![Brothers and Keepers [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/216/295/1726295216.0.l.jpg)
Brothers and Keepers [Signed]
by John Edgar Wideman
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Octavo (23.5cm); photo-illustrated dust jacket with $15.95 price intact; copper boards with black cloth spine and copper lettering; [x],243pp. Jacket a bit shelfworn, with rubbing at spine ends and a few stray scuffs to surface. Boards nudged at head and tail. Thumbprint to fore-edge of textblock. Pages lightly toning; faint pencil erasure at top corner... Read More
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![The Homewood Trilogy: Damballah / Hiding Place / Sent for You Yesterday [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/196/088/1602088196.0.l.jpg)
The Homewood Trilogy: Damballah / Hiding Place / Sent for You Yesterday [Signed]
by John Edgar Wideman
New York: Avon, 1985. Very Good. New York: Avon, 1985. Stated First Avon Printing, January 1985 . Octavo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; vii,[5],531pp. Minor shelf wear to wrapper extremities, textblock lightly dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound, free of spine crease. Signed by the author without inscription on title page. First omnibus edition of the complete trilogy, the final installment, Sent for You Yesterday, the winner of the 1984 PEN/Faulkner Award.
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![The UAW [U.A.W.] and Walter Reuther [Inscribed and Signed by Widick]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/227/096/1729096227.0.l.jpg)
The UAW [U.A.W.] and Walter Reuther [Inscribed and Signed by Widick]
by Irving Howe and B.J. Widick
New York: Random House, 1949. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Random House, [1949]. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth, blue topstain, in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); x,309pp. Dust jacket rather chipped and worn with loss at spine crown affecting text, spotting to jacket verso and cloth, corners bumped, else About Very Good overall. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "To Alan Strachan / a UAW pioneer / Sincerely, BJ Widick / April 4,... Read More
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Original Unused Pictorial Receipt
by A. Finke's Widow
San Francisco: A. Finke's Widow, 1911. Fine. San Francisco: A. Finke's Widow, n.d. but after 1910. Pictorial receipt (17.5x21cm) printed on blue stock with printer's slug of Schmidt Lith. Co. Very slightly darkened along margins, else a Fine example. Unused receipt for the recently indicted wine distributors A. Finke's Widow, in reality the partnership of E. Schraubstadter and E.D Groezinger. The company had been charged with selling white wine as champagne: "It is alleged that the 'champagne' is... Read More
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Platon und die Formen des Wissens
by [Plato] Wolfgang Wieland
Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982. Near Fine/Very Good +. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue dust jacket lettered in white and yellow; 339pp. Minimal shelf wear, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good or better. Quite uncommon, especially in dust jacket.
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Some Distinguishing Characters of the Extraordinary and Ordinary Ministers of the Church of Christ, Briefly Considered, in Two Discourses delivered at the publick lectures, in Harvard-College, November 12th and 19th. 1754. After the Reverend Mr. Whitefield's preaching at Cambridge
by Edward Wigglesworth
Boston: Thomas Fleet, 1754. Very Good. Boston: Printed and Sold by Thomas Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, 1754. First Edition. Small octavo; removed; 34pp. ([A]-D4 E1, lacking half title, otherwise collated complete); woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Small shallow loss across title page top margin affecting title with loss of text (supplied by Evans), brief soil to external leaves, contemporary ownership inscription at bottom of title page, "Hannah Cushing her Book," with additional gift inscription on... Read More
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An Essay for Reviving Religion. A sermon delivered at Boston, before the Great and General Assembly of the province of the Massachusetts Bay, May 30th, MDCCXXXIII. Being the anniversary for the election of His Majesty's Council for the province
by Samuel Wigglesworth
Boston: S. Kneeland, Printer to the Honourable House of Representatives, for D. Henchman, 1733. Very Good. Boston: S. Kneeland, Printer to the Honourable House of Representatives, for D. Henchman, 1733. First Edition. Octavo; 20th century cloth tape over stiff marbled card, typescript label mounted to upper cover; [2],36pp. [[A]-E4]; typographically decorative initials, head- and tail-pieces. Lacking half title page, textblock lightly toned and foxed, ownership rubberstamp inside upper cover, else a Very Good copy in serviceable binding. ... Read More
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![Platon [Bd. I: Leben und Werke; Bd. II: Beilagen und Textkritik]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/689/290/1508290689.0.l.jpg)
Platon [Bd. I: Leben und Werke; Bd. II: Beilagen und Textkritik]
by [Plato] Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1920. Very Good. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1920. Second Edition. Two volumes; thick octavos; publisher's gilt-lettered maroon cloth; v,[3],767; [4],445pp. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, hairline crack to Vol. I front hinge, Vol. II rather toned along spine and margins, both textblocks significantly browned due to inferior paper quality, later (1960) ownership signatures to front free endpapers, else a Very Good set. Text entirely in German.
