Epistolium-vagum-prosa-metricum: or, An epistle at randome, in prose and metre. To be delivered, to all whom it may concern; but, was first intended only, for two or three of the authors friends in authority (if he hath so many left) to mediate in Parliament, the redress of his destructive grievances; in the expression whereof, many particulars of publick concernment are interwoven. The author, is George Wither Esq; who, in writing this address, being transported beyond the sense of his personal sufferings, discovers by a poetical rapture, that whereon the peace of these nations depends; and, what is, and what vvill be, their sad condition; as also, what new-purgatories, and fiery-tryals, they are likely to pass, if God's mercy, prevents not: which that they may endeavour to obtain, their old remembrancer gives them, once more, a fore-warning; resolving, this shall be his last time, of sounding them an alarm.
by Wither, George
London, 1659. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 4to. 19th century half calf. 30pp. Wing W3156; ESTC R204085. Provenance (bookplates): Britwell Court; Fairfax of Cameron. Robert S Pirie. Ink note on old description tipped to inside front board marking this copy as sold at Sotheby's April 9, 1924. Rare in commerce.
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The Doubtfull Almanack or A very suspicious presage of great calamities to ensue
by Wither, George
London, 1647. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. [London: s.n., 1647]. 4to. Caption title; four leaves (8p), no title or imprint. 19th c. half green morocco by Riviere. First edition (Wing D1956A; ESTC0 R201298). Authorship denied by Wither (cf. Wing W3153). provenance: Fairfax of Cameron; Robert S Pirie.
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Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology: Volume II. Bemerkungen über die Philosophie der Psychologie (Two, 2)
by WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. A nice copy of volume two. This is an excellent edition with the text in both German and English. Edited by G. H. Von Wright and Heikki Byman. Translated by C. G. Lackhardt and M. A. E. Aue.
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Measure for Murder
by Witting, Clifford
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1949. Second Impression. Hardcover. Good/Good. Small 8vo. Publisher's red cloth in a pictorial dustwrapper. Jacket is quite foxed to the verso, rear panel soiled, small chips and edge tears. With a striking front panel of woman dressed in purple.
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Ice in the Bedroom
by Wodehouse, P. G.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Red cloth, lettering stamped in black on spine; illustrated dust jacket. Spine tips gently rubbed, some faint foxing on title-page and edges of text block (as usual); otherwise a nice, bright copy of the book. Dust jacket lightly chipped at head of spine, a bit browned here and there, price-clipped. Attractive in mylar.
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The Pothunters
by Wodehouse, P. G.
London: Souvenir Press, 1972. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cloth; illustrated dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 158.
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Love Among the Chickens
by WODEHOUSE, P. G. [Illustrations by Armand Both]
New York: The Circle Publishing Company, 1909. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth; corners bumped, spine spotted with ends fraying. Rear blank removed. With printed leaf noting this as an Advance Copy. Sold as is.
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The Life and Death of a Brave Bull
by Wojciechowska, Maia; Illustrated By John Groth
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine copy in dust jacket. Signed by the illustrator, who has added a full page drawing of a bull.
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Cursory rhymes by Humbert Wolfe
by Wolfe, Humbert. Illustrated by Albert Rutherston.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated by Albert Rutherston. Small 8vo. Original cloth, worn. First Edition stated. Previous owner's inscription dated 1929. There was a signed limited edition published a year earlier in London. This edition seems less common.
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GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS: A Play.
by Wolfe, Thomas
Chicago: Black Archer Press, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in original green cloth, with yellow paper label. A nice copy of an uncommon book.
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Charlotte Simmons
by Wolfe, Tom
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Wolfe on the title-page.
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Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
by Wolfe, Tom
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 153. Small bump and brown spot at bottom edge of front board; ownership signature on FFEP; otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket faintly rubbed; scratch on rear panel; price-clipped; VG in mylar, nice and bright.
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Philosophia rationalis, sive Logica, methodo scientifica pertractata et ad usum scientiarum atque vitae aptata. Praemittitur discursus praeliminaris de Philosophia in genere.
by WOLFF, Christian (1679–1754)
Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1732. Hardcover. Good+. Thick 4to (210 x 173mm). Pagination: [16], 866pp., [18]. Signatures: a-b(4), A-Z(4), Aa-Zz(4), Aaa-Zzz(4), Aaaa-Zzzz(4), Aaaaa-Sssss(4), Ttttt(2). Title printed in red and black. Three quarter vellum over pastepaper boards, edges stained blue, flat spine with manuscript title, spine head chipped and some loss. The revised Second Edition of Christian Wolff’s Philosophia Rationalis printed in Frankfurt and Leipzig in 1732. First edition printed in 1728.
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Philosophia Prima, sive Ontologia, Methodo Scientifica Pertractata, qua Omnis Cognitionis Humanae Principia Continentur [Bound with:] Cosmologia Generalis, Methodo Scientifica Pertractata, qua ad solidam, inprimis dei atque naturae, cognitionem via sternitur.
by WOLFF, Christian (1679–1754)
Frankfurt and Leipzig: Prostat in Officina Libraria Rengeriana, 1736. Hardcover. Good+. MDCCXXXVI (1736) and MDCCXXXVII (1737). Two books in one volume, thick 4to (210 x 170mm). Pagination: Part I: [16], 696pp., [1 folding diagram], [16]. Part II: [16], 448pp., [1 folding diagram], [8]. Signatures: Part I: a-b(4), A-Z(4), Aa-Zz(4), Aaa-Eee(4), Fff(2), Ggg(2), Hhh-Zzz(4), Aaaa-Xxxx(4); Part II: a-b(4), A-Z(4), Aa-Zz(4), Aaa-Lll(4). Two folding diagrams appended to 4U(1) and 3K(4). Separately titled, both printed in red and black. Contemporary calf, marbled... Read More
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Spaces
by WOLFF, Eleanor
Mount Vernon, New York: A.Colish, 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of a total editon of 250. Designer leather binding by Suzanne Schrag. Housed in a custom box also by Schrag. Laid in is a letter from Wolff to Schrag's husband, Paul.
