Log book of the Schooner Annie Amsden, from Portland [Maine] Toward Cuba
by [manuscript ship's log; whaling]
1875-1878. Hardcover. Very Good+. Original pre-printed log book, neatly rebacked and cornered in leather, retaining portions of the original marbled boards; 15.75 x 9.5 inches; approximately 100 ff. of ruled paper, about three-quarters completed in a neat script in dark brown ink, likely by a few different hands. The log has a printed title leaf, published by M. Thalmessinger & Co., of New York, with an ad for John Rich & Co., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in West... Read More
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The Student's Guide to Western Calligraphy
by Whalley, Joyce Irene
Boulder and London: Shambhala, 1984. Paperback. Near Fine. Wraps; 4to; pp. 188, illustrated throughout. Covers lightly rubbed, else fine, internally bright and clean.
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The House of Mirth
by Wharton, Edith
Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club, 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Signed by the illustrator, Lily Harmon. Copy 81 of a total edition of 1500. Excellent copy in slipcase.
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Italian Villas and their Gardens
by WHARTON, EDITH
New York: Century Co., 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4to. Publisher's green cloth. Top edge gilt. Slight spine lean; light page wrinkling in spots, and milld wear to binding. Former owner's gift inscription. Illustrated throughout with plates.
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Poets of Today VI (Northwind and Other Poems, The Clothing's New Emperor and Other Poems, Poems 1955-1958)
by WHEELOCK, John Hall (Editor); Donald Finkel, Gene Baro and Walter Stone)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo; cloth in DJ. Inscribed by Donald Finkel.
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The New Forget-Me-Not A Calendar
by WHISTLER, Rex [Decorations by]
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo; original cloth, d.w. With errata slip. A beautiful book (unsigned copy). The dust jacket, designed by Whistler, is very lightly soiled on the blank rear panel, but is overwise in exceptional condition, and scarce to find an example thus. Contributors include: Cyril Connolly, Vita Sackville-West, Richard Elwes, Maurice Baring, Bernard Darwin, Max Beerbohm, Siegfried Sassoon, Hugh Walpole, Dorothy Wellesley, and others.
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Miss Toosey's Mission, and Laddie
by Whitaker, Evelyn
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894. Hardcover. Very Good. Original publisher's decorative cloth. 153 pp. + ads. Previous owner inscription.
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The Workes of the Learned and Reverend Divine John White, Doctor in Diuintie: Together with a Defence of the Way to a True Church, in answere to a Popish treatise written by T.W.P. entituled White died Blacke. By Francis White...
by WHITE, Rev. Francis (1564?-1638) WHITE, Rev. John (1570-1615)
London: Printed [by Richard Field for Iohn Bill and William Barret] for W. Barret [and to be sold by M. Lownes, and Rich. Moore], 1624. Hardcover. Very Good+. Whites anti-papist explanation of the true way, an important canonical work for the early Jacobean church, which likened Catholics to superstitious folk. 4 volumes in one, folio (280 x 188mm), separately titled: A defence of the way to the true church against A.D. his reply. London: imprinted by Felix Kyngston... Read More
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The Making of the President 1960
by White, Theodore H.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Publisher's cloth; in lightly soiled and worn DJ. Second printing, May 1962. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., with his bookplate on the front paste-down. Fairbanks (1909-2000) was an American actor (his credits include Gunga Din) and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II.
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Preliminary Experimental Studies in a Case of Amnesia with a Discussion of their Psychopathological Significance. (Reprint from the Archives of Neurology and Psychopathology, V. I, No. 4, 1898.)
by White, William A.
Utica, NY: State Hospitals Press, 1899. Paperback. Very Good+. Printed wraps; 8vo; pp. [2], 20. Covers chipped along yapp edges. Text block is nice and clean.
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The International Review. Volume VIII, No. 41, April 1880. (Includes "William Morris Hunt," by Sarah W. Whitman.)
by Whitman, Sarah W.
New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1880. Paperback. Very Good+. Original wraps; pp. [337]-456, [1]-8 (ads). Nicely preserved in custom jacket and folder. Covers toned (as expected) and lightly chipped along the edges. Contemporary presentation signature (faint) on front cover and first page. Includes: "Mr. Gladstone," by Clement Hugh Hill; "Letters of Eugene Delacroix," Henry James; "The Revolutionary Movement in Russia," Karl Blind; "William Morris Hunt," Sarah W. Whitman; "The Gothenburg Liquor-License System,"... Read More
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Walt Whitman: A Selection of the Manuscripts, Books, and Association Items. Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Detroit Public Library [An Exhibition of the Works of Walt Whitman, Commemorating the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Printing of His "Leaves of Grass"]
by Whitman, Walt; Feinberg, Charles E.
Detroit: Detroit Public Library , 1955. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps; 8vo; pp. xii, [2], 128. Covers rubbed and just a little soiled. The occasional marginal notation in pencil, otherwise internally clean. A nice reference.
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Mogg Megone, A Poem.
by WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF.
Boston: Light and Stearns, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A lovely copy of this scarce little book. Original gilt stamped cloth, housed in custom blue cloth folding box. Early ownership signature dated 1838. Mogg Megone, based on the Native American Indian warrior Mogg Hegon (a noted battle of 1677), was first published in The New England Magazine in the spring of 1835.
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Poems
by Whittier, John G.
