Charlotte's Web: 60th Anniversary Edition
by White, E.B. [Elwyn Brooks]; DiCamillo, Kate
New York: Harper, 2012. 60th Anniversary Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 5x0x8. Williams, Garth. Reprint of 60th anniversary edition. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy. 2012 Hard Cover. 184 pp. Glossy pictorial boards, web illustration on endpapers. Includes new foreword by Kate DiCamillo, Newbery Award winning author of Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Desperaux. Charlotte's Web is a children's book by acclaimed American author E.B. White. First published in 1952, it tells the story of a... Read More
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The Crimson Blind
by White, Fred M. [Merrick]
New York: R.F. Fenno & Company, 1905. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Prout, Victor. First American edition. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, (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 his bookplate on front endpaper. Binder's copy. No jacket. Rear joint starting, ink note on front endpaper, lightly stained. 1905 Hard Cover. 378 pp. Illustrated by... Read More
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Memoir of Samuel Slater, the Father of American Manufactures. Connected with a History of the Rise and Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in England and America. with Remarks on the Moral Influence of Manufactories in the United States
by White, George S
Philadelphia: Printed at No. 46, Carpenter Street, 1836. Second Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Second edition. Rebound in full leather with gilt titles and rules. Faint scattered foxing. 1836 Full-Leather. 448 pp. Eighteen illustrations, including plates and fold-outs. Andrew Jackson called Slater the Father of the American Factory System, though the British called him 'Slater the Traitor' for implementing British manufacturing techniques in the United States. He used the knowledge gleaned from his apprenticeship to a British industry... Read More
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Wide Awake: Stories and Tales for Boys and Girls (Wide Awake Series)
by White, Henry Kirke; March, Valentine; Mines, Flavel Scott; Kneeland, Samuel; Galpin, Cromwell; Wilcox, Ella Wheeler; Crawford, L.S.; Wells, Amos R.; MacQuoid, Katharine S.; Bridgman; Whitmarsh, H.P.; Derwent, John; Wilkins, Mary E.; Scidmore, Eliza Ruhama
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1899. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Boards rubbed and lightly soiled, edges exposed, a few internal holes to cloth spine, pages toned, binding a bit shaken but holding, publisher's advertising insert entitled Best Books for Boys and Girls laid in. 1899 Hard Cover. Color frontispiece, color pictorial boards, engraved illustrations throughout. An illustrated collection of stories and poems for young readers by various authors, including: The Mysterious Choir Boy; Fluffy's Easter Joke;... Read More
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The Life and Art of Dwight William Tryon
by White, Henry C
Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1930. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Front fore edge corner slightly exposed, ink name and date on front endpaper, endpapers a bit toned. 1930 Hard Cover. xv, [3], 226, [1], frontispiece and plates throughout text (30 total), 32 plates follow text. Tryon was a landscape and seascape painter in the tonalist style, whose work was influenced by James McNeill Whistler.
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Pathways to the Afterlife: Early Chinese Art from the Sze Hong Collection
by White, Julia M.; Otsuka, Ronald Y
Honolulu, Hawaii: Denver Art Museum in Association with University of Hawaii Press, 1993. 1st Printing. Large Softcover. Very Good. 9x0x11. First printing. Covers creased. 1993 Large Softcover. 102 pp. Nicely produced catalog for an exhibition at the Denver Art Museum. Features 43 ceramic and bronze jars, bowls, cups, and flasks, and traces the progression of Chinese design and decoration from its beginnings at the hands of Neolithic potters up to the creation of funerary wares by Han and... Read More
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The House on Prytania: A Royal Street Novel
by White, Karen
New York: Berkley, 2024. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x7. First paperback printing. Minimal wear to corners. 2024 Trade Paperback. 403 pp. A woman is haunted - both literally and figuratively - by ghosts of the past in this second novel of the Royal Street series by New York Times bestselling author Karen White. Nola Trenholm may not be psychic herself, but she's spent enough time around people who are to know when ghosts are present, and... Read More
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Yours for the Asking
by White, Kenna
Tallahassee, Florida: Bella Books, 2009. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. First edition. Fine. 2009 Trade Paperback. 230 pp. The responsible one. The steady, reliable one. Lauren Roberts has had her fill of it. Running her bed-and-breakfast like clockwork and hosting her younger, glamorous, songbird sister for the holidays only underscores Lauren's choice of order over risk. Kelly's vibrant and impetuous nature doesn't stick to anything―or any one woman―for long. That includes an old girlfriend of Lauren's who... Read More
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The Collected Works of Kenneth White Volume 1: Underground to Otherground - Incandescent Limbo; Letters from Gourgounel; Travels in the Drifting Dawn
by White, Kenneth; Craig, Cairns
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1989. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x0x9. A couple pages dog-eared, otherwise an excellent copy. 1989 Trade Paperback. xxv, 300 pp. These three books reflect the beginnings of one of the most radical and exhilarating figures in modern literature. Incandescent Limbo recounts White's years in Paris. Many a writer in the modern era had made Paris a focal point of his or her activity, but probably no one made more of it or got more... Read More
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Shared Winds
by White, Kenna
Tallahassee, Florida: Bella Books, 2004. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. Second printing. Fine. 2004 Trade Paperback. 216 pp.When an Oklahoma tornado rips through Lan Harding's life, destroying her beloved marina, Shared Winds, Lan must somehow find a way to rebuild her business and her world. Emma Bishop, daughter of the most renowned contractor in the county, steps in to offer her services. The offer seems like an answer to Lan's prayers until she learns of Emma's inexperience... Read More
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Romancing the Zone
by White, Kenna
Tallahassee, Florida: Bella Books, 2006. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. First edition. Fine. 2006 Trade Paperback. 259 pp. Liz Elliott is fast approaching forty as a successful business woman and single mother to nineteen-year-old daughter, Becca. Becca is a freshman at Ashton, Vermont's Chilton College. She is also a rising star for the Lady Stingers basketball team, just as her mother had been twenty-years-ago. But in those early days, a a dirty little secret had collapsed Liz's... Read More
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Beneath the Willow
by White, Kenna
Tallahassee, Florida: Bella Books, 2006. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. First edition. Fine. 2006 Trade Paperback. 244 pp. When Dr. Paris DeMont lost her beloved Gabriella to the mindless tragedy of Nine Eleven, she lost more than her partner of eight years. She lost her will to love. A successful cardiologist to New York City's elite, Paris now lives a sterile emotionless existence on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
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Braggin' Rights
by White, Kenna
Tallahassee, Florida: Bella Books, 2007. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. First edition. Fine. 2007 Trade Paperback. 292 pp. Taylor Fleming is a thirty-six year old Texas rancher who covets her independence enough to keep her life simple, no strings attached. As partner to her father's vast cattle ranch, she has enough to keep her busy without taking on a serious relationship with any of the women who clamor for her attention. When a neighboring aging rancher fills... Read More
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Pioneer and Patriot: George Cook Sweet, Commander, U.S.N. (1877-1953) - A Biography [United States Navy]
by White, Lillian C
Delray Beach, Florida: The Southern Publishing Company, 1963. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8x5x0. First edition. Ink museum stamp on front endpaper. 1963 Hard Cover. 172 pp. An account of the life of George Cook Sweet, Commander, U.S. Navy, illustrated with black-and-white photographs. George Sweet graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Class of 1898. He retired as a U.S. Navy Commander. Born in Waterloo, New York, he was the first naval officer to fly... Read More
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The Money Trap
by White, Lionel
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc, 1963. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. First edition. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears, front jacket flap clipped with price intact, jacket reverse foxed. 1963 Hard Cover. 189 pp. 8vo. Inspiration for the 1965 Burt Kennedy film starring Glenn Ford (Joe Baron) and Elke Sommer (Lisa Baron), which also featured Ricardo Montalban (as Joe's partner Pete Delanos). The story follows two cops who collaborate to steal money from a... Read More
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Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden: An Illustrated Companion to Medieval Plants and Their Uses
by Whiteman, Robin; [Peters, Ellis]
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x1x9. Talbot, Rob. First edition. Near fine in very good jacket. 1 inch closed tear repaired with clear tape on jacket reverse, publisher's sticker on rear jacket corner. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1983 Hard Cover. 200 pp. An apothecary's guide based on Ellis Peters' popular Brother Cadfael series of mystery novels, combining color photographs of landscapes and botanicals with... Read More
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Ambush
by White, Samuel Alexander
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company / The Country Life Press, 1920. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Coleman, Ralph Pallen. First edition (same date on title and copyright pages). Includes scarce original jacket. Jacket lightly rubbed, jacket spine soiled, light 1 inch stain on fore edge margin of first four pages, a few tiny spots on top edge. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1920 Hard Cover. 244 pp. Jacket art and matching color... Read More
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The Gray Dawn
by White, Stewart Edward; Fogarty, Thomas
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Fogarty, Thomas. Reprint. Ink stamp and ink name on frontispiece recto. 1915 Hard Cover. 395 pp. Color frontispiece and three color plates by Thomas Fogarty. "The novel begins: On the verandah of the Bella Union Hotel, San Francisco, a man sat enjoying his morning pipe. The Bella Union overlooked the Plaza of that day, a dusty, unkempt, open space, later to be... Read More
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Wild Geese Calling
by White, Stewart Edward
New York: Sun Dial Press, 1943. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 7x5x1. Reprint. Lacks jacket, spine and edges faded, front hinge weakening, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1943 Hard Cover. viii, 577 pp. A 9-year-old boy finds a wild Canadian gander wounded by hunters and unable to fly. He nurses the gander back to health and then must decide whether to keep it as a pet or set it free to return to its flock.
