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Van Allsburg, Chris The Wreck of the Zephyr
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1983 0395330750 First Edition Hardcover Very Good No Jacket Van Allsburg, Chris
Brown cloth with gilt design of boat on front and gilt lettering, color illustrations, unpaginated. Story of a boy and a magical boat. Covers a bit sun-faded and marked, spine lettering a little worn.
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12.00 USD
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402 |
Van Doren, Charles (Editor) Letters to Mother
Great Neck, NY Channel Press 1959 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Patterned paper-covered boards with white cloth spine, 350pp, DJ with photo of author on back panel. "Napoleon ruled the world--but his letters to maman begged her to help him rule his family. What would I find, I wondered, in other letters to mothers written by other despots, by scientists and soldiers, by princesses and poets? The result is, I think a unique view of many fascinating people." An anthology of letters edited by Van Doren. Book is soiled on spine and edges, tiny sticker from bookstore on back endpaper. DJ is foxed, soiled, chipped, has rubbed piece on front, several closed tears, and spine color is faded although letters remain dark.
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12.00 USD
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Van Waters, Miriam Youth in Conflict
London, England Methuen & Co. 1926 First Edition Hardcover Good Signed by Author
Warmly inscribed by author: "To Judge Robert H. Scott with best wishes of his Referee and congratulations on his entry into the Juvenile Court. Miriam Van Waters Oct. 11- 1927." Van Waters was a distinguished penal reformer. Book has wear to edges and spine, top edge foxed, some underlining in pencil.
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25.00 USD
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Vidal, Gore Myron
NY: Random House (1974) First Edition Hard Cover
First edition. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Book has remainder mark on bottom edge. Fiction. #626
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8.00 USD
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405 |
Vidal, Gore Empire
NY Random House 1987 0394561236 First Trade Hardcover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A historical novel with the backdrop of turn-of-the-century (1900) America, Theodore Roosevelt and the development of empire, Willaim Randolph Hearst's newpaper empire: the heroine Caroline Sanford, a newspaper woman, fights to control her own fate. DJ has minor chipping, spine slightly faded.
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10.00 USD
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406 |
Villiers, Frederic Villiers:His Five Decades of Adventure Vol.I and II
New York Harper & Bros. 1920 First Edition Hardcover Fine Very Good
Two volumes, green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering, tan dustjackets, two frontis, six plates, 316 pages and 338 pages. Villiers was an English artist, writer, and soldier of fortune whose autobiography is packed with adventure, action, and humor. Dustjackets are lightly chipped, several small closed tears.
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45.00 USD
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407 |
Vine, Barbara (Ruth Rendell) Anna's Book
NY Harmony Books 1993 0517587963 First American Hardcover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A British mystery in which a young Danish woman in London keeps a diary that sixty years later may lead her granddaughter to an unsolved murder. DJ has the mark from a paperclip on back panel and slight wear to the top of spine.
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15.00 USD
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409 |
Voynich, E. L. The Gadfly
NY: Henry Holt, 1897 First Edition Hard Cover
Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown cloth with gold lettering and a golden horn and black lines on the front cover, a black fly and a golden dagger on the spine. Top and tail of spine and corners are worn, front inside hinge just starting, neat signature and date on FFE. A bright copy.
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40.00 USD
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410 |
Vroman, Leo Blood
Garden City: Natural History Press, 1967. First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
First edition. Published for the American Museum of Natural History. Red and black cloth with dustjacket. A biochemist studies blood. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket. Main flaw of book a nd jacket is damage to fore edge, jacket and book both torn and 1" piece of jacket missing where it looks like book was struck, initials in ink on front free endpaper, DJ has light chipping, one tiny closed tear, light soiling. Science. Medicine. Biochemistry.
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30.00 USD
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Waldo, Arthur L. True Heroes of Jamestown
Miami, FL American Institue of Polish Culture 1977 Hardcover Near Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Dark red hardcover, black and white illustrations and maps, 256 pages including index. History of Jamestown and the role of Polish-Americans. Book has former owner's name in pen on endpaper and a few marks in ink in text; some dark marks on covers; spine title slightly worn; and fisrt 90 pages are soiled at bottom outer edge.
