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View from Lincoln Hill, The - Man and the Land in a New England Town


Brooks, Paul

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, INSCRIBED BY BROOKS on front fly leaf. Slight cock to spine. Dust jacket with light wear, spine fade.

Record # 301110


Price: $19.00 

Village Blacksmith, TheWatson, Aldren A., Illust. by: A.A. Watson
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Village Blacksmith, The


Watson, Aldren A., Illust. by: A.A. Watson

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 2nd, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 125 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Light brown fabric covered boards in good shape, clean inside. Dust cover age worn, in protective plastic. Pages and edges lightly yellowed with age. From the front flap: "The now extinct world of the blacksmith is recreated here in more than a hundred superbly detailed drawings and colorful text. Unlike many nostalgic accounts based on myth and romance, this book presents a historically accurate picture of the late-nineteenth-century New England smith, who daily performed the miracle of transforming lumps of re-hot iron into objects of utilitarian function."

Record # 30471


Price: $38.00 

 

Wager Mutiny, The


Pack, S. W. C.

Hardcover. London, Alvin Redman, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. B&w illustrations. Some wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851922


Price: $12.00 

Walton-on-the-Naxe in old picture postcardsNorman, Bernard J.
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Walton-on-the-Naxe in old picture postcards


Norman, Bernard J.

Hardcover. Zaltbommel NE, European Library, 3rd Ed., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated boards, features 75 postcard scenes reproduced in b&w from 1880 - 1930. The small town is on the north-east Essex coast of England. Clean copy.

Record # 412272


Price: $39.00 

 

Wanderer of Liverpool, The


Masefield, John

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 139 pages. Color frontispiece illustration of the ship, 38 b/w illustrations (plates), plans of the ship. Four sets of plans bound in (3 of them are large and fold-out style: mid-ship section, main deck plan, sail plan). Tanning to pages and edges from age. Binding tight, spine straight. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Some fading to covers, especially to spine (see image). History of the ship, long poem by Masefield who was poet laureate.

Record # 32244


Price: $25.00 

 

War Against War: British and German Radical Movements in the First World War


Carsten, F.L.

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, covered in protective plastic brodart, looks new. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Clean inside and out. In excellent condition.

Record # 31412


Price: $19.00 

 

War and Colonel Warden, The


Pawle, Gerold

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Based on the Recollections of Commander C.R. Thompson, personal assistant to the Prime Minister 1940-1945. Dj worn, chipped, spine faded.

Record # 59269


Price: $13.00 

 

War at Sea - 1939-1945 - Volume 2 - The Period of Balance, The


Roskill, Capt. S. W.

Hardcover. London, HMSO, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 2 Only. 523 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs and fold-out maps. Front hinge gutter cracked, with hinge cloth holding. Interior clean, and unmarked.

Record # 608605


Price: $40.00 

 

War of the People, A: Vermont Civil War Letters (SIGNED BY EDITOR)


Marshall, Jeffrey D.

Hardcover. Hanover, NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 357 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY EDITOR. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent. Clean inside and out. Binding tight. Great shape. More than 140 letters, carefully selected from some 9000 in several archives, convey in personal terms the combat experience of Vermonters throughout the war.

Record # 32151


Price: $23.00 

 

Warrior Queens - The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in World War II


Butler, Daniel Allen

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, Stackpole Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of black & white photographs. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613681


Price: $13.00 

 

Wars Between England and America, The


Smith, T. C.

Hardcover. London, Williams and Norgate, 1st, 1914/15, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Decorative stain to top edge. Soiling, rubbing, and some edgewear to cover. Else a clean copy.

Record # 851900


Price: $15.00 

 

Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles


Cornwell, Bernard

Hardcover. London UK, William Collins, 1st UK, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Meticulously researched history regarding the battle of Waterloo. Heavy scratching to dust jacket titling. Rubbing and edgewear to rear dust jacket flap. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 952495


Price: $29.00 

 

We Were New England - Yankee Life by Those Who Lived It


Mussey, Barrows

Hardcover. New York, Stackpole Sons, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 411 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Goddard College students bookplate on inside front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611674


Price: $25.00 

 

Welsh Cattle Drovers


Colyer, Richard J.

