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Winchell, N[ewton] H[orace]
The geological & natural history survey of the county of Hennepin
Saint Paul: Pioneer Press Company 1877. 500 Copies Ordered Printed 8vo 73pp. 1 plate 1 full-page map 2 folding maps both hand-colored and in fine condition and several charts in the text; very good but for the fragile original printed paper wrappers which show soiling creasing and overall wear and a few ink stains front and back. Winchell served as state geologist from 1872 to 1900 and published 24 volumes of Reports on the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota of which this is one. Pioneer Press Company unknown
Référence libraire : 7334
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Windeler, Robert; Preface By Richard C Baptie; Foreword By Arnold Palmer
Annandale Golf Club: A Celebration Of One Hundred Years 1906-2006
Pasadena: Annandale Golf Club 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Color And B/W Illustrations Throughout. 247 Pp. Green Leather Or Leather-Like Cloth. As New. No Marks. <br/> <br/> Annandale Golf Club hardcover
Référence libraire : 056443
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Windle, Spencer L
Pictorial History of Chester County Covered Bridges Past and Present #226/2000
Spencer L. Windle 1996. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Blue cloth lettered/illus. in gold foil. New/as issued. No. 226 of an edition limited to 2000 copies hand-numbered on verso of main title. 123 pp. illus. w/ b&w photographs. Spencer L. Windle Hardcover
Référence libraire : 067213
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Windsor HH. Editor H. H.
Shop Notes Quarterly
Chicago: Popular Mechanics Co. 1910. Vol I Nos. I-IV. published Jan. Apr. July and Oct. 1910. All 4 publications bound in cloth boards with leather spine title and gilt lettering. Very Good Plus small library stamp front and rear pastedowns small tears at front and rear gutters edges of page block moderately soiled. Contents are clean and tight. 786 pages of Shop Notes Reviews and Data Sheets presenting a fascinating view of turn-of-the-century technology on a multitude of subjects. A sampling of articles includes " Noiseless Steam Water Heater" "Turning Piston Rings for Gas Engines" "Stripping Silver Plate" "How to Build a Small Dam" and "The Eye of the Submarine". . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. Popular Mechanics Co. Hardcover books
Référence libraire : 003642
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Windsor, HH, Editor H H
Shop Notes Quarterly
Chicago: Popular Mechanics Co. 1910. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. First Edition. Vol I Nos. I-IV. published Jan. Apr. July and Oct. 1910. All 4 publications bound in cloth boards with leather spine title and gilt lettering. Very Good Plus small library stamp front and rear pastedowns small tears at front and rear gutters edges of page block moderately soiled. Contents are clean and tight. 786 pages of Shop Notes Reviews and Data Sheets presenting a fascinating view of turn-of-the-century technology on a multitude of subjects. A sampling of articles includes " Noiseless Steam Water Heater" "Turning Piston Rings for Gas Engines" "Stripping Silver Plate" "How to Build a Small Dam" and "The Eye of the Submarine". Popular Mechanics Co. Hardcover
Référence libraire : 003642
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Wing, Rev Conway P
A History of the First Presbyterian Church of Carlisle PA
Pennsylvania: Valley Sentinel Office 1877. Hardcover. Fair. Blue hardcover lacking dustjacket no additional printings listed so probably first edition. A fair to good copy with heavy wear to the extremeties most pronounced at the spine ends. Both hinges are split and fragile but boards still attached. Front free endpaper detached otherwise all pages bound in and intact. Previous owners inscriptions to the first blank - one from 1881 and one from 1968 - otherwise an unmarked copy. Pages with age toning and a bit of foxing text clean and legible. 263 pp. indexed ahistory of the church's first 100 years. Laid in at front is a newspaper article from the local paper about a man who brings his chair to the Presbyterian Church to spend the day after the local benches were all removed. <br/><br/> Valley Sentinel Office hardcover
Référence libraire : 799
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Wingate, George W General
HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK FROM ITS ORGANIZATION TO 1895
New York: Edwin W. Dayton. Good. 1896. Hardcover. Lightly foxed tan cloth. Age darkened spine. Gilt titles on spine & front cover. Text tight clean & intact. A few pages have lightly foxed margins. Tissue protected frontispiece. Illustrated with B/W photographs drawings and maps. Spine head has two mended tears. ; B/W Photo Drawing & Map Illus.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 762 pages . Edwin W. Dayton hardcover
Référence libraire : 14958
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WINITZER Louis
Jimmy Carter ou l'irr?sistible ascension.
