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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Warm Bodies
by [WORLD WAR II] MORRIS, Donald R.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); dark grey paper-covered boards and light grey cloth backstrip, with titling and decorations stamped in black and red on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [viii],204,[4]pp; illus. Upper corners very gently tapped (though still sharp), else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50), gently spine, sunned, lightly edgeworn, rear panel showing some rubbing, with a few tiny nicks and tears; Very Good+. Humorous... Read More
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The Dead Are Mine
by [WORLD WAR II] [ITALIAN CAMPAIGN] ROSS, James E.
New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in dark red on spine; dustjacket; xii,304,[4]pp. Subtle offsetting and a hint of foxing to inner covers, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.95), gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn and a little dust-soiled, faint foxing and several tape mends on verso, with a few faint stains, and three clear tape mends on recto along the lower edge; Very Good. A novel... Read More
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Deutschland, Deutschland Ueber Alles
by [WORLD WAR II] [GERMANY] TUCHOLSKY, Kurt (text); HEARTFIELD, John (design)
Berlin: Neuer Deutscher Verlag, 1929. First German Edition. First Printing (cloth issue), with 1.-20. Tausend printed on title page. Octavo (24cm); yellow decorative cloth, with photomontage by John Heartfield applied to covers and titles stamped in black on spine; yellow topstain; 231pp, [5]; illus; text is in German. Contemporary (October 1929) owner's name penciled to front endpaper; slight forward lean, light overall dust-soil to cloth, with pictorial elements well-preserved and largely unrubbed; browning to endpapers, with mild wear to... Read More
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Barbed Wire Entanglements
by [WORLD WAR I] MALONE, Paul B.
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Sons, 1940. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); red cloth titled in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [8],9-397,[3]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, else a clean, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), showing modest shelfwear, some shallow losses to spine and corner tips, with a closed tears and attendant creases; Very Good+. World War I novel by retired U.S. Army Major General Paul Bernard Malone (1872-1960), "a thrilling story of... Read More
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![General Report given by the Vice-President Pietro Nenni at the Vienna Session of the World Council of Peace (November 1st-6th, 1951]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/924/966/1112966924.0.l.jpg)
General Report given by the Vice-President Pietro Nenni at the Vienna Session of the World Council of Peace (November 1st-6th, 1951]
by [WORLD COUNCIL OF PEACE] NENNI, PIetro
N.p.: World Council of Peace, 1951. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 10pp. Scattered ink marginalia, else Very Good. World Council of Peace (now World Peace Council) a Soviet-aligned Cold War organization established to oppose American military aggression following WW2.
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World Peace Council Presidential Committee Meetings. Athens, May 18-21, 1976
by [WORLD PEACE COUNCIL] CHANDRA, Romesh, et al.
(Helsinki: World Peace Council, 1976). Small square 12mo. Staple-bound wrappers; 55pp. Slightly rubbed on front cover; Very Good. Resolutions of the Council at its annual meeting, 1976.
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ATOMS, SOUL MUSIC AND OTHER POEMS
by Wormser, Baron
New York: Paris Review Editions, 1989. First edition. 91 pp. An uncorrected proof in gray printed wrappers of the poet's third collection. Publisher material inserted includes ALS from the the editor to a prominent reviewer/poet, and two printed sheets, with advance quotes for this book by Louis Simpson and Hayden Carruth. Spine lightly sunned, otherwise fine in wrappers.
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THE WHITE WORDS
by Wormser, Baron
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. First edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 52 pp. Signed by Poet Baron Wormser on the title page. Wormser's first book in the scarce hardcover, issued simultaneously in paperback.
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Frankenstein, Incorporated
by WORMSER, I. Maurice
New York: Whittlesey House, 1931. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x,[2],3-242,[2]pp. Base of spine nudged, gilt titling heavily rubbed, vintage bookseller's ticket to lower rear pastedown, with a few brief pencil notations on rear endpaper; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), sunned, edgeworn, and dust-soiled, with a few small tears and creases, and losses to spine ends, corners, and upper front panel; Very Good.... Read More
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Transit to Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Space Research at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
by WORTH, Helen E. and Mame Warren
Baltimore: JHU Press / Applied Physics Laboratory, 2009. First Edition. Quarto (31.5cm). Glazed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 148pp; illus. Hint of rubbing to dustwrapper, else an as-new copy.
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Don't Stop The Carnival
by WOUK, Herman
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1965. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); tan and russet cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; map endpapers; dustjacket; [viii],395,[5]pp. Some very light wear to spine ends, previous owner's ink name to front endpaper, else a clean, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.95), showing light wear to spine ends and corners, and a few tiny nicks and tears to same; Very Good+ or better, notably without... Read More
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![Inside, Outside: A Novel [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/587/808/1358808587.0.l.jpg)
Inside, Outside: A Novel [Limited Edition, Signed]
by WOUK, Herman
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 1500 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.748. Large octavo (27cm); light gray buckram, blocked and titled in navy blue and gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; publisher's original acetate dustjacket and navy blue cloth slipcase; [xii],[3],4-644,[4]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket; slipcase with light wear to extremities, else Near Fine.
