The Century of Tung Ch'i-ch'ang 1555-1636 Volume I and Volume II
by Wai-Kam Ho; Judith G. Smith [eds.]
Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / University of Washington Press, 1992. Very Good +. Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / University of Washington Press, 1992. First Edition, wrapper issue. Two quarto volumes. 465 p.; 603 p. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated wraps. Wraps are lightly worn along edges with some general rubbing and faint surface scratching. Bindings sound. Pages clean and unmarked.
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The Crystallised Carbon Pig
by John Wainwright
New York: Walker and Company, 1967. Very Good-/Very Good. New York: Walker and Company, [1967]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.95); 256pp. Light wear to margins, dark glue residue to jacket corners and racing endpapers from having been previously tipped down, shallow paper scar at jacket spine crown, cloth edges unevenly darkened, textblock toned due to inferior paper stock, else Good to Very Good and sound. The excessively... Read More
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The Book of Ceremonial Magic: Including the Rites and Mysteries of Goetic Theurgy, Sorcery and Infernal Necromancy
by Arthur Edward Waite
New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1969. Near Fine/Very Good +. New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1969. First Thus, with full letter line. Octavo; 338pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket; red cloth boards stamped in black. Mild rubbing and creasing to dust jacket, with blind pen impression of a previous price on front flap. Boards show mild shelfwear; binding sound; pages unmarked; Near Fine in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Originally published in 1896... Read More
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![The Magician's Feastletters [Signed Limited Edition with holograph poem]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/463/299/1741299463.0.l.jpg)
The Magician's Feastletters [Signed Limited Edition with holograph poem]
by Diane Wakoski
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. Very Good/Very Good. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. Limited First Edition of 50 deluxe copies, of which this is number 18. Octavo (23.5cm); clear acetate dust jacket; handbound boards by Earle Gray; 129pp. Jacket crisp with light dust-soiling. Boards square with a touch of rubbing along bottom edge. Signed by the author with holograph poem tipped in at front.
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![Spending Christmas with the Man from Receiving at Sears [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/149/704/1738704149.0.l.jpg)
Spending Christmas with the Man from Receiving at Sears [Signed Limited Edition]
by Diane Wakoski
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. Very Good +/Very Good +. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First Edition; numbered 79 or 176. Slim octavo (21cm); [16]pp. Publisher’s printed dust jacket; boards bound in orange and cream cloth; orange endsheets. Dust jacket bumped and lightly toned. Boards clean. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. Very Good or better. Signed by the author at limitation. Issued by Black Sparrow and distributed to friends of... Read More
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![The Wise Men Drawn to Kneel in Wonder at the Fact So of Itself [Limited Edition Signed by All Three Poets]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/628/702/1738702628.0.l.jpg)
The Wise Men Drawn to Kneel in Wonder at the Fact So of Itself [Limited Edition Signed by All Three Poets]
by David Bromige; Robert Kelly; Diane Wakoski
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. Very Good +/Very Good +. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Edition; numbered 16 of 100. 24mo (15cm); [16]pp. Acetate jacket; boards bound in red and mustard cloth; purple endsheets. Jacket clean. Boards a bit faded along edges; otherwise clean. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. Very Good or better. Signed by each author at their contribution. A holiday collection including “The Nest” by David Bromige, “Yesod... Read More
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Lettres sur les Contes de Fees Attribues a Perrault, et sur l'Origine de la Feerie
by [Charles Perrault] Anonymous [C.A. Walckenaer]
Paris: Baudouin Freres, 1826. Very Good. Paris: Baudouin Freres, 1826. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's tan pictorial wrappers bound in modern metallic marbled green boards with new endpapers; edges untrimmed; [6],218pp. Contemporary bookseller ticket, institutional ex libris and a stamp to preliminaries. Light wear to boards; binding sound; wraps toned with light spotting; a few stray annotations and a mild spotting to interior, else unmarked; a Very Good copy.
