Search Results: Authors starting with W from Joseph Valles - Books

Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books, 1992., 1992. Very Good. 1st edition, 1st printing ; blue and black cloth in multicolor, decorative dustjacket ; slight knock, else VG

[Cumming, Ga.], [published by Forest C. Wade], 1969, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; 151 pages illustrations, maps, portraits 24 cm ; LCCN: 78-86320 ; LC: E98.F6; Dewey: 970.3 ; OCLC: 19393 ; red cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-library, stamps, labels ; "Includes Indian agents' reports on the Cherokee, 1831-1833 (p. 7-30), biographical notes on Cherokee chiefs (p. 31-47), stories of gold buried on Cherokee land, and other stories of the Cherokee removal (p.49-80), photographs and sketches of Cherokee signs and symbols (p. 81-126), additional stories of buried gold (p. 129-138), and pictures of and a letter about the Franklin gold mines (p. 140-145)." ; details treasure symbols used by the Cherokee to mark trees and indicate the location of buried treasure, with photographs and drawings of the marks and their locations throughout Forsyth and Cherokee Counties in Georgia. ; Contents: part One: History and legends of the Cherokees… Read More

Portsmouth, NH : Boynton / Cook Publishers; Heinemann, 1994., 1994. Very Good. [1st edition] ; vi, 281 pp. ; ISBN: 0867093455 (acid-free paper); 9780867093452 (acid-free paper) LCCN: 94-28627 ; OCLC: 30780278 ; offers vivid classroom situations in which the need for practical application of teaching methods is required ; VG

Leipzig ; Zürich ; Basel ; St. Gallen ; Luzern ; Winterthur ; Neuenburg ; Solotburn ; Lugano,: Gebr. Hug & Co., 1939., 1939. Fair. [Heft] 1-3. je 16 S. ; 15x23 cm. ; Contents: [Heft] 1: Der Aufbau, für 1 Flöte c"/c' oder f'. - [1939] ; paper wrappers ; stain to left on cover ; pencilings ; FAIR

Leipzig ; Zürich ; Basel ; St. Gallen ; Luzern ; Winterthur ; Neuenburg ; Solotburn ; Lugano,: Gebr. Hug & Co., 1939., 1939. Good. [Heft] 1-3. je 16 S. ; 15x23 cm. ; Contents: [Heft] 1: Der Aufbau, für 1 Flöte c"/c' oder f'. - [1939] ; paper wrappers ; stain to right on cover ; pencilings ; G

New York : G. Schirmer, 1888, 1940, 1940. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 27 copies ; SATB ; 6895.

New York : The Viking Press, 1979., 1979. Fine. 1st edition; 1st printing ; author's 6th novel ; 314 pp. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0670538256; 9780670538256 LCCN: 78-24114 ; LC: PZ4.W14; PR6045.A249; Dewey: 823/.9/14 ; OCLC: 4504092 ; Parallel tales of two men, each enthralled by women who exert unexpected power over them, center around a good samaritan who rescues a drowning woman and a novelist who visits a dying fan ; FINE/VG

New York : Harper & Row, 1964, 1964. Good. 1st edition ; xii, 324 p. : illustrated, maps, col. plates ; 24 cm. ; LCCN: 64-12706 ; OCLC: 1435713 ; blue cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; "Describes the life, habits and appearance of more than a hundred species, and the ways in which the fish are caught. " ; Contents: Brook and brown trout -- Rainbow, cutthroat, and golden trout -- Lake trout -- Other chars -- Atlantic salmon -- Pacific salmon -- Grayling -- Whitefishes and ciscoes -- Shads, herring, alewife -- Smelts, mooneye, goldeye, central mudminnow -- Pickerels, northern pike, muskellunge -- Suckers -- Minnows -- Catfishes -- Sunfishes -- Smallmouth, largemouth, and spotted bass -- White bass, yellow bass, white perch -- Yellow perch, walleye, sauger, darters -- Burbot, freshwater drum, and others -- Sturgeons, paddlefish, gars, bowfin -- American eel and the lampreys. ; LC: QL625; Dewey: 597/.0929/7; OCLC: 1435713 ; LCCN: 64-12706 ; clipped dustjacket ; excised front endpaper ; else G/VG

