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Wendt, Peter C, Jr
Boonton Was an Iron Town
Boonton New Jersey: Boonton Historical Society 1976. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped $10.00. NO chips. NO tears. Bright clean square tight and unmarked. Sharp corners. NOT a book club edition. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Well-illustrated with maps prints document facsimiles and vintage photos. Endpaper maps. A history of the early days in 'Old Pequannoc' later Boonton Montville and Pequannock Morris County New Jersey. Includes accounts of early settlers; the iron works built in 1829; development spurred by the availability of fuel Pennsylvania anthracite coal transported by the Morris Canal; the world-famous nail factory; William Lathrop John Hill Dr. John Grimes and the abolitionist movement; the Underground Railroad; Boonton's disproportionate contributions to the Union in the Civil War a sixth of the population enlisted; the great fires of 1873 and 1906; etc. Wendt says there are no connections between present-day Boonton and Old Boonton which today lies buried beneath the waters of the Jersey City Reservoir in Parsippany. Appendix. Chapter notes. Index. Bound in the original gilt-decorated blue cloth. Complete with dust jacket. First Edition so stated. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xi 173pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Boonton Historical Society Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002742
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Wendt, Peter C, Jr
Boonton Was an Iron Town
Boonton New Jersey: Boonton Historical Society 1976. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped $10.00. NO chips. NO tears. Bright clean square tight and unmarked. Sharp corners. NOT a book club edition. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Well-illustrated with maps prints document facsimiles and vintage photos. Endpaper maps. A history of the early days in 'Old Pequannoc' later Boonton Montville and Pequannock Morris County New Jersey. Includes accounts of early settlers; the iron works built in 1829; development spurred by the availability of fuel Pennsylvania anthracite coal transported by the Morris Canal; the world-famous nail factory; William Lathrop John Hill Dr. John Grimes and the abolitionist movement; the Underground Railroad; Boonton's disproportionate contributions to the Union in the Civil War a sixth of the population enlisted; the great fires of 1873 and 1906; etc. Wendt says there are no connections between present-day Boonton and Old Boonton which today lies buried beneath the waters of the Jersey City Reservoir in Parsippany. Laid-in are 2 "Old Boonton" birds-eye-view map postcards and other related materiel. Appendix. Chapter notes. Index. Bound in the original gilt-decorated blue cloth. Complete with dust jacket. First Edition so stated. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xi 173pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Boonton Historical Society Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002741
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WENHOLD, Lucy L.
A 17th Century letter of Gabriel Díaz Vara Calder´n, Bishop of Cuba, describing the indians an indian missions of Flrida. Transcribed and translated by ? Introduction by John R. Swanton.
Washington, Smithsonian Institutio, 1936, 24,5 x 16 cm., cartulina editorial, portada + 14 págs. + 12 láminas facsímiles en papel couché.
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Wentworth, Edward N
A Biographical Catalog of the Portrait Gallery of the Saddle and Sirloin club
Chicago: Union Stock Yards 1920 345 pages portraits/ biographies of cattlemen. Leather shows some wear. Image available. Union Stock Yards hardcover
Bookseller reference : 00006337
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Wentworth, Edward Norris
America's Sheep Trails: History Personalities
Ames: Iowa State College Press 1948. 1st printing. Inscribed by Wentworth on front flyleaf and an index card with a further note in the same hand taped onto front pastedown. Full cloth binding. xxii 667pp. Good only jacket is toned and rubbed with large chip at spine head that removed most of title. Now in a new mylar cover. Laid-in is a large folded map of America's Cattle Trails. Large book: NO international or priority orders. Inscribed and Signed. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall. Iowa State College Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 071003
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Wentworth, Edward Norris
America's Sheep Trails. History - Personalities
Ames: Iowa State College Press 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Iowa State College Press Ames 1948. First Edition. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 667 pages. References cited index many photographic illustrations. Top front corners bumped inward. #5# Size: Quarto. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Agriculture; Western Americana; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 007838. Iowa State College Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7838
