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Incarnations: Poems, 1966-1968

By: Warren, Robert Penn

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1968

Seller ID: 2263316

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1/4 inch closed tear on rear jacket edge, jacket price clipped. 1968 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. [xii], 64, [4] pp. 8vo. A collection of poetry by Robert Penn Warren, who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1947 for All the King's Men, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, in 1958 and 1979. To date, he is the only individual to receive both awards. As a literary critic, he was one of the founders of New Criticism. He co-founded the literary journal The Southern Review, and he was associated with a group of poets known as the Fugitives, and a ...
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Sunny-San

By: Watanna, Onoto [Eaton, Winnifred]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran: 1922

Seller ID: 2309402

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Jacket stained, jacket edges rubbed, front jacket flap torn but still holding. Stain on rear board and last few pages, boards soiled. 1922 Hard Cover. 311 pp. Pseudonymous novel by Winnifred Eaton, best known for A Japanese Nightingale. It was all delightfully quixotic when the four young students in Japan bought a little Japanese-American geisha girl and put up the money for her education. But it was quite another thing when Jerry opened the door of his New York apartment and found smiling adorably back at him Miss Sunny Syndicate, come to stay.--jacket
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The Night Watch

By: Waters, Sarah

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Virago: 2006

Seller ID: 2282566

ISBN: 1844082466

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket very lightly rubbed. Pages very faintly toned. 2006 Hard Cover. 472 pp. Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyte This is the story of four Londoners three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with ...
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California: An Illustrated History

By: Watkins, T.H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Palo Alto, CA, American West Publishing Company: 1973

Seller ID: 2265258

ISBN: 0910118280

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light edge wear. 1973 Large Hardcover. A good reference to common attitudes and prevailing beliefs of the time in California and the USA, littered with actual facts and pictures of the times discussed.
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Civilization and the Cripple

By: Watson, Frederick

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, John Bale, Sons & Danielsson Ltd.: 1930

Seller ID: 2034903

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. This copy signed by Edgar Allen, founder of the International Society for Crippled Children, and inscribed to Henry Edward Abt., author of The Care and Education of the Crippled Child. Corners a bit rubbed, ink '#61' on front endpaper. 1930 Hard Cover. xi, 120 pp. 8vo. Black & white photographs throughout, including an image of Red Cross nurses at an orthopaedic clinic. Includes a chapter on 'The Influence of the War on the Cripple'. Brief bibliography of literature related to the care of crippled children, orthopaedics, etc., follows text.
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The Arts of China after 1620 (Yale University Press / Pelican History of Art)

By: Watson, William; Ho, Chuimei

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New Haven and London, Yale University Press: 2007

Seller ID: 2309060

ISBN: 0300107358

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2007 Large Hardcover. 274 pp. Color photographs and reproductions throughout. In this volume, William Watson and Chuimei Ho begin with discussions of fine art and painting and progress to an analysis of carving and sculpture, ceramics, glassware, and textiles. The authors demonstrate how, in the age of the Emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, the decorative arts rose to prominence in a way quite unlike the western experience. Avoiding misrepresentative categorization, they single out period styles, identify repeated phases of archaism ...
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The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War

By: Waugh, Alexander

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2009

Seller ID: 2309328

ISBN: 0385520603

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2009 Hard Cover. 333 pp. From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family. The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward and rebellious youth, returned to his native Vienna to make a fortune in the iron and steel industries. He bought factories and paintings and palaces, but the domineering and overbearing influence he exerted over his eight childre...
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Culinary Ephemera: An Illustrated History (California Studies in Food and Culture)

By: Weaver, William Woys

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 2010

Seller ID: 2305085

ISBN: 0520259777

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy. 2010 Large Hardcover. xi, 299 pp. This extraordinary collection, a trove of enchanting designs, appealing colors, and forgotten motifs that stir the imagination, features an unprecedented assortment of ephemera, or paper collectibles, related to food. It includes images of postcards, match covers, menus, labels, posters, brochures, valentines, packaging, advertisements, and other materials from nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Internationally acclaimed food historian William Woys Weaver takes us on a lively tour through this dazzling collection in which ea...
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Escape to Utopia: The Communal Movement in America (American Procession Series)

By: Webber, Everett

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Hastings House Publishers: 1959