Philadelphia / Boston / New York: Joseph Healy / Weeks, Jordan & Co. / John S. Taylor, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original embossed cloth (floral pattern), lettering and border stamped stamped in gilt on upper board; 12mo (110 x 184 mm); pp. [i]-vi, [7]-180. Some light chipping in the cloth at spine tips, corners, and along joints; front hinge a bit tender. Contents foxed. More than 50 poems, many of them with an... Read More
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A Fragment from "Snowbound"
by Whittier, John Greenleaf
1962. Paperback. Fine. Sewn red wraps, illustration of a Christmas Tree printed in green and tipped onto front cover. Text printed in black, with illustrations and details printed in red and green throughout. Inscribed by Albert [Lawson] to "Black Mack" on the colophon. A Christmas Keepsake for the friends of the Lawsons. Spine tips very gently rubbed, else fine.
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Het Russische Huwelijks - en Familie - Recht - Voor den Bond can Revol. Socialist. Intellectueelen
by Wichmann, Clara; [van Doesburg, Theo]
Nieuwe Amsterdammer, 1920. Paperback. Good. Staple-bound wraps (designed by Theo van Doesburg); 4to; pp. 12. Tape repair along spine; stamps and inked notation on front cover and title-p.; the whole a bit tanned, with small closed tears and chips along the edges. Sold as is. An uncommon item.
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Dante & Aquinas
by Wicksteed, Philip Henry
London and Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo; publisher's cloth. 271 pp. Bookplate of Dante scholar and New Yorker contributor, Irma Brandeis. Scattered annotations throughout, presumably hers.
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Musarion oder die Philosophie der Grazien.
by WIELAND, Christoph Martin (1733-1813).
Leipzig: Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1768. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (200 x 121mm). 96pp. Engraved vignette to title depicting arguing characters. Scarce first edition. Original marbled paper board backed with morocco strip, lettered in gilt to second compartment; (light occasional foxing, light edgewear). The German poet and author Christoph Martin Wieland, sometimes called the German Voltaire, was a typical stylist of the German rococo period. Wieland wrote the Musarion oder die Philosophie der Grazien (Musarion, or the Philosophy... Read More
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A Beggar in Jerusalem
by Wiesel, Elie; Edelman, Lily (trans.)
New York: Random House, 1970. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cloth-backed paper over boards. A special edition for presentation to friends of the author and publisher, signed by Wiesel. Spine tips a little rubbed and soiled, otherwise fine.
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The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas; Smith, Nora Archibald (eds.)
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1903. Second impression. Hardcover. Very Good+. Gilt-stamped red cloth; 8vo; pp. xx, 279. Boards lightly rubbed; spine tips and corners gently bumped. A very sweet handwritten letter from Pastor John Humpstone to Miss Sybil Burgen is tipped to the FFEP (dated 1915, on stationery from 291 Ryerson Street in Brooklyn). Poems by William Wordsworth, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, and many more.
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Wendingen. Maandblad voor Bouwen en Sieren van Architectura et Amicitia. Dit is nummer 5 van de 11de serie (1930) en gewijd aan luchtfoto's van Nederland. Met behoud van de Bestaande Typografie naar ontwerp van H. Th. Wijdeveld is dit nummer samenwerking met architect J. Boterenbrood samengesteld door H. C. Verkruysen. De inleidingen zijn geschreven door J. Boterenbrood en J. M. Corsten. Het omslag is gedrukt naar ontwerp van Arthur Staal. De in dit nummer gereproduceerde foto's zijn vervaardigd door de K. L. M.
by Wijdeveld, H. Th.; Verkruysen, H. C.; Boterenbrood, J.; Corsten, J. M.; Staal, Arthur
Amsterdam, 1930. Paperback. Very Good+. Stitched wraps; square folio; pp. 18, illustrated in b/w, with ads. Covers lightly rubbed; some light foxing along fore-edge of front cover. The strikingly designed publication by the Amsterdam art society, Architectura et Amicitia, edited by Dutch architect Hendricus Theodorus Wijdeveld.
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De Bevrijding
by Wijdeveld, H. Th.
Lage Vuursche: Elckerlyc, 1944. Limited Edition, 6/50. Hardcover. Very Good. Pale-blue paper over boards, backed in navy cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on upper board and spine; 8vo; pp. 35, [4]. Van de oplage zijn vijftig exemplaren genummerd en gesineerd. Dit is nummer 6. De Bevrijding werd gezet uit de Plantjin corps 12 en gedrukt op de persen van de Drukkerij J. van Boekhoven te Utrecht op geschept Haesbeek Imperium. Signed by Wijdeveld on the limitation page.... Read More
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Concerto Grosso 1905-1944
by Wijdeveld, H. Th.
Lage Vuursche: Elckerlyc, 1944. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Pale blue paper over boards, backed in navy cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on upper board and spine; 8vo; pp. 159, [4], text block largely unopened. Limited edition, one of 50 "clandestine" copies printed under the care of the author. The architect Hendrik Wijdeveld (1885-1987) was also active as editor, typographer, and designer of books, theater sets, costumes, furniture, and utensils.
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Elements of Astronomy, Descriptive and Physical...
by Wilbur, Hervey
New Haven: Durrie and Peck, 1831. Second Edition, with an Appendix of Problems on the Globes and Useful Tables. Hardcover. Fair. Marbled paper over boards, backed in gilt-ruled morocco; 16mo (3.75 x 5.75 inches); pp. [8] (mispaginated), [9]-144, plus folding frontispiece and 7 plates (collates complete). Backstrip perished; front board missing. Text block browned, as usual, but still perfectly legible. Sold as is.
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Tartuffe
by Wilbur, Richard; Moliere
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A lovely copy of this fine translation of Tartuffe by Richard Wilbur.
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