Search Results: Titles starting with W from The Book Shed

New York: W. & J. Tiebout , 1939. Paperback. Good. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, 4.5 in. loss of paper spine covering starting at about halfway or from the E to the T, previous owner's stamps to front cover. Yellow and blue printed wraps. 209 page indexed catalog to all manner of tools, supplies and equipment for boats and ships. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

New York: Basic Books, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Very light shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and jacket, a couple of notations on the first blank page else clean and unmarked. First printing, no additional printings. "The book is illustrated with photos not published elsewhere, but the images are not the book's strength. One of Mellow's surprising conclusions is that Evans was not a propagandist for social causes but simply an unflinchingly clear-eyed observer. Evans expressed his distaste for all that was artificial in photography; it is the complexity of his seemingly unemotional and factual images that remains today." Library Journal. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Basingstoke: AA/Ordnance Survey, 1990. Reprint. Ring-bound. Good . Some wear to tips and cover edges, corