Some Historical Cities in the British Isles
by Whittier, Isabel
New York: Pageant Press, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in grey cloth covered boards with black title to spine. Interior is clean and bright with photographic illustrations throughout. Very good white and blue illustrated, price-clipped dustjacket with dark blue title to front and spine panels. Minor edgewear and yellowing to dust jacket. 171 pages.... Read More
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The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
by [Whittington Press] Carroll, Lewis; Harold Jones, illustrator
Manor Farm, Gloucestershilre: [Whittington Press], 1975. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 108 of 750 copies, signed by the illustrator on the colophon. The edition included 30 leather copies with the best bound in cloth. This is a witty and humorous edition of Carroll's famous poem. The text and preliminary pages for this edition have been set from a copy... Read More
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Want More: A selection of thirteen photographs by Alex Schneideman with wood-engraved interpretations by Gaylord Schanilec
by [Whittington Press] Schanilec, wood engraver and printer; Alex Schneideman, photographer; Patrick Randle, designer and printer
London: Golborne Editions, 2019. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 27 of 75 copies within a slipcase, covered in printed papers by Patrick Randle, and finished in a pressed half leather. An additional 15 copies were issued with an editioned set of engravings and photographs in a portfolio and bound in full leather. This remarkable book is about the collaboration... Read More
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William Pinkney Whyte: Memorial Addresses. Sixtieth Congress, Second Session
by Whyte, William Pinkney
Washingon: Government Printing Office, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. SCARCE. Very good in black cloth covered boards with gilt to front board. Wear to exterior includes bumping to spine ends and corners, minor discoloration, and a few small open tears to the cloth along the spine. Illustrated end pages. Interior is clean and bright. 51 pages. Maryland. MARY02/020700.... Read More
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Das Rollwagenbüchlin. (A little book of good stories - from 1555)
by Wickram, Jorg
Munich: Hans von Weber, 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. IN GERMAN. Limited edition. This is number JJ. Jörg Wickram (about 1505 to about 1565) was a German poet and story teller. Bound in marbled paper covered boards with paper title label to spine titled in black. Label on front cover is no longer present. Rubbing to boards and... Read More
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Im Lande unserer Väter. Ein Buch von Heimat und Glück
by Wiechmann, Hermann Adolph
München: Hermann A. Weichmann, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Small quarto. Illustrated with 23 tipped-in color plates and 18 black and white illustrations. Very good in light blue cloth with black title to spine reading "Das treue Deutsche Herz." Spine a bit faded. Chip missing from margin of page 61. Faint 1.5 inch water stain along top edge... Read More
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Separat-Abdruck aus den Annalen der Physik und Chemie: Neue Folge
by Wiedemann, G.
Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, n.d., 19th c.. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. G+ in wraps German. GER1011151.
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Great Britain. The Lion at Home. A Documentary History of Domestic Policy 1689 - 1973. 4 volumes
by Wiener, Joel H. (editor)
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. Orange cloth boards with gilt titles to front boards and spines. Bumping to corners of a few volumes and minor wear to edges, else fine. Bright, clean interiors. Each volume has approximately 1000 pages. ENG/041708 This set may require an extra shipping fee.
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Some Old Time Meeting Houses of the Connecticut Valley
by Wight, Charles Albert
Chicopee Falls: Minister of the Congregational Church, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good-. Hardcover. G++ maroon cloth covered boareds with gilt title to front board and black title to spine. Some discoloration to boards and bumping to corners and spine ends. Interior is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. American State History. CONN110311.
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Thomas Jefferson: Apostle of Liberty
by Wilbur, Marguerite Eyer [Thomas Jefferson]
New York: Liveright, 1972. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Inscribed and signed by the author on the half title page. "A novelized story of this great American is perhaps the last a reader would expect in a treatment of Thomas Jefferson. But Mrs. Wilbur illuminates for the reader the whole Jefferson. The personal aspects of his life, hte captivating... Read More
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Farmer Boy
by Wilder, Laura Ingalls, June Goldborough [Illustrated by]
Chicago: SRA Pilot Library, Science Research Associates, 1962. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. SCARCE. 8vo. Illustrated side stapled paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper. Minor rubbing and bumping to edges. Sporadic foxing throughout though text and illustrations remain clean and bright. Illustrations throughout. 32 pages. CHILD/012020.
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A Long Time Ago. Favourite Stories Retold. ILLUSTRATION ONLY - A Footprint in the Sand
by Wilde, Mrs. Oscar; Eddie J. Andrews and R.A. Bell (illustrator)
London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co, 1900. Unbound. Very Good. Unbound. Chromolithograph illustration from a poem "Robinson Crusoe." Small chip to bottom corner, light dampstaining to bottom corner (not affecting image), light browning to margins, and light speckles of foxing. A few lines from the rhyme are included on the print. Includes a... Read More
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A Long Time Ago. Favourite Stories Retold. ILLUSTRATION ONLY - Christmas Eve
by Wilde, Mrs. Oscar; Eddie J. Andrews and R.A. Bell (illustrator)
London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co, 1900. Unbound. Very Good. Unbound. Chromolithograph illustration of Chrismas Eve. A few chips to edges of print, light dampstaining to bottom corner (not affecting image), and light speckles of foxing. Size: about 9 x 7 inches. PRINT/123019.