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Wentworth, Frank L, Introduction By Francis B Rizzari
Aspen On The Roaring Fork
Lakewood Colorado: Francis B. Rizzari 1950. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Photographs Map. Xiv 353 Pp. Red Cloth Gilt. One Of 600 Copies. Folding Map Birdseye-View Facsimile Of 1893 Map In Rear Pocket. In The Original Plain Brown Dust Wrapper. Book Is Fine No Wear No Fading Or Stains Previous Owner's Signature At Upper Left Of Front Pastedown Under Dj Flap Tiny Bump To Lower Front Tip. Dj Is Plain Brown Paper Oversize Taller Than Book With Wear And Very Short Tears In The Overhang At Top Of Book. <br/> <br/> Francis B. Rizzari hardcover
Bookseller reference : 029784
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Wentworth, Frank L
Aspen on the Roaring Fork: An Illustrated History of Colorado's "Greatest Silver Camp"- Third Revised & Limited Edition
Denver Colorado: Sundance Publications Limited 1976. Comprehensive text presents the early history of what once was "Colorado's Greatest Silver Camp" the story of the settlement of Aspen the home of one of the world's richest mining districts. This third revised edition contains many newly added historic photographs from the Aspen Historical Society collections and a brief index. Limited to 5000 copies with only one printing. This text is numbered 1715 on the first title page. 192 pgs. Illustrated. Photo frontispiece of the author. Vinyl covered boards. Gilt leatherette spine. . Limited/Numbered Third Edition. Pictorial Hard Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Sundance Publications Limited Hardcover
Bookseller reference : WA-50 ISBN : 0913582158 9780913582152
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Wentworth, Frank L
On The Road With Lizzie
Iowa City IA: Mercer Printing Co. 1930. single line gift inscription atop the ffep else textblock immaculate and tight with many pages uncut; top edge gilt; binding bright clean and lightly edge-worn; lacks original glassine dust wrapper; 436pp. . First Edition. Original Maroon Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall. Hard Cover. Mercer Printing Co. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 22147
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WERTHER MAURICE ET BELLAMY EDOUARD.
L HUMANITE EN MARCHE. LES ETATS UNIS, CENT ANS APRES.
BURIN / MARTINSART.. 1973. In-8. Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 292 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleurs dans le texte et hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 973-Etats-Unis
Bookseller reference : R150170305
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WERSHUB, Leonard Paul:
One hundred years of medical progress. A history of the New York Medical College, Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals.
Springfield Illinois, Charles C. Thomas, 1967, in-8°, XVI + 239 p., with 42 ill., hw. dedication signed ‘chubby’ (the author), original cloth with original jacket.
Bookseller reference : 26321aaf
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WERTHEIM (Arthur Frank).
Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies.
Norman, London University of Oklahoma Press 1992 1 vol. relié in-8, cartonnage sous jaquette illustrée, XIX + 268 pp., photos en noir, index. Texte en anglais. Très bon exemplaire. Exemplaire provenant de la bibliothèque d'Alain Resnais.
Bookseller reference : 112385
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WERTHEIM (Arthur Frank).
Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies.
Norman, London University of Oklahoma Press 1992 1 vol. relié in-8, cartonnage sous jaquette illustrée, XIX + 268 pp., photos en noir, index. Texte en anglais. Très bon exemplaire. Exemplaire provenant de la bibliothèque d'Alain Resnais.
Bookseller reference : 112385
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Werner, Herman
ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER WITH THE UNITED STATES CAVALRY FIFTY YEARS AGO
s.l.: Published by the author 1934. First Edition. Original stiff wrappers. Very Good. 98pp; full-length frontis portrait of Werner in his Cavalry uniform 1884. 8.25" x 5.5" This is Private Werner's account of his service during the Modoc War operations in Montana &c. Howes USiana W259. Storm Graff Collection 4592. Published by the author unknown
Bookseller reference : 036660
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Werner, Tim
Human nature
N.p.: publisher not identified 2019. 8vo pp. 8 119 1; fine copy in original pictorial boards. Not found in OCLC. Undoubtedly privately printed. In 2012 Werner goes on an adventurous backpacking trip to Isle Royale National Park with his 74-year-old father and 17-year-old son. publisher not identified unknown
Bookseller reference : 60068
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WERTHER MAURICE ET BELLAMY EDOUARD.
