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Wadsworth-Longfellow House, The: Its History & Its Occupants


Maine Historical Society

Softcover. Portland, Maine, Maine Historical Society, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. Brown covers, b&w frontispiece, perfect binding, b&w plates throughout. Mild rubbing to covers, small portion of upper left corner of page with frontispiece torn off; otherwise a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806402


Price: $20.00 

 

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.

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 

 

Wanderer of Liverpool, The


Masefield, John

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st US, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 139 pages. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Browning on edges of front and back end papers. Fold out blueprint of the ship. Nice copy.

Record # 219964


Price: $11.00 

 

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: Based on the Recollections of Commander C. R. Thompson


Pawle, Gerald

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 422 pages, plus index, b&w photographs. Dust jacket has chipping, tears and old tape on top edge. Red top edge, slightly stained; else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 809013


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

War Paintings & Drawings by British Artists


Brinton, Christian

Hardcover. NY, Redfield-Kendrick-Odell Company, 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages, hardcover. War paintings and drawings by British artists. With a foreward by Raymond Wyer and introduction by Christian Brinton. Binding slightly cracked at front hinge. Moderate rubbing, edgewear, and bumping to boards. Light age toning and soiling to boards as well. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Glue residue and soiling to preliminary pages. Age toning to top edge text block. Color frontispiece intact. Many black-and-white illustrations throughout. Scarce.

Record # 951635


Price: $48.00 

 

War Photographs 1939-45


Beaton, Cecil

Hardcover. London, Imperial War Museum, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. War time photos from noted photographer. Light fading and edgewear to dust jacket top edge. Foxing to top edge of text block. Unmarked.

Record # 951332


Price: $55.00 

 

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 

 

Waterbury Sketches


Wheeler, Alton/Alice Post/Max Ayers/Waterbury Historical Society

Softcover. Waterbury, Waterbury Historical Society, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. Softcover. Pamphlet format. Black & white illustrations. Soiling to covers. Interior pages are clean, unmarked.

Record # 613327


Price: $25.00 

 

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 Go as Captives - The Royalton Raid and the Shadow War on the Revolutionary FrontierGoodwin, Neil

We Go as Captives - The Royalton Raid and the Shadow War on the Revolutionary Frontier


Goodwin, Neil

Softcover. Barre, Vermont Historical Society, Reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. Softcover. Fourth printing. Black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613879


Price: $63.00 

 

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 

 

We, the Tikopia: A Sociological Study of Kindship in Primitive Polynesia


Firth, Raymond, Bronislaw Malinowski (Preface)

Hardcover. London, England, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 2nd Edition, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 605 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Top edge dyed. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has agewear (see image). Dark red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages/edges have some tanning from age. When this book appeared in 1936 it was at once recognized as a major work. With the years it has advanced to the status of a classic.

Record # 33475


Price: $25.00 

 

Weapons of the Falklands Conflict


Perrett, Baryan

Dorset, UK, Blandford Press, 1st , 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 152 pages.

Record # 68868


Price: $8.00 

 

Weekend in Dinlock


Sigal, Clancy

Paperback. New York, Anchor Books/Doubleday & Company, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages, paperback. The story of a fictional coal mining town in England. Based on author's time spent in Northern England. Moderate fading and age toning to wraps. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952375


Price: $19.00 

 

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 Photographs


Trager, Philip/Paul Horgan (Forward)

Softcover. Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press, First Edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 23 pages. Softcover. Full page, black & white photographs by Philip Trager throughout. Features writers Paul Horgan, Vincent Scully, Samuel Green, Eve Blau, William Kerr and Nancy Campbell. Light toning to wraps, small sticker residue to rear wrap. Cean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751470


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Western Regions, New Hampshire: A Visual History, The


Morley, Linda

Hardcover. Norfolk, Donning Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Illustrated with mostly black & white photographs. Light fading to spine of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609191


Price: $40.00 

 

Westminster Abbey


Westminister Abbey Official Guide

Hardcover. NY, Pebbles Press Interntional, 1st , n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color photos by Peter Phillips. Foreword by Edward Carpenter. Small spots to title-page, flyleaf. Bottom of front paste-down endpaper slightly unglued from board cover. Dust jacket with edgewear, closed tears. Large format.

