Search Results: Titles starting with B from Walnut Valley Books/Books by White

Wichita, KS: Boxcar Books , 1998 Boxcar Books, Wichita, KS. 1998. Softcover/Trade Wraps. 2nd Printing of the 1966 original. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light crease in front spine edge from opening front wrap. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 156 pp 8vo. This book is based on the papers of William Prescott Smith and many of the telegrams sent to and from him that gives the best chance to see the workings of the railroads during the Civil War. As Master of Transportation for the B&O during the war, he handled men, horses, and supplies along a constantly threatened rail line. A clean very presentable copy

Madison, NC: Empire Publishing, 1999 Empire Publishing, Madison, NC. 1999. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Printing by line number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. No DJ. Pictorial Wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split. 216 pp 8vo. The most complete list ever assembled of birth dates, death dates, and real names of those beloved B-Western performers. The author has collected actual obituaries of hundreds of B-Western heroes, heavies, helpers, heroines, and sidekicks. Also included is a listing of actual burial locations of many of the stars. A clean pristine copy.

New York, NY: Scholastic Book Services , 1963 Scholastic Book Services, New York. 1963. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated 2nd Printing. SBS T-353 35¢. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good +; light wear to tips and corners; rubbing to panels. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. Tinted textblock edges. 252 pp 16mo. This is the story of the greatest baseball player who ever lived and was told in his own words. The book spans his life and includes the highs and lows, friendships, loves, and feuds, and career milestones of the man who symbolizes America's favorite game and was voted the greatest player of the 20th Century and the Greatest Athlete by some. A clean very presentable copy.

New York, NY: Archway Paperback/Pocket Books, 1984 Archway Paperback/Pocket Books, New York. 1984. Softcover/Mass Market Paperback. 0-671-52410-0-225. 52410-0. Revised and Updated from the 1972 issue. 2nd Printing of the 1984 copy by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; scant toning to pages. No DJ. Printed card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 111 pp 12mo. In this informative guide, one will learn about one of the most enjoyable and profitable jobs open to young people-baby-sitting. This book teaches the skills needed for success; the right job, market rates, infants and toddlers, entertain young children, and organizing a summer play school. A clean very presentable copy.

Minocqua, WI: Willow Creek Press , 1991 Willow Creek Press, Minocqua, WI. 1991. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated 2nd Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light edge bumping; light rubbing to wraps. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 144 pp 4to. This book features photographs of Americans enjoying outdoor sports between the 1870s and the 1940s. Illustrated here is an era when fish and game were more bountiful and more abundantly harvested than today. A clean very presentable copy.

Washington, DC: Potomac Books , 2013 Potomac Books, Washington, DC. 2013. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: New. DJ: New; NOT Price Clipped ($29.95); slight bumping to rear lower tip. Blue boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 221 pp 8vo. The author, a photographer by trade, in 1941 took a WWII volunteer assignment with the American Field Service: volunteer ambulance drivers who served with the British Eighth Army in North Africa. This a long unpublished account of one man's journey across a world torn apart with only his camera and his moral convictions to guide him. Filled with many B&W photographs of the war in North Africa the book documents the brutality of was and the resilience of the human spirit. A clean pristine copy.

New York, NY: Walker and Company, 1997 Walker and Company, New York. 1997. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light tip bumps on front board. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($23.00); light bumping to head and tail. Brown boards and spine with copper letters on spine. 205 pp 8vo. To get a better grasp on WWI, the author set out to the entire 450 miles through no-man's-land to discover for himself and for his generation the meaning of war. This is a remarkable combination of vivid history and opinionated travel writing. At each major on the Western Front, he offers and impassioned perspective on the war, the state of the land, and the cultivation of memory. A clean pristine copy.

New York, NY: Sports Publishing, 2015 Sports Publishing, New York. 2015. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($26.99). Black paper over boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 485 pp 8vo. The author was a kid headed for bad until a local coach introduced him to amateur wrestling. After meeting professional wrestling great Billy Graham, his life was set on that course and 5 years later he was in Madison Square Garden standing as the World Wide Wrestling Federation Heavyweight Champion. This the story of the life this legend. A clean very presentable copy.

