At Heaven's Gate
by Warren, Robert Penn
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1943. Blue cloth. A near-fine copy in dust jacket which is chipped at the ends of the spine, not affecting any lettering. First edition of Warren's second novel.
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The Anniversary. Autograph manuscript poem
by Watts, Alaric A. (1797-1864)
Folio, 3 page manuscript poem, no doubt composed in 1841 on the 20th anniversary of the poet's marriage to Priscilla Maden Wiffen. "Twenty chequered years have past, / Summer suns and wintry weather, / Since, our lot in concert cast, / First we 'climbed the hill, together'...." Watts heads his poem with a quote from Milton: "The world was all before us, where to choose our place of rest and Providence our guide." The poem was included in "Heath's... Read More
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The Medical and Surgical Register: consisting chiefly of cases in the New-York Hospital
by Watts, John ; Valentine Mott; Alexander H. Stevens
New York: Collins and Co, 1818. First edition. Contemporary blue paper boards, title hand lettered on (partially defective) spine, 2 plates (foxed). "The Medical and Surgical Register, of which only two parts were issued, is the first volume of case reports published by a United States hospital, and is one of the cornerstones in the history of American medicine, as well as one of the scarcest of medical periodicals" (Heirs of Hippocrates 1850). Garrison-Morton 2942 (Mott's first ligation of... Read More
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Letter to Carl Sandburg.; After reading his autobiography "Always the Young Strangers" published on his 75th birthday January 6, 1953
by Weigel, John C.
New York: Joseph Hall Schaffner, 1968, 1968. First edition. Dean, Mallette. Cloth backed boards, fine. First edition, one of fifty copies on handmade Tovil paper, from an edition of 250, designed and printed by Mallette Dean. Signed by Weigel. Frontispiece portrait of Sandburg after Steichen.
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Inscribed photograph
by Welles, Orson
Superb black and white photo of Welles in costume as Othello, in front of an Italian set (perhaps painted by Eugene Berman) apparently designed for this Christmas card, with "Othello / Buon Natale" on the banners at the top. Circa 1951. Inscribed in white ink "Dearest Dadda and Hazel: God willing this is the last Christmas in a long time - we'll spend apart --- All my love as always Orson". Maurice Bernstein ("Dadda") became Orson's legal guardian after... Read More
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Dada. Dokumente einer Bewegung
by Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen
Düsseldorf: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1958. First edition. Original wrappers, very good.
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A Stephen Crane Collection
by West, Herbert Faulkner
Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Library, 1948. Cloth, endpapers slightly spotted, otherwise fine. First edition, one of 350 copies. Contains the first publication of an important letter from Crane to his brother, as well as a useful bibliographic description of the George Mathhew Adams collection. Inscribed by West.
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The Day of the Locust. Screenplay by Waldo Salt from the novel by Nathanael West
by [West, Nathanael]; Salt, Waldo
1975. Mimeographed, 118 pages, plus additional revised pages, dated , 9/26-10 /73, pinned in plain covers. Occasional pencil marks and dog ears reveal it was obviously used at some point in production. Directed by John Schlesinger. Signed by the cinematographer Conrad L. Hall, and inscribed and signed by Karen Black.
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Mountaineering and Exploration in the Japanese Alps; With mapos and 35 illustrations
by Weston, Walter
London: John Murray, 1896. First edition. 346 pp., 2 folding maps. Original green cloth, faded and marked; the front cover decoration is fairly bright, inner hinges and ends of the spine expertly strengthened; internally fresh and almost entirely unopened. With an inscription: "Lent to the Guild of Saint John of Beverly Deaf library by Selwyn Oxley", with the Society's bookplate, a laid-in photo postcard of their 1928 garden fête, and notes on the endpaper referring to page 280 which... Read More
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Elegy
by West, Rebecca
New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1930. First edition. One of 250 numbered and signed copies. Bound by Terry Rutherford in paste paper covered boards, goatskin spine and corners, paper label, decorated paper slipcase. Fine.
