge worn and toned with age. An early work by... Read More
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