The improvement of the mind. Or, a supplement to the art of logic: containing a variety of remarks and rules for the attainment of useful knowledge in religion, in the sciences, and in common life.
by Watts, Isaac
London: T. Longman, 1753. Third Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8 vo. [xvi], 362 pp. Contemporary leather, red spine label. An excellently preserved copy, first published in 1741.
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The Lipton Story: A Centennial Biography
by Waugh, Alec
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Gilt-ruled half blue morocco and cloth, in slipcase. From a limited edition of 300 copies, signed by Waugh on the limitation page.
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Hot Countries
by Waugh, Alec; Ward, Lynd (woodcuts)
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth, illustration stamped in copper on boards, lettering stamped in copper on spine; 8vo; pp. viii, [2], 304, with woodcuts by Lynd Ward. Boards rubbed; spine faded, with faint handwritten call number at tail (otherwise no library markings). Internally bright and clean.
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Officers and Gentlemen
by Waugh, Evelyn
Boston / Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Second printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Blue cloth; illustrated dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 339. Spine tips and corners a little frayed, otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket a little scuffed and chipped along the edges; spine somewhat tanned, with small chip out of illustration; price-clipped. An excellent early copy, presents nicely in mylar.
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Brideshead Revisted
by Waugh, Evelyn
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Nice copy in DJ (some edgwear, toning, and short nicks along the top of rear panel).
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, A Conversation Piece
by Waugh, Evelyn
Boston / Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 232. Book is fine, in price-clipped DJ with a small spot of soiling on rear panel.
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British Wild Flowers
by [Botany] Mrs. Loudon (Jane Webb)
London: William S. Orr & Co, 1849. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Contemporary 1/2 green morocco and cloth. a.e.g. 311 pp. Beautiful color plates throughout. Complete.
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Mary Webb: Poems / Celebrating the Poetry of Mary Webb
by [Webb, Mary]
The Grolier Club, 2010. Paperback. Very Good+. Staple-bound wraps. From a limited edition of 1000 copies, printed as a keepsake for members of The Grolier Club, to accompany the January 2010 poetry reading and exhibition held 28 January to 13 March 2010, "Mary Webb: Neglected Genius." Covers faintly dust-soiled and a little dog-eared, but a nice, bright reading copy.
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Obama (Photographs from New York City of Barack Obama's Presidential Victory Celebration)
by Weber, Matt
New York: Sanctuary Books & Harper's Books, 2009. Limited Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Spiral bound catalogue issued in conjunction with an exhibition at Harper's Books (June 6 - August 7, 2009). 18 photographs taken over election day, election night, and inauguration day. One of 26 lettered copies signed by the photographer and with an original 8 X 10 signed print.
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The Urban Prisoner
by Weber, Matt
New York: Sanctuary Books, 2004. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of 200 copies, fine in DJ, in publisher's slipcase. Each copy of the limited edition comes with an original SIGNED 8 x 10 print. Two images are available from which to choose. Please inquire.
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Obama (Photographs from New York City of Barack Obama's Presidential Victory Celebration)
by Weber, Matt
New York: Sanctuary Books & Harper's Books, 2009. Soft cover. Fine. Spiral bound catalogue issued in conjunction with an exhibition at Harper's Books (June 6 - August 7, 2009). 18 photographs taken on election day, election night, and inauguration day. One of 150 copies signed and numbered by the photographer.
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The Road to El Cielo
by Webster, Fred and Marie S.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in DJ. Illustrated with color photographs.
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Grenadine
by Wechsler, Neil; Albee, Edward (foreword)
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2009. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Signed by the author. Winner of the Yale Drama Award. A wonderful play.
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The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood the Potter
by Wedgewood, Julia Herford. Herford, C.H.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1915. Hardcover. Good. Revised and Edited with an Introduction and a Prefatory Memoir of the Author by C. H. Herford. With a compliments slip from Lady Farrer and Mrs. Godfrey Wedgwood tipped in (dated Dec. 1915). Original cloth; front hinge cracking.
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Naked City
by [Photography - WEEGEE]
New York: Essential Books, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Issue. Gray buckram binding stamped in blue. SIGNED by Weegee.
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Fourth Street East
by Weidman, Jerome
New York: Random House, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Publisher's cloth in slipcase, book in glassine jacket. A superb copy.
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Ethica naturalis seu documenta moralia e variis rerum naturalium proprietatib, virtutum vitiorumq symbolicis imaginibus collecta.
by WEIGEL, Christoph (1654-1725) – LUYKEN, Jan (1649-1712) – LUYKEN, Caspar (1672-1708).
