Christina's World: Paintings and Pre-studies of Andrew Wyeth
by WYETH, Besty James
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. First Edition. First printing. Landscape folio (26.5cm). Gold cloth, with pictorial dust jacket; [vi],[282]pp; color illustrations throughout. Corners lightly bumped, slight marked and dust to top and bottom edges, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $75), lightly rubbed, a few small stains to front panel: Very Good.
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Capturing Nureyev: James Wyeth Paints the Dancer (Inscribed Copy)
by WYETH, James
Rockland, Maine: Farnsworth Art Museum, 2002. First Edition. Quarto. Black cloth boards; dustjacket; 91pp; illus. Inscribed and signed by Wyeth on half-title: "For Nancy: May this book evoke memories of your experience with my work and Nureyev's dance!," undated. Fine in a very lightly worn, Near Fine dustwrapper; exhibition announcement laid in.
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Die Welt des Kindes in Seiner Darstellung
by WYLICK, Margret van
Wien: Verlag Josef Eberle, 1936. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's cream printed card wrappers; 57pp.; five leaves of color plates with laid in tissue guards, color graphs in text throughout. Extremities rather toned and spine ends chipped with small loss at foot, else Very Good, internally bright and fine. Academic thesis based on a psychological study of the landscapes created by young children playing with toys, possibly the most alarming that of young Hansi, whose bridge is roadblocked... Read More
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THE ORPHAN ANGEL [Signed]
by Wylie, Elinor
New York: Knopf, 1926. First edition. One of 190 total copies of this signed limited edition, this being no.36, printed on Borzoi rag. Octavo; green cloth-backed boards. A lovely production typical of this publisher, with marble paper-covered boards. Pages mostly unopened, quite clean and tight. Old bookplate on Fep. The edges worn, the spine quite faded, tipped in label missing. Offsetting on pp 44-45 (near where the unopened pages begin) from old book mark. About Very Good, lacking the... Read More
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THE VENETIAN GLASS NEPHEW
by Wylie, Elinor
New York: Doran, 1925. First edition. Blue paper over 3/4 cream vellum, leather spine label, t.e.g.; 8vo. Number 167 of 250 copies signed by the author; the large paper issue. Toned at extremities, tips bumped, pages lightly toned, front hinge beginning, about very good; lacking the dustjacket and slipcase. Handsomely produced book. One of the most famous if not notorious poets of the 1920's, this was her second novel, an allegorical fantasy.
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The Novels of Elinor Wylie
by [WYLIE, Elinor] VECHTEN, Carl van; Carl van Doren; Stephen Vincent Benét; Isabel Paterson (preface)
London: Martin Secker Ltd, [1934]. First Combined Printing of Wylie's four novels. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; 774pp. Modest shelf-wear to crown and corners, with rubbing to spine and board edges, and occasional pencilled marks to interior; Very Good. Dustwrapper (priced 10s. 6d) tanned, with shelf-soil, two 0.5" tears to lower rear spine fold and rear flap fold, and tiny chips and creases to extremities; Very... Read More
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Mr. Hodge & Mr. Hazard [Signed]
by WYLIE, Elinor
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Edition. One of 145 copies printed on Borzoi rag paper, numbered and signed by the author, of which this is no.97. Octavo (24cm); navy blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in silver on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; green endpapers; 256pp. Light rubbing to board edges, with pencilled note to rear pastedown, else Near Fine. In supplied navy blue cloth slipcase, with light shelf-wear; Near Fine. Wylie's novel explores... Read More
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Fish and Tin Fish: Crunch and Des Strike Back
by WYLIE, Philip
Toronto, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1944]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Edgar Franklin Wittmack; x,[2],300pp.; illustrated endpapers by Franklin Wittmack. Some minor edge wear to jacket extremities, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Third collection in the author's Crunch and Des series of fishing stories.
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The Mountainway of the Navajo: with a Myth of the Female Branch Recorded and Translated by Father Berard Haile, OFM
by WYMAN, Leland C.
