The Christmas Story from David Harum. Illustrated from Mr. Charles Frohman's Proclamation of David Harum
by WESTCOTT, Edward Noyes
New York: Appleton, 1900. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Minor wear at ends of spine and some edges, two small spots on front cover. In very good condition. 8vo. Illustrated. Original stamped maroon-brown leather wrap-around wallet binding with fastening tab. First edition thus. Printed at head of title-page: "Wm. H. Crane Edition" (he played Harum in the production). A separately-published chapter from the 1898 bestselling local color novel about an upstate New York country banker and horse trader,... Read More
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David Harum. A Story of American Life
by WESTCOTT, Edward Noyes
New York: Appleton, 1898. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A trifle soiled, very slight rubbing at top of spine. A very nice copy. 8vo. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in green, red and white. First edition, in the rare cloth trial binding – the usual binding color is yellow. This is Westcott's only novel, published shortly after his death. He was a Syracuse banker whose fortunes and health both failed, but he managed to finish the book... Read More
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David Harum. A Story of American Life
by WESTCOTT, Edward Noyes
New York: Appleton, 1898. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine faded, some rubbing at extremities. 8vo. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in green, red and white. First edition, in the rare cloth trial binding – the usual binding color is yellow. This is Westcott's only novel, published shortly after his death. He was a Syracuse banker whose fortunes and health both failed, but he managed to finish the book on his deathbed and it became an instant... Read More
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The Babe's Bed
by WESTCOTT, Glenway
Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1930. 8vo (22 x 17.5cm). 46 pages. Original unbound sheets. One of 375 signed and numbered copies printed on Pannekoek Holland of an edition of 394 (this is no. 16). The author's copy, unbound and in a manila envelope with Westcott's manuscript notes, giving Monroe Wheeler's initials at top "M.W." and three notes: "The Babe's Bed, unbound sheets * to be assigned to a binder or a box-maker." The two other notes read "Call M.W.... Read More
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Master Photographer
by WESTON, Brett
Carmel, CA: Photography West Graphics, 1989. Folio (352 x 304 mm; 14 x 12 in.). 137 black-and-white photographs. Original tan cloth; tan slipcase. A fine copy with slightest toning to spine and associated light fading to lettering, some toning along fore-edge of slipcase. SCARCE DELUXE ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, number 127 of 400 copies signed by Weston (the trade edition was of 5000 copies). This copy is lacking the original photograph originally issued with this limited issue. ... Read More
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A Personal Selection
by WESTON, Brett
Carmel, CA: Photography West Graphics, 1986. Folio (367 x 305 mm; 14 1/2 x 12 in.) 100 black-and-white plates. Original black cloth; black cloth slipcase. A very good copy with some pale spotting to cloth and light wear to slipcase, internally very fresh and fine. SCARCE DELUXE ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, number 125 of 300 copies signed by Weston (the trade edition was of 5000 copies; there were also 5 artist proofs). This copy is lacking the original... Read More
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Fifty Photographs
by WESTON, Edward
New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1947. Small abrasion at lower corner of front cover, front hinge cracked, otherwise a fine copy, the spine lettering bright and crisp; a very good plus jacket with chip at top of spine causing the loss of some letters, other lighter wear at corners. Folio (12 x 9.5 inches). 16 pages text. 51 plates (the last a portrait of the artist by Cole Weston). Cloth-backed, heavy beveled boards; printed dust jacket. First... Read More
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Fifty Years' Recollection of an Old Bookseller; Consisting of Anecdotes, Characteristic Sketches, and Original Traits and Eccentricities, of Authors, Artists, Actors, Books, Booksellers, and of the Periodical Press for the Last Half Century..
by [WEST, William]
Cork: Printed by and for the Author, 1835. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. vii, 76 pages. 5 engraved plates. 19th-century red quarter roan, marbled boards (front cover detached, a bit closely trimmed at bottom but without loss). First edition. WITH: A copy of the expanded second edition. London: Printed for the Author, 1837. 8vo. 200 pages, sectional title for Three hundred fifty years retrospection of an old bookseller (Cork, 1835) between page 100 and 101. 10 plates, illustrations... Read More
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Highgrade
by WHALEN, Philip
San Francisco: Coyote's Journal, 1966. Fine. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Printed wrappers. First edition of these doodles and reproductions of Whalen's calligraphic poems. "I write everything with a fountain pen that must be coaxed and warmed before it will work properly. The following pages were written more for the pen's benefit and instruction than they were for mine of for that of the public..." (Preface).
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Andy Warhol: Contemporary Artist
by WHARHOL, Andy (artist); Tatiana KHARYKINA (editor)
Saint Petersburg: The Andy Warhol Museum; Palace Editions, 2005. A near-fine copy. 12 x 9.5 inches. 175 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original boards; pictorial dust jacket. First Russian-language edition.
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Rachel Whiteread: Detatched
by WHITEREAD, Rachel (artist); Christina COLOMAR (editor); Alison MCDONALD (contributor)
London: Gagosian Gallery, 2013. First edition. As-new. 11 x 9 inches. 120 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery in 2013.
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Rachel Whiteread Drawings
by WHITEREAD, Rachel (artist); Allegra PESENTI (author); Ann GALLAGHER (contributor)
Los Angeles: The Hammer Museum; DelMonico Books, 2010. First edition. A clean copy with no internal markings. 10 x 8 inches. 224 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. "This elegant volume accompanies the first museum survey of drawings by Rachel Whiteread, tracing her career from the late 1980s to the present. While Whiteread's public works such as House, the monumental cast of a nineteenth-century terraced house in the East End of London that earned her the... Read More
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Autograph letter signed to Theophilus Parsons, Jr., East Bridgewater, 3 April 1857
by WHITMAN, Ezekiel (1776-1866)
One and a quarter pages, 4to. The Massachusetts jurist and congressman writes to Parsons: "Dear Sir: Your favor of the 31st ultimo came duly to hand. It would afford me great pleasure to be able to render any essential aid in the preparation of a biography of Chief Justice Parsons. But I was not personally acquainted with him till he made his appearance at Portland as Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, in 1807. I had,... Read More
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Snow-bound. A Winter Idyl
by WHITTIER, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. 1/4-inch chip at head of spine, old newspaper clippings mounted on front flyleaves, some foxing at beginning and end. 8vo (17.8 x 11.2 cm). 52 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Whittier by H. W. Smith after a photograph by Hawes (foxed), with tissue guard. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt-titled on front cover and spine. Provenance: Edward S. Marsh (engraved bookplate by W. F. Hopson). FIRST EDITION, second state (p. [52] unnumbered). Whittier's best-known, and... Read More
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Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, Between the Years 1830 and 1838
by WHITTIER, John G.
Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1837. Front cover detached, worn at extremities. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches; 16.4 x 10.7 cm). x, 103 pages. Engraved frontispiece; illustrations in text. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. First edition, second issue, with the additional poems at end; BAL state B of p. 66 (no priority).A series of abolitionist poems. BAL 21705.
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My Playmate
by WHITTIER, John Greenleaf
[Fairfield, WA]: Ye Galleon Press [Glen Cameron Adams], 1960. Some light age-tonigh but generally fine. 8vo. Printed in colors. Cloth with printed paper title label on front cover. One of 149 copies, this copy unnumbered. This was the fourth book from the press. "The paper is 70 pound Angelo Text in ivory. The sheets were printed on an 1887 model Chandler & Price press. Each page was printed separately, the types being from each form distributed to set... Read More
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The Tent on the Beach and Other Poems
by WHITTIER, John Greenleaf
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Hinges tender but sturdy, worn at corners and ends of spine, some toning to sheets, a few occasional pale stains. 8vo. 172 pages. Publisher's purple cloth, sides with double blind-ruled border, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine. Provenance: D. W. Mandell (contemporary ownership signatures on front free endpaper and flyleaf). First edition, BAL binding C. BAL 21866.
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2 Poems
by WIEDER, Laurance; David SHAPIRO
Brooklyn: Nimbus Books, 1987. Some minor handling wear, generally fine. Folded sheet (8.5 x 5.5 inches). FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies, signed at the foot of each poem by the authors: "Goofy's Brush with Despair" (Wieder) and "Goofy Plays Second Fiddle in the Family Quartet" (Shapiro). Designed by Andrea Korotky.
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The Process. A New Foundation in Art and Design
by WILDE, Judith and Richard WILDE
London: Laurence King, 2014. First edition. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket that has some slight curling to the edges. 12 x 10 inches. 492 pages. Profusely illustrated. Cloth. In the dust jacket. Signed by the authors and with a drawing of a tree on the front free endpaper.
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David Smith (Modern Masters Series)
by SMITH; David; Karen WILKIN
New York: Abbeville Press, 1984. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket with minor rubbing, upper front joint of jacket with small area of wear. 11.25 x 9 inches. 128 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition. "With more than 100 illustrations -- approximately 48 in full color -- this innovative series offers a fresh look at the most creative and influential artists of the postwar era. Modern Masters form a perfect reference set for home, school, or... Read More
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Reuven Rubin
by WILKINSON, Sarah
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1971. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket with some minor shelfwear, jacket toned and with a few short tears. 11 x 11.5 inches. 288 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. 292 illustrations from artist Reuven Rubin, including 117 plates in full color.
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Household Tales of Moon and Water
by WILLARD, Nancy
San Diego, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. Light spotting to sheet edges, near-fine. FIRST EDITION, second printing. WITH A LENGTHY INSCRIPTION by Willard to Myra Cohn Livingston, with a drawing on a crescent moon and star.
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Trout Biology. A Natural History of Trout and Salmon
by WILLERS, Bill
London: Lyons & Burford, 1991. Some light spotting to sheet edges, previous owner's near address label on title and endleaves, cloth fresh and bright, binding strong, light shelfwear to jacket. 4to. 273 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth; dust jacket. Revised and augmented edition. Dust jacket notes: "Trout Biology may be the most important book for a trout fisherman's library: for no other book offers such a comprehensive biological portrait of the fisherman's quarry. This is the definitive natural... Read More
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Catalogue of Romanesque Sculpture
by WILLIAMSON, Paul
New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd, 1984. First edition. Fine. 4to. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original blue cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. A catalogue of 51 sculptures from France, Italy, England, Spain, and Cyprus.
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Steps Must Be Gentle
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
New York: Targ Editions, 1980. A fine copy, virtually untouched save one small loss to the rear panel of the plain wrapper. 8vo. 22, [3] pages. Original cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered on spine; plain paper wrapper. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 350 copies signed by Tennessee Williams. Designed and printed by Ronard Gordon at The Oliphant Press, and bound by Spink & Gaborc.
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