![Alimony: The American Tragedy [Signed & Inscribed; Typed Letter, Signed, Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/600/831/838831600.0.l.jpg)
Alimony: The American Tragedy [Signed & Inscribed; Typed Letter, Signed, Laid in]
by WILNER, Charles
New York: Vantage Press, [1952]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in green and brown dust jacket; xiii,[1],329pp. Jacket very chipped and worn with some paper flaws to front flap affecting text with loss of meaning of a few words, rear flap excised and affixed to pastedown as issued. Near Fine in Good or better jacket. Inscribed and signed "To A. Stewart Phillips, with kindest regards. - Charles Wilson - Sept. 22, 1952." Author bio blurb (presumably from rear... Read More
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The Wars of Peace
by WILSON, A.F. [Anne Florence]; H.C. Ireland (illus)
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1903. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's burgundy pictorial cloth; gilt spine titles; 392,[4]pp; frontispiece and four unnumbered leaves of plates. Mild external rubbing, with a touch of fraying to cloth at crown; faint old erasure to front free endpaper; text clean, tight and unmarked. A solidly Very Good copy. A struggle between a ruthless capitalist father and his progressive-minded son in a New England mill town. When the father's trust... Read More
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Tempo. The Impact of Television on the Arts
by WILSON, Angus
London: Studio Vista, 1964. First Edition. First impression. Quarto (27cm). Cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; [100pp]; illus. Mild bumps at at heel of spine and corners; jacket unclipped (priced 25s net); jacket edges mildly rolled, Very Good.
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Hemlock and After
by WILSON, Angus
London: Secker & Warburg, 1952. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); green cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in light green on spine; dustjacket; 246pp. Previous owner's name and date inked to front endpaper. Light sunning to spine and board margins, with foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 12s 6d net), with two tiny tears to upper rear panel and upper rear spine fold, faint surface scratch to front panel, creases to spine ends and extremities; Very Good.... Read More
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A Bit Off the Map
by WILSON, Angus
London: Secker & Warburg, 1957. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm). Green cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 193pp. Clean, tight, fresh copy, Fine, in bright dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 13s 6d net on front flap), with a hint of rubbing to extremities and two faint spots of foxing to front panel; Very Good plus. Nice copy.
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True Story of a Jewish Maiden
by WILSON, Annie E.
Richmond, VA: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1897. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 193pp. Pencilled on front pastedown: "Old Fort Spring S. S. #8". Spine-faded, with modest shelf-wear, shelf-soil, rubbing to spine and board edges, joints cracked, with interior soil, marginal creases, and foxing; Good. Focuses on Ruth Henle as she navigates religion alongside financial obstacles. [84691].
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![Diderot [Presentation Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/625/990/1457990625.0.l.jpg)
Diderot [Presentation Copy]
by WILSON, Arthur M.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Second printing. Octavo (23cm). Black cloth, with dust jacket; xviii,917pp. With a 1974 presentation inscription to Dr. Edwin C. Evarts from the author and his wife. A straight copy, lightly rubbed at edges, minor stains to top edge: Very Good or better. Jacket unclipped (priced $25.00), mildly dusty, rubbed at edges with small chips: around Very Good. Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1973.
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Ambitious Women
by WILSON, Barbara Ellen
Argyle, NY: Spinsters Ink, 1982. First Edition. Octavo; pictorial card wrappers; 228pp. Mild rubbing and soil to wrappers; internally clean, tight and unmarked. "A novel about working feminists...caught in the everyday demands of work, family, friendship, and their confrontation with violence against women, terrorism, and the grand jury's right to investigate..." (from publisher's blurb). There was a simultaneous (and much scarcer) cloth issue.
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Mapping the Frontier: Charles Wilson's Diary of the Survey of the 49th Parallel, 1858-1862, While Secretary of the British Boundary Commission
by WILSON, Charles; George F. G. Stanley (ed.)
Seattle: University of Washington, 1970. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Maroon cloth, in red pictorial dust jacket; [x],182pp; black and white maps. A tight, firm copy, lightly sunned along top edge, paper toned: Very Good. Jacket price-clipped, lightly rubbed and spine-sunned, overall Very Good. #61674.
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The History of Unilever: A Study in Economic Growth and Social Change
by WILSON, Charles
London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1954. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23.5cm). Two volumes in black cloth, titled in gilt, red topstains, in cream dust jackets; [xxii],335,[1]pp; [x],480pp; 12 folding plates, 7 color diagrams, additional black and white illustrations. Both volumes inscribed to J. W. Fredericks from Major V. J. A. Lillie-Costello, November 1955, on front free endpapers. With Fredericks' ownership inscription in pencil on front panel of dust jacket to vol. I. A straight set, slight dustsoil to... Read More
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Uganda in the Days of Bishop Tucker
by WILSON, C.J.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1955. First Edition. 12mo (18.25cm.); original cream staplebound wrappers printed in blue; ix,[1],64pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Fine. Forms part of the series A Treasury of East African History. Account of Alfred Tucker, Bishop of Eastern Equitorial Africa (present-day Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda).
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The Bear's Whelp. The Autobiography of Robert Dudley Duke of Northumberland, Earl of Warwick and Earl of Leicester in the Holy Roman Empire. Part One: 1574-1596
by WILSON, Derek
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (20cm). Turquoise cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 311pp. Small (ca 1/4") closed tear to jacket at base of front flap fold, else Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustwrapper (priced £4.95 net). First volume in Wilson's fictionalized autobiography of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. An almost new-appearing copy.