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60.00 USD
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413 |
Walker, Alice In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
NY: Harcout, Brace, Jovanovich (1983) First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
First edition. Author's first collection of nonfiction. Purple paper and cloth covered boards in pictorial dustjacket. Very Good condition in Very Good dustjacket. Boards are slightly faded at edges a nd cloth very lightly speckled. DJ slightly chipped, slightly faded on spine. Nonfiction. Modern Firsts.
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17.00 USD
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414 |
Walters, Minette The Dark Room
New York Putnam 1996 0399140786 First American Hardcover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A first-rate mystery by Edgar-winning British writer in which a woman loses her memory after what looks like a suicide attempt. Book has stain on bottom edge. DJ has wear to edges and corners.
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10.00 USD
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415 |
Ward, C. H. Sentence and Theme
Chicago Scott Foresman 1923 Revised Edition Hardcover Good No Jacket
Green cloth, 473pp including index. A foundation for high school composition. Book's spine is dark, a bit of edgewear, some underlining and notes in text, owner's name and cute pencil drawings by her on the endpapers of girls of the twenties.
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8.00 USD
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420 |
Warner, Sylvia Townsend Swans on an Autumn River: Stories
NY, NY Viking 1966 First Thus Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Brown cloth with blind-stamped swan on front, dustjacket with swan illustration, 222pp. Thirteen tales or short stories . Book has a bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper. Dustjacket has black ink marks on the inside of the front flap.
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15.00 USD
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421 |
Watney, Bernard Longton Hall Porcelain
London Faber & Faber 1957 First Hardcover Near Fine Very Good
Green cloth, dustjacket pink with illustration of the Duke of Brunswick porcelain figure, four color plates, 80 pages of monochrome plates, 72 pages including index plus the 80 pages of plates. Study of the Longton Hall porcelain factory that operated between 1750 and 1760, with analysis of its artistic development. Dustjacket spine's pink color is a little faded, clipped at bottom corner but British price is still present, small bit of soiling.
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40.00 USD
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422 |
Watson, Larry White Crosses
New York Pocket Books 1997 0671567713 First Edition Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author
Green paper boards, 371pp. DJ has sticker saying authographed copy. A Montana small town in 1957.
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15.00 USD
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423 |
Weatherstone, John The Pioneers 1825-1900: The Early British Tea and Coffee Planters and Their Way of Life
London Quiller Press 1986 0907621686 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Good
Black cloth with dustjacket, map endpapers, illustrated with engravings, photographs, and drawings in black and white and color, 224 pages including index. The story of early tea planters and their carving tea gardens out of the jungle. Book has previous owner's name embossed on the bottom of the title page. Dustjacket spine color is faded; front of dustjacket has a one and a half inch tear crudely taped closed.
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40.00 USD
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424 |
Weber, Ronald Catch and Keep
Aurora, CO Write Way 2000 1885173253 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Very Good
Blue paper-covered boards, dustjacket with river scene. Sequel to Aluminum Hatch. Another interesting mystery set in Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
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20.00 USD
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426 |
Weilerstien, Sadie Rose K'Tonton in Israel
New York Natl. Women's League of United Synagogue of Am. Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Safian, Elizabeth Signed by Author
No date on CP. Inscribed by author, "To Debby and Larry with the special good wishes of Sadie Rose Weilerstein. October 26, 1964. "Blue cloth, illustrated with b/w drawings, 178pp. DJ tan with red lettering and black drawing. A Jewish children's story continuing the adventures of K'tonton, a thumb-sized child, who travels to Israel as a stowaway. Book has a very faint musty odor. DJ is a little soiled and a little chipped.
