Das Buch Esther
by Wilberg, Lillie
S. l.: By the author, 1900. Very good. Caligraphic manuscript, n. d. (ca 1900); 9 x 6 1/2; pp. [13], 10-52, [10]; vellum over boards, decorated in red, blue, and black; illustrated with historiated initials and elaborate borders; previous owner's small ink stamp to front board verso and several additional embossed ones, of two different designs, to title page and rfep - psychiatrist and bibliophile Arthur Teller; a tiny spot to front board and minor age-toning to vellum;... Read More
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The Life of Shakespeare
by Wilder, Daniel
Little, Brown, and Company, 1893. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Subtitled: "Copied from the Best Sources, Without Comment ." Condition: Very Good - original green boards, binding with very minimal wear; scattered faded spots of soiling to front cover; pages bright and clean, almost as new.
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College Greek Course in English
by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
Phillips and Hunt, 1884. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Second Printing. Previous owner - Frank A. Little - signature and date to first free page. He was an engineer with the HAWKINS IRON COMPANY in Massachusetts - one of the big steel construction companies at the time. Condition: Good - original brown cloth and gilt decorations and title; some shelf wear mostly to edges and corners; pages clean; small stamp to front cover verso.
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76 Questions and Answers on the Bolsheviks and the Soviets
by Williams, Albert Rhys
New York: The Rand School of Social Science, 1919. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 6 3/4 x 4 3/4; pp. [2], 5-48; stapled, yellow wraps printed in black; a few minor spots and a manuscript note to wraps; a small nick to bottom edge of front wrap; in about very good conditon. Author, journalist, war correspondent, and labor organizer Albert Rhys Williams (1883 - 1962) spent fifteen months in Russia in 1917 - 1918, travelling, meeting Lenin and... Read More
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Violin Masterpieces from the Hands of Modern Makers. Hints on Care of the Violin. Brief Sketches of the Old Masters
by William Lewis & Son Co.
Chicago: William Lewis & Son Co., 1925. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 11 1/4 x 8; pp. [30]; textured brown wraps, printed and decorated in gilt; illustrated with plates; text ruled with ornamental borders; small loss of paper to upper corners of wraps; mild creasing to text block; a slight discoloration to fore-edge of last few leaves; in about very good condition. A distinguished Chicago-based music store, specializing in violins and bows, William Lewis & Son Co. was... Read More
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Merchandise of the Better Class for the Violin Fancier, Teacher and Professional Player. Violins, Violas, Cellos, Accessories and Strings. Catalog No. 23
by William Lewis & Son Co.
Chicago: William Lewis & Son Co., 1925. Good. First edition, n. d. (early-20th-century); oblong 11 1/2 x 8 3/4; pp. [3], 6-88; textured brown wraps, decorated with a drawing in black-and-white and tied with a decorative string; illustrated with numerous plates; discreet repair to front wrap along spine; occasional minor spotting; in good to very good condition. A distinguished Chicago-based music store, specializing in violins and bows, William Lewis & Son Co. was founded in 1874. Coming to be... Read More
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The Vegetable World
by Williams, Charles
Boston: James B. Dow, 1833. Hardcover. First American edition; 6 x 4; pp. 260; early publisher's binding, olive green cloth over boards; morocco label with gilt title to spine; a bit of wear to cloth; two small nicks to tips of spine; text mostly very clean, but for some foxing to first and last few pages; previous owner's signature to front board verso; illustrated with a wood-engraved plate frontis; very good or better condition. An uncommon educational book, aimed at... Read More
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Mid-19th-century Watch Paper
by Williams, J. H
St. Clairsville, Ohio: J. H. Williams, Watch Maker. Jewelry, Watch and Fancy Store, 1854. Very good. Watch paper; 1 3/4 inch in diameter; text in various fancy fonts to recto; manuscript note to verso; a bit of age-toning and minor foxing; several tiny nicks to edges; in very good condition. Watch papers, popular in the 18th- and 19th- centuries, were round paper disks, placed between the inner and outer cases of pocket watches to protect their inner workings. While... Read More
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The Secret of Beating the Races
by Willis, J. K.
