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THE WHITE DEVIL DISCOVER'D : BACKGROUNDS AND FOREGROUNDS TO WEBSTER'S TRAGEDY (AMERICAN UNIVERSITY STUDIES, SERIES IV, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, VOL. 5)
by Waage, Frederick O.
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FARMER DUCK
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Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oxenbury, Helen. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR to copyright page. FINE matching dustjacket. Delighful watercolors accompany text throughout. Brown pictorial boards. Unpaginated (32 pp). Clean, bright, tight. Charming tale of a hardworking duck and the lazy farmer who gets chased out of town by the rest of the farm animals!
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FARMER DUCK
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Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oxenbury, Helen. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR to copyright page. FINE matching dustjacket. Delighful watercolors accompany text throughout. Brown pictorial boards. Unpaginated (32 pp). Clean, bright, tight. Charming tale of a hardworking duck and the lazy farmer who gets chased out of town by the rest of the farm animals!
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HELEN
by Waite, Campbell Waldo and Louis Braunhold (ill.)
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Chicago: W. E. Dibble & co. , 1890. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. Braunhold, Louis. Moderately soiled covers. Spine caps are worn and frayed. Corners a bit worn. Cracked spine. Front hinges starting. Forty-one black and white drawings. Black bordered lettering in gilt boxes with stamped black ornate design to spine and front of gold-colored, cloth-covered boards. 388 pp. Book is still very well intact. Written in a poetic style. This is a story of a young man determined to find health byhard work, and clean living.
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HODDING CARTER : THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A RACIST
by Waldron, Ann
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Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. Dustjacket near fine. Very light shelf and edgewear. A .25" closed tear to rear upper flap. With "News from Algonquin", laid-in, and includes official black and white photographs of Ann Waldron and Hodding Carter. Clean, tight, bright. 369 pp with notes and index. The story of a colorful, complex, combative man who spent much of his life on the unpopular sides of political and social issues. "Always a Southern gentleman, Hodding Carter used his ferocious energy and talent to do battle with the politics of cruelty that prevailed in his time. For his beliefs in the essential dignity and political rights of all American citizens, he risked his living and his life. . ," (Harper Lee, rear cover).
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THE COMICS SINCE 1945
by Walker, Brian
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New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002. Hardcover. NEAR FINE in Very Good Dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. Glossy color boards illustrated with comic book strips. Black lettering on book spine. Illustrated white jacket Very Good. 1" closed tear to top spine. Mild edgewear. 776 illustrations, including 100 plates in full color. 336 pp with acknowledgments, bibliography and index. Clean, bright, tight. Contents include comic strips from the post war years followed by each decade to the nineties concluding with the twenty-first century. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping.
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CHARLES DE MORSE : PIONEER EDITOR AND STATESMAN
by Wallace, Ernest
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Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech Press, 1943. Hardcover. GOOD . EX-LIBRARY. Bookplate to front pastedown endpaper. Usual library markings. Three nudged corners. Light shelfwear to front board. Large 3 x 3" purple stain to rear board. Spinecaps gently folded under. Front and center hinges starting. Photo of Charles DeMorse on frontispiece. 271 pp with bibliography and index. Library card pocket to rear pastedown endpaper. Tight. Text clean. A biography of the "Father of Texas Journalism", and founder of the Clarksville, Texas Northern Standard.
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TERROR KEEP
by Wallace, Edgar
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927 . Hardcover. VERY GOOD in chipped dustjacket . FIRST EDITION. Inspector J.G. Reeder is ensnared in a trap set by Crazy John Flack and some of London's most desperate crooks, and he must fight for his life in a battle of wits and weapons. Wallace was one of the most renowned English suspense novelists of the early 20th century, and this is a fine showcase of his talents. 283 pp. Slight spine lean. Light bumps to all four corners. Light age-yellowing and a bit of light soiling and spotting to edges of text. Some light soiling to FFEP, half-title, title page, several pages of text. Just a bit of light foxing to RFEP, last page of text. Light shelf creasing to both spinecaps. Light rubbing to rear board and very light rubbing to front board. Slight crease to length of spine. DJ now archivally protected. Sylish image on front DJ panel features silhouette of a long-haired man over a labrotory table with both arms extended and a silhouetted…
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PLAIN ENGLISH HANDBOOK DELUXE EDITION : A COMPLETE GUIDE TO CORRECTNESS
by Walsh, J. Martyn and Anna Kathleen Walsh
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Wichita, Kansas: McCormick-Mathers, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Schmidt, Alwin E. . Previous owner's name to FFEP. Light sunning to spine and 1.25" to back board. Two corners very lightly nudged. Mild shelf/edgewear to surface and extremities. Repaired FPDEP. Black lettering to spine and front of brick-orange, cloth-covered boards. Black illustration to front board. Clean, tight, bright. 137 pp with references and index. This is a complete handbook containing all rules, definitions, and illustrations necessary to the mastery of functional grammar and usage.
