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POEMS [Inscribed]
by Winters, Yvor
Los Altos, CA: The Gyroscope Press, 1940. First edition. Brown stapled wraps; 8vo. Inscribed to a Miss Florence Codman a minor literary figure who wrote about her family in the New Yorker, including her cousin the architect Ogden Codman. Worn at edges; Very Good. Uncommon collection.
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![Extra - Concord Freeman. Remarks of Mr. Grenville T. Winthrop, of Watertown, on the Currency, in the House of Representatives, 17th March, 1840. On Mr. [Levi] Lincoln's Report in relation to the Currency, and in support of Mr. Winthrop's Resolves on the same subject. [Published by request of the Democratic members of the Legislature.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/036/045/1242045036.0.l.jpg)
Extra - Concord Freeman. Remarks of Mr. Grenville T. Winthrop, of Watertown, on the Currency, in the House of Representatives, 17th March, 1840. On Mr. [Levi] Lincoln's Report in relation to the Currency, and in support of Mr. Winthrop's Resolves on the same subject. [Published by request of the Democratic members of the Legislature.]
by [WINTHROP, Grenville T.]
[Concord, Mass: 1840]: Concord Freeman. Folio broadsheet (50cm x 35cm), 5 columns on recto beneath headline and caption title; 3 columns on verso. Vertical and horizontal folds; small closed tear at right margin; Very Good. A Massachusetts Democrat attacks Whig monetary policies including the issuance of "soft" currency and the establishment of a National Bank. Winthrop appears to have entered politics following a checkered military career which included an 1832 court-marshal for abandoning his post during a particularly long-winded... Read More
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The Letters of the British Spy. Tenth Edition, Revised and Corrected. To which is prefixed, A Biographical Sketch of the Author
by WIRT, William (Esq)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. Later printin of the 10th edition. 12o. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth; 260pp; frontispiece portrait. Scattered foxing within, slightly heavier to prelims and back-matter, still straight, tight copy, Very Good, with the publisher's binding particularly well-preserved. A popular volume of literary and social commentary by the noted Virginia legislator and orator William Wirt (1772-1834), originally published serially in the Virginia Argus in 1803. A hugely popular work in its time, Letters went into... Read More
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Address and Discourse at the Inauguration of the Rev. Aaron L. Chapin, M.A. as President of Beloit College, July 24, 1850
by [WISCONSIN] CHAPIN, Aaron L. and Aratus Kent
Milwaukee: J. Hamilton, 1850. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; 52pp. Faint vertical fold, foxing throughout, most heavily to final leaves, else Very Good and sound. SABIN 11938; WISCONSIN IMPRINTS 21.
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Wanted by the FBI. Sabotage; Destruction of Government Property; Conspiracy: Leo Frederick Burt
by [DOMESTIC TERROR - VIETNAM WAR - WISCONSIN]
Washington DC: Federal Burerau of Investigation, [1970]. Folio broadsheet, 16" x 10-1/2". Offset lithograph, printed in black on uncoated white stock. Old folds; faint stains, soil; complete and about Very Good. Original FBI "Wanted" flyer for Leo Burt, the so-called "Ghost of Wisconsin," who was indicted in absentia for the 1970 bombing of a University of Wisconsin laboratory building, resulting in the death of one graduate researcher and injury to several others. Claiming to be retaliating for... Read More
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Whole Woman, Vol. 2, no. 3, May, 1974
by [WOMEN - WISCONSIN]
Madison, WI: Madison Women's Center, 1974. First Edition. Tabloid newspaper folded into quarto (29cm.); photo-illustrated self-wrappers; 15pp.; illus. throughout, including photographs. Stock uniformly toned, faint mail fold line, rather large loss to rear wrapper with very minor loss of meaning to the Directory of Women's Services and subscription. Good and sound overall. Issue devoted chiefly to sports and dance, interspersed with poetry and essays.
