‎Pacific‎

‎Wings, Mary‎

‎SHE CAME TO THE CASTRO: An Emma Victor Mystery‎

‎Berkley 1997. 1st edition April 1997 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Publicity sheet laid in. Lambda Award winning author. 4th in lesbian P.I. Emma Victor series. San Francisco. The Castro is holding a Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. the whole city is talking politics caught up in nasty three-way mayoral race and Emma is trying to catch a man blackmailing one of the candidates. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Berkley Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 006599 ISBN : 042515629x 9780425156292

‎Winslow, Don‎

‎CALIFORNIA FIRE AND LIFE SHAMUS AWARD WINNER‎

‎New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc 1999. 1st edition so stated. Fine in pictorial laminated boards with dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER and a DILYS AWARD NOMINEE. " ack Wade is "basically a Dalmatian": when a fire happens he's there. Jack who works to live and lives to surf was a sheriff's department fire investigator until he got caught planting evidence in a warehouse arson to protect a witness and is now the top claims adjuster for California Fire and Life. That means sifting around in the ashes of other people's lives -- or in this case deaths. When Pamela Vale passes out drunk and accidentally burns down the west wing of her Dana Point mansion along with half a million dollars of her husband's antique furniture Jack thinks maybe it wasn't an accident. There's no smoke in her lungs and the smoke from the fire should have been yellow or orange not the reported blood red plus the dog was outside. "People will never burn the pooch" Jack knows and he begins to search through the remains. Winslow The Death and Life of Bobby Z who himself worked more than 15 years with L.A. arson investigators follows Jack through the burned char of the Vale house where in the novel's most compelling scene he tracks down the history of the fire and reads its secrets. Pitted against him is a formidable adversary: Pamela's estranged husband Daziatnik Valeshin now known as Nicky Vale who has survived a Russian prison camp to make himself over into the model of a perfect Southern California gentleman. Jack's investigation is packed with extras -- Russian organized crime faked freeway accidents a $50 million insurance scam. But Southern California is captured perfectly in all its hyperbolic splendor its overdeveloped beachfronts its sudden mysterious blazes and freeway chills. If the plot contains a few too many contrivances and coincidences Winslow's knowledge of his subject and his territory and the narrative's rapid pace keep the entertainment value at steady flame. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Alfred A Knopf Inc‎

Bookseller reference : 014069 ISBN : 0679454314 9780679454311

‎Winton, John.‎

‎War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay.‎

‎192 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good‎

‎Wisconsin‎

‎MARATHON COUNTY FARM LANDS: The Clover County of Wisconsin: Hardwood Timber Lands 1914‎

‎Wausau: Scribner's 1914. First Thus. Soft cover. Fair. Original promo brochure to sell land in Marathon Wisconsin with plat map on one side and abundant promotional information on the other. Folded. About 28" x 20 1/2". Map covers all of the county showing numerous waterways and railroad lines along with mills ans schools. 18 towns are noted where the company hold land. A glowing promotional for the county where "There has never been a winter when the grass or winter grain was killed. No resident of Marathon County has ever been lost in a blizzard and no Marathon County man has ever been compelled to sell his stock because of lack of water or grass." Granville Jones was a businessman in Wausau who also founded the Wausau Telephone Co. Two copies only located in world libraries. In fair condition. On the back of the map with the extensive text a small amount of text is covered by old paper residue running across the width of the paper. Unsightly but little loss of text. Photo upon request. Rare. Scribner's unknown‎

Bookseller reference : xxx033

‎Woerner, RK‎

‎THE ALASKA HANDBOOK‎

‎Jefferson-NC/London:: McFarland & Co. Fine unmarked illus. Hardback; no DJ. c. 1986. ISBN: ix 220 pp. Catalogs: ALASKA. Keywords: ALASKA TRAVEL. McFarland & Co. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : BOOKS026020I

‎Wolf, Gary K.‎

‎WHO P-P-P-PLUGGED ROGER RABBIT‎

‎New York NY U.S.A.: Villard 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Stated First Edition without the "1" as Villard and many other Random House imprints report. The whole cast is back in the follow up. Roger has hired private eye Eddie Valiant as he suspects that Jessica is baking her carrot cakes for movie heartthrob Clark Cable and the scandal threatens to rob Roger of the Rhett Butler role in the soon-to-be-filmed musical comedy Gone With the Wind. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Villard Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 018420 ISBN : 067940094X 9780679400943

‎Wolverton, Beverly‎

‎A Hundred and Sixty Acres in the Sage. Homestead History of the Immediate Post Area‎

‎Post Oregon: Self Published 1984. First Edition. Original wraps. Very good. 4to 109 pages Illustrated paper covers historical photographs map -- Signed by the author on the title page. -- Condition:. Self Published paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 6937