Bryson City, NC: The Village Press, 1957 The Village Press, Bryson City, NC. 1957. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated First Edition (11,000 copies). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; toning to peripheral edges and spine; edge bumping to oversize wraps. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; bayonet stapled text with glue on wrap; text is secure in binding. 64 pp 8vo. Part I is poetry of the Carolinas. Part II is Daniel Boone and Other Poems. This is a book full of poetry of the Carolinas, its mountains, its people, its unique way of life, and its nature and environment. A clean presentable copy.

Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 2013 Running Press, Philadelphia, PA. 2012. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light edge bumps. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or cracked; text is secure in binding. 407 pp 8vo. The strange and very true history of quacks, weird surgery, and medical disasters. The authors have written the definitive account of medical mishaps in modern and not so modern times. Treading a fine line between the comical and the tragic, the honest mistake and the intentional crime, this book shows you that you can't always trust the people in the white coats. A clean very presentable copy.

New York, NY: Zebra Books / Kensington Publication Corp. , 1982 Zebra Books / Kensington Publication Corp., New York. 1982. Softcover/Mass Market Paperback. Bolt #9. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, has slight spine roll; and is unmarked but for a F/O initial on the first page. Book Condition: Very good; slight toning to pages; light edge and tip wear; opening crease on front wrap; light rubbing to panels. 190 pp 12mo. Lena Russell runs the best little brothel in Cheyenne and Claire Jewell runs the schoolhouse... and they're both in trouble with the same shady lowlife—Jack Sanders. He's beaten the beautiful Lena and is now set on crushing Claire.When Jared Bolt sees the bruised brunette, he rides into town to help her; when he realizes what Claire's baggy dress is hiding, he rises to the occasion as only he can.But while he's giving lessons to the ladies, Bolt teaches a half-cocked badman who the big man in town really is! A clean very presentable copy.

Ontario, CA: Brasch and Brasch, Publishers, Inc., 1978 Brashch and Brasch, Ontario, Ca. 1978. Hard Cover. Presumed First/First. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight rubbing to heel of spine. DJ: VG; closed tears at head of spine, rubbing, and an Slight wrinkling on rear from moisture; in Brodart mylar. 334 pp. Light brown boards with dark brown spine and bright gold lettering on spine. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. The story of Ben Hunter; writer, producer, performer on radio and TV, and his wife who discovered "The Baja Feeling" and began an odyssey of adventure that eventually led them to design and build a house on beach in Mexico. A socio-journalistic study of the people of Baja, California; of their lives, values and world views. A pristine and clean copy.

New York, NY: Bantam Books , 1977 Bantam Books, New York. 1977. Softcover/Mass Market Paperback. First Edition by Bantam. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light toning to wraps; light edge wear to wraps. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. Tinted textblock edges. This book is very tight; no creases of any kind; probably never opened/read. 200 pp 12mo. The book centers around a boy (Billy Baker) in the Wild West in the late 1800s and invokes its share of morals and virtues that a teen would be going through. Billy's desire to save a young hawk and train him leads him into a friendship with the town's "crazy man" and to a better understanding of his father. Later make into a motion picture. A clean very presentable copy.

