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Way We Lived Then, The: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper (SIGNED COPY) by: Dunne, Dominick
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Way We Lived Then, The: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper (SIGNED COPY)
by: Dunne, Dominick

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 218 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY DUNNE on title page. Mesmerizing, revelatory text combines with more than two hundred photographs -- most of them taken by the author -- in a startling illustrated memoir that will both astonish and move you. He partied with all the stars and big shots. Each weekend he carefully arranged his snapshots along with the week's invitations, telegrams, and news-clippings into a set of scrapbooks. In a bright dust jacket with sticker on front panel.

Record # 396792

Price: $35.00
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Way We Lived Then, The: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper by: Dunne, Dominick
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Way We Lived Then, The: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper
by: Dunne, Dominick

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages, b&w illustrations. Mesmerizing, revelatory text combines with more than two hundred photographs -- most of them taken by the author -- in a startling illustrated memoir that will both astonish and move you. He partied with all the stars and big shots. Each weekend he carefully arranged his snapshots along with the week's invitations, telegrams, and news-clippings into a set of scrapbooks. In a bright dust jacket with sticker residue on rear panel.

Record # 362109

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Way We Lived Then, The: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper by: Dunne, Dominick
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Way We Lived Then, The: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper
by: Dunne, Dominick

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages, b&w illustrations. Mesmerizing, revelatory text combines with more than two hundred photographs -- most of them taken by the author -- in a startling illustrated memoir that will both astonish and move you. He partied with all the stars and big shots. Each weekend he carefully arranged his snapshots along with the week's invitations, telegrams, and news-clippings into a set of scrapbooks. In a bright dust jacket with sticker residue on rear panel.

Record # 358594

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We As Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson by: Keith Weldon Medley
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We As Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson
by: Keith Weldon Medley

Hardcover. Gretna LA, Pelican Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In June 1892, a thirty-year-old shoemaker named Homer Plessy bought a first-class railway ticket from his native New Orleans to Covington, north of Lake Pontchartrain. The two-hour trip had hardly begun when Plessy was arrested and removed from the train. Though Homer Plessy was born a free man of color and enjoyed relative equality while growing up in Reconstruction-era New Orleans, by 1890 he could no longer ride in the same carriage with white passengers. Plessy's act of civil disobedience was designed to test the constitutionality of the Separate Car Act, one of the many Jim Crow laws that threatened the freedoms gained by blacks after the Civil War. This largely forgotten case mandated separate-but-equal treatment and established segregation as the law of the land. It would be fifty-eight years before this ruling was reversed by Brown v. Board of Education. Keith Weldon Medley brings to life the players in this landmark trial, from the crusading black columnist Rodolphe Desdunes and the other members of the Comite des Citoyens to Albion W. Tourgee, the outspoken writer who represented Plessy, to John Ferguson, a reformist carpetbagger who nonetheless felt that he had to judge Plessy guilty. Clean copy.

Record # 381598

Price: $18.00
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We Ask for British Justice: Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain by: Laura Tabili
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We Ask for British Justice: Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain
by: Laura Tabili

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket, 255 pages. Laura Tabili is the first historian to examine the concrete connections between the legacy of imperialism and the problem of racial antagonism inside Britain. Previous efforts to explain ethnic conflict have often resorted to pessimistic "common-sense" assumptions about the universality of xenophobia and racism; here Tabili recovers the historical conditions under which racial inequality was institutionalized in Britain. Clean copy.

Record # 379106

Price: $30.00
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We Played Our Cards: How My Generation Met the Call of World War II (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Corbett, Joseph Edward
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We Played Our Cards: How My Generation Met the Call of World War II (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Corbett, Joseph Edward

Hardcover. Burlington VT, Overlake Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. "Joe Corbett's remarkable experiences as a salvage officer in the US Navy during World War II are recollected here in tranquility and with great admiration for those with whom he served." Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 401125

Price: $12.00
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We Played Our Cards: How My Generation Met the Call of World War II (SIGNED COPY) by: Corbett, Joseph Edward
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We Played Our Cards: How My Generation Met the Call of World War II (SIGNED COPY)
by: Corbett, Joseph Edward

Hardcover. Overlake Publishing, 1ST, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 372510

