The New Gospel of Peace According to St. Benjamin
by White, Richard Grant, 1821-1885
New York: Sinclair Toussey, 1863. 1st ed. Paperback. Good. 42p. Original wrapper. 18cm. Cover chipped & rather worn. Political satire, a parody of Biblical language divided into chapter and verse. Slavery, abolition, election of Lincoln, the Civil War, etc.
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England Have My Bones
by White, T. H.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. illustrations, 333p. dj. 20cm. Jacket edge-worn and is missing good-sized chips at ends of backstrip. Endpapers browned. White's personal jounal from March, 1834 to March, 1935.
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Black and White photo of the couple signed on front by White (:with warm Regards, Walter White")
by White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955, and Poppy Cannon, 1905-1975
Very Good. 17 x 11 cm black and white photo. Pencilled note ("Houston post") on back which is stamped twice in red "Do Not Bend" and "1249." Corners round but that seems to be a later amateur trim. White's inscription and signature have a bit of smudging and some of the blue ink ahas migrated to White's white jacket. A This image, sometimes including lower portions of the couple and a wider background but without White's inscription, shows... Read More
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: A Centennial History
by Whitehill, Walter Muir
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2 vols. index, xi, 442, [443]-888p. djs. 25 cm. Backstrip slightly faded on backstrip on second volume. INSCRIBED to a prominent Chinese American author and artist by Whitehill ("For Chiang Yee with the affectionate regards of Walter Muir Whitehill 30 i 70").
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The Editor and His People: Editorials by William Allen White Selected from the Emporia Gazette by Helen Ogden Mahin
by White, William Allen
New York: Macmillan, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. Covers scuffed. Extremities rubbed. Name on endpaper. No Jacket. INSCRIBED to Doxey Wilkerson by White on the half-title and also SIGNED by the compiler. Laid in is a Typed Note, Signed, to Wilkerson from White thanking Wilkerson for sending some propaganda material for the high school, college campaign.Wilkerson, an African American leftist was then a Senior at the University of Kansas and co-editor of The Dove, a student publication. Wilkerson had... Read More
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Trading Life in Western and Central Africa
by Whitford, John
New York: Barnes & Noble, 1967. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. xxii, viii, 335p. dj. 22cm. Reprint of the 1877 edition with a new introduction by A. G. Hopkins. Also published in the UK by Frank Cass.
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Poems: With an Introductory Sketch by Alex F. Irvine
by Whitlock, Genevieve Hale
New Haven: Charles E. H. Whitlock, 1906. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. frontis portrait, xi, 126p. Green cloth. 21cm. Corner bumped. No Jacket. Poetry. The author who died before her 28th birthday, identified herself as a Christian socialist.
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Poems: With an Introductory Sketch by Alex F. Irvine
by Whitlock, Genevieve Hale
New Haven: Charles E. H. Whitlock, 1906. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis portrait, xi, 126p. Beige cloth. 21cm. Minor foxing. No Jacket. Poetry. The author who died before her 28th birthday, identified herself as a Christian socialist.
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The Present Age, Vol. I, Nos. 1, 2, III, IV, V and VI (October, 1874-March, 1875)
by Whitlock, L. G., editor
South Norwalk, CT, 1875. Hardcover. Good. Bound volume containing all six issues. 194p. Original wrappers bound in on all 6 issues. Covers somewhat worn and bowed. Contents reasonably sound although the original wrappers have some chipping and other wear (the wraps on the first issue have been heavily repaired with paper and cellophane tape). Minor worming to last issue. This appears to constitute the entire run as the sixth issue announces suspension of publication and offers to the... Read More
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Reminiscences of the King of Roumania
by Whitman, Sidney
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. frontis, index, 367p. Cloth. 23cm. Spine slightly sloped. Former owner's name. An attractive copy.
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Palms of Malaya
by Whitmore, T. C.
Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. frontis, photos, illustrations, xv, 132p. Original green boards. dj. 26cm.
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Leaves of Grass
by Whitman, Walt
New York: Published for The Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine. xviii, facsimile (95p. including frontis), Original brown cloth. 29 cm. Former owner's names (2) on front free endpaper including Martha Lippincott Davis who appears to have been involved with the Whitman Society and may have been custodian of the Walt Whitman House in Camden, N.J at some point. No jacket (did it have one?). Reprint of the text of the original 1855... Read More
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The Southern Cousin
by Whitney, Annie Weston
Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1892. Hardcover. Good. frontis, illustrations, 280p. Original decorated green cloth. 19cm. Light ring marks and some other spotting on cover. Contents show age-toning; stitching visible between several pages. An uncommon religious novel about girl (or young woman) named Helen Carter from North Carolina who goes north to visit relatives.