Seller ID: 2308087

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A few small tears and small chips to jacket edges, half-inch tear to jacket spine, jacket clipped. 1959 Hard Cover. xv, 444 pp. A fascinating, half-forgotten segment of our history is the story of the experimental communes which sprang up all over America in the late 1700's and throughout the 19th century.... Religious or secular, the prophets of each commune had the basic idea of pooling labor and goods....--jacket
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The Little Women: A Novel

By: Weber, Katharine

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2003

Seller ID: 2282567

ISBN: 0374189595

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 240 pp. In Katharine Weber's third novel, The Little Women, three adolescent sisters--Meg, Jo and Amy--are shocked when they discover their mother's affair, but are truly devastated by their father's apparently easy forgiveness of her. Shattered by their parents' failure to live up to the moral standards and values of the family, the two younger sisters leave New York (and their private school) and move to Meg's apartment in New Haven, where Meg is a junior at Yale. ...
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The Music Lesson: A Novel

By: Weber, Katharine

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publisher's, Inc.: 1998

Seller ID: 2282568

ISBN: 0609603175

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 178 pp. She's beautiful, writes Irish-American art historian Patricia Dolan in the first of the journal entries that form The Music Lesson. I look at my face in the mirror and it seems far away, less real than hers. The woman she describes is the subject of the stolen Vermeer of the novel's title. Patricia is alone with this exquisite painting in a remote Irish cottage by the sea. How she arrived in such an unlikely circumstance is one part of the story Patricia tell...
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Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear: A Novel

By: Weber, Katharine

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publisher's, Inc.: 1995

Seller ID: 2282569

ISBN: 0517598906

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Review copy with slip laid in. A very nice copy. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 262 pp. Author's first novel, a portion of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. Harriet Rose, twenty-six, is an American photographer just winning recognition for her work. A travel fellowship brings her to visit her best friend and former roommate, Anne Gordon, in Switzerland. In an ongoing letter to her boyfriend, Harriet reports on strange developments in Anne's life, most notably her affair with a much older married man...
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A Weekend With the Great War: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Great War Interconference Seminar, Lisle, Illinois, 16-18 September 1994

By: Weingartner, Steven

Price: $6.00

Publisher: ., Cantigny: 1997

Seller ID: 1773588

ISBN: 1572490624

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1997 Hard Cover. 296 pp. This volume examines the crisis of 1914-18 in papers and related texts presented at a 1994 seminar jointly sponsored by the Great War Society and the Western Front Association. The contributors from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Belgium, and Russia explore a range of topics, including the mysterious death of German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron), and the even more mysterious life of British master spy Sidney Reilly; American heroes and Canadian prisoners; German soldiers; French fortifications at Verdun; the doomed...
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Tchaikovsky

By: Weinstock, Herbert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1943

Seller ID: 2263688

ISBN: 0394408705

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine-head and spine-base chipped, jacket edges rubbed with small tears, jacket flaps clipped. Ink note on front endpaper. 1943 Hard Cover. xii, 386, [xxx] pp. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (25 April/7 May 1840 25 October/6 November 1893),[a 2] often anglicized as Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, was a Russian composer of the romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular music in the classical repertoire. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally, bolstered by his appearances as a guest conductor in Europe and the United...
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Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert

By: Weintraub, Stanley

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Free Press: 1997

Seller ID: 2285505

ISBN: 0684834863

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Remainder mark. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xvii, 478 pp. Offering a biography of Albert, this work examines how the Prince Consort was plucked from obscurity from a tiny German principality to sire the succession in the most powerful empire in the world. It examines his marriage, his popularity and the effect he made on Britain.
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The Lady Elizabeth: A Novel

By: Weir, Alison

Price: $6.00

Publisher: ., Ballantine: 2008

Seller ID: 2202999

ISBN: 0345495357

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Very light edge wear to jacket. 2008 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, which recounted the riveting tale of the doomed Lady Jane Grey, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would grow up to become Englands most intriguing and powerful queen.
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Ice Carving Professionally

By: Weising, George P.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Fairfield, Connecticut, Fairfield County Publications, Inc.: 1954

