![[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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Collection of Thirty Glass Slides Depicting the Newly-Completed Hoover Dam
by [Hoover Dam] [Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co.] H.A. Wallace
Boulder City, NV, 1940. Very Good. [Boulder City, NV]: [1940]. Collection of thirty glass slides (slides measure 8x10cm.; images measure 4.5x6cm.); housed in original wooden lidded and clasped box (34.5x12.5x10.5cm.). Five of the plates show hairline cracks, one plate with crack crudely repaired with old tape, else an excellent collection, all images bright and easily discernible. Collection of images taken by or for H.A. Wallace, Superintendent of Maintenance and Tools for the machinery manufacturer Allis-Chalmers with his... Read More
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Stanford Short Stories Nineteen Forty-Nine
by Wallace Stegner [ed.]; Evan Connell; Rhoda LeCoq; et al [contribs.]
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1949. Near Fine/Very Good +. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (22.2 cm), x, 165pp. Publisher’s orange and cream dust jacket intact with price ($3.00). Boards full bound in tan cloth with orange stamping on the spine. Dust jacket toned all over with creases, some rippling, minor tears and chips at margins and spine ends. Head of spine has minor loss and surface lightly pulled at middle of spine. Verso... Read More
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Stanford Short Stories Nineteen Forty-Eight
by Wallace Stegner [ed.]; Eugene Burdick; Harry Muheim; et al [contribs.]
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1948. Very Good +/Very Good +. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1948. First Edition. Octavo (22.2 cm), x, 154pp. Publisher’s orange and cream dust jacket intact with price ($3.00). Boards full bound in tan cloth with orange stamping on the spine. Dust jacket toned all over with creases, minor tears and chips at margins and spine ends. Head of spine has minor loss. Verso taped at the joint ends and the bottom of... Read More
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The Lure of the Labrador Wild: The Story of the Exploring Expedition Conducted by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.
by Dillon Wallace
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1905. Very Good+. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, [c. 1905 but ca. 1913]. Presumed Eleventh Edition. Octavo; contemporary full crushed teal morocco double-ruled in gilt, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, housed in custom cloth slipcase; [2],339pp.; photographic frontispiece, fifteen (15) leaves of plates, folding map bound in rear. Spine leather toned to tan, small gilt-tooled ex libris to front pastedown, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good or... Read More
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The Terrible People
by Edgar Wallace
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Very Good-. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth lettered in black; [6],336pp. Margins a bit rubbed and worn, spine a shade toned and ends frayed, top textblock edge foxed, else a Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Crime novel with elements of horror by the prolific journalist and author Edgar Wallace (1875-1932), best known for developing the screenplay... Read More
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The Murder Book of J. G. Reeder
by Edgar Wallace
Garden City, NY: The Crime Club, Inc./ Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1929. Very Good +. Garden City, NY: The Crime Club, Inc./ Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929. First US Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 308pp. No dust jacket. Boards full bound in black cloth with red stamping. Generally dust soiled, lightly scuffed, bumped and rubbed at extremities. Page edges lightly soiled, scratched, and toned. Minor foxing to rear endsheet and toning to front endsheet, otherwise pages relatively clean. A... Read More
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Again Sanders
by Edgar Wallace
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First Edition, stated. Octavo (19.8cm); illustrated dust jacket with $1.00 price intact; boards in orange cloth with black lettering; pattered green endpapers; 312pp. Jacket edgeworn with a few shallow chips and tears; spine faded, with a small circle of extra fading over author's name (perhaps from an earlier sticker placed over); smudging along folds and to rear panel. Boards are clean... Read More
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![Curved Light [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/113/186/1626186113.0.l.jpg)
Curved Light [Signed]
by Alan Wall
London: Bellew Publishing, 1994. Fine/Near Fine. London: Bellew Publishing, 1994. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; 158pp. Just About Fine condition. Signed by Wall on title page. The author's first novel, preceded only by the poetry collection "Jacob" the previous year.
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![Marooned with Murder [alt. title Bury Him Deeper]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/051/814/1738814051.0.l.jpg)
Marooned with Murder [alt. title Bury Him Deeper]
by R. A. J. Walling
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1937. Very Good+. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1937. First US Edition. Octavo (20 cm); [4],284pp. Lacking jacket. Boards in black cloth with red stamping and decoration; red top stain. Board corners and spine ends nudged and rubbed with mild scuffing to covers. Endsheets and page edges toned. Interior clean. A Very Good or better copy of a Philip Tolefree series title.
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![Glimpses of Spain; or, Notes of an Unfinished Tour in 1847 [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/482/183/1585183482.0.l.jpg)
Glimpses of Spain; or, Notes of an Unfinished Tour in 1847 [Inscribed and Signed]
by S.T. Wallis
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, yellow glazed endpapers; xii,[13]-384pp. Boards a bit scuffed at corners and spine ends, endpapers darkened and textblock heavily foxed, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by the author.
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Night Light
by Douglass Wallop
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1953. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1953. First Edition. Octavo. 378 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price present. Dark blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket shows general rubbing with some slight chipping and creasing along edges. Boards are lightly worn at extremities. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A very good or better copy in a very good jacket of the... Read More
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Sir Charles Bell: His Life and Times
by Gordon Gordon-Taylor and E.W. Walls
Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd, 1958. Very Good/Very Good. Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1958. First Edition. Thick octavo (22.5cm); publisher's boards in cream dust jacket, pictorial paste-on to upper jacket panel; xii,288pp.; color portrait frontispiece, half tone and color plates throughout. Light shelf wear, small blue soil spot to rear jacket panel, corners bumped, ownership ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown; Very Good and sound overall.
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