L HUMANITE EN MARCHE. LES ETATS UNIS, CENT ANS APRES.
BURIN / MARTINSART.. 1973. In-8 Carré. Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur acceptable. 292 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleurs dans le texte et hors texte. Préface de RAYMOND LAS VERGNAS. Illustrations de GERARD ECONOMOS.
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Wertz, Halfred W & M Joy Callender (editors)
Penn's Woods 1682-1982 The Oldest Trees in Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware and Eastern Shore Maryland
Haverford House 1981. Good clean copy of this unique reference on the Mid-Atlantic's oldest trees. Former owner's name on front endpaper otherwise unmarked. Very light soil to top edge. Jacket shows wear to edges with some closed tears. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Haverford House Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 701785 ISBN : 0910702071 9780910702072
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WEST Paul
Doc Holliday,
Gallimard, 2002, 406 p., broché, jaquette, état très correct.
Bookseller reference : 4766
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WEST (Julius-H.)
L'Arrivisme industriel (Europe et Amérique).
Paris, Vve Ch. Dunod, 1904 1 volume In-16 (11,6 x 18cm) Broché. 1 feuillet, 1 titre, 69p. Bon état (rousseurs sur la 1ère garde).
Bookseller reference : 14465
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WESTLAKE Donald (traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Doug Headline)
Motus et bouche cousue.
2005 in-8 broché - 2005 - 237p - Ed. Rivages/Thriller
Bookseller reference : 30773
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Weston Paul - Mercer Johnny - Mercer Johnny
Partition de la chanson : G.I. Jive
Partitions sur les États-Unis,Partitions sur le Militaria Capitol songs 1943
Bookseller reference : 72602
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WEST Cornel
Tragicomique Amérique. Démocratie et impérialisme.
Broché, 22X14 cm, 2005, 232 pages, éditions Payot. Très bon état.
Bookseller reference : 32252
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Wesley Charles H.
Organized Labor and the Negro
No Place: Journal of Negro Education 1939. Issued as an offprint of the Journal of Negro Education July 1939. 16 pages in stapled blue stiff wrappers. Near Fine slight corner crease top corner. . Reprint. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Journal of Negro Education Paperback books
Bookseller reference : 002247
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WESLEY Stace
L'infortun?e.
Format de poche. Bon ?tat.
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Wessie Connell, Frank W Roebuck Jr, Barbara C Williams (editors)
Gleanings A Community's Memories of a People at the Crossroads of a Place
Cairo GA: Roddenbery Memorial Library. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. VG/VG/Limited edition--#1000. A book in really nice condition; a jacket with wear at both ends. Both is red cloth over boards and gold lettering to front and spine. Upper front corner is lightly bumped. Otherwise unmarked and clean no foxing not an ex-library. Jacket covered with a mylar sleeve. Wear to every corner and along top and bottom edge of jacket. 312pp. photographs supplied by Hugh Gandy and Dan Brison. This is part of a limited edtion of 1000. Mailed boxed and I can have it in the mail tomorrow. <br/> <br/> Roddenbery Memorial Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0023234
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West Carrie Mclain
John Lowe of North Carolina and Indiana 1800-1868; His Ancestors Descendantsm and Some of the Allied Families 1729-1977
No Place: The Author 1978. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page - " To Meredith Wilson with all good wishes Carrie McClain West". Very Good wrappers rubbed at spine and bottom edge rear panel 2 pages loose. Contents are clean and unmarked. 177 pp. including Family Name Index and Bibliography. SCARCE SIGNED. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Author Paperback books
Bookseller reference : 005935
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West James E.
