Alcoholics Anonymous
by Wilson, Bill; et al.
New York: Works Publishing Company, 1939. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing of the foundational Alcoholics Anonymous text. 400 pp. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the spine and upper board; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, trivial soiling, light uneven fading to cloth at top edge. Former owner name and rubberstamp at front endsheets, and neatly written pencil markings to first few gatherings of... Read More
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Scrooge
by Wilson, Don
Banning, CA: Don Wilson, 1948. Very Good. 2pp. (one sheet printed on both sides). Very Good with toning and wear, ink check mark to front side. A one-shot fanzine with a "Twinfold purpose -- to get rid of aforesaid crud and (2) to make a little extra cash for that sterling fan publication, Dream Quest." A list of items for sale from Don Wilson.
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Ego Beast: Number 4
by Wilson, Don
Banning, CA: Published by the Editor for FAPA, 1949. Number 4. ca. 1948 or 1949, published for FAPA. Number 4. In original side-stapled wraps. Very Good with toning and light wear, light creases.
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Ego Beast: Number 1. February, 1948
by Wilson, Don
Banning, CA: Published by the Editor for FAPA, 1948. Very Good. Number 1. February, 1948. In original side-stapled wraps. Very Good with toning and light wear, light creases. A sci-fi fanzine published for a FAPA mailing.
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Ego Beast: Number 3. November, 1948
by Wilson, Don
Banning, CA: Published by the Editor for FAPA, 1948. Number 3. November, 1948. Number 3. November, 1948. In original side-stapled wraps. Very Good with toning and light wear, light creases.
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Merger: Number 1
by Wilson, Don; Howard Miller
Banning, CA: Published by the Authors for FAPA, 1948. Very Good. Issue number 1, intended for the May 1948 FAPA mailing. Publisher's original stapled sheets. Very Good with light toning and wear.
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Ego Beast: Number 2. August, 1948
by Wilson, Don
Banning, CA: Published by the Editor for FAPA, 1948. Number 2. August, 1948. In original side-stapled wraps. Very Good with toning and light wear, light creases. A sci-fi fanzine published for a FAPA mailing.
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To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
by Wilson, Edmund
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. First Edition. Very Good/Good. First edition. (vi), 509 pp. Maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with sunned spine and a little foxing to edges in Good price-clipped dust jacket with some small chips missing from edges, dampstaining, and dulling to spine panel. Internally free of marks and fairly bright. A classic study of socialism and communism in history.
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Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North. Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There. By "Our Nig.
by [Wilson, Harriet E.]
Boston: Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1859. First edition. First edition, first printing. 140 pp. Bound in publisher's elaborately blind stamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, coated yellow endpapers. Very Good, spine lean, cloth sunned and a little stained, lettering rubbed and cloth worn at tips, binding holding but some page gatherings proud and hinges cracked; occasional stains, wear, and foxing to contents. Gift inscription on front free endpaper in pencil. An unsophisticated copy of an extremely rare,... Read More
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Original poster for Love & everpresent fullness, August 5 & 6, 1966 at Fillmore Auditorium
by Wilson, Wes [Artist]
San Francisco: Bill Graham, 1966. Very Fine. BG #21. Original 13 7/8" x 20 1/8" poster . 2nd printing. Very Fine. Slight crease near upper left corner, slight crease to right upper corner. An attractive example of Wes Wilson's work.
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Original poster for Jefferson Airplane, Great Society, Heavenly Blues Band, June 10-11, 1966 at Fillmore Auditorium
by Wilson, Wes [Artist]
San Francisco: Bill Graham, 1966. NM. BG #10. Original 14" x 20" poster on thick stock. 2nd printing. Near Mint with very tiny bump to left edge near top. An attractive example of Wes Wilson's work.
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The Monastery of Epiphanius, Volume I (-II)
by Winlock, H. E.; W. E. Crum
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1926. First Edition. Good. First edition, first printing. Volume I only (of two). Bound in publisher's original brown paper-covered boards over brown leather spine stamped in gilt. Good. Ex-library with typical markings, heavy wear to spine, soiling to boards and contents tanned. Bookplate of Lindsley F. Hall (1883-1969) and his wife Elizabeth Creadick Hall on front pastedown. Lindsley was an archaeologist and Egyptologist from Portland, Oregon, who worked for the Metropolitan Museum... Read More
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Boffin: Number 3. June, 1952
by Winne, Everett
Springfield, MA: Published by the Author for SAPS, 1952. Issue number 3. A sci-fi fanzine published for SAPS mailing #20. Original side-stapled mimeographed sheets. Very Good with toning and light wear.