Chicago : J. N. Clarke ; Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger ; New York : Sheldon & Co. ; Boston : Lee & Shepherd, 1869, 1869. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 297 p. ; 19 cm. ; LC: BX9847; Dewey: 239 ; green cloth ; "The discussion covers the living issues of our times between the friends and opponents of evangelical Christianity. The draft of some of the chapters was originally in the form of letters to a friend, well known in literary circles at the east This will account for occasional peculiarities of phraseology. The style is as popular as the character of the subjects would permit. If it shall answer the ends of a hand-book on the subject of heterodoxy in religion and reform, the author's aim will be accomplished." ; Contents : Incongruity of the Skeptical and Theological Philosophy of Liberal Christians -- Variations and Contradictions in the Theological Opinions of Skeptical Unitarians and Transcendentalists -- Literary, Mystical, and Evangelical Aspect of… Read More

Rockport, MA : Rockport Publishers, 1990., 1990. Fine. 254 pp. ; lavender cloth with red lettering, in photographic dustjacket ; 500 full color photographs of award-winning advertising and package label design, with detailed annotations of concepts used ; a few small tears on dustjacket, else FINE/VG

Dallas, Texas : Texas Instruments Incorporated Learning Center., 1981., 1981. Very Good. [1st ed.], 2nd printing ; 275 p. in various pagings : ill. ; 21 cm. ; Series: Understanding series ; ISBN: 0895120461 (pbk.); 9780895120465 (pbk.) LCCN: 81-51208 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; LC: QA76; Dewey: 001.64 ; OCLC: 7796877 ; Contents: About computers and computer science -- Computer architecture and hardware -- How to tell a computer what to do - Programming -- Languages -- Operating systems - An overview -- Resource management -- Data structures -- Language translators -- Systems analysis -- Computer science and the future. ; slight wear to covers ; VG

St. Louis, MO : Concordia Publishing House, 1992, 1992. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 23 copies ; SATB ; "For Emory Fanning and the Chapel Choir of Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont".

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1965, 1965. Book. Fine. Hardcover. [1st edition] ; 1st printing ; 441 pages 24 cm ; LC: AC8; Dewey: 081 ; OCLC: 420244 ; LCCN: 65-24279 ; A series of personal adventures, a lively and uninhibited account of the strange people, places and things that have fascinated the author over the past twenty years. ; black and beige cloth, in nicked and sunned orange , black and beige dustjacket ; front ep corner clipped ; Contents: "The biggest, the best, or the first ..." -- Two nice old ladies -- The amps -- Saint detective -- Everybody's rover boy -- Paragon of the paperbacks -- They cut away his conscience -- Tourist's bible -- Intrique express -- The agony column -- Millionaire's chariot -- The man who swindled Goering -- Monsieur Bertillon -- The French Sherlock Holmes -- Tycoon -- The seven secret prison cells -- The man who loved Hitler -- The man who hated Hemingway -- The incredible Dr. Bell -- Don't call her Madam -- The chair in the Oval… Read More

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1873, 1873. Book. Poor. Hardcover. 1st Edition. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; 586 p. 19 cm. ; LC: PS3134 ; OCLC: 1344541 ; "Note by the author" dated: Boston, Mass., August 8, 1873 ; "The firm of James R. Osgood & Co. originally published "The Fair God," and held copyright on it. Within eighteen years its issue had reached 94,000 copies, and in the hands of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., who had meanwhile succeeded to the publication, its sale was an assured continuance. That firm renewed the electrotype plates of the book several times, so " The Fair God " was kept in fair shape for its later day readers"--American Printer and Lithographer, October 1893 ; first signature missing ; ex-lib ; previous owner date of 1874 on front endpaper ; ownership stamp ; repair to back hinge ; POOR.

