Welcome to Willis Monie Books

Located in Cooperstown, NY for over 25 years, we carry general books and ephemera, with a good selection in Baseball, Americana, Theology, Art, History, Fiction (including 1000's of titles in Mystery and Science Fiction), Literary Criticisms and Biographies, Science and Natural History, Cookbooks, Cinema, Business and Economics, Music and Opera, Children's, Crime and Law, Psychology and many other categories.

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The Century Magazine Vol. 108...

Concord, NH: Century Magazine, 1924. Softcover. Spine has slight wear to the top end. Front cover has a diagonal crease.; Contents include Mary Austin - The Colorado River, Sherwood Anderson - When I Left Business for Literature, Charles Merz -...

Price: $10.00

A Publisher's Random Notes, 1880-1935

New York: New York Public Library, 1935. Softcover. Extracted from Bulletin of The New York Public Library, Volume 39, Number 11, November, 1935. Homemade paper covers. First of the R. R. Bowker Memorial Lectures.; 19 + frontis pages.

Price: $6.50

Lurid Literature Of The Last...

1956. Off Print. Softcover. Paper covers have some tiny tears and slight edge creasing.; Reprinted from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume LXXX, Number 4, October, 1956.

Price: $10.00

The Red House Murder [...

1921. Softcover. Damp staining to the rear lower outer portion of the rear cover. Seen on the outer margins of the preceding pages, but diminishes quickly after several leaves. Spine has some tearing.; Pages extracted from the August, September, October...

Price: $15.00

A Brief Account Of The...

Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1908. Softcover. Cover edges have chips, creases, and very small tears. Spine has tearing and missing paper. Covers and frontis are loosely attached. Traces of foxing. Private bookplate on front blank.

Price: $10.00

50 Years Ago And Now...

New York: American Hotel Association Directory Corp. 1935. Softcover. Tiny chip to lower spine end. Staples are slightly rusted.; Reprinted from the Golden Anniversary Edition Hotel Red Book. Original paper covers. Published for the American Hotel Association of the United...

Price: $15.00

The House Of Appleton-century

New York & London: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1936. Softcover. In three parts: I. D. Appleton and Company 1825-1933. II. The Century Co. 1870-1933. III. D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc. Established 1933.; 48 pages.

Price: $15.00

An Old American Publisher [...

New York: Privately Printed, 1910. Softcover. Rear cover has a small creased tear to the upper edge. Subject's name written on upper margin of front cover. Date ink stamps on the front and rear cover, indistinct blind stamp on title...

Price: $25.00

Report On State Reorganization To...

The Committee, 1931. Ex-library. Softcover. Ex-library copy with ink stamp on the title page. Disbound, pages loose, paper front cover retained. Spine margins were crookedly trimmed.; 39 pages.

Price: $12.50

Seventy-five Years Of Book Publishing...

New York: A. S. Barnes Company, 1913. Softcover. Orignal paper covers are detached, separated from each other, and chipped, but present. There are tiny creases to the upper outer corners in front.; 32 pages.

Price: $12.50

Arthur Horace Thornhill February 25...

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Softcover. Front cover has a small light stain, a light dot of staining. Front cover also has a tiny tear to the upper edge.; These three speeches were given at the memorial service of February...

Price: $10.00

Early Nineteenth-century Printing In Rural...

Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1991. Off Print. Softcover. Reprinted from The Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Volume 101, Part I. Original paper covers.; 38 pages.

Price: $10.00

Atlantic Monthly Press Our First...

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1967. Softcover. "This booklet is an expanded version of an article which appeared originally in Publisher's Weekly."; 8 pages.

Price: $8.00

Faber Books 1925-75 Impressions Of...

London: The National Book League, 1975. Softcover. Front cover has slight foxing to the spine margin. Tiny creases to the upper outer corners.

Price: $8.00

Letter Of The Secretary Of...

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1868. Softcover. Disbound.; 40th Congress, 2d Session. Senate. Ex. Doc. No. 56.; 53 pages.

Price: $10.00

This For Remembrance [ Frank...

Chula Vista, CA: The Author, 1926. First Edition. Softcover. Spine is missing approx. 1/2" from lower end and has wear to the upper end. Rear cover is missing the lower end of the outer edge and the upper outer corner.;...

Price: $27.50

One Hundred Years Of Publishing...

New York: William Wood & Company, 1904. Hardcover. Spine is mostly missing. Pages and covers separated into three sections. Front cover has some rubbing and scraping, less so to the rear cover.; Bookplate of Frederic Melcher on the front endpaper.;...

Price: $20.00

Reflections On 75 Years Of...

New York & London: Columbia University Press, 1968. Softcover. From the director: "To commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Press, we asked a few of our Columbia associates to reflect with us on the scholarly contributions ..."...

Price: $8.00

Princeton University Press

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1951. Illustrated by Darrow, Whitney, Jr. Softcover. "An informal account of its growing pains, casually put together at the point of a gun for the intimate friends of the Press."; 51 pages.

Price: $12.50