Search Results: Titles starting with W from Harry E Bagley Books Ltd

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1971. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. pict.paper wraps, pp., xiv,1-196, vii,(6),(1) 1-260; index, very light toning to spine, a clean, tight copy Size: 8 Vo.,.

Rosemont, Pa: W. Graham Arader III, 1976. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. 8 vo,. pict. wraps,42 pages illustrated, Walter Graham Arader established his antiquarian map and book firm in 1974 after becoming interested in the collecting world while studying at Yale University. He ran his first shop out of his own apartment in New Haven, Connecticut. The rest is history.

Grand Manan, N.B: [J.W. Hammond],, 1982. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. First Edition. 8 vo,. pict. paper wraps, 76 pages, illustrated, some age discoloration to covers, else very good, The town is situated on the northeast end of the island and was incorporated in 1950. In the 1890s the Butler family from Port de Grave staked claims on the north side of the island. The iron ore mines brought 14,000 to Wabana within a few years,making it the second largest community in the Dominion of Newfoundland. During the life of the mines 101 workers lost their lives.The mines closed on April, 18, 1966. This little volume has a list of names of the souls lost. Also tells of the islands war contribution, and much local lore. Very scarce.

Quesnel, B.C.: Northwest Digest Ltd., 1967. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. Signed by Author(s). pictorial paper wraps, 80 pages, illustrated throughout with b & w vintage photographs of gold rush scenes,etc. pict. title page, full page map, the numerous photographs would be of good use for gold rush researchers Size: 4 to.

London: The Bodley Head;, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. red cloth, gilt spine, 208 pages, book is slightly cocked, small tears and light chips to spine ends, corners, light wear along spine fold at front panel of d.j.d.j. is NOT price-clipped. A very presentable copy of Theroux's first book/novel. In protective mylar. Size: 8 Vo.,.

(British Columbia]: The Author, 2014. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Oblong, 8vo.,(19 x 24 cm). pict. hard cover, 160, 40 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles signed on the title page by author,Walhachin is a small ghost town in the Thompson Country region of British Columbia, 10 km west of Kamloops Lake, and 65 km west of Kamloops on the south shore of the Thompson River near Highway 1. Population 31. In its heyday, from 1909 until 1914, this historic town was an affluent colony of English settlers and was often termed "Canada's Camelot"..

London: Sampson, Low, Marston,, 1864. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. green, gilt dec cloth, cover and spine, beveled boards, pp., ix,(1), 420,16 (publisher's catalog) 4 mounted photographs, (frontis.photograph of author missing) edges & corners worn, small tears at spine ends, endpapers dusty, ink sig on half-title, front hinge starting, loose in binding, one plate disbound, plates are foxed, plate at pp 163 soiled, scattered foxing, A good reading copy only.Burritt was born in 1810 in New Britain CT., and early in life was a blacksmith. His capacity for learning languages quickly earned him the title the Learned Blacksmith. He was a worker for world peace, temperance and an opponent of slavery. In 1848 he organized the first international congress of the Friends of Peace which was held in Brussels, Belgium Size: 8 Vo.,.

London: New Holland, 2004. Book. Fine. Paperbound. First Edition. pict. paper wraps, 208 pages, illustrated, (some col.), maps, Globetrotter walking guides series, Size: Sm 4to., (21 cm).

Toronto: Musson Book Company, 1923. Book. Illus. by Illustrations By W. Herbert Dunton,. Good. Hardcover. First Canadian Edition. red, pict. cloth,pp., ,419, illustrated, frontis, light evidence of moisture to covers, d.j. chipped at spine ends, edge tears, with a small loss at foot of spine at rear cover, two small closed tears along bottom edge of front cover, light over all soil to d.j. Size: 8 Vo.,.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First US Edition. cloth spine, paper covered boards, pp., xxi, 438, text vignettes, 5pp bibliography, index, remainder mark on top edge Size: 8 Vo.,.

New York: Wiley & Putnam. Book. Poor. Hardcover. 2 volumes in one, 1845/1846, bound in old half-calf, marbled boards, leather spine labels with gilt spine letters, pp., x, 166: xii, 214, (6) pp of pub's adverts,covers worn at edges, scuffed, ex lib. with numbers on lower spine, scattered foxing throughout, front cover starting. A volume in Wiley and Putnam's "Library of American Books" series. Size: Sm.8 vo..

New York: Dover Publications,, 1996. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. pict. paper wraps, xlviii, 329 pages, illustrated, During the years 1845-48, Canadian artist Paul Kane undertook two journeys from York (modern Toronto) to Vancouver's Island and Oregon through the Hudson's Bay Company territory and back again. His purpose was to paint landscapes and scenes of Indian life in Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Size: 8 Vo..

