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Women Artists in America: 18th Century to the Present (1790-1980)


Collins, Jim & Glenn B. Opitz

Hardcover. Poughkeepsie, NY, Apollo, revised, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Light wear, rubbing and soil to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855152


Price: $44.00 

 

Women in the Civil War: Extraordinary Stories of Soldiers, Spies, Nurses, Doctors, Crusaders, and Others


Eggleston, Larry G.

Softcover. US, McFarland, rep, 2009-05-13, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 462969


Price: $35.00 

 

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 

 

Women of the War; Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice


Moore, Frank

Hardcover. Hartford, S. S. Scranton, 1st, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 596 pages. Illustrated with Steel Engravings. Foxing to front endpapers. Green cloth covers with bright gilt titles on spine and cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609024


Price: $50.00 

 

Wood County, West Virginia


Leavengood, Betty

Softcover. Charleston, Arcadia, Reprint, 2005, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear to cover edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 612179


Price: $15.00 

 

Woodrow Wilson: The American Presidents Series: The 28th President, 1913-1921


Brands, H. W.

Hardcover. New York, Times Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. Tight copy.

Record # 470959


Price: $15.00 

Works of Daniel Webster, The: Complete 6 VolumesWebster, Daniel
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Works of Daniel Webster, The: Complete 6 Volumes


Webster, Daniel

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 15th, 1869, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Complete six volume set with gilt tiles on spine and green cloth cover. Three frontispiece portraits of Webster with tissue guard and additional frontispiece illustration of Green Harbor Marshfield. Minor corner and edge wear, previous owner's bookplate on endpaper, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 853698


Price: $100.00 

Works of Daniel Webster, Then/a
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Works of Daniel Webster, The


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Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 12th, 1860, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 Volumes. Ex-lib with bookplates inside front covers and numbers on spines. B&w frontispieces. Dark green cloth covers w/ light edgewear, chipping to tops of spines. Hinges slightly weak on most volumes. Else pages clean and tight.

Record # 851527


Price: $120.00 

 

World Elsewhere, A - One Man's Fascination with the American Southwest


White, Jon Manchip

Hardcover. New York, Crowell, 1st , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, dj spine faded. Black & white photos

Record # 51090


Price: $8.00 

 

World Elsewhere, A: An American Woman in Wartime Germany


MacRae, Sigrid

Hardcover. New York, Viking, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The love story of a moneyed American and a German aristocrat - a riveting tale of survival. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Price sticker residue to rear dust jacket panel. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952379


Price: $19.00 

 

World of Eli Whitney, The


Mirsky, Jeannette and Allan Nevins

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Co., 1st., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, dj with edgewear, rubbing

Record # 52833


Price: $18.00 

 

World They Made Together, The - Black and White Values in Eighteenth Century Virginia


Sobel, Mechal

Paperback. New Jersey, Princeton Univ., rep. wraps, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 364 pages

Record # 54237


Price: $15.00 

 

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 War II on the Air: Edward R. Murrow and the Broadcasts That Riveted a NationBernstein, Mark
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World War II on the Air: Edward R. Murrow and the Broadcasts That Riveted a Nation


Bernstein, Mark

Hardcover. Naperville, Ill., 1st, May 1, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Audio CD included. 284 pages, b&w photographs throughout. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 453025


Price: $15.00 

 

World's Fastest Man, The: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Mayor Taylor, American's First Black Sports Hero


Kranish, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 365 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of moisture damage to the top of the back cover. Cover boards tan with red quarter cloth, excellent. Pages clean and bright, binding tight. In very good condition. In this book, investigative journalist, Michael Kranish brilliantly chronicles Major Taylor's astonishing rise to world prominence in bicycle racing, twelve years before the ascension of boxer Jack Johnson on the global stage and fifty years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League baseball.

Record # 31424


Price: $19.00 

 

Worst Years of Our Lives, The - Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed


Ehrenreich, Barbara

New York, Pantheon, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages. The politics and culture of the 80's in America.

Record # 305265


Price: $18.00 

Wreckage begins with W: cartoons of the Bush administrationDanziger, Jeff, Illust. by: Jeff Danziger
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Wreckage begins with W: cartoons of the Bush administration


Danziger, Jeff, Illust. by: Jeff Danziger

softcover . Hanover, N.H., Steerforth Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Extensive b&w illustrations by Danziger throughout. Slight curl to front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468994


Price: $38.00 

 

Writer's Eye, A: Field Notes and Watercolors


Horgan, Paul

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Absolutely beautiful, pristine copy. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Looks nearly new and barely read. Presents 60 watercolors done as studies for three of Paul Horgan's books; drawings are accompanied by passages from his works and commentaries about the making of the paintings.

Record # 32293


Price: $15.00 

 

Writing in the New Nation - Prose, Print, and Politics in the Early United States


Ziff, Larzer

New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 209 pages.

Record # 65967


Price: $25.00 

 

Writings on Early American Architecture: An Annotated List of Books and Articles on Architecture Constructed before 1860 in the Eastern Half of the United States.


Roos, Jr.,, Frank J.

Hardcover. Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio State University Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering, lettering is faded on spine, bumped edges and fraying along spine, smudge on back cover. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 852592


Price: $30.00 

Writings on Slavery and the American Civil WarMartineau, Harriet
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Writings on Slavery and the American Civil War


Martineau, Harriet

Hardcover. DeKalb, iL, Northern Illinois University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight wear to edges of jacket, scuffing and fading. Sticker residue on lower spine of jacket. Spine slightly cocked, textblock clean and tight. "Review Only" copy stamped in front end papers.

Record # 2230819


Price: $44.00 

 

Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: American Pewter

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, Vol. 30, No. 3, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of the Yale University Art Gallery Pewter collection; b/w covers, minor rubbing and staining. Paper wrappers slightly worn but still tight. Pages clean and crisp. 55 b/w plates of pewter pieces, 200 items listed. Brief text on each piece accompanies each plate. Essay on pewter's history and craftsmanship in the U.S. 59 pages.

Record # 808469


Price: $16.00 

 

Yankee Peddlers of Early America, The


Dolan, J.R.

New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 2nd, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages.Black & white illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.

Record # 203784


Price: $15.00 

Yankee Stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the FreedmenMcFeely, William S.
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Yankee Stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen


McFeely, William S.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages, b&w frontispiece. In a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear. Faint soil to top edge of text block, not affecting pages. Clean copy.

Record # 411553


Price: $25.00