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Tales of Men and Ghosts
by Wharton, Edith
New York: Scribners', 1910. First edition. 8vo, original red cloth. Garrison A18.1.a.
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The Joy of Living. (Es Lebe das Leben) Translated by Edith Wharton
by (Wharton, Edith) ; Sudermann, Hermann
New York: Scribner's, 1902. First edition. 8vo, original dark green boards, fine copy.
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Madame de Treymes
by Wharton, Edith
New York: Scribner's, 1907. First edition. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt. Fine copy.
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Twelve Poems by Edith Wharton
by Wharton, Edith
London: The Medici Society, 1926. First edition. Original blue-grey paper boards, cloth spine, extremities slightly worn, a very good copy. Bookplates of Robert and Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks. Garrison A40. First edition, copy number 10 of 130 copies (100 for sale), printed on handmade paper. Most of the edition had a facsimile signature stamp on page [ii] below the hand-written number (these are often erroneously catalogued as genuine signatures). It is tempting to think that the first thirty (and... Read More
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Benediction. Translated by Robert Norton. Foreword by Edith Wharton
by (Wharton, Edith) ; Silve, Claude
New York: Appleton, 1936. First edition. 8vbo, terracotta cloth, fine in dust jackety.
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Sanctuary; With illustrations by Walter Appleton Clark
by Wharton, Edith
New York: Scribner's, 1903. First edition. 8vo, green cloth. Binding variant "A". Gift inscription, very good.
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Jacob Lawrence: American Painter
by Wheat, Ellen Harkins
Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1986. Third printing (paper), 1994. Wrappers, fine. Inscribed by Lawrence/.
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The Thames From its Rise to the Nore.; Illustrated with nearly four hundred engravings in the text and sixteen etchings or steel plates
by (Whistler, James McNeil) ; Armstrong, Walter
London: Virtue, n.d.. First edition. Five volumes, 10 inches x 12.5 inches, original printed wrappers backed with cloth. The work was issued in fifteen parts, five divisions (as here), or two clothbound volumes. Slight chipping to wrappers and mild waterstain to part one cover, internally fine. Division 3 includes a photogravure of an etching by James McNeil Whistler, "Chelsea" (Kennedy 182a).
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Farewell to Model T.; By Lee Strout White [pseud.]. With illustrations by Alain
by White, E.B.
New York: Putnam's, 1936. First edition. Original green cloth, some foxing, very good copy in lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. "In 'The Second Tree from the Corner', p. 32 EBW explains that the pseudonym Lee Strout White is a combination of his name and the name Richard Lee Strout. Strout had submitted a manuscript to The New Yorker, which gave EBW the idea for this piece on the Model T," Hall A8.
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One Man's Meat
by White, E.B.
New York: Harper, 1942. First edition. Green cloth, fine. Hall A11.
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The Trumpet of the Swan; Illustrations by Fred Marcellino
by White, E.B.
New York: HarperCollins, 2000. 30th Anniversary edition. Publisher's full leather, with inset cover illustration, fine. Copy 86 of 150, numbered and signed by Marcellino.
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The Lady is Cold. Poems by E.B.W.
by [White, E.B.]
New York: Harper, 1929. First edition. Cloth backed pictorial boards. Binding A (picturing the Plaza Hotel). Only 1,392 copies were printed. White's first published book, preceded by a rare promotional piece for The New Yorker. Hall A2.
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The Wild Flag
by White, E.B.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. First edition. Cloth in dust jacket. Fine copy. Hall A15.
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The Points of My Compass
by White, E.B.
New York: Harper, 1962. First edition. Cloth backed boards, a fine copy in dust jacket. Hall A24.
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Letters of E. B. White. Collected and Edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth
by White, E.B.
New York: Harper, 1976. First edition. Loose galley proof sheets, plus, the first paperback ed.
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