Price: $15.00
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We Remember Bataan and Corregidor: The Story of the American and Filipino Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor and Their Captivity (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Mariano Villarin
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We Remember Bataan and Corregidor: The Story of the American and Filipino Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor and Their Captivity (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Mariano Villarin

Hardcover. Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 335 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page to the previous owner, a Major in the US Air Force Reserve. His ownership signature on the front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Record # 398098

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

We the People: The Constitution of the United States by: Peter Spier
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We the People: The Constitution of the United States
by: Peter Spier

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. Presents historical facts of the Constitution's creation and offers colorful illustrations of American life, past and present. All illustrated in color by Spier. Minor edgewear, soil to dj. Clean copy.

Record # 472455

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

We Went to Heaven Before We Died: Tales of the Quebec Bush (SIGNED COPY) by: Baker, James A.

We Went to Heaven Before We Died: Tales of the Quebec Bush (SIGNED COPY)
by: Baker, James A.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Academy Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY BAKER on title page. Unnumbered copy of 500 printed.

Record # 404469

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved by: Fay Vincent
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We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved
by: Fay Vincent

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 327 pages, b&w illustrations. This engaging collection of 11 interviews with some of baseball's best players from the 1950s and 1960s, whose salaries were often less than $10,000, might have been better subtitled, "And, Come to Think of It, We Did" (play for nothing, that is). But those guys could play. Former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent just starts the tape and lets them talk. There's Ralph Branca, alternately bitter and philosophical about the Shot Heard 'Round the World that Bobby Thompson hit off him in 1951; Harmon Killebrew downplaying the monster homers he hit off everybody; Whitey Ford (236-106 lifetime) sharing great Yankee stories; and Brooks Robinson marveling more at his great peers than at his own illustrious career. Other interviewees include Bill Rigney, Duke Snider, Robin Roberts, Carl Erskine, Lew Burdette, Frank Robinson, and Billy Williams. Clean copy.

Record # 399326

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century by: Giddins, Gary
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Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century
by: Giddins, Gary

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 532 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very light wear to jacket, two small scratches to upper jacket spine. Otherwise very clean and tight copy. In this superb collection of essays, reviews and articles, Giddins brings together, for the first time, more than 140 pieces written over a 14-year period, most of them for his column in the Village Voice (also called "Weather Bird"). The book is first and foremost a celebration of jazz, with illuminating commentary on contemporary jazz events, on today's top musicians, on the best records of the year, and on leading figures from jazz's past. Readers will find extended pieces on Louis Armstrong, Erroll Garner, Benny Carter, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Billie Holiday, Cassandra Wilson, Tony Bennett, and many others.

Record # 400307

Price: $18.00
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Wedding (SIGNED COPY) by: Norfleet, Barbara
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Wedding (SIGNED COPY)
by: Norfleet, Barbara

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, a pictorial history of the wedding ritual. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 455519

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 
 

Weimar Years, The : A Culture Cut Short by: Willett, John
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Weimar Years, The : A Culture Cut Short
by: Willett, John

Softcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Previous owner's sticker on front end paper, light edgewear and soil to wrappers. Clean, tight copy. The pictures assembled here show how this artistic culture originated in the aftermath of the First World War and the unsettled early years of the Weimar Republic, uneasily balanced between revolutionary pretensions and the desire for order. The montage of images--photographs, paintings, drawings, collages, books, and film stills--evokes the period with shocking vividness.

Record # 458889

Price: $20.00
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Wellsprings of a Nation: America before 1801. A Bicentennial Exhibition from the Collections of the American Antiquarian Society at the Worcester Art Museum April 19 June 5 1977. by:
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Wellsprings of a Nation: America before 1801. A Bicentennial Exhibition from the Collections of the American Antiquarian Society at the Worcester Art Museum April 19 June 5 1977.
by:

Softcover. Worcester MA, American Antiquarian Society, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. 141 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Tan stiff wrappers. Covers and spine slightly sunned, small stain to for-edge, dog-ears to upper page-corners. A nice, tight copy.

