Search Results: Authors starting with W from The Country Bookshop

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1898. Wear on leather edges and spine. Chipped top of spine. 5/8 inch chip lower left of front cover. Chipped on bottom right 2 x 1 sq inch corner. 1 1/4 inch ragged tear on front (title) flap and chipping there. 2 1/2 inch tear hinge of flap. Otherwise Very Good. Edition probably used by the Japanese in Burma for the River Kwai. Key words: Bridges, Design, Arches, Trestles, Viaducts, Railroads, Movable Bridges, Revolving Drawbridges, Highway Bridges, Combined Bridges, Steel Bridges, Draw Spans, Specifications, Standard System of Live Loads, Timber Trestles, Inspection, Piers, Tirangulation, Office Practice.. First Edition. Leather. Fair/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Galahad Books, 1975. Very good copy, with copious color images, despite wear and chips to dust jacket. acket is torn and chipped. Binding is crisp and tight, and pages are clean.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Minus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Columbia University Press, 1971. 196pp. Biography of Ralph Linton, one of the leaders in modern anthropology. Very good condition; slight rubbing at corners and spine ends. Jacket shows minimal soil. Nice copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1907. Front cover has 1 1/2 inch white spot in upper right corner and a 3/8th inch spot on the right edge. Wear at extremities. Spotting inside front cover and on front end paper. Title page is glued too close to front end paper and has been torn open with holes along that edge. Browning on title page. Name inside front cover and on front end paper.. Seventeenth Edition. Cloth. Good Minus/No Dust Jacket. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.

London: Schott & Co., Ltd, 1970. Bilingual. No date. From listings in WorldCat it looks like a 1970 edition.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket - GD Slip Case. Illus. by Glyn, M.H. (trans). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Libretto.

London: The Decca Record Company Ltd., 1955. A Sacred Festival Play in Three Acts. Bilingual. No date. WorldCat has 195? Slight darkening of covers.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Libretto.

New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1897. Bilingual: German/English. No date. WorldCat has 1897? 3 1/4 inch mark on front cover. Name inside front cover.. Soft Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by MacFarren, Natalia (trans). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Piano / Vocal Score.

Lebanon, Indiana, U.S.A.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1994. Rolling to book. No disk. The math and history of math in this book is still good.. Soft Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1876. This is the book owned by the Strafford Glee Club [probably VT] 1880 with the members listed on a label inside the front cover. A Complete Collection of the Songs of the American Colleges, with selections from the student songs of the English and German Universities; and popular songs adapted to college singing. Frayed at extremities. Faded spine. Bumped and frayed corners. Cracking of paper above the hinges.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

West Brookfield, VT: Alice Wakefield, 1985. Foldings and wear on extremities of jacket. Some wear on edges of jacket. 1 inch tear at bottom edge of jacket and a few folds there.. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Hall, Holly (jacket art). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Harvey and Darton, 1840. Spine cover separated and chipped. Corners bumped and worn. 3 1/2 inch tear where map is attached. Map is not affected. This map and descriptions is of Great Britain and the Empire does not seem to include world colonies.. Hard Cover. Poor/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Haven, CT: By the Author, 1901. Published by Author. 1000 copies made. "Written for the benefit of those men in charge of steam plants who wish to improve their knowledge of steam engineering in order to enable them to pass examinations where a license is required, and to do more satisfactory work wherever a steam engine is found." Some wear at extremities. Light spotting on covers. Otherwise, a bright, tight, and clean copy of this book. Green cloth over board. Gilt texted spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Leipzig: Friedrich Gleditsch, 1740. Voll Buchtitel: "Walchs Philosophisches Lexicon, Darinnen Die in Allen Theilen der Philosophie Als Logik, Metaphysic, Physic, Pneomatic Ethik, Naturlichen Theologie und Rechts Gelehrsamkeit, Wie Politik Furkommen den Materien und Kunstworter erklaret, und aus der Historie erlautert; die Streitigkeiten der Altern und Neuern Philosophen erzehlet die dahin gehorigen Bucher und Schrifften angefuhret, und alles nach Alphebetischer Ordnung vorgestellet worden." Wear at extremities. Some chipping on spine. Copy in generally Good Minus condition. Bound in full velum.. Hard Cover - Velum. Good-Minus/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, DC: House of Representatives, 1905. X-library. "Discarded" stamped on library bookplate inside front cover and inside back cover. Scanning pattern at top of inside back cover. Wear on all extremities. Corners bumped. Dewey numbers on spine. Keywords: Geography, Climate, Caves, Sahara, Colonialism. Hard Cover. Good Minus/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. X-library.

Paris: Prisme Des Arts, 1958. Bumped corners. Faded spine. Presentation by former owner on front end paper.. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Knopf, 1922. Lovely orange binding (slighhtly scuffed & worn) with gilt Japanese writing, spine in brown cloth with black writing, in protective plastic sleeve. Inside very good condition, with 2-color title page and en face frontiscpiece photograph separated by tissue. Many pages still uncut. Includes introduction by Waley, Previous owner's book plate inside front cover: Ex Libris Frank D. Slutz.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good/None. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall - Oblong.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1925. Purplish hard cover with gilt title on spine, solid and attractive, but slightly torn at top edge between spine and front cover.End papers and title page are foxed and shadowed. Inside deckled pages are clean and in good condition. Translated by Arthur Waley, with appendices and preface. . Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good/None. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Burlington, VT, USA: The Free Press Association, 1869. With bookplate of Hall Park McCullough of North Bennington, VT, on front fixed endpaper. -- Brown blind-stamped cloth boards darkened around edges of front cover; spine darkened, with pasted-on paper title also darkened and chipping a bit at its top edge; corners bumped; showing general wear but edges relatively sharp and unfrayed (spine extremities are more worn however). Top corner of front free endpaper chipped where it stuck to pastedown. Dedication in ink in front. Lower third of title page separating from binding. Overall a good, tight, clean copy. 191 pp.. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1966. And Mrs. Mellon Bruce. Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition. Rubbing and slight soil on front cover.. Soft Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalog.

Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1966. And Mrs. Mellon Bruce. Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition. March 17 - May 1, 1966. Notes on front cover. Slight wear at extremities.. Soft Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalog.