The Anatomy of a Railroad Report and Ton-Mile Cost
by WOODLOCK, Thomas F.
New York: S. A. Nelson, [1900]. 16mo (17.5cm). Light green cloth stamped in black; 121,[1]pp. Lightly rubbed at corners, spine sunned, creased temoin to inner corner of front pastedown, but otherwise clean and sound: Very Good. Nelson's Wall Street Library Volume II. Woodlock (1866-1945) was a prominent Catholic writer and editor of the Wall Street Journal. The Anatomy of A Railroad Report was first published in 1895. [62312].
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We May Not Have Much, But There's a Lot of Us!
by WOOD, Myrna
Detroit: Radical Education Project, ca. 1970. Reprint. Quarto (27.75cm.); blue and white photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 8pp.; photographic illus. throughout. About Fine. Discussion between Wood, a member of the Women's Liberation Movement, and a woman from a small city in Eastern Ontario. Reprinted from Leviathan, with numerous photographs, many featuring women at anti-war and Black Panther rallies. This edition apparently unlocated in OCLC as of April, 2016.
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War Cry On A Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute Indians
by WOOD, Nancy
Garden City: Doubleday, 1979. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth-backed boards; dustjacket, 110pp; photo illus. A fine, unmarked copy. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped with a hint of toning at margins; Near Fine.
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Housing, Social Security, and Public Works
by WOOD, Ramsay, Eliot J. Swan, and Walter F. Stettner
Washington DC: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1946. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm.); original pale grey printed wrappers; v,[1],94pp. Wrapper extremities faded, else Very Good or better. Postwar Economic Studies, no. 6, June, 1946.
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British Gentlemen in the Wild West: The Era of the Intensely English Cowboy
by WOODS, Lawrence M.
New York: The Free Press / Macmillan, Inc, 1989. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (25cm); brown cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; vii,245,[1]pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations on glossy paper. This copy from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Trace soil to right edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, designed by Laura Glazer, unclipped (priced $19.95), with trivial surface wear, else Near Fine.... Read More
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Though I Know She Lies
by WOODS, Sara (pseud. of Lana Hutton Bowen-Judd)
London: The Crime Club / Collins, 1965. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); red and black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-221,[1]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly shelfworn, with some dust-soil and a few small tears; Very Good+. The English mystery author's eighth novel featuring her recurring character, barrister Antony Maitland. HUBIN, p.445.
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Serpent's Tooth
by WOODS, Sara
London: Crime Club / Collins, 1971. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); red paper-covered boards titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket design by Alan Burton; 190pp. Fine. The dustjacket is price-clipped else Fine. Eighteenth novel featuring barrister Antony Maitland. HUBIN, p.445.
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Trusted Like The Fox [Review Copy]
by WOODS, Sara (pseud. of Lana Hutton Bowen-Judd)
London: The Crime Club / Collins, 1964. First Edition. First Impression, a review copy, with the publisher's typed Compliments slip laid in. Octavo (19cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-256pp. Some light finger-soil to right edge of textblock and margins, light paperclip impression at upper margin of front endpaper, with a reviewer's holograph pencil notes on pp.83, 85, 88, and 252; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 13s. 6d. net), shelfworn, a bit... Read More
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Over the Range to the Golden Gate. A Complete Tourist's Guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the Great North-West
by WOOD, Stanley
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co, 1899. Octavo (22.5cm). Brown cloth stamped in black and gilt; 283,[1]pp; wood-engraved and halftone illustrations throughout. Pencil ownership inscription to frontispiece recto. Rubbed and slightly shaken, front hinge cracked but holding, lacking front free endpaper, else complete and Good.
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Arcade Echoes. Selected Poems from the Virginia University Magazine, 1859-1890
by WOOD, Thomas L[ongstreet], ed
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1890. First Edition. 12mo. Cloth-backed, floral patterned boards; 125pp. Spine toned; rubbing to board corners; Very Good. Anthology of student poetry from the University of Virginia student literary magazine. Contributions are all signed pseudonymously. Quite uncommon, and mostly awful, though included is the oft-reprinted Civil War poem "Lee To The Rear" by John Reuben Thompson (here reprinted without attribution). A second edition appeared under a Charlottesville imprint in 1894, neither is common in commerce.... Read More
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Lost Generation Journal. Vol. IV no. 2 (Spring-Summer 1976)
by WOOD, Tom (ed)
Claremore, OK: Literary Enterprises, Inc, 1976. Quarto. Stapled pictorial wrappers; 24pp; illus. Mild external dust and soil; Very Good. Contributions to this issue by Jack Glenn ("Reeling Around the World - A Never Before Published View of the Lindbergh Flight"); Leon Lewis, John Leverence, Robin Kinkead, others.
