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Westralia Gold Mining Opportunities


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Hardcover. London, Mining World & Engineering Record, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A guide to gold mining in Western Australia, 111 pages with b&w illustrations, folding color map of The Golden Mile with various mining companies activity. Color illustrated boards with black cloth spine, light soil.

Record # 405927


Price: $19.00 

 

Westward Crossings, The - Balboa, MacKenzie, Lewis & Clark


Mirsky, Jeanette

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 365 pages, b&w illustrations and map. Dust jacket with light soil, edgewear, spine fade. Clean.

Record # 52797


Price: $12.00 

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 Journeys


Applegate, Jesse A.

Hardcover. Chicago, Lakeside Pr, rep, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, memoirs of traveling the Overland Trail Ed. by Martin Ridge

Record # 2052


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

Whaling and Old Salem: A Chronicle of the SeaRobotti, Frances Diane
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Whaling and Old Salem: A Chronicle of the Sea


Robotti, Frances Diane

Hardcover. Salem, MA, Newcomb & Gauss, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Very minor wear to spine. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in upper corner of front end papers.

Record # 2230912


Price: $23.00 

 

Whaling Boy


Freuchen, Peter

New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages, b&w illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher.

Record # 407822


Price: $13.00 

 

Whaling North and South


Morley, F.V. and J.S. Hodgson

Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 235 pages, b&w photographs by the authors. Green cloth with black and gilt decoration. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, light spotting to page edges.

Record # 402362


Price: $25.00 

 

What Did You Do in WWII Grandpa?


Gabler, Clyde W.

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Gateway Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 91 pages, b&w illustrations, in blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration. Author was a staff officer with the air force in North Africa, Sicily and Italy during World War II.

Record # 405310


Price: $25.00 

 

What Good Are Bugs: Insects in the Web of Life


Waldbauer, Gilbert

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Green cover boards with black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. In great shape, binding tight, clean inside. Has a small drip of soil to top edge, but otherwise excellent. "...combines anecdotes from entomological history with insights into the intimate workings of the natural world, describing the intriguing and sometimes amazing behavior of these tiny creatures."

Record # 31411


Price: $15.00 

 

What Happened on the Bounty


Danielsson, Bengt

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1st english, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages. Decorated endpapers. Light foxing to edges. Light edgewear, rubbing to cover. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 851897


Price: $12.00 

 

What I Saw in California


Bryant, Edwin

hardcover. Palo Alto, Lewis Osborne, Rep., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The complete narrative & appendix from the 1849 Appleton edition in facsimile. 480 pages + obituary of author & index.

Record # 64992


Price: $40.00 

What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United StatesSimon, James F.
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What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States


Simon, James F.

hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 348 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468956


Price: $15.00 

 

What's Right - The New Conservative Majority and the Remaking of America


Frum, David

New York, Basic Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Remainder mark on bottom book edge.

Record # 204855


Price: $15.00 

Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of ProgressBrinkley, Douglas G.
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Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress


Brinkley, Douglas G.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Adult, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 858 pages, b&w photos. Black cloth, silver lettering to spine. Light wear to dust jacket, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 452798


Price: $15.00 

 

Wheels of Commerce, The - Civilization & Capitalism 15th - 18th Century


Braudel, Fernand

New York, Harper & Row, 1st U.S. , 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 670 pages. B&W illustrated

Record # 301415


Price: $30.00 

 

Wheels of Commerce, The - Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century (Vol. 2)


Braudel, Fernand

Softcover. New York, Harper & Row, Rep., 1982 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 670 pages, B&W illustrations. Paperback.

Record # 303707


Price: $20.00 

 

Wheels Stop: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)


Houston, Rick

Hardcover. US, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2013-12-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 428 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463407


Price: $25.00 

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 Boxing Was a Jewish Sport


Bodner, Allen

Hardcover. US, Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1997-10-28, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462664


Price: $31.00 

 

When Hollywood Had A King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent Into Power and Influence


Bruck, Connie

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 513 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the front flap: "In When Hollywood Had A King, the distinguished journalist Connie Bruck tells the sweeping story of MCA and its brilliant leader, a man who transformed the entertainment industry--businessman, politician, tactician, and visionary Lew Wasserman.

Record # 30500


Price: $19.00 

 

When Light Pierced the Darkness - Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland


Tec, Nechama

Paperback. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, Rep. wraps, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 262 pages. Paperback edition.

Record # 66054


Price: $15.00 

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 Montana and I Where Young: A Frontier Childhood


Bell, Margaret

Hardcover. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 854790


Price: $12.00 


  
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