Search Results: Titles starting with W from R & A Petrilla

Washington DC: American Federation of Labor, 1927. First book edition. Softcover. Very Good. 62pp. Removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 7" x 4.5" This pamphlet collects five articles published in the "American Federationist," May-September, 1927: Wages in the Pig Iron Industry; Trade Unions and the Stabilization of Business; Fluctuations of Wages of Skilled and Unskilled Workers; Fluctuations of Wages of Female and Unskilled Male Workers; Wages and Business Cycles.

Boston: Wright & Potter, State Printers, 1920. Second printing. Original Wraps. Good. 41pp. Slight wear to spine ends. 9" x 5.75" First published in 1914. Deals with various occupations of women in the laundries industry, accident hazards, analysis of the wage situation, &c. WorldCat locates six copies of this title.

Montpelier: E.P. Walton & Son, 1853. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good. 144pp; few old notations in Memorandum section. Overall wear and light staining, else complete and tight. 5.5" x 3.5

Montpelier: E.P. Walton & Son, 1851. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good. pp: 142, (2); few old notations in Memorandum section. Overall wear and light staining, else complete and tight. 5.5" x 3.5

Cohoes, NY: Hugh P. Graham, 1928. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 64pp. Numerous ads for various products, schools, homes, etc. Original paper covers. 5.5" x 3.25" Entries, arranged by county, include: superintendents and staff, directions by road and by trolley, number of inmates, acreage, &c.

Princeton / London: Princeton U Press / Oxford U Press, 1919. First Edition. Original Cloth & Boards. Very Good. pp: viii, 87. Blue cloth and printed gray boards; some foxing to edges of text block. 7.75" x 5.25

Athens, GA: Athens Book Co, 1923. Second Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. 215pp; 10 plates from photographs. 7.5" x 5.5" Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free-endpaper: "Presented to / Senator Peter Horbeck / by the author / Frank Attolda / Athens, Ga. March 24, 1924." The author served as 2nd Lieutenant in the 328th Infantry, 82nd Division, in World War I.

1907. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 20pp. Bound in printed green wrappers. 9" x 6" Caspar Frederick Goodrich (1847-1925) was a U.S. Navy admiral whose actions during the Spanish-American War were especially noteworthy. [WorldCat locates two holdings of this title: NYPL and Yale.].

Washington DC: J.F. Jarvis, 1891. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 12 panels of views from photographs. Accordion-fold (leporello) format. Views include: Washington Monument; Pennsylvania Avenue from Treasury Building; Smithsonian Institution; National Museum; State, War & Navy Department; Soldier's Home; Corcoran Art Gallery; Bureau of Engraving & Printing; Pension Building; Former Residence of General Lee, Arlington Heights; Mount Vernon (exterior & interior views); &c. Embossed red cloth, titles gilt-stamped on both covers; few light spots on front cover. 6" x 5

Winnetka, IL: Vixen Press, 1985. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Fine. 20pp, colophon; six colored wood engravings by Caryl Seidenberg. 9.5" x 6.5" This is #222 of 250 copies only, set in Centaur and Arrighi types and printed by hand on dampened Rives heavyweight. Signed under the colophon by Seidenberg and by Friedberg.

Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1937. First Edition. Original Boards. Very Good/Very Good. pp: (ix), 102; occasional illus from sketches. Gilt-stamped gray boards in lightly chipped dust wrapper. 9" x 5.75" The author and a friend spent a month "doing" Paris, Langres, Zurich, Munich, Nuremberg, Mannheim, Cologne, Brussels, Bruges, London, etc.

Manchester, PA: J.A. Walter, Mfr, 1920. Original edition. Very Good. Printed in bold black letters on white card stock; small photo-portrait of Walter in corner. 7" x 9.25

Chambersburg, PA: Board of Missions, 1836. Original edition. Good. 4 large pages; wear at original folds with slight loss. 23.5" x 18" A scarce pre-fire imprint: Chambersburg was burned by the Confederate Army in 1864 and few printed paper items survived.

NY: J.H. Colton, 1852. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. pp: 351, (18) ads for Colton's maps, charts and books; large, engraved, folding map tipped in at front as issued. Blind-stamped purple cloth, spine tanned as usual. Upper portion of rear joint wormed; still a clean, tight copy of this desirable book. 7.5" x 5" [Howes, U.S.iana C967. Sabin 18069. Decker 38:95.].

London, Paris & New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, & Co, 1880. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 30pp. Bound in printed tan wrappers. 7" x 4.75". Vertical crease. Examines the economic aspects of agriculture in the western states. "...For what he raises he gets a lower price, and for what he consumes he pays a higher price, than the land-tillers get and pay in any other country in the world..." (Chapter I).

New York: American Bank Note Co, 1887. First Edition. Very Good. Broadsheet, printed in black ink on buff stock, opens to 12.25" x 25.5". Includes an inset map (5.75" x 8.75") and a long paragraph of text on Chautauqua Lake. Folds to 6" x 3.25" with different illustrations of Niagara Falls on both cover panels. Dated "August 21, 1887. Corrected to Sept. 18." [Not found in OCLC nor WorldCat.].

NY: J.H. Colton, 1852. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. pp: 351, (18) ads for Colton's maps, charts and books; large, engraved, folding map tipped in at back as issued. Blind-stamped green cloth, spine ends and tips rubbed. Gilt-stamped on the cover is the name, A. Sheldon Clark. 7.5" x 5" Endpaper signature of Edwin C. Bush, Pittsburgh, Pa, 1853. Did Bush emigrate to Wisconsin, using this book? In 1864, an Edwin C. Bush was elected a director of the Missouri & Western Union Telegraph Company as reported in the October 14 issue of the Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gazette. [Howes, U.S.iana C967. Sabin 18069. Decker 38:95].

[Flagstaff, Arizona]: Northland Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. pp: xiii, 192; rubricated title-page, 10 full-page illustrations. Bound in blue wove cloth, silver lettering on spine, blue endpapers, printed dust wrapper. 10" x 7

Chambersburg, Pa: Wolf Company, 1900. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 640pp with index; frontispiece view of the factory, illustrations throughout the text. Contains detailed descriptions, specifications, and prices of grain mills, related machines, steam generators, etc. Bound in green cloth over flexible boards, white lettering nearly rubbed away. 7" x 4.25" [WorldCat finds no library holdings of this title.].

Philadelphia: Peoples Publishing Company, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp: 591; 16 plates of illustrations, 19 maps (three folding). Includes chapters and maps on the Pacific Railroad as well as individual states and territories: California/Nevada, Oregon, Washington Territory, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Eastern & Western Virginia, North & South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee/Kentucky, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. The folding map of the United States is wrinkled but complete. All other maps and plates called for are present. Bound in terracotta grained cloth, gilt lettering and cover picture. 9" x 5.75". Spine ends and corners worn. Scattered, light foxing. Text block is sound.