Miami, FL: By the author, 1929. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 9 x 4; pp. [14]; beige wraps, printed and ruled in black; light wear along spine; minor vertical creases; illustrated with a photograph; very good condition. Written by a former telegraph operator at "Death Valley," Latonia (a race track in Covington, KY), who had moved to Florida, when he had been crippled by rheumatism and confined to a wheelchair, the booklet claimed to reveal the secret of... Read More
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Cornell University Payment Delinquency Warning to Botanist William Russel Dudley, Who Would Later Teach at Cornell Himself
by Williams, J. W., Assistant Treasurer
Ithaca, NY: By the author, 1874. Printed document, partially filled in manuscript in black ink; 7 3/4 x 5; single sheet, text to recto only; two faint, horizontal crease lines and very light dust-dulling to verso; in very good to near fine condition. Interesting, in light of his later achievements, the warning addressed botanist William Russel Dudley (1849 - 1911) during his last year as a student at Cornell University. It was said that he had paid his way by... Read More
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Watch Us (Price List and Advertisement)
by Johnson & Willins
Memphis, TN: Johnson & Willins, Jobbers and Receivers in Fruits, Nuts and Produce, 1901. Very good. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [4]; pink stock, printed in black; double fold lines with thin cuts to fore-edge; a bit of age-toning; in about very good condition. A well-appointed and quite-humorous, the pamphlet listed the wares of Johnson & Willins, coupled with wise-crack remarks on their competition, including the line: "Lemons are the same old seven and six -... Read More
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A mystery Solved + A Form Letter
by Wills, J. Baxter
Burlington, Vermont: Wells, Richardson & Co., 1897. First Edition. Good. First edition; 8 x 6 1/4; pp. [3], 6-28, [4]; stapled pictorial wraps; illustrated with numerous drawings, including frontis; paper around staples with small cuts; tiny chip to lower right corner of front wrap; small discoloration to lower right corner of text block; light creasing; overall in good to very good condition. Also included is a typed letter on Wells, Richardson & Co. and a book-advertising leaflet. An interesting... Read More
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Primary American History, For Primary Schools
by Willson, Marcius
Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co., 1866. Hardcover. Good. Early illustrated edition; 5" x 6 1/2"; pp. [10], 2-164; original beige boards, lavishly illustrated; morocco spine; age-darkening to covers; corners and edges show rubbing; mild to moderate foxing, mostly contained to first several pages; missing first and last free pages; illustrated with engravings and numerous engraved color and b & w maps; good condition. A scarce tome on the history of the United States - from the voyages... Read More
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The United States of America was Betrayed into the World War
by Wilmoth, William F.
Washington: Self-published, 1939. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition, undated (c1939); staple-bound; pp. 3-55; original printed wraps; foxing to upper margin of front cover, else clean; slight bent to book 1/2" from spine; very good. Subtitled: "Compiled from Authentic Sources." The author elaborates on his theory that the US, President Woodrow Wilson, and the Government were betrayed and lured into participating in WWI by Edward Mandell House. Colonel House was an American diplomat, politician, and presidential advisor. He... Read More
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I-ON-A-CO, the Short Road to Health
by (Wilshire, Gaylord)
S. l. (Los Angeles): S. n. (Iona Company), 1926. First Edition. Very good. First edition presumed, n. d. (ca 1926); 6 1/4 x 3 1/4; pp. 3-31; beige wraps, illustrated and printed in black; a bit of age-toning to wraps; small nicks to tips of spine and fore-edge; overall in very good condition. The I-ON-A-CO was land developer and publisher Gaylord Wilshire's (1861 - 1927) last business venture. The contraption, an electric belt, was supposed to magnetize the iron... Read More
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Salads for Every Month
by Wilson, Betty and Mary
Terre Haute, IN: Kehoe Preserving Co., 1922. Softcover. First edition, title from front wrap: "Rose Apple and Wild Wing Salads;" 6 x 3 1/2; pp. [1], 2-15; chromolithographed wraps, ruled in gilt; very mild age-toning and wear to edges; very good to near fine condition.Betty Lyles Wilson - a famous Tennessee baker, chef, and educator - together with her daughter Mary, wrote the current "little book" in collaboration with the Kehoe Preserving Company, the latter describing and advertising on... Read More
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The Doctrine of the Lord's Supper Considered: Also, Certain Practices and Usages in the Administration Thereof, Strange to God's Word. A Charge to the Convocation of Northern California
by Wingfield, Rt. Rev. John Henry Ducachet
Sacramento, CA: By the author, 1886. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 9 x 6; pp. [1], 4-17; brown wraps, printed and ruled in black; a few small creases to fore-edge of wraps and light wear to margins; in very good or better condition. John Henry Ducachet Wingfield (1833 - 1898) was the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California from 1874 until 1898. After serving as rector at various churches in Virginia and Maryland, Wingfield was... Read More
