Search Results: Titles starting with W from Black Paw Books

Tokyo: MCMAT, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good. Text in Japanese and English. Illustrated throughout in black & white and color. Oblong 16mo. 295 pages. Flex binding. Thick cloth covered boards. Silk-like backstrip with paper label. From private collection. Boards show some soiling. Minor fraying to fabric along crown of spine. Pages remain clean and unmarked.

Tokyo: Kogei Shuppan, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good. Japanese language work.Octavo, 237 pp. White paper-covered boards. In dust jacket and publisher-issued clear plastic cover.

No publisher stated, no date. Softcover. Very Good. Walter Ferriss (1768-1806) was a Universalist minister. He was appointed to the Committee of the General Convention in Strafford, Vermont, in 1802. In 1803, Ferriss attended the Winchester Convention in New Hampshire as a representative from Hinesburg, Vermont." (Andover-Harvard Theological Library website). Facsimile reprint of the original 1803 edition with no mention of publisher or copyright date. Octavo, 137 pp. In blue paper wraps. From private collection. Wraps show small sticker mark and a little rubbing.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Hardcover. Good. Four volumes of 8 volume set include the following books: The Improvised War, 1861-1862; War Becomes Revolution, 1862-1863; The Organized War, 1863-1864; and the Organized War to Victory, 1864-1865. Tall octavo-sized volumes bound in red cloth. From the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Lincoln biographer David Herbert Donald. War Becomes Revolution appears to be a later printing and is in Fine Condition. The other volumes show foxing to dust jackets and edges of book blocks. Donald's address sticker on front panel of one of the jackets; name neatly printed inside another. Single volume shows penciled notes in Donald's hand. Three of the dust jackets are worn and scuffed (please see images). All said, a solid reading and reference set with an interesting provenance.

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1895. Hardcover. Good to Very Good. Heavy octavo-sized volumes (9" tall). Hallf-bound in leather with marbled paper boards. From private collection. Bindings of all three volumes show heavy rubbing and wear. Boards are starting to separate from binding of Vol. XLIII, Part II. Books' pages remain clean and unmarked, and are tightly bound.

London: Orbis Publishing, Ltd, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good+. The world's most informative and lavishly illustrated encyclopedia of modern military aviation." Scarce in bound volume sets. Complete 10-volume set (issues 1 - 120) custom bound by previous owner in red buckram. Quarto-sized binding. Issues show price stickers, but are otherwise clean and unmarked. Includes index bound into tenth volume.

London: William Heinemann, Ltd, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First UK Edition. Octavo, 373 pp. Blue cloth. Previous owner's name printed on ffep. Top edge of book block lightly dust-stained. Ever so slight spine slant. Dust jacket shows rubbing to edges.

1973. Hardcover. Fair. Yearbook is notable for containing a couple of photos of Freshman Alberto Salazar (running at an event and posing with the track team). He does not appear in the class portraits for his class. Typical high school yearbook with black & white photos of classmates, sports teams, faculty, etc. Retired library copy with page 87/88 missing and page 89/90 is loose. Offered here as is.

1845. Softcover. Good. Newspaper contains a collection of current events (regional, national, and international), curiosities, and literature. Folio, 4 pp. With seven columns of dense type. Pages are heavily creased and show some small perforations; margins are a bit ragged with chipping along top corner.

Ritchie & Dunnavant, 1857. Softcover. Good. Issue includes articles on penal settlements, abolition agencies, the University of Virginia, city and state news, and more. Folio, 4 pp. With seven columns of dense type. Issue is a little edgeworn and shows a little browning in patches.

Ritchie & Dunnavant, 1857. Softcover. Fair. Issue includes articles on Virginia legislation, "The Harper's Ferry Affair," The Richmond and Danville Railroad (with map), and more. Folio, 4 pp. With eight columns of dense type. Issue show some soiling, a couple of small holes to the pages, and discoloration.

Ritchie & Dunnavant, 1857. Softcover. Good. Issue includes articles such as "Are Negroes Citizens?" "The Union: Will It Stand or Fall?" The Sophistries of Abolitionism" as well as news regarding Kansas and Missouri, national politics, and more. Folio, 4 pp. With seven columns of dense type. Issue shows some creasing and minor patches of discoloration and minor blue ink stain on back page.

The City of Everett, Massachusetts, 1919. Softcover. Very Good. Published in Conjunction with the Welcome Home Celebration, July 4, 5, 6, 1919." Yearbook style publication includes photos of town officials and veterans, honor rolls, biographies of medal recipients (with photos), Illustrated articles on Everett and the Selective Service Law, "How Everett Backed Her Boys with Her Dollars," Woman's Relief Corp, "War Activities at the High School," "Citizenship and the Jew," Swedish volunteers, and much more. Quarto, 259 pp. In wraps with gray cloth backtrip. Decorative color stamp on upper wrap. Top corner of upper wrap and first few pages show light crease. Pages remain clean and unmarked.

London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1914. Hardcover. Good. Complete in two volumes. Tall 8vo. in red cloth. Retired library copy (properly deaccessioned with discard stamps). Usual stamps and markings. Spines are discolored and splotched. Offered here as a solid reading and reference set.

Office of the Superintendent of Census Operations, 1958. Hardcover. Good. Heavy quarto, 705 pages. Blue cloth backstrip over paper-covered boards. From private collection. Edges of boards show some dings. Cover lightly foxed. Name printed on ffep.

Saint Lucia: Privately Printed, 1937. Paperback. Very Good. The West Indian Enterprise was edited and published by Jean Rhyss cousin, Lily Lockhart of Castries, St Lucia between 1931 and 1937, with some issues featuring hand-drawn illustrations by Lockhart herself. The magazine offers rare insight into the creole community in the West Indies and copies of the magazine remain scarce (no copies listed on WorldCat). This listing is for 55 issues of the monthly magazine The West Indian Enterprise as follows: 1932: all 12 issues; 1933: missing April; 1934: January - June, December; 1935: missing July and November; 1936: 2 copies of January issue, missing September; 1937: January - March. Overall, these issues are in very good condition. A few show a vertical crease to the wraps and text block. A single issue is chipped along the edge of the front wrap and the first few pages.

Washington, DC: The War Department, 1945. Softcover. Fair. With victory eminent, the army printed this bookleto facilitate discussions with troops about our relationship with Japan in the postwar period. 12mo, 62 pp. Black & white illustrations. Stapled wraps. Wraps are scuffed and worn. Staples are rusted and binding is separating.

Adirondack Museum Books/Syracuse University Press, 2005. Softcover. Very Good+. Along with 104 color and ten black-and-white plates of Weston's works, the catalog includes essays that cover myriad aspects of Weston's life and art. The Adirondack Museum's chief curator Caroline M. Welsh explores nature and wilderness preservation as themes in twentieth-century art and places Weston in the context of his contemporaries who painted the Adirondacks. " Quarto (10" tall). 136 pp. In wraps. From private collection. Handsome copy.

New Holland, 2010. Softcover. Very Good. Australian imprint. Square octavo. 256 pp. In wraps. Light crease to upper wrap (front cover). Pages remain clean and unmarked; spine, uncreased. Square octavo.

Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd, 1938. Hardcover. Good. Engaging biography of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham by English Naval historian Brian Turnstall. Work emphasizes Pitt's principled leadership and pivotal role in Britain's victory in the Seven Years War. Tall octavo (9" tall), 556 pp. Re cloth. Bottom corner of board and book block bumped. Cloth faded along spine and started to show wear. Article affixed to ffep. Offered here as a solid reading copy.