Authors starting with W from Steven Temple Books (ABAC / ILAB)

Toronto: Musson, 1929. Second edition (first was in 1924). Mauve linen grain pictorial cloth stamped in black and white, mauve on light green pictorial endpapers. pp (234), (4). Spine very lightly sunned, else a fine and bright jacketless copy, no owner names. With lovely front cover illustration, endpaper illustration, & line drawings to title page and text, by Franz Johnston (Frank H. Johnston), one of the Group of Seven, important Canadian painters. A novel of an old cross and village life in French... more information

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Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1919. The Anglo-Irish author's second book, and first solely authored, preceded by a 1913 translation from the Chinese. Square 12mo. 40 pp. Grey wrappers printed in black. Cheap paper slightly yellowed; spine sunning; tiny chip to lower outer corner of front cover, else a fine copy of a scarce and fragile book.. First edition.. Softcover. ... more information

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Dublin: Talbot Press, 1919. This Anglo-Irish author's second book, first solely authored, after a 1913 translation from the Chinese. Square 12mo. Grey wrappers printed in black. Cheap paper yellowed; spine sunned with tiny chips to tips; damp stain to foot of sp ine extending a bit into the corners of the covers; nearly fine o/w, a nice copy still of a fragile and uncommon book.. First edition.. Softcover. ... more information

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(Winnipeg, Manitoba): Turnstone Press, (1978).. First edition. 12mo. (36) pp, stapled in pictorial card covers, with dust jacket. Nearly fine in like jacket. Poetry. Edition of 750 copies.. ... more information

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Toronto: Oxford, 1976.. 2nd printing. 8vo, softcover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine copy. Poetry.. ... more information

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Toronto: Oxford, 1989.. First printing. 8vo, card covers (not issued in hardcover). Fine copy.. ... more information

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(Oakville, ON): Mosaic, (1982).. Simultaneous paper issue. Fine copy. Inscribed on title page "For _____ with my affectionate regards, Miriam Waddington, June 1/82".. First edition.. Softcover.. ... more information

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Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992.. First printing. Octavo, softcover. vi, 90 pp. ISBN 0195409043. Fine copy, no creases, no owner names. Poetry.. ... more information

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Toronto: Ryerson, 1955. Octavo. Cream boards printed in reddish-brown. pp (vi), 57. Fine in VG+ jacket. Inscribed to a noted Canadian author"for ______________ with admiration from Miriam Waddington". And with that author's ink ownership signature on front free endpaper. The poet's second book.. Inscribed by Author.. First Edition. Hardcover.. ... more information

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Toronto: Ryerson, 1955. Octavo. Cream boards printed in reddish-brown. pp (vi), 57. Inscribed by the author "April-1955. My love to the Braithwaites of Burnamthorpe. Miriam". Spine yelllowed, lightly rubbed and spotted, light soil spots to covers, small worn spot at head of spine, else a VG jacketless copy. The poet's second book.. Inscribed by Author.. First Edition. Hardcover.. ... more information

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Lyth Bank, Shrewsbury, UK: Feather Books, 1998.. First printing. 8vo, softcover, 27, [1] pp, stapled, in card covers. Fine copy of this verse drama. Inscribed by the author on the title page to an important Shakespearean actor, director, and film actor "To_____in appreciation of all you've done fo r world drama. John Waddington-Feather.". ... more information

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Chapel Hill, (North Carolina): Algonquin, (1992).. First edition. Cloth & boards. Fine copy. Jacket softly rumpled to top margin of front panel, else fine. First novel from this African-American Maryland author, about a black man in the corporate world.. ... more information

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Priceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977. Blue cloth. pp [2], (xxiv), (691), [3]; (x), (457), [3]. Remainder marks to bottom page edges, quite minor soiling to fore edges; small corner crease to a few leaves in Vol. I; else fine, no previous owner marks, in VG+ dust jacket. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping cost.. First edition.. Hardcover. Octavo. ... more information

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London: Collins, 1974. Advance uncorrected proof in red card covers with printed label on front cover. Spine hand lettered, VG+ otherwise.. First printing. Softcover. Octavo. ... more information

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Toronto: Macmillan, 1956.. 2nd printing, corrected (first was in 1955). 8vo, hardcover, green cloth. xvi, 1136 pp. Plates inserted, two folding maps at rear. Spine is lightly sunned, a bitconcave, and has light spots to the bottom inch of the front joint; ink name and address to front free endpaper; else a VG jacketless copy, text clean and unmarked. One of the major general studies of the subject.. ... more information

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Blue cloth. 448 pp + plates. VG in VG price-clipped jacket, no owner names or marks. "660 Games - The complete tournament record of the higest-rated player in the history of chess." Note: heavier book, please enquire for shipping rate.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Octavo. ... more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, c1972 (1973), 1973. Second printing, expurgated. Square octavo, 18.8 cm. pp (ii), 30, stapled in illustrated card covers. Covers and every page illustrated by Edward Gorey. Issued as a school book, first in 1972. A collection of limericks for children, some by Gorey himself. The first printing had a Gorey illustration on page 20 to accompany a limerick about a girl whose dress of newspapers caught on fire, which was removed in later printings. Here the limerick on p. 20 is about a ... more information

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New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1931. Second printing (first was in 1930). 12mo, colour illustrated card covers in the illustrated card slipcase. Bump to upper inner corner of rear cover, spine a bit sunned, else fine. Slipcase has yellowing to spine, repaired tears, chip to outer top edge; good. Cover and repeated slipcase illustration by Rockwell Kent, who also designed the publisher's title page vignette. Bonibooks #20. . Softcover. ... more information

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(London): Faber, (2000).. First edition. Octavo, hardcover, blue boards. [12], 224, [4] pp. Plates inserted. ISBN 0571200850. Small black dot to bottom page edges, else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has light surface rubbing; crease at bottom of front panel; else fine, f lap price intact.. ... more information

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Austin: University of Texas Press, (1982).. First edition. Orange cloth. (x), 150 pp. Minor rubbing to foot of spine, else fine in fine jacket. Critical study of this Pulitzer Prize-winning Virginia novelist.. ... more information

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