Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine and Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays (Bantam 10875-1)
by Wolfe, Tom
New York: Bantam Books, 1977. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 6x4x0. Wolfe, Tom. First paperback printing. 1/2 inch crease on rear wrapper edge, pages a bit toned. Binding tight and square, pages clean and unmarked. 1977 Mass Market Paperback. 214, [2] pp. "When are the 1970s going to begin?" ran the joke during the Presidential campaign of 1976. With his own patented combination of serious journalism and dazzling comedy, Tom Wolfe met the question head-on in... Read More
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The Kandy Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
by Wolfe, Tom
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. Signed by author. 2nd printing. Signed by author with inscription, "For Jean Coventry, with best wishes, thousands of them! From Tom Wolfe." Jacket edges bumped, front jacket flap creased. Boards lightly soiled. 1965 Hard Cover. xvii, 339 pp. In his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) Wolfe introduces us to the sixties, to extravagant new styles of life that had nothing... Read More
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Hooking Up
by Wolfe, Tom
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6x0x9. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed. 2000 Hard Cover. 293, [3] pp. 8vo. "In Hooking Up, Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast observing the lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000. From teenage sexual manners and mores to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves thanks to the hot new fields of... Read More
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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (Pocket 75135)
by Wolfe, Tom
New York: Pocket Cardinal / Pocket Books, 1966. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 6x4x0. First paperback printing. Pencil number on front corner, front corner lightly creased, fore edge slightly discolored. 1966 Mass Market Paperback. xvii, 339 pp. In his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) Wolfe introduces us to the sixties, to extravagant new styles of life that had nothing to do with the "elite" culture of the past.
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Beyond: How Humankind Thinks about Heaven
by Wolff, Catherine
New York: Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House LLC, 2021. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Pencil underlining on first few pages only, otherwise an excellent copy. 2021 Hard Cover. xvi, 336 pp. A smart and thought-provoking cultural history of heaven. What do we think of when we think about heaven? What might it look like? Who or what might be there? Since humans began to huddle together for protection thousands of years ago,... Read More
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Kurt Wolff: A Portrait in Essays and Letters
by Wolff, Kurt; Ermarth, Michael
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Edges lightly foxed. 1991 Hard Cover. 252 pp. Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself and pioneering significant changes in publishing. During an intense, active career that spanned two continents and five decades, Wolff launched seven publishing houses and nurtured an extraordinary array of writers, among them... Read More
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Old School
by Wolff, Tobias
New York: Vintage Books, 2003. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x7. Reprint. Faint edge wear. 2003 Trade Paperback. "The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly -- and at times devastatingly -- observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writer. But to do... Read More
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![The Royal College of Physicians of London: Portraits [with] The Royal College of Physicians of London: Portraits Catalogue II](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/522/910/1573910522.0.l.jpg)
The Royal College of Physicians of London: Portraits [with] The Royal College of Physicians of London: Portraits Catalogue II
by Wolstenholme, Gordon; Piper, David; Kerslake, Rudolf E.O
London: J. & A. Churchill Ltd. / Elsevier / Excerpta Medica / North Holland, 1964. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x7x1. Volume 2 does not include jacket, though one may not have been issued. Volume 1 jacket lightly toned, minor indentation to front board of volume 2. 1964 Hard Cover. 244; viii, 239 pp. A collection of biographical sketches of prominent physicians, illustrated with photographs and reproductions of portrait paintings. The first volume was released in 1964, and... Read More
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Imbibe! From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to 'Professor' Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar - Updated and Revised
by Wondrich, David; Degroff, Dale
New York: Perigee / Penguin, 2015. Revised and Updated Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 5x1x8. 2015 updated and revised edition. Brand new from publisher. xix, 363 pp. The newly updated edition of David Wondrich's definitive guide to classic American cocktails. Cocktail writer and historian David Wondrich presents the colorful, little-known history of classic American drinks--and the ultimate mixologist's guide--in this engaging homage to Jerry Thomas, father of the American bar. Wondrich reveals never-before-published details and stories about this larger-than-life... Read More
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The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails
by Wondrich, David; Rothbaum, Noah; Samuelsson, Marcus
New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 7x2x10. First edition. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy. 2022 Hard Cover. xxiv, 834 pp. Foreword by Marcus Samuelsson, includes two sections of color photographic plates. Anthropologists and historians have confirmed the central role alcohol has played in nearly every society since the dawn of human civilization, but it is only recently that it has been the subject of serious scholarly inquiry. The Oxford Companion to... Read More
