A Young Man's Heart
by WOOLRICH, Cornell
New York: Mason, 1930. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); blue cloth covered boards titled in black on the cover and spine; black topstain; 247pp; mild toning inside covers; slightly faded topstain; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. Author's fourth novel, early semi-autobiographical tale of love and betrayal in the exotic climes of Mexico. (from the publisher).
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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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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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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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Political Science or, The State. Theoretically and Practically Considered
by WOOLSEY, Theodore D.
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1878 [1877]. First Edition. Two tall octavo volumes (24cm). Publishers brown pebbled cloth, titled in gilt on spines; x,584,(5) + vi,626,(2)pp. Gift inscription to each volume, "To Dave," dated 1877. Printed bookplate of Rev. George [Dering] Wolff to both pastedowns (see note below). Light rubbing and wear to boards; front free endpaper of v.1 with a circular loss at center, the result of adhesion to the flyleaf, where paper residue obscures a portion... Read More
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Riding the Chuck Line: A Forester in Peace and War
by WOOLSEY, Theodore S. (Jr.)
New Haven: Privately published, 1930. First Edition. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on front cover; 116pp. Trace of rubbing on spine ends and board corners, else straight, clean and unmarked; Near Fine. Uncommon memoir by Woolsey (1879-1933), a major figure in the fields of forestry and conservation. With much on his early Forest Service career in the American West under Gifford Pinchot, also recollections of his service in the Army Corps of Engineers during WW1.
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An Address on Sacred Musick Delivered Before the Middlesex Musical Society and the Handel Society of Dartmouth College, at a Joint Meeting Held at Concord, (N.H.) Sept. 19, 1810
by WORCESTER, Samuel
Boston: Manning & Loring, 1811. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); removed retaining later stitching; 22pp. Title page (serving as upper wrapper) starting to separate with small loss at top spine-edge corner not approaching text, some faint dampstaining and old rubberstamp, else Good or better overall. SABIN 105300; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 24489.
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Wordsworth: the Clark Lectures 1929-1930
by [WORDSWORTH] READ, Herbert
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (20.5cm). Maroon cloth with gilt titles; dustjacket; 271pp. Tight, clean, and unmarked - a Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 10s.6d. at base of front flap); mildly toned on spine with a touch of edgewear, still easily Very Good. A collection of biographical and critical essays, originally delivered in the course of Read's tenure as the Clark Lecturer at Oxford in 1929-30. A tidy, pleasing... Read More
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Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems
by WORDSWORTH, William
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1835. First Edition. 12mo (17cm.); 20th-century tan half calf over marbled boards, black gilt leather spine label, all edges marbled; xv,[1],349,[1],[4](ads)pp. Includes half title and publisher's ads. Trace of rubbing to board edges, but a very tidy, fresh copy in an attractive later binding. WISE 23. TINKER 2350.
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The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth [in six volumes]
by WORDSWORTH, William and Dorothy; Ernest de Selincourt
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935-39. First Edition. Six octavo volumes. Uniform maroon publisher's cloth with gilt spine titles. Neat ownership signature to front endpapers, else tight, clean and unmarked. A quite attractive set. Comprises: Vol. I: 1787-1805; II: 1806-1811; III: 1811-1820; IV: 1821-1830; V: 1831-1840. An expanded edition was issued between 1967 and 1993.
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The Excursion, Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem
by WORDSWORTH, William
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814. First Edition. Quarto (29cm.); full contemporary calf triple-ruled in blind, hinges expertly reinforced, gilt spine in 6 compartments, red gilt morocco spine label; xx,[2],447pp. Edges a bit rubbed, bottom fore-edge corner of textblock a bit dampstained slightly affecting preliminaries; bound without half title, else Very Good. Errata leaf present. Provenance: Engraved bookplate to front pastedown of the late 19th-century novelist and author of the essay The Platonism of Wordsworth J[oseph] H[enry]... Read More
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The Prelude 1805: William Wordsworth; Newly Edited from the Manuscripts and Fully Illustrated in Color with Paintings and Drawings Contemporaneous with the Composition of the Poem
by WORDSWORTH, William; James Engell and Michael D. Raymond (intro., maps, notes, glosses, chronology)
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. First Edition. First Impression. Oblong Octavo (25cm x 31cm); green cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 281pp; colorful illustrations. From the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) with his pictorial bookplate to verso of front endpaper. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper, lightly spine-faded, with trivial surface wear, and price sticker to lower rear panel; Very Good+. Biography of Wordsworth, with marginal... Read More
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It's Your Union They're After!
by [UNITED ELECTRICAL WORKERS]
New York: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, [1948]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.25cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and subtle toning to extremities, with a few tiny nicks to front wrapper; Very Good+. "Attack on the Hartley Committee of the House of Representatives for accusing the UE of communist infiltration and for performing anti-union dirty work. Testimony of UE officers is quoted, with a resolution of its 1948 convention denouncing the committee and... Read More
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Solidarity Is the Banner: Two Resolutions on International Affairs. A UAW View of the World / International Labor Solidarity. Adopted by the UAW 20th Constitutional Convention, May, 1966 - Long Beach, California
by UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS
Washington DC: UAW International Affairs Department, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers; 63pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Fine condition.
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UE vs. Company Unionism!
by [UNITED ELECTRICAL WORKERS]
New York: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, [1948]. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.75cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; 24pp. Light wear and subtle toning to extremities, 1cm closed tear to lower spine-fold; Very Good+. "Justification to UE members of the union's withholding of per capita payments to the CIO, which it attacks for Red-baiting and for sanctioning raids. The UE denies as slanderous the charge that it is communist controlled" (SEIDMAN U12). Scarce; OCLC notes 8 holdings.... Read More
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Red Baiting: Road to Lower Wages, Fewer Jobs and Company Unionism!
by [UNITED ELECTRICAL WORKERS]
New York: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, 1950. First Edition. Slim octavo (16.25cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 24pp; illus. Light wear and some trivial dustiness to wrappers, else Near Fine. "An assertion that the UE is attacked as red because of its record of devotion to the American people in war and peace. The enemies of the union [propagandists, politicians, company unions] are denounced" (SEIDMAN U14).
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Poster: Americans Want Peace
by [VIETNAM WAR] [GRAPHICS] [BERKELEY POLITICAL POSTER WORKSHOP]
[Berkeley: Berkeley Political Poster Workshop, 1970]. Original illustrated poster, silkscreened in blue on repurposed computer listing paper with perforated tractor strips, measuring 38cm x 56cm (15" x 22"). A Fine copy. Attractive poster featuring an altered version of the Great Seal of the United States, bearing the slogan "Americans Want Peace." One of some 600+ designs created by Berkeley student members of the Political Poster Workshop in 1970; on average, fewer than 100 copies of each design were printed... Read More
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Don't Be A Silent Part of the War Machine - Speak Out Against Cambodia
by [BERKELEY POLITICAL POSTER WORKSHOP]
[Berkeley: Berkeley Political Poster Workshop, 1970]. Original illustrated poster, silkscreened in camo green on repurposed computer listing paper with perforated tractor strips, measuring 38cm x 56cm (15" x 22"). Some splitting along the center fold, discreetly and archivally reinforced on verso; Very Good+. An arresting image portraying the gears of the war machine, with silhouettes of human beings inside each one, and a conscience-provoking slogan. One of some 600+ designs created by Berkeley student members of the... Read More
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Poster: Did You Vote For This? Who Did
by [BERKELEY POLITICAL POSTER WORKSHOP]
[Berkeley: Berkeley Political Poster Workshop, 1970]. Original illustrated poster, silkscreened in black on white, repurposed computer listing paper with perforated tractor strips, measuring ca.38cm x 56cm (15" x 22"). A Fine copy / A. A simple, powerful anti-war image by an uncredited Berkeley student. The image is reproduced from a 1968 AP photograph of the bodies of US Marines on Hill 689 in Khe Sanh, South Vietnam. The poster "is an indirect invocation of the political order... Read More
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Vietnam: Spilled Blood Split the Country
by [BERKELEY POLITICAL POSTER WORKSHOP]
[Berkeley: Political Poster Workshop, 1970]. Original silkscreen in red, printed on white poster paper, measuring 77.74cm x 58.5cm (29" x 23"). Short repaired tear in left margin; hand-inked date (7/2/70) at upper right, else Near Fine. Unlike the majority of BPPW posters, this one is not printed on repurposed computer paper but rather on higher-quality poster paper, in a larger than usual format. One of some 600+ designs created by Berkeley student members of the Political Poster... Read More
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Shrew - Collection of 8 Issues
by WOMEN'S LIBERATION WORKSHOP
[London]: Womens Liberation Workshop, [1970?]-1971. First Edition. 8 issues in varying formats. Collection includes one unnumbered issue (presumably June, 1970?), wrappers illustrated with a comic strip at the bottom of which reads "Let It Bleed, Sisters, Let It Bleed!"; September, 1970; October (1970?); December, 1970, "Special Double Issue"; February (1971, based on order form date); Vol. 3, nos. 2-4. Near Fine. A few issues with original order blanks laid in. London Women's Liberation Workshop's sporadically issued literary journal. Contents... Read More
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Abolish Involuntary Poverty: A National Program
by [SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY WORKSHOP]
San Francisco: Solutions to Poverty Workshop, 1991. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound pamphlet; photostatically reproduced from typescript; 42pp. Fine, unmarked copy. Report of a workshop held at the 509 Cultural Center, San Francisco, April 1990 to May 1991.
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Poster: Unity In Our Love of Man
by [BERKELEY POLITICAL POSTER WORKSHOP]
[Berkeley: Berkeley Political Poster Workshop, 1970]. Original illustrated poster, silkscreened in black and burnt orange on repurposed computer listing paper with perforated tractor strips, measuring 38cm x 56cm (15" x 22"). Thin strip of toning, a few tiny splits; Near Fine. Among the most striking designs created by Berkeley student members of the Political Poster Workshop in 1970, depicting a young Vietnamese boy carrying his baby brother on his back. On average, fewer than 100 copies of... Read More
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Fairmount Park and the International Exhibition at Philadelphia. Sixth edition
by [WORLD'S FAIRS - PHILADELPHIA] KEYSER, Charles S.
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1875. Stated sixth edition. 12mo (19cm). Publisher's cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; viii,[9]-138pp; folding map; ads front and rear; illus. Mild external rubbing and wear, with taps to board corners; internally complete and sound, with small tissue repair to front endpaper, occasional marginal foxing and staining; folding map soiled and creased at fore-edge (but otherwise clean); Good or better overall, in the original binding. An attractively-produced souvenir for... Read More
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Silent Army
by [WORLD WAR II] [MALAYSIA] ONN, Chin Kee
New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1953. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); red boards titled in black on spine; dustjacket; [vi],259,[3]pp. Light wear to spine ends, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), lightly edgeworn and dust-soiled, with light foxing to flaps, and a few very faint damp marks evident on verso; Very Good+. A novel centered around the Japanese occupation of Malaysia during World War II. The author, who is of... Read More
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