Broch?. 187 pages.
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Winkler, Ernest William and Friend, Llorena B
Check List of Texas Imprints 1846-1860; 1861-1876 Two Volumes
Austin Texas: Texas State Historical Association. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine/Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First volume "Check List of Texas Imprints 1846-1860" published in 1949. 1st ed. 1st Ptg. Clean copy with slight wear. Forward edge of front end paper has faint staining. 352 pp. Dust jacket has price intact and light edge creasing with minor chipping. Second volume 1861-1876 published in 1963. Listed in Jenkins' "Basic Texas Books" - B214 & B215. Tight crisp and bright copy with red boards and black print. End papers show very faint stains else clean interior. 732 pp. Dust jacket has price intact and has some rubbbing with minor corner wear. Both dust jackets now in protective covers. <br/> <br/> Texas State Historical Association hardcover
Référence libraire : 006087
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Winkler, Ernest William
Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861
Austin Texas: Texas Library and Historical Commission The State Library 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. First Edition. Book has been rebound in sturdy library buckram. Exlibrary markings on spine endpapers and title page. Pages clean slightly tanned. Cloth over boards has light shelf wear bright gilt lettering on spine. Records of the secession conventions of Texas Jan. 28-Feb. 4 and March 2-25. Ex-Library; 9.25" tall; 469 pages. Texas Library and Historical Commission, The State Library hardcover
Référence libraire : 4490067
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Winkler, Ernst / Popper, Ferdinanda
2 x Amerika : Zwei Augenzeugen berichten über USA. Herausgegeben vom US-Informationsdienst.
Wien, ISB : Verlag Neue Welt, 1950. 8° (23x17), 93 S., mit zahlr. fotograf Aufnahmen in Kupfertiefdruck, fotoill OKart (Brosch), kaum gelesen, fest sauber und gepflegt,
Référence libraire : 57025AB
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Winkler, John.
MORGAN THE MAGNIFICENT. The Life of J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913).
313p. + Plus portrait frontis. Uncut. Top edge orange. 8vo. Original full brown cloth binding. Nice copy. Coldwar/Economics 9
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Winningham, Geoff
Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea: The Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico
College Station Texas U.S.A.: Texas A&M University Press 2010. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed on front end paper by award-winning Texas photographer Winningham who has captured the breadth and scope of the Texas/Mexico Gulf Coast in stunning photographs. Oblong format 12-1/4"W X9-1/4"H. 328 pp. unpageinated pictures acknowledgments bibliography and index. Bright crisp tight and clean copy with like dust jacket. A wonderful work. <br/> <br/> Texas A&M University Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 010758 ISBN : 1603441611 9781603441612
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Winograd, Terri
Chit Chat This 'N That: The Rocky Road To Success
Los Angeles: Writer's Showcase / Writer's Digest 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Xiv 485 Pp. Softcover. First Printing. Inscription To A Close Friend From The Author. <br/> <br/> Writer's Showcase / Writer's Digest hardcover
Référence libraire : 040389 ISBN : 0595094023 9780595094028
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Winograd, Teddi
Chit Chat This 'N That: Memories By Teddri Winograd
Los Angeles: Terri Winograd 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 293 5 112 Color Plates. Blue Cloth Gilt. First Edition Later Versions In Paperback But Without The Plates And Texts Vary. This Copy With Inscription Dated 7/26/96 To A Close Friend From The Author And Her Husband. <br/> <br/> Terri Winograd hardcover
Référence libraire : 040387
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Winship George Winship Translator and Editor
The Journey of Coronado 1540-1542 from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas Kansas and Nebraska
New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. 1904. Near Fine tiny rubs at corners top dusty. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. The Trail Makers Series A Library of History and Exploration edited by Prof. John Bach MacMaster. . First Trail Makers Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A. S. Barnes & Co. Hardcover books
Référence libraire : 008397
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Winslow Hattie Lou; Moore Joseph R. H.