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); terracotta cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xvi],271,[1]pp; colorful frontispiece with black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to board edges with trace foxing to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, designed by Mark Sanders, unclipped (priced $14.50), with light rubbing, and occasional tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. Explores the history of the Mountainway, alongside Father Berard Haile's recording on the... Read More
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Navaho Indian Ethnoentomology
by WYMAN, Leland C. and Flora L. Bailey
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1964. First Edition. First Printing, softcover. Octavo (23cm); tan paper wrappers; 158pp; illus. University of New Mexico Publications in Anthropology Number 12. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to half-title page. Lightly tanned with trace shelf-soil, and pencilled notes to upper half-title page; Very Good. Examines ethnoentomology within Navaho culture, with contents including Navaho classification of insects, ethnoentomological and... Read More
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Southwest Indian Drypainting
by WYMAN, Leland C. (text); David P. McAllester (foreword); Douglas W. Schwartz (general editor)
Santa Fe / Albuquerque: A School of American Research Book / University of New Mexico Press, 1983. First Edition. Octavo (26cm); oatmeal cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and rear cover; dustjacket; [xxiv],[2],3-320pp; colorful photographs, black-and-white photographic halftones, and illustrations throughout. School of American Research Southwest Indian Arts Series. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper,... Read More
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The Wild Body: Soldier of Humor And Other Stories
by WYNDHAM, Lewis
London: Chatto and Windus, 1927. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; orange topstain; 295pp+ ads.; offsetting inside front cover; light foxing to textblock; spine ends pushed; topstain faded; Very Good+, lacking the dustkjacket. The Wild Body is a series of short stories by Wyndham Lewis that appeared in English and American publications between 1917 and 1922. Nine short stories comprise a series that follows the narrator Ker-Orr... Read More
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The African American Experience during World War II
by WYNN, Neil A.
Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Black paper over boards, in dust jacket; [xx],163,[1]pp; black and white illustrations. Slightly dusty externally, with ex-library stamps to rear endpapers, otherwise fresh and sound: Very Good or better. Jacket lightly rubbed, else Near Fine. #61499.
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Industry in Latin America
by WYTHE, George
New York: Columbia University Press, 1945. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in red pictorial dust jacket, top edge speckled purple; viii,[2],371pp. Jacket quite worn with .5x1.5" loss to bottom edge of upper panel, another long shallow loss to bottom edge of rear panel touching the "dw" in "Broadway," additional tiny losses and closed tears, spine faded; Fine in Good only copy of the scarce dust jacket. "The first comprehensive analysis of the industrial development of Latin America" -... Read More
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Industry in Latin America
by WYTHE, George
New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. Second Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in red pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; xiv,387pp. Jacket a bit worn with a few short closed tears to extremities, rear panel vertically and cleanly clipped in half and repaired with clear tape to verso. Still, Very Good or better in Good or better jacket. "The first comprehensive analysis of the industrial development of Latin America" - upper jacket panel. A new edition with revisions, and the... Read More
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Industry in Latin America
by WYTHE, George
New York: Columbia University Press, 1945. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original maroon blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge speckled purple; viii,[2],371pp. Small blemish to spine cloth, contemporary inscription to front free endpaper, else Very Good to Near Fine.
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Mother Mary Clotilda and Early Companions of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
by XAVERIA, A.B., Sister M.; Francis J. Van Antwerf, V.G., intro
New York: P.J. Kennedy and Sons, 1928. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); dark red cloth, linen grain, stamped in gilt and blind; 268pp,frontis,25 plates. Boards mildly rubbed and soiled (some white spots); chapped extremities w/ small bumps; gilt faded on spine. Top edge gilt; light soiling intermittent throughout interior, else clean and sound. Very Good or Better. Sister M. Xaviera takes an intimately biographical look at Mother Mary Clotilda, Superior of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of... Read More
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Woman, Man's Best Friend (Proverbs, Parables, Poems, Songs)
by EL MUHAJIR [pseud. Marvin X]
[San Francisco: Al Kitab Sudan Publications, 1973]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original orange pictorial wrappers printed in brown; [6],iv,[2],88pp.; text printed in brown on tan stock. Fine. Collected short poetical pieces by Marvin X, written between 1969 and 1972. He assures the reader in his introduction that he is not pushing for the women's liberation movement ("Women will be liberated when men are liberated" (p. i)).