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![Three Plays: The Last Carnival; Beef, No Chicken; A Branch of the Blue Nile [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/468/651/1563651468.0.l.jpg)
Three Plays: The Last Carnival; Beef, No Chicken; A Branch of the Blue Nile [Signed and Inscribed]
by Derek Walcott
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. First Edition. Signed by Walcott with brief inscription to previous owner at front free endpaper. Octavo. 312 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $22.50 price intact. Light brown and beige boards stamped in gilt. Jacket is crisp with very faint shelfwear and brief smudging to rear panel. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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![Omeros [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/542/815/1721815542.0.l.jpg)
Omeros [Signed]
by Derek Walcott
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. First Edition, stated. Signed by Walcott with brief inscription to previous owner at title page. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; slate cloth stamped in gilt; 325pp. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed along edges; chip to top front corner; pin prick to rear panel. Mild shelfwear to boards; same pin prick indentation to rear board; binding sound; pages unmarked; a Very Good and sound copy of... Read More
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![In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 [Uncorrected Proof]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/334/567/1699567334.0.l.jpg)
In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 [Uncorrected Proof]
by Derek Walcott
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. Very Good +. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. Uncorrected Proof. Small, slim octavo; publisher's light olive card wrappers printed in black with repeating Cape logo; 78pp. Very light wear and toning, else a Very Good to Near Fine example. Early uncorrected proof copy in generic publisher's wrappers of the Saint Lucian poet's first work published outside of the Caribbean--another proof copy featuring the dust jacket art was issued later. Thirty years later Walcott... Read More
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A Windmill Near Calvary
by Keith Waldrop
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1968. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); [viii],56pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with $4.95 price intact; boards in patterned green and white cloth with tile square to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with some bumping at top corners and head of spine. Matching light bumps to boards at corners and spine ends. Pages lightly toned along edges, with a flattened dog-ear... Read More
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The County Families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled & untitled aristocracy of Great Britain & Ireland
by Edward Walford
London: Robert Hardwicke, 1860. Very Good-. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1860. First Edition. Large, thick octavo; publisher's gilt-stamped cloth, brown glazed endpapers; xxx,[2],865,[3],60pp.; pictorial ads bound in rear. Cloth rubbed at extremities, spine ends a bit frayed, hinges rather crudely reinforced, textblock shaken in binding, contemporary ownership signature at head of title page, else a Good or better copy overall. First appearance of this behemoth Who's Who attempting to keep track of the "families continually crossing and... Read More
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![[Poster] Louis Satchmo Armstrong, 1900-1971](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/415/828/1299828415.0.l.jpg)
[Poster] Louis Satchmo Armstrong, 1900-1971
by Zdzisław Walicki
1975. Very Good. Text on poster: Louis Satchmo Armstrong // P[olskie] S[towarzyszenie] J[azzowe] with trumpet logo // 1900-1971. Date: 1975. Height x width: 95.5cm x 67cm. Printing information: lower left corner: logos of KAW and WAG. Condition: No visual flaws. Walicki studied at the College of Fine Arts in Łódź, and became professor at the College of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, eventually serving there as head of various departments associated with painting, drawing, and graphic design. ... Read More
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Five Poems
by Alice Walker
Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1972. Near Fine. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1972. First Edition; one of 500 copies. Slim octavo booklet (21cm); [4]pp. Cream-colored paper with purple text; single sheet folded. Toned at edges and centerfold. Near Fine. A collection of five poems that would be included in Walker’s Revolutionary Petunias, published by Harcourt the following year. A lovely example of this early scarce work.
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![Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/262/588/1695588262.0.l.jpg)
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning [Signed]
by Alice Walker
New York: The Dial Press, 1979. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: The Dial Press, 1979. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (21cm); publisher's dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; red boards and blue cloth spine with gilt lettering; [viii],53pp. Ex-District of Columbia Public Library, with the usual markings. Jacket in mylar cover and affixed to pastedowns, but is clean and crisp beneath. Boards show light shelfwear along bottom edge. Spine slightly cocked. Foxing to top edge of... Read More
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Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You In The Morning: Poems
by Alice Walker
New York: Dial Press, 1979. Near Fine/Fine. New York: Dial Press, [1979]. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped dust jacket; vi,53pp. Corners gently tapped, else Just About Fine. Lovely copy of Walker's third poetry collection preceding "The Color Purple" by three years.
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![Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/274/654/1701654274.0.l.jpg)
Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems [Signed]
by Alice Walker
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First Edition Stated. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($5.95); [10],70pp. Closed tear at top edge of rear jacket panel with old tape repair, light wear to cloth margins, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy of the author's second poetry collection. Signed by the author on title page.