Camp Morton 1861-1865 Indianapolis Prison Camp
Indianapolis IN: Iana Historical Society 1940. Volume 13 No. 3. Near Fine small crease head of spine very light soiling to wrappers. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Iana Historical Society Paperback books
Référence libraire : 006713
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Winslow, Richard E III
Constructing Munitions of War" : The Portsmouth Navy Yard Confronts the Confederacy 1861 - 1865
Portsmouth NH: Portsmouth Marine Society / Peter E. Randall 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Quarto slightly oversized . Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on flyleaf. 431 p. w/ illustrations notes bibliography index. A history of this important US Navy shipyard during the Civil War looking at the yard the ships made there such as the USS Kearsarge and Agamenticus the men who worked it and the yard's relation to other Union yards of the time. Sources include many unpublished records letters and diaries. <br/><br/> Portsmouth Marine Society / Peter E. Randall hardcover
Référence libraire : 13647
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WINSOR Kathleen
Ambre. Traduit par Edith Vincent.
Broché. 812 pages.
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WINSOR Kathleen
Star money. Pr?face d'Andr? Maurois. Traduit par Michelle Maurois.
Broch?. 479 pages.
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Winsor, Justin (editor)
The Memorial History of Boston Including Suffolk County Massachusetts 1630-1880 In Four Volumes
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn hinges cracked dampstain at top . and bottom margins Volume three and four boards dampstained and bowed . volume three noticeably more sunned at spine. 1881. Hardcover. Complete in four quarto volumes. Uniformly bound in full dark brown leather with all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Six compartments on spine stamped in blind and in gilt. Gilt-stamped turn-ins. Numerous illustrations signature facsimiles heliotypes maps index in each volume. A handsome set. Volume I: xxxii 596pp later printing; Volume II: lviii 577pp first edition; Volume III: xii 691pp first edition; Volume IV: x 713pp first edition. A sweeping history of the Boston area and sketches of some of its most famous citizens from the colonial era through the late 19th century. Howes W 576. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . James R. Osgood and Company hardcover
Référence libraire : 39674
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Winstock, Lewis S
Songs and Music of the Redcoats: A History of the War Music of the British Army 1642-1902
London: Leo Cooper Ltd. 1970. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rust cloth lettered in gold foil. Former owner's embossed name stamp on upper front flyleaf minor tanning along text block edges otherwise as issued. Color illus. dust jacket shows 1" closed tear with crease at head of front joint minor rubbing to corners mild sunning to spine panel and upper front panel now in mylar. 1st ed. viii9-298 pp. Leo Cooper Ltd. Hardcover
Référence libraire : 060674 ISBN : 0850520037 9780850520033
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WINSTON BROS. COMPANY
A statement of their history financial stability engineering work and construction performance at home and abroad from 1875 to 1931 parallel title in Spanish
Minneapolis: Winston Bros. Co 1931. Large 4to pp. 119; extensively illustrated throughout showing the Winston brand of tunnels railroad beds bridges dams mining projects and other construction and engineering projects. With a pro-forma presentation on the front free endpaper presenting this copy to Mrs. Philip B. Winston Jr. <br/><br/> Winston Bros. Co unknown books
Référence libraire : 32040
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Winston, Robert W.
ROBERT E. LEE. A Biography.
pp. xi, 428 + Plus portrait Frontis and full page plates. Ownership of Ross E. Bosley, Red Lion, PA. Large 8vo. Original full light blue cloth, dust spotted. Spine faded. Hardbound. SHELF W20
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Winter, Robert
Myron Hunt At Occidental College
Occidental College 1986. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 32 Pp. Large Softcover. First And Only Printing. Near Fine. <br/> <br/> Occidental College paperback
Référence libraire : 059329
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Winter, Robert W, Printed By Andre Chavez, Hand-Made Paper By Dard Hunter, Mis-En-Page By Don Nelson
The Arroyo Culture Special Edition Of 50 Copies
Pasadena: The Clinker Press 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 19 Pp. Brown Cloth Lettered And Illustrated In Black. #45 Of 50 Numbered Signed Copies Printed On Hand-Made Paper By Dard Hunter Ii Printed By Andre Chaves. Endpapers After A Design By Ernest Batchelder. In Fine Dust Jacket No Wear Or Marks. <br/> <br/> The Clinker Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 059464
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Winter, William
Life of David Belasco The
New York: Jefferson Winter 1925 Vol. 1 530 pages Vol. 2 563 pages nice gravure photoengravings in both volumes high quality paper. Boards have a few very light stains. Jefferson Winter hardcover
Référence libraire : 00004065
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Winter, William Phillips.
