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The Royal College of Physicians of London: Portraits [with] The Royal College of Physicians of London: Portraits Catalogue II
by Wolstenholme, Gordon; Piper, David; Kerslake, Rudolf E.O
London: J. & A. Churchill Ltd. / Elsevier / Excerpta Medica / North Holland, 1964. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x7x1. Volume 2 does not include jacket, though one may not have been issued. Volume 1 jacket lightly toned, minor indentation to front board of volume 2. 1964 Hard Cover. 244; viii, 239 pp. A collection of biographical sketches of prominent physicians, illustrated with photographs and reproductions of portrait paintings. The first volume was released in 1964, and... Read More
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The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails
by Wondrich, David; Rothbaum, Noah; Samuelsson, Marcus
New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 7x2x10. First edition. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy. 2022 Hard Cover. xxiv, 834 pp. Foreword by Marcus Samuelsson, includes two sections of color photographic plates. Anthropologists and historians have confirmed the central role alcohol has played in nearly every society since the dawn of human civilization, but it is only recently that it has been the subject of serious scholarly inquiry. The Oxford Companion to... Read More
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Imbibe! From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to 'Professor' Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar - Updated and Revised
by Wondrich, David; Degroff, Dale
New York: Perigee / Penguin, 2015. Revised and Updated Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 5x1x8. 2015 updated and revised edition. Brand new from publisher. xix, 363 pp. The newly updated edition of David Wondrich's definitive guide to classic American cocktails. Cocktail writer and historian David Wondrich presents the colorful, little-known history of classic American drinks--and the ultimate mixologist's guide--in this engaging homage to Jerry Thomas, father of the American bar. Wondrich reveals never-before-published details and stories about this larger-than-life... Read More
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Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction (No. 142)
by Wood, Bernard
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 7th Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 6x4x0. Seventh printing. Small stain on half-title page. 2005 Mass Market Paperback. 131 pp. The recent discovery of the diminutive Homo floresiensis (nicknamed "the Hobbit") in Indonesia has sparked new interest in the study of human evolution. In this Very Short Introduction, renowned evolutionary scholar Bernard Wood traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to today's latest fossil finds. Along... Read More
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East Lynne
by Wood, Ellen; Maunder, Andrew (Editor)
Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 2000. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x8. Spine creased, ink stamp on half-title page. 2000 Trade Paperback. 779 pp. Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined young woman, leaves her hard-working but neglectful lawyer-husband and her infant children to elope with an aristocratic suitor. After he deserts her, and she bears their illegitimate child, Lady Isabel disguises herself and takes the position of governess in the household of her husband and his new wife. East... Read More
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The New Zealand People at War: Political and External Affairs (Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War, 1939-45)
by Wood, F.L.W
Wellington, New Zealand: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs / The Battery Press, 1958. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 0x0x0. Good in fair jacket. Edges lightly foxed, ink name on front endpaper, large chip from rear jacket edge with a few other minor chips along edges, 1 inch surface tear to front jacket corner. 1958 Hard Cover. x, 395 pp. A history of the New Zealand's political and foreign affairs during World War II, with fold-out maps and black-and-white... Read More
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Boating, with an Introduction by the Rev. Edmond Warre, D.D., and a Chapter on Rowing at Eton by R. Harvey Mason - Large Paper Edition (The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes)
by Woodgate, W.B.; Warre, Edmond; Mason, R. Harvey; His Grace the Duke of Beaufort; Watson, Alfred E.T
London: Longmans, Green & Co. / Spottiswoode and Co, 1888. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Dadd, Frank. Large paper edition, #93 of 250 copies. Rebacked, nicely matching the color of the original spine and corners (the texture is a bit different, but tough to notice without looking closely), original dark green end sheets preserved. Hinges reinforced, boards lightly soiled, frontispiece, tissue guard, and title page foxed, a couple minor blemishes to a few other page margins. 1888... Read More
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Country Holiday (Advance Reading Copy)