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Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction (No. 142)
by Wood, Bernard
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 7th Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 6x4x0. Seventh printing. Small stain on half-title page. 2005 Mass Market Paperback. 131 pp. The recent discovery of the diminutive Homo floresiensis (nicknamed "the Hobbit") in Indonesia has sparked new interest in the study of human evolution. In this Very Short Introduction, renowned evolutionary scholar Bernard Wood traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to today's latest fossil finds. Along... Read More
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East Lynne
by Wood, Ellen; Maunder, Andrew (Editor)
Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 2000. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x8. Spine creased, ink stamp on half-title page. 2000 Trade Paperback. 779 pp. Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined young woman, leaves her hard-working but neglectful lawyer-husband and her infant children to elope with an aristocratic suitor. After he deserts her, and she bears their illegitimate child, Lady Isabel disguises herself and takes the position of governess in the household of her husband and his new wife. East... Read More
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The New Zealand People at War: Political and External Affairs (Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War, 1939-45)
by Wood, F.L.W
Wellington, New Zealand: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs / The Battery Press, 1958. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 0x0x0. Good in fair jacket. Edges lightly foxed, ink name on front endpaper, large chip from rear jacket edge with a few other minor chips along edges, 1 inch surface tear to front jacket corner. 1958 Hard Cover. x, 395 pp. A history of the New Zealand's political and foreign affairs during World War II, with fold-out maps and black-and-white... Read More
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Boating, with an Introduction by the Rev. Edmond Warre, D.D., and a Chapter on Rowing at Eton by R. Harvey Mason - Large Paper Edition (The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes)
by Woodgate, W.B.; Warre, Edmond; Mason, R. Harvey; His Grace the Duke of Beaufort; Watson, Alfred E.T
London: Longmans, Green & Co. / Spottiswoode and Co, 1888. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Dadd, Frank. Large paper edition, #93 of 250 copies. Rebacked, nicely matching the color of the original spine and corners (the texture is a bit different, but tough to notice without looking closely), original dark green end sheets preserved. Hinges reinforced, boards lightly soiled, frontispiece, tissue guard, and title page foxed, a couple minor blemishes to a few other page margins. 1888... Read More
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Country Holiday (Advance Reading Copy)
by Woodhouse, Frances
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1935. Advance Reading Copy. Trade Paperback. Good. Advance reading copy with publisher's review slip laid in. Spine and front wrapper creased, general wear. 1935 Trade Paperback. 262 pp. Frances Woodhouse, in this first novel, makes neither pretension nor fuss. She is content with the technique of straight-forward, slow-pacing narrative and plain dialogue, and she does not seek to arrest our attention by the presentation of bizarre characters or extraordinary happenings. - The New... Read More
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Fever: A Study in Morbid and Normal Physiology
by Wood, H. [Horatio] C. [Charles]
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1880. First Thus. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Includes all five plates. Top right corner bumped, corners rubbed, first two pages loose from binding, ink note on front endpaper, pages toned. 1880 Large Hardcover. vii, 258 pp. [8] Includes all five plates. First edition in book form of Wood's elaborate monograph on fever that was the product of earlier research on sunstroke (described in his Thermic Fever [1872]). "Aided by a grant...from the Smithsonian...[Wood]... Read More
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Illustrated Natural History (Animals and Birds)
by Wood, J.G. [John George]
New York: Gilbert H. McKibbin, 1899. Small Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Binder's copy. Rear board cloth wrinkled. 1899 Small Hard Cover. 191 pp. Includes illustrations in color. Arranged for young readers. A natural history of animals and birds written for children. John George Woods was an "English writer and lecturer on natural history... He was educated at Ashbourne grammar school and Merton College, Oxford; and after he had taken his degree in 1848 he worked for two... Read More
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Picturesque Alaska: A Journal of a Tour among the Mountains, Seas and Islands of the Northwest, from San Francisco to Sitka
by Woodman, Abby Johnson
Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1890. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Partridge, W.H. [William]. Third edition. Rear hinge loose and front hinge loosening, otherwise only minimal wear to boards, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1890 Hard Cover. iv, [5]-212 pp. Green cloth, black titles, glacier illustration on front board. Includes two-panel map of the route to Alaska and six photographic plates by William H. Partridge, including images of... Read More
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Wainwright: The Podcasts
by Wood-Jones, Nik; Robson, Eric
New York: Frances Lincoln Limited, 2008. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x6. An excellent copy, includes CD. 2008 Trade Paperback. 128 pp. Maps and illustrations throughout. Explore some of Lakeland's finest fells in the company of the one and only A. Wainwright with this handy volume of eight walks from the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells and The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.
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Red Jacket
by Wood, Robert John
Hilton, New York: Robert John Wood. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 3 in OCLC. No jacket. A few minor surface tears on front board. The portrait of Red Jacket, reduced to a line drawing, was painted in 1828 in Washington, D.C. by Charles Bird King, who was particularly famous for his Indian portraits. Red Jacket, original name Otetiani, also called Sagoyewatha, (born 1758', Canoga, New York [U.S.]—died January 20, 1830, Seneca Village, Buffalo, New York, U.S.), Seneca chief... Read More
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Including a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the War of Independence, and of the Various Negotiations at Paris for Peace; with the History of His Political and Other Writings
by [Woods, Leonard]
London: Hunt and Clarke, 1826. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Boards rubbed with some loss from spine label, a couple pages faintly foxed. Binding tight and square. 1826 Half-Leather. 407 pp. Leather spine and corners over marbled boards, morocco spine label, gilt titles and rules. An early account of the life of Benjamin Franklin, with accounts of the American Revolution and Franklin's diplomacy in France. An appendix includes ten excerpts from his political writings. Though unattributed, the work is often... Read More
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Quest for Identity: America Since 1945
by Woods, Randall Bennett
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Remainder mark, smudge to upper wrapper. 2005 Trade Paperback. Randall Woods addresses the major themes characterizing the American experience from the close of World War II. Woods' accessible analysis of the Cold War and Civil Rights and Women's Rights movements, as well as other great changes that led to major realignments of American life, clarify postwar American history. Although this book emphasizes political... Read More
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This Fatal Writ
by Woods, Sara
New York: St. Martin's, 1979. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x5x1. Book club edition. Jacket spine faded, jacket faintly rubbed. 1979 Hard Cover. 188 pp. The case against Harry Charlton was simple and strong. In his role as 'investigative journalist' he was alleged to have gained knowledge of a Top Secret project at the Fenton Laboratory, London, and to have sold this information to a Russian agent. The case rested on three main a conversation overheard... Read More
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
by Woods, Thomas E., Jr
Washington, D.C: Regnery Publishing, Inc, 2004. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x0x9. Jacket edges bumped, jacket creased. 2004 Hard Cover. v, 270 pp. Most Americans trust that their history professors and high school teachers will give students honest and accurate information. The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History makes it quite clear that liberal professors have misinformed our children for generations. Professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. takes on the most controversial moments of American history and... Read More
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The Price of Politics
by Woodward, Bob
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Ink name and address on front endpaper, ink underlining throughout. 2012 Hard Cover. xvii, 428 pp. "Based on 18 months of reporting, Woodward's 17th book The Price of Politics is an intimate, documented examination of how President Obama and the highest profile Republican and Democratic leaders in the United States Congress attempted to restore the American economy and improve the federal government's fiscal... Read More
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