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Bear Rampant. The Autobiography of Robert Dudley Duke of Northumberland, Earl of Warwick and Earl of Leicester inthe Holy Roman Empire. Part Two: 1598-1603
by WILSON, Derek
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (20cm). Navy blue cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 236pp. Fine in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper (priced £7.95 net). Second and final volume in Wilson's fictionalized autobiography of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. A new-appearing copy.
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To the Finland Station
by WILSON, Edmund
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm). Red cloth titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 509pp. Mild soiling to textblock with small stain to right edge; spine ends slightly pushed; toning to endpapers and page edges; Very Good+. The dustjacket is price clipped, with minor nicks and a short closed tear to rear panel; minor soiling; Very Good+. A classic study of socialism and communism. LEWIS 16.
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The Shock of Recognition; The Development of Literature in The United States Recorded by The Men Who Made It
by WILSON, Edmund
London: W.H. Allen, 1956. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's dark red cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xvii]; 1290pp. Clean and strong, with a little scuffing and bumping to corners and spine ends, some dulling of the cheap spine gilt; internally clean; in a strong, handsome dustjacket with some shallow wear to the head of spine, toning to the spine panel and some light cosmetic soiling. A very good copy. A collection of literary documents, edited... Read More
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A Christmas Delirium
by WILSON, Edmund
N.p., 1955. First Edition. Octavo (20.25cm.); original plain staplebound wrappers in decorative dust jacket, paper label mounted to upper panel; 42pp.; illus. Jacket flaps originally pasted inside wrappers now loose revealing faint, inoffensive glue residue, else Near Fine.
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![A Roman Summer" [in] HORIZON: A Review of Literature and Art, Vol. XVI, No. 91](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/766/537/1581537766.0.l.jpg)
A Roman Summer" [in] HORIZON: A Review of Literature and Art, Vol. XVI, No. 91
by WILSON, Edmund; Cyril Connolly (ed)
London: Horizon, 1947. First Edition. Light tan printed wraps; 8vo. August 1947 issue with "A Roman Summer 1945" by Wilson; two leaves of black and white plates. About very good.
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Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties
by WILSON, Edmund
New York: Farrar, Straus & Co, 1950. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); blue cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; blue topstain; dustjacket; 534pp. Modest shelf-wear, lightly faded topstain, with trace soil to covers and edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.00), with modest shelf-wear and -soil, 1.5" tear to front lower spine fold, two 1" tears to front lower flap fold and rear lower spine fold, with tiny chips and tears to extremities;... Read More
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Travels in Two Democracies
by WILSON, Edmund
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in red and brown dust jacket, brown topstain; viii,325pp. Jacket spine a bit sunned, ends slightly rubbed, topstain rather mottled from a few dampspots and uneven fading. Still, Very Good overall. Wilson's study of the United States and the Soviet Union.
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A Piece of My Mind: Reflections At Sixty
by WILSON, Edmund
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); gray cloth covered boards titled in black on the spine; red topstain; dustjacket by Ronald Clyne; 239pp.; spine ends and corners faintly rubbed; offsetting inside covers, mostly at rear, Very Good+. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.75) with mild sunning to spine; nicks to the extremities; Very Good+. A series of essays- "a symphonic meditation" to use the author's words- arrranged under the following titles:... Read More
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I Thought of Daisy
by WILSON, Edmund
New York: Scribner's, 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards titled in light blue on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 311pp.; light wear/rubbing, spine ends pushed, faint soiling. Very Good+. The dustjacket is unclipped priced ($2.50) with chipping and rubbing to extremities; shallow loss to the crown and heel of spine; toning to spine; tear along the flap. Very Good. with small bookseller's ticket on the lower rear board (Witkower's Booksellers) "This is a story... Read More
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Note-Books of Night
by WILSON, Edmund
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1942. First Trade Edition. Octavo (24.5cm); oatmeal cloth-covered boards, with decorative paper title labels on spine and front cover; glassine dustwrapper; dustjacket; 112pp. Light shelf-soil, tanning to edges of boards and upper edge of textblock, off-setting to pastedowns; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50), tanned, with front flap disconnected at fold (but with item), and tiny tears, chips, and creases to extremities; Good. Glassine dustjacket complete, tanned, with crease to rear flap. Collection of... Read More
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Red, Black, Blonde and Olive- Studies in Four Civilizations: Zuni, Haiti, Soviet Russia and Israel
by WILSON, Edmund
New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); gray cloth covered boards, titled in blue and green on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 500pp.; minor soil to the front joint; spine ends gently pushed; minor bump to lower board edge, Very Good+ or better. The dustjacket is price-clipped; sunning to the front panel and spine; chip/nicks and short tears to the extremities, mostly to the upper edge of front panel and crown of spine, Very... Read More
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Fifty Years of Association Work Among Young Women, 1866-1916: A History of Young Women's Christian Associations in the United States of America
by WILSON, Elizabeth
New York: National Board of the Young Women's Christian Associations of the United States of America, [1916]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; [14],402pp.; 27 leaves of photographs and facsimiles, including one folding. Corners bumped, contemporary ownership inscription to front pastedown with neat pencil and ink marginalia throughout, else a Very Good, still quite bright copy.
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Fort Jefferson: The Frontier Post of the Upper Miami Valley
by WILSON, Frazer Ells
[Lancaster, PA: The Intelligencer Printing Company, 1950]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Stampled pamphlet in blue paper wrappers, printed in black; 36pp; frontispiece, in-text black and white illustrations. Lightly rubbed, sunned at edges, else Very Good or better. [62369].
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