Middle American Research Records. Volume III, Numbers 1-5
by Wauchope, Robert [and several others]
New Orleans: Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, 1967. Paperback. Very Good. 185p. Original green wrapper. 27cm.
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Biblipgraphie du Congo 1880-1895: Catalogue Methodique de 3,800 Ouvrages, Brochures, Notices et Cartes Relatifs a L'Histoire, a La Geographie et a la Colonisation du Congo
by Wauters, A. J.
Bruxelles: Administration du Mouvement Geographique, 1895. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. index, xlix, 356p. Contemporary, thin flexible gray cloth. 21cm. "Wauters" inked on front cover. Endpapers brittle. Contents sound. French text.
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Our Darlings' Surprise Pictures
by Weatherly, F. E. (poems) and Ernest Nester (illustrator)
London: Ernest Nester; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1895. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. illustrations, [20]p. Original pictorial boards backed in red cloth. 32cm. Recently recased with the original floral pattern from the disintegrating original endpapers neatly reproduced on the new facsimile endpapers prepared by Starr Bookworks. Modest cover soil and wear. Internally Near Fine with a bit of wear and some age-toning and browning. The stars of this book are the eight charming transformation pictures,... Read More
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The Modern Technique of Bowls
by Webber, H. P. & J. W. Fisher
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1933. 2nd ed. Hardcover. Very Good. photos, index, xvi, 219p. plus 28p. publisher's advertisements. Original green cloth. 22cm. A few minor cover spots. No jacket.
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It Is the Hour of Love!
by Weber, C. H., music and G. D. Prentice, words
Louisville: W. C. Peters, 1844. Paperback. Very Good. 4p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 34 cm. Moderate foxing around edges. Decoration and lettering in a pale shade of red on the front cover. Small illustration in black and white on the front cover of a minstrel who is playing a stringed instrument while standing in a small boat beneath a window where a young woman is standing.
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Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster on the Subject of Slavery; Delivered in the United States Senate, on Thursday, March 7, 1850. As Revised and Corrected by Himself, and Published by Permission, from The Daily Atlas, March 11th
by Webster, Daniel
Boston: Redding and Company, 1850. Paperback. Near Fine. 39p. Softcover in original wrappers. 24cm. Minor cover soiling and wear only. Contents sound and clean.
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The Duchess of Malfi
by Webster, John
London: Sylvan Press, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. illustrations (by Michael Ayrton), xxii, 88p. dj. 26cm. Jacket chipped at head of backstrip and has some soiling. Backstrip cloth faded where jacket is chipped. Partially unopened. Bookplate on endpaper identifies this as Copy No. 541 of 1000 copies SIGNED by the artist. Ayrton's signature is on the plate facing Page 1.
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A Brief Historical Sketch of the Early Days of Piney Woods School
by Webster, John R.
[Piney Woods]: Piney Woods School, 1950. Paperback. Very Good. 16p. Softcover in original wrapper. 16 cm. Cover splitting at ends of fold. Jones credits Webster as his first white friend. Webster goes on to demonstrate that he is a friend to Jones and Piney School only as long as they continue to know their place in the white man's South. Jones closes the little booklet by quoting advice he got from an elderly African American woman when he... Read More
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A Bibliography on Kenya
by Webster, John B., compiler (with help from 3 other named individuals)
Syracuse: Programs of Eastern African Studies, Syracuse University, 1967. Paperback. Very Good. indexes, xvii, 461p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Eastern African Bibliographical Series, No. 2, (Kenya). English text (Preface and Foreword in English, French, and German).
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A Sequel to Webster's Elementary Spelling Book: A Speller and Definer; containing a Selection of 12,000 of the Most Useful Words in the English Language, with Their Definitions: Intended to be Used as A Spelling Book and a Dictionary
by Webster, William G.
New York: George F. Cooledge, 1845. Revised and Improved Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, 172p. Original binding (blue boards backed in brown cloth). 19 cm. Some cover soiling and wear with some lettering indistinct. Edges and corners rubbed. Minimal foxing. Minor waterstain on margin of first few pages. Some dog-earing at lower right corner.
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Chansons et Rondes Enfantines, avec Notices et Accompagnement de Piano
by Weckerlin, J.-B
Paris: Garnier, n.d. [probably late 19th century]. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. illustrations (4 in color, including frontis), 116p. Original decorated cloth. 28 cm. Jacket quite fragile, browned and missing numerous chips. Endpapers creased and brittle. Cover and contents otherwise sound and clean except for some browning around edges. French text. Unusual survival of an early jacket.