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Biblioteca "Goathemala" de la Sociedad de Geografía e Historia: Historia de la Provincia de San Vicente de Chiapa y Guatemala de la Orden de Predicadores; Vol. 2, 3; Vol. 24, Book 6; Vol. 25, Book 7; Vol. 28, Books 1,2; Vol. 29, Book 5 [6 Mixed Issues, Incomplete Run]
by XIMENEZ, Fray Francisco (composed by); Jorge del Valle Matheu, Ramon A. Salazar (et al) (prologues)
Guatemala: Tipografia Nacional, [1930-1973]. Six Issues, two without edition statements, and four First Editions of the Original Manuscript, all softcovers. Two Quartos (27cm); green paper wrappers; edges untrimmed. Four Quartos (27cm); white paper wrappers; illus. Some pages of text unopened. Text in Spanish. Vol. 28, Books 1,2 has white-out on front wrapper (presumably printed Books I, II, III). All six issues are lightly tanned, with shelf-wear, -soil, and foxing; overall Good. Collection on social history of the... Read More
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The World of "Mestre" Tamoda [Review Copy]
by XITU, Uanhenga; António Jacinto, intro.; Annella McDermott, trans
[London]: Readers International, [1988]. First English Language Edition. Wrapper Issue. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [6],vi,[2],158pp.Textblock a bit toned, minor wear to upper wrapper, else Very Good or better. Review copy with promotional materials laid in. Humorous short stories featuring the bush lawyer "Mestre" Tamoda, written by the Angolan author Uanhenga Xitu while a political prisoner of the Portuguese.
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Malcolm X on Afro-American History. Expanded and Illustrated Edition
by X, Malcolm; George Breitman, fwd
New York: Pathfinder Press, 1988. Ninth printing of the expanded edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 74pp. Near Fine. A collection of quotes and short writings of Malcolm X's views on African-American history, first published in 1967.
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The Rescue of Danish Jewry
by YAHIL, Leni
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1969. First Edition. Octavo; burgundy cloth, with titles stamped in silver and gilt on spine; dustjacket; xx,[3],4-536,[4]pp. Touch of dustiness to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine in a Veyr Good+ dustjacket, unclipped, with some external wearl, a few short tears and creases, and some faint foxing on verso. Detailed account of the rescue of the Danish Jewry, discussing the "dramatic clash between anti-Semitic nazism and Danish democracy which convulsed Denmark... Read More
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Atlas of Creation: Volume I.
by YAHYA, Harun [pseud. Adnan Oktar] (text); Carl Nino Rossini & Ronald Evans (translation); Timothy Mossman (editor)
[Jacksonville, FL]: Global Publishing, 2007. Seventh English Edition. Publisher's typed promotional letter laid in. Quarto (38cm); brown cloth-covered boards, with titling and decoration stamped in gilt on spine and covers, and lenticular ornaments on covers; pictorial endpapers; [13],14-800,[20]pp. CD envelope 'Fossils Have Discredited Evolution' with CD to front pastedown. All pages present and complete. Noted zoologist James G. Mead ownership and date inked to front endpaper. Light shelf-wear and soil, with very occasional interior wear; Very Good+. ... Read More
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Cómo Educan los Argentinos a Sus Hijos
by YALOUR DE TOBAR, Margot Romano
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Libera, [1969]. First Edition. Slim octavo (20cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers, French flaps, yapp edges; 126pp. General mionr edge wear and light dust-soil, else Near Very Good and sound. Text entirely in Spanish.
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Yamagata
by [YAMAGATA, Hiro] Austin Jaynes, text
Fairfield, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc, 1987. Revised Edition. Square Quarto (28.5cm x 28.5cm). Blue cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on cover and spine; pictorial dustjacket; 160pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slight soiling to front and back bottom corner end pages, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to extremities; retail sticker adhesive on inside from flap, else clean. Exploration and catalogue raisonné of the work of L.A. based Japanese artist Hiro... Read More
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