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  • Wheelock, John Hall
    IN LOVE AND SONG: Poems

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scribner's, 1971. Hardcover first edition - An attractive book, illustrated with wood engravings by Stefan Martin.

    Condition: F/F.

    Book ID: 6785
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • MICHAEL WHELAN'S WORKS OF WONDER. by Whelan, Michael. Foreword by Isaac Asimov.
    Whelan, Michael. Foreword by Isaac Asimov.
    MICHAEL WHELAN'S WORKS OF WONDER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ballantine Books / Del Rey, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Text and illustrations by Whelan, foreword by Isaac Asimov, introduction by Donald Munson.Shows both the cover art on the book and his original paintings used in creating the covers. Includes a section on the Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series. A beautiful book, printed on glossy paper throughout. Large format, 109 pp. ISBN: 0-345326792.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 73178
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  • Whipple, Charles K.
    RELATION OF THE AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS TO SLAVERY.

    Edition: Hardcover.

    New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Facsimile reprint of a work originally published in 1861. An indictment of the mission for its refusal to condemn slavery - 'this last unequivocal and emphatic uplifting of the voice of the Board on behalf of slavery will help many Christians to realize how far different is its teaching from the Gospel of Christ.' 45 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in brown cloth (some discoloration to front endpapers from binder's glue, a flaw found in most, if not all, copies, a few spots on edge of textblock).

    Book ID: 11532
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  • OUR VANISHING FREEDOM: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms. by Whisker, James B.
    Whisker, James B.
    OUR VANISHING FREEDOM: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

    Edition: Second edition.

    Skokie, IL: Publisher's Development Corp., (1973). Includes a new preface to the second edition and an introduction by Congressman Bill Archer. Index and index of court cases. vi, 156 pp.

    Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 72886
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  • RED CLAY READER Volume 4. by Whisnant, Charleen, editor.
    Whisnant, Charleen, editor.
    RED CLAY READER Volume 4.

    Edition: First printing.

    Charlotte, NC: Southern Review, (1967). Hardcover first edition - Hardcover journal of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. This includes several articles on Southern author and journalist W. J. Cash, an interview with Gary Snyder as well as a poem by him, poetry by George Garrett, Rebecca Brown and many others, short stories by Kelly Cherry, Max Steele, Leonard Gardner and more. Illustrated with photographs and drawing. Biographical notes. Large format, 134 pp.

    Condition: Good overall in illustrated red boards - significant rubbing to the covers and some shelfwear, contents are near fine.

    Book ID: 71926
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  • SAMOAN HERBAL MEDICINE: 'O La'au ma Vai Fofo o Samoa. by Whistler, Dr. W. Arthur.
    Whistler, Dr. W. Arthur.
    SAMOAN HERBAL MEDICINE: 'O La'au ma Vai Fofo o Samoa.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Honolulu, Isle Botanica - published for O le Siosiomaga Society, Inc, of Western Samoa, (1996). First edition - Includes information on traditional and modern Samoan medicine and Samoan medicinal plants. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Preface, bibliography, indexes to Scientific Names, and Samoan Names. Glossary of Samoan medical terms. Maps inside covers. 116 pp. ISBN: 0-964542625.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 55903
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  • MISS TOOSEY'S MISSION. by Whitaker, Evelyn (1844-1929)
    Whitaker, Evelyn (1844-1929)
    MISS TOOSEY'S MISSION.

    Edition: Gift edition.

    New York: Barse & Hopkins, n.d, (ca 1910). Hardcover - A charming little book containing Whitaker's first and most popular story, originally published anonymously in 1878. A title in The Golden Books Series. Small format, 61 pp.

    Condition: Fine in brown paper covered boards with a cream spine, stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, Calling card with gift inscription on reverse laid in.

    Book ID: 60848
    Keywords: religion, Women Authors
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  • THE LONG SUMMER. by White, Alan.
    White, Alan.
    THE LONG SUMMER.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - When cynical Private Tom Wilkins experiences the harsh reality of D-Day he understands the reasons for the long summer spent training for it. The author was himself a World War II commando. 188 pp. Dust jacket Art By Loretta Trezzo. ISBN: 0-151530793.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 82176
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  • LIVING WITH MINKA AND CURDY: A Marmalade Cat and His Siamese Wife. by White, Antonia
    White, Antonia
    LIVING WITH MINKA AND CURDY: A Marmalade Cat and His Siamese Wife.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Harvill Press, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Although Mrs Bell had been reluctant to replace her tryrannical cat Victoria, one day she found herself with two kittens - "a very elegant Siamese lady and a splendid marmalade tom." This novel (is it really fiction?) tells what life with these cats is like. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-00271454.

    Condition: Very near fine in blue cloth with gilt lettering in a near fine dustjacket (light soiling to back cover of dj).

