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Wasn't that a Time? - Growing Up Radical and Red in America


Schrank, Robert

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, MIT, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, new-looking, beautiful condition. Hardbound, dust jacket, 452 pgs.

Record # 109451


Price: $30.00 

 

Waters of Darkness: Scenes from the Life of an American Jew. Vol 2


Sanford, John

Hardcover. Santa Barbara, CA, Black Sparrow Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 289 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to covers. Plastic clear jacket.

Record # 2233698


Price: $25.00 

 

Wells Family, The: Founders of the American Optical Company and Old Sturbridge Village


Wells, Ruth Dyer

Softcover. Southbridge, Mass., Privately Printed, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages, with photographs and illustrations. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853829


Price: $12.00 

 

West Coast Realism


Gamwell, Lynn

Softcover. Laguna Beach, CA, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with black covers and a color plate on the front. Very minor rubbing, minor wear on the spine, paper wrappers tight. Pages clean and crisp. 21 color plates of paintings from artists on the west coast, all in realistic style and depicting American life. Exhibition and biography list at the back with 46 works listed. 64 pages.

Record # 807643


Price: $29.00 

 

When the Game was Ours


Bird, Larry, Earvin Magic Johnson, Jackie MacMullan

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Reprint, 2009, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 340 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful, like new condition. A compelling portrait of two inimitable players across three decades, a rollicking ride through professional basketball's best times.

Record # 32429


Price: $15.00 

 

When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House


O'Toole, Patricia

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 493 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 457058


Price: $18.00 

 

Whitaker's Southold: Being a Substantial Reproduction of the History of Southold, L.I.: Its First Century


Whitaker, Rev. Epher

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 194 pages. Edited by the Rev. Charles E. Craven. Gilt titles on spine. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Corners a bit bumped. Light soiling to covers. Otherwise clean tight copy.

Record # 508101


Price: $64.00 

 

Who Killed Daniel Pearl?


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Hardcover. Hoboken, Melville House Publishing, 1st Thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 454 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket in very good condition. Clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 750225


Price: $15.00 

 

Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States - Vol. X 1918-1919


Marquis (Ed.), Albert Nelson

Hardcover. Chicago, A.N. Marquis & Co., Revised Ed., 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3926 pages, red cloth with gilt lettering. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 402343


Price: $30.00 

 

Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States - Vol. XI 1920-1921


Marquis (Ed.), Albert Nelson

Hardcover. Chicago, A.N. Marquis & Co., Revised Ed., 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3302 pages, red cloth with gilt lettering. Clean, tight copy.Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover.

Record # 402344


Price: $30.00 

 

Wide Meadows


Mosley, Jean Bell

Hardcover. Caldwell, Ohio, Caxton, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 236 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Dust jacket chipping, faded and tape repair.

Record # 204471


Price: $12.00 

 

William de la Montagne Cary: Artist on the Missouri River


Ladner, Mildred D.

Hardcover. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket

Record # 4295


Price: $24.00 

 

William Faulkner: American Writer


Karl, Frederick R.

Hardcover. New York, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1131 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 402605


Price: $18.00 

 

William H. Seward


Hale, Jr., Edward Everett

Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 388 pages. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Book XII of 'The American Crisis Biographies'. Top edge gilt. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608589


Price: $50.00 

 

William Henry Jackson: Framing the Frontier


Waitley, Douglas

Softcover. Missoula, MT, Mountain Press Publishing Company, First Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages. Softcover. Profusely illustrated in full color and b/w throughout, including early photographs, paintings, drawings of the American frontier by William Henry Jackson. Frontis illustration, William Henry Jackson atop Glacier Point in Yosemite, California, in black & white. Tight binding, faint tone to edges, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751469


Price: $15.00 

 

William Holmes McGuffey: The Schoolmaster To Our Nation


Crawford, Benjamin Franklin

Hardcover. Delaware OH, Carnegie Church Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 105 pages, red cloth covers, b&w frontispiece. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, bright copy.

Record # 405842


Price: $50.00 

 

William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery


Tuckerman, Bayard

Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead & Company, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 183 pages. Ex-library with markings on spine, card-pocket in rear and previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. INSCRIBED BY Williams son John Jay on front end paper. Light wear and rubbing to covers, no dust jacket issued. Faint foxing to edges. Internally clean and bright.

Record # 855918


Price: $75.00 

 

William Tecumseh Sherman: Gold Rush Banker


Clarke, Dwight L.

Hardcover. San Francisco, California Historical Society, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 446 pages, several b&w photographs. Light stain on spine of price-clipped dust jacket. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851722


Price: $20.00 

 

Winslow Homer in the Tropics


Hannaway, Patti

Hardcover. Richmond, VA, Westover Publishing Company, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 296 pages. Yellow cloth covers with gilt lettering. Both black-and-white and color illustrations. Some chipping, closed tears, soiling, and creasing to dust jacket. Previous dealer's pen markings on front flap. Minor sun-fading along dust jacket spine. Now protected by clear, plastic cover. A little edge wear on cloth spine and corners. Minor cracking along hinges. Slight spotting to front and rear end paper and flyleaf. Light fading/rubbing on front flyleaf. Minor soiling on bottom edge. Good, tight copy.

Record # 856433


Price: $38.00 

 

Winslow Homer: American Artist, His World and His Work


Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck

Hardcover. New York, Bramhall House, 1st, 1961, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, 262 pages illustrated with 36 plates in full color and over 196 b&w reproductions. Dark green cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Pictorial dust jacket with some wear to covers and spine and small closed tear to back cover. Overall a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 605689


Price: $22.00 

 

With All My Might: A Autobiography


Caldwell, Erskine

Hardcover. Atlanta, GA, Peachtree Publishers, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Slight foxing to top edge. Pages clean and unmarked. Black endpapers. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of agewear, but very good.

Record # 32203


Price: $15.00 

With Love, Aunt Eleanor: Stories from My Life with the First Lady of the WorldRoosevelt II, Eleanor
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With Love, Aunt Eleanor: Stories from My Life with the First Lady of the World


Roosevelt II, Eleanor

Hardcover. Petaluma CA, Scrapbook Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages, many black and white and sepia tone illustrations. Color illustrated cardboard covers,

Record # 405496


Price: $15.00 

Witnessing Their Faith: Religious Influence on Supreme Court Justices and their OpinionsSekulow, Jay
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Witnessing Their Faith: Religious Influence on Supreme Court Justices and their Opinions


Sekulow, Jay

hardcover. Lanham, Md., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 349 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468957


Price: $19.00 

 

Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times: Margaret Winthrop


Earle, Alice Morse

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages, 2-page illustrated plate in front of book. Light foxing to plate. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Rough-cut pages. Rubbing to cover corners. Spine faded. Library bookplate inside front cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851488


Price: $15.00