Search Results: Authors starting with W from Ross & Haines

Detroit, MI: Margaret Wade, 1924. First Edition . Original Wraps. Good/Issued Without Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 15 pp., b/w photos, lightly soiled white covers on saddle-stiched pamphlet, scarce. Printed on outside rear cover, "Compliments of Howard C. Wade.Detroit, Michigan." The story of how Jack Miner saved the wild swans of the Niagara area by moving them to the north shore of Lake Erie.

Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1961. First Revised Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiv + 272 pp., frontis, footnotes, bib., index. First pub. in 1935, this is the first prntg. of the new & revised edition (1961). The author was a noted expert on Twain & his writings. Review copy slip laid in loose. Red cloth bound hard cover book in near fine cond., no markings, etc. The price-clipped d/w shows some sl. wear & rubbing, small repaired tear to the front, sl. wear to the head of the spine o/w good cond.

Boston: Ruth Hill, Publisher, 1934. 1st Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 256 pp., photo frontis, b/w photos. The story of John Burkman, George Custer's orderly and a soldier in the 7th Cavalry. Burkman was devoted to the Custers. Bright red cloth hard bound book . The gold foil title stamping to the spine is sl. faded but still legible. No d/w but the book is now protected in a professionally made red cloth slip case. Flat signed by the author on the f.f.e.p. along w/an unrelated gift inscription. Nice copy.

Aberdeen, S.D.: Sky Carrier Press, 1994. 1st Edition . Original Wraps. Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A saddle-stitched (stapled) pamphlet 81 pp., end notes. A critique of Annie Tallent the first white woman into the Black Hills & later educator & author for the racism inherent in her famous 1899 book THE BLACK HILLS OR LAST HUNTING GROUNDS OF THE DAKOTAHS. This pamphlet could have used an editor. White card stock, original wraps, crudely trimmed on the upper fore edge but in v.g. to near fine cond. otherwise. Scarce.

Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soner, Pub., 1938. Second Edition . Paperback. Very Good/Issued Without d/j. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 82 pp., b/w photos, map. Original wraps (paperbound). This is the 1938 publication not a facsimile. V.G. cond.

Cambridge, MA.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1952. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiv + 344 pp., footnotes, appendix, bib., index. The Free Corps units defended the Weimar Republic after the end of World War I but later became the brown shirts of the Nazis. Cloth bound hard cover book in v.g. cond. Bookplate. Price clipped d/w shows edge & corner wear hence only good cond. Tape repair on the under side of the d/w in several places. Signed presentation on the f.f.e.p., "To Norman with gratitude, affection and fragrant memories. Bob Waite.

Lyon, Mississippi: The Derrydale Press, 1993. Reprint . Full-Leather. Fine/Issued Without d/j. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Milton C. Weiler. 12mo., xvi + 401 pp., frontis, b/w illus. Fishing stories. A limited edition (2,500 cc.) reprint of the 1940 original limited edition (550 cc.). Dark blue full leather hardcover w/gold-foil stamping to the front & spine. Small color illus. on the front cover also. All edges gilt, marbeled endpapers. Fine cond.

London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1913. 1st Edition Ex-Library. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 149 pp., footnotes. A ex-lib. copy w/bookplate & labels on the front endpapers. Remnant of call #'s on the spine & a label on the front cover. O/W no markings. Gift inscription on the f.f.e.p. signed "the author" & dated 1913. The rear free end paper is torn & age darkened. Cloth bound hard cover book in good cond.

N.P.: The Tecumseh Grange, 1975. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback, vi + 76 pp.,map frontis, map, b/w photos, index. A History of Tecumseh, Kansas, 1854-1974. Paperbound book in v.g. cond. does show some sl. soiling & small spot to front cover.

Lubbock, TX.: West Texas Museum Assoc., 1967. 1st Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xvi + 202 pp., index. Matter of fact reports of Mackenzie's efforts against the Commanche, Kiowa & Kickapoo. Blue cloth bound hard cover book w/silver title stamping to the front cover and spine in near fine cond. The d/w shows lite rubbing along the edges & heel of the spine o/w v.g. cond.

New York: New York: Coward McCann, 1952, 1952. First Edition . Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Good/Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 305 pp. An abridged and edited edition of Hawks' Narrative of Perry's Expedition to Japan.

New York: New York: Winchester Press, 1977, 1977. First Edition, Later Printing. . Hardcover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. First Edition, Later Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 213 pp. Good in a price clipped Dw. Discusses actions, feeding systems, ejection systems, barrels, sights, bullet design, performance, etc.

St. Paul: Prairie Smoke Press, 1999. First Thus 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/Issued Without Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Paperback quarto, 102 pp., b/w illus., notes. Pub. for the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe. A new edition of a work originally pub. in 1923 in the Journal of American Folklore. Tales of the Santee (Eastern) Dakota Nation, vol. 1. Paperbound book in new cond.

New York: F.S. Crofts & Co., 1939. 1st Edition . Decorative Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xii + 388 pp., b/w illus., footnotes, bib., index. The Natural and the Supernatural, Sacred Places, Sacred Objects, Sacred Trees, Sacred Animals, Sacred Persons, The Gods, Offerings & Sacrifice, Life After Death, Religious Patterns, etc. Cloth bound hard cover book in good or better cond. The D/w is in good cond. but does have some chipping along the top edge & some corners.

Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 251 pp., footnotes, maps, index, dated entry diaries. A Zoological Collector and Anthropologist in China (1920s). Yellow colored card cover near fine cond.

Prescott, AZ.: Wolfe Pub. Co., 1986. Reprint . Quarter Leather. Fine/Issued Without d/j. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xvi + 502 pp., frontis, numerous b/w illus., tables, index, ads. Vol. I reprint of the 1882 edition. Limited edition this is #852 of 1500 copies. "Including game & wildfowl guns, sporting & match rifles, & revolvers." Brown leather spine on green boards, gold-foil stamping to the spine, all edges gold gilt, fine cond.

London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859. First Edition . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Thick 12mo., xvi + 448 pp., frontis, numerous b/w illus. Varieties of Shooting, The Animals Used, Elementary Principles of Gunnery. Some lt. foxing on the first few pp., a couple of sl. damaged pp. in the text, small chip on the lower righthand corner of the t.p. o/w the text is good to v.g. The book is re-bound w/new endpapers w/a leather label on the spine in good to v.g. cond.

St. Paul: Northwest Area Foundation, 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good/Issued Without Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Paperbound quarto, 255 pp., color photos, b/w photos & illus., maps. Louis Hill, Sr., son of the great railroad magnate James J. Hill put together an incredible collection of Native American art that is now dispersed. This catalogue brings it back together atleast on paper. Paperback book in good cond. but shows edge wear & some lt. scratches on the rear panel. Binding solid.

Sarasota, FL.: Pineapple Press, Inc., 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Half-Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiv + 256 pp., maps, b/w photos & illus., appendices, glossary, notes, bib., index. The search for the treasure fleets from 1492 to the present. Half cloth bound hard cover book & d/w both in near fine cond.

N.P.: Ralph H. Wandrey, 1979. First Edition, Later Printing. 3rd Printing. Original Wraps. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Slender octavo, plastic comb binding, 94 pp., one b/w photo. Wandrey was Dick Bong's wingman in the South Pacific during World War II. He also flew a couple of missions w/Charles Lindbergh. Wandrey had 6 kills & 16 probables. An uncommon book. This is the 3rd prntg. (1979) of a work first done in 1950. Signed on p. 3 under the author's photo, "Ralph H. Wandrey." Pamphlet in fine cond.