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By: Warren, G. O. (Gretchen Osgood)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Oxford, B. H. Blackwell: 1919
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 16217
Condition: Very Good+
The book has very light, general wear but with some light toning on edges. Many pages are unopened. Book is square and securely bound. Gretchen Osgood Warren was from the wealthy Osgood family of Boston. Her potrait with her daughter by John Singer Sargent is considered on of the artist's most important. Warren wrote poetry and was published in important magazines like Poetry. She is somewhat forgotten today. (One article I read constantly referred to her as a man.) Her poetry is worth a read. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; pages View more info
By: Wasson, David Atwood (ed. Charles M. Foster)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana University Press: 1965
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 16209
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Book has very light, general wear and aging. There is a light stain on bottom edge. Jacket has very light edge and corner wear but with some soiling and a lightly sunned spine. This both a biography and critical examination of the life of David Atwood Wasson, a frequently overlooked contemporary and frined of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a good selection of Wasson's essays. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 334 pages View more info
By: Wellman, Paul I
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1962
Edition: Book Club Edition
Seller ID: 12967
Condition: Very Good- in Good dust jacket
Book has light wear and minor soiling. Stil square and securely bound. Jacket has edge and corner wear, some chips, along with insect damage on back bottom edge. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 444 pages View more info
By: West Jessamyn
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York City, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1975
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 6709
ISBN: 0-15-157820-6
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Book is square and securely bound. Corners lightly bumped, former owner's inscription on list of West's books after half-title page. Dust jacket price clipped, head of spine chipped, some wear to edges and corners. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 373 pages; Stated First Edition. Signed by West on half-title page; Signed by Author View more info
By: Wharton, Edith
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Vintage Books/ The Library of America: 1990
Edition: First Edition Thus; First Printing
Seller ID: 16000
ISBN: 0679725393
Condition: Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
This is the first softcover edition of The House of Mirth. Book has only light, general wear. Spine has no creasing and book seems unread. Book is about near fine. ; The Library of America; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages View more info
By: Wharton, Edith
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Co.: 1929
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 16213
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Light edge and corner wear with mild rubbing at extremities and anticipated aging. Square and securely bound with no tears or parting. Very nice copy of this late Edith Wharton novel that some say is underappreciated. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 560 pages View more info
By: Wickenden, Dan
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York City, William Morrow: 1948
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 6565
Condition: Very Good
The book is VG with only light, general wear and aging. The dust jacket is G- with some chips (a large one on the top rear, but still in one piece and reasonable in mylar. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 366 pages; Novel tracing the history of a family. View more info
By: Wilder, Thornton
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York City, Harper and Row: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 5534
Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
Lower right corner bumped, causing first few pages to turn up slightly, light creasing to spine, gift inscription in red ink on blue ffep. DJ has some chips and a few small tears on edges, spine sunned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 374 pages View more info
By: Wilson, Edmund
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Ballentine Books: 1967
Edition: First Edition Thus; First Printing
Seller ID: 10788
Condition: Very Good+
White wraps with black titles. This is basically and new and unread book that has age and shelfwear but no other problems. There is toning around the wrapper edges and a black line, maybe a remainder mark, on the top foredge. Interior has almost no toning . Book is square; spine has no creases or cracks; binding is secure. It is as though the book has been sitting on a shelf for the past 45 years. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 411 pages View more info
By: Wilson, Edmund
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux: 1971
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 12515
Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
Book has only light wear and aging. Jacket has light edge and corner wear but with damage and loss at top of spine -- see scan. ; B&W Photographs; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 386 pages View more info
By: Wyman, Edwin A.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Boston, James H. Earle, Publisher: 1896
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 13491
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Brown cloth with somewhat faded black titles and illustration. Gilt title on spine. Book has some edge and corner wear but is square and securely bound. Some tearing of endpapers along front hinge that does not affect the binding. On the back endpaper there is some scrawled writing and large initials in white ink. ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 451 pages; Book is basically a love story set along the Connecticut River, but there are a couple of interesting variations. One chapter, entitled "The Negro Wedding," is an account of the protagonist attending a "jubilee" wedding of former ... View more info