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Sleepwalking
by Wolitzer, Meg
New York: Random House, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Cloth-backed paper over boards; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 215. Inscribed by the author on the title-page. Edges of boards darkened just a touch, otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket faintly rubbed; a little tanned along the edges; VG+ to NF, presents very nicely in mylar.
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Stefan George und die Blatter fur die Kunst, Deutsche Geistesgeschichte Seit 1890
by Wolter, Friedrich
Berlin: Georg Bondi, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Navy cloth, stamped in gilt on upper board and spine; dust jacket; large 8vo (6.75 x 9.5 inches); pp. 589, [3] (ads), plus frontispiece and 4 plates. Boards lightly rubbed; text block very slightly tanned. Dust jacket dust-soiled, and chipped and wrinkled along the edges; in mylar.
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The Higher Education of Women Addresses at Mount Holyoke Seminary, July 3rd 1873.
by Women]
Northampton : Bridgman & Childs, 1874. Paperback. Very Good. Stitched wraps. 31 pp.
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Letter from Aimee Watt Smyth, Secretary of the Women's Aerial League
by [Women's Aerial League]; Smyth, Aimee Watt
London, 1911. Ephemera. Near Fine. Ten-line letter on Women's Aerial League stationery, handwritten and signed by the Honourable Secretary of the Women's Aerial League, Aimee Watt Smyth. Dated 10 February 1911, and addressed to Miss Gordon Barrett, it reads: "I must thank you very much for your great kindness in giving us a meeting at your house -- We all thought it most successful and everyone was extremely interested. You made an excellent Chairman and... Read More
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The Song of Songs. Original Manuscript.
by [Americana] [Manuscript] [Women]
America, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cloth-covered boards, backed in brown morocco; oblong 4to (340x265mm); approx. pp. 120, interleaved tissue and laid paper with untrimmed edges; composed of pen and ink drawings, woodblock cuts, and calligraphic text, translating "The Songs of Songs" from Hebrew into English. A unique artist's book by an American woman, impressively carried out. Some scuffing along spine, else fine. With colophon statement, "This book was transcribed, illustrated, and bound by Beverly Wechsler, September... Read More
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Poems. A Calligraphic Manuscript.
by [women's manuscript]; Pitcairn, Mary
1953. Fine. Heavy cardstock boards (about 8.75 x 9.5 inches), bound with white ribbon; with 4 leaves, each handwritten on the verso only, offering 4 different poems. Front cover beautifully illustrated in ink and gouache, with "Poems" written in a simple calligraphy, and bordered by flowers, a butterfly, and a fairy. The lettering employed to record the poems is equally ornate. This volume is remarkable for the time and care that went into its production,... Read More
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Extraordinary family scrapbook of original drawings, watercolors, lithographs, and Peale Museum silhouettes, all pasted in an 1802 volume of the Philadelphia newspaper Gazette of the United States containing approximately 100 complete issues.
by [SCRAPBOOK -- FOLK ART] [PHILADELPHIA] [NEWSPAPERS] [WOMEN]
Folio, 20 x 12½ inches, contemporary half calf, worn with boards detached. The first 24 leaves of this truly remarkable (and quite large) object are used as a circa 1820s scrapbook. This is followed by approximately 100 complete issues of the Gazette of the United States, plus some partial issues, with moderate wear. Philadelphia and environs, 1802-circa 1824. The compliler of this scrapbook was possibly a descendant of Lynford Lardner (1715-1774), a close associate of the Penn's who had... Read More
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Three Caricatures by G. M. Woodward
by Woodward, G. M. [George Murgatroyd] (1760-1809)
[London], late-18th century. Ephemera. Near Fine. Three colored etchings, each in a 249x173mm mount. The first, 120x105mm, shows a monkey approaching a cat who has a foamy beard; the monkey says "Bless me sir what a beard you have -- I never saw such an article since I have kept shop, it will take a month to lather it;" the cat replies, "Come sir -- dispatch if you please." The second, 140x105mm, shows a bear in chains, being... Read More
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Freshwater : Broadside Signed by Writer/Performers, and Three Editions of the Play
by WOOLF, Virginia
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1976. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A small archive around this posthumously published work offered here. Espace Theatral - Compagnie Simone Benmussa Presenta Freshwater, Spoleto: Arti Grafiche Panetto & Petrelli, [1984]. Broadside for the 27th Festival dei Due Mondi performance of the French version of Freshwater translated by Elisabeth Janvier and directed by Ottorino Neri; text printed in green and black on white, signed in ink by Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Guy Dumur,... Read More
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Between The Acts
by Woolf, Virginia
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1941. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Original cloth in DJ. Some darkening to gutters along front and rear hinge, but still a sound copy of a book prone to wear. Pictorial jacket with Vanessa Bell design retains original price of $2.50; some darkening to spine and modest edgewear and soil. A very good example.
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