7931. White, John.

Rural Architecture Illustrated in a New Series of Designs for Ornamental Cottages and Villas exemplified by Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details.

Glasgow, John White, 1852. Folio (31 cm x 40 cm). 44 pages text interleaved with 81 full page plates with hundreds of stunning illustrations. Original Hardcover (Half leather with gilt lettering on spine. Stronger rubbed binding but firm. Endpaper ,missing and titlepage with larger tear. But otherwise in good condition (slightly stained only). From the library of irish architect and architectural historian Rudolf Maximilian Butler. Exlibris of R.M.Butler to pastedown. The 1845 edition is more common and this 1852 edition is now a rare publication !

7932. White, Leslie A. / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

Energy and the Evolution of Culture. [Original first edition offprint from “American Anthropologist”].

American Anthropologist, 1943. Octavo. 21 pages. Original Offprint / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken.

7933. White, Mary Elizabeth Fay Laing.

The Emerald Source.

unknown, unknown, unknown, 22 x 28 cm. 125 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

7934. White, Morton.

Academic Freedom Logic, and Religion. [Including the important essay by George Boas & Sidney Hook: “The Ethics of Academic Freedom”].

Volume Two. Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953. 21.2cm x 14cm. 161 (2) pages. Original hardcover. Gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7935. White, Patrick.

Riders in the Chariot. A Novel.

First British Edition. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1961. 20.6cm x 13.8cm. 552 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, near Fine condition. The dustjacket illustration is taken from a painting by Sydney Nolan.

7936. White, Ruth.

Sweet Creek Holler.

First Edition. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 215 pages. Jacket illustration by Ted Lewin. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Extensive Highlighting and pencil markings within text by Masako Haugaard, who translated the book into Japanese. This was her working-copy. Good+ condition externally with only minor external signs of wear. Small stain to endpaper. Minor foxing to edges and staining to Hardcover. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

7937. White, Stewart Edward.

The Rediscovered Country. Illustrated from Photographs.

London, New York, Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, no year. 14 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, VIII, 358 pages. 100 illustrations. Fold-out map of region at rear. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. The fold-out-map with tear. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean and sharp-cornered.

7938. White, Theodore.

“Negro Violence – The Black and White Picture. A distinguished reporter analyses a gathering storm that civil rights and desegregation alone cannot contain, and that may transform the American way of life beyond recognition”.

Reader’s Digest ARticle, c.1966. Octavo. 6 pages. Extracted, stapled original pages from a Reader’s Digest publication. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. Disturbing, very ambivalent article by Theodore White, condensing his thought about the “biological anarchy” of collapsing Negro communities after the uprising and riots of 1964 and 1965; “Teenage Savages” (″Negroes and Puerto Ricans of the late teens and early 20’s. These teenagers are an element that no one knows how to handle. Denied love or dignity or patrimony or tradition or any culture but television, they rock around on the deck of an unstable society, their bread given to them by underpaid welfare workers, their hopes at zero, their mothers despised, their hearth the gutter, a sub-culture in a general American urban culture which itself does not know where it is going”).

7939. Whitehead, Alfred North.

Symbolism – Its Meaning and Effect / Barbour-Page Lectures – University of Virginia 1927. [First Edition: 1927 / Reissued 1958 / This edition here: “Reset Line-for-Line and republished in 1985].

New York, Fordham University Press, 1985. Octavo. VIII, 88 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of german philosopher, Manfred Walther, with his ownership-stamp to endpaper. A very clean version of this book.

7940. Whitehead, Evelyn Eaton / Whitehead, James D.

Christian Life Patterns – The Psychological Challenges and Religious Invitations of Adult Life. Complete and unabridged.

New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. 10.5 cm x 17.5 cm. XXVII, 246 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Internal pages clear and bright. [ Image Books].