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A Dialogue on Academic Freedom and Student Unrest
by [FREE SPEECH - WISCONSIN]
[Waukesha: 1970]: by the Author. Sole edition. Quarto. Stapled wrappers; [16pp]. Gentle toning to page edges, else Fine. Self-published exposé of left-wing bias in Wisconsin higher education, in the form of a series of reprinted letters between John C. Love, a conservative Waukesha attorney, and Reza Rezazadeh, chair of the History Department at Wisconsin State University-Platteville. Love accuses Rezazadeh of being "an activist who wants to use his teaching position as a station from which he can change our... Read More
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The Young Lady's Counselor
by WISE, D.D., Daniel
Cincinnati: Cranston and Stowe, 1851. Reprint. Octavo (17.5cm); dark blue honeycomb cloth, stamped in gilt on spine; 255pp, frontis. Spine slightly sunned; light rubbing/wear and soiling to boards. Text yellowing at extremities; some underlining (in pen) and creasing to pages. Gift inscription on ffep (dated 1895). Else contents clean and tight, Very Good or Better. Reverend Daniel Wise shares his thoughts, opinions, and "fraternal affection" on how women can live their best lives. His advice boils down to-you... Read More
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Letter of Governor Wise to the New York Tammany Society
by WISE, Henry A.
[Richmond, 1858]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); disbound; 67pp. Extremities a bit toned, lacking wrappers, last few leaves starting to separate, else a Good, internally sound copy. Collection of pieces by and in response to Virginia Governor Henry A. Wise written between December 30, 1857, and October 13, 1858. Pagination continuous, though each section has separate drop title, including the four-part "Review of 'A Review of Gov. Wise's Tammany Letter, by an Eminent Virginia Statesman" (signed "A Virginia Democrat"); "Letter... Read More
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Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar 1827-1905: Half A Century in War and Peace
by WISTAR, Isaac Jones
Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1937. Second Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth (hardcover); 531pp, folding map. Page edges untrimmed. Fine copy. In the original printed dustwrapper, quite faded and a bit soiled, Good. The jacket copy states that the edition was limited, but there is no statement of limitation in the text. Preceded by an edition of 200 copies in 1917.
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Helen and Others [Signed]
by WISTER, Marina
New York: Macmillan, 1924. First Edition. Limited edition. Number 75 of 350 signed and numbered copies. Octavo (24cm). Brown paper over boards, backed in black cloth, in black card slipcase, titled on paper labels; plain endpapers; [xiv],112pp. Signed by author on limitation page. Lightly rubbed at spine but generally clean: Very Good. Slipcase rubbed and chipped at edges but sound, Good or better. Marina Wister was the daughter of acclaimed novelist Owen Wister.
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Worthy Women of Our First Century
by WISTER, Mrs. O. J.; Agnes Irwin
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1877. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Purple cloth stamped in black and gilt; brown coated endpapers; 328pp. Bookplate of Mary Morison; bookseller's ticket of W. B. Clarke & Carruth, Boston. 1877 ownership inscription to flyleaf. Rubbed and scuffed, with minor wear to cloth, spine sunned, internally clean. Short biographies of notable women from Virginia, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania, written for the "Women's Department of the Centennial Commission.
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Mother [Signed Copy]
by WISTER, Owen; John Rae, illus
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1907. First Separate Edition. First printing. 12mo; pictorial cloth; 95pp. Autographed by Wister on the half-title, dated 1910. Trace of rubbing at spine ends and board corners, else a tight, Near Fine copy. A Wall Street story, originally published, in slightly different form, in Paul Leicester Ford's short-story anthology A House Party (Bos: 1901).
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When West Was West [Inscribed]
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Macmillan, 1928. First Edition. First printing, with "Published May, 1928" on copyright page. Octavo (19cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind; [viii],449,[1]pp. Inscribed on half-title "For O. W. H. & F. D. H. from their affectionate O.W. June 16. 1928."-i.e., from Wister to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Lightly rubbed and spine-sunned, internally clean: Very Good. First edition of a collection of Western stories. FPAA p.394. JOHNSON American First Editions p.547.
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When West Was West [Signed]
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Macmillan, 1928. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt; [viii],449,[1]pp. Title page printed in black and blue. With author's signature below halftitle, dated May 28, 1928; author's card laid down on front pastedown, with pencil note; manuscript poem on folded paper tipped in on front free endpaper; and typed poem formerly tipped in on dedication leaf (now neatly detached). Lightly rubbed at spine ends, spine-sunned, dustsoil to top edge, one or... Read More
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Henry Augustus Coit: First Rector of Saint Paul's School Concord, New Hampshire
by [WISTER, Owen] CARTER, James
New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1915. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and blind ruling and titling to front cover; 149pp; photographic frontispiece portait, with two photographic (halftone) illustrations on glossy pages. Owen Wister's ownership signature inked to front pastedown, with pencilled notes to endpapers. Modest rubbing with shelf-soil, faint tanning to edges of textblock, and light foxing to text; Very Good. Explores Henry Augustus Coit's life and... Read More
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The Pentecost of Calamity [Inscribed]
by WISTER, Owen
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. First Edition. Octavo (17.5cm); red cloth-covered boards, with paper title labels on spine and front cover; [6],7-148,[12]pp; illus. Inscribed by author on half-title, "Written in great sadness April + May 1915; delivered on June 9, 1915 at Commencement, Trinity College, Durham, N. C. / O. W. / by Owen Wister June 24, 1916". Frederick W. Skiff's pictorial bookplate by W. F. Hopson to front pastedown, and pencilled note to front endpaper. Spine-tanned, with... Read More
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Owen Wister's Medicine Bow
by WISTER, Owen; Tryntje Van Ness Seymour, photographs
Salisbury: Lime Rock Press, 1981. First Edition. First printing. Regular issue of 500 copies (of a total edition of 600 copies). Quarto. Green cloth hardcover, titled in gilt; 90pp; illus.