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25.00 USD
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427 |
Weinfurter, Karel Man's Highest Purpose (The Lost World Regained)
London Rider & Co. Hardcover Very Good Fair 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Hardcover with dustjacket, translated by Prof. Arnold Capleton and Charles Unger, 254pp. "An endeavor to present a practical guide to the esoteric teachings of the Rosicrucians." The author penetrated into the Rosicrucian Arcana to provide relaible information to the intuitive student for his search for that Inner kingdom where alone the true Lodge exists. Book has slight wear to spine and corners and top of spine has a small tear, tiny bookstore sticker on front paste-down endpaper, some underlining in pencil in the text. DJ has many tears, some repaired with tape, piece missing at top of spine but all of title present except part of letter "s" of Man's, lettering is still clear and bright, and protected in mylar cover.
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60.00 USD
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Welsh, Charles Key to the Treasure House: A Book of Reference
Third Edition Three-Quarter Leather
Containing complete indexes, a pronouncing vocabulary, notes on literary sources, and on names, places, events, references, and allusions in the Young Folks' Library. Boston: Hall & Locke (1902). Third edition. Three-quarter leather, top edge gilt, gilt lettering on spine, decorated endpapers, 135pp., plus seven maps. Condition Good overall. Leather worn at top and tail of spine and worn through a t corners, cloth stained, binding tight, interior clean. Children's.
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20.00 USD
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430 |
Wertham, Fredric, M.D. Seduction of the Innocent
New York, NY Rinehart & Co. 1954 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Very Good
Hardcover with dustjacket, 397 pages, illustrated with examples from comic books. "The influence of comic books on today's youth." Internationally know German-American psychiatrist wrote about the harmful effects of reading comics, particularly on children. Book is missing the bibliography page which has been neatly cut out at the back. Book has previous owner's name on half-title page, has a few pages with bent corners at top (very small), and opens automatically to the title page. Dustjacket is lightly chipped and the white is lightly soiled.
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250.00 USD
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431 |
Wharton, William A Midnight Clear
New York Knopf 1982 0394519671 First Edition Hardcover Fine Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Midnight blue cloth, starry night sky endpapers, 242pp. A novel about a squad of very young men in World War II in the Ardennes Forest. DJ is price-clipped and has one small stain and closed tear on the back, and one small closed tear on the front.
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10.00 USD
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433 |
White, Paul Doctor of Tanganyika
Grand Rapids, MI Eerdmans 1955 First American Hardcover Very Good Good
Hardcover with dustjacket, yellow boards with design on spine, illustrated endpapers, b/w photos, 243pp. A missionary doctor tells about his work in Tanganyika, East Africa. Book has stains on fore-edge and top edge. DJ is chipped, spine slightly faded, wrinkled on back.
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12.00 USD
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435 |
Wiggin, Kate Douglas My Garden of Memory
Bostom Houghton Mifflin 1925 Ninth Printing Hardcover Good No Jacket
Green cloth with gilt lettering and design, illustrated with b/w photos, 465pp including index. The autobiography of American author Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923), best known for her books "Rebecca at Sunnybrook Farm" and "The Birds' Christmas Carol". Covers darkened, lettering on spine a bit worn, wear at spine and corners, top edge foxed.
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15.00 USD
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436 |
Wilkins, Mary E. Understudies: Short Stories
New York Harper & Brothers 1901 First American Three-Quarter Leather Good No Jacket 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
Rebound in three quarter burgundy leather and marbled paper, gold lettering and design, speckled edges, 230pp. plus page of ads, 25 black and white illustrations, 12 short stories. Author was American novelist and short-story writer know for her stories of New England and use of local color and dialect. Some stains and wear.
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60.00 USD
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Wilson, Charles Morrow, Ed New Crops for the New World
New York Macmillan 1945 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good
Written in 1945, at a time when war with Japan had cut off U.S. access to tropical crops, this book is an analysis of growing these crops in the Western Hemisphere. Book has slight wear at edges and at corners. DJ has a tear and small missing piece on front panel and some chipping. #000112
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15.00 USD
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440 |
Wilson, Helen Van Pelt Flowers Space & Motion: New Designs in Hanging Flower Arrangments
NY Simon & Schuster 1971 0671209655 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Hardcover with dustjacket, 10 color photos, 87 b/w photos, 127pp. including index. A book on flower arrangements that are suspended in the air or hung against walls, emphasizing space and motion as design elements, and reflecting trends in other arts, particularly sculpture. DJ is chipped and soiled, has two closed tears, and one small piece missing at bottom of front panel.