Record # 502628


Price: $8.00 

 

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

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 

 

What She Left Me


Doenges, Judy

Hardcover. Hanover NH, Middlebury College Press/University Press of New England, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 173 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Blue spine cloth, otherwise white board with gilt engraving of Adirondack chair. Winner of the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fiction Prize, sponsored by the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference of Middlebury College. Colorful painting represented on dust jacket.

Record # 803540


Price: $32.00 

What's It All AboutCaine, Michael

What's It All About


Caine, Michael

Hardcover. New York , Random House, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 521 pages. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Embossed titles on dust jacket. Gilt decoration on front cover, gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466581


Price: $15.00 

 

When Darkness Comes


Swindells, Robert

NY, Morrow & Co., 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 158 pages. Science fiction based on archaeologist findings in England. Dust jacket price clipped, slight edgewear.

Record # 501697


Price: $12.00 

When London Was Capital of AmericaFlavell, Julie

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)

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 

Where the Time GoesSkillings, R.D.

Where the Time Goes


Skillings, R.D.

Paperback. Hanover, Univ. Press of New England, 1st wraps, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages, paperback. Front wrapper has a slight crease. Unmarked. Bright and clean, a tight copy.

Record # 124884


Price: $12.00 

 

Wherever That Great Heart May Be


Wetherell, W. D.

Hardcover. Hanover, NH, Univ. Press of New England, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 63325


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

Whistler and His Influence - October 27, 2010 - Sale 2227


Swann Auction Galleries

Softcover. New York , Swann Auction Galleries, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover auction catalog. 326 lots, illustrated in color. No prices realized list. Clean, like new.

Record # 406923


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Whose Woods these Are: A History of the Breadloaf Writers' Conference 1926-192


Bain, David Howard

Hardcover. New York, The Echo Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 378 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title and decoration on spine. Clean inside and out.

Record # 30368


Price: $38.00 

Why the Early Inhabitants of Vermont Disclaimed the Jurisdiction of New York, and Established an Independent Government - An Address Delivered Before the New York Historical Society - December 4th, 1860Hall, Hiland

Why the Early Inhabitants of Vermont Disclaimed the Jurisdiction of New York, and Established an Independent Government - An Address Delivered Before the New York Historical Society - December 4th, 1860


Hall, Hiland

Softcover. Bennington, C. A. Pierce & Company, Reprint, 1884, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 15 page softcover pamphlet. Ex-museum library copy with stamps at top left cover of front cover, and embossed stamp at top right corner of title page. Chipping and some paper loss along bottom edge of front cover and along foredge of back cover. Text is unmarked and intact.

Record # 613942


Price: $79.00 

 

Wilhelmsen Fleet, The: for Speed and Service- 1861-1961


Bland, A.L. and Michael Crowdy

Softcover. Kendal, England, World Ship Society, 1st, 1961, Dust Jacket: None, 75 pages. Black and white photographs along with ships' histories.

Record # 512337


Price: $8.00 

 

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 

 

William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism


Wordsworth, Jonathan, Michael Jaye and Robert Woof

Softcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages with 185 illustrations in color and b&w. Softcover with illustrated wrappers. Exhibition brochure laid in. Crisp, clean copy.

Record # 406293


Price: $15.00 

 

Williams 1793-1993; A Pictorial History


Lewis, R. Cragin (editor)

Hardcover. Williamstown, Ma, Williams College Bicentennial Commission, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230260


Price: $38.00 

Williamstown: Vermont in the Civil WarZeller, Paul G.

Williamstown: Vermont in the Civil War


Zeller, Paul G.

