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
1918. [VASSAR COLLEGE]. THE VASSARION, VOLUME 31, 1918. Class photographs by Edward F. Foley. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 1918. 267 pp. 4to., black and red cloth stamped in gilt. Moderate shelfwear. Spine slightly shaken. Owner's notes in pencil next to some classmate's bios. Very 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
1836. HOWARD, Henry. WALKER, Alexander. BEAUTY; ILLUSTRATED CHIEFLY BY AN ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF BEAUTY IN WOMAN. Illustrated by Henry Howard. London: Effingham Wilson, 1836. First edition. xxiii + [1] + 395 pp. + 1 pp. publisher's advertisement. 8vo., ornate gilt spine with gilt leather spine label, boards recovered in... 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
1900. WARD, Mrs. Humphry. ELEANOR. Illustrated by Alfred Sterner. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Second American edition (same year as first), and first illustrated ed. 2 vols., in blue cloth lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Inscription, one hinge starting, some light wear at spines and corners. Very good, bright copies. More
1892. FAE. WARD, Mrs. Humphry. THE HISTORY OF DAVID GRIEVE. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1892. First American edition. Some fading to spine, with shelfwear to heel and crown; endpapers lightly foxed. Overall a near fine, attractive copy. 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
1904. WARNER, Anne. SUSAN CLEGG AND HER FRIEND MRS. LATHROP. Boston: Little, Brown, 1904. First edition. Olive pictorial cloth. A fine, sharp copy in a dust jacket split at folds, separated also at spine but neatly taped on verso and otherwise quite fresh. Rare in the jacket. 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
1979. WELTY, Eudora. IDA M'TOY. Urbana: University of Illinois Press (1979). One of 350 signed and numbered copies. [36] pp. Small 4to., green cloth stamped in gilt. Limitation page at rear is signed by Eudora Welty. The author's lovely b/w photo portrait illustrates the text, and facsimiles of letters from... More
1916. 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
1903. CLARK, Walter Appleton. WHARTON, Edith. SANCTUARY. With illustrations by Walter Appleton Clark. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. First edition. 8vo., green cloth, gilt-lettering and decoration printed in dark green to spine and upper board, top-edge trimmed and stained green. Internally clean and solid, though the volume is skewed... 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