by Woodhouse, Frances
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1935. Advance Reading Copy. Trade Paperback. Good. Advance reading copy with publisher's review slip laid in. Spine and front wrapper creased, general wear. 1935 Trade Paperback. 262 pp. Frances Woodhouse, in this first novel, makes neither pretension nor fuss. She is content with the technique of straight-forward, slow-pacing narrative and plain dialogue, and she does not seek to arrest our attention by the presentation of bizarre characters or extraordinary happenings. - The New... Read More
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Fever: A Study in Morbid and Normal Physiology
by Wood, H. [Horatio] C. [Charles]
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1880. First Thus. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Includes all five plates. Top right corner bumped, corners rubbed, first two pages loose from binding, ink note on front endpaper, pages toned. 1880 Large Hardcover. vii, 258 pp. [8] Includes all five plates. First edition in book form of Wood's elaborate monograph on fever that was the product of earlier research on sunstroke (described in his Thermic Fever [1872]). "Aided by a grant...from the Smithsonian...[Wood]... Read More
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Illustrated Natural History (Animals and Birds)
by Wood, J.G. [John George]
New York: Gilbert H. McKibbin, 1899. Small Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Binder's copy. Rear board cloth wrinkled. 1899 Small Hard Cover. 191 pp. Includes illustrations in color. Arranged for young readers. A natural history of animals and birds written for children. John George Woods was an "English writer and lecturer on natural history... He was educated at Ashbourne grammar school and Merton College, Oxford; and after he had taken his degree in 1848 he worked for two... Read More
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Picturesque Alaska: A Journal of a Tour among the Mountains, Seas and Islands of the Northwest, from San Francisco to Sitka
by Woodman, Abby Johnson
Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1890. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Partridge, W.H. [William]. Third edition. Rear hinge loose and front hinge loosening, otherwise only minimal wear to boards, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1890 Hard Cover. iv, [5]-212 pp. Green cloth, black titles, glacier illustration on front board. Includes two-panel map of the route to Alaska and six photographic plates by William H. Partridge, including images of... Read More
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Wainwright: The Podcasts
by Wood-Jones, Nik; Robson, Eric
New York: Frances Lincoln Limited, 2008. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x6. An excellent copy, includes CD. 2008 Trade Paperback. 128 pp. Maps and illustrations throughout. Explore some of Lakeland's finest fells in the company of the one and only A. Wainwright with this handy volume of eight walks from the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells and The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.
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Red Jacket
by Wood, Robert John
Hilton, New York: Robert John Wood. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 3 in OCLC. No jacket. A few minor surface tears on front board. The portrait of Red Jacket, reduced to a line drawing, was painted in 1828 in Washington, D.C. by Charles Bird King, who was particularly famous for his Indian portraits. Red Jacket, original name Otetiani, also called Sagoyewatha, (born 1758', Canoga, New York [U.S.]—died January 20, 1830, Seneca Village, Buffalo, New York, U.S.), Seneca chief... Read More
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Including a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the War of Independence, and of the Various Negotiations at Paris for Peace; with the History of His Political and Other Writings
by [Woods, Leonard]
London: Hunt and Clarke, 1826. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Boards rubbed with some loss from spine label, a couple pages faintly foxed. Binding tight and square. 1826 Half-Leather. 407 pp. Leather spine and corners over marbled boards, morocco spine label, gilt titles and rules. An early account of the life of Benjamin Franklin, with accounts of the American Revolution and Franklin's diplomacy in France. An appendix includes ten excerpts from his political writings. Though unattributed, the work is often... Read More
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Quest for Identity: America Since 1945
by Woods, Randall Bennett
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Remainder mark, smudge to upper wrapper. 2005 Trade Paperback. Randall Woods addresses the major themes characterizing the American experience from the close of World War II. Woods' accessible analysis of the Cold War and Civil Rights and Women's Rights movements, as well as other great changes that led to major realignments of American life, clarify postwar American history. Although this book emphasizes political... Read More
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This Fatal Writ
