Wilde v Whistler: An Acrimonious Correspondence on Art between Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler
by Wilde, Oscar and James A McNeill Whistler
London: Privately Printed, 1906. Paperback. Fair. 20p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23 cm. Outer portion of cover (heavily chipped with some tears and a split) has been glued down on the stiffer inner portion of the cover. Contents sound. Inked statement ("#59 on Large Paper") on limitation page presumably means that this is Copy No. 59 of 100 large paper copies on demy octavo paper. 400 copies on "small quarto paper" were also published.
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After Reading: Letters of Oscar Wilde
by Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Westminster (a central borough in London): Beaumont Press, 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. Ethelbert White. a few illustrations (by Ethelbert White), 59p. Originial cloth backed board. 22 cm. Moderate cover soiling. No jacket. Copy # 355 of 400 (numbered 75-450) on handmade paper; 75 copies on Japanese vellum signed by the publisher and artist were also published. The 12th book published by the Beaumont Press.
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Christian Service among Educated Bengalese
by Wilder, Robert P.
Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press, 1895. [1st ed.]. Hardcover. Very Good. vi, 76p. Original green cloth; titling in black on front cover. Small book (16 cm.). Minor cover wear and spotting. Foxing on endpapers. Lightly browned. The author of this uncommon little book was a Protestant missionary and a graduate of Princeton University and Union Theological Seminary.
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Champollion a Geneve
by Wild, Henri
Paperback. Very Good. 46p. plus 14 plates (printed. Softcover in original wrapper. 28cm. French text. Extrait du BIFAO, tome LXXII.
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![The Educational Program of Youth Development, Incorporated: Some Descriptive and Evaluative Observations on Current and Projected Activities. [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/340/733/288733340.0.l.0.jpg)
The Educational Program of Youth Development, Incorporated: Some Descriptive and Evaluative Observations on Current and Projected Activities. [cover title]
by Wilkerson, Doxey A.
New York, 1968. Paperback. Good. (1), 38, (6)p. Sheets stapled at corner. 28cm. Scattered red-pencil and pencil markings. Typed carbon copy (a few mimeo or photocopied attachments at end). Youth Development, Inc. operated a remedial and tutoring program, a summer camp, and a scholarship program for at-risk youth in New York City. Wilkerson,, an African American, prepared this report, listing himself as "Consultant. Wilkerson had ended his involvement with the Communist Party in 1957 returned to work in... Read More
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Het Shamanisme bij de volken van den Indischen Archipel
by Wilken, G[eorge] A[lexander], 1847-1891
s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1887. Hardcover. Very Good. 71p. Cloth backed marbled boards. 25 cm. Title page clearly readable despite a splotchy background. Dutch text. Reprinted from "Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indie, vijfde volgreeks, tweede deel.
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The Poetic Way of Release
by Wilkinson, Bonaro
New York: Knopf, 1932. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. xi, 386p. plus separately numbered index. dj. 21cm. Name on endpaper. Light browning on half-title (probably from a newspaper clipping). Forword by H. A. Overstreet. SIGNED "Bonaro Wilkinson Overstreet"(?).
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Nishapur: Some Early Islamic Buildings and Their Decoration
by Wilkinson, Charles K.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good. photos, index, 328p. Original blue cloth. 28cm. No jacket.
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Photograph of NAACP Friendship Dinner at the N. Y. Hilton in 194-?. Glossy 8 x 10 (26 x 21cm.)
by Wilkins, Roy
n.d.. Very Good. Undated. Photographer not identified on front or back but looks like a press photo. Caption in white at lower left: "N.A.A.C.P. Annual fellowship D... IHO Mr. Roy Wilkins ... N.Y. Hilton Jan. 9, 194-." Wilkins and several others are standing behind a table at which five individuals are seated; an NAACP banner hangs behind them.
