Search Results: Titles starting with W from 100 POCKETS

Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1967. Soft Cover/Library Boards. Very Good/None as Issued. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy; no loan pocket. Text/BRAND NEW. Library boards/VG; w/pulling to front hinge. Economic growth, capital formation, and stabilization. The three parts of this timely Professoren-Kolloquiem are: I, Die Beherrschung des gleichgewichtigen Wachstums; II, Vermögensbildung im Wirtschaftswachstum; and III, Stabilisierung ohne Stagnation. 127 pages, with prefatory matter and (unnumbered) publisher's lists. Boards have stamps and labels; text has stamps and labels on front endpaper and upper text edge. Boards are otherwise sound; text is otherwise strong and unmarked.

New York. NY: Scholastic, 2004. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. David A. Johnson (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated stapled softcover/NF w/trace shelfwear to corner tips. Winner of 2004 Parent's Choice Gold Award. Book for the young as well as the old, sporting cartoons of David A. Johnson (1827 - 1908). Some 400 pets, including alligators, bears and raccoons, can claim residency in America's White House, albeit on the "coat-tails" of presidents. Annecdotes w/hilarious illustrations of American history. Did you know nearly 400 White House pets - including alligators, bears and raccoons. John Quincy Adams' kept an alligator; Thomas Jefferson stolled about with his pet grizzly bears; James Buchannan housed a herd of elephants from the King of Siam!; and, know-you-not the lawns were once mowed by Woodrow Wilson's sheep? Harry Truman said, "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog"; how true! History is… Read More

Columbus, OH: College of Commerce & Administration/Ohio State Univ, 1959. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW. Dark gray boards/NF. DJ/None. Survey of wages, and, determinants of wage levels in Ohio industries.

New York, NY: International Music Co, 1946. First Edition . Paperback/Sheet Music. Good/None as Issued. Text/Near New & Clean. Green, stapled softcove/Good; sound w/edge & surface wear. 87 pgs, 14 orchestral studies, from Wagner operas & concert works, for the viola: 1, Rienzi; 2, Flying Dutchman; 3, Tannhauser; 4, Lohengrin; 5, Tristan & Isolda; 6, The Mastersingers; 7, The Rhinegold; 8, The Valkyrie; 9, Siegfried; 10, The Twilight of the Gods; 11, Parsifal; 12, A Faust Overture; 13, Symphony in C Major; and 14, Siegfriend-Idyll.

Surrey, British Columbia, Canada: Foremost Publishing, 1973. 2nd Revised Edition . Soft Cover/Stapled. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. Archival Photographs; Gwen Lewis (Maps & Drawings). Text/NEW. Vintage volume, First published 1960; this is the 2nd Revised Edition of 1973. Softcover/Fine. History of the Fraser River and Cariboo gold rush compiled from diaries, journals, eye-witness accounts & other historical materials; illustrated with drawings & archival photographs. Maps to front & rear covers verso. Story of the Cariboo gold rush British Columbia. First gold discovery 1859, and the rush was on in 1861. Text in 10 sectors: 1, Stampede to Fraser River; 2, The Golden Gravel; 3, Wagon Road North; 4, The Roadhouses; 5, Freighting to the Goldfields; 6, Stagecoaches on the Cariboo Road; 7, The Communities; 8, Rest in Peace; 9, The Wagon Road Today; and, 10, Barkerville Lives On.

Sunburst Book/Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2000. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/Fine. Water colors (Roy Gerrard, Author & Illustrator). Ex-Lib/uncirculated. Text/NEW & Bright. 2000 Edition. Softcover/Fine. Admired 1850's travelogue along the Oregon Trail, told & illustrated by Englishman Roy Gerrard (1935 - 1997). Adventures of a young girl & her parents, joined by neigbhors, in search of hospitable, green lands. Narrated in verse by our heroine who tells us: "Way back in eighteen-fifty, when Americans were thrifty/ The times were hard, so most folks had to toil/ My mama, my pa and me labored hard to guarantee/That we'd earn a living from the barren soil." These hardy pioneers and their trusty leader, Buckskin Dan, fight off outlaws near Fort Laramie, rescue a lost Indian boy, and raft down the rocky Columbia River, to reach Oregon's Willamette Valley --- which, even in the 1820's, was known as a "promised land of flowing milk and… Read More

