Christ, the King and Witness of Truth, and the nature, excellency, and extent of His Kingdom, as founded in truth, and only promoted by it. In several discourses on Christ's answer to Pilate. Joh. 18 37
by Solomon Williams
Boston: Printed by Rogers and Fowle, for D. Henchman, 1744. Very Good. Boston: Printed by Rogers and Fowle, for D. Henchman, 1744. First Edition. Small quarto (19.5cm.); recent stiff blue card wrappers, manuscript spine label; [4],151,[1]pp.; typographically decorative initials, head- and tail-pieces. Renewed endpapers, light soil to title page gutter, else Very Good in a fine, serviceable new binding. Collection of seven sermons by the pastor of the First Church in Lebanon. Of special note is the... Read More
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A Vindication, of some of the most essential doctrines of the Reformation: Being a reply to objections raised against these doctrines in a later publication entitled, "The Errors of Hopkinsianism Detected and Refuted; in six letters, by Nathan Bangs, Minister of the Gospel;" addressed to the author of the present work. To which is added a sermon, on the goodness of God, manifested in governing the hearts of his enemies
by [Nathan Bangs] Seth Williston
Hudson, N.Y.: Ashbel Stoddard, 1817. Very Good. Hudson, N.Y.: Ashbel Stoddard, 1817. First Edition. 12mo; full contemporary calf, gilt-lettered spine label; 264pp. Some scuffing to leather extremities and a few surface scars to both boards, spine label starting to separate, textblock uniformly toned, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else Very Good, internally sound. Refutation against a tract first published in 1815 by the Methodist itinerant minister Nathan Bangs in which he criticized Calvinist doctrine, stating... Read More
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![The Writer's Forum / Readings by Four Younger Poets [Event Program Signed by All Poets]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/610/558/1699558610.0.l.jpg)
The Writer's Forum / Readings by Four Younger Poets [Event Program Signed by All Poets]
by William Matthews, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, James Tate, and Gerard Malanga
New York: Poets & Writers, Inc, 1975. Very Good +. [New York]: Poets & Writers, Inc., [1975]. Event Program. Slim quarto (25cm); [12]pp. Stiff staple-bound wraps. Black-and-white author photo and brief biography accompany each poem. Wraps bumped and toned. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages toned. Signed by each poet at their contribution. A Very Good or better copy of this event program for two consecutive nights of readings at SUNY Brockport. Gerard Malanga author... Read More
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![Grand [Limited Edition, Signed by Williams]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/556/908/1510908556.0.l.jpg)
Grand [Limited Edition, Signed by Williams]
by Tennessee Williams
New York: House of Books, Ltd, 1964. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: House of Books, Ltd., 1964. Limited Edition of 300 copies signed by Tennessee Williams at limitation page, this being #287. Octavo.Unpaginated. Glassine wrapper. Yellow boards stamped in black. Glassine wrapper chipped along top edge of front panel, with a few short closed tears to same. Boards gently rubbed at corners, bindings sound, and pages unmarked.
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Small Craft Warnings
by Tennessee Williams
New York: New Directions Book, 1972. Fine/Near Fine. [New York]: New Directions Book, [1972]. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($7.95); [6],86pp. Rear jacket panel and flaps a bit yellowed, else a Very Good to Near Fine example.
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![The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/348/738/1692738348.0.l.jpg)
The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde [Limited Edition]
by Tennessee Williams
New York: Albondocani Press, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Albondocani Press, 1984. Limited First Edition of 150 copies, of which this is number 133. Octavo (21cm); marbled red jacket with paper title label over black wraps; [36]pp. Covers curled outward at fore-edge, with otherwise very faint shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Publisher's prospectus laid in at front. [Crandell A53].
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Nation-Building and Community in Israel
by Dorothy Willner
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. Very Good/Very Good. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. First Edition. Price-clipped dustjacket shows some tugging at head of spine, but is clean and crisp with no chips, tears, or marks. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not an ex-library copy.