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AP Wirephoto of Wilkins which has been SIGNED by "Roy Wilkins
by Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981
Very Good. 26 cm. Slanted trim along top leaving little margin on right side. Stamped July 7, 1971 on back. Nice dark ink signature across his jaw and cheek in the image. Printed caption below photo: (MP4) Minneapolis, July 6 -- Speaks at Convention -- Negro leader Roy Wilkins speaks to some 2,500 delegates to the annual National Association for the Advancement of Colored People convention in Minneapolis Tuesday. Wilkins is executive director of the NAACP. (AP Wirephoto)... Read More
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Caroline the Illustrious Queen-Consort of George II and sometime Queen-Regent: A Study of Her Life and Time
by Wilkins, W. H.
London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green, And Co, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes. frontises, illustrations, indexs , xiv, 388, viii, 375, 32p. Original purple cloth. 22 cm. Modest cover wear and a little spotting. Bookplate (Walter W. Head) on pastedowns. Foxing on endpapers. No jackets. Queen Caroline died in 1737, ten years after George II had become King.
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![Memories of Youth and Manhood. [2 vols.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/216/888/479888216.0.l.jpg)
Memories of Youth and Manhood. [2 vols.]
by Willard, Sidney
Cambridge: John Bartlett, 1855. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 2 vols. xiv, 351, vii, 334p. Original black cloth. 18 cm. Bookplate of Nathan Appleton. Minor age-toning.
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You're Gwine to Get Somethin' What You Don't Expect
by Williams, Bert (music) and Vincent Bryan (words)
New York: Leo Feist, 1910. Paperback. Near Fine. Sheet Music. 5p. Wrapper included in pagination. 36cm. Cover illustration shows a fashionably dressed young African American woman having her palm read by an older woman. "The hit of Flo Ziegfeld's Follies of 1910" [statement on cover].
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The Williams Treatment for Cancer or the Treatment and Cure of Cancerous Diseases by Means of Medical Remedies Applied Externally. Including a Short Treatise on the Natural History, Warning Signs and Symptoms of Cancers and Tumors
by Williams, Boyd T., 1876-1948
Minneapolis: Williams Sanatorium, Inc, 1931. 11th ed Revised and Enlarged. Paperback. Very Good. photos, map, 144p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Stapled. Hole punched in upper left corner. Small spot on back cover. "Our twenty years of experience with Cancer ... demonstrates the Williams Treatment (potential cauterization), in our hands,, based upon these figures, to be far more certain and dependable in its results than are the knife, radium, and x-ray in the treatment of Cancer. Potential... Read More
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Out-of-the-Box in Dixie: Cecil Williams' Photography of the South Carolina Events that Changed America
by Williams, Cecil
Orangeburg, South Carolina: Cecil J. Williams Photography/Publishing, 2007. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. photos, 307, (11)p. Original pictorial boards. dj. 28 cm. INSCRIBED by Williams.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1957: Congress and the Negro
by Willing, David L.
[Gainesville]: University of Florida, 1960. Hardcover. Good. v, 132, [1]p. Orange buckram. 28cm. Bound photocopy signed by all three members of the Supervisory Committee but not by the University Deans. Covers sound but heavily spotted. Contents moderately browned, especially around edges, but otherwise sound and clean. No Jacket (and surely never had one). Master's thesis at the University of Florida.
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Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs
by Willis, Deborah and Kevin Merida
New York: HarperCollins, 2008. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. color photos, 160p. Original photgraphic boards. Wraparound band in place of a dj. 26 cm. INSCRIBED on title-page by Deborah Willis ("For Kate with my thanks for your work with the campaign. Deborah Willis 10 Oct 2008").
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Post-War Transportation Studies
by Williams, Ernest W. [and Wilfrid Owen and Robert B Shaw]
[Washington]: National Resources Planning Board, 1943. Paperback. Good. 44, 49, 33, 40p. Mimeo. Later plain brown wrapper (fastened along left side with two brass fasteners). 27cm. Cover browned and curled around edges. Text also browned but not really brittle. Technical Paper Number 11. This copy came from the library of Professor Williams who wrote the 1st ("Air transport after the War") and 3rd (The Railroad Industry after the War") studies. Owen wrote the second study ("Highway Transportation: Wartime... Read More
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Memorandum for Mr. Watkins dated October 28, 1941
by Williams Jr., Ernest W.