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![Poems: 1943-1956 [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/465/151/1699151465.0.l.jpg)
Poems: 1943-1956 [Inscribed and Signed]
by Richard Wilbur
London: Faber and Faber, 1957. Very Good/Very Good -. London: Faber and Faber, 1957. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (15s); 136pp. Jacket margins rather worn with long closed tear at bottom edge of upper panel not approaching text, spine panel toned, corners bumped, scattered foxing to textbook, uneven offsetting to endpapers; overall Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound. Author inscription dated 1963 to front free endpaper.
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![The Third Figure [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/430/418/1371418430.0.l.jpg)
The Third Figure [Inscribed and Signed]
by Collin Wilcox
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1968. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; [8],182pp. Light edge wear to jacket extremities, spine panel rather sunned, corners a bit bumped, else Very Good and sound. "A Red Badge Mystery Novel." The author's second book, featuring the San Francisco journalist-cum-sleuth with clairvoyant abilities Stephen Drake. Warmly inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "To Joe &... Read More
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![[Broadside] The Old Time News. The First Steam Locomotive and Passenger Train ever Run in America](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/920/199/1711199920.0.l.jpg)
[Broadside] The Old Time News. The First Steam Locomotive and Passenger Train ever Run in America
by [Railroads; John Bull] John Wilcox
Chicago: Published by John Wilcox, the Veteran Rail Road and Steam Boat Agent of America, 1876. Good. Chicago: Published by John Wilcox, the Veteran Rail Road and Steam Boat Agent of America, 1876. Illustrated broadside (31x36cm) featuring illustrations of both the first English and American steam engines. A few small nicks to edges; folds; vertical split down center with tape mending to verso and recto along bottom edge; Good overall. Includes stories behind the first ever runs of... Read More
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The Cabala
by Thornton Wilder
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. Good +/Very Good -. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First Edition, first issue with "doctors." for "doctors," on p. 186, "conversation" for "conversion" on p. 196, and "explaininn" for "explaining" on p. 202. In married Third Printing dust jacket, with $2.50 price intact on flap and "3rd Large Printing" on spine. Boards in decorative tan cloth with red buckram spine and black lettering. Blue topstain. Jacket shows a few... Read More
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The Unerring Instinct
by Thornton Wilder
New York: American Brotherhood The National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1948. Very Good. New York: The National Conference of Christians and Jews, [1948]. Presumed First Edition. Quarto (28cm); 12pp. Tall typescript pages; staple-bound. Binding sound. Slightly bumped and toned along edges; otherwise clean. Endsheets and interior pages likewise toned but clean. A Very Good copy of this one act play.
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The Philiosophy of Wilfrid Sellars: Queries and Extensions. Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1976
by [Wilfrid Sellars] Joseph C. Pitt [ed.]
Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1978. Near Fine/Very Good. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. 305pp. Printed dust jacket. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. Light edgewear and toning to dust jacket. Boards show light shelfwear; binding sound; pages mildly toned but unmarked; Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket.
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![No Letters for the Dead [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/416/336/1687336416.0.l.jpg)
No Letters for the Dead [Signed and Inscribed]
by Gale Wilhelm
New York: Random House, 1936. Very Good. New York: Random House, 1936. Later printing. Octavo (19cm); publisher's salmon cloth stamped in black and silver; black topstain; 212pp. No dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked and sunned; corners bumped. Toning to endpapers. Brief thumbstain to textblock at fore-edge. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by Wilhelm with brief inscription on flyleaf, "To Nina and Hale, with love and gratitude." San Francisco-based partial epistolary novel in which the main character... Read More
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The Sexual Revolution: Toward a Self-Governing Character Structure
by Wilhelm Reich; Theodore P. Wolfe [trans.]