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The Duty and Relation of the Church to the Colored Population of the United States. A Part of the Annual Address of the Bishop to the Convention of the Diocese of Alabama
by [Post-Reconstruction Alabama] Richard H. Wilmer
Alabama: s.i., 1884. Very Good -. [Alabama?]: s.i., 1884. First Edition. Octavo; printed wraps; 16pp. Wrappers soiled and worn; vertical crease; text block separated from wraps; mild spotting but text legible throughout; Good to Very Good. An intriguing publication highlighting the racism and social complexity of the Jim Crow South, in which the theologically conservative Wilmer espouses, "the genius of the mission of this our Church... to bind together in a common faith and discipline all... Read More
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![Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Examination of the Black Experience in Religion [Kenneth Rexroth's copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/665/743/1473743665.0.l.jpg)
Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Examination of the Black Experience in Religion [Kenneth Rexroth's copy]
by Gayraud S. Wilmore
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1972. First Edition, stated. Octavo; [xvi], 344pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $7.95 price intact; bound in black cloth with red lettering to spine. Jacket edgeworn with a few tiny chips and tears at spine ends, smudging down folds, and some dust soiling and toning to surface. Boards are sturdy with a bit of fading along edges and nudging at spine ends. Moderate to heavy... Read More
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Outdoor Advertising
by Wilmot Lippincott; Percival White [intro.]
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1923. Very Good. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 340pp. Thirty-two color plates; black and white illustrations including frontispiece. Dark green cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Stain to bottom of front boards; wear to extremities with shallow loss to top of spine, minor fraying, and brief exposure. Binding gives a little but overall sound. Advertisement for Creative Bureau, Thos. Cusack Co. mounted to front free endpaper; interior else unmarked.... Read More
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Death Rides a Painted Horse
by Robert Patrick Wilmot
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company / Mainline Mysteries, 1954. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company / Mainline Mysteries, 1954. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 238 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$2.50" price present. Gray boards stamped in red. Review slip laid in. Dust jacket rubbed along edges with minor spotting along edges. Boards lightly shelfworn with a few scrapes to front. Binding is sound. Patch of staining to fore-edge of text block but pages otherwise unmarked. Very Good. ... Read More
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To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
by Edmund Wilson
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 509 pp. Printed dust jacket. Red boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket shows a few nicks to extremities and spine; general scuffing and staining; spine toned at verso. Boards lightly shelfworn and corners slightly bumped; soiling and discoloration from exposure to damp to front and rear board near fore-edge; slight musty smell. Binding is sound. Spotting... Read More
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The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature
by Edmund Wilson
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1941. Very Good/Very Good -. Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in crimson and grey decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [8],295pp. Moderate wear and a few small chips and closed tears to jacket margins, spine panel significantly sunned with long deep vertical crease, corners bumped, faint foxing to pastedowns, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. ... Read More
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This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches
by Edmund Wilson
New York: The New Republic, 1937. Very Good +. New York: The New Republic, 1937. First Edition. 12mo (19 cm); 298pp+1ad. Publisher's cream illustrated wrappers with yapp edges, deckled fore-edge and mostly unopened pages. Lightly soiled and toned with minor chips and rubbing to extremities. Pages clean. A Very Good or better copy of a collection of three plays by Edmund Wilson: The Crime in the Whistler Room, A Winter in Beech Street, and Beppo and Beth. ... Read More
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Discordant Encounters: Plays and Dialogues
by Edmund Wilson
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. Very Good. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's tan cloth over blue patterned cloth, spine lettered in blue, faded blue topstain; 297pp. Light wear to cloth margins including small loss of cloth at top edge of upper cover, edges toned, light foxing to textblock, else Very Good and sound. Collection of comic dialogues between the likes of Van Wyck Brooks and F. Scott Fitzgerald,... Read More
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Poets, Farewell!
by Edmund Wilson
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition, with Scribner's seal to copyright. Octavo (21.5cm); [viii],78pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; boards in brown cloth with gilt lettering and black cloth spine. Jacket has been restored with tissue backing, showing evidence of some prior tears, creasing, and scuffs along edges and spine folds; jacket otherwise generally crisp with some toning down spine and to rear panel.... Read More
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Devil Take the Hindmost: A Year of the Slump
by Edmund Wilson
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First Edition with "A" on copyright page. Octavo; publisher's crimson cloth, gilt-lettered spine; viii,[2],313pp. Light shelf wear, spine cloth a bit faded, textblock toned, else Very Good and sound. Collected pieces of "straight reportage" on the first years of the Great Depression.
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Ninth Astronomer Royal: The Life of Frank Watson Dyson
by Margaret Wilson
Cambridge: Published for the Dyson Family by W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1951. Near Fine/Very Good. Cambridge: Published for the Dyson Family by W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1951. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],294pp.; halftone frontispiece, seven leaves of plates. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, else a Very Good or better copy. Ownership ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown.