by Woods, Sara
New York: St. Martin's, 1979. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x5x1. Book club edition. Jacket spine faded, jacket faintly rubbed. 1979 Hard Cover. 188 pp. The case against Harry Charlton was simple and strong. In his role as 'investigative journalist' he was alleged to have gained knowledge of a Top Secret project at the Fenton Laboratory, London, and to have sold this information to a Russian agent. The case rested on three main a conversation overheard... Read More
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
by Woods, Thomas E., Jr
Washington, D.C: Regnery Publishing, Inc, 2004. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x0x9. Jacket edges bumped, jacket creased. 2004 Hard Cover. v, 270 pp. Most Americans trust that their history professors and high school teachers will give students honest and accurate information. The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History makes it quite clear that liberal professors have misinformed our children for generations. Professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. takes on the most controversial moments of American history and... Read More
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The Price of Politics
by Woodward, Bob
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Ink name and address on front endpaper, ink underlining throughout. 2012 Hard Cover. xvii, 428 pp. "Based on 18 months of reporting, Woodward's 17th book The Price of Politics is an intimate, documented examination of how President Obama and the highest profile Republican and Democratic leaders in the United States Congress attempted to restore the American economy and improve the federal government's fiscal... Read More
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A History of the Town of Stafford, Written for the Sesquicentennial
by Woodworth, Grace Simmons (Mrs. Russel A.)
Batavia, New York: Fix Printing Co, 1970. Stapled Binding. Very Good. Rear wrapper a bit foxed. 1970 Stapled Binding. v, [1], 95, [1] pp. A 150-year history of Stafford, New York, illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs. Wrap-around map of 1904 map of Stafford Village on covers.
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George Washington: The Image and the Man
by Woodward, W.E
Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co. Inc, 1942. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Reprint. No jacket. Top edge of rear board torn, spine toned, page base lightly soiled. 1942 Hard Cover. 460, xxxv pp. 8vo. A biography of the Revolutionary War general who went on to become the first president of the United States of America.
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Pictures of Memory
by Woolard, Samuel Francis
Kansas: Goldsmith-Woolard Pub. Co, 1909. Soft Cover. Good. 0x0x0. Davison, E.L. Wrappers soiled, tear to spine head and to spine base, pencil gift note on front flyleaf. 1909 Soft Cover. 61 pp. Compilation of Samuel Francis Woolard. A collection of poetry from various authors with illustrations by E.L. Davison.
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Mrs. Dalloway
by Woolf, Virginia; Howard, Maureen
Boston / New York: Mariner Classics, 2023. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 0x5x7. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2023 Trade Paperback. xiv, 197 pp. Reading group guide follows text. In Mrs. Dalloway, the novel on which the movie The Hours was based, Virginia Woolf details Clarissa Dalloway's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess, exploring the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman's life.
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A Room of One's Own (Mariner Classics)
by Woolf, Virginia; Gordon, Mary; Gubar, Susan
New York: Mariner Classics, 2025. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2025 Trade Paperback. 114 pp. Foreword by Mary Gordon, annotated and with an introduction by Susan Gubar. "Why is it that men, and not women, have always had power, wealth, and fame? Woolf cites the two keys to freedom: fixed income and one's own room.
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Flush: A Biography
by Woolf, Virginia
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First American edition. Lacks jacket. A few minor blemishes to boards with some loss of silver from titles, front hinge weakening, ink name and date on front flyleaf. 1933 Hard Cover. 185 pp. An imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction by Virginia Woolf published in 1933. Written after the completion of her emotionally... Read More
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The Waves
by Woolf, Virginia
New York: Mariner, 1978. Trade Paperback. Fine. 7x5x0. NEW. 1978 Trade Paperback. 297 pp. Innovative and deeply poetic, The Waves is often regarded as Virginia Woolf's masterpiece. It begins with six children - three boys and three girls - playing in a garden by the sea, and follows their lives as they grow up, experience friendship and love, and grapple with the death of their beloved friend Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Woolf draws... Read More
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