‎Woman's Auxiliary To Pacific College‎

‎Practical Cook Book‎

‎Newberg Oregon: Graphic Print. Fair with no dust jacket. 1912. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Rear board is missing. Edges are rubbed. The contents show the expected signs of kitchen use. Lots of recipes inserted through the book mostly hand written but also clipped from wherever. Certainly as but interesting and useful. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 132 pages . Graphic Print hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 28436

‎Woman's Board of Missions for the Pacific Islands‎

‎THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT. PRESENTED JUNE 6 1905 WITH THE CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS. "HELP THOSE WOMEN FOR THEY LABORED WITH ME IN THE GOSPEL‎

‎Honolulu: Mercantile Printing Co. Ltd. 1905. 86 2 blanks pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers. Scattered light foxing. Several blank margins have a wormhole. Good.<br /> <br /> Constitution By-Laws Officers Missions Members doings at the Annual Meeting Reports of various committees. Mercantile Printing Co., Ltd. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 31253

‎Women and Children Pacific Dispensary‎

‎First Report of the Pacific Dispensary for Women and Children 1876 Classic Reprint‎

‎hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 0331851601.G ISBN : 0331851601 9780331851601

‎Women's History World War II Women's Army Corps VE Day Pacific Theater Bremer Mary J.; Miller June; Melotte John‎

‎Collection of a Women’s Army Corps Technician Concerning VE Day Reassignment to the Pacific Theater and Processions for Roosevelt and Eisenhower with Lyrical Descriptions of Paris on V-E Day‎

‎Paris France; and Washington D.C. 1945. Six 8 x 10 inch and smaller typed pages; one 4 x 5 inch card with two tickets; one twenty-six page 4 x 5.5 inch pamphlet; one six page 6 x 8.5 inch pamphlet; six 2.5 x 3.5 photographs and two 3 x 4.5 inch photographs. Of the printed matter most is affixed to paper some small tears and folds; overall excellent; photographs near fine. Mary J. Bremer 1917–2019 was a Technician fourth grade from Grant Township Nebraska. Her correspondents here include June Miller 1920–deceased an aviation cadet from Michigan and John Melotte 1919–deceased an artilleryman from Philadelphia. Bremer and Miller were members of the Women’s Army Corps WAC. Established in May of 1942 as the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps the WAC converted to active duty in July of 1943. The women of WAC known as Wacs served in noncombatant roles across the various theaters of World War II.<br /> <br /> Offered here is a small archive of Bremer’s documents and photographs relating to WAC: a few letters including a description of Paris the day after the Nazi surrender; two pamphlets including the War Department pamphlet Two down and One to go –; and a collection of photographs of Eisenhower’s victory parade and Roosevelt’s funeral procession.<br /> <br /> On April 12 1945 President Roosevelt died of a stroke in Warm Springs Georgia. His body was returned to Washington two days later and a military procession escorted it from the train station to the White House. Two photographs of the funeral procession are included in the archive. One showing a woman at the start of a section of the parade is identified verso as “WACs led by Capt. Machenâ€.<br /> <br /> The following month the Nazis surrendered. Bremer’s friend June Miller was stationed in Paris at the time. She wrote to Bremer the next day describing the celebration:<br /> “It began the night before when we stood on the roof and watched the flares go off all over the city--just like the 4th of July; the Sacred Couer was blazing with lights and it looked like a miniature fairy-land. Last night all the famous old buildings including the Arc d’Triumph was all lit up the fountains in the parks at Concord in front of the Trocadero--they were all going and the kids were wading and splashing around having the time of their life. It was really something to see--something the French had been waiting a long time for. “Fini le guerre†they kept saying--the end of the war!â€<br /> <br /> Miller also claims to have witnessed a bomber flying a celebratory loop through the Eiffel Tower:<br /> <br /> “When we came out of the Trocadéro the fountains were on and what a sight that is. Looking down over the water that looks like a miniature waterfall to the Eiffel Tower at the bottom of a small hill. And if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes I would never have believed that I saw a small bomber come through the bottom but that’s just what it did--and just did clear it too. The planes seemed to be going as wild as the people on the ground--they were so thick up there that pretty soon we thought surely something would happen.â€<br /> In June Dwight Eisenhower returned from Europe and a homecoming parade was held for him in Washington D.C. Six photographs of this parade are included in the archive including a shot of his plane arriving at the airport and one where he is visible standing in the back of a Jeep.<br /> <br /> Miller notes in her letter from Paris that “you wondered what was coming next; where we would go from here ‘cause in a sense there is still a war very definitely going onâ€. In fact John Melotte who seems to be Miller’s partner writes to Bremer that he “May be slated for that place they call the CBI but don’t tell June please. She does not want me to even mention the place in my letters so I let well enough alone†July 15 1945. Hostilities would continue in the CBI—the China-Burma-India theater—until September of that year.<br /> The process by which soldiers were selected to be sent to the Asia-Pacific theater is laid out in the War Department pamphlet Two down and One to go –. The pamphlet reminds them that there are still “a couple of big jobs ahead†the primary one being to “crush†or “smash†the “Japs†and the second one being to occupy and police “conquered lands . until the peril of future aggression is gone.†It is a visually striking piece with illustrations in a bold black and red color palette; its cover is a reproduction of a caricature of Hitler Mussolini and Hirohito by Polish-Jewish artist Arthur Szyk.<br /> <br /> Also included in the archive are a card from a friend with tickets to an American League baseball game; a humorous poem congratulating Wacs Ruth O.B. and Lenore I. Nier on new work assignments; and a Christmas 1945 WAC pamphlet with a dinner menu and list of WAC officers. The pamphlet assures the Wacs with a note from Colonel Kenton Cooley “Before another Christmas you all will have returned to civilian life and each of you will take with you my appreciation and my sincere admiration for a great job well done.â€<br /> Of interest to scholars of women’s history especially in the military; and of the events leading up to the end of the Second World War. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : List2747