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10.00 USD
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441 |
Winthrop, John Animal Sketches
1980 First Edition Hardcover Fine Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall McGee, Gwendolyn
Slim self-published alphabet with an animal poem for each letter and illustrated with a three color sketch for each. Author and artist are both environmentalists and love animals. A charming book. DJ has one small closed tear on back panel and a few marks.
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6.00 USD
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442 |
Women's Faculty Club Dine Your Friends
Women's Faculty Club, Northwestern University Medical School 1936 Hardcover Very Good No Jacket O'Brien, Catherine
Tan cloth with purple title and illustration of happy diner, 141pp including index. Collection of recipes from the Women's Faculty Club. Book covers and endpapers have some stains but otherwise very good.
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15.00 USD
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Wood, Rob; Wood, Lucy Art of Dried Flowers
Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. Running Press Book Publishers 1991 1561380008 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Good
Large hardcover with dustjacket, color photos, 127pp including index. A book on inspired floral and herbal wreaths, bouquets, garlands, and arrangements for grand occasions and simple celebrations. Book has slight wear at top and tail of spine and corners, rubbed mark on front free endpaper. Dustjacket has tear completely across it repaired on the outside with tape.
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10.00 USD
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445 |
Woods, Sara Knives Have Edges
New York Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1968 First American Hardcover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A Rinehart Suspense Novel. A crime novel featuring barrister Antony Maitland and his uncle, Sir Nicholas Harding. Book has slight edgewear and a mark on the front free endpaper. DJ very slightly chipped, very slightly soiled.
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20.00 USD
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446 |
Wright, Jack The Scout Patrol Boys Exploring in Yucatan
Cleveland: World (1933) Hard Cover
Red cloth with dustjacket. Very Good condition in Fair dustjacket. Book is foxed, has slight edgewear, and spine is cocked. DJ is chipped and has small pieces missing and a faded spine, but it is stil l colorful and has a bright illustration on the front panel. Juvenile fiction. Scout Patrol Boys series.
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12.00 USD
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448 |
Wulff, Lee Sports Photography
New York A. S. Barnes 1942 Hardcover Very Good Good
Blue cloth-covered boards, illustrated dustjacket, 109 photographs--most by the author, 184 pages including index. General procedures on taking good sports pictures with an emphasis on the theory and practice of taking good pictures. Covers fishing and fish pictures in depth. Book has wear at tip and tail of spine and corners and a small tear at top of spine. Dustjacket is chipped, has several closed tears, small pieces missing at tip and tail of spine and back top corner.
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12.00 USD
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449 |
Yates, Raymond F. and Marguerite W Early American Crafts and Hobbies
NY Wilfred Funk 1954 First Edition Hardcover Good Good
Hardcover with dustjacket, illustrated with b/w photos and drawings, 221pp including index. A treasury of skills, avocations, handicrafts, and forgotten pastimes and pursuits from the "Golden Age" of the American home. Book spine and edges faded. DJ is chipped and soiled.
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10.00 USD
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450 |
Yorinks, Arthur and Egielski, Richard Oh, Brother
New York, NY, U.S.A. NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1989) 1989 0374355991 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Egielski, Richard (illustrator)
First edition. A tale of twin brothers. Very Good condition in Very Good dustjacket. Book has inscription on title page. DJ has edgewear and chipping, spine slightly faded. Children's. #691
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9.00 USD
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451 |
Zelazny, Roger The Courts of Chaos
Garden City & New York Doubleday 1978 0385136854 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Book Edition. Doubleday Sciece Ficiton. The fifth volume of Zelazny's Amber series. Book has the slightest bit of edgewear.
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30.00 USD
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453 |
Zuk, Judith D. Trees: A Gardener's Guide
Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A. Brooklyn Botanic Garden 1992 0945352751 Trade Paperback Very Good
Handbook #132, Plants & Gardens, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record, 96pp including index, color photos, line drawings. A how-to on growing trees for the home garden with a compilation of 100 choice trees. Former owner name-sticker on title page.
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5.00 USD
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