Hardcover. US, Univ of Wales Pr, 1st, 1976-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 155 pages. Includes b&w photographs and maps. Gilt titles on spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465992


Price: $38.00 

 

Wesleyan University, 1831-1910: Collegiate Enterprise in New England


Potts, David B.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Readable history of nineteenth-century New England colleges. Mild fading to spine. Slight bowing to front panel. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952568


Price: $24.00 

 

Westminster


Besant, Sir Walter, Illust. by: William Patten et. al.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st thus, 1895, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 398 pages, 130 b&w illustrations by William Patten and others. Green cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and black and gilt design. Top edge gilt. Rough-cut pages. Edge wear to covers. Rear hinge and binding cracked. Else pages clean and crisp.

Record # 401949


Price: $40.00 

Westward Ho!: Or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight of Burrough in the County of Devon in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth Rendered into Modern EnglishKingsley, Charles, Illust. by: E. A. Co
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Westward Ho!: Or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight of Burrough in the County of Devon in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth Rendered into Modern English


Kingsley, Charles, Illust. by: E. A. Co

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1st Illustrated Edition, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 489 pages, with 16 colored plates by E. A. Cox. Gilt decorated cover and spine. Slight corner and edge wear, foxing on edges and front and rear fly leaf. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf. Otherwise, very clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852848


Price: $25.00 

 

Westward to Vinland: The Discovery of Pre-Columbian Norse House-sites in North America


ingstad, Helge

Hardcover. London, England, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Cover boards bound in brown cloth, gilt title on spine. Westward to Vinland is not only the invaluable record of a major contemporary archaeological discovery, it is a fascinating travel book which describes the life and character of the Eskimoes and Indians of North America.

Record # 32208


Price: $38.00 

When London Was Capital of AmericaFlavell, Julie
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When London Was Capital of America


Flavell, Julie

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010-06-29, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover. Review news clipping laid in. Black and white illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466749


Price: $25.00 

WHERE HAVE ALL THE COWSLIPS GONE?: WESSEX MEMORIESMURRAY, VENETIA (EDITOR)
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WHERE HAVE ALL THE COWSLIPS GONE?: WESSEX MEMORIES


MURRAY, VENETIA (EDITOR)

Hardcover. US, BISHOPSGATE PRESS LTD, 1st, 1989-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Light foxing on title page otherwise very good, dust jacket has small tear on front top fore edge otherwise good.

Record # 466521


Price: $15.00 

 

Whig Supremacy 1714-1760, The


Williams, Basil

Hardcover. London, Oxford, Reprint, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 504 pages. Illustrated with 7 pages of black & white maps. Light foxing to endpapers. Cloth covers slightly bowed. Dust jacket shows standard wear with faded spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610086


Price: $15.00 

 

Who's Who in Late Medieval England 1272-1485


Hicks, Michael A.

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, 1st, October 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 358 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 457644


Price: $13.00 

 

Who's Who in the Middle Ages (2 Vol.)


Emmerson, Richard K. (Editor), Sandra Clayton-Emmerson (Asso. Editor)

Hardcover. London, England, Routledge, 1st Edition, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 1037 pages (two volume set). Hardcovers. Books are in beautiful like-new condition. Red cover boards, silver gilt title on spines. Dust jackets unclipped. Pages bright and clean. Spines straight, bindings tight. From Emperors and queens to artists and world travelers, from popes and scholars to saints and heretics, Who's Who in the Middle Ages brings together the most important people who lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500 AD.

Record # 33432


Price: $63.00 

 

William H. Fox Talbot - Inventor of the Negative - Positive Process


Jammes, Andre

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 70 gravure Illustrations, 96 pgs. pgs 6 & 7 have tear coming from spine indicating publishers flaw - both are very repairable and pages readable. otherwise VG.

Record # 125416


Price: $30.00 


  
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