Fredericton, NB, Canada: Goose Lane Editions, 1988. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. First Paperback Edit.. pp., 171, 6 line ink inscription of former owner on front free endpaper, "Young Kevin O'Brien is caught between heaven and hell, torn between the tenderness of his young, adulterous mother and the brutality of his work-gnarled, drunken father. Kevin's world is unrelenting: bone-crushing poverty, bullying, his first adolescent yearnings, and the fire of sin. Yet, in Kevin's imagination, there is hope." "Although The Wanton Troopers was Alden Nowlan's first novel, it remained unpublished until after his death in 1983.It also features a poignant afterword by David Adams Richards, an extended biographical note by Nowlan scholar Patrick Toner, and excerpts from an interview by Jon Pederson, conducted a year before Nowlan's death for the celebrated NFB film Alden Nowlan: An Introduction." Size: Lg. 8 Vo.,.

(Deerfield,Illinois)?: Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1914. Book. Fine. Paperbound. Offprint. green, printed paper wraps, stapled at spine, pp 45-61, inside back wrap and rear wrap has list of 30 of Osler's papers on typhoid fever, Cover title; "Reprinted from the Transactions of the Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1914. Volume VIII, no. 2 ." Size: 4 to (25 cm).

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada in collaboration with the National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada, 1983. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8 vo,.(26 cm.). red cloth, gilt spine, 489 pages, illustrated, maps,8 pp bibliography, index, map end papers ,slight tone to spine of d.j. else a fine copy, "In this important book, George Stanly has write a perceptive, elegant, and exciting history of he land operations of the War of 1812, offering laymen and historians alike a fresh and clear understanding of that frequently misinterpreted event." (from the dust jacket).

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. cloth, x, 240 pages.illustrated, 16 pp bibliography, index, as new, CONTENTS; Queering the eighteenth century, Warm signifiers: eighteenth-century codes of male-male desire -- Jean Paul's oriental homosexualities -- Literary cures in Wieland and Moritz -- Pederasty and pharmaka in Goethe's works -- Performing gender in Wilhelm Meister: Goethe on Italian transvestites - Male members: Ganymede, Prometheus, Faust -- Thomas Mann's queer Schiller -- Lichtenberg's queer fragments: sexuality and the aphorism -- Conclusion: made in Germany: modern sexuality. "Warm Brothers analyzes classical German writers through the lens of queer theory. Beginning with sodomitical subcultures in eighteenth-century Germany, it examines the traces of an emergent homosexuality and shows the importance of the eighteenth century for the nineteenth-century sexologists who were to provide the framework for modern… Read More

New York: Viking,, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. cloth, dust jacket, pp., xiii, 383, illustrated, black & white plates, pictorial end-paper, index, Size: 8 Vo.,.

Victoria,: Sono Nis Press,, 1984. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. cloth, pp; 280, map frontis., full page maps, 3 pp bibliography, index, Size: 8 Vo.,.

New York: PublicAffairs, 2011. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo,.. cloth, pp., xxxviii, 849, dust jacket, (NOT price-clipped) first edition, (stated, with full number line) in protective mylar, CONTENTS: Part I: Tribal Incubator -- Padshahgardi -- Shatter Zone -- Tribe and Mosque -- Modernizing Monarchs -- Red Sunrise -- Part II: Fission -- Commissar Meets Tribesman -- Big Fox Catches Little Fox -- Green Dawn -- Insubordinate Puppets -- The General's Vision -- Part III. Mission to the Mujahidin -- Mission Impossible -- Potemkin Government -- Pakistan Pivots -- Tilting at Windmills -- Wahhabi Emirate -- Desperately Seeking Moderates -- Irreconcilable Policies -- From Marx to Mullahs -- From One War to the Next -- Part IV: America and Afghanistan -- Unholy Alliance -- Between the Lions -- Yankee Meets Tribesman -- From Victory to Stalemate -- Needed: Real Change -- The Way Ahead. " This revelatory, unprecedented, insider's account of Afghanistan's history since the 1970s, and… Read More

New York: The Dramatic Repository, 1890. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint of 1812 Edit., Ltd to 110 Copies. orig. paper over boards with title repeated on front cover, printed on deckle-edged, hand made paper, laid-in is an additional printing of title page with a 24 line statement from the publisher Charles L. Woodward, covers have darkened and show light soil, small area of loss at lower corner of upper and lower cover, T.P.L. 888 Wright; American fiction Vol 1,312. A satire published soon after Brigadier-General William Hull's abortive campaign of 1812. In the pamphlet "the Gulls," President Madison and his friends,having decidedthat Upper Canada could be captured by proclamation alone, dispatch "Hull-gull," enjoining him in the event of failure to "call for advice upon their trusty ci-devant cabinateer Barnabas Bidwell, ( American born, author,teacher, and politician) and other confidential friends of the great Mo-gull (Madison) resident in that country." Size:… Read More