Search Results: Authors starting with W from McCormick Books

County of Oakland. Very Good+. 1976. Softcover. A history of Oakland County, Michigan based on an article prepared by J. Carlton Starbuck, rewritten by Richard Lee Waddell and then supplemented and edited by the committee. Early Michigan history including canals, railroads, rural and pioneer life, Civil War, buggy industry, etc., through 1976. With black-and-white historical photos. ; MCN26406; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 181 pp .

Pittsburg: Private Printing. Fair with no dust jacket. 1899. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth boards rubbed and darkened, hinges cracked and frontispiece detached with rough edges. Else a complete first edition copy that just need some tightening. "To Which is Added the Collateral Branches of De Guylpyn, West and Wade." History of the Okely family of Maryland and Pennsylvania, with additional allied lines of Hoopes, Wilson, Webster. Illustrated. Index. ; MCN23952; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 91 pp .

New York: William Godwin, Inc.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. c1920. Hardcover. Black cloth with silver design front panel and lettering to spine lightly rubbed, tearing to cloth head of spine. Deckled page ends, securely bound. Not dated, published circa 1920. Willy Pogany line illustrations throughout plus all eight color plates. ; MCF04424; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .

Grand Rapids: Black Letter Press. Fine. 1978. Reprint. Softcover. 0912382252 . Facsimile reprint of the 1918 history of Michigan's Grand Traverse area includes biographical sketches, black-and-white illustrations, list of members of the Old Settlers' Association with the year that they came to the region. Many local advertisements. ; MCN27091; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 86 pp .

Grand Traverse Pioneer & Historical Society. Very Good+. 1991. Softcover. 0961890339 . Collection of Traverse City, Michigan postcards, most from the collection of Kathy Waggoner Gorski. ; MCN27980; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pp .

Thunder Bay Press. Fine. 1996. Softcover. 1882376315 . Profusely illustrated history of transportation in the western portion of Michigan. ; MCN32941; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 216 pp .

Eureka, Illinois: Senior Class of Eureka College. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1919. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dark green cloth boards lightly rubbed, a few nicks to cloth top edge of front board. 1919 annual of Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois. ; MCN23060 .

Heritage House. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt stamping show mild wear, discoloration area to spine else internally sound with no markings. Originally published as House Document 262, 26th Congress, 1st Session in 1840. Illinois bounty land records for those veterans who served during the War of 1812 - patent dates are between 1817-1818. Entries include date of patent, warrant number, name of patentee, rank, corps or regiment, description of tract, to whom patent was delivered, date of delivery. Index. ; MCN32268; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 648 pp .

E. W. Wallace. Very Good+. 1907. Softcover. Black decorated wraps with cord tie have 3" thin loss from mice nibbles top edge running through about first fifteen pages. Else no other damage or markings, clean and unmarked. Collection of Mackinac Island historic photographs taken around the turn of the century. Quite uncommon.; MCN30177; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 48 pp .

Fort Wayne Public Library. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. Orange cloth. Informal history of the Whitesville and Union Township communities in Montgomery County, Indiana written by longtime resident. Includes genealogical data, names of early business owners, teachers, students, etc. Illustrated. ; MCN31762; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 71 pp .

Brandylane Publishers. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 1883911176 . Author signed front endpaper. Navy cloth boards with gilt lettering. Oversized volume containing brief genealogies and historical background of several families. Surnames include Armistead, Beverly, Burwell, Carter, Cooke, Booth, Dandridge, Langborne, Dunham, Franklin, Grymes, Harrison, Higginson, Jones, Ludwell, Nelson, Peyton, Randolph, Reade, Smith, Throckmorton, Todd/Bernard, Warner, Withers, Vandegrift, etc. ; MCN33672; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 447 pp; Signed by Author .

Private Printing. Very Good+. 1981. 1st Edition. Softcover. A clean, unmarked copy. A third volume of Comanche County, Texas cemetery inscriptions with index. Cemeteries in this volume include Oakwood, Chaney, Miller, Cox, Cora, Sipe Springs, McKeehan, Zion Hill, Stone, and Gardens of Memory.; MCN25261; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 331 pp .

Private Printing. Very Good+. 1977. 1st Edition. Softcover. Gray wraps with title written on spine, sticker shadow on title page else fine. A second volume of Comanche County, Texas cemetery inscriptions with index. Cemeteries in this volume include Comyn Cemetery, Old De Leon Cemetery, De Leon Cemetery, Ebenezer Cemetery, Floyd Cemetery, Downing Cemetery, Weaver Cemetery, Oliver Springs Cemetery. ; MCN25260; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 271 pp .

Peter E. Randall. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1991. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Number 163 of a limited third edition. This register of Samuel Warner descendants contains biographical information on 577 individuals - through fifteen generations. Index. ; MCN29996; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 318 pp .

Warrior Run History Club. Very Good. 1990. Softcover. Gray wraps, faint dampstain along top edge near gutter resulting in stiff pages, no markings. Tombstone records of the Warrior Run Church, located at Delaware Township in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Illustrated throughout with rubbings of the actual historic headstones, plus transcriptions. Index. ; MCN31378; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 120 pp .

Society Daughters of Colonial Wars. Near Fine. 1941/1947. 1st Edition. Softcover. Three compact red volumes provide names of Society members along with their qualifying lines of descent. ; MCN30069; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

Touchstone. Near Fine. 1997. Softcover. 0684833247 . Softcover volume in excellent condition. Civil War personal narrative - Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee fought for the Confederacy with the First Tennessee Regiment, Company H. ; MCN30370; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 255 pp .

Private Printing. Very Good+. 1957. Softcover. Gray wraps rubbed and darkened, mild foxing to page ends, a few penciled notes. Nineteenth century correspondence of the Virginia Watkins family; many of these letters were written during the Civil War. One-page family chart at rear. Some family notes laid in.; MCN29675; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 187 pp .

Mathews Ptg. & Litho. Co.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards, address written inside front board, some notes inside rear board and some underlining to text. History of the Allen, Rives and Watkins families with allied lines Austin, Hughes, Michaux, Morton, Shands, Venable and Woodson. Includes abstracts of family correspondence with original photographs either taped or laid in. Index. ; MCN24726; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 204 pp .

Seneca County Board of Supervisors. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 093233461X . Blue cloth boards with gilt, rubbing to extremities with a few nicks to spine cloth, binding straight and tightly bound. History of Seneca County's state and federal works programs, with chapters on Seneca Army Depot, Sampson training station and state school, state parks and wildlife management, highways, Willard Psychiatric Center, etc. Illustrated, index. ; MCN31609; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 385 pp .