New York, NY: P.F. Collier & Son, 1890. Reprint of 1890 . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. THIS IS VOLUME II only of a full set of 12. Text/Near New w/faint paperclip shadows to upper edge of first three pgs. Embossed, greenish-black linen boards w/gilt lettereing to spine/Good; sound w/rubs to all leading edges and marked rubs, scraps and wear to surfaces. DJ/None. Frontispiece: "Go slow, old man; so slow" from A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready. 469 pgs. Collection of 5 stories from American writer, poet, and dramatist Francis Bret Harte (1836 - 1902), most for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other figures of the California Gold Rush. New York born, Harte moves to Californian, and ultimately to Europe. The tales are: 1, A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready; 2, Devil's Ford; 3, Waif of the Planins; 4, In The Carquinez Woods; and 5, Snow-Bound at Eagle's. Strong copy despite flaws.

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 2002. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/New. BRAND NEW & Collectible. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Map to endpapers.15th crime novel from Tony Hillerman (1925 - 2008) starring Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. Set at the Fort Wingate Army Ordnance Depot, principal explosives depot during the Vietnam War, and now decommisioned, located off old Highway 66 & Interstate 40. In this mystery, an error from Officer Bernadette Manuelito gets Sgt Jim Chee in trouble with the FBI, and draws Lt Joe Leaphorn out of retirement to review the long past "Golden Calf" homicide case.of long past, complicated by findings of botanical plant seeds unique to the American Southwest!.

New York, NY: John Wiley, 1996. 4th Revised Edition, 7th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Sporadic, tidy, inked underlining. 4th Revised Edition. Softcover/VG w/trace wear to corner tips. PO name to front cover verso. Food servrice. Reference/resource. A thorough, practical professional manual and guide for waiters & waitresses. 162 pgs in 8 chapters: 1, The Waiter & Waitress; 2, Types of Table Service & Settings; 3, Before the Guests Arrive; 4, Initiating the Service; 5, Serving the Meal; 6, Safety, Sanitation & Emergency Procedures; 7, Handing the Service with a Computer System; and 8, Wine & Bar Service, followed by Case Problems and Glossary. Strong copy despite flaws.

Harper Perennial, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Cllectible Vintage 2001, First Edition, 1st Printing. Soft cover/Fine w/a whisper of shelf wear. Memoir of British-American writer, editor, recipient of the Jefferson Parker Mystery Award, & author of multiple novels Debra Ginsberg (1962-). She spent 20 some years working as a waitress to support writing. This, her first book, chronicles price paid to be a writer in life spent, as it really exists, behind kitchen doors. Part memoir, social commentary of child of Catskill's N.Y. restaurant workers, & an empathic guide to how one should behave w/empathy for best service when dining out --- experiences working at a soap-operatic Italian restaurant, an exclusive five-star dining club, the dingiest of diners, and more. A chronicle of her personal evolution as a writer, supported by behind-the-scenes look at restaurant life-revealing that yes, if pushed, a server will spit in food, and, no,… Read More

New York, NY: Random House Audio, 1998. First Edition . 4-Cassettes/Sealed Box. Audio Cassettes - NEW/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy; an oral history. 4 Audio Cassettes, narrated by author in sealed package. After return home after a sojournment in Britain of some 20 yrs, travel writer Bill Bryson (1951 -) decided to walk the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail w/friend Stephen Katz (a pseudonym). Their hike is described in his 1997, Doubleday, autobiographical book. A humorous personal account richl with studied discussions on theTrail's history, its surrounding sociology, ecology, trees, plants, animals, people & portends of the future. This is the 1998, Bryson authorized abridged edition on 4 cassettes (6 hrs) narrated by master wordmaster Bryson himself w/a distinct voice for Katz, and engaging British-American English. Book adapted to film in 2015; Bryson is portrayed by Robert Redford, and Katz by Nick Nolte. The engagin wordmaster Bryson was Chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011.

