A History of Caroline County, Virginia: Form Its Formation in 1727 to 1924. Compiled from Original Records and Authoritative Sources and Profusely Illustrated. To Which is Appended “A Discourse of Virginia” by Edward Maria Wingfield.
by Wingfield, Marshall.
Richmond, VA: Trevvet Christian & Co., Inc., 1924. One of 1,000 Copies Privately Printed from Type and Type Distributed. Royal octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xv, 528 pp. Cracked hinges; otherwise, clean and tight, with light rubbing to edges.
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Beitrage zur Elefantenhaltung in Europa. EEKMA-Tagung. Duisburg, Februar 2004.
by Winkler, Achim and Harald M. Schwammer.
Munster: Schuling Verlag, 2005. Octavo, softbound (stiff white wrappers, 116 pp. Fine (As New). Contents: Frese, Reinhard: Vorwort; Winkler, Achim: Vorwort; Engel, Heiner & Kruse, Jurgen: Anmerkungen zur derzeitigen Elefantensituation im Zoo Hannover - Drei Themen kurz beruhrt; Fluger, Michael: Gerburt zweier Asiatischer Elefanten (Elephas maximus indicus) innerhalb der Herde - Beobachtungen und Erfahrungen; Ganswindt, Andre: Charakterisierung des Musth-Phanomens bei Afrikanischen Elefanten (Loxodonta africana); Hinke, Anglika & Wipplinger, Johannes: Haltungsbedingte... Read More
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Tyburn Fair: The Eighty-Sixth Grove Play. Composer, Richard B. Evans. Director, Adrian McNamara.
by Winks, Donald L.
San Francisco: The Bohemian Club, 1991. One of 2,775 copies designed by Andrew Hoyem and produced by the Arion Press. Octavo, printed boards, xv, 65 pp. Illus. Near-Fine (a very light damp-stain running along front cover fore-edge) with the 8-page Play Bill laid-in.
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My Florida Soul: Florida History with Humor.
by Winn, Ed.
Published by the Author, (1996). First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, softbound (slick photo. illus. stiff wrappers), 175 pp. Fine. From lower cover: Ed Winn was born and has always lived in Florida. He is a true native son who has fished Florida’s lakes and hunted game in the woods. He is a man who truly loves this State, so its seems to naturally follow that he finds himself wanting... Read More
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“When Beauty Fires the Blood”: Love and the Arts in the Age of Dryden.
by Winn, James Anderson.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, (1995). First Edition. Octavo, gray cloth (hardcover), gilt lettering, xviii + 474 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: James Anderson Winn is the author of a general history of the relations between music and poetry (Unsuspected Eloquence, 1981) and full-scale biography of a major English poet (John Dryden and HIs World, 1986). In this new book, he brings together... Read More
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Florida’s History through Its Places: Properties in the National Register of Historic Places.
by Winsberg, Morton D.; Department of Geography, Florida State University.
Prepared by Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center, Institute of Science and Public Affairs, Florida State University. In Cooperation with Bureau of Historic Preservation, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State, Sandra B. Mortham, Secretarry of State, August 1995. Quarto, softbound (stiff, illustrated wrappers), 144 pp. Very Good+, with light sunning to spine.
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Florida’s History through Its Places: Properties in the National Register of Historic Places. Compiled by Morton D. Winsberg, Department of Geography, Florida State University. Prepared by Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center, Institute of Science and Public Affairs, Florida State University. In Cooperation with Bureau of Historic Preservation, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State.
by Winsberg, Morton D.
Florida Department of State, 1995. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. Quarto, boards (hardcover), 144 pp. Fine.
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The Ghost of the Java Coast (Saga of the U. S. S. Houston).
by Winslow, Walter G.
Satellite Beach, Fla.: Coral Reef Publications, [1974]. First edition. Octavo, black boards (hardcover), xv, 184 pp. Map endpapers, photos. Very Good in a chipped dust jacket.
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Historical Review of VASA Order of America, 1896 - 1971.
by Winstrom, Bertil G.; Grand MAster, Vasa Order of America.
Vasa Order of America, n.d. [ca. 1971]. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 205 pp. Very Good, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to endpapers. From Introduction: Rather than writing the history of the Vasa Order as novel of general public interest, it has been compiled as a step by step presentation of the 75 years of evolution of the organization. It is felt, that this approach will be of greater value in creating a... Read More
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The Gerald Ford Letters.
by Winter-Berger, Robert N.
Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, Inc., [1974]. First Edition. Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), 235 pp. Fine, in a Near-Fine, lightly rubbed dust jacket. Reproduces more than three dozen letters that Ford wrote to Winter-Berger, providing solid documentation that challenges Gerald Ford’s statements that he scarecely knew Winter-Berger, met him only a few times, wrote no more than a handful of letters to him.
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Auf den Busch geklopft: Der Wald und unsere Sprache. wortdeutungen und Redensarten im Alltag Waldgeschichte, Wissenswertes vom Wald.
by Wirz, Ferdinand.
Melsungen: Neumann-Neudamm, [1999]. Octavo, slick color-illustrated boards, 224 pp. Illus. Near-Fine.
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History of the Seventeenth Virginia Infantry, C.S.A.
by [Wise, George].
Arlington: R. W. Beatty, (1969). Facsimile reprint of Howes 592, originally published in Baltimore, 1870. Duodecimo, orange cloth (hardcover), gilt lettering, 312 pp. Near Fine.
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Campaigns and Battles of the Army of Northern Virginia.
by Wise, George.