Softcover. Charleston, SC, The History Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. From the back cover: "These are the unvarnished stories of Williamstown in the Civil War. ...With the support of the Williamstown Historical Society, author Paul Zeller honors the Williamstown soldiers and ordinary citizens who fought to preserve the Union and presents their incredible stories of adventure and bravery."

Record # 30394


Price: $25.00 

 

Wilson Carlile and the Church Army


n.a.

Hardcover. London, Church Army Bookroom, 3rd revised, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, b&w photos

Record # 16387


Price: $18.00 

 

Wiltshire Camera. A - 1835-1914


Burnett, David

Hardcover. Wiltshire, UK, Compton Russell, 1st UK, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos of rural England. Maps of Wiltshire front & back end papers Dust-jacket edgewear

Record # 150034


Price: $10.00 

 

Winchcombe Calvalcade or Sidelights on Winchcombe History


Adlard, Eleanor

Hardcover. London, Ed. J. Burrow, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 122 pages, b&w illustrations, with a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Introduction is dated 1939 with no other date. Condition suggests this may be a reprint.

Record # 406832


Price: $19.00 

Windmills in England: A Study of their Origin, Development and Future (SIGNED)Wailes, Rex

Windmills in England: A Study of their Origin, Development and Future (SIGNED)


Wailes, Rex

Hardcover. London, The Architectural Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 47 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Cover shows considerable foxing and staining to edges and covers. Some separation to front and back hinges, but covers still holding. Signed with inscription by author "Rex" in front end papers, 1948. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in upper corner of front end papers.

Record # 2230914


Price: $23.00 

 

Windows on the Past: Four Centuries of New England Homes


Nylander, Jane C. and Diane L Viera

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch/Little, Brown, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. 220 color and 38 black & white photographs by David Bohl. Foreword by Wendell Garrett. Remainder mark on bottom edge.

Record # 801692


Price: $30.00 

 

Winslow Homer Illustrations: 41 Wood Engravings After Drawings by the Artist


Homer, Winslow

Softcover. New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Tan laminated stapled covers with b&w illustration, 41 full page b&w prints of wood engravings. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 805972


Price: $15.00 

 

Winslow Homer Illustrations: 41 Wood Engravings After Drawings by the Artist


Homer, Winslow

Softcover. New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Tan laminated stapled covers with b&w illustration, 41 full page b&w prints of wood engravings. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 805970


Price: $15.00 

 

Winslow Homer's America 1857-1880


Goodrich, Lloyd

Hardcover. New York, Tudor Publishing, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Collection of Winslow Homer's b&w lithographs and woodcuts done for newspapers, magazines and books from 1857 to 1880. Tan cloth cover, orange dust jacket with b&w illustrations, numerous b&w illustrations. Light wear and chipping to edges of dust jacket; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 804973


Price: $16.00 

 

Winslow Homer, The Charles Shipman Payson Collection


Portland Museum of Art

Softcover. Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. White wrappers with large color plate to front, perfect binding, foreword by John Hoverson, essay by Henry Cobb with 4 b&w plates, essay by John Wilmerding, 16 full-page color plates. Very slight rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; overall, a very clean, tight catalog.

Record # 808108


Price: $11.00 

 

Winslow Homer


Homer, Winslow

Softcover. New York, Metropolitcan Museum of Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 39 large color and b&w plates, stapled covers with full color illustration, catalog by Natalie Spassky. Very light wear to covers; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 805805


Price: $8.00 

 

Winston and Clementine: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Churchills


Hough, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Bantam, 1st US, 1991, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 528 pages. Black and white pictures. The remarkable story of this celebrated couple. Previous owner's name inside. Two repaired 1/2 " tears to dust jacket. Chronology and source notes.

Record # 803019


Price: $10.00 

 

Winston Churchill - A Pictorial Life Story


Longford, Elizabeth

Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many photos, black & white and color.

Record # 101391


Price: $18.00 

Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair, 1945-1965Gilbert, Martin

Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair, 1945-1965


Gilbert, Martin

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 1438 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Some Foxing to dust jacket interior and end papers and paste downs. Mild odor. All pages clean and legible.