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![A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language...to Which is Prefixed an Abstract of the Principles of English Pronunciation...Abridged for the Use of Schools, by an American Citizen [William Safire Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/504/366/1279366504.0.l.jpg)
A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language...to Which is Prefixed an Abstract of the Principles of English Pronunciation...Abridged for the Use of Schools, by an American Citizen [William Safire Copy]
by John Walker
Philadelphia: Griggs & Dickinson, 1832. Good. Philadelphia: Griggs & Dickinson, 1832. Standing Edition, Greatly Improved. 24mo; 413pp. Contemporary brown leather with black title card to spine. Boards rubbed and bumped along edges and corners, with chipping at head of spine and leather worn away and cracking at bottom exposing gatherings. Split starting to front joint, but binding is still holding. Dampstain affecting front endpapers and first gathering, clearing up by the end of the prefaces. Pages foxed and... Read More
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MCMXCIX
by Kara Walker
Amersfoot, Netherlands: Roma Publications, 2017. Near Fine/Near Fine. Amersfoot, Netherlands: Roma Publications, 2017. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); [212]pp. Illustrated dust jacket; grey card wrappers with black stamping to spine. Illustrations throughout. Dust jacket ever-so-slightly bumped. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. Near Fine. Kara Walker (b. 1969) is an American contemporary artist known for creating panoramic friezes of cut-paper silhouettes. Her work deals primarily with race, gender, violence, and identity. MCMXCIX reproduces a... Read More
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![Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/251/457/1741457251.0.l.jpg)
Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective [Inscribed and Signed]
by J. Samuel Walker
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. Fine/Near Fine. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xi,[1],303pp.; halftone illus. throughout. Just About Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author in year of publication on the title page.
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A Poetic Equation: Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker
by Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker
Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1974. Very Good-/Very Good. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's cloth, black endpapers, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($6.95); xiii,[5],135pp.; halftone photographic illus. throughout. Ex-public library with usual markings, moderate shelf wear and light wrinkling to dust jacket, faint pencil note on front free endpaper ("Nathan McCall makes me want to holler"); Good to Very Good overall. Very scarce first edition of this series... Read More
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Isadora Duncan in Her Dances
by Abraham Walkowitz
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1945. Very Good. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1945. First Edition. Quarto (28.7cm); bound in three-quarter leather and marbled paper boards with leather title card by Starr Bookworks; original blue-green paper wraps retained; 12pp+[20]pp illus. Boards sturdy, clean, and square. Fading and toning along edges of original wraps. Scattered foxing to title page. Light, flattened creasing to some interior pages. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Title page continues: "Included Are Dance Sequence Drawings of... Read More
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![Girl with Curious Hair [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/827/049/1723049827.0.l.jpg)
Girl with Curious Hair [Signed]
by David Foster Wallace
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. First Edition. Signed by David Foster Wallace without inscription at title page. Octavo; photo-illustrated dust jacket; black cloth-backed boards; 373pp. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with a couple inoffensive scuffs. Mild shelfwear to boards; binding sound; pages unmarked; Near Fine.
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![The Broom of the System [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/475/047/1723047475.0.l.jpg)
The Broom of the System [Signed]
by David Foster Wallace
New York: Penguin, 1987. Very Good. New York: Penguin, 1987. First Edition, wrapper issue, published simultaneously with the Viking hardcover. Signed by David Foster Wallace without inscription at title page. Octavo; illustrated wraps; 467pp. Mild shelfwear and toning; a few smudges; slight curling to corners; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy of Wallace's debut novel.
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Dope Runners
by Gerald Grantham [pseud. John Wallace]
South Melbourne, Australia: Crime Book Publishing Co. Proprietary Limited, 1940. Very Good -. South Melbourne, Australia: Crime Book Publishing Co. Proprietary Limited, 1940. Presumed First Edition with no other printings listed. Octavo. 284 pp. + publisher's advertisements. Red cloth stamped in black. No dust jacket. Boards a bit warped and lightly worn along edges, with a split and adjacent fraying along bottom edge of rear joint; cloth scuffed and spotted some some surface dampstaining; spine cocked,... Read More
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