‎WOODWARD (C. Vann).‎

‎La Bataille de Leyte.‎

‎P., Les Deux Sirènes, 1947, in-8°, 265 pp, traduit de l'américain (“The Battle for Leyte Gulf”), 6 cartes dépliantes hors texte en 2 couleurs, reliure demi-basane mordorée, dos à 5 nerfs soulignés à froid, titres dorés, couv. illustrée conservée (rel. de l'époque), dos lég. frotté, bon état‎

‎La bataille du golfe de Leyte est l'une des opérations majeures de la guerre du Pacifique. Elle a eu lieu au début de la reconquête des Philippines, lors du débarquement des troupes américaines du général Douglas MacArthur sur l'archipel central des Philippines. Cette opération est considérée comme étant la plus grande bataille aéronavale de l'histoire. Du 23 octobre au 27 octobre 1944, des combats acharnés sur une surface vaste comme le tiers de l'Europe virent la fin de la flotte japonaise comme arme offensive capable de changer le cours de la guerre...‎

Bookseller reference : 119560

‎Wood, R. Coke; Bishop, Francis E.‎

‎Big Tree-Carson Valley Turnpike Ebbetts Pass and Highway Four‎

‎Murphys CA: Old Timers Museum 1968. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Paper covers. 68 pages. Photos. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by Wood in 1969. A solid copy with only light wear. <br/> <br/> Old Timers Museum paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 011982

‎Woodall, Emily "Peaceful Waters‎

‎Diary of a Black Rainbow: From Madness to Ministry 1‎

‎BookBaby 2019-12-09. Paperback. Like New. 6x0x9. Paperback. Cover shows very minor shelving wear otherwise an unblemished copy.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! BookBaby paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 132309080014 ISBN : 1543978282 9781543978285

‎Woodcock, George‎

‎Peoples of the Coast: The Indians of the Pacific Northwest‎

‎A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full beige cloth boards. Small tears and edge wear on price-clipped dust jacket. 9"w x 9 3/4"h. 224 pages. Many illustrations and photos. Previous owner's inscription.‎

‎WOODCOCK, George‎

‎South Sea Journey‎

‎8vo [22 x 15 cm]; 341 pp, maps, index. original cloth with gilt title lettering, dj (price clipped, bit rubbed), near fine, clean and unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Covering Samoa, Tonga, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands and Fiji, the author took the trip as a basis for a television documentary series. Engrossing and well written, both personal and highly informative, combining the historical background of the area with present conditions.‎

‎WOODFORD, Charles M.‎

‎On Some Little-Known Polynesian Settlements in the Neighborhood of the Solomon Islands.‎

‎29 pages, including 2 in-text sketch maps. Plus photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a fascinating travel report recounting the history of the Polyesian immigration from Asia into the Pacific and the developing changes of this culture as it was influenced by invasions and growth. Mr. Woodford was recognized for his extensive study of the Polynesians and Malenesians. He provides intricate details on the tattooing procedure and nostril piercing for men, on the construction of canoes which were beginning to be replaced by European boats and half-decked cutters, and on the tools and weapons used.‎