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The Future of the Indo-British Commonwealth
by Wedgwood, Josiah Clement, 1872-1943
Adyar, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1921. Hardcover. Good. xix, 251p. Original blue cloth, with mounted title-labels. 16 cm. The Asian Library series.
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Debates and Controversies in Economic History: A-Sessions: Proceedings Tenth International History Congress, Leuven, August 1990
by Wee, Herman Van der and Erik Aerts, editors
Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 247p. Original black cloth lettered in white. dj. 24 cm.
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Beitrage zur Babylonischen Astronomie
by Weidner, Ernst
Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1911. Paperback. Very Good. astonomical map, 6 small figures in text, 100p. Softcover. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Original wrappers preserved when this formerly bound. 24 cm. Ex lib. (Harvard College stamp on verso of title-page). German text. Beitrage zur Assyriologie und Semitischen Sprachwissenschaft, Band VIII, Heft 4.
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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader
by Weinberg, Meyer, editor
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. index, xvii, 471p. Original brown cloth. dj. 21 cm. Former owner's bookplate. Jacket has a fair amount of modest soiling and edge-wear.
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Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary
by Weinreich, Uriel
New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research [and] McGraw-Hill, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xliii, 790, (8)p. Original cloth. dj. 24 cm. Jacked edges slightly chipped and rubbed.
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Appendix to Hossfeld's Japanese Grammar: Comprising a Graduated Series of Exercises on the Whole Work, Extracts from Leading Authors, Exercises in the Native Characters and Two Vocabularies
by Weintz, H. J.
Philadelphia: Peter Reilly, 1915. Hardcover. Fair. index, 159p. Later library buckram. 19cm. Ex lib. (Harvard-Yenching Institute). Contents reasonably sound but showing wear. Substantial ink or pencil markings on several leaves.
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Das Leipziger Medizinische Viertel, Eingeleitet von Karl Sudjoff, Biograpische Beitrage
by Weiser, Franz Louis Martin, editor
Leipzig: Verlag von Alfred Lorentz, 1914. Hardcover. Good. illustrations, viii, 146p. xvip. Original boards. 32cm. No jacket. Moderate soiling and wear on cover. Bottom fifth of backstrip cover chipped off. Former owner's name. Contents sound and clean. German text.
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From the Barroom to the Pulpit and Mission Fields of Africa: An Autobiography
by Weiss, Fred
Shenandoah, Iowa: Fred Weiss, 1912. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. photos, 415p. Original magenta cloth. 18cm. Backstrip unevenly faded. Extremities rubbed. Bookplate (Friends Community Library, Unadilla, N.Y.) Name plate on endpaper. Grease spots on a few leaves. No jacket. Weiss and his wife served as missionaries in Natal, South Africa (1895-1898 described at pages 126-293) and later in Morocco (pp. 342-415).
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The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai: The Illuminated Greek Manuscripts: Volume One: From the Ninth to the Twelfth Century
by Weitzmann, Kurt and George Galavaris
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This volume only. photos, index, xxvii, 203p, plus 198 plates. Original maroon cloth. dj. 35cm.
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Alek: From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel
by Wek, Alek
New York: Amistad, 2007. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. frontis, photo, 210p. Original grey boards. dj. 23 cm. SIGNED by Wek.
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The Pond Lily Company: The Story of One American Business
by Welch, John Francis
New Haven, 1971. Revised from 1943 edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. color frontis, photos, 31p. dj. Original red cloth. 31 cm. Plain, somewhat yellowed glassine jacket (some chipping).
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A Letter to the South on Segregation
by Welch, Jr, Robert W.
Belmont, Mass: American Opinion, 1959. 4th printing. Paperback. Near Fine. (12)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. The founder of the John Birch Society found communism behind the Brown V. Board of Education decision and the modern psychology cited in the decision.
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Worldly Pleasures, Earthy Delights: Japanese Prints from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
by Welch, Matthew
Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2011. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. color illustrations, index, 375p. Original turquoise cloth. dj. 31 cm.
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The Bible Against Slavery: An Inquiry into the Patriarchal and Mosaic Systems on the Subject of Human Rights
by Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1938. Fourth Edition -- Enlarged [statement on title-page]. Paperback. Good. 74p. No separate wrapper present. 22 cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume with stitchmarks and other evidences of binding along left side). Modest browning. Blank lower corner missing on lst text leaf. At head of title-page: The Anti-Slavery Examiner, No. 6. Weld's fourth and final edition.
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