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Report of Stockholders of the Salinas City Bank of Savings for the Year 1906
by Winham, Harry; et al
S. l. (Salinas): Salinas City Bank of Savings, 1907. Softcover. First edition; oblong 4 1/4 x 6 1/4; pp. [3]; yellow stock printed in blue; a few small spots to wraps; slight bleeding of ink; overall in very good condition. An interesting piece of California ephemera, the pamphlet presented a stockholders' report for the year 1906 of a very short-lived Salinas Bank. Incorporated in 1905, it lasted for just 5 years, to be sold to and merged with Salinas City... Read More
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Strategy for a Black Agenda. A Critique of New Theories of Liberation in the United States and Africa
by Winston, Henry
New York: International Publishers, 1973. First Edition. Very good. First edition (published simultaneously in cloth and in wraps); 8 x 5 1/2; pp. [8], 11-323; glossy, pictorial wraps in yellow and brown, illustrated with portrait of the author on back wrap; a tiny nick to upper corner of front wrap; several small spots to top edge of text block; mild wear and a few small creases to edges; overall in very good condition. An expansion of Henry Winston's (1911... Read More
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Nostalgia for the Criminal Past [Signed by Author]
by Winter, Kathleen
Denver, CO: Elixir Press, 2012. First Edition. Near fine. First edition; 9 x 6; [6], ix-xi, [1], 1-69, [3]; glossy, black-and-white, pictorial wraps; tiny nicks to corners of wraps, else very minor wear - in about near fine edition. Signed by the author to title page, where she has crossed her name in print and has written it below in manuscript. The first poetry collection of acclaimed Northern California poet and educator Kathleen Winter.
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An Attempt to Arrange, in the Order of Time, Those Scripture Prophesies Yet Remaining to be Fulfilled.
by Winthrop, James, Esq.
Cambridge: Printed for the Author by W. Hillard, 1803. Softcover. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5; pp. [1], 4-20; removed, tied with a later string; laid paper, light, uniform age-toning; small note in brown ink to upper margin of title page; very good condition.James Winthrop (1752 - 1821) was an American judge, anti-Federalist, participant in the Battle of Bunker Hill, and librarian of Harvard from 1772 until 1787. He wrote several works, all revolving around prophesies in the Scriptures,... Read More
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Press Photo of Russian Poet Evgenii Evtushenko (aka Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
by AP Wirephoto
Chicago: Chicago Daily News, 1972. Very good. Large, monochrome photograph; 8 x 11; subtitled in the left margin of the photo; Chicago Daily News stamp and manuscript notes to verso; a few small pen notations (underlining) to the image; a small, rubbed spot to lower right corner; minor creasing to edges; in very good condition. A cheerful picture of author, poet, dramatist, actor, publisher, director, and Nobel Prize for Literature nominee Evgenii Evtushenko, nee Evgenii Aleksandrovich Gangnus (1933 -... Read More
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Portrait of Her Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, Taken ith Spinning Wheel Made and Presented by Mr. Jas. McCreery, Belfast, Ireland (World's Columbian Exposition, 1893)
by Wm. Liddell & Co.
Belfast / New York: William Liddell and Company, 1893. Very good. Leaflet; 7 1/4 x 5 1/2; off-white card stock, printed in black and illustrated with a photograph and small vignettes; small repair toverso of lower right corner; a few minor spots; in very good condition. Published as an advertisement for William Liddell & Co. at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, the leaflet drew attention to the historic Irish linen manufacturer, known for their subtle luxury... Read More
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Persecuted - Yet Victorious. The Power of the Gospel Demonstrated in the Life of Our Chinese Christians During the Bolshevist Days in China
by Wohlleber, Christian
Germany: By the author, 1930. First Edition. Very good. First edition presumed; 7 1/2 x 5; pp. [3], 6-32; textured, orange wraps, printed and ruled in dark-blue; illustrated with a small vignette at the beginning of text; light age-toning to margins and minor creasing to lower corner; in very good condition. On the Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution and the conditions at the Christian missions in China.
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A Sermon, Delivered Before His Excellency George S. Boutwell, Governor, His Honor Henry W. Cushman, Lieutenant-Governor, the Honorable Council, and the Legislature of Massachusetts, at the Annual Election, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1853
by Wolcott, Samuel
Boston: White & Potter, Printers to the State, 1853. First Edition. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [7], 6-37; plain blue wraps with a small manuscript note to upper margin; closed cut to tail of spine and a thin strip of glue residue to title page; small puncture through back wrap and last few leaves; in good to very good condition. Samuel Wolcott (1813 - 1886) was a missionary, author of hymns, orator, and Congregationalist minister.
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