Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive and Historical
by Wordsworth, Christopher, 1807-1885
London: John Murray, 1871. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 21 steel engraved plates including frontis, vignette second title, and 5 maps and plans, and 14 other illustrtions. The volume also contains hundreds of smaller woodvut illustrationsplus hundreds of smaller woodcut illustrations, xxiv, 452p. Old (contemporary?) leather. Gilt borders on front and back covers; gilt title and extensive gilt decoration on backstrip. 25 cm. Binding still sound but binding splitting along rear joint and visibly rubbed with some spliitting... Read More
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Ecclesiastical Sketches
by Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. x, 123p. plus publisher's advertisements (4 pages) measuring only 15 cm. and dated November, 1822 tipped in along inner edge front free endpaper. Original boards now looking rather gray. 22 cm. Lower portion of backstrip perished. Original title label browned and worn but still present on backstrip -- "Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Sketches." Former owner's name on title-page (looks like C. H. Christison") and front cover (Mrs.... Read More
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In the Ice World of Himalaya: Among the Peaks and Passes of Ladakh, Nubra, Suru, and Baltistan
by Workman, Fanny [and] William Hunter Workman
New York: Cassell, 1901. edition statement on verso of half-title]. Hardcover. Good. frontis, photos, 2 folding maps, xvi, 204p. Original red cloth. 21cm. Moderate cover soil. Corners bumped. White lettering on front cover mostly gone. Bookplate. No Jacket.
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First, Second, Third, and Fourth Annual Report [to Stockholders]
by Baldwin Locomotive Works [&] Standard Steel Works
Philadelphia, 1914. Paperback. Very Good. Each of these four annual reports is separately bound and contains ten pages. 23cm. Former owner's name or name stamp on two of the reports.
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Housing Manual 1944
by Great Britain. Ministry of Health and Ministry of Works
London: HMSO, 1944. Paperback. Good. photos, illustrations, 104p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25 cm. Corners and ends of backstrip rubbed. Jointly prepared plans for the transitional period of two years after the hoped-for end of Worlld War II. We are not sure where the funding for this was to come.
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Second Annual Report of the Department of Public Works of the City of New York, for the Year ending April 10, 1872
by New York (City). Departet of Public Works
New York: Martin B. Brown, Printer and Stationer, 1872. Lacks original binding. Good. frontis (tissue-guarded mounted photo), photos, 6 other tissue-guarded mounted photos, 3 folding "Sketches," 236p. Cover completely gone. 21 cm.Disbound. 21 cm. Lacke any leaves preceeding frontis or after text.. Fronti title-page and first four numbered pages detached. Minor insect tracks on fore-edge (most heavily on last few leaves); Otherwise internall sound and clean.
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The Staplands Workshops Neston Cheshire: A Catalogue of Metal Work and Textiles
by Staplands Workshops
[Neston]: Staplands Workshops, 1931. Paperback. Very Good. [40] unnumbered pages plus 10 plates (2 color) which are printed on one side with brief descriptions on transparent interleaving. Original tied flexible cloth wrapper. 28 cm. Edge-tear on half-title (adhesive paper tape repair on verso). Contents otherwise sound and clean.
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The Enchanted Parrot: Being a Selection from the "Suka Saptati," or, The Seventy Tales of a Parrot, Translated from the Sanskrit Text...
by Wortham, B. Hale, translator
London: Luzac, 1911. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. 127p. 18cm. Minor rubbing and fraying of extremities. Partial ring mark on back cover. No Jacket. "Some of the Tales have been omitted as unsuitable for translation into English." [from the Author's note by Rev. Wortham on page 8].
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Adolph von Wrede's Reise in Hadhramaut: Beled Beny `Yssa und Beled el Hadschar
by Wrede, Adolph von, 1807-1863
Amsterdam: Meridian Publishing Co, 1995. index, folding map, vii, 375p. Orignal cloth. 23 cm. Minor red stains and soiling on cover. Contents sound. No Jacket (did it ever have one?). German text. Reprint of the 1870 edition which was published in Braunschweig and edited by Heinrich von Maltzan.
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The Negro in Pennsylvania: A Study in Economic History
by Wright Jr. Richard Robert, 1878-1967
Philadelphia: A. M. E. Book Concern Printers, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. 250p. Red cloth. 23cm. Title lightly inked on plain backstrip. Lacks front free endpaper (ragged remnant pasted down over hinge). No Jacket (presumably as published). This scarce book, which also is found softbound in wrapper, was Wright's Doctoral thesis at the University of Pennsylvania. Wright, was born in Cuthbert, Georgia, where his later-to-be-famous father was principal of an elementary school. R. R. Wright, Jr. also became prominent... Read More
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Greenland Ice Fields and Life in the North Atlantic; With a New Discussion of the Causes of the Ice Age
by Wright, C. Frederick and Warren Upham
New York: Appleton, 1896. Hardcover. Good. frontis, photos, xv, 407p. Original light green cloth. Illustration in silver in black on front cover. 19 cm. Covers scuffed and somewhat worn. Contents shaken. Three leaves of publisher's adverts at end damaged from heavy adherence. No Jacket.