New York : Crown Publishers, 2008, 2008. Fine. 1st edition, 1st printing ; 319 p. ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 9780307338778; 0307338770; National Library: 014614239; LCCN: 2007-31645 ; LC: TP548; Dewey: 641.2/223 ; OCLC: 164570511 ; black cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Lot 337 -- Incognito -- Tomb raider -- Monsieur Yquem -- Provenance -- "We did what you told us" -- Imaginary value -- The sweetness of death -- Salad dressing -- A pleasant stain, but not a great one -- The diviner of wines -- A built-in preference for the obvious -- Radioactive -- Letters from Hubsi -- "Awash in fakes" -- The last vertical -- Koch bottles -- Ghost particles -- Tailing Meinhard -- The finish.; "It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold. In 1985, a 1787 bottle of Chateau Lafite Bordeaux--one of a cache unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson--sold at auction for $156,000. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band manager turned wine collector Hardy Rodenstock,… Read More

New York, Bonanza Books, 1930, circa 1966., 1966. Good. 147 pp. ; (chiefly illus.) ; 32 cm. ; ISBN: 0486220796; 9780486220796 ; LC: NK8212.P4; Dewey: 739/.47/74811 ; OCLC: 564457 ; "147 pages of detailed drawings and magnificent photographs show the craftmanship of the early days of the Republic in the s tudies of gates, railings, lamps, locks, hinges, weathervanes, and all the beautiful things that were made by our forefathers ;"This lavishly illustrated tribute to Philadelphia's many well-preserved examples of colonial ironwork features 182 crisp black-and-white photographs and 41 measured drawings. These imaginatively rendered ironworks appear in the railings and gates of churchyards, on the marble steps of town houses, in the balconies and lanterns of banks and other buildings, and elsewhere." ; blue and grey decorative cloth in photographic dustjacket ; wear to dustjacket ; foxing to covers ; G/G

New York : Time Warner, c1992., 1992. Fine. 47th printing ; tiny stain on inside of back dust jacket cover ; "This is the story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for fulfillment of a girlhood dream. It shows readers what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again." ; name on ep, else FINE/VG

New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1959, 1959. Good. 1st edition ; ix, 308 pp. ; dark green and lemon-yellow cloth in torn dustjacket ; maps on lining papers ; Contents: Undergraduate adventure -- Why haven't you come sooner -- Wrestling with the language -- Cakchiquel conquest -- Tuberculosis and a thousand tribes -- College on Nail Kegs -- Arkansas travelers -- Tetelcingo -- COvenant in a castle -- The best of friends -- Pike persuaded -- Five-year Ebenezer -- Faith for fifty -- Cherokee trail to Oklahoma -- Lumber and linguistics -- Mayan miracles -- Manuscripts and medicine -- Roughing it -- Back to Guatemala -- Peru : unraveling the knot -- Of planes and piros -- Jungle bookworms -- Transmitters -- Modern medicine men -- Auca spears -- Home base on the Equator -- Hitch your airplane to a treetop -- Tongues, they shall cease -- God speaks Navajo -- Operation Deep Freeze -- Wycliffe lives again -- A call from Down Under -- M A G S A Y S A Y -- Philippine gems -- The second thousand -- New… Read More

New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, 1927., 1927. Good. 89 pp. ; 20 m. ; LC: Z1003; Dewey: 028 ; OCLC: 879858 ; decorative, gold-leaf flecked lavender cloth, with paper spine label and green lettering ; chip to top of spine ; spine sunned ; a few scuffs to covers ; foxing ; a menu laid in from the Pig ' n Whistle on Ponce de Leon Ave at Bedford Place in Atlanta ; G

New York, Catholic summer school press, 1910 ©1907, 1910. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Georgetown university edition (5th thousand) ; vii, [1] p., 1 l., [xiii]-xxiv, 490 p. front., illus., plates, ports. map. 25 cm. ; LCCN: 12-35683 ; LC: CB355; Dewey: 940.1 ; OCLC: 2528829 ; Contents : Universities And Preparatory Schools -- What And How They Studied At The Universities -- Number Of Students And Discipline -- Origin Of Drama -- Francis The Saint The Father Of The Renaissance -- Aquinas The Scholar -- Postgraduate Work At The Universities -- The Book Of The Arts And Popular Education -- Great Origins In Painting -- Libraries And Bookmen -- The Cid The Holy Grail The Nibelungen -- The Women Of The Century -- Democracy Christian Socialism And Nationality -- Criticisms Comments Documents ; green cloth ; no dustjacket ; VG.