Making the Most of Yourself; The Boy Scout Trail to the Greatest of All Adventures
New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1941. A RARE book in any edition this copy doubly so for being SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR James E. West the then Chief Scout Executive Boy Scouts of America and Editor "Boys' Life the Boy Scouts Magazine" "To Will H. Hays with esteem and appreciation James E. West". Will H. Hays managed Warren G. Hardings successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S. and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. After a year in that position he resigned to become most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America MPPDA which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. When the Catholic Church formed its Legion of Decency and threatened nationwide boycotts of movies Hays installed a more formal production code called the Hays Code later simply "The Code" which became the virtual law of Hollywood until the 1960s. It's easy to understand that the Boy Scouts of America would have been a favorite organization of Hays'. The book is Near Fine top corners small bumps in a Very Good Plus dustjacket small chips and tears at the top flap and spine folds. Publisher's promotional poster laid in. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt Jr. A great piece of Americana combining Boy Scouting and Hollywood history !. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Presentation Copy. D. Appleton and Co. Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 004224
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WEST JOHN
The substance of a journal during a residence at the Red River Colony British North American; and frequent excursions among the North-West American Indians in the years 1820 1821 1822 1823
London: Seeley and Son 1824. First edition 8vo pp. xi 1 210 plus 1 leaf errata; engraved frontispiece and 2 plates; an ex-library copy with perforated stamp of the Hill Library St. Paul MN on the title page and p. 41 small rubber stamps on p. iii and the errata leaf and faint call numbers in white on lower spine else very good in later half red morocco over brown cloth titled in gilt on spine the spine a little faded. "West came out as Chaplain of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1820 by way of Hudson Bay and York Factor arriving at Red River his headquarters on October 14. During his term of service he visited each year many of the company's stations and in 1823 went overland from Fort York as far north as Fort Churchill. He sailed back to England from Fort York on September 10 1823. His Journal offers a good picture of life and travel in the Canadian West for the period 1820-1823" Streeter III 3696. Complete with the half-title which was overlooked by Wagner-Camp. Wagner-Camp 27:1; Field 1634; TPL 1307; Peel 81; Sabin 102738; Matthews p. 240. <br/><br/> Seeley and Son hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 22812
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WEST NATHANIEL
The ancestry life and times of Hon. Henry Hastings Sibley. Ex-member of U.S. Congress; member of the American Geographical Society; first delegate from the territory and first governor of the state of Minnesota.
St. Paul: Pioneer Press Publishing Co 1889. First edition 8vo x-xii & 596-597pp. frontispiece steel-engraved portrait of Sibley; extremities slightly rubbed else fine in orig. green cloth gilt. <br/><br/> Pioneer Press Publishing Co hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 8510
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WEST (Julius-H.)
L'Arrivisme industriel (Europe et Amérique).
Où l'ingénieur allemand Julius H. WEST étudiait l'éventualité d'un risque de "domination industrielle universelle" des Etats-Unis; traduit de l'allemand par Ed. GRESSER. Français
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West Chester Pennsylvania.
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE BOROUGH OF WEST CHESTER, PA October 11, 12 and 13, 1899. Official Program. 1799-1899. Compiled by H. Rush Kervey.
pp. [70]. Illustrated with photographs. Numerous local advertisements. Slight age staining. Sm. 4to. Original yellow printed wraps, very slightly worn. Front cover decorated with a Revolutionary soldier in blue and green with early penciled ownership. Illustrated advertisement of the Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company on rear cover. Excellent local historical ephemera. Nice copy. Quite scarce. PA PAMPH 19_18 BX1
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West Chester.
THE 175TH ANNIVERSARY OF WEST CHESTER. Photo Supplement.
34p. Illustrated with numerous photographs. 4to. Original yellow wraps lettered in blue. Very nice copy. PA PAMPH 20_1 BX3
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WEST Dorothy
Le mariage. Traduit par Arlette Stroumza.
Broché. 244 pages.
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WEST Elliot
A l'?coute de la nuit. Traduit par J. Fillion et M. Duhamel.
Broch?. 345 pages.
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WEST Jessamyn
Le massacre de Fall Creek. Roman.
Broch?. 426 pages.
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WEST Jessamyn
Le secret perdu. Traduit par Anne Marcel. Avant-propos d'Andr? Bay.
Broch?. 474 pages. Rousseurs.