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The Virginian; A Horseman of The Plains
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Macmillan, 1904. First Theatrical Edition. Octavo. 20cm. Publihser's deep red cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. [xii]; 509pp. Photographic frontispiece. Some minor wear to extremities and bumping to spine ends, some areas of sunning, in a very fragile dustjacket with the front panel seperated neatly along the spine and some sections of loss and chipping to the edges and spine ends. A quite presentable copy of the book in a sadly... Read More
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Padre Ignacio: or the Song of Temptation
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1911. First Thus. First separate printing. 12mo (18cm); light blue cloth with color pictorial paper onlay to front board; glassine dustjacket; [iv],[68]pp; inserted illustration at frontispiece. Previous owner's name inked on front endpaper. Top left corner of cover illustration very slightly peeled, dust-soil to upper edge of textblock, two tiny spots to upper front cover (not impacting illustration), and mild rubbing and foxing to rear pastedown and endpaper; Very Good+. In rare printed glassine... Read More
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Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880-1919
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Macmillan, 1930. Second printing, June 1930. Octavo (24cm). Dark blue cloth in yellow dust jacket;[vi],372,[2]pp; frontispiece and 15 black and white halftone plates. Straight and sound, but rubbed at bumped at spine ends and corners, endpapers toned, else internally clean: Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced $4.00) but heavily rubbed with minor dustsoil, several chips, and large loss in rear flap fold: Good only. An account of Wister's relationship with his Harvard classmate Theodore Roosevelt. FPAA IV p.395.... Read More
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A Straight Deal or the Ancient Grudge
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Macmillan, 1920. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth titled on paper labels to front and spine, in cream dust jacket; [viii],287,[1]pp. Straight, pushed at spine ends, two small dark stains to edges of front board, endpapers discolored, Very Good. Jacket dustsoiled, rubbed at edges, large chip to lower front corner and smaller chips to lower edge and spine ends, inch-long tear with attendant creases to lower rear edge: Good or better. FPAA p.394.
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Two Appreciations of John Jay Chapman
by WISTER, Owen; John Jay Chapman
New York: The Marchbanks Press, 1934. First Edition. Privately Printed. Octavo (23cm); blue paper stapled wrappers, with paper title label mounted to front cover; black and white photograph (halftone) frontispiece; [ii],[2],3-32,[2]pp. Date stamped to gutter of p.3. Lightly sunned, with dust-soil, ripple to edge back cover, and tarnished staples; Very Good+. Includes John Jay Chapman's "A Master Writer: William Lloyd Garrison" (reprinted from The Yale Review, April 1922) and Owen Wister's "John Jay Chapman" (reprinted from The... Read More
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Philosophy Four: A Story of Harvard University
by WISTER, Owen
New York: Macmillan, 1903. First Edition. First printing, with "Set up and electroyped April, 1903" on copyright page. 12mo (17cm). Green cloth stamped in black and red; white and red patterned endpapers; [96],[6]pp; 6pp publisher's ads at rear; frontispiece portrait. Lightly rubbed but generally clean and bright: around Near Fine. First separate printing of Wister's story of Harvard life, which originally appeared in Stories of the Colleges (1901). FPAA IV p.392.
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Padre Ignacio [Signed by Illustrator]
by WISTER, Owen; Zack Hogg (illus.)
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1925. Reprint. Octavo (21cm). Black cloth with color pictorial onlay to front board; [viii],65,[1]pp; frontispiece and three plates. Inscribed by the illustrator on section title to Cortland Smith. Embossed stamp and manuscript ownership inscrpition of Hudson Library. Sound but rubbed, spine sunned, frontispiece partly detached: around Very Good.
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