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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Rebel Daughter of a Country House: The Life of Eglantyne Jebb, founder of the Save the Children Fund
by WILSON, Francesca M.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, [1967]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket, blue topstain; 228pp. Light edge wear to jacket extremities, else Fine.
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Gahan Wilson: Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons
by WILSON, Gahan; Neil Gaiman (introd.); Hugh Hefner (introd.)
Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2009. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (26cm). Three volumes in black pictorial cloth, in slipcase with transparent polyester window in one side; vol. I: 321pp; vol. II: [322]-624pp; vol. III: [x],[639]-933,[9]pp; color illus. throughout. Small ownership inscription of noted zoologist James G. Mead to f.f.e.p.s. A straight, clean set, lightly bumped at extremities, plastic coating just starting to lift from paper at front hinges: Near Fine. Slipcase gently rubbed at extremities: Near Fine. Complete collection of... Read More
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Gahan Wilson's America
by WILSON, Gahan
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (28.5cm); red cloth spine over gray paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine, and author's facsimile signature blind embossed in front cover; [4],5-143,[1]pp; black-and-white illustrations throughout. Modest shelf-wear, with light rubbing of paper to board edges, and trace foxing to upper edge of textblock and front flyleaf; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $14.95), lightly tanned, with trivial surface wear; Very Good+. Cartoonist's first collection to combine... Read More
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Gahan Wilson's Still Weird
by WILSON, Gahan
New York: A Forge Book / Tom Doherty Associates, Inc, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (28cm); black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-287,[1]pp; black-and-white illustrations throughout. From the library of noted zoologist and marine biologist James Glen Mead, with his inked ownership and date to front endpaper. Additional ownership sticker (belonging to Bryson Linton) and price sticker to front endpaper. Light shelf-wear, with foxing to edges of textblock, pastedowns, and endpapers; Very Good.... Read More
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Highway Investment in Developing Countries: Highlights of "The Impact of Highway Investment on Development
by WILSON, George W. et al.
Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue-grey staplebound wrappers; 8pp. Near Fine condition. Brookings Research Report no. 48.
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The Religious and Educational Philosophy of the Young Women's Christian Association: A historical study of the changing religious and social emphasis of the Association as they related to changes in its educational philosophy and to observable trends in current religious thought, educational philosophy, and social situations
by WILSON, Grace H.
New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1933. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original green printed card wrappers; [8],156pp. Wrappers a hint dust-soiled, small loss to bottom fore-edge corner of upper wrapper not affecting text; Very Good overall. "Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the faculty of philosophy, Columbia University.
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Cousin Jane
by WILSON, Harry Leon
New York: Cosmopolitan, 1925. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling and blocking stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 388pp. Modest rubbing to board edges, with shelf-soil and mild cracks to gutter; Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00), spine-tanned, with light foxing, tiny chips and tears to extremities, 3" closed tear to rear flap fold, and small tape mend to front panel verso; Good. "Story of how a large California fortune... Read More
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Ma Pettengill
by WILSON, Harry Leon
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919. First Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's brick red cloth titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 324pp. Minor bumping to spine ends, some light scuffing to corners and extremities, spotting to page edges, internally clean, two small closed tears to the margin of the dedication leaf and contents page, with the rear inner hinge cosmetically cracked; the dustjacket is clean and strong, a little faded with some light... Read More
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The Spenders: a Tale of the Third Generation
by WILSON, Harry Leon; O'Neill Latham (illus)
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Co, (1902). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publisher's binding of red cloth over boards, titled in gilt with pictorial device to front cover; top edge gilt; x,512pp; frontispiece and five unnumbered leaves of plates after original illustrations by O'Neill Latham. Mild bumps to board corners, but overall a bright, clean example, Near Fine in the attractive publisher's cloth. Early pencil ownership signature of an "H.S. McMillan" to front endpaper. Wilson's second published book, a... Read More
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James Andrew Wilson - Life Travels and Adventures. The Greatest Fighter Living in Texas
by WILSON, James Andrew
Austin: Gammel's Book Store, 1927. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; portrait frontispiece, 200pp, text illus. Bit of dusting to page edges, else a straight, tight, Near Fine copy. Quite nice copy of a colorful but rather common gunslinger's memoir. Despite the title, most of the action takes place East of the Mississippi.
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Four Propositions Sustained Against the Claims of the American Home Missionary Society
by WILSON, J[oshua] L.
Cincinnati: Published for the Author / Robinson & Fairbank--Printers, 1831. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); removed; 19pp. Large dampstain to title page (serving as upper cover) only slightly bleeding through to following leaf, light foxing throughout, else Very Good and sound. Contemporary gift inscription of a Samuel Chandler to title page. Tract published in the year following the dissolution of the Presbyterian Church's Plan of Union, which proposed uniting the frontier missionary efforts of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in... Read More
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Robert Wilson
by [WILSON, ROBERT] MOREY, Miguel and Carmen Pardo
Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, 2003. First Edition. Quarto. Paper covered boards in pictorial paper dust jacket and translucent glassine dust jacket; 239pp. Trivial soiling to boards, mild age-toning to margins of textblock, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Trivial rubbing to creases of pictorial dust jacket spine. Mild soiling to translucent dust jacket. Near Fine.