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What's the Matter with Mexico
by Whitney, Caspar, 1862-1929
New York: Macmillan, 1916. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. (9), 213p. plus (8)p. publisher's adverts. Original paper-covered boards. 17 cm. Moderate cover wear. Perforated stamp ("Advance Copy for Review") on title-leaf. No jacket. Our National Problems (series). An assessment of Mexico at the height of the Revolution of 1910-1919.
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Sonnets and Songs
by Whitney, Helen Hay
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1905. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 81p. Original dark cloth. 19 cm. Ends of backstrip and corners slightly rubbed. Spotting on back cover. Former owner's name label ("James Rowland Lowe") on front free endpaper. No jacket. Poetry.
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Spraket, dess lif och utveckling
by Whitney, W. D.
Stockholm: Bjorcks, 1880. 1st Swedish edition. Hardcover. Good. [8], 320p. Rebound in modern buckram). 19cm. Waterstain in top margin on title-leaf and the next four leaves. Smaller stain in right margin of last few pages. A couple of tears to the leaf preceding the title-page. INSCRIBED to Whitney on that now-torn leaf in 1881 by Gustaf Stjernstrom, the translator. Swedish text. Author's Copy of this translation of "Life and Growth of Language" (1875).
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Oriental and Linguistic Studies. The Veda, the Avesta; the Science of Language. [First volume only]
by Whitney, William Dwight
New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co, 1873. index, vii, 416p. Original brown cloth. 19cm. Ends of backstrip frayed. Former owner's namestamp. Contents browned. A second volume, subtitled (briefly) "Second Series" was also published.
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The Ecology of Sumatra
by Whitten, Anthony
[Yogyakarta]: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1984. 1st ed. Paperback. Very Good. photos (some color), maps, illustrations, index, errata leaf, xiv, 583p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21cm. Modest cover wear.
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Song of the Negro Boatmen
by Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, (lyrics) and H. T. Merrill (music)
Chicago: Root & Cady; NY: Wm. Hall & Son, Firth & Pond; Bocton: Russell & Tolman; Milwaukee: H. N. Hempsted, 1862. Not a 1st. Sheet music. Fair. (5)p. plus (1)p. publisher's adverts. Disbound. 35cm. Spotting and offsetting. A few edge-tears, 2 repaired with small glued paper squares. No cover illustration. The lyrics are in dialect.
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Moses in the Bull-Rushes
by Laurie & Whittle
London: Laurie & Whittle, 1794. Very Good. Plate mark approximately 25 x 22cm. on a sheet that measures approximately 30 x 25cm. The print is a bit ragged in the surrounding blank margins and has one marginal tear at top that extends slightly into the sky portion of the image. A Jewish couple in this comic print is having to deal with an aggressive bovine. The man, presumably a peddler, appears to be seeking refuge among tall reeds.... Read More
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Melville-Whyte's Works. [our title]
by Whyte-Melville, G. J.
London, n.d.. New Edition (so stated on almost all title-pages). Hardcover. Very Good. 27 volumes. Contemporary 1/4 leather with marbled boards. Endpapers and page edges also marbled. 18 cm. Armorial Bookplate (Charles Fruen) on all front pastedowns. Type size is small but not tiny. Covers visibly scuffed but the set has a nice uniform look on the shelf. Joints and hinges sound, Internally nice with just a little age-toning. The set takes up about 68cm ((27 inches) on... Read More
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College Life. Letters to an Under-Graduate
by Whytehead, Thomas
Cambridge: John Thomas Walters; London: James Burns; Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1845. Hardcover. Fair. xv, 138p. plus a total of (30)p. publisher's advertisements, 24 of which are dated September, 1845. Original cloth. 18cm. Backstrip chipped at ends, splitting along joints and missing title label. Covers soiled and corners bent. Lacks front free endpaper. Former owner's name on half-title. Edited by T. F. Knox after the death of Whytehead, at age 28, in New Zealand.
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Stories to Act
by Wickes, Frances Gillespy
Chicago & New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1915. Hardcover. Very Good. Squire, Maud Hunt. frontis & other illustrations (by Maud Hunt Squire), 142p. Original tan cloth. 19cm. Minor cover soil. No jacket. Dramatic Reader Series: Book Two. Stories rendered in either narrative or dramatic form. Her first book. Wickes later became intersted in Jungian theory and helped found Spring, a Jungian journal.
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My Soul has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African-American Literature
by Wideman, John Edgar, compiler
Philadelphia and London: Running Press, 2001. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. photo, 1270p. dj. 23 cm. SIGNED (his scrawl) by Wideman on title-page. Twelve works by African Americans, each preceded by a brief biographical essay by Wideman.
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A Glance Away
by Wideman, John Edgar
New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1967. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 186p. dj. 20cm. Minor chipping on ends of jacket backstrip. and moderate-sized chip out of upper corner of back panel (which also has some browning and soil). His first novel. Wideman found a sizable audience only after more than a decade of being a writer who was admired more by critics than by readers.
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