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The Sacred Sculpture of Thailand: The Alexander B. Griswold Collection The Walters Art Gallery
by WOODWARD, Hiram W., Jr. (text); Donna K. Strahan, Terry Drayman-Weisser, Richard Newman (et al) (contributors)
Baltimore: University of Washington Press for the Walters Art Gallery, 1999. Reprint. Quarto (29cm); black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [6],7-326,[2]pp; colorful photographic illustrations to title page and throughout. This copy from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown, else a Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper has price sticker to front flap, and trivial surface wear; Very Good+. Explores collection formed... Read More
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Rafael Carrera y la Creación de la Republica de Guatemala, 1821-1871
by WOODWARD, Ralph Lee, Jr. (text); Jorge Skinner-Klée (translation)
Vermont: Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, 2002. Octavo (25cm); pictorial paper wrappers; xx,[2],3-717,[3]pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Text in Spanish. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial ownership stamp embossed to dedication page. Trivial surface wear with light creases to lower margins; Very Good. Explores life and efforts of previous president of Guatemala, Rafael Carrera, with focus including the Revolution of 1848 and El Salvador. [87026].
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A History of the Presbytery of Winchester (Synod of Virginia): its Rise and Growth, Ecclesiastical Relations, Institutions and Agencies, Churches and Ministers 1719-1945. Based on Official Documents
by WOODWORTH, Robert Bell
Staunton, VA: McClure Publishing Co, 1947. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; 521pp; illus. A very clean copy, free of markings, soil, or notable wear - about Fine.
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Grant's Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg
by WOODWORTH, Steven E., ed
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth covered boards in dust jacket; vi, 262pp. Trivial pencil-tip sized rubbing to bottom corner of rear board, else a tight, clean, new-appearing copy. Dust jacket showing trivial shelf wear. Fine. Volume in publisher's series "Modern War Studies." The first of 2 separate volumes covering Gen. Grant's Civil War officer corps.
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Chateau Thierry. A friendly guide for American Pilgrims to the Shrines between the Marne and the Veste
by WOOLCOTT, Alexander; LeRoy Baldridge, illus
Paris: Lafayette Publishing Company, 1919. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers; 24pp; illus. A fresh, Near Fine cop, . Woollcott's scarce second book, written while a staff writer on (and co-founder of) the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes. Illustrated from sketches by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge, at this time a private in the AEF.
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A Touch..A Smile...A Memory
by WOOLDRIDGE, Iris
New York: Vantage Press, [1975]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original boards in blue pictorial dust jacket; [8],53pp. Minor foxing to jacket extremities, else Fine. African American Georgia-born author's first book, a collection of poetry. 6 copies in OCLC as of March, 2015.
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The Rebirth of Italy 1943-50
by WOOLF, S.J., ed
London: Longman Group, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; vi, 264pp. Ownership signature to ffep. Mild foxing to top edge of textblock, faint damp stain to endpapers, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Boards and jacket showing minor shelf wear. Very Good.
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Napoleon's Integration of Europe
by WOOLF, Stuart
London: Routledge, 1991. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards, lacking dust jacket; ix, 319pp. Textblock mildly cocked, minor shelf wear to boards, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Very Good.
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The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf
by [WOOLF, Virginia] DICK, Susan (editor)
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); burgundy cloth spine over gray paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [vi],[1],2-313,[1]pp. Modest shelfwear, with front corners tapped (though sharp); Near Fine. Dustjacket unclipped (priced $16.95) with creasing along lower rear panel; Near Fine. Dick's collection organizes the chronological development of Woolf's forty-five included works. [82487].
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The Common Reader
by WOOLF, Virginia
London: The Hogarth Press, 1929. Uniform Edition. One of 3,200 copies. Octavo (18cm); dark teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-305,[3]pp. Gentle sunning to spine and upper board edges, adhesive residue from bookplate removal to front pastedown, some offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers, with faint foxing to text edges; Very Good+. In the original dustjacket, priced 5/- net on spine; sunning to spine and extremities, with light wear to same; Very Good+. Uniform edition... Read More
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Times Square
by WOOLRICH, Cornell
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; black cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in white on spine and front cover; 274, [2]pp. Slight forward lean, minor shelfwear and handling to covers, with some wear to lower board edges resulting in minor board exposure; thin crack to gutter at title page; Very Good, lacking the rare dustjacket. The author's third book, one of five F.Scott Fitzgerald-esque novels Woolrich would write before embarking on a career writing... Read More
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The Doom Stone
by WOOLRICH, Cornell
New York: Avon Books, 1960. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (17.75cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [4],5-159,[1]pp. Trivial wear to extremities, first half of textblock bound slightly out of alignment; Very Good+ or better, with the edge-staining bright and even. Late novel by Woolrich, first serialized in Argosy Weekly under the title "The Eye of Doom" (1939). HUBIN, p.445.
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Savage Bride
by WOOLRICH, Cornell
New York: Fawcett Publications / Gold Medal Books, 1950. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [2],3-178,[6]pp. Light wear to extremities, two tiny impressions to upper front wrapper, with scattered foxing to inner covers and text edges; Very Good. A man on his honeymoon with his exotic new bride become stranded in Central America, and taken captive by a native tribe; only then does he discover his wife's association with them.... Read More
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Cover Charge
by WOOLRICH, Cornell
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; dark green cloth, blocked and titled in maroon and gilt on spine and front cover; 286pp. Light wear to spine ends and corner tips, gilt rubbed at base of spine, with some shelfwear and scuff marks to panels; small stains to margins on pages 9-15, a few terminal pages roughly opened; still a Very Good, sound copy. The author's first book, one of five F.Scott Fitzgerald-esque novels Woolrich... Read More
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