Record # 469558


Price: $38.00 

Winston S. Churchill: Road to Victory, 1941-1945Churchill, Randolph S.

Winston S. Churchill: Road to Victory, 1941-1945


Churchill, Randolph S.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin (T), 1st, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 1417 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Foxing to top edge and dust jacket interior, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469550


Price: $38.00 

 

Wisest Man In America, The


Wetherell, W.D

Hardcover. Hanover, NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Previous owner's signature on front end paper

Record # 105527


Price: $15.00 

 

With Both Armies


Davis , Richard Harding

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Son , 1st, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Blind stamp on cover. Slant to spine. Slight soiling to top edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857448


Price: $38.00 

 

Without Reserve: Further Adventures of an English Auctioneer


Harton, Richard

Hardcover. US, St. Martin's, 1st US, 1994-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Light edgewear and tearing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462710


Price: $13.00 

 

Witness to the Young Republic - A Yankee's Journal 1828-1870


French, Benjamin Brown

Hardcover. Hanover, NH, New England Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed. by Donald B. Cole & John J. McDonough. Black & white illust. 675 pages.

Record # 61128


Price: $30.00 

 

Women and Their Gardens = A History From the Elizabethan Era to Today


Horwood, Catherine

Hardcover. Chicago, Ball Publishing, 1st Edition, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. 8 full page, full color illustrations. Dust jacket in very good condition, like new. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750394


Price: $15.00 

Wonderful Contraptions & Extraordinary InventionsRobinson, Heath

Wonderful Contraptions & Extraordinary Inventions


Robinson, Heath

Softcover. Gloucestershire, England, Amberly Publishing, 1st Edition, 2015, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent. Pages clean and bright. In beautiful condition. Whacky machines and bemusing solutions to everyday problems are brought to life in this hilarious collection of cartoons from Heath Robinson.

Record # 32835


Price: $19.00 

 

Wood Carvings in English Churches: I - Misericords


Bond, Francis

Hardcover. London, Henry Frowde, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages, b&w illustrations, blue cloth covers with white lettering. Gutter cracked at page 193, but binding is firm. Two small library stamps and a spine label which can be removed with patience.

Record # 405994


Price: $31.00 

Wooden Boats: In Pursuit of the Perfect Craft at an American BoatyardRuhlman, Michael

Wooden Boats: In Pursuit of the Perfect Craft at an American Boatyard


Ruhlman, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, New York, Viking, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gilt titles on spine. Light fading to dust jacket edges, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 325 pages. Record # 467516

Record # 467516


Price: $11.00 

 

Wooden Ships and Iron Men: The Story of the Square-Rigged Merchant Marine of British North America, the Ships, Their Builders and Owners, and the Men Who Sailed Them.


Wallace, Frederick William

Hardcover. New York , George Sully & Company, 1st U.S., 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 337 pages. Blue cloth cover, edges and spine with some wear and tearing. Pages untrimmed only on bottom edge. Light foxing on fore edge and inside pages. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Many b&w illustrations throughout. Circa 1920, but precise date unknown. Previous owner's inscription dated 1924.

Record # 852449


Price: $30.00 

Woodland and MeadowAdams, W.I. Lincoln

Woodland and Meadow


Adams, W.I. Lincoln

Hardcover. New York, Baker and Taylor Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Out-of-Door Papers written on a NH Farm. Richly illustrated with black & white photographs from nature by the author and others. 123 pages, gilt edged and stamped gray covers. Library stamp on front end paper, previous owner's signature on end paper. Binding cracked on page 40.

Record # 408380


Price: $75.00 

 

Work of the Gods in Tikopia, The


Firth, Raymond

Hardcover. London, England, The Athlone Press, 1st Edition, 1967, 492 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear (see image). Pages clean, Spine straight. Binding good. 1st published in 1939 and long out of print, this book remains unique as the only full and detailed account by a social anthropologist of a complete pagan Polynesian ritual cycle. Monographs on Social Anthropology

Record # 33479


Price: $19.00 

 

Working Class Costume from Sketches of Characters by William Johnstone White, 1818


Clabburn (ed), Pamela

Softcover. London, England, The Costume Society, 1st, 1971, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Blue covers in excellent condition, only some wear along the edges. Paper binding is a little sunned but is still tight. Pages are clean and crisp, with a few marks along the edges. 28 b/w plates with notes at the end. 34 pages.