AN INVESTIGATION OF SODAMIDE AND OF ITS REACTION-PRODUCTS WITH PHOSPHORUS AND WITH PHOSPHORUS PENTACHLORIDE. Dissertation. Johns Hopkins University.
46p. Some leaves have margin browning but not brittle. Small 4to. Original printed wraps slightly soiled. Small loss of rear corner. Compliments of the author on front cover. PA PAMPH 20_13 BX6
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WINTERS Yvor
Aspects de la litt?rature am?ricaine. Hawthorne, Cooper, Melville, Poe, Emerson, J. Very, E. Dickinson, H. James.
Broch?. 323 pages.
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Winters, William, and Woodworth, Steven E (Editor)
The Musick of the Mocking Birds the Roar of the Cannon: The Civil War Diary and Letters of William Winters
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 1998 first printing. 8vo. xii154pp. illus frontis portrait map. Blue cloth with gilt titles. As new in as new dust jacket. . As New. Hard. 1st. 1998. University of Nebraska Press unknown
Référence libraire : 010518 ISBN : 0803247737 9780803247734
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Winther Oscar Osburn
The Place of Transportation in the Early History of the Pacific Northwest
Berkeley CA: The Pacific Historical Review 1942. Reprinted from The Pacific Historical Review Vol. XI No. 4 December 1942. Reprint. Printed Wrappers. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. The Pacific Historical Review Paperback books
Référence libraire : 003315
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Winther, Oscar Osburn (ed); Wiley, Bell I (preface); Upson, Theodore F
With Sherman to the Sea: The Civil War Letters Diaries & Reminiscences of Theodore F. Upson
Bloomington Indiana: Indiana University Press 1958. Reprint. Hardcover. Good in Good dust jacket. Reprint. Exlibrary marks. Sound binding and hinges. Clean off white pages. Paper over boards is clean except for small areas of adhesive tape residue. DJ slightly shelf worn with label at lower spine clear sleeve. Originally published in 1940 at Louisiana State Univeresity Press. Civil War Centennial Series; Ex-Library; 8.25" tall; 181 pages. Indiana University Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 4670038
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Winthrop RC. R. C.
Admission of California. Speech of the Hon. R.C. Winthrop of Mass. on the President's Message Transmitting the Constitution of California Delivered in Committee of the Whole in the House of Representatives of the United States May 8 1850
Washington: Gideon & Co 1850. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 28 pp in original sewn self-wrappers not disbound from a larger volume as often found. Light foxing; very good. "Winthrop emphatically advocates the immediate admission of California and exhorts Congress to refrain from the injustice of omnibus tactics which would "embarrass and perhaps peril her admission" Eberstadt. Cowan p. 691. Gideon & Co paperback books
Référence libraire : 20826
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Winthrop Chanler
Some Letters from "CHAN" 1886-1926 For a Chosen Few
Chester N.H. : Private Printed/ Amos Tuck French 1939. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. Limited First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good Plus spine a bit sunned rear hinge starting. One of 50 unnumbered copies printed. SCARCE OCLC locates 5 copies. Winthrop Chanler Winthrop Astor Chanler October 14 1863 - August 24 1926 was an American sportsman and soldier who fought in the Spanish-American War and World War One serving as an aide to General John J. Pershing. Amos Tuck French was a prominent New York banker. . Private Printed/ Amos Tuck French Hardcover
Référence libraire : 010353
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Wirth Theodore
Minneapolis Park System 1883-1944: Retrospective Glimpses into the History of the Board of Park Commissioners of Minneapolis Minnesota and the City's Park Parkway and Playground System
Board of Park Commissioners 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bound in original green buckram with gilt title. All maps present. Includes a letter dated April 13 1949 on the letterhead of the Board of Park Commissioners to Mr. William H. Hale thanking him for his letter of praise of the book in part: 'We hope you continue to derive a great deal of satisfaction from reading about the achievements and events of the Minneapolis park history. We too take great satisfaction in the fact that Mr.Wirth was able to complete his book and see it in print before he passed away. It was a tremendous task but one which he loved doing." Signed by Chas. E. Doell who was the superintendent of parks at that time. There is bookplate of Wm H. Hale on the verso of ffep. Gilt is faded on spine else Very Good. Ships within 24 hours. <br/> <br/> Board of Park Commissioners hardcover
