Priceless Florida: Natural Ecosystems and Native Species. Illustrated by Eric Jadaszewski.
by Whitney, Eillie; D. Bruce Means; Anne Rudloe.
Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, Inc., 2004. First Edition. Quarto, hardcover (slick, full-color illustrated boards), viii + 432 pp. Fine. From lower cover: Priceless Florida presents the incomparable ecological riches of this unique region in a way that will appeal to young and old, laypersons and scientists. A cornucopia of colorful illustrations and exquisite photos makes you feel you’re there. The comprehensive text enlightens with facts and brims with intriguing curiosities, bridging multiple fields... Read More
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Priceless Florida: Natural Ecosystems and Native Species. Illustrated by Eric Jadaszewski.
by Whitney, Ellie; Means, D. Bruce; Rudloe, Anne.
Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, Inc., (2004). First Edition. Quarto, hardcover (full-color photo. illus. slick boards), viii + 423 pp. Fine (As New).
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The Story of the Petrified Creatures that lived 285 Million Years Ago at The Wilds.
by Whitnall, Harold O.; Professor of Geology, Colgate University.
The Wilds, Warren, NY: F. M. Kirkner,Prop., 1946. Octavo, paperbound (stiff brown textured stapled wrappers), 23 pp. Fine. From Preface: This story of The Petrified Creatures that lived 285 million years ago at “The Wilds,” was written by the late Dr. Harold O. Whitnall, professor of geology, Colgate University, and added to by William P. Anderson and the owner in answer to the many requests for an outline in booklet form of the natural find here.... Read More
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Whitney’s Florida Pathfinder. A Guide to Florida. Information for the Tourist, Traveler and Invalid... Season 1880 - ‘81.
by Whitney, John P.
New York: Pathfinder Officer, 1881. 16mo, printed wrappers, 95, [i] pp. Poor; covers chipped and detached, most pages loose.
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Saber and Song, A Book of Poems.
by Whitsett, William Thornton.
Whitsett, North Carolina: Whitsett Institute, 1917. Octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, top edge gilt, 156 pp. Very Good, with edgewear and foxing (age darkened spotting). Contents: An Ode to Expression, The Soul of the Sea, The King’s Charge, Marguerite and Robin, Love’s Content, Abu Ul-Kindi, Rose of the South, Bob White! Wheat’s Ripe!, The Road, The Traveled Mind vs. The Traveled Eyes, The Martyr’s Gift, Robert Burns, Remembrance, Love is Greatest, Carpite Florem, Pericles,... Read More
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The Making of Byzantium, 600 - 1025.
by Whittow, Mark.
Berkeley: University of California Press, (1996). Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xxv + 477 pp. Fine in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: This book is an excellent, up-to-date reassessment of the Byzantine empire during a crucial phase in the history of the Near East. Wellillustrated with original maps, it covers the last decade of the Roman empire as a superpower of the ancient world, the crisis of the seventh century,... Read More
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Tilbury Nogo. Illustrated by Stanley L. Wood.
by Whyte-Melville, G. J. [Wood, Stanley L., illus.]
London: Ward, Lock & Co., n.d. [ca. 1898.] Reprint of the 1858 edition. Octavo, gilt-stamped blue cloth, uncut, viii, 352 pp. Plates. Very Good; endpapers are mildly foxed.
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The Uncivil War: Washington During the Reconstruction, 1865 - 1878.
by Whyte, James H.
New York: Twayne Publishers, 1958. Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), silver lettering, 316 pp.
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The Stories of John Edgar Wideman.
by Wideman, John Edgar.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. Octavo, red cloth & black board, 432 pp. Fine in a like dust jacket. Wideman writes intensely lyrical and rageful stories about African-Americans from all walks of life in Homewood, a black section of Pittsburgh - stories about ancestors, family, and lovers caught in the vortex of American history and haunted by their own particular demons. ‘Here are luminous stories, informed by the metaphysics of the blues, about the sublimities and... Read More
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Strawberry Point. Vignettes of an Iowa Childhood.
by Wiggins, Florence Roe.
Lake Mills, Iowa: Graphic Publishing Co., [1967]. First Edition. Signed by Author. Octavo, (hardcover), red cloth, gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, 185 pp. Former owner bookplate; otherwise, Fine, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light edgewear. ‘Mrs. Wiggins has compiled a genealogy of over a hundred families, tracing them back into the early history of our country...Strawberry Point was Mrs. Wiggins’ home town and she has told its story in... Read More
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Ellenton: Its Early Years.
by Wiggins, Jim.
Kearney, NE: Morris Publishing, (2003). Octavo, paperbound (slick, b&w photo. illus. marbled coral wrappers), iii + 153 pp. Former-owner inscription; otherwise, Fine. Contents: In the Beginning -- The times of the earliest indigenous people; The Plantation -- The story of Major Robert Gamble’s plantation; The War Between the States -- A look at the hardships endured along the river; Ellenton Emerges -- The Gamble Plantation and its demise; The Fuller’s Earth Plant -- Operation at Rocky... Read More
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Manatee County.
by Wiggins, Jim.