New York: Orgone Institute Press, 1945. Very Good-/Good. New York: Orgone Institute Press, 1945. First American Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped dust jacket; xxvii,[1],273pp. Jacket quite brittle and worn with numerous chips and losses to darkened spine with brief loss of text, cloth a bit spotted, rather extensive red pencil underlining to textblock--though free of ownership markings this was the author Maxwell Geismar's copy. A Good example in the rare jacket. The Austrian psychoanalyst's study... Read More
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![The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/783/036/1722036783.0.l.jpg)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [Signed and Inscribed]
by Isabel Wilkerson
New York: Random House, 2010. Very Good +/Near Fine. New York: Random House, 2010. Later printing. Octavo; publisher's two-toned boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price; x,622pp.; Light shelf wear, corners nudged, tail of spine bumped, but a Very Good or better copy overall. Signed and inscribed by author on title page and owner inscription to first free endsheet, otherwise interior clean. Handsome copy of Wilkerson's major history of the Great Migration, listed at No.... Read More
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![The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/973/014/1616014973.0.l.jpg)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [Signed]
by Isabel Wilkerson
New York: Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc, 2010. Very Good. New York: Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc., 2010. Reprint. Signed by Isabel Wilkerson without inscription at title page. Octavo. 622 pp. Photo-illustrated wraps. Wear to edges; smudging; creasing and curling to corners. Binding sound. Smudges to edge of text block; interior else unmarked. A well-read Very Good copy.
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![The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [Signed Bookplate Mounted in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/656/359/1616359656.0.l.jpg)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [Signed Bookplate Mounted in]
by Isabel Wilkerson
New York: Random House, 2010. Very Good +. New York: Random House, 2010. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's two-toned boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price; x,622pp.; Light shelf wear, "Signed" sticker to upper jacket panel, corners nudged, compliments bookplate to front free endpaper from State Farm's Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award Dinner, May 16, 2012. A Very Good or better copy overall. Bookplate signed by the author mounted to half title page. Handsome copy... Read More
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![Night of the Short Knives [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/448/725/1733725448.0.l.jpg)
Night of the Short Knives [Inscribed and Signed]
by Burke Wilkinson
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1964]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($4.50); vi,278pp. Moderate edge wear to jacket margins, corners nudged, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "For Nell Everhard / with Best wishes from Burke Wilkinson." Espionage adventure novel by a career naval officer set in the bowels of SHAPE - Supreme Headquarters... Read More
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A Sermon, Preached May 11, 1785, at the Ordination of the Reverend Joseph McKeen, to the Pastoral Office over the First Church of Christ in Beverly
by Joseph Willard
Salem, MA: Samuel Hall, 1785. Very Good. Salem, MA: Samuel Hall, 1785. First Edition. Octavo; removed; [2]-54pp. ([A]-G4, lacking half title page, otherwise collated complete). Old remnants of spine leather, very faint foxing to textblock, else a Very Good, fresh and sound example. Ordination sermon delivered by the President of Harvard Joseph Willard (1738-1804). Joseph McKeen would go on to serve as Bowdoin College's first president, from 1802 until his death in 1807. EVANS 19387. ... Read More
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The Second Half of the Double Feature
by Charles Willeford
New Albany, IN: Wit's End Publishing, 2003. Near Fine/Fine. New Albany, IN: Wit's End Publishing, 2003. First Edition, stated. Octavo (22cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; 329pp. Tiny soil spot to top textblock edge, else just About Fine. Posthumous compilation of short stories, autobiographical sketches, and poetry by the author of Miami Blues.
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No Experience Necessary
by Charles Willeford
Chicago: Newsstand Library Magenta Book, 1962. Very Good. Chicago: Newsstand Library Magenta Book, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. 12mo (16cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, all edges stained orange; 190pp. Light shelf wear, most notably at spine crown, front hinge starting, textblock a bit toned as usual, else Very Good. Uncommon and early sleaze novel by the noted author of the hardboiled detective series featuring used car salesman Russell Haxby. Newsstand Library, one of the more "unsavory... Read More
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Max Ernst: Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism
by William A. Canfield; Werner Spies [intro.]; Walter Hopps [pref.]
Munich: Prestel, 1993. Fine/Near Fine. [Munich]: Prestel, [1993]. First Edition. Large quarto; publisher's cloth in glossy pictorial dust jacket; 373pp.; illus. throughout, mostly full color. Very light shelf wear, else Very Good to Near Fine.
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