1927. TOY, Mary F.S. LADY HAMMOND'S HEREDITY. Hartford, Conn.: The S. S. Scranton Company, 1927. First edition. Inscribed by the author's granddaughter: "This book was written by grandmother, Mary Seymour Toy, in her seventy-first year. Jacqueline Toy Collins Tilney." 240 pp. Octavo, black cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Clean and..... More
DU MOND, F. V. [TWAIN, Mark]. PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC BY THE SIEUR LOUIS DE CONTE (HER PAGE AND SECRETARY) FREELY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ANCIENT FRENCH INTO MODERN ENGLISH FROM THE ORIGINAL UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF FRANCE BY JEAN FRANCOIS ALDEN. Illustrated by F...... More
1915. [VASSAR COLLEGE]. THE VASSARION, BEING A RECORD OF THE FIFTIETH YEAR OF VASSAR COLLEGE. Class photographs by Edmund L. Wolven. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 1915. 298 pp. + 29 pp. advertisements. 4to., leather stamped in gilt. Backstrip detached, chipped. Boards worn, spine slightly shaken. About good overall. More
1916. [VASSAR COLLEGE]. THE VASSARION, VOLUME 28, 1916. Class photographs by Edmund L. Wolven. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 1916. 298 pp. + 25 pp. advertisements. 4to., leather stamped in gilt. Backstrip missing. Boards worn, spine slightly shaken. About good overall. More
1748. VIARDEL, Cosme. OBSERVATIONS SUR LA PRATIQUE DES ACCOUCHEMENTS, Naturels, contre nature, & Monstrueux. Paris, d'Houry Pere, 1748. Octavo. [iv]344[12]pp. + [17]ff. Contains 17 etched plates. Three, a folding portrait frontispiece and two folding obstetrical illustrations, were in the original edition of 1671. Viardel, Royal Surgeon to Queen Marie-Therese, was..... More
1881. [VON TEUFFEL], Blanche Willis Howard. AUNT SERENA. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1881. First edition. Tan cloth. Ownership; rather over-opened, spine ends and corners worn. Good. (Wright III, 5411). More
1887. [VON TEUFFEL], Blanche Willis Howard. TONY, THE MAID. A Novelette. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887. First edition. Frontis. and 5 plates; olive cloth. 1887 inscription. Some wear to extremes. Very good. (Wright III, 5418). More
1811. WAKEFIELD, Priscilla. INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY, IN A SERIES OF FAMILIAR LETTERS, WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ENGRAVINGS. Boston: J. Belcher & J.W. Burditt, 1811. First American Edition from 5th London Edition. Full calf, stamped in gilt to red leather spine label. Ex-library with label to spine and stamps to front pastedown and..... More
1905. WARD, Mrs. Humphry. THE MARRIAGE OF WILLIAM ASHE. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905. First American edition. Red cloth, gilt stamping. Heel just nicked, slight soiling. Very good. More
1908. WARD, Mrs. Humphry. THE TESTING OF DIANA MALLORY. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First American edition. Red cloth stamped in gilt. Front hinge tender, else very good. More
1905. WARNER, Anne. THE REJUVENATION OF AUNT MARY. With four full-page illustrations. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. First edition. 8vo., salmon pictorial cloth; [viii] + 323pp. + ads.. Minimal rubbing at boards, else very good. More
1874. WEBSTER, Augusta. YU-PE-YA'S LUTE: A CHINESE TALE, IN ENGLISH VERSE. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. First edition. [2] + 64 pp. + 1 pp. publisher's advertisement. 12mo., purple cloth sunned to light brown at spine and edges of boards, spine stamped in gilt, boards stamped in blind. Moderate wear..... More
1980. WELTY, Eudora. THE COLLECTED STORIES OF EUDORA WELTY. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1980). First trade edition (a limited edition, privatey printed, precedes this one). Inscribed by Welty on half-title, dated 1983. xvi + 622 pp. 8vo., quarter dark red cloth with tan paper covered boards, both stamped in..... More
FE. WEST, Rebecca. HENRY JAMES. London: Nisbet & Co, (1916). First edition of West's first book. 12mo, blue cloth, spine in gilt. Slightly soiled, and rubbed at the spine and edges. Still, overall, this copy is very good. More
1791. WHITE, Charles. A TREATISE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF PREGNANT AND LYING-IN WOMEN, AND THE MEANS OF CURING, BUT MORE ESPECIALLY OF PREVENTING THE PRINCIPAL DISORDERS TO WHICH THEY ARE LIABLE. Together with some New Directions concerning the Delivery of the Child and Placenta in Natural Births. Illustrated with cases..... More
1863. [WHITNEY, Adeline Dutton Train] BOYS AT CHEQUASSET; or, "A Little Leaven." By the Author of "Faith Gartney's Girlhood." Boston: Loring, (1863). Second edition. Small 8vo, 258 pp.; pink cloth. Christmas 1863 inscription. Some foxing, cloth faded, worn at extremes. About very good... More
1880. WHITNEY, Mrs. A.D.T. ODD, OR EVEN?. Boston: Houghton, Osgood, and Company, 1880. First edition [?]. 8vo., decorative green cloth, lettered in gilt. Bookplate; ink ownership to title page. Spine darkened, with slight soil and bubbling to cloth elsewhere; moderate fraying/nicks to cloth at extremes. Hint of a skew; hinges..... More
1873. WHITNEY, Mrs. A.D.T. THE OTHER GIRLS. With illustrations. Boston; James R. Osgood, 1873. First edition [?]. 8vo., decorative green cloth, lettered in gilt. Bookplate, ink ownership. Slightly skewed with rubbing, slight soil to cloth, slight bumps, fraying to extremes; the tip of the heel is chipped away; spine darkened..... More
1872. WHITNEY, Mrs. A.D.T. REAL FOLKS. With illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. First edition. 8vo., decorative green cloth, lettered in gilt. Bookplate and ink ownership. Moderate soil and rubbing to cloth, with some light fraying, and a bump to the extremes; spine darkened. Hinges are cracked, binding..... More
1925. (WIGGIN, Kate Douglas). KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AS HER SISTER KNEW HER. By Nora Archibald Smith. With illustrations. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. First edition, signed by the author. A near fine copy, in a somewhat soiled dust jacket with small nicks and tears at the edges... More
1896. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. MARM LISA. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1896. First edition. 8vo., publisher's green cloth designed by Sarah Whitman (second state of at least three designs Whitman did). Ex-library (no external marks), and over-opened; but still a quite clean and acceptable copy. Uncommon. More
LP. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA. Illustrated. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1907). Early reprint. The spine is faded but the decorated cover remains sharp, making this a near fine copy in a dust jacket sunned at the spine and faded with small chips and edge tears... More
FE. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. THE OLD PEABODY PEW. A Christmas Romance of a Country Church. With Illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907. First edition. There are a few spots on the front panel, but overall it is bright, with the gold leaf and the illustration..... More
FE. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. THE OLD PEABODY PEW. A Christmas Romance of a Country Churh. With Illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907. First edition. There are a few spots on the front panel, but overall it is bright, with the gold leaf and the illustration..... More
FE. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCES IN SCOTLAND. Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton. London: Gay and Bird, 1898. First British edition. There is foxing to the fore-edge and the spine is slightly skewed, with light wear to the heel, crown and corners. In all, this is..... More