1941. Paperback. Very Good. Six-page memorandum written by Williams while he was working for the National Resources Planning Board in Washington. Original typescript signed by Williams, probably a retained original since this came from Williams' library. We have not identified Watkins. Williams reports on what he observed during a multi-day rail tour that appears to have taken him to Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia; national defense needs seem to be an important consideration in his observations.... Read More
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Orokaiva Society
by Williams, Francis Edgar, 1893-1943
London: Oxford University Press, 1930. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. frontis, photos, illustrations, folding map, index, xxiii, 355p. Original black cloth. dj (price-clipped). 22 cm.
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A Bibliography of Sierra Leone 1925 - 1967
by Williams, Geoffrey J.
New York: Africana Publishing Corporation, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine. xxxii, 209p. Original maroon cloth. 23cm. No jacket.
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![{A bound volume containing Eight items on The Kikuyu Conference, Reunion, etc by Church Leaders]. Includes: (1) The Kikuyu Conference: A Study in Christian Unity ... [by J. J. Willis. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914 -- 24p.]; (2) Ecclesia Anglicana: For What Does She Stand? An Open Letter To The Right Reverend Father in God Edgar Lord Bishop of St. Albans. [by Frank, Bishop of Zanzibar. London: Longmans, Green, 1914. 29p.]; (3) The Case Against Kikuyu: A Study in Vital Principles [by Frank Weston, Bishop of Zanzibar. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914. 64p.]; (4) The Basis of Anglican Fellowship in Faith and Organization: An Open Letter to the Clergy of the Diocese of Oxford [by Charles Gore. London: Longmans Green and Co., 1914. --48p.]; (5) Steps Towards Reunion: A Statement for the Consultative Committee [by Rev. W. G. Peel and J. J. Willis. London: Longmans Green and Co., 1914. -- 70p.]; (6) . Kikuyu. [by The Archbishop of Canterbury. London: Macmillan and Co., 1915. 4th printing. 70p.]. (7) Bish](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/786/474/1483474786.0.l.jpg)
{A bound volume containing Eight items on The Kikuyu Conference, Reunion, etc by Church Leaders]. Includes: (1) The Kikuyu Conference: A Study in Christian Unity ... [by J. J. Willis. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914 -- 24p.]; (2) Ecclesia Anglicana: For What Does She Stand? An Open Letter To The Right Reverend Father in God Edgar Lord Bishop of St. Albans. [by Frank, Bishop of Zanzibar. London: Longmans, Green, 1914. 29p.]; (3) The Case Against Kikuyu: A Study in Vital Principles [by Frank Weston, Bishop of Zanzibar. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914. 64p.]; (4) The Basis of Anglican Fellowship in Faith and Organization: An Open Letter to the Clergy of the Diocese of Oxford [by Charles Gore. London: Longmans Green and Co., 1914. --48p.]; (5) Steps Towards Reunion: A Statement for the Consultative Committee [by Rev. W. G. Peel and J. J. Willis. London: Longmans Green and Co., 1914. -- 70p.]; (6) . Kikuyu. [by The Archbishop of Canterbury. London: Macmillan and Co., 1915. 4th printing. 70p.]. (7) Bish
by Willis, J. J. [and others as listed in the titles]
London: Longmans, Green, and Co. (7 pamphlets); Macmillan (1 pamphlet), 1915. Hardcover. Good. 64, 24, 29, 64, 48, 70, 70, 31, 18p. Contemporary red cloth. 21 cm. Ex. lib. (Library of the Episcopal Theological School on bookplate on front pastedown). Library book plate inside front cover and date due slip tipped in on back free endpaper. Covers and backstrips somewhat soiled, rubbed and worn.
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Flashbacks: A Twenty-Year Diary of Article Writing
by Williams, John A.
Garden City: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1973. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 440p. Original cloth. dj. 21 cm. Jacket has some soiling and is chipped along edges and folds. Former owner's name on endaper.
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Report on Cost Finding in Railway Freight Service for Regulatory Purposes
by Williams, John H.
Washington: Federal Coordinator of Transportation, 1936. Paperback. Very Good. 108p. Wrapper. 28cm. Cover browned. Age-toned.
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