Search Results: Authors starting with W from Sandhill Books

Winchester Center, Conn.: Country Squire, 1981. second printing. Softcover. Fine/no jacket. 278 p, 22cm tall, octavo. Author's personalized inscription on first blank page.

Kendal, UK: Westmorland Gazette, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in green leatherette boards with gilt stamped title on spine, unpaginated, 22.5 cm tall (octavo oblong). 100 full page drawings of Welsh mountains. Front cover shows small, very light soil spots.

Roger Hunt, 1976. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/no jacket. Green cloth, 224 pages, 9.5-in tall, index. Wakefield's eyewitness account of the 1832 campaign against the Fox and Sac Indians, including the massacre at the battle of the Bad Axe River in Wisconsin. Also an appendix of treaties with Fox, Sac, and Winnebago Indians. Wakefield's History, originally published in 1834, was reprinted in 1908 and 1976.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1940. Very good. xi, 534p, illustrations, frontispiece, 21 cm tall (octavo). Cloth covered boards, gilt title on spine. Ownership signature of Dalton Trumbo on free endpaper. Dalton Trumbo was a screenwriter and novelist who refused to give information to the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. Subsequently he was jailed and blacklisted. He wrote the screenplay for "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," "Spartacus," "Exodus," and many others. Gilt title on spine is somewhat dulled.

Chattanooga: Wonder Press, 2018. Softcover. Fine/near fine. Green wraps, 239 pages, 8.5-in tall, many photographs. An account of early farming methods in Part I. Then in Part II the acquisition of the old Walker farm on Chickamauga Creek by the Chattanooga Audubon Society and the development of the the farm into a wildlife sanctuary. A 2018 reprint, first published in 1955 by George C. Hudson and Company. Clean dust jacket with just a smidgeon of edge wear. Fine softcover in a near fine dust jacket.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. first edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 347p, 23cm tall, octavo. A study of alliances between prostitutes and feminists and their clashes with medical and police authorities. Dust jacket shows slight paper loss on front panel, crease along top edge of rear panel.

London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/no jacket. Red cloth, 465 pages, 9.5-in tall. Includes short essays on early mapping of the British Isles and a guide to regional and national collections. Published as Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks No. 18.

Imperial War Museums, 2014. Softcover. Fine. 64 pages, 8.5-in tall. Sixty-four compelling images from the First World War by John Nash, William Orpen, John Singer Sargent, and many others.

Montgomery Ward, 1947. Softcover. Very Good. 120 pages, 11-in tall. Catalog for cameras, movie cameras, projectors, and accessories. Covers with a tifle of soil and minor creases.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1930. Hardcover in good condition, lacking dust jacket. Blue cloth, xiv and 615 pages, 9 in. tall, index. Includes a historical perspective; charities in the 1890s; contemporary social work. Light surface wear to covers. Internally fine, good binding.

New York: Citizens' Committee for Constitutional Liberties, 1961. first printing. Softcover. Very Good/no jacket. pp 23, 19cm tall, 12mo.

New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. Brown cloth with gilt spine title, 354 pages, 9-in tall. Frontispiece portrait of Booker T. Washington, illustrated with 24 photographs. Facsimile reprint of a title originally published in 1905. An overview of Tuskegee Institute and its purposes, also several biographies of Tuskegee graduates. Covers with a touch of surface wear, introductory chapter shows infrequent underlining.

Wilderness Society/Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, no date, 1999?. Softcover. Very Good/no jacket. 20 pages, illustrations, 28cm tall, quarto. A tribute to Sigurd F. Olson, former president of the Wilderness Society, published for the 100th anniversary of his birthday. Three essays reflecting on Olson's life and work as naturalist, scientist, writer. Front cover shows very short creases at spine, otherwise a fine copy.

Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1987. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Bound in gray covers, 43p, notes, 28 cm tall, quarto. History of art collecting at the Elvehjem Museum of Art(now the Chazen Museum of Art) at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Milwaukee: UWM Libraries, 2005. Softcover. As New/no jacket. 359pp, 23cm tall, octavo. Ten essays about Golda Meir, African American women firefighters, the WPA in Milwaukee, and more. Supplementary cd-rom in sleeve inside rear cover.

Johns Hopkins Press, 1947. Reprint. Softcover. Good. Twenty-five letters written by lexicographer Noah Webster in 1797 concerning yellow fever, written to eminent Philadelphia physician Dr. William Currie. Published in "Supplements to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine", title no. 9. A clean copy with good binding, wraps with brown tone at edges. Blue wraps, 110 pages, 10-in tall.

Louisville, Kentucky: General Printing Company, 1984. first printing. Softcover. Fine/no jacket. 554pp, illustrations, portraits, maps, 23cm tall, octavo. Letters and reminiscences covering the years between 1828 and 1865. Webster, Johnson, and Kelsey families.

In Print Publishing, 1996. Softcover. Fine. xviii and 414 pages, 8.5-in tall, index. Illustrated with 9 maps and many photo portraits. A literary guidebook with chapters about Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Black cloth and gilt title, xix and 388 pages, 23cm tall, octavo. Fine in a fine jacket.

Houston: Collectors House of Books, 1975. first edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Gray cloth, 294 pages, 11-in tall, index. Photographs of over 475 rare pieces of American cut glass with 6 pages of illustrated trademarks. Front board with corner bump, else is fine. Clean dust jacket with a small tear to the rear panel. Very good in a very good dust jacket.