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![The Caine Mutiny [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/471/493/620493471.0.l.jpg)
The Caine Mutiny [Review Copy]
by WOUK, Herman (novel); SMITH, Lawrence Beall (illustrations)
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1952. Deluxe Illustrated Edition. First Printing, a review copy with the publisher's printed slip laid in. Octavo; navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver and light blue on spine; dustjacket; 494pp; illus. Faint soil to boards and text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped (likely by the publisher), lightly worn along the edges, with soiling on verso; a presentable, Very Good+ to Near Fine example. The first illustrated edition of Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read More
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Facts About Unemployment
by [WPA] WEBB, John N. and Joseph C. Bevis
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1940. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm); original pictorial card wrappers, stapled; 34,[2]pp; illus. Some toning and wear to wrappers, touch of oxidation to staples, but internally fresh and complete; Very Good+. Illustrated post-Depression WPA pamphlet on unemployment - issued as number 4 in the WPA's "Social Problems" series, which began in 1939. 83583.
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AMERICANS: Lincoln and the Imperatives of Diversity
by Wray, Ronald
Riverdale, MD: Primer Press, 2000. First Edition. String bound (each of the eight signatures secured separately) illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. Number 14 of 30 copies. Marcia Brown bound and designed the cover which is a letterpress and linocut production. Inscribed to poet Ted [Enslin] who is one of a handful thanked in the acknowledgements. Light soiling, but easily very good. A very unusual production suitable for a text of poetry, prose, and eccentric (in a good way) history. ... Read More
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![The Peptic Ulcer Individual: A Study in Heredity, Physique, and Personality [Inscribed & Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/663/709/1033709663.0.l.jpg)
The Peptic Ulcer Individual: A Study in Heredity, Physique, and Personality [Inscribed & Signed]
by WRETMARK, Gerdt
Copenhagen: Einar Munksgaard, 1953. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's wrappers; 183pp. Inscribed and signed by the author on upper cover. Small soil spot to upper cover, else Fine. Acta Psychiatrica 84.
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Pueblo Shields from the Fred Harvey Fine Arts Collection
by WRIGHT, Barton
Flagstaff: Northland Press / Heard Museum, 1976. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Maroon cloth hardcover; dustjacket; vii,96pp; illus. Tight, clean, Near Fine copy in bright, unworn and unclipped dustwrapper, Near Fine. A pretty copy. From the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate inside front cover.
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India and Its Inhabitants
by WRIGHT, Caleb
Cincinnati: J. A. Brainerd, 1855. Twenty-fourth thousand. Octavo (24cm). Blind-stamped brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers; 304pp; numerous full-page and in-text relief illustrations. 1855 ownership inscription of John B. I. Reed to front pastedown. Generally sound and upright, rubbed at corners and spine ends, with short splits to joints at head and tail, internally clean: Very Good. The author conducted a U.S. lecture tour on his travels in India. This work includes the texts... Read More
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STRING LIGHT
by Wright, C(arolyn). D.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. First Edition. Photographic wrappers; 8vo. 62 pp. Paperback issue of this early book by one of our major poets. Easily very good copy, covers lightly soiled, a few squiggly impressions on verso but tight and with little wear.
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TREMBLE
by Wright, C(arolyn) D.
New York: The Ecco Press, 1996. First Edition. First printing, cloth issue (there was a simultaneous issue in wraps). Small octavo; cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 60pp. The paper is beginning to show the signs of aging endemic to this edition, but else Fine in Fine dustwrapper.
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STEAL AWAY
by Wright, C(arolyn) D.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2002. First edition. An Advanced Readers' Copy in printed wraps. Very Good, bottom cover creased.
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JUST WHISTLE
by Wright, C(arolyn). D.
Berkeley: Kelsey St. Press, 1993. First edition. A paperback original with printed photographs by Deborah Luster. 8vo. 55 pp. Wright's seventh collection. Both poet and photographer are Arkansas natives. A tight clean copy with edgewear, creasing and rubbing to the covers. Very good. Uncommon.
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DEEPSTEP COME SHINING
by Wright, C(arolyn). D.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1998. First Edition. Tall octavo; cloth; dustjacket; 111pp. Fine in like dustwrapper. Wright was the publisher of Lost Roads Publishers originally founded by Frank Stanford. This volume consists of a single long poem based on a trip made through her native Arkansas.The hardcover issue (there was a simultaneous paper issue) is somewhat elusive.
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APPALACHIA
by Wright, Charles
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998. First edition. 69 pp. Uncorrected proof in beige glossy wrappers, with publicity sheet laid in. Fine.
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