![Under the Red Robe [Photoplay Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/843/841/1615841843.0.l.jpg)
Under the Red Robe [Photoplay Edition]
by Weyman, Stanley J
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1923. Photoplay Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Woodville, R. Caton; The Cosmopolitan Photoplay. Photoplay edition. Edith Foster Dulles's copy (relative of U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing - these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him) with her name in ink on front endpaper. No jacket. Spine toned, minor loss to spine head and to spine base,... Read More
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The Long Night
by Weyman, Stanley J
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1903. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Solomon, Solomon J. 3rd printing. Spine slightly toned, front hinge weakening. 1903 Hard Cover. vi, [2], 407 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt. Black-and-white frontispiece and plates by Solomon J. Solomon. A novel based on the Duke of Savoy's attempt to storm Geneva in December 1602, by the author known for historical romances.
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What Plane is That?
by Weymouth, Jr., C.A.; Rickenbacker, Eddie
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1936. 4th Printing. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Fourth printing. Former school library copy - usual marks. 1936 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. Foreword by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. Sketches of dozens of aircraft with technical specifications.
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The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories
by Wharton, Edith
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1908. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Second printing (wove, not laid, paper). Lacks scarce jacket. A couple minor blemishes to boards. 1908 Hard Cover. 279 pp. A collection of six classic short stories from Edith Wharton, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence. Includes "The Last Asset," "In Trust," "The Pretext, "The Verdict," "The Pot-Boiler," and "The Best Man." In the title story, "The Hermit and the Wild... Read More
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The Greater Inclination
by Wharton, Edith
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Early reprint. No jacket. Rear board soiled, pencil name on front endpaper, some pages lightly foxed. 1906 Hard Cover. 254 pp. Edith Wharton's first collection of short fiction. Includes: The Muse's Tragedy; A Journey; The Pelican; Souls Belated; A Coward; The Twilight of the God; A Cup of Cold Water; The Portrait.
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The Portable Edith Wharton (Penguin Classics)
by Wharton, Edith; Wagner-Martin, Linda
New York: Penguin Books, 2003. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x1x7. 3rd printing. Minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Trade Paperback. xxviii, 656 pp. Best known for her novels depicting the stifling conformity and ceremoniousness of the upper-class New York society into which she was born, Edith Wharton also wrote brilliantly in many genres: essays, travel pieces, memoirs, and a variety of short stories. This unique collection provides a... Read More
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The House of Mirth
by Wharton, Edith
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Wenzell, A.B. First edition, first state (no ads following text). Lacks scarce jacket. Spine faded, boards rubbed with faint ring stain on front, hinges weakening, front free endpaper absent. 1905 Hard Cover. 532, [6] pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles and top edge. The popular second novel by the author who later became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (1921). Originally serialized in... Read More
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Old New York: False Dawn (The 'Forties); The Old Maid (The 'Fifties); The Spark (The 'Sixties); New Year's Day (The 'Seventies)
by Wharton, Edith
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1924. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Caswell, Edward C. 3rd printings. Includes publisher's slipcase and jackets. Owned by Edith Foster Dulles, the mother of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles, with her name in pencil on front flyleaf of each volume. Edges foxed, loss from jacket corners (more from spine of second volume), bottom panel of slipcase missing with surface tear along bottom edge... Read More
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Roman Fever and Other Stories
by Wharton, Edith; Wolff, Cynthia Griffin
New York, N.Y: Scribner Paperback Fiction/Simon and Schuster, 1997. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. 2nd printing. An excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1997 Trade Paperback. 276 pp. Introduction by Cynthia Griffin Wolff. Contains the short stories "Roman Fever," "Xingu," "The Other Two," "Souls Belated," "The Angel at the Grave," "The Last Asset," and "After Holbein." Aside from her Pulitzer Prize-winning talent as a novel writer, Edith Wharton also distinguished herself... Read More
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Mother's Recompense
by Wharton, Edith; Auchincloss, Louis
New York, N.Y: Scribner Paperback Fiction/Simon and Schuster, 1996. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. First printing. An excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1996 Trade Paperback. 272 pp. Introduction by Louis Auchincloss. Opening on the French Riviera among a motley community of American expatriates, The Mother's Recompense tells the story of Kate Clephane and her reluctant return to New York society after being exiled years before for abandoning her husband and... Read More
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Ethan Frome
by Wharton, Edith
London: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Limited, 1924. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Buchel, Charles A. 1924 2nd UK printing in scarce jacket. Good in very good jacket. Edges, endpapers, and reverse of jacket foxed, 1 inch closed jacket tear, minor wear to jacket corners. 224 pp. Charles A. Buchel jacket art. A novella in which a man falls in love with his wife's cousin, by the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1921, The... Read More
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The Children
by Wharton, Edith
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 7x5x1. First edition ("1" on last page). No jacket. Pencil name on front endpaper. 1928 Hard Cover. 346 pp. The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A... Read More
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A Digest of the International Law of the United States, Taken from Documents Issued by Presidents and Secretaries of State, and from Decisions of Federal Courts and Opinions of Attorneys-General
by Wharton, Francis
Washington [D.C.]: Government Printing Office, 1887. Second Edition. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Second edition. Boards a bit stained, spines toned, edges and endpapers lightly foxed. 1887 Full-Leather. xxx, 824; 832; 1003 pp. Includes sections on non-intervention with foreign sovereignties, citizenship and naturalization, Native Americans and their land claims, declaration of war and war's effect on civil rights, etc.