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The Arts in Early American History: Needs and Opportunities for Study (Needs and Opportunities for Study Series)
by Whitehill, Walter Muir [Essay]; Garrett, Wendell D. and Jane N. [Bibliography]
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1965. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 9x6x0. No jacket. Spine and boards very lightly toned. 1965 Hard Cover. xv, 170 pp. Essay by Walter Muir Whitehill. Bibliography by Wendell D. Garrett and Jane N. Garrett. CONTENTS: Foreword; An Unexploited Historical Resource; A Bibliography of the Arts in Early American History; Writings on the Arts in Early America, 1876-1964; General Works; Architecture; Topography; Painting; Sculpture and Carving; Graphic Arts;... Read More
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Lynch Lawyers
by White, William Patterson
New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1920. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Fischer, Anton Otto. Reissue. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his embossed stamp on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). No jacket. Spine and rear board faded, front board lightly soiled, edges foxed, one page creased. 1920 Hard Cover. viii, 38 pp. Frontispiece by... Read More
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Paradise Bend
by White, William Patterson
New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1920. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Coleman, Ralph Pallen. Reissue. No jacket. Spine faded, pages foxed. 1920 Hard Cover. 287 pp. Eight pages of publisher ads follow text. Color frontispiece by Ralph Pallen Coleman. Paradise Bend is an exciting western novel by William Patterson White. White was famous for writing books such as The Owner of the Lazy D, Paradise Bend, Hidden Trails, The Heart of the Range, and The Rider... Read More
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The Light Appearing More and More Towards the Perfect Day; or, A Farther Discovery of the Present State of the Indians in New-England, Concerning the Progresse of the Gospel Amongst them. Manifested by Letters from Such as Preacht to Them There. (Sabin's Reprints, Quarto Series. No. III.)
by Whitfield, Henry; Caryl, Joseph; Mayhow [Mayhew], Thomas; Eliot, John
New York: Reprinted for Joseph Sabin / [Joel] Munsell, 1865. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Signed by author. Limited edition, hand numbered 44 and initialed by Joseph Sabin. One of 50 copies. Binding weakening, several gatherings loose. 1865 Large Hardcover. [viii], 46 pp. 4to. 1865 reissue of 1651 original. Sabin 103688: 'Contains a letter from Thomas Mayhew, dated 'From Great Harbor in Martins [sic] Vineyard Sept. 7. 1650'; also five letters from John Eliot written from... Read More
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Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy, First Annex, Good-by My Fancy, Second Annex, A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait From Life (Aventine Classics Volume 2)
by Whitman, Walt
New York: Aventine Press / Department of Limited Editions of J.J. Little and Ives Company, 1931. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. Boards a bit soiled, bookplate of Mary Weld on front endpaper, front and end matter lightly foxed. 1931 Hard Cover. 580 pp. 8vo. A complete edition of Leaves of Grass, and the second volume of the Aventine Classics series. Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and... Read More
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Leaves of Grass, Selected from the Complete Edition (The Harrap Library)
by Whitman, Walt
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1927. 4th Printing. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Spine faded, corners slightly exposed, a couple minor scuffs to boards, two ink gift notes dated more than 50 years apart on front endpaper (and showing the book was given by one family to another, and then vice versa!). 1927 Full-Leather. vi, [2], 262, [1] pp. Full leather with an almost marbled cloud-like pattern ranging from cobalt to midnight blues, elaborate gilt decorations... Read More
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