Record # 806985


Price: $15.00 

 

Works of George Lord Lyttelton, Formerly printed separately, and now first collected together; with some other pieces never before printed Published by George Edward Ayscough


Lyttelton, George Lord and George Edward Ayscough

Hardcover. London, J. Dodsley, 1st, 1774, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 751 pages. 4to., full calf with red morocco spine label stamped in gilt, raised bands. Engraved frontispiece portrait. All covers with gilt rules, marbled endpapers, engraved coat of arms on title pages. Leather covers are cracked along exterior edges but expertly repaired.

Record # 404299


Price: $200.00 

 

World of the Nursery, The


White, Colin

Hardcover. London, Herbert Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, English nurseries from the mid 19th to the mid 20th century, lavishly illustrated in b&w and color, slight edgewear, very clean, tight copy.

Record # 801547


Price: $13.00 

 

World of William Hogarth, The.


Gaunt, William

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape Ltd, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 134 pages. Brown cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket is price clipped, has some wear to corners and edges. A nice, tight copy, with b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 455656


Price: $12.00 

 

World Turned Upside Down, The - Essex County During America's Turbulent Years, 1763 - 1790 (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Tagney, Ronald N.

Hardcover. Wesr Newbury, MA, Essex County History, First Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 504 pages. Hardcover SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles spine. Map illustration of Essex County to endpapers. Inside is clean & unmarked with illustrations in black & white. Dust jacket with sunfade to spine & small tears to edges. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751410


Price: $50.00 

World We Have LostLaslett, Peter

World We Have Lost


Laslett, Peter

Softcover. London, Methuen young books, reprint, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 325 pages. Softcover. Creasing to back cover. Some underlining. Sticker residue to back cover. Foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469405


Price: $15.00 

 

Worthies of England, The


Fuller, Thomas

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1st thus, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 716 pages, edited and with an introduction by John Freeman. Dust jacket edge wear and chip, price clipped, foxing on edges. Otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 854872


Price: $19.00 

Writing HomeBennett, Alan

Writing Home


Bennett, Alan

Softcover. New York, Picador, 1st Thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 634 pages. Softcover. Black & white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked and tight copy.

Record # 750143


Price: $11.00 

 

Writing on Ice - The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vilhjalmur Stefansson


Stefansson, Vilhjalmur/Gisli Palsson (Editor)

Hardcover. Hanover, University Press of New England, First Edition, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages. Grey cloth boards with white titles to black cloth spine. 15 pages of full page, full color illustrations & additional photos in black & white throughout. Bright dust jacket with only light marginal wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750919


Price: $31.00 

 

Yale School of Architecture Retrospecta 2005/2006


Lui, Elisa (Editor)

Softcover. 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 453034


Price: $60.00 

 

Yankee Yorkshireman, The


Smith, Hedley

Hardcover. Detroit, MI , Harlo Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 116 pages. SIGNED BY SMITH on front fly leaf. A fictional novel based on historically accurate picture of the English textile workers who settled in New England. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf. Dust jacket edgeworn, price clipped.

Record # 305563


Price: $15.00 

 

Yankees and God (SIGNED)


Smith, Chard Powers

Hardcover. New York, Hermitage House, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 528 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. A history of New England culture and the four phases of Puritanism from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Edgewear to dust jacket, light fading and soiling as well. Faint bumping to corners. Red tint to top edge text block. Light fading to end papers. A tight copy

Record # 951376


Price: $48.00 

Yanks Paint Brits - From Benjamin West to Nelson Shanks, From King George III to The Princess of WalesFeld, Stuart P./Gregory Hedberg/Hirschl & Adler Galleries

Yanks Paint Brits - From Benjamin West to Nelson Shanks, From King George III to The Princess of Wales


Feld, Stuart P./Gregory Hedberg/Hirschl & Adler Galleries

Softcover. New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Full color and black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613813


Price: $19.00 

 

Year 1000, The - What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium


Lacey, Robert & Danny Danziger

Boston, Little Brown , 4th printing, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages. Dust jacket is really a belly-band.