    Book ID: 84356
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  • White, Antonia
    BEYOND THE GLASS

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Henry Regnery, 1955. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of a young woman's descent into madness and of her recovery. Hard to find in the hardcover first edition.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some erasable penciled comments on front endpaper, light edgewear and rubbing to dj.)

    Book ID: 18337
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • SLEEPING AT THE STARLITE MOTEL AND OTHER ADVENTURES ON THE WAY BACK HOME. by White, Bailey.
    White, Bailey.
    SLEEPING AT THE STARLITE MOTEL AND OTHER ADVENTURES ON THE WAY BACK HOME.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Addison Wesley, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of humorous stories and essays. Bailey - or June - White was a daughter of the adventure fiction writer Robb White. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-201-626705.

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 15513
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  • SLEEPING AT THE STARLITE MOTEL AND OTHER ADVENTURES ON THE WAY BACK HOME. by White, Bailey.
    White, Bailey.
    SLEEPING AT THE STARLITE MOTEL AND OTHER ADVENTURES ON THE WAY BACK HOME.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Addison Wesley, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of humorous stories and essays. Bailey - or June - White was a daughter of the adventure fiction writer Robb White. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-201-626705.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 41440
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  • LAND OF THE WHATSIT: Adventures of Billy and Betty. by White, Billy and Betty (pseudonym of Charles Dexter Morris)
    White, Billy and Betty (pseudonym of Charles Dexter Morris)
    LAND OF THE WHATSIT: Adventures of Billy and Betty.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Macaulay Co., (1935.). Hardcover first edition - A "writing out in story form" of some of the humorous adventures (adventures "found on our front doorstep and in our back yard") of Billy and Betty, two children who supposedly published an amateur newspaper, adventures which originally appeared on a radio program with the same title as this book. The Whatsit became a four page cartoon insert in 'True Story' magazine and eventually an immensely popular miniature newspaper "by children for children" which reached a subscription level of almost 4 million children. Als inclues cartoons and illustrations by Joe Banks and humorous verse. 333 pp.

    Condition: Good condition in blue cloth with gold panels - some wear to the ends of the spine the corners, a few foxing/spots to the margins, prev owner's name in pencil.

    Book ID: 56961
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  • FUNLAND. by White, David.
    White, David.
    FUNLAND.

    Edition: Trade paperback original.

    Xlibris, (2009). SIGNED - A collection of poetry and prose poems - as the author explains "I'm fascinated with words. . . Words have their own lives independent from their function as describers of 'real' worlds. They hold time and place but also can help us imagine new worlds. They preserve our experience against the dismantling force of death." SIGNED on the title page. 418 pp. ISBN: 978-1436385770.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 83328
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • GET UP AND GO: Around the World on Twenty-Five Pounds. by White, Don.
    White, Don.
    GET UP AND GO: Around the World on Twenty-Five Pounds.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Allan Wingate, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - From Trieste to Greece, Syria, Iraq, India, and Australia and New Zealand and more. A young boy - 16 years of age - with only 9 pounds left out of his original 25, meets up with a 24 year old woman, and she begins to teach him how to flatter the border guards to get a transit visa, and how to create an image of a normal tourist, and more the beginning of a 5 1/2 years of hitchhiking from country to country. Illustrated with black-white photographs. 303 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (offsetting to the table of contents)

    Book ID: 85963
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  • White, E. B.
    THE WILD FLAG: Editorials from The New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Conde Nast, 1946. dj. Hardcover first edition - 'We know, we Americans, what America means in the human heart; we remember its principles and we honor its record; but we tend to forget that it has its counterpart in sixty or seventy other places. This is mischievous business. It is bloody business. Reinforced with the atom, it may be fatal business.' Political commentary from the noted childrenÕs writer and essayist, in editorials written between 1943 and 1946. The theoretical case for a single world government, just as the UN was taking shape.

    Condition: Very good+ in good only dust jacket (small stamp on title page, edgewear to dj, fading to spine).

    Book ID: 23814
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  • FORGETTING ELENA. by White, Edmund.
    White, Edmund.
    FORGETTING ELENA.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1973) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a Kafka-esque puzzle - in his review for the NY Times, Alan Friedman called it "an astonishing first novel, obsessively fussy, and yet uncannily beautiful." SIGNED on the title page. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-394483413.

    Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (some small bumps to edges of boards, 1 corner bumped).

