Search Results: Authors starting with W from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

London: Smith, Ainslie, & Co., 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. [1895]. Publisher's pictorial cloth. xi,227 pp. including eight plates. Mildly cocked, cloth lightly worn at edges. Very good. Late 19th-century English thriller, laced with criminal flash, set partly in the Wormwood Scrubs prison.

[New York]: Telegraph Books, 1971. 36 pp. Pictorial wrappers. Light shelf wear, 1/4-stain at head of rear wrapper, else near fine.

The second book of poems by poet, educator, and longtime denizen of Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side, Tom Weatherly (1942-2014).

In his review for Weatherly's last published book, SHORT HISTORY OF THE SAXOPHONE, Andrei Codrescu said his work "condenses the wisdom of a life and vast readings into brilliantly compact music."

Clay and Phillips, pp. 212-213.

[Cleveland]: [Printed by B. & R. Printing Co. for] Bérmunkás, [1932]. First Separate Edition. 16 pp. Pictorial wrappers, saddle-stapled. Later inscriptions in Agnes Inglis's hand (see below) on p. [1] noting pamphlet as gift from John Zara to the Labadie Collection. Lower-outer corner bumped, wrappers lightly worn. Very good. A talk, "Technocracy or Industrial Unionism," delivered on Cleveland's West Side for the local Hungarian arm of the I.W.W. by one of its members. The author, Andor Wiener (printed in the pamphlet in the Hungarian style, with surname first), presents the new Technocracy movement of Howard Scott et al., which advocated the replacement of price system-based forms of economy and government with industrial systems designed and maintained by scientists and engineers. Wiener supports the general theories of the Technocrats and belief that their proposed system could successfully replace capitalism in the industrial world but argues that the ideas will remain merely academic if they… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913. 89 pp. Printed self-wrappers, side-stapled. Soft diagonal crease, light wear in outer leaves, else near fine. Comprehensive survey of recently enacted drug laws, listed by state, territory, and federal bodies, published the year prior to the passage of the Harrison Narcotics Act, the first major federal law relating to opiates and cocaine. The authors, Martin Inventius Wilbert (1865-1916) Murray Galt Motter (1866-1926), were two leading figures in U.S. public health during the early 20th century, writing here under the aegis of the Hygenic Laboratory of the United States Public Health Service. "Reprint No. 146 from the Public Health Reports / October 10 and 17, 1913 / Supplement to Public Health Bulletin No. 56."

New York: [Privately published], 1995. First Edition. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. [4] leaves (printed recto only). Red printed wrappers, side stapled. Original horizontal fold, else fine. Three New York City-based concretist poems by Eli Wilentz (1918-1995), photocopied from his own manuscripts and privately issued by his family on the occasion of his death. Wilentz founded the legendary Eighth Street Bookshop with his brother Ted in 1947 and owned and operated it until 1979. It was a center of the Beat scene in the 1950s and 1960s - "the very hearthside of hip, the cynosure of cool," as the NEW YORK TIMES called it in Wilentz's obituary. The shop provided a critical meeting space in New York to struggling poets and avant-garde authors, a daring commitment to stocking paperback books and mimeo publications, and, eventually, a publishing arm, Corinth Books. Wilentz had major interests in sculpture, architecture, and the literary geography of New York City, all of which are reflected - in either form or topic -… Read More

New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 1991. Oriole Farb Feshbach. Quarto. x,86 pp. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. Signed by Oriole Farb Feshbach on title page. Corners lightly bumped, else near fine.

[S.l.]: A. Friedländer, lithographer, [ca. 1880s]. First Edition. Broadside. Very good. Advertising card, 11.5 x 8.6 cm., pictorical color lithograph on recto, text on verso. Light wear, staining and light scuffing on verso, evidently from early adhesive. Very good. Chromolithographic card promoting the anatomical museum of Julius Winkler in Leipzig, featuring a centerpiece of an anatomical theater (mid-dissection), surrounded by images of jarred fetuses, a pair of conjoined twins, a sword swallower with an opened torso, and various surgeries and anatomical preparations. The verso describes a collection of more than 1000 pieces in areas of anatomy, embrology, pathology, surgery, and hygiene, including new exhibitions of "life-size bodies" depicting various epidemics, an "unsolved puzzle" and a "wandering corpse." Printed by Adolph Friedländer (1851-1904), the great Hamburg-based lithographer and publisher of posters of circuses and other entertainments. OCLC locates no copies. Rare.

Cambridge: Printed and sold by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1815. First Edition. 42 pp. plus one page of publisher's advertisements. Original self-wrappers, stitched. Stamp of Providence Library on front wrapper. Small nicks in front wrapper, edges worn, open tear in lower margin of pp. 35/36. Toned throughout, unevenly in front wrapper and lower outer corner of first several leaves. Good to very good, untrimmed. The propsectus and first issue of Noah Worcester's FRIEND OF PEACE quarterly journal, which ran to 1827. Worcester (1758-1837) was a Revolutionary War veteran and Unitarian Congregationalist pastor who helped lay the foundation for American peace movements with his 1814 tract, A SOLEMN REVIEW OF THE CUSTOM OF WAR. Sabin 105253.