Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Whiting Books

London: Almark Publications, 1972. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Light shelf wear and previous owner name to front free endpaper. Jacket rubbed and discolored on the rear panel. Protected now in a new Mylar cover. 88 pages with Appendixes for chronology of events and further reading. Not intened as a biography, but rather "a basis for study of Napoleon's life and career set against the events he directly influenced.".

1944. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Very mild wear. Internally sound and clean. No writing found inside. Class pictures, activities, and lots of ads for local businesses operating during World War II. The war is referenced on several pages. There is also a section for the Junior High School. The endpapers are illustrated by Victor Becerra with a drawn map of the school campus and surrounding area..

1949. Book. Good. Hardcover. General age wear-shelf wear and rubbing. Hinge cracked at the last section (Advertising) of the book, but holding together fine. Internally sound and clean. No writing found inside except for the owner's name. Heavy stock paper used for the pages. Interesting art work from Genevieve Field is featured on the endpapers and section title pages. A Forty-niners Gold Rush pioneer theme is used. Class pictures, activities, and lots of ads for local businesses are included. Alvin Junior High School and Elementary School classes are also featured..

Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1959. Book. Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Decorative leatherette with edge wear, rubbing wear, and soiling to covers. Binding is tight and square. 306 pages, plus blank pages for autographs. Many autographs and inscriptions throughout the book. This scarce edition is notable and very collectible for its glimpse into Janis Joplin's high school years. She is pictured on three club pages, along with her class picture, trying to fit in with her peers and find her place in the world. Despite being somewhat of a loner and an outcast, who was bullied during this time, she joined three school clubs in the 1958-59 school year-Future Nurses, Slide Rule Club, Art Club (pictured in all three). There were other clubs in her sophomore year, but by her senior year (that yearbook is also in our inventory), she had dropped all clubs except for the Art Club. Ironically, she was not involved with the school chorus or any clubs related to singing and… Read More

1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Light wear, some rubbing to the front cover. Internally sound and clean. No writing found inside. Class pictures, activities, and lots of ads for local businesses. Alvin Junior High School and Elementary School classes are also featured. Includes a history of the high school and several pages of then-current photographs of the school (good historical reference now). The endpapers are illustrated by Pete Gutierrez with a drawn map of the city of Alvin..

Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1960. Book. Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Decorative leatherette with edge wear, rubbing wear, and soiling to covers. Two-inch tear starting at the foot of the spine at the front cover. Small stain on the bottom edge of the page block that touches the bottom corner of the page that has Janis Joplin's class photo, but it does not affect either the photo or list of her high school activities. Binding is tight and square. 348 pages, plus blank pages for autographs. Many autographs and inscriptions throughout the book. Includes ephemera related to the previous owner and graduation, including the Commencement Exercises program, which includes Janis Joplin's name. This scarce edition is notable and very collectible for its glimpse into Janis Joplin's high school years (we also have her 1959 yearbook in stock). Also, two-time Super Bowl Champion coach of the Dallas Cowboys and University of Miami National Champions, Jimmy… Read More

New York: Embassy Music Corporation, 1941. Book. Illus. by Alfred Wilfred Barbelle. Very Good. Soft cover. Mild edge wear. Pages numbered 2-3. Two-page score. The front cover indicates recordings by Bing Crosby and Connie Boswell (Decca Record No. 3689-A) and Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra (Victor Record No. 27421). Rear cover picture and biography of Tommy Dorsey. Colorful art deco illustration on the front cover..

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Small crease to rear flap of jacket. Publicity release from the publisher laid in..

New York: Doubleday, 1988. Book. Near Fine+. Hardcover. First Edition. 400 pages, illustrated ith photos. Includes a section on the Beatles' tour schedule from 1963 to 1966, as well as a discography and bibliography..

College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Memori of Bess Scott (written and published at age 98!), who was the first woman reporter on the city desk for the Houston Post in 1915, and one of the first in the state of Texas. 195 pages, Index, photos. Signed (Bess Whitehead Scott) to a former owner of the book..

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Printing. 319 pages, black & white photos. Light bumping and edge wear. Jacket is price-clipped. Small corner crease to rear flap..

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Previous owner name stamp and address label on the front endpapers. Light wear to rear cover. Solid, sharp copy. 343 with Bibliography, Occupational Index, and Subject Index. Include's a Layman's Law Dictionary..

Houston, Texas: Bigco Press, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Just a trace of shelf wear and faint spotting to the top edge of the page block. The dust jacket has a couple of tiny stains, barely visible on the front. Foreword by Dr. Denton A. Cooley. 215 pages with Index. Black and white photos. Traces the life and career of Houston high school standout football player from his childhood to college at LSU and the Chicago Bears in pro ball, and finally to the Pacific Theater in World War II, where he was killed by the Japanese..

New York: Viking Studio Books, 2002. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Small remainder mark on bottom edge of page block. Trace of wear to jacket edges. This collection from photographer Bert Morgan includes many never before published photographs of a young Jacqueline Bouvier with her horses in competitions, her dogs, and her family. The photos are followed by a Chronology section that outlines her life from birth to her marriage to John F. Kennedy in 1953..

New York: Macmillan, 1962. Book. Illus. by Sandro Nardino and Enrico Bagnoli. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Slight bubbling to laminate, mostly on the rear cover. A couple of small pieces of old tape are on the rear cover also, hardly noticeable. Spine ends lightly bumped. Tight and square, clean and free of marks or stains. A very nice copy from the Marvelous Tales series. 41 pages..

Dow Jones-Irwin, Inc, 1975. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Printing. Lightly bumped in edge-worn jacket with several edge tears, including one at the front flap fold that is about two inches. Lightly rubbed. Protected in new mylar cover..

New York: Leo Feist, Inc., 1923. Book. Good. Soft cover. Edge wear, lower corner creasing, and the song title written along the spine. Single sheet, folded once to make four pages. Printed both sides. Measures 7 x 11 inches folded. For piano. Three pages plus a pictorial ad page for the New Fox-Tune, All Muddled Up, by Percy Wenrich. No other copies located online and none listed in OCLC (recordings, yes, but no sheet music). Scarce..