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Reflections Upon Some of the Subjects in Dispute, Between the Author of the Divine Legation of Moses, and a Late Professor in the University of Oxford
by A Layman [Andrew Wilson]
London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by W. Griffin, 1766. Very Good. London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by W. Griffin, [1766]. First Edition. Octavo. 118 pages. Bound in 19th century boards with leather spine and tips with gilt lettering to spine. Chipped at extremities with loss to bottom of spine. General scuffing and rubbing to boards. Ownership stamp to boards and preliminaries. Cracked at front hinge but binding is holding. Some toning to... Read More
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![The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950 [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/490/730/1703730490.0.l.jpg)
The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950 [Inscribed and Signed]
by Francille Rusan Wilson
Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Very Good-/Very Good. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, [2006]. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (24cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],356pp. Moderate shelf wear to jacket margins, spine panel a bit sunned with tiny loss at crown, faint soiling to textblock fore-edge, boards rather warped; Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title page.
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The Life of the Honble. Henry Cavendish, including abstracts of his more important scientific papers, and a critical inquiry into the claims of all the alleged discoveries of the composition of water
by [Henry Cavendish] George Wilson
London: Cavendish Society, 1851. Very Good-. London: Cavendish Society, 1851. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm); publisher's green cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; xiv,478pp.; portrait frontispiece. Ex-Army Medical School Library with their extensive contemporary rubber-stamps and small paper spine label, cloth rather worn with exposure at corners, front joint splitting, old pencil markings to front pastedown messily (and only partly) erased, preliminaries foxed; overall a Good or better example. The first biography... Read More
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![Diplomat Between Wars [Signed and Inscribed Frederic and Mabel Stimson]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/098/571/1715571098.0.l.jpg)
Diplomat Between Wars [Signed and Inscribed Frederic and Mabel Stimson]
by Hugh R. Wilson
New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1941. Very Good. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1941. First American Edition. Signed by Wilson to Ambassador Frederic Stimson and his wife Mabel with brief inscription at front free endpaper. Octavo; 344pp. Blue cloth boards with spine lettered in gilt; dark topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Light shelfwear; corners bumped; spine toned. Binding sound. Additional ownership inscription to ffep; Very Good.
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Memoir of George Wilson
by Jessie Aitken Wilson
Edinburgh / London: Edmonston and Douglas / Macmillan and Co, 1860. Very Good-. Edinburgh / London: Edmonston and Douglas / Macmillan and Co., 1860. First Edition. Thick octavo (23cm); publisher's dark brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, brown glazed endpapers; xii,536pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Boards a bit scuffed, light fraying at spine ends and corners, hinges starting to crack but holding; Good to Very Good overall. Contemporary ownership signature to front flyleaf of an Annie Dobie and 20th century ownership... Read More
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![The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales; Embracing Recent Changes in Counties, Dioceses, Parishes, and Boroughs: General Statistics: Postal Arrangements: Railway Systems, &c.; and Forming a Complete Description of the Country [Six volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/444/415/1544415444.0.l.jpg)
The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales; Embracing Recent Changes in Counties, Dioceses, Parishes, and Boroughs: General Statistics: Postal Arrangements: Railway Systems, &c.; and Forming a Complete Description of the Country [Six volume set]
by John Marius Wilson
Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co, 1872. Very Good. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., [ca. 1870-1872]. Early printing, no dates but prospectus to beginning of first volume with reviews dated 1866 and referencing up to volume III. Two volumes bound in six quartos. 1192, vi; 1199, [2] pp. 22 colored maps, complete. Bound in embossed publishers pebbled cloth with gilt decorations to front and spine; dark topstains; pale yellow endpapers. Light wear with some minor fraying to extremities;... Read More
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Weaver of Tales: Persian Picture Rugs / Persische Bildteppiche: Geknupfte Mythen
by Karl Schlamminger and Peter Lamborn Wilson
Munchen: Callway Verlag, 1980. Very Good/Very Good. München: Callway Verlag, [1980]. First Edition. Square quarto (28.5cm); publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 198pp.; full color illus. throughout. Moderate wear and a few small chips and closed tears to jacket margins, corners nudged, contemporary bookseller sticker of the Textile Museum to front jacket flap; Very Good and sound. Bilingual text in German and English.
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