    Book ID: 81699
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  • THE BURNING LIBRARY: Essays. by White, Edmund.
    White, Edmund.
    THE BURNING LIBRARY: Essays.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Hardcover first edition - Essays on such topics as the centrality of friendship in gay life, on the AIDS crisis, as well on writers like Nabokov, Isherwood, Cormac McCarthy, Truman Capote, on the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and an appreciation of the singer, Prince, and more. Introduction by David Bergman, index. xxviii, 386 pp. ISBN: 0-679434755.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 76940
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  • FANNY: A Fiction. by White, Edmund.
    White, Edmund.
    FANNY: A Fiction.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ecco Press, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the first half of the nineteenth century, based on the life of the writer Mrs Frances Trollope and her friendship with the radical feminist Fanny Wright. Cover praise from such diverse writers as Jeffrey Eugenides, John Edgar Wideman, Patrick McGrath and Ann Beattie. 369 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0004843.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 55101
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  • GRANTA 27, Summer 1989: DEATH. by (White, Edmund; Erdrich, Louise; Mars-Jones, Adam and others) edited by Budford, Bill
    (White, Edmund; Erdrich, Louise; Mars-Jones, Adam and others) edited by Budford, Bill
    GRANTA 27, Summer 1989: DEATH.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Granta USA, 1989. First edition - A paperback magazine of new writing. This issue includes works by14 writers and photographers such as Louise Erdrich, Edmund White, Jeremy Harding, Christopher Petit, William Cooper,Michael Ignatieff, John Gregory Dunne, and more. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-14-012358-X.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 56434
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  • A LITTLE GIRL OF LONG AGO. by White, Eliza Orne (1856-1947).
    White, Eliza Orne (1856-1947).
    A LITTLE GIRL OF LONG AGO.

    Edition: First or early printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1896). Hardcover - A child's adventures in New England in the early nineteenth century. The characters of Marietta and Leonara are based on White's mother Margaret and Lucretia P. Hale. Frontispiece with tissue guard. 151 pp.

    Condition: Very good in illustrated cream boards (toning to spine)

    Book ID: 87010
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  • SOME MUST WATCH. by White, Ethel Lina (1876-1944)
    White, Ethel Lina (1876-1944)
    SOME MUST WATCH.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York & London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1941) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller, originally published in the UK in 1933, which creates an atmosphere of growing terror and suspense. A young girl, who has not been able to speak since childhood, has taken a position as a "lady help" in a remote mansion and finds herself threatened by a killer who has a penchant for strangling handicapped young women. Basis for several films including the classic 1946 RKO suspense movie, THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, starring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, and Elsa Lanchester. 319 pp.

    Condition: Fair condition only in maroon cloth in a like dustjacket. The book is missing the front free endpaper, has a slanted spine and somewhat bumped corners, rear hinge cracking. The dustjacket has significant edgewear, some minor loss at the ends of the spine, rubbing and wear to the folds, original price of 2.00 still present. A flawed, but still readable and possibly restorable copy of a very scarce book in dust jacket.

    Book ID: 78819
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  • FED UP WITH THE FANNY. by White, Franklin.
    White, Franklin.
    FED UP WITH THE FANNY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel, a story "driven by strong characters who aren't afraid to speak their minds." 297 pp. ISBN: 0-684-844915.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (bookplate mostly hidden by dj flap)

    Book ID: 68380
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  • DEATH NOTES. by White, Gloria.
    White, Gloria.
    DEATH NOTES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & London: Severn House, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in San Francisco and featuring private investigator Ronnie Ventana. INSCRIBED on the title page. 220 pp. ISBN: 978-0727861986.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 64560
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  • PERIL AS ARCHITECTURAL ENRICHMENT. by White, Hazel,
    White, Hazel,
    PERIL AS ARCHITECTURAL ENRICHMENT.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Berkeley, CA: Kelsey Street Press, (2011). SIGNED first edition - The first major collection of poems by this author also known for her gardening books. Cover praise from Kathleen Fraser who comments that her poems "reward us with a luminous reworking of horizontality through the taproot of city landscape." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Square format. 68 pp plus a final illustration. ISBN: 978-0932716767.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 86428
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • White, Ivan.
    CROW'S FALL.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Cape Goliard Press, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of poetry. Title page illustration by Heinke Jenkins. Unpaginated [48 pp.]. ISBN: 0-206616678.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, abraded spot on front endpaper, minor edgewear to dj.) Uncommon in hardcover.

    Book ID: 36027
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • DOUBLE CONTACT: A Sector General Novel by White, James
    White, James
    DOUBLE CONTACT: A Sector General Novel

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: TOR, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The twelfth novel in his Sector General series, which deals with the challenges of deep space medicine. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-312870418.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 74512
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  • White, John I..
    AMERICAN VIGNETTES: Collection of Footnotes to History.

    Convent Station,NJ: Travel Vision, 1976 dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of brief essays published by Exxon Travel Club.

    Condition: Very good, ex-library copy but overall tight and clean, no dust jacket as issued.

    Book ID: 23160
    Keywords: History: USA
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  • THE GIRL ON LEGARE STREET. by White, Karen.
    White, Karen.
    THE GIRL ON LEGARE STREET.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: New American Library - NAL, (2009). First edition - Psychic suspense novel set in Charleston, South Carolina. Issued as a trade paperback original. 335 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 58538
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  • HUSH. by White, Kate.
    White, Kate.
    HUSH.

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A stand-alone thriller - an ordinary woman flees the scene of a murder, and realizes it is not just the law hunting her. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 9780061576614.

    Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder dot).

    Book ID: 62169
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