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WHEELS WEST 1590-1900Dunlop, Richard
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WHEELS WEST 1590-1900


Dunlop, Richard

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w with a few color plates. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460012


Price: $19.00 

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 

 

When Railroads Were New


Carter, Charles Frederick

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt , 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606954


Price: $35.00 

 

Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story


Rothenberg, Randall

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 478 pages. Hardcover. Silver gilt titles on spine and cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 52675


Price: $15.00 

 

Where Two Worlds Meet: The Great Lakes Fur Trade (Museum Exhibit Series)


Gilman, Carolyn

Softcover. US, Minnesota Historical Society Press, reprint, 1988-05-15, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Crease to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464703


Price: $15.00 

 

Whirlwind of War, The - Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865


Oates, Stephen B.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 846 pags.

Record # 61127


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

White House China of the Lincoln Administration, in the Museum of History and Technology


Klapthor, Margaret Brown

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, United States National Museum Bulletin 250, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 62, Pages 109-120. White stapled wrappers with gold and purple graphic illustration, color frontispiece, 13 b&w plates. Slight rubbing to wrappers, previous owner's neat ink inscription to front page, otherwise pages crisp and unmarked, a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 807855


Price: $22.00 

 

White House Diary., A


Johnson, Lady Bird

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 51349


Price: $12.00 

 

White House, The: An Historic Guide


n/a

Softcover. Washington, D.C., White House Historical Association, 3rd, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 129 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Some wear, rubbing to cover.

Record # 851700


Price: $12.00 

Whiz Kids, The : The Founding Fathers of American Business  and the Legacy they Left UsByrne, John A.
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Whiz Kids, The : The Founding Fathers of American Business and the Legacy they Left Us


Byrne, John A.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Business, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 581 pages, photos in b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Slight dent to upper front corner. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460647


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

 

Why Italy Entered into the Great War


Carnovale, Luigi

Hardcover. Chicago, Italian-American Publishing, 1st, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 673 pages. Black & white illustrations. Front and rear hinges cracked but holding. Text unmarked.

Record # 608233


Price: $18.00 

Why Jazz HappenedMyers, Marc
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Why Jazz Happened


Myers, Marc

Hardcover. Berkley, CA, University of California Press, 2nd, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight wear to jacket, scuffing to back. Name of previous owner in pen in front end paper. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230935


Price: $19.00 

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
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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 

 

Wildest of the Wild Weat - True Tales of a Frontier Town on the Santa Fe Trail


Bryan, Howard

Hardcover. Santa Fe, NM, Clear Light, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A collection of early journalistic accounts of the New Mexican town of Las Vegas, 1835-1915. illust. 269 pages. Dj with edgewear, sunning to spine

Record # 57046


Price: $20.00 

 

Will the Circle be Unbroken: Country Music in America


Kingsbury, Paul

Hardcover. US, DK Publishing, 1st american, 2006-09-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages. Extensive color and b&w photographs throughout. Embossed sticker from Country Music Hall of Fame on front cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466135


Price: $19.00 

 

Willard's of Washington: The Epic of a Capital Caravansary


Eskew, Garnett Laidlaw, B.P. Adams

Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, Inc., 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Some agewear yellowing to covers, edges and pages. In good condition for its age, binding still quite tight.

Record # 30903


Price: $19.00 

 

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 Hahn Genre Painter 1828-1887


Arkelian, Marjorie Dakin

Softcover. Oakland, The Oakland Museum, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 84 pages, illustrated throughout color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor wear to covers, else like new.

Record # 805689


Price: $13.00 

 

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 Henry Letters, The


Diaz, Abby Morton

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, Rep, 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of a young boy's letters to his grandmother with commentary. Whether fictionalized or not, an interesting account of growing up in the early to mid 1800's 1st pub. in 1870 with crude drawing supposedly by the boy. Hinge cracked. 275 bapes VF, internally. Original green cloth with gilt decoration on spine

Record # 59886


Price: $26.00 

 

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