Charleston: Arcadia, (2007). Images of America Series. First edition Inscribed and signed by the author. Octavo, softbound, 127, [1] pp. Photos throughout. Fine.
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New Chronicles of Rebecca.
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1907. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author, ffep. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), b & w illustration pasted to upper cover, tissue-protected frontispiece, [278] + ads. Very Good, with lightly rubbed edges.
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Gettysburg Compiler. Volume 1, No. 1, 1988 Commemorative Edition.
by Wikoff, Jerold, ed.
Gettysburg, Pa.: The Times & New Publishing Co., 1988. Quarto, stiff color-illustrated wrappers, stapled, 80 pp. Photos. Very Good.
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A Game of Catch. Illustrated by Barry Moser.
by Wilbur, Richard; Moser, Barry.
San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1994). First Edition, Stated. Quarto, navy blue cloth & green boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 30 pp. Near-Fine, with lightly rubbed edges; in a Near-Fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
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Mummies, Bones, & Body Parts.
by Wilcox, Charlotte.
Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, Inc., [2000]. Large, square octavo, full-color illus. boards, (hardcover), 64 pp. Fine (As New), in like dust jacket. Full-color illus. “Every mummy tells a story, and author Charlotte Wilcox collects case histories, adventures, and whodunits in this fascinating lookat human remains. Follow the investigations of the scientists who study mummies, bones, and body parts to discover more about life in the past.
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American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900 -1950. Edited and with an Introduction by James T. Maher.
by Wilder, Alec.
New York: Oxford University Press, (1972). Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters. Good, with former-owner stamp to ffep. and light edgewear.
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The Angel that Troubled the Waters and Other Plays.
by Wilder, Thornton.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1928. 1st trade edition. Of an edition of 2,000 copies, this is No. 573. Octavo, cloth & boards, uncut, 149 pp. Very Good; spine dull, light shelf wear.
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America’s Heritage Quilts.
by Wilens, Patricia; Editor.
Des Moines, Iowa: Better Homes & Gardens, [1991]. Second Printing. Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), 320 pp. Color photos, diagrams. Near-Fine in dust jacket.
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The Caribbean at Mid-Century.
by Wilgus, A. Curtis, ed.
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1951. First Edition. Octavo, yellow cloth (hardcover), xxv, 284 pp. Very Good.
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The Development of Hispanic America.
by Wilgus, A. Curtis; Professor of Hispanic American History, The George Washington University.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., (1941). Octavo, gray cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, xviii + 941 pp. Very Good, with darkened spine and edges, light edgewear.
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Hirsche, Sauen, Ganseruf: Von Jagden und vom Jagen in heutiger Zeit.
by Wilhelm, Friedrich and Freiherr von Buchholtz.
Hamburg: Paul Parey, [1981]. Octavo, brown cloth, (hardcover), 167 pp. B & w illus. Fine (As New), in a like dust jacket. Contents: Jungjagersunden; Fuchsjagd in Gallingen; Die gestorte Hasenstreife; Reineke I; Der Stand der Exzellenz; Auf dem Kaiserstand; Wenn Rehkronen erzahlen; Der Stammvater; Der Dreistangenbock; Drei in der Eiche; Der Ahorner; Ein Notverband; Am Paterpadgen; Norwegenfahrt zum Fjell; Bei Nacht und Nebel; Der Hallodri; Immer am Knick entlang; Im Jagdparadies am Traunsee; Hirschbrunft im... Read More
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Big Sugar: Seasons in the Cane Fields of Florida.
by Wilkinson, Alec.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition, stated. Octavo, green cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, 263 pp. Near Fine, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges; in a Near Fine dust jacket with darkening to underside. From dust jacket: Big Sugar marks the emergence as a major voice -- and with a major subject -- of Alec Wilkinson, already established as one of our most gifted young writers, author... Read More
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Edged Weapons.
by Wilkinson, Frederick.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1970]. Royal octavo, grey cloth, silver letters, 256, xiv pp. Fine, in a Near-Fine (prcie-clipped) dust jacket in protective mylar cover. “In this book Frederick Wilkinson traces the story of all the main categories of hand weapons, from neolithic times up to the ceremonial weapons of the twentieth century, with the same blend of deep knowledge and high readability which distinguished his widely acclaimed Antique Firearms. The superb colour... Read More
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Small Arms.
by Wilkinson, Frederick.
London: Ward Lock Limited, [1970]. Signed and inscribed by author. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 256 pp. Illustrated. Fine, with a Near-Fine (price-clipped) dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Contents: Introduction; The Story of Small Arms; Techniques of the Gunsmith; Accessories and Extras; Collectors and Collecting; Fakes and Copies; Repairs and Restoration; Books and Collections; The Matchlock; The Wheellock; The Flintlock; The Percussion Lock; Index.
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