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FIRE AT EDEN'S GATE : TOM MCCALL & THE OREGON STORY
by Walth, Brent
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Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. SHARP CORNERS. Dustjacket near fine. Very mild edgewear to jacket bottom. Photograph of Tom McCall to front of glossy illustrated jacket. Gilt lettering crisply debossed to spine of black cloth-covered boards. Many black and white photographs. Clean, tight, bright. 564 pp with extensive notes, sources, acknowledgements, index. "Walth presents a lucid, detailed and powerful account that peels back the layers of myth that have shrouded Tom McCall's career. This book tells the real tales behind Oregon's environmental success, as well as the events that gilded McCall's reputation as a courageous politician," (front flap).
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THE WORKS OF THAT LEARNED AND JUDICIOUS DIVINE, MR. RICHARD HOOKER : WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND DEATH (TWO VOLUMES)
by Walton, Isaac
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1850. Hardcover. Good Plus. ALL EDGES GILT. Gilt edges in very nice condition on both volumes. Light soiling to board surfaces. Front and back of white boards are framed in .375" gilt design which is then framed on either side by a thin black line. These designs are moderately worn to both volumes. Beautiful maroon, cream and teal marbled endpapers. "In Memoriam", with the initials WS or SW, is on front board of both volumes. Volumes are lightly age-tanned with foxing to front and rear fly-leaves. Six inches of spine on Vol. I is beginning to detach from front cover. Slight lift to rear board from text. Top front and bottom corners bumped. A faint bit of rippling to a few rear pages. Text of Volume II is lightly rippled with front and rear boards moderately lifted from text. Both volumes clean and solidly bound. 630 / 840 pp with index. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping. Richard Hooker (1554 -- 1600) was an English Anglican…
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WANLESS OF INDIA : LANCET OF THE LORD
by Wanless, Lillian Emery
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Boston: W. A. Wilde, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Poor. Stevens, Beatrice. FIRST EDITION. AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION AND SIGNATURE TO HALF-TITLE PAGE. Mildly cocked. Front bottom corner, nudged. Spinecaps folded under. Light stain runs length of spine and across 3.5" of bottom edge. Does not affect endpapers. Boards lightly scuffed. Pages age-tanned. Acid transfer from laid-in article to pp 316 / 317. Dustjacket poor. Many tears, creases, and various size chips. Moderately scuffed covers. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of black, cloth-covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. 366 pp. The story is based on the real life facts of renowned surgeon, Sir William James Wanless. At age 24 he went to India as a medical missionary. In the forty years there, he cared for lepers, trained Christian leaders, and performed thousands of operations. Although Sir William, his family and the Maharajah of Kolhapur are real, many other characters are fictitious providing imaginary…
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THE SNAKE PIT
by Ward, Mary Jane
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New York: Random House, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. BOOK OF THE MONTH. Age-tanning to edges and text. Light sunning to top of spine. Light edge and shelfwear. Dustjacket good. Very tanned inside jacket. Various size chips and tears to edges and spine ; creasing. Gilt lettering debossed to spine and front of green, cloth-covered boards. Clean, solid binding. 278 pp. "In the bad old days, very long ago, when someone began to act queer they put him or her into a pit with a snake. Sometimes the snake bit and the patient died, but if not, he was cured -- by the shock. It was a crude and cruel experiment in what we call the shock treatment now. The shock treatment, as is probably well know, consists of strong electric shocks which tend to restore the mental balance when it has been lost," (from The Snake Pit).