Record # 396797

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

West From Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of Immigrant Trails Across Utah 1846 1850 by: Korns, J. Roderic & Dale L. Morgan, Revised and Updated By Will Bagley & Harold S
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West From Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of Immigrant Trails Across Utah 1846 1850
by: Korns, J. Roderic & Dale L. Morgan, Revised and Updated By Will Bagley & Harold S

Softcover. Logan UT, Utah State University Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 328 pages, b&w illustrations. Two fold-out maps in a rear pocket. Three pages with yellow highlighting, otherwise clean.

Record # 382142

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 
 

West of Boston - Yankee Rhymes and Doggerel by: Daugherty, James
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West of Boston - Yankee Rhymes and Doggerel
by: Daugherty, James

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press , 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in 2-colors by Daugherty. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 602190

Price: $20.00
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West of the Fourth - Local History/Genealogy of Lloydminster, Alberta by: n/a
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West of the Fourth - Local History/Genealogy of Lloydminster, Alberta
by: n/a

Hardcover. Alberta, Canada, West of the Fourth Historians, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 635 pages, photographs throughout, illustrated brown cover. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854200

Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00 

West on the 49th Parallel: Red River to the Rockies, 1872-1876 by: Parsons, John E.
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West on the 49th Parallel: Red River to the Rockies, 1872-1876
by: Parsons, John E.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, illustrated with 50 early photographs and sketches. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rubbing, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853916

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

West Virginia Railroads: Volume 1: Railroading In the Mountain State by: Thomas W Dixon Jr.
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West Virginia Railroads: Volume 1: Railroading In the Mountain State
by: Thomas W Dixon Jr.

Softcover. Forest VA, TLC Publishing, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. This book outlines the history of railroading in West Virginia from the earliest entry of Baltimore & Ohio into what was then western Virginia up to the 1860s. In addition to B&O, Chesapeake & Ohio, Western Maryland, Norfolk & Western, and Virginian have major chapters. Smaller sections cover the New York Central, short lines, logging railroads, and others that had only a smaller presence in the state. Clean copy.

Record # 472101

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Westering Women and the Frontier Experience 1800-1915 by: Myres, Sandra L
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Westering Women and the Frontier Experience 1800-1915
by: Myres, Sandra L

Softcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 365 pages, b&w illustrations. Professor Myres gives frontier women a voice they never had. She uses extensive source material by and about women ( letters, journals, and reminiscences from over 400 collections ) to study the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West. She offers a major reinterpretation of the experience of pioneer women, including that of Indian, Mexican, French, black, and Anglo-American women. The account recreates in detail the frontier experience of all these women, beginning with their physical and intellectual responses to the trek West, and concluding with their struggle for political suffrage and economic opportunity. Clean copy.

Record # 398984

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Whale Ships and Whaling: A Pictorial History of Whaling During Three Centuries With an Account of the Whale Fishery in Colonial New England by: Dow, George Francis
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Whale Ships and Whaling: A Pictorial History of Whaling During Three Centuries With an Account of the Whale Fishery in Colonial New England
by: Dow, George Francis

Hardcover. Salem MA, Marine Research Society, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 446 pages, illustrated with black and white frontispiece, photographs in the text. Illustrated endpapers. Begins with 40 pages of text, consisting of an introduction by Frank Wood and a substantial essay by George Francis Dow. This is followed by 207 BW plate pages of illustrations, along with an index. A book all about whales, whaling, whalers, Jonah and the Whale, etc. A visual feast of whaling ships. Light fading to spine, Clean copy.

Record # 383742

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 
 

Whaling Boy by: Freuchen, Peter
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Whaling Boy
by: Freuchen, Peter

New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 127 pages, b&w illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher. A ten-year-old Danish boy goes on a whaling hunt. Drawn from the author's life. Clean copy.

Record # 407822

Price: $1,200.00
Price: $1,200.00 

Whallonsburg, New York Agricultural Heritage Area (SIGNED COPY) by: LaForest, Shirley
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Whallonsburg, New York Agricultural Heritage Area (SIGNED COPY)
by: LaForest, Shirley

Softcover. Essex New York , Eyrie Publications , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Spiral bound softcover. Black & white photographs and maps throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Map of Whallonsburg, New York laid-in. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 613601

Price: $200.00
Price: $200.00