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A Long Time Ago. Favourite Stories Retold. ILLUSTRATION ONLY - Jack and the Beanstalk
by Wilde, Mrs. Oscar; Eddie J. Andrews and R.A. Bell (illustrator)
London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co, 1900. Unbound. Very Good. Unbound. Chromolithograph illustration of Jack and the Beanstalk. A large chip to bottom corner of print, light dampstaining and streak of soiling to bottom corner (not affecting image), and light speckles of foxing. Also includes part of story (on seperate page). Size: about... Read More
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A Long Time Ago. Favourite Stories Retold. ILLUSTRATION ONLY - Little Boy Blue
by Wilde, Mrs. Oscar; Eddie J. Andrews and R.A. Bell (illustrator)
London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co, 1900. Unbound. Very Good. Unbound. Chromolithograph illustration from the nursery rhyme "Little Boy Blue." Small chip to bottom corner, light dampstaining to bottom corner (not affecting image), light browning to margins, and light speckles of foxing. A few lines from the rhyme are included on the print.... Read More
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A Long Time Ago. Favourite Stories Retold. COVER ONLY
by Wilde, Mrs. Oscar; Eddie J. Andrews and R.A. Bell (illustrator)
London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co, 1900. Unbound. Very Good. Unbound. Cover of "A Long Time Ago" featuring a chromolithograph illustration from "Robinson Crusoe." Minor wear to corners and edges of boards. Minor soiling. Light dampstain to bottom corner. Size: about 9 x 7 inches. PRINT/123019.
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A Long Time Ago. Favourite Stories Retold. ILLUSTRATION ONLY - The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
by Wilde, Mrs. Oscar; Eddie J. Andrews and R.A. Bell (illustrator)
London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co, 1900. Unbound. Very Good. Unbound. Chromolithograph illustration from the story "the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe." A large crease to bottom corner of print, light dampstaining to bottom corner (not affecting image), and light speckles of foxing. Size: about 9 x 7 inches. PRINT/123019. ... Read More
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A Long Time Ago. Favourite Stories Retold. ILLUSTRATION ONLY - Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
by Wilde, Mrs. Oscar; Eddie J. Andrews and R.A. Bell (illustrator)
London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co, 1900. Unbound. Very Good. Unbound. Chromolithograph illustration from the story "Aladdin." Small chip to bottom corner, light dampstaining to bottom corner (not affecting image), light soiling to margins, and light speckles of foxing. Size: about 9 x 7 inches. PRINT/123019.
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William Alexander Hammond. Surgeon General. Inaugural Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor from the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich
by Wilentz, Joel Marc
Zurich: Juris Verlag, 1964. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. VG textured wrappers, lightly soiled. Insides clean, text bright. 36 pp. In wraps. Medicine. MED/2143.
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They Who Fought Here (1st Edition)
by Wiley, Bell Irvin, Milhollen, Hirst D.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good + in Very Good Minus DJ. Hardcover. Very good+ in grey and yellow cloth covered boared with silver title to front board and to spine. Interior is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. Very good- illustrated dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. 3 small closed... Read More
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A Real Robinson Crusoe, Being the Story of the Strange Yet True Experiences of a Company of Castaways on a Pacific Island
by Wilkinson, J.A.
Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. SCARCE. This is the supposedly true narrative told by a surviving castaway to the author, "taken down word for word." According to the author's preface, "the chief actor... has brooded over the long-withheld secret of his life... [for] fear of consequences .... but no reader ... will but acquit... Read More
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Antiquities of Magna Graecia
by Wilkins, William
London: Printed at the University Press in Cambridge by Richard Watts for Longman, Hurst, Orme and Rees, 1807. Hardcover. Very Good -. Hardcover. Scarce first edition of this influential work that was based upon studies undertaken by Wilkins during a four year tour of Greece, Italy and Asia Minor from 1801 to 1805. The book was greatly influential... Read More
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Pride of Baltimore. Renaissance of the Baltimore Clipper
by [William Donald Schaefer] Chisolm, Evelyn
Baltimore Operation Sail, Ltd, 1977. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. PRESENTATION COPY. Presented to Hilda Mae from the Mayor of Baltimore on a bookplate affixed to the inside front cover, "Hilda Mae from Don." Hilda was Schaefer's companion for many years. Bound in illustrated side stapled paper wrappers with black title to front cover. Clean and bright with many illustrations.... Read More
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History of the Hibernian Society of Baltimore
by Williams, Harold A.
Baltimore: Hibernian Society of Baltimore, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good +. Hardcover. The Hibernian Society of Baltimore was established in 1803 by a group of Irish citizens as an organization to aid the increasing number of Irish immigrants arriving "friendless and forlorn." It continues to this day to honor and promote the Irish heritage of its members. In 1852,... Read More
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Webster's Reciter; or Elocution Made Easy. Plainly Showing the Proper Attitudes of the Figure, the Various Expressions of the Face, and the Different Inflexions and Modulations of the Voice. Clearly Explained by Numerous Engravings ...
by [Williams, Henry Llewellyn]
New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. "Each individual will find that the perusal and study of this book, though it may fail to render him a Demosthenes or a Cicero - will yet so quicken and improve his natural gifts that his one talent may be increased to ten; he will find his... Read More
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