New York, NY: Crown, 1987. First American Edition, 1st Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/Near Fine. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace rubs to back corner tips of dustjacket. Memoir of a 900-mile, 70-day trek across Antartica to the South Pole less modern communication aids, and the completion of which makes it the longest unassisted march documented. Robert Swan, Roger Mear, and Michael Shroud. recreates Robert Falcon Scott's (1868 - 1912) journey, hence dubbed "In the Footsteps of Scott" (1984 - 1987). Swan and Mear first called on Bill Burton, then 96 years old, who was the last surviving member of Scott's expedition in 1912. Historical controversy of Scott's attempt spills over to the sensibility of this expedition as well, to the degree had the US Air Force not come to the rescue, the team would have shared Scott's fate also. Nevertheless, heroic venture, yes; good reading, yes.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/Near Fine. Stated First Edition. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace wear to dustjacket. Autobiography/memoir of Alvin M. Josephy from New York City, via paths that led him to Harvard, Hollywood screenwriting, radio journalism, combat correspondent in World War II, while making his way to Oregon and finding himself. for Time. New York born

Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1999. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace rub to upper corner tip of dust jacket. Continuing life adventures of Socrates Fortlow, prison-smart with "rock-breaking hands" and hero of Always Outnumbered and Always Outgunned. Nine years after release from prison, Fortlow lives in Watts, walks a two-legged dog (named Killer), has a girlfriend, is gainfully employed (supermarket clerk), and remains a favorite target of the police. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1993. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. PO name to title page, else BRAND NEW. Travel narrative. Memoir of a naturalist's his five-hundred-mile trek through the Yellowstone Rockies. A poetic excursion into the wild.

New York, NY: Scribner, 2001. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. Near Fine/New. BRAND NEW COPY w/remainder mark to upper text edge. Excursion in paleology. Account of the 1997 expedition to Patagonia where Dr. Luis Chiappe and Dr. Lowell Dingus discovered a nesting site containing thousands of dinosaur eggs --- including fossilized embryos and fossilized skin --- showing it to be at least seasonal home to the plant-eating Sauropods. 14 chapters w/photo illustrations.

Boston, MA: South End Press, 1991. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/Near New w/2 folded corners. Illustrated soft cover/NF, w/sticker residue to front cover verso. Concious of vulnerability, feminist, social activist and photographer Margaret Randall exhibits extraordinary courage and uncompromising integrity in activity challenging a social order she finds offensively abusive in economic and socio/political institutions and well as its sexist and racist ideology. After near quarter century in Latin America the author successfully battled to retain her US citizenship on return in 1985. This volume is an anthology of book reviews, literary criticism and cultural analyis, most published earlier elsewhere. Walking to the edge, that is "taking conscious risks" is Randall's life; this book are thoughts that concern her the most.

[Georgetown]: Foundation for the Preservation of Historic Georgetown, 1971. First Printing . Stapled Printed Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 7 1/2" Tall. Two architectural walking tours of the redeeming Washington suburb are provided in this pamphlet, the first beginning at Canal Landing at 30th Street and ending on the 3200 block of M Street; the other beginning on the 3200 block of R Street, and ending at 28th and O. 52 (the colophon unnumbered) pages, with numerous illustrations; fold-out map attached to rear cover recto. Covers have discolored but are sound; text is strong and clean.

New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1991. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/a whisper of rubs to corner tips. Map to endpapers. Memoir & travelogue. In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to quit their lands east of the Mississippi River and migrate to Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this arduous 900-mile trek the "Trail of Tears" for of the 15,000 marchers, 4,000 died along the way. Late summer of 1989, Jerry Ellis, himself of Cherokee heritage, found time hanging heavy on his hands, set out to walk the Trail. He spent two months on the road, following the trail route in reverse. This volume is composed of 36 essays. One cannot change history, but from the Epilogue, we learn Jerry Ellis has attained the enviable state of being one with his God, Nature, Man and reunion with Crow Dog who has "human eyes". A sojournement, both… Read More

New York, NY: Random House, 1973. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stated First Edition BRAND NEW & Collectible. Anthology. Collection of essays, most first published elsewhere and, at times, in a shortened version. Nineteen essay about the New England wilderness (including the Green and White Mountains and Maine, as well as "the joys and outrages" of life in New York City on matters such as assassinations, dogs, jury duty, mountain lions, power, fame, women's liberation, boxing, freight cars, and more.