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SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES SIMPLIFIED
by Warde, Frederick ; B. F. Sisk
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Fort Worth, Texas: Pioneer, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Moderate wear to boards. Corners and edges lightly worn. Five raised bands and chipped paste-on title label to spine. Paste-on title label and (?) previous owner's label to front of dark navy-blue, cloth-covered boards. Portrait of William Shakespeare on frontispiece with 7 additional photographs. Clean, bright, tight. 189 pp with bibliography. "This volume is designed to furnish the student and the general reader with such information, in convenient form, as is needed for a proper appreciation of Shakespeare and his works. A bare mention only of the important editions of Shakespeare's works has been made . . . ," (preface).
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ANDY WARHOL'S DREAM AMERICA
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Eugene: University of Oregon Museum of Art, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. STAPLEBOUND. Minor shelfwear. Black lettering on front of illustrated white covers. With 88 images of iconic screenprints. Self-Portrait on frontispiece. 40 pp. Clean, bright, solid. Screenprints from the collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. Warhol used the ever expanding consumer culture to create his pervasive images and was a pioneer artist in "challenging our views of how existing images, such as the label of a Campbell's Soup can, become great art in themselves," (acknowledgements).
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ANDY WARHOL'S DREAM AMERICA
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Eugene: University of Oregon, Museum of Art, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. STAPLEBOUND. Minor shelfwear. Black lettering on front of illustrated white covers. With 88 images of iconic screenprints. Self-Portrait on frontispiece. 40 pp. Clean, bright, solid. Screenprints from the collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. Warhol used the ever expanding consumer culture to create his pervasive images and was a pioneer artist in "challenging our views of how existing images, such as the label of a Campbell's Soup can, become great art in themselves," (acknowledgements).
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DILEMMAS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE NEUROLOGICAL PATIENT
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Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. REPRINT. Mild shelf/edgewear to surfaces and extremities. Light red and white lettering to spine and front of bright green covers. Numerous tables. Clean, bright, solid binding. 285 pp with references. This book deals with diseases and treatment of the nervous system. "Contributions from experienced authors, highlighting areas of controversy in the management of neurological patients. Each looks at every side of the controversial issue and then attempts to reach definite conclusions, both for the current practice and for future research," (rear cover).
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SCHISTOSOMIASIS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD'S LITERATURE FROM 1852 TO 1962 (TWO VOLUME SET)
by Warren, Kenneth S. and Vaun A. Newill
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Cleveland, OH: The Press of Western Reserve University, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good Plus. Small .5" ding to front lower edge and vertical crease to half title page of volume I. Volume II in fine condition. Light sunning to spines, mild scuffing and shelfwear, some tiny tears to both DJs. A .5" chip to lower front edge of volume I DJ. Black lettering to brown spines, gilt lettering in black box to front boards, latte brown cloth-covered boards. Very clean, tight, bright. 598 pp with appendices / 395 pp. Volume I -- Keyword Index, Volume II -- Author Index. Each begins with How To Use the index, volume I is prefaced and has three appendices: Annual Reports, Keywords and Their Frequencies and Keyword Glossary. "There are 10,286 references in the Keyword volume. each printed under as many relevant keywords as necessary, for a total of about 28,000 citations. There are 10,286 references in the author volume, each printed in its entirety under each of its authors, for a total…
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THAI STYLE
by Warren, William and Gretchen Liu (Ed.)
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New York: Rizzoli, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Tettoni, Luca Invernizzi. Light rubbing to board edges. Dustjacket very good. Mild shelf/edgewear. Jacket spine lightly sunned. White lettering to spine and front of chocolate-brown, cloth-covered boards. Over 350 color photographs. Illustrated architectural notebook in final section. Clean, tight, bright. 216 with index. A concise introduction by the author places Thai design in context and adds another dimension to our understanding of Thai culture. Chapters are : Traditions, Traditions Adapted, Foreign Influences and Tropical Modern.
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CHEZ PANISSE FRUIT
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New York: HarperCollins, 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Curtan, Patricia. FINE. Dustjacket Near Fine. Sunning to jacket spine. Black and plum-color lettering on spine of glossy yellow illustrated boards. Beautiful color relief prints and recipes. 326 pp with bibliography and index. Clean, tight, bright. With the Cooks of Chez Panisse in collaboration with Alan Tangren and Fritz Streiff. Recipes from French cuisine, and essays on selecting, sorting and preparing fruit. This book will help you make the very most of fresh fruits from season to season.
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