First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Nuremberg: (circa 1690-1700). 4to (240 x 195mm). 101 leaves. Engraved title-page and 100 numbered copperplate engraved emblems by father and son engravers Jan and Caspar Luyken (or Luiken). Each emblem is printed on rectos and accompanied by a ten-line Latin verse in letterpress. Original blue paper wrappers, edges uncut; (edges lightly browned and some light marginal foxing, spine chipped with loss, but overall still very good). Ex Libris of William S. Heckscher (bookplate... Read More
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[Orbis terrarum in nuce], Die Welt in einer Nuß oder Die Historien vom Anfang Der Welt samt deren Zeit-Rechnung bis auff unsere Zeit auf eine besondere und ganz leichte Art kurz zusammen zufassen oder ausgebreitet in einem Augenblick auf einer einigen Tafel zu wiederhohlen, fürgeschrieben und fürgebildet
by WEIGEL, Cristoph (1654-1725)
Nuremberg, 1722. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Pagination: 1-19pp. and 48 pages of plates divided into scenes. Signatures: A-B(4); C(2). Folding added title of “Orbis Terrarum in Nuce: Die Welt in einer Nuss” with seven oval medallions depicting the second millennium after the birth of Christ, title with emblematic printer’s device and motto “crescit eundo” (it grows as it goes). Title printed in red and blank in Old German type. Introduction signed by Johann David Rohler. Half vellum... Read More
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Durch Drei Kontinente
by Weil, Bruno
Buenos Aires: Editorial Cosmopolita, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original grey cloth, lettering stamped in black on upper board and spine; 8vo (5.5 x 8 inches); pp. 244, with maps. This copy uniquely, and lengthily, inscribed and signed by the author on the recto and verso of the FFEP. Boards lightly rubbed; tiny chips in the cloth at bottom corners and spine tips.
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The Iliad, or, The Poem of Force (Politics Pamphlet No. 1)
by Weil, Simone; McCarthy, Mary (trans.)
New York: Politics, n.d. (c. 1950). Paperback. Fair. Original printed wraps; 8vo; pp. 31. Covers reinforced with tape along spine, and lightly chipped along the edges. A fragile item. Sold as is.
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Erziehung Vor Stalingrad. Fronttagebuch Eines Deutschen
by Weinert, Eric. Foreword by Oskar Maria Graf.
New York: The German American, 1943. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Tan wrappers with brown titles and cover illustration by Kurt Werth. 46 pp. Foreword by Oskar Maria Graf. Some scattered staining, but stil a nice copy of a fragile item.
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Reizen door de Staaten van Noord-Amerika, en de Provintien van Opper- en Neder-Canada; in de Jaaren 1795, 1796 en 1797. Ondernomen door Isaac Weld, Junior...
by Weld, Isaac; van Hoek, S. (trans.); Leeuwestijn, J. C.
Haage: J. C. Leeuwestijn, 1801. Hardcover. Very Good+. Nineteenth-century half brown morocco and marbled paper, gilt-stamped lettering in spine compartments (5 raised bands); 3 volumes, 8vo (223x135mm),with folding engraved plates and maps; pp. xxxii, 391, plus 5 plates and 1 map (Washington D.C., see below); xv, [1], 425, plus 5 plates and 3 maps; xii, 340, with 1 plate and 1 map (this one larger than the others, and hand-colored). Bindings a bit scuffed, but tight and square.... Read More
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The Big Brass Ring: An Original Screenplay.
by Welles, Orson (with Oja Kodar)
Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Preface by James Pepper. Inscribed by Pepper to film director George Cosmatos. "Dear George: I thought you might like to have a copy of my earlier Welles book. It is quite scarce today. Best from your pal Jim Pepper, Santa Barbara, November 20, 1994." This book from the library of George Cosmatos, director and screenwriter, sold at Sotheby's 23 March 2005.
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A Garland Series: British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Free Discussion of the Doctrines of Materialism and Philosophical Necessity in Correspondence with Joseph Priestley
by Wellek, Rene (ed.); Price, Richard
New York and London: Garland Publishing Co., 1978. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+. Cloth; 8vo; pp. xliv, [2], 428, [6]. Spine tips rubbed; wrinkle in the cloth at top corner of front board. Internally clean and unmarked.
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Tono Bungay
by Wells, H.G.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1960. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Copy 81 of a total edition of 1500. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb and signed by him. Excellent copy in slipcase.
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