Boston, MA: CBI Publishing Company, 1981 CBI Publishing Company, Boston, MA. 1981. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Signed by the author with a pictograph on the FFFP. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; bumped upper rear tip. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($12.95); light edge bumping and rubbing to panels. White buckram cloth boards and spine with red and black lettering on the spine and front board. Red endpapers. 325 pp 8vo. The Bakery is a very popular restaurant in Chicago due to the work of the Hungarian owner- Chef Louis. This book of superlative recipes is for the entire set of recipes at The Bakery. This book is the author's approach to classical cooking and many recipes contain "footnotes" which are noted as Chef's Secrets. They are like having him in the kitchen with you. A clean very presentable copy.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1981 St. Martin's Press, New York. 1981. Hardcover. First Printing. Ex-Academic Library. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for ex-military library stamps on front pastedown and FFFP. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight soiling to boards. DJ: VG; open tears on top of cover and chipping to cover near head of spine. Black boards and spine with bright gold lettering on spine. 208 pp. Superbly supported by hundreds of the most dramatic and colorful illustrations yet to have been published on this subject, tis intriguing book gives the facts and figures which must be used in assessing the balance of power between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The heavily illustrated pages, containing action photos, maps, diagrams, charts and tables, hold a positive fascination for all those interested in modern weaponry and warfare systems. A clean and very presentable copy in Brodart mylar.

New York, NY : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951 Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1951. Hardcover. First Edition (A) on copyright page. Book is tight, has slight spine roll, and is unmarked but for F/O bookplate on FFFP. Book Condition: Good; light sunfading to spine; light wear to fabric at tail; light bottom edge shelfwear. No DJ. Red cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board. 496 pp 8vo. Pennsylvania, 1913. The four Wittmann brothers manufacture steel precision tools. Jochen is a ruthless businessman who seeks to improve the bottom line at any cost. Friedrich dabbles in Socialism but would never sacrifice his dividends. Wilhelm prefers to collect art rather than visit the factory floor. Only Karl, a widower, has the vision to keep the family business in the black. Now, as the winds of war sweep across Europe, anti-German sentiment turns the family’s allies against them, and war profiteers threaten to remake the entire steel industry into a merchant… Read More

Gretna, LA : Pelican Publishing Company, 1988 Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, LA. 1988. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight edge bumping. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 306 pp 8vo. In the 1880s, the Ozark hills around Taney County, Missouri, echoed with the sound of Winchester rifles. Men were lynched from tree limbs by masked night riders. Bundles of switches were tossed on the porches of "loose" men and women as a grim warning to reform or leave the area. With this book, the authors have produced the most comprehensive account of the notorious Bald Knobbers and their eight-year reign of terror. They trace the roots of the group in the region's border struggles during the Civil War, and examine the organization of anti-Bald Knobbers which sprang up to oppose them. Giant Nat Kinney founded the Bald Knobbers, and led them… Read More

Sydney, AUS: Angus and Robertson, 1969 Angus and Robertson, Sydney, AUS. 1969. Hardcover. Stated First Published 1969. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($6.95); light wear to head, tail, and tips; light rubbing to panels. Black boards and spine with bright white lettering on the spine and front board; white bird on front board. Fold out map present. 151 pp 8vo. Finally shed of Netherlands rule, the independent country of Indonesia is springing to life and enjoying tourism again. The author and the photographer convey in rich detail the fascinations of this medieval land of rice terraces and walled villages, bringing to life its religious ceremonies, its cockfights, its dances, and its peasant arts and skills. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Albuquerque, NM: Ballstreet Journal, 1991 Ballstreet Journal, Albuquerque, NM. 1991. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition; Issue #1, January 1991. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; rubbing to panels; light crease in spine; edge and tip bumps. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine has slight crease; text is secure in binding. All 10 player cards are bound in and not detached. 144 pp 16mo. A book designed for the baseball card investor. A bi-monthly guide that consolidates and summarizes the three leading price guides into one handy and affordable guide; 10 free photo cards in each issue; provides investment strategies and tips. A clean presentable copy.

Reno, NV: Dragon Press Publishing Inc., 2000 Dragon Press Publishing Inc., Reno, NV. 2000. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. No DJ. Pictorial Wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split. 299 pp. Finally, the whole, uplifting and extraordinary story can be told; $20 Million in Captain Kidd's treasure on an island off the coast of Vietnam; an eighteen-year-old photojournalist from California, haunted by the Vietnam War. Travel with Frederick Graham in this book from San Francisco to Thailand and a Socialist Republic of Vietnam political prison on an amazingly healing adventure that will capture the world's imagination for years. A clean pristine copy.