Référence libraire : 20045729
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Wirth, Conrad L (director); United States Interior Dept Secretary, Stewart L Udall
The Santa Fe Trail: The National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings: Theme XV Westward Expansion and Extension of the National Boundaries 1830-1898
Washington DC: United States Department of the Interior 1963. Former owner's ink gift inscription and blind-embossed seal on title page otherwise textblock is clean and tight several folded maps and b&w photos; Lightly soiled fore-edge; Sticker stain on front cover couple of tears to the edges creased and chipped corners tear to the bottom back corner of cloth tape spine tears along the spine at the front edges. Rear pocket map detached from rear endpaper and laid in. Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Photographs/Maps. 4to - Over 9 ¾"-12" Tall. Paperback. United States Department of the Interior Paperback
Référence libraire : SB16155
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WISE David
La stratégie du soupçon - Enquête sur la paranoïa de la C.I.A.
Paris, Plon, 1993, in-8 broché, 356 pp. Bon état.
Référence libraire : 4952
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WISE David - ROSS Thomas B.
Le gouvernement secret des U.S.A. Exemplaire numéroté.
Couverture souple. Reliure toile.390 pages.
Référence libraire : 207267
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WISE David ; ROSS Thomas B
Le gouvernement secret des USA
Le Cercle du nouveau livre d’Histoire 1965 In-8 reliure pleine toile éd. sous jaquette rodhoid. 390 pages. Bon état d’occasion.
Référence libraire : 113591
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WISCONSIN
Transactions of the Wisconsin state agricultural society...Vol. IX. 1870. Gravures dans et hors-texte.
Reliure d?fra?chie. 519 pages.
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Wisconsin Map
No. 1. Sketch of the Public Surveys in Wisconsin and Territory of Minnesota
Dubuque IA: Surveyor General's Office 1852. First edition. Good. 19 x 22. inches chipped on left margin during removal from a volume small breaks at folds inch tear at upper left fold. <br/><br/>Scale 1 inch to 18 miles. Surveyor General's Office, unknown
Référence libraire : 0008722
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WISE David - ROSS B. Thomas
Le gouvernement secret des U. S. A. Traduit de l'am?ricain par R. Garrane.
Reliure toile club. 393 pages.
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WISE DAVID, B. ROSS THOMAS
LE GOUVERNEMENT SECRET DES U.S.A.
HISTORIA/CERCLE DU NOUVEAU LIVRE D'HISTOIRE. 1965. In-8 Carré. Relié toilé. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 390 pages. Livre avec rhodoïd. Exemplaire n°849. Traduit de l'américain par Roland Garrane.
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Wise, Barton H
The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia 1806-1876
New York: Macmillan Company 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary marks. Binding shaken front hinge broken rear hinge starting. Cloth over boards is shelf worn with heavy wear at corner tips and extremities of spine. Gilt lettering on spine. Henry Alexander Wise 1806-1876 was an American attorney diplomat politician and slave owner from Virginia. Author was the grandson of the subject. Ex-Library; 9.25" tall; 434 pages. Macmillan Company hardcover
Référence libraire : 3510083
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Wise, DeWitt D
Now Then Baker's Island
<p>Baker's Island Salem MA: Baker's Island Association Inc. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards and page edges foxed. 1964. Hardcover. Yellow illustrated cloth binding map endpapers. Peppered with black and white illustrations and photos. Index appendices. History of Baker's Island off the Massachusetts coast in Salem Harbor. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .</p> Baker's Island Association, Inc. hardcover
Référence libraire : 62945
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Wise, George
History of the Seventeenth Virginia Infantry C.S.A.