Record # 305442


Price: $15.00 

 

Year Books of Edward II, vol. XXVII Michaelmas 1320


Stoljar, S. J. and L. J. Downer

London, Selden Society, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 176 pages. Corners bumped. Otherwise very good.

Record # 507164


Price: $18.00 

 

Year in Europe: Comprising a Journal of Observations in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Switzerland, The North of Italy, and Holland in 1818 and 1819. [Volume Two only].


Griscom, John

Hardcover. New York, Collins & Co., rep, 1824, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 374 pp Hardbound some wear to the extremities and spine leather gone from top and bottom, exposing signatures. Front board is nearly separated and back board on the way. Foxing throughout. Some insect damage to back 30 pages, but only barely reaching text. Reading copy only.

Record # 804583


Price: $26.00 

 

Yellowplush Correspondence, The


N/A

Hardcover. Philadelphia, E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1st , 1838, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages. Thackeray's first book, first published here in the United States (1841 in England). Tannish paper over boards, brown cloth spine, light fraying to top. Spine label darkened but still readable, light chipping, moderate foxing throughout, hinges cracked, rear pastedown paper gone. Picture available. Overall good +.

Record # 501054


Price: $250.00 

 

Yeomen of the Guard, The - W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan


Mearns, Martha, Illust. by: Anne and Janet Grahame Johnstone

NY, Franklin Watts, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color drawings by Anne and Janet Grahame Johnstone. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.

Record # 502744


Price: $20.00 

 

Yesterday's Rules - The Making of the British Colonial Service


Heussler, Robert

Hardcover. London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st UK, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 260 pages. Dj price clipped Previous owner's signature front fly leaf

Record # 60097


Price: $25.00 

 

Young Mary Queen of Scots, The


Plaidy, Jean, Illust. by: William Randell

NY, Roy Publishers, 1st US, n.d. (1963), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&w illustrations by William Randell. In a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Record # 501272


Price: $75.00 

 

Young Sea Officer's Street Anchor, or, a Key to the Landing of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship, The.


Lever, Esq., Darcy

Hardcover. New York , Edward W. Sweetman Co., reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Tan cloth cover, some wear to edges and corners. Top edge colored purple. Inside is bright and clean, with b&w illustrations, maps and diagrams throughout. Reproduced by the photolithographic process from the Second Edition of 1819. A nice, tight copy.

Record # 853012


Price: $20.00 

 

Youth Unchartered


Lawford, Stephen

Hardcover. New York , Macmillan, 1st U.S., 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Swashbuckling autobiography of an English army officer. Much on Middle East, Balkans, South America. Light cover soil, otherwise very good.

Record # 301811


Price: $9.00 

 

Zanzibar Chest, The: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands


Hartley, Aidan

Hardcover. New York, NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 414 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Tan cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Some light foxing to top edge. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. The story of the Hartley family in Africa, an enthralling narrative of men and women meddling with, embracing, and ultimately being transformed by other cultures.

Record # 32164


Price: $15.00 

Not I, But The Wind by: Lawrence, Frieda

Not I, But The Wind by: Lawrence, Frieda

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 3rd print, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 297 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in rough condition, with multiple open tears particularly along the top and bottom. Cloth covers are clean and bright, as are the interior pages. Binding is solid. B&W photography throughout. Deckled edge. This book will put the great D.H. Lawrence in perspective; it is one of the most vivid portraits of the writer, as written by his wife. Clean copy. Record # 33747
Price: $18.00 


  

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