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Year Book of the Society, Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, 1894-1913, and Catalogue of Military Land Warrants Granted by the Commonwealth of Virginia to Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution
by WILSON, Samuel M. (ed)
Lexington: (by the Society), 1913. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Three-quarter blue cloth over yellow cloth-covered boards; viii,[1]-363pp; color frontispiece, 67 (of 68) unnumbered leaves of plates, most being halftone portraits; a few others in colors; text illus. Some external rubbing and wear, with reading creases to backstrip, but very nice internally; Very Good. Sadly lacking the final plate ("Our Colors"). A lavish commemorative volume for 20th Anniversary of the Kentucky Sons of the Revolution, especially useful for... Read More
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A Summer Place
by WILSON, Sloan (novel); Edward Wallowitch (jacket photograph)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); oatmeal cloth over red paper-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and blind embossed to front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; 369pp. Light shelfwear, spine-tanned, with faint foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper (priced $4.50) has modest shelfwear, with tiny tears, chips, and creases to spine ends and extremities, and foxing to verso; Very Good. Set in an island off the coast... Read More
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Feuding, Conflict and Banditry in Nineteenth-Century Corsica
by WILSON, Stephen
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards titled in silver on spine, lacking dust jacket; ix, 565pp. Trivial shelf wear to boards, top edge of board mildly bumped, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Near Fine.
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True to His Colours; or, The Life That Wears Best
by WILSON, T.P.; Francis Arthur Fraser, illus
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1879. First Edition. 12mo (18.25cm.); publisher's brown decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt, brown glazed endpapers; 349pp.; engraved frontispiece, five leaves of plates signed in image "FAF." Just a hint of edge wear, else Near Fine. Contemporary manuscript gift inscription from the Metropolitan Methodist Sabbath School for a Reward of Merit. English temperance novel illustrated by Francis Arthur Fraser, best known for illustrating Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Mark Twain's Roughing It, and other... Read More
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The History of Mineral Collecting 1530-1799
by WILSON, Wendell E.
Tucson: The Mineralogical Record, 1994. Limited Edition. One of 500 copies in deluxe bindings. Quarto (28cm). White bonded leather, stamped in gilt, red spine panels; 264pp; 21pp of ads at rear; color frontispiece, 28pp of in-text color illustrations, and black and white illustrations throughout. Lightly bumped at corners, else Near Fine. With a Census of Mineral Collectors, 1530-1799, and a Bibliography of Collection Catalogs.
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The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880
by WILTON, Andrew & Anne Lyles
London: Royal Academy of Arts / Prestel-Verlag, 1993. First Edition. Quarto (30.5cm x 26cm). Beige cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in red on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 340 pp; illus. Near Fine copy; retailer's sticker on front end page, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to extremities. Illustrated survey of the revolution in British watercolours in the late 18th century and its Victorian aftermath. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "The Great Age of... Read More
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The Sun Never Sets: Travels to the Remaining Outposts of the British Empire
by WINCHESTER, Simon
New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1985. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Blue paper over boards, backed in blue cloth, in blue dust jacket; 316,[2]pp; black and white illus. Straight and clean, with light fading to extreme upper and lower edges of boards: Very Good or better. Jacket price-clipped, lightly rubbed, gently sunned at spine, with toning to upper edge, remnants of adhesive to front flap: Good or better.
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Local History Articles
by [WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA] HUTTON, James V., Jr.
Winchester, VA, 1971. Folio (28cm). Brad-bound typescript in tan textured paper wrappers printed in black; [v],75 fol. Stamps of Kenneth H. Henry Co. to front and rear wrappers and title page. Lightly rubbed, slightly loosed, crease to upper front corner, but generally clean: Very Good. Short essays on the history of Winchester City and Frederick County, Virginia. [62268].
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1948: Italy [Signed, Limited]
by WINDHAM, Donald
Verona: Stamperia Valdonega, 1998. First, Limited Edition. One of the first 50 copies on Magnani paper, casebound, of a total edition of 300 signed copies. Octavo (24cm); blue cloth boards with paper label title on cover; acetate dustjacket; 130pp; illus. Fine, apparently unread copy in a Fine DJ and slipcase. A selection of the author's letters to Sandy Campbell, Broadway actor and Windham's lifetime partner, written from Italy in 1948. Illustrated with mounted photograhic plates. A typically... Read More
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Journal Narrative Relative to Doctor Johnson's Last Illness, MDCCLXXXIV
by [WINDHOVER PRESS] HOOLE, John; O.M. Brack, Jr. (ed)
Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1972. First, Limited Edition. One of 250 copies. Inscribed, "For Bill, with warmest regards" and initialed, apparently by Shari Madsen who was one of the printers. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; unpaginated; printed throughout in red and black; frontispiece engraving by John Thein, after a death mask made after Johnson's death. Mild dusting to cloth, else a Fine copy.
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The Foreign Policy Conflict in American Labor
by WINDMULLER, John P.
[Ithaca]: New York State School of Industrial Labor Relations / Cornell University, 1967. Offprint. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's blue staplebound wrappers; 205-234pp. Light wear from handling else Fine. Industrial Labor Relations Reprint Series no. 219. Article first published in the "Political Science Quarterly," Vol. LXXXII, no. 2, June, 1967.
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Views and Interviews on Journalism
by WINGATE, Charles F. (editor); Henry Watterson, William Hyde, and George P. Rowell (contributors) (et al)
New York: F.B. Patterson, 1875. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); maroon cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine, and titling and decorations stamped in black on front cover; [iv],[7],8-372,[4]pp. Wm. J. Kline's pictorial bookplate to front pastedown, with his pencilled ownership and 1876 date to front endpaper. Shelf-wear and -soil, with loss of cloth to spine ends, rubbing to board edges, and tiny chip to upper margin of front flyleaf; Good. Collection of interviews with contributions... Read More
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