Seller ID: 2197141

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition, one of 1200 copies. Sticker remnant on spine base. 1954 Hard Cover. xvi, 376 pp. 8vo. A collection of descriptions, designs, and photographs of over 140 ice sculptures, with commentary on techniques used in ice carving. Each image is indexed by number, code (denoting whether it is a photograph, sketch, or illustrated sketch), and page number for easy reference.
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Knowledge and Wonder: The Natural World as Man Knows It

By: Weisskope, Victor F.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday, & Company, Inc.: 1962

Seller ID: 2303055

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Sticker on rear jacket panel, jacket edges rubbed. Faint circular stain on front board. 1962 Hard Cover. 222 pp. Author worked with Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Pauli, and Bohr, and participated in the Manhattan Project (later he campaigned against nuclear proliferation). ...begins with space and time, and the dating of universal events--the age and evolution of the earth, the planets, and the stars. This foundation provides the setting for a discussion of properties common to all phenomena, of the quantum states of the atom, the nature of light, the wave characteristics of particle...
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Stop at Nothing (Simon Herald, Book 2)

By: Welcome, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1960

Seller ID: 2206762

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Very good. Jacket edges lightly rubbed, half-inch tear to top edge of jacket front, light stain to bottom edge of jacket rear, a few minor chips. 1960 Hard Cover. 205 pp. A variety of things combine to persuade one-time amateur racing driver Simon Herald that his life has reached a turning point. All at odds with himself, his wife, and her friends, he goes to the elaborate party given by the mysterious multimillionaire Mr. Mantovelli only because he has nothing better to do. By accident he finds himself inextricably enmeshed in a web of intrigue. The excitement then moves rapidl...
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Mantrapped

By: Weldon, Fay

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Fourth Estate: 2004

Seller ID: 2282570

ISBN: 0007194536

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very lightly toned. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 267 pp. Mantrapped is a dazzling new work that continues Fay Weldons critically acclaimed memoir, Auto da Fay, and tells the story of a woman down on her luck. Trisha is forty-four and at the end of her rope: creditors are coming and boyfriends have long left. Then, one day, on the stairs above her local dry cleaner, she bumps into the dashing Peter Watson, an editor for the local newspaper. After brushing past each other, they mysteriously and instantly...
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The Rules of Life

By: Weldon, Fay

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, A Hutchinson Novella: 1987

Seller ID: 2282571

ISBN: 0091686806

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 79 pp. Illustrated by Amanda Faulkner. Miss Gabriella Sumpter, born in 1941 and laid to rest in 2002 after a totally selfish but quite agreeable life, has discovered that many of the accepted rules of life are simply untrue, and has decide that she, who had done so little good in her life except to herself, would like to help others by passing on a few conclusions she's reached after three months under the sod. In this vivid and ribald tale Fay Weldon, known for her witty feminist fiction, has creat...
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Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide: Stories

By: Weldon, Fay

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Flamingo: 2002

Seller ID: 2282572

ISBN: 0002258536

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Pages very lightly toned. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 222 pp. A wonderful new collection on topical themes from the controversial 'product-placement' author of The Bulgari Connection. A superb new collection of stories: shrewd, sharp, insightful, with a cheerfully dark view of the world. The wronged wife remains a lingering presence even after the mistress has moved in to her home. Oriole, an enormously successful businesswoman married to the ineffectual Hugh, begins to re-evaluate her life, when her best crockery keeps mysteriously flying ...
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Image for Three Christian Transcendentalists: James Marsh; Caleb Sprague Henry; Frederic Henry Hedge (Columbia Studies in American Culture, No. 12)

Three Christian Transcendentalists: James Marsh; Caleb Sprague Henry; Frederic Henry Hedge (Columbia Studies in American Culture, No. 12)

By: Wells, Ronald Vale

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: 1943

Seller ID: 2304631

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed with inscription and date To John Thomas November 12, 1943. Presentation copy. No jacket. Top page ridge very faintly foxed. x, 230 pp. James Marsh (July 19, 1794, Hartford, Vermont July 3, 1842, Colchester, Vermont) was an American philosopher, Congregational clergyman and president of the University of Vermont from 18261833. Caleb Sprague Henry (180484) was an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman and author. He was born in Rutland, Mass., graduated from Dartmouth College in 1825 and studied theology at Andover Theological Seminary and New Haven.[1] In 1828 he became...
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Image for The General Guide to Rare Americana, with Auction Records and Prices. A Hand Book and Guide to the Rare and Notable Books Relating to America. With Chronological and Regional Inventories of Early Printed Books in the United States, and a Key to American Imprints 1639-1889, in Two Volumes: 1493-1699; 1700-1943; [with] A Key to American Imprints - 1638-1889

