Search Results: Authors starting with W from Ray Boas, Bookseller

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1982. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0262231085 Book traces the transmutations of Edison's image in the eyes of his countrymen as the ideal embodiment of American values and virtues: hard work, perserverance, the gospel of technological progress, the mythology of the self-made man, individualism, optimism, practically mingled with idealism. 328pp.

Truro, UK: Twelveheads Press, 1997. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 090629438X 72pp.

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1864. HC. good+, black cloth (hardcover). B&W illustrations. Two Civil War Senate Reports bound together. 38th Congress, 1st Session, Report Committee 63, FORT PILLOW MASSACRE, 128pp; and, 38th Congress, 1st Session, Report Committee No. 68, RETURNED PRISONERS, 34 pages followed by 4 plates with two illustrations each of prisoners as found in prison.

Waterville, ME: Hammond Press, 1963. PB. very good, wraps (softcover) - owner's name on cover. 49pp.

South Lancaster, MA: The College Press, 1969. HC. very good, green buckram cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB mimimal marks. B&W illustrations. 148pp.

London: Tiger Books International, 1988. PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 1870461584 Condensed from the original 1978 Phaidon edition. Includes historical introduction on Gauguin's life and over 30 color plates and over 15 B&W reproductions. 64pp.

Boston, MA: Wright & Potter Printing Co, 1898. HC. good, black cloth (hardcover). Detailed statistics with Manufactures by Towns, and by Industries. 641pp.

Portsmouth, RI: Onion Skin Press, 1997. PB. good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 1891789007 42pp.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1976. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). over 600 B&W ill.. ISBN 0517523469 A suberb compendium of visual and narrative, bringing alive the excitement and vitality of New England. 342pp.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). Wagenknecht confronts the literary controversy concerning Charles Dickens's relations with Ellen Ternan. In addition to the title essay, selections include "Dickens in Longfellow's Letters and Journals," "Dickens and Ellen Glasgow," "Dickens and the Marxians," and others. 162pp.

Notre Dame, IN: The Ave Maria, 1918. HC. good, brown cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket. Uncommon Waggaman title. Nice clean and tight copy, only library mark is St Thomas School stamp on front free endpaper and owner's name. No Dustjacket. 335pp.

New York: Orchard Books, 1990. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) OWNER'S NAME INKED OUT FFEP. color illustrations. ISBN 0531058913 After fifty years of estrangement following a quarrel, two sweethearts finally get together again with the help of a cow and blackberry patch. unpaginated.

Cambridge, MA: The Hampshire Press, Inc, 1948. HC. good+, blue cloth (hardcover) part of dustjacket laid in. 502pp.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1971. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. 255pp.

Berkshire, England: Profile Books Limited, 1981. PB. very good, wraps (softcover) - RED COVER. B&W and color illustrations. RED COVER. 12pp.

Berkshire, England: Profile Books Limited, 1982. PB. very good, wraps (softcover) - BLUE COVER. B&W and color illustrations. BLUE COVER. 16pp.

Berkshire, England: Profile Books Limited, 1981. PB. very good, wraps (softcover) - BLUE COVER. B&W and color illustrations. BLUE COVER. 12pp.

Cincinnati, OH: Wagner Car Company, 1965. PB. very good+, spiral bound, plastic boards (softcover). B&W illustrations. Railway Cars of Distinctive Lightweight Design Built in the 1920s Becoming Popularly Known as "Rubber Stamp Trolleys." 120pp.

Berkshire, England: Profile Books Limited, 1981. PB. very good, wraps (softcover) - BLUE COVER. B&W and color illustrations. BLUE COVER. 12pp.

Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1969. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W frontis. A complete appraisal of the works of Henry Adams that reveal him as a literary artist of commanding attention and as a humorist unique in our intellectual history. 268pp.