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Quarterly Anti-Slavery Magazine, Volume I, Nos. 1-4 and Volume II, Nos. 1-4
by Wright, Elizur, editor
New York: American Anti-Slacery Society, 1837. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound volume containing the first 8 quarterly issues published [which is all that was published under this title]. Old 1/4 leather, recently and neatly rebacked. The original front and back covers are heavily rubbed with loss of some of the original paper covering. Contents sound with mostly minimal foxing. "Georgia A. S. Society" written in ink a couple of times of front endpaper. A list of six names (A.... Read More
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Uncle Tom's Children: Four Novellas
by Wright, Richard (Nathaniel), 1908-1960
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 317p. Original red cloth. dj. 21 cm. An appealing jacket despite some soiling, edge-wear, short tears, a couple of chips, and, finally, some small holes along flap folds. Endpapers generally browned and rather brittle; front free endpaper detached near fold. First edition of his first book. The novellas are titled: "Big Boy Leaves Home; Down by the Riverside; Long Black Song; and Fire and Cloud.
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The Encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. 2nd ed
by Wright, Richard Robert, 1878-1967, editor
Philadelphia: Printed by the Book Concern of the AME Church, 1947. 2nd ed. Hardcover. Good. photos (most are small and rather grainy), index, 688p. Original green cloth. 30 cm. Some cover spotting and discoloration. Former owner's name and name stamp on free endpapers. Contents sound and clean. No Jacket (did it ever have one?). A pretty scarce book today. Phil remembers when A. Amitin, a friendly bookseller in St. Louis, had a stack of these for sale for... Read More
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Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
by Wright, Richard (Nathaniel), 1908-1960
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. 1st ed. Very Good/Good. 228p. Original cloth. Somewhat worn dj. Original cloth. Book has modest wear. 21 cm. An important book of enduring value.
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The FB Eye Blues. [cover title]
by *Wright, Richard (Nathaniel), 1908-1960
n.p., 1969. Near Fine. Single light blue sheet (22 x 28 cm.) printed on one side only and folded twice to create a small folded broadside booklet containing four printed pages. 14 cm. A poem in nine blues stanzas.
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Bright and Morning Star
by Wright, Richard (Nathaniel), 1908-1960
New York: International Publishers, 1941. 1st separate publication. Paperback. Very Good. 48p. 19 cm. Modest cover wear and a little browning. First published in New Masses in 1938 and added to the 1940 edition of Wright's "Uncle Tom's Children." This was the first separate publication of this short story. Wright reports that he has assigned reprint rights to International Publishers and asks that any royalties accrue to the Earl Browder Defense Fund.
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Mediations in Green
by Wright, Stephen
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Very Good. Fiction. 362p. Softcover. 21cm. Backstrip slightly soiled.
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The Life of Sir Richard Burton
by Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936
London: Everett & Co, 1906. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. frontis, photos and illustrations, index, xxix, [2], 32-291, x, [2], [14]-291p. Original red cloth. 23cm. Both backstrips are faded; the backstrip on Vol. II is also rather spotted. Ends of backstrips rubbed. Minor foxing. Five adjacent illustrations stick out a little and appear to have been reglued without completely reseating them. Cover edges slightly soiled. No Jackets. Penzer [and others] have attacked this biography, especially Wright's... Read More
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Anthology No. 1 -- English -- 1994
by Zimbabwe Women Writers
Harare, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. xiii, 252p. Wrapper. 21cm. Edited by Norma Kitson.
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The Commercial Law of Malaysia
by Wu, Min Aun and Betrix Vohrah
Kuala Lumpur: Heinemann Educational Books (Asia), Ltd, 1979. Paperback. Near Fine. index, 264p. Softcover in original wrappers. 22cm. INSCRIBED on title-page (by "Wu Min Aun").
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Notes on Cuba
by Wurdemann, John G. F., 1810-1849
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. x, 359p. Original black cloth. 21 cm. Lacks about half of backstrip (top and bottom portions). Significant foxing throughout. The 1971 Arno reprint of this book adds a two-page "About the Author" note by Robert M. Goldwyn in which Wurdemann is identified as a South Carolina physician who went to Cuba in hopes of recovering from tuberculosis.
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Notes on Cuba
by Wurdemann, John G. F., 1810-1849
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. x, 359p. Original black cloth. 21 cm. Backstrip heavily chipped along joints and mostly detached along front cover. Some ond corner creases. Text leaves age-toned and browned around edges. Significant foxing throughout. The 1971 Arno reprint of this book adds a two-page "About the Author" note by Robert M. Goldwyn in which Wurdemann is identified as a South Carolina physician who went to Cuba in hopes of recovering... Read More
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The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn
by Wurman, Louis I and Eugene Feldman
Philadelphia: Falcon Press, 1962. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. illustrations (4 folding), plans, diagrams, (76)p. Original tan cloth. 38 cm. Significant cover foxing, mostly around edges.ome foxing around edges of cover. Internally sound and clean. No jacket. Copy No. 983 of an edition limited to 1800 numbered copies.
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Magna Charta in Two Parts: Part I The Romance of the Great Charter
by Wurts, John S.
n.p.: Printed in the U.S.A., 1940. Paperback. Good. 33p. Wrapper. 24cm. Moderate cover soil. Tiny gnawed area on bottom of front cover. Contents sound and clean. This appears to be the first published edition of this address which was delivered before the National Society of Magna Charta Dames who were meeting around the original Magna Cart in the British Pavilion at the New York World's Fair on October 10, 1939.
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