The General Guide to Rare Americana, with Auction Records and Prices. A Hand Book and Guide to the Rare and Notable Books Relating to America. With Chronological and Regional Inventories of Early Printed Books in the United States, and a Key to American Imprints 1639-1889, in Two Volumes: 1493-1699; 1700-1943; [with] A Key to American Imprints - 1638-1889

By: Wemyss, Stanley

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Printed for the Author: 1944

Seller ID: 2048765

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Errata slip precedes printing key in volume 1, several amendments in ink to entries of softcover volume, wrappers toned. 1944 Hard Cover. xi, [1], 117, 9; 172, [1]; 11 pp. A chronological bibliography of important works of Americana from 1493-1943, together with a list, arranged by state and city, detailing the dates of the earliest known printed works in each location (as of the time of this guide's publication). The key to imprints is included as an appendix to the first volume, but was also issued separately in softcover form - both are included here.
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The Brading Collection (A Miss Silver Mystery)

By: Wentworth, Patricia

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1950

Seller ID: 2305705

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Light stain to jacket, jacket edges lightly rubbed. Page ridge lightly foxed. 1950 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 255 pp. Miss Silver investigates the murder of jewelry collector Lewis Brading, a man who had consulted her on security measures for his collection and then rejected her advice.
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The Christmas Story (A Little Golden Book)

By: Werner, Jane

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1952

Seller ID: 2298095

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Santi 73. Quarter-sized surface tear from sticker removal on front board, permanent marker scribble on front board verso, pencil marks on rear board. 1952 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. First published in 1952, this Little Golden Book adaption of the Christmas story was illustrated by beloved artist Eloise Wilkin. Its simple but poetic text gently invites children to hear the story of Jesus' birth in a stable in Bethlehem.
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Toward That Which Is Beautiful: A Novel

By: Wernicke, Marian O'Shea

Price: $8.00

Publisher: CA, swp: 2020

Seller ID: 2309735

ISBN: 1631527592

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Bottom corner bumped. 2020 Trade Paperback. 262 pp. On an ordinary day in June of 1964 in a small town in the Altiplano of Peru, Sister Mary Katherine (formerly known as Kate), a young American nun recently arrived in this very foreign place, walks away from her convent with no money and no destination. Desperate and afraid of her feelings for an Irish priest with whom she has been working, she spends eight days on the run, encountering a variety of characters along the way: a cynical Englishman who helps her out; a suspicious Peruvian police officer who takes her in for questio...
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Shapinsky's Karma, Bogg's Bills: And Other True-Life Tales

By: Weschler, Lawrence

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ., North Point Press: 1988

Seller ID: 2195703

ISBN: 086547317X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light edge wear to jacket, ink inscription to front endpaper. 1988 Hard Cover. Bizarre twists of fate and the mysterious workings of grace link these profiles of six people who unexpectedly changed the direction of their lives.
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The Constant Sinner (Babe Gordon)

By: West, Mae

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: 1931

Seller ID: 1926257

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First thus. 4th printing, following three printings under a different title. Includes scarce jacket with colorful headshot of the protagonist Babe Gordon (jacket art by 'Polly'). 1 inch tear to jacket base with minor loss from corners, rear jacket panel & reverse of spine stained, jacket lightly toned & soiled. Good. 1931 Hard Cover. vi, 313 pp. 8vo. Original orange cloth, maroon titles, orange top page ridge. West's first novel. Originally released as Babe Gordon, it was reissued with a new title based on a contest sponsored by the publisher in which 4,673 suggestions were submitted. The nove...
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American Pie: A Novel

By: West, Michael Lee

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 1996

Seller ID: 2282573

ISBN: 0060183578

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 324 pp. In the waters off the Baja coast, far from her childhood home of Tallulah, Tennessee, marine biologist Freddie McBroom studies the life habits of grey whales with her scientist husband, Sam. An ex-medical student expelled for stealing cadaver parts, Freddie has left the South and her past behind, never once looking back; practical and serious, she is the antithesis of her eccentric sisters, Eleanor and Jo-Nell, who have remained in their hometown to carv...
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