Baltimore: Kelly Piet & Co. 1870. First edition. Hardcover. fair. History compiled by authors from official reports and diaries. 312 pages. Includes muster roll of all members. Bookstore stamp on rear flyleaf. Rose colored boards faded to tan on spine. Gold stamped titles and insignia. Scrape of finish at top of spine and cloth worn at top & bottom of spine and a scrape on rear board edge. Penciled name and 1871 date on preliminary page. Brown endpapers with a two-inch scrape on front pastedown & a small tear on flyleaf. Corner crease on a few pages. Print bled through on two pages. Book is straight and binding is tight. <br/><br/> Kelly, Piet & Co. hardcover
Référence libraire : 15971
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Wise, W Harvey
FROM THE RHINELAND TO THE PROMISED LAND OF THE SHENANDOAH
Lynchburg: Warwick House Publishers. As New in As New dust jacket. 2009. Hardcover. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 447 pages . Warwick House Publishers hardcover
Référence libraire : 81664 ISBN : 0980131588 9780980131581
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WISTAR, Isaac Jones
Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar 1827-1905: Half a Century in War and Peace
New York: Harper & Brothers 1937. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering price-clipped dust jacket. 530pp. Frontispiece illustrations folding map. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and light age toning with a few tiny edge chips. Second trade edition and first single-volume edition of this Indian fighter and railroad executive's memoir after 1914 two-volume private publication by The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia described on front jacket panel as "A Chronicle of Lusty Adventure Out of Our Pioneer Past." Howes describes this as "Largely devoted to the opening and development of the far West from 1849 to 1860 in which Wistar played a conspicuous part before achieving fame and fortune in Pennsylvania" Wheat as a "Significant and engaging narrative by a man of great native attainments." Rather uncommon in the jacket. GRAFF 4724. HOWES W598. NEVINS I 181. WHEAT 234. Harper & Brothers hardcover
Référence libraire : 670
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Wister, Langhorn
Admission Card to the Philadelphia Assemblies of 1872
Philadelphia 1872. Fine. 1 card 7.2 x 12 cm. printed on one side: "Assemblies. Foyer of the Academy of Music." Langhorn Wister's name is written in as the person to be admitted. The names of the patronesses are printed: Mrs. Hartman Kuhn Mrs. Harry McCall Mrs. Charles Macalater Jr. Mrs. Francis Peters Mrs. George Blight and Mrs. Edward Merrell. With this is a light pink sheet 16 x 12 cm. folded and printed with the dates Mon. Jan. 15 Tues. Jan. 30 and Thurs. Feb. 8 and times. The music began at 9:00 the German Cotillion was at 12:00 and the balls ended at 3:00. The Dancing Assembly of Philadelphia also known as "The Assemblies" was established in the winter of 1748-49. Remaining an annual tradition into the 21st century the Assembly Ball is the oldest continuously operating subscription dance in the United States. To attend one either had to be a subscriber a person invited who pays a fee to attend or be sponsored by a subscriber. After the Civil War the Assemblies were held at the Academy of Music until 1904 when it moved to the Bellevue Stratford Hotel. Langhorne Wesley Wister 1834-1891 was the son of William Wister and Sarah Logan Fisher Wister and served as a Brev. Brig. Gen. in the Civil War. No year is given; 1872 1877 and 1883 are the years in which the calendar corresponds to the dates given between the end of the Civil War and Wister's death. In Fine Condition: clean and crisp. unknown
Référence libraire : 008766
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Wister, Owen.
THE PENTECOST OF CALAMITY.
pp. 148 + (6)[Publisher's catalogue]. Title page ruled in red. 16mo. Original full stiff paper binding. Paper labels on spine and front board. Front hinge slightly cracked. Binding slightly warped. First published in 1915. WWI 7
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