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On Obscure Diseases of the Brain, and Disorders of the Mind: Their Incipient Symptoms, Pathology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prophylaxis
by Winslow, Forbes
Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1860. First American edition. First American edition. 576, 32 pp. Bound in publisher's ornately-blindstamped brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+, dulled lettering, cloth a little worn and slightly frayed along edges, a few small scratches to spine, name written on front free endpaper, slight wave to textblock. Nice shape overall. A Victorian psychology text with many accounts of various mental illnesses such as hallucinations, hydrophobia (fear of water), epilepsy, muteness, and brain damage... Read More
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The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
by Wister, Owen; Arthur Keller [Illustrations]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. xiv, 504, [6] pp. Bound in publisher's sandy yellow cloth with red, black, and gilt stamping. Very Good+ with a little foxing to cloth at back board, bumped corners, small repaired tear to head cloth, portrait of the author pasted onto front free endpaper, front and rear hinges show evidence of repair. A novel that has been called the first Western, with the first shootout ending in fiction.... Read More
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Our Inheritance
by Withers, Z.
Oakland, CA: Tribune Publishing Co, 1909. First edition. First edition. [2], 104 pp. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth (one of at least two variants) with white lettering. Near Fine with a little soiling to cloth, corners slightly bumped, former owner's name on front free endpaper, thumbsoiling. An early 20th century polemic advocating civil rights, dignity, and due process for Black people written by Zachary Withers, an African American resident of the Elmhurst neighborhood of Sacramento, and printed by... Read More
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Philosophical Investigations
by Wittgenstein, Ludwig; G.E.M. Anscombe [Translator]
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition, first printing. 232 pp. & 232 pp. (text in German and English on facing leaves) with tipped-in errata at rear. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with light rubbing to extremities, small abrasion to text at 40e pp., and light soiling to 53 & 53e pp. Wittgenstein's posthumously-published work of philosophy that challenged traditional concepts of language... Read More
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The Blue and Brown Books
by Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. [xiv], 185 pp. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light offsetting to endsheets; publisher's "compliments of" slip laid in. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning, light spots of damp staining at spine panel toward foot. Housed in a handsome custom half morocco leather clamshell with tooled bands and marbled boards. A nice copy of... Read More
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VonuLife: How to Live and Let Live, Out of Sight and Mind of Those Unwilling to Let Live by People Who are Doing It (Special Handbook Issue, March, 1973)
by Rayo [pseudonym for Paul Doerr]; Darby Anderson; Eldorado; Haelon Hygeia; Jeffrey; Lysander; Pierre; WJP
Paradise, CA: VonuLife, 1973. First edition. 122 pp. [printed 4 pp. to one sheet], offset printed on newsprint. Near Fine, toned with age as is typical, tiny horizontal tear to p. 3, but otherwise in great shape. Rare. A comprehensive issue of 1970s 'zine about dropping out of society, going back to the land, and living a "voluntarily life" according to libertarian/anarchist principles. This particular issue contains contributions by "Rayo," likely a pseudonym of a survivalist and prolific fanzine... Read More
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The Ice in the Bedroom
by Wodehouse, P. G.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by P. G. Wodehouse on the front free end paper. Bound in publisher's original black paper boards over black spine cloth stamped in yellow, white and red. Near Fine with light soiling to rear joint, light wear to spine ends, contents lightly tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight edge wear, scratch to rear panel; old price sticker ghost... Read More
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Something New
by Wodehouse, P. G.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1915. First Edition. Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt and green. Good. Lean to binding. Cloth faded at spine, a bit soiled, and frayed at spine ends. Previous owner names (one blacked out) to front endsheet. Hinges lightly exposed at recto of frontis, and rear endsheet. The true first edition of Wodehouse's first Blandings novel.
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The Man With Two Left Feet
by Wodehouse, P.G.; Harry Beckhoff [Illustrator]
New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1933. First American Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. First American edition. (First issue with stated "First edition" on copyright page. Unusually, reprint house A.L. Burt was the first American publisher to issue the book. Doubleday, Doran and Company, who are mentioned on the title page, never actually issued the book.) [iv], 283 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth stamped in black; orange topstain. Very Good+ with light wear at spine ends, corners slightly softened... Read More
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The Ice in the Bedroom
by Wodehouse, P. G.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by P. G. Wodehouse and inscribed "Best wishes" on the front free end paper. [iv], 246, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards over black spine cloth stamped in yellow, white and red. Yellow topstain and endpapers. Near Fine with slight lean to spine and softening at head and tail, light fading to boards, and shallow scratch to rear board. In... Read More
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Ukridge
by Wodehouse, P. G.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1924. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth stamped in darker green. Very Good or better with foxing to spine, light mottling to cloth at bottom edges of covers. Pages tanned and with foxing to textblock edges, preliminary and terminal sheets, small bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. In a Nvery Good dust jacket with publisher's correct price of 3/6 at the foot of the spine; lightly... Read More
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Hot Water
by Wodehouse, P. G.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1932. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with former owner book plate and shelf stamp to front paste down, his name and date to title page. Creasing to rear free endpaper and hinge there slighly over-opened. In a dust jacket correctly priced 7/6 on the spine, Very Good, with several short closed tears, chipping with some loss at the base... Read More
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