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Under the Greenwood Tree or The Mellstock Quire ; A Rural Painting of the Dutch School by: Thomas Hardy

Under the Greenwood Tree or The Mellstock Quire ; A Rural Painting of the Dutch School
by: Thomas Hardy

Hardcover. London, Folio Society, 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original gilt-blocked decorated dark green cloth in slipcase. 172 pages, illustrated with wood engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by Angela Thirlwell. Clean copy.

Record # 387681

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Vanessa Bell's Family Album by: Compiled by Quentin Bell and Angelica Garnett
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Vanessa Bell's Family Album by: Compiled by Quentin Bell and Angelica GarnettVanessa Bell's Family Album by: Compiled by Quentin Bell and Angelica Garnett

Vanessa Bell's Family Album
by: Compiled by Quentin Bell and Angelica Garnett

Hardcover. London, Jill Norman and Hobhouse, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a mild crease to the front panel. 144 pages. Selections from the several volumes of family albums in the archive at Charleston; portraits cover most of the Bloomsbury circle's members, relations and/or adherents over a 50-year period. Introduction by Quentin Bell. Top edge scrape to front board. Bookplate on inside front cover, small ownership stamp to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387678

Price: $45.00
Price: $45.00 

Vermont Farm Women (SIGNED COPY) by: Miller, Peter
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Vermont Farm Women (SIGNED COPY)
by: Miller, Peter

Hardcover. Waterbury VT, Silver Print Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages. !00 beautiful b&w portraits of farm women in Vermont. Autograph sticker on cover. SIGNED by the photographer and author Peter Miller on the half title page.

Record # 387718

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Vermont People (SIGNED COPY) by: Miller, Peter
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Vermont People (SIGNED COPY)
by: Miller, Peter

Hardcover. Waterbury VT, Vermont People Project, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY MILLER on the title page. Photographs and text about native Vermonters discussing their life and the change they have seen in Vermont during the latter part of the 20th Century as the state turns from a rural, agriculture society. They are a disappearing culture. Clean copy.

Record # 374560

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Views of Society and Manners in America by: Wright, Frances
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Views of Society and Manners in America
by: Wright, Frances

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 292 pages. A look at early Federal society and government in an epistolatory format by a young Scottish woman on tour in America in the early 1800s. Edited by Paul R. Baker. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean

Record # 387766

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Voice in the West: The Biography of a Pioneer Newspaper by: Ashton, Wendell J.

Voice in the West: The Biography of a Pioneer Newspaper
by: Ashton, Wendell J.

Hardcover. NY, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 424 pages, b&w illustrations. A history of The Deseret News Press in Salt Lake City. Dust jacket very edgeworn, chipped. The Deseret (from the Book of Mormon, meaning "honeybee") News is the oldest newspaper in the West, first published in 1850. Dust jacket very edgeworn, chipped. Book is clean, very good.

Record # 387626

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Voluptuario by: Fuentes, Carlos & Nissen, Brian
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Voluptuario
by: Fuentes, Carlos & Nissen, Brian

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages. Brian Nissen's talented art work make this lovely book not only a collection of erotica, but also very humorous. Clean copy.

Record # 387723

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Walter James Dodd: A Biographical Sketch by: Macy, John
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Walter James Dodd: A Biographical Sketch
by: Macy, John

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, slate gray boards. Paper label on spine, 64 pages with b&w plates. Walter James Dodd (1869 -1916) was a physician and one of the first radiologists in the United States. He was an early innovator in the use of X-rays in medicine, and suffered the consequences. He underwent over 50 surgical procedures to treat X-ray damage to his skin and had several appendages amputated. He ultimately died from X-ray induced cancer. Related clippings laid in. Clean copy.

Record # 387671

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Wee Willow Whistle by: Avery, Kay/Winifred Bromhall (illust.)
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Wee Willow Whistle
by: Avery, Kay/Winifred Bromhall (illust.)

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a big picture of Kate in the snow blowing the whistle her grandfather had made for her. 32 pages, color illustrations by Winifred Bromhall. Copyright page states 1947 but this appears to be a reprint, ex-school library stamps. Front fly leaf gone. Still an attractive reading copy.

Record # 387686

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

William Morris and the Middle Ages: A Collection of Essays Together with a Catalogue of Works Exhibited at the Whitworth Art Gallery September 28 to December 8 1984 by:
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William Morris and the Middle Ages: A Collection of Essays Together with a Catalogue of Works Exhibited at the Whitworth Art Gallery September 28 to December 8 1984
by:

Hardcover. UK, Manchester University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 225 pages. B&w illustrations plus 8 color plates. A collection of essays together with a catalogue of works exhibited at the Whitworth Art Gallery, 28 September - 8 December 1984. The book considers the tradition in which Morris worked and the development of his attitude towards the medieval past. Art plays a central role, as it did in all Morris's thinking, since, even in his socialist years, it was always the history of art rather than political or economic history that shaped for him the pattern of history, and his vision for the future. Uncommon in hardcover. Bookplate on inside front cover, small stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387679

Price: $50.00

Price: $50.00 

Wives and Daughters by: Gaskell, Elizabeth
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Wives and Daughters
by: Gaskell, Elizabeth

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1st thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorative cloth in a blue cardboard slipcase. 678 pages with color and b&w illustrations by Alexy Pendle. This novel tells the story of Molly Gibson as she moves from childhood to womanhood in a complex series of interwoven plots. The sphere of action is small, but the implications are wide and carry truths of universal significance. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387659

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Writers Speak: Fresh Air with Terry Gross (3 Audio CDs) by: Terry Gross
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Writers Speak: Fresh Air with Terry Gross (3 Audio CDs)
by: Terry Gross

HighBridge Audio, 2004, Book: Very Good, Conducted by Fresh Air host Terry Gross in her signature, award-winning style, this is a collection of thought-provoking interviews with writers. Includes David Sedaris, Stephen King, Maurice Sendak, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, John Updike, Joyce Johnson, Fran Lebowitz, Billy Collins, Richard Price, and David Rakoff. Three CDs in it's cardboard package.

Record # 387668

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Writing and Being: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1994 by: Nadine Gordimer
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Writing and Being: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1994
by: Nadine Gordimer

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 145 pages. Gordimer examines the tension for a writer between life's experiences and narrative creations. She tries to unravel the mysterious process that breathes "real" life into fiction by exploring the writings of revolutionaries in South Africa and the works of Naguib Mahfouz, Chinua Achebe and Amos Oz. Ending on a personal note, Gordimer reveals her own experience of "writing her way out of" the confines of a dying colonialism.

Record # 387642

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00