‎Woods, Stuart‎

‎L.A. TIMES‎

‎N.Y.: Harper Collins 1993. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges beginning to age tone else fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. "Prolific crime writer Woods is back in form with a propulsive thriller featuring a movie mogul embroiled in multiple murders. . Here with the help of a dynamic protagonist whose ambitions fuel a wild ride and an explosive ending. Vincente Michaele Callabrese works as a shake-down artist for the mob in New York City's Little Italy but moviegoing is his passion. Early in the story he changes his name to Michael Vincent and makes a break for L.A. where with the help of powerful studio head Leo Goldman he fufills his dream of becoming a big-time producer. Vincent's cosa nostra connections keep in touch particularly old pal Tommy Provenzano whose rise to power in New York parallels Vincent's in Hollywood. Eventually Vincent's desire to bring a gentle turn-of-the-century novel to the screen leads him to employ the sorts of techniques and friends that served him in his mafia days. Cinematic triumph follows but so does trouble. After so much absorbing Hollywood intrigue the mob-style violence of the novel's last chapters seems almost anti-climactic. Readers will have few complaints however having been eminently entertained by the abundant suspense Woods creates as he depicts this licentious adulterous and violent milieu . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Harper Collins Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 004563 ISBN : 0060177144 9780060177140

‎WOODWARD C V‎

‎LA BATTAGLIA DEL GOLFO DI LEYTE‎

‎manca sovracoperta‎

‎WOOLDRIDGE, ed. E.T.‎

‎Carrier Warfare in the Pacific. An Oral History Collection. Edited by E.T. Wooldridge. Foreword by John B. Connally. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER‎

‎8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; buff boards, white cloth back lettered in gilt, ivory endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.‎

‎Woollacott, Arthur P.‎

‎Mackenzie and His Voyageurs - By Canoe to the Arctic and the Pacific 1789-93‎

‎237 pages including index. With illustrations from thirty-two photographs. Spine missing. Past moisture exposure to bottom inch of book resulted in fading to that portion of blue cloth boards and very light staining to contents which are otherwise mildly yellowed and in good condition. Hinges intact. Minimal markings. Very good reading copy. Book‎

‎Woolley, Ivan M.‎

‎Off To Mt. Hood: An Auto Biography of the Old Road‎

‎<p>Oregon Historical Society 1959. Softcover. Very Good-. 109pp; Two stains/rough spots to front cover & spine else clean & bright text unmarked binding is tight VG- condition. Account of the old road to Mount Hood. Illustrated with photos.</p> Oregon Historical Society paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 010289

‎WORMSER (Olivier)‎

‎La victoire en Europe et dans le Pacifique - 1er juillet 1943 au 30 juin 1945‎

‎Paris, Berget-Levrault, 1947. In-8 broché, non coupé, XVIII-200 p. Coll. "La Seconde Guerre Mondiale - Histoire et Souvenirs". Traduit sous la dir. de Louis de Vignaux. Bon état. Rapport biennal au Secrétaire d'Etat à la Guerre des U. S. A.‎

Bookseller reference : 7670

‎WORLD WAR II - PACIFIC THEATRE.‎

‎American photograph album showing the war against Japan.‎

‎Manila: 1940s. A graphic album showing fighting in the Philippines the Marshall Islands Papua New Guinea Guam the Solomon Islands and Palau. The compiler chose to include violent images displaying the brutality of the campaign. The album opens with portrait shots of individual Marines or groups along with photographs of American encampments and ships. The scenes then turn more distressing with images of dead locals including children lying on the beach or next to tanks. The photographs were taken across the Pacific theatre: one shows an American soldier holding a flame-thrower on Kwajalein Atoll another shows a beach landing at Luzon and a third shows a Marine posing next to a sign in Bougainville. Most were taken in the final years of the conflict including at Guadalcanal and Peleliu. There are also shots of the end of the war one showing a Japanese soldier surrendering with a white flag and another showing Japanese prisoners of war in a camp in Guam. The final photograph is the most famous "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" showing six Marines raising the US flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. This photograph won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Photography. The majority of the photographs are commercial with a few opening portrait shots of the unidentified compiler. Oblong folio 286 x 390 mm. With 55 gelatin silver photographs one lacking approximately 90 x 130 mm landscape or portrait corner-mounted with tape recto and verso on 7 leaves remainder blank. With 2 additional gelatin silver photographs loosely inserted. Contemporary brown sheep commercial album tied through punched holes with brown cord front board stamped with central armourial panel in blind gilt and black. Boards chipped at extremities especially front board bottom left corner rear board rubbed leaves nicked at fore edge photographs moderately toned and creased some slightly torn and abraded: a good example. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 182459

‎World Without War Council, Pacific Central Region, comp‎

‎Annotated War / Peace Bibliography and 1967 Literature List‎

‎Berkeley: World Without War Council 1967. Pamphlet. 28p. staplebound pamphlet 5.5x8.5 inches rear wrap lightly soiled else very good condition. World Without War Council unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 272704