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Dubuque: W.A. Adams, 1857. Hardcover. 8vo. Original printed paper over boards with modern black cloth tape spine. Pp. 75-204, (1p). Advertisement endpapers. Good only. Boards quite edgeworn, scuffed and rubbed with rounded corners and rear board showing a mended horizontal crack; first couple leaves likewise edgeworn. A tight and decent first edition of this Iowa town's second city directory -- with a choice twist: From the collection of William B. Allison (1829-1908), influential Iowa politician and Republican who served that state in Congress as representative (1863-71) and long-time senator (1873-1908). Allison moved from Ohio to Dubuque the very year this title was published, where his older brother Matthew had an insurance and real estate business. William appears in this directory as "of Samuels, Cooley and A," Matthew as "real estate and ins ag't." Three large, exuberant and youthful ownership signatures appear in this book -- all three reading either "W.…
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W.A. Adams' Directory of the City of Dubuque. Also Containing a Business Directory and Advertisements of Business Men, in the City of Dubuque. Together with Much Valuable Information. With a Complete Index
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W.C. Fields: I never met a kid I liked
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New York: Stanyan Books/Random House, 1970. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue patterned paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. (Ca. 50pp). Numerous illustrations. Near fine/very good. Slightest of jacket edgewear. Later (9th) printing, tight and attractive.
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W.D. Howells as Critic
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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. Hardcover. Edited by Edwin H. Cady. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xiv, 493pp. Fine/near fine. Wonderfully tight and attractive first edition of this generous selection of the 19th century American author's critical writings -- part of "The Routledge Critics Series."
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The W.F. Norman Sheet Metal M'f'g Co.: Manufactures of Steel Ceilings, Patent Galvanized Roof Crestings, Hip Shingles, Skylights, Roofings, Gutters, Valleys, Ridge Roll, Etc.
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Nevada, MO: The W.F. Norman Corp, 1980. Paperback. Wide 8vo. Stiff tan wrappers. 72pp. Extensive illustrations. Fine. Superb, tight facsimile of "Steel Ceiling Catalogue No. 350," this firm's 1909 catalogue. Company promotional leaflet and price sheets laid in. Invaluable reference for restorers of tin ceilings.
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W.H. Auden: The Life of a Poet
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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, dust jacket. 336pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket wear. First American edition, tight and nice.
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W.H. Hudson's Reading
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N.p.: Privately Printed, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan paper over boards. 40pp. Very good. Minor edgewear. Apparent first printing, limited to 300 copies. The Dartmouth College professor holds forth on the American novelist's reading habits, which he often referred to in letters. "Compliments of the Author" card tipped to front pastedown.
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W.W. Loring: Florida's Forgotten General
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Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 263pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine/near fine. A handsome and tight first edition -- signed boldly by Raab in blue ballpoint on the title page and with modern sepia-tone postcard portrait of Loring and his Florida cemetery plot laid in. Rather uncommon.
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WLS Family Album (group of 7)
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Chicago: The Prairie Farmer, 1936. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 48pp, 48pp, 48pp, 56pp, 52pp, 48pp, 487pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good overall. Slight bit of faint wear to outer wrappers (only). A tight and handsome grouping of this interesting annual booklet from the days when this radio station was THE rural station for farmers to listen to as they milked the cows. Features photographs of the staff ("Our Office Girls," etc.), the "talent" (including a juvenile "Georgie" Goebel), show profiles, etc. A great period piece, with volumes covering the years 1936, 1938, 1939 (lacks rear wrapper), 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1951.
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WLS Family Album 1946
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Chicago: Prairie Farmer, 1946. Paperback. 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 48pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Slightest bit of faint wear to outer wrappers (only). A tight and handsome copy of this interesting annual booklet, featuring countless photographs of the staff, the "talent," etc.
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The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives
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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full black leatherette with light blue spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 543pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. A superbly tight and handsome second printing of this hefty compilation of reminiscences gathered during the Depression -- 14 of them never before published.
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WWII: The People's Story
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Pleasantville, NY: The Reader's Digest Association, 2003. Hardcover. Foreword by Mike Wallace. 4to. Glazed pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 315pp, (5pp). Color frontispiece, extensive illustrations (many color). Fine/fine. Handsome and tight second printing.
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Wade House: One of Wisconsin's First Stagecoach Inns -- Its Preservation and Restoration
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Kohler, WI: Kohler Co, 1957. Paperback. October issue (Volume 41). Small 4to. Stiff blue wrappers. 31pp. Numerous illustrations (many color). Very good. "Special Wade House Issue" of the "Kohler News" magazine published by the noted plumbing fixtures firm.
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Wagner
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New York: The Hyperion Press, 1946. Hardcover. Illustrations by Andre Dugo. 8vo. Textured blue paper over boards. 48pp. Color frontispiece, numerous line drawings (many color), pictorial endpapers. Very good. Mild edgewear. Lacks jacket, else a tight and nice first edition of this slim young adult biography of the German composer.
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The Wailing Octopus
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1956. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Light brown tweed paper over boards with black lettering, pictorial dust jacket. vii, 209pp. Frontispiece, line drawings, map endpapers. Very good/very good. Bit of jacket edgewear, with chip at lower right of front panel. Tight, quite handsome first edition of the eleventh volume in the 24-volume "Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story" series. Lists to this title on front flap and inner flyleaf. One of the best front jacket panel graphics in the entire series.
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The Wainwright Inheritance
by CORBETT, Elizabeth
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New York: Appleton-Century, 1960. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey and blue cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 310pp. Very good/very good. Wisconsin fiction by the popular novelist. Early (not first) printing, tight and handsome.
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Wake Forest University: One Hundred Years of Medicine -- The Legacy of Yesterday, the Promise of Tomorrow
by GARRISON, Donna S. (editor)
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Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Health Sciences Press, 2002. Hardcover. Wide small 4to. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 146pp. Extensive illustrations (some color). Fine/fine. A superb and tight first edition of this well-illustrated centennial history.
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Wake Me When It's Funny: How to Break Into Show Business and Stay There
by MARSHALL, Garry
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Holbrook, MA: Adams Publishing, 1995. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue and brown paper over boards, dust jacket. 304pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. First edition, tight and attractive, bearing a large author signature and inscription in black ballpoint on the front flyleaf: "Good Luck / Garry Marshall."
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Wake Me When It's Funny: How to Break Into Show Business and Stay There
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Holbrook, MA: Adams Publishing, 1995. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue and brown paper over boards, dust jacket. 304pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. First edition, bearing a large author signature and inscription on the front flyleaf: "To Carl, / Hope you have / many 'Happy Days' / ahead! / Garry / Marshall / 12.95."
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Wake Me When It's Funny: How to Break Into Show Business and Stay There
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Holbrook, MA: Adams Publishing, 1995. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue and brown paper over boards, dust jacket. 304pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. Tight and handsome first edition, bearing a bold author signature and inscription in black ballpoint on the front flyleaf: "To Dan, / Happy Days to you! / Garry / Marshall."
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Wake Up and Listen: The Story of the First Easter Retold in Sijo, the Ancient Poetry of Korea
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St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1976. Hardcover. Illustrations by Jim Cummins. 8vo. Grey leatherette, dust jacket. (Ca. 50pp). Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Handsome first edition.
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