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, MCMXVI. First Edition. Howes 591. Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt lettering, uncut, 432 pp. Very Good, with light sunning to spine. Photographs provided upon request.
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The Long Arm of Lee; Or, The History of the Artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia. With a Brief Account of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance. Illustrated. Two Volumes. Volume I [and] Volume II [Two volume set, complete].
by Wise, Jennings Cropper.
Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Company, Inc., 1915. [Morningside Facsimile, n.d.]. Two volume set. Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt lettering, 995 pp. Fine.
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The Long Arm of Lee; Or, The History of the Artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia, With a Brief Account of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance. Facsimile reprint of the 1915 edition, with an added Introduction by Gary W. Gallagher. [Two volume set].
by Wise, Jennings Cropper.
Richmond: Owens Publishing Co., 1988. Two volume set. Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, [xii], xiv, [15] - 496 pp; [viii], [505] - 995 pp. Portraits. Fine in Fine dust jackets.
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Of Wounds, of Gun-Shot Wounds, of Fractures and Luxations. A Facsimile of Books V, VI and VII from “Severall Chirurgicall Treatises” first published in 1676, with Introduction, Appendix and Glossary by John Kirkup.
by Wiseman, Richard.
Bath, Engld: Kingsmead Press, (1977). Quarto, cloth (hardcover), xxi, [xiv], 339-498, xxiii-xli pp. Frontis portrait, maps, plates. Near-Fine in dust jacket.
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Letters of Thomas J. Wise to John Henry Wrenn: A Further Inquiry into the Guilt of Certain Nineteenth-Century Forgers. Edited by Fannie E. Ratchford.
by Wise, Thomas J. Edited by Fannie E. Ratchford.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, 591 pp + xvi pp. Fine.
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The Proletarianizing of the Fonctionnaires: Civil Service Workers and the Labor Movement under the Third Republic.
by Wishnia, Judith.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1990). First Edition, First Printing, as stated. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), silver letters, x + 394 pp. Fine (As New) in a Near-Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: French civil servants, or fonctionnaires, were the first state workers in a modern industrial nation to organize, unionize, and strike. From a handful of militant teachers and postal workers grew a well-organized and powerful political force, a group with a... Read More
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Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Susan Huntington, of Boston, Mass... Third Edition, with an Introductory Essay, and an Original Poem, by James Montgomery.
by Wisner, Benjamin B.
Boston: Published by Crocker and Brewster, 1829. Octavo, mottled calf (hardcover, leather), calf label, xxxi, [1 blank, 323 pp. Included with her well-written memoir are five of Susan Huntington’s poems. Very Good; clean and tight with very light shelf wear, bearing the original owner’s signature and a 19th century academy bookplate.
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Black Americans of Achievement: Zora Neale Hurston. Senior Consulting Editor Natan Irvin Huggins, Director, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University.
by Witcover, Paul.
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, (1990). Royal octavo, hardcover (slick, full-color illustrated boards), 119 pp. Fine (As New). Illustrations throughout, large type, side bars. Contents: On Achievement, by Coretta Scott King; A Lot of Hope; Jumping at the Sun; A Dry Season; An Urge to Write; Renaissance; The Spy-glass of Anthropology; Inside of Negro Art and Lore; Success and Controversy; Dust Tracks; Appendix: Books by Nora Neale Hurston; Chronology; Further Readings; Index.
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New York.
by A. Wittemann.
Brooklyn: A. Wittemann, (1915). Oblong quarto, stiff wrappers with photo of Metropolitan Life Building affixed to front cover, string-tied, 76 leaves, each with a photogravure view, and a fold-out map at rear. Very Good; a few small chips around perimeter of front cover.
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ARBA [American Road Builders’ Association] Pictorial History of Roadbuilding.
by Wixom, Charles W.
Washington, D.C.: AMerican Road Builders’ Association, (1975). First Edition. Quarto, illustrated tan boards (hardcover), photo. illustrated endpapers, 207 pp. Fine. Numerous photographs throughout. Contents include: Indian Trails and Colonial Extensions; Cities and Pikes; Zane’s Trace and the National Road; Water, Steam, Mud and Dust; Bikes and Byways; Road “Makers” and Road “Buiders”; Cars Change America; “Good Roads,” Earnestly: Money and Machines; Tollways and Freeways; Cheops Surpassed: 42,500 Non-Stop Miles; Photo Credits; Patrons.
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The Last Flight of Bert Hinkler.
by Wixted, Edward P.
New York: Vantage Press, (1992). First Edition, stated. Octavo, black boards (hardcover), x + 176 + xx pp photographs. Bookplate; otherwise, Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The Last Flight of Bert Hinkler, by Edward P. Wixted, is a gripping true-life adventure story about one of the heroes of the early days of aviation. A leading pilot of the British Empire the days when long-distance aviators were first linking the countries... Read More
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The Girl in Blue.
by Wodehouse, P. G.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), silver letters and decoration to upper cover, 182 pp. Very Good in a Near Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: To coin a phrase, large oaks from little acorns grow. So when this newest of P. J. Wodenhousean romps begins with a small case of shoplifting such as any reasonable person might understand, it comes as no surprise that this turns out to... Read More
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Sign of Contradiction.
by Wojtyla, Karol. Pope John Paul II.
New York: A Crossroad Book, The Seabury Press, (1979). First U.S. Edition. Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, xiv, 206 pp. Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with slight tanning to edges. From dust jacket: This is the first full-length book to be published in English by the new Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. It is a book of rare spirituality by an extraordinary human being. Based... Read More
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