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Winter Wonderland: Magic Painting Book
by Wheatley, Abigail
London: Usborne Publishing Limited, 2023. Reissue. Soft Cover. Fine. 8x0x9. Bongini, Barbara; Ritson, Emily. Brand new from publisher, includes paintbrush. 2023 Soft Cover. [32 pp.] Filled with wintry whimsy, from ice-skating unicorns to snow castles, northern lights and other fantastical delights. Use the brush provided to sweep water over the designs and festive colors magically appear! A mess-free way to keep children busy for long winter nights and for the holidays. Simply tuck the waterproof back flap under... Read More
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Puncheons and Flagons: The Official Dungeons & Dragons Cocktail Book
by Wheeler, Andrew
Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2024. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 7x0x9. Brand new from publisher. 2024 Hard Cover. Entertain fabulously while you adventure in your next D&D campaign! Puncheons & Flagons is a delightful and fun-filled cocktail and snacks book filled with fare that would be served up at your character's favorite tavern, inn, or market along the Sword Coast. All seventy-five dishes, created by a professional recipe developer, are easy to prepare and provide everything... Read More
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A Little Book of Napoleon Wisdom
by Wheeler, Harold F.B
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1930. Small Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. No publisher date. Jacket edges rubbed with some chips, binding a bit shaken. 94 pp. Includes: On His Own Career; The Philosophy of Life; Love, Courtship, and Marriage; Politics; Religion; Military.
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Annis Warden, or; A Story of Real Life
by Wheelock, Julia Flander
Hamilton, N.Y: Republican Press, 1889. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Front board edge faded, pencil name on front endpaper. 1889 Hard Cover. 295 pp. A novel with religious themes, following the life of Annis Warden.
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When Mountains Walked: A Novel
by Wheeler, Kate
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Two tiny spots on top edge, faint smudge on fore edge. 2000 Hard Cover. 375 pp. Author's first novel. Named a "Best Young American Novelist" by Granta, Kate Wheeler received numerous awards and the highest critical acclaim for her story collection, Not Where I Started From. Francine Prose wrote, "This is... Read More
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Not Where I Started From: Stories
by Wheeler, Kate
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x1x9. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Reverse of jacket spine lightly stained, jacket spine faded, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1993 Hard Cover. 239 pp. Author's first book. A debut collection of short stories evokes the theme of Americans struggling to cope in the midst of strange cultures, including a teenager in Central America, a New... Read More
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Dino-Hanukkah
by Wheeler, Lisa
Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books / Lerner Publishing Group, 2023. Large Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 9x0x11. Gott, Barry. Brand new from publisher. 2023 Large Hardcover. Hanukkah is coming, and the dinos are all busy getting ready! They make brisket and latkes, and the dino-kids play with a dreidel, act out the Hanukkah story, open gifts, and eagerly await their turn to light the menorah. Dinosaurs big and small gather to decorate, eat, and even compete in party festivities like only prehistoric carnivores... Read More
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Sword Over Richmond: An Eyewitness History of McClellan's Peninsula Campaign
by Wheeler, Richard
New York: The Fairfax Press, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x7x1. First edition. Jacket spine a bit faded. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1989 Hard Cover. viii, 371 pp. "Told through the words of participants and observers, both military and civilian, this book is an account of the events that followed George B. McClellan's appointment as commander of the Army of the Potomac, and his controversial Peninsula Campaign." Black and white... Read More
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![Re-Viewing Le Morte Darthur: Texts and Contexts, Characters and Themes (Arthurian Studies LX [60]) [Reviewing D'Arthur]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/983/978/1695978983.0.l.jpg)
Re-Viewing Le Morte Darthur: Texts and Contexts, Characters and Themes (Arthurian Studies LX [60]) [Reviewing D'Arthur]
by Whetter, K.S.; Radulescu, Raluca L
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 6x0x9. First edition. Minimal blemishes to boards. 2005 Hard Cover. x, [2], 165 pp. The essays in this collection present a range of new ideas and approaches in Malory studies, looking again [as the title suggests] at several of the most debated critical points. A number of articles focus closely on the implications of the production of the text, ranging from the repercussions of the working habits... Read More
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Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy. A New Edition with Additional Lectures
by Whewell, William
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co, 1862. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Signed by author. Second edition. Boards faintly soiled, armorial bookplate of Richard Lee on front paste-down endpaper, a rather amusing if archaically sexist pencil note on the front free endpaper reads 'A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor anything worse than a bad one.' with another owner's name (Arthur Hargreaves) and date (Aug 26th 1940). 1862 Hard Cover. xvi, 280,... Read More
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A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France
by Whitaker, Katie
New York: Norton, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. An excellent copy. 2010 Hard Cover. It was, from the start, a dangerous experiment. Charles I of England was a Protestant, the fifteen-year-old French princess a Catholic. The marriage was arranged for political purposes, and it seemed a mismatch of personalities. But against the odds, the reserved king and his naively vivacious bride fell passionately in love, and for ten years England enjoyed an... Read More
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Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect (Barbour-Page Lectures, University of Virginia, 1927)
by Whitehead, Alfred North
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1x1x1. First edition. Top edge lightly foxed, boards lightly rubbed and soiled, bookplate on front endpaper. 1927 Hard Cover. x, 88 pp. A work on meanings of various symbols by the mathematician associated with "process philosophy." Includes discussions of language, sense perception, Immanuel Kant, and David Hume.
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