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West Jr, Richard S
Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Navy Department
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1943. Signed by author on limitation page copy #170. Retired library copy minimally stamped labeled and marked; Very clean and tight with endpaper maps; Very clean red cloth binding gently bumped head and foot of spine and corners. Lacks dust jacket; 379p. including notes and index. Signed By Author. Connecticut Edition Copy #170. Red Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Plates. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library Hardcover. The Bobbs-Merrill Company Hardcover
Bookseller reference : SB14696
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WEST Morris
L'ambassadeur. Traduit par Claude Elsen.
Cartonnage de l'?diteur. 306 pages.
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WEST Paul
Doc Holliday
Gallimard, 2002, 406 p., broché, jaquette, état très correct.
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West, James E
Making the Most of Yourself; The Boy Scout Trail to the Greatest of All Adventures
New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1941. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. A RARE book in any edition this copy doubly so for being SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR James E. West the then Chief Scout Executive Boy Scouts of America and Editor "Boys' Life the Boy Scouts Magazine" "To Will H. Hays with esteem and appreciation James E. West". Will H. Hays managed Warren G. Hardings successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S. and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. After a year in that position he resigned to become most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America MPPDA which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. When the Catholic Church formed its Legion of Decency and threatened nationwide boycotts of movies Hays installed a more formal production code called the Hays Code later simply "The Code" which became the virtual law of Hollywood until the 1960s. It's easy to understand that the Boy Scouts of America would have been a favorite organization of Hays'. The book is Near Fine top corners small bumps in a Very Good Plus dustjacket small chips and tears at the top flap and spine folds. Publisher's promotional poster laid in. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt Jr. A great piece of Americana combining Boy Scouting and Hollywood history !. D. Appleton and Co. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004224
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WEST, Jessamyn.
LE MASSACRE DE FALL CREEK.
in-8, 426 pp., broché, couv. illustrée. Bon état. [GE-3]
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West, John Foster
Appalachian Dawn A Sequel to Time Was. SIGNED
Durham North Carolina: Moore Publishing Company 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 191 pages. Hardcover with a black and white dust jacket now in mylar. The jacket is rubbed and is price-clipped. The front panel of the jacket has a stain and the front cover of the book beneath is also stained. Jacket spine a bit toned. The text is sound and clean. SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf. There is a lso an inked non-authorial gift inscription on the front flyleaf from "Mom & Dad" dated 1974. This is a sequel to "Time Was" by the same author. John Foster West was born in Wilkes County in western North Carolina. <br/> <br/> Moore Publishing Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 055374 ISBN : 0877160414 9780877160410
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West, Louis P
Ramapo Mountain Stories and Tales
<p>Louis P. West Sr. 1995. First printing. Paperback. Very Good . Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs and maps.</p> Louis P. West, Sr. paperback
Bookseller reference : 901200
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West, Louis P; Foreword by Paul Rosedale
Ramapo Mountain Stories and Tales : Tales of My Recollections and Collections signed
Ringwood New Jersey: Privately Published. 1995. Fine condition. Bright shiny clean and tight. The spine is square and flat. Pages are crisp and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Not a remainder. Softcover. 8.5" wide by 11" tall. In 1920 at the age of seven the author moved to Ringwood Manor Estates when his father was hired by Miss Sally Hewitt to manage the property. This book begins with his recollections of what Ringwood was like in the 1920s. There are also chapters on Ringwood's superstitions and beliefs the greatest social event mines and forges old country store rocket-plane Gloria Montclair Greenwood Lake Railroad etc. Profusely illustrated with nearly 150 old photographs portraits document facsimiles and hand-drawn maps. Laid-in are 2 promotional advertisements from the publisher. Bound in the original photographic wraps. . INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. Fine condition. vii 203pp. Privately Published. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 006376
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West, Nathaniel
THE ANCESTRY LIFE AND TIMES OF HON. HENRY HASTINGS SIBLEY LL.D. Ex-Member of US Congress; Member of the American Geographical Society; First Delegate from the Territory and First Governor of the State of Minnesota.
Saint Paul Minnesota: Pioneer Press 1889. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: x 596 with index errata leaf; engraved frontispiece portrait of Brev. Major-General Sibley in uniform. Bound in black cloth gilt spine rules and lettering; floral-pattern endpapers. 9" x 5.75" Eberstadt 107:392--"Early days and life among the Indians in Wisconsin 1811-1848 . First campaign against the Sioux 1862; the battle of Birch Coolie and Wood Lake; defeat of Little Crow and release of the Captives; the trial of the marauding Indians . Second Sioux Campaign 1863; Battle of Big Mound Dead Buffalo Lake and Stony Lake . post-military career." Decker 30:188. Pioneer Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 038251
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WEST, NATHANIEL
The ancestry life and times of Hon. Henry Hastings Sibley. Ex-member of U.S. Congress; member of the American Geographical Society; first delegate from the territory and first governor of the state of Minnesota.
St. Paul: Pioneer Press Publishing Co 1889. First edition 8vo x-xii & 596-597pp. frontispiece steel-engraved portrait of Sibley; extremities slightly rubbed else fine in orig. green cloth gilt. Pioneer Press Publishing Co unknown
Bookseller reference : 8510
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WEST, Richard S, Jr
Mr. Lincoln's Navy
New York: Longmans Green and Company 1957. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xiii 328pp. Illustrations maps. Very good. Mild edgewear with spine faintly sunned and faint discoloration to upper edge of rear board only. A tight and nice first edition bearing a fine autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf is an Autograph Letter Signed from Williams 1p 7¼" X 10" Annapolis MD 11 March 1959. Addressed to noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar Arnold F. Gates 1914-93. Near fine. Two horizontal light folds. As a long-time officer of the New York Civil War Round Table Gates was instrumental in getting Williams to address that notable group and Williams here thanks his friend: "I enjoyed Tuesday evening immensely. You have a fine group of people in your Civil War Round Table and I was delighted to meet them and enjoy them as an audience." Boldly penned in blue fountain pen. West 1902-68 was a naval historian and professor of history at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Thomas Wells reviewed this title luke-warmedly as "A brief generally satisfactory but pedestrian treatment." NEVINS I 238. Longmans, Green and Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 42444
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West, Robert Edward; White, Robert T; Rutland Historical Society (Vt)
Rutland in Retrospect
Rutland: Rutland Historical Society. First Edition first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Rutland VT: Rutland Historical Society 1978. Oblong 4to. 9 1/4" x 12." 177 pages. Gilt lettered dark green cloth pictorial end papers. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos plates some color. Very good in a dj with a 1/2" chip at the crown a small chip at heel and fraying/minor chipping along the edges. Pages clean binding tight. The first book of the Rutland Historical Society. Out of print and rare. . Very Good. Hard. 1st. 1978. Rutland Historical Society unknown
Bookseller reference : 000781
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West, W Caleb & Arthur L Thomas (Governors)
REPORT OF THE GOVERNOR OF UTAH TO THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR 11 Soft Cover Booklets
Washington D. C: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1886-96. First Edition. Soft Covers. Eleven Booklets with covers in various colors. Reports from the Governor of the Territory of Utah from 1866 to 1896 when statehood was in progress. A great resource for Utah History. Schools. Prisons Agriculture Industry Mining Election Indians Railroads and a section on Polygamy in each annual publication. "I am most firmly convinced that there is an Irreconcilable political difference fundamental In character between the Mormon system and the Government established by the United States." Ten of the booklets are in VG-VG condition. The 1886 issue has the front top corner missing. Western Americana Utah ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Government Printing Office paperback
Bookseller reference : 16789
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Westbrook, Perry D
Biography of an Island: Swan's Island Maine
Cranbury NJ: Thomas Yoseloff 1971. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Black cloth lettered in silver foil. Text block edges slightly tanned slight binding lean otherwise essentially as issued. 224 pp. illus. Former owner's book plate mounted inside back cover. History of Swans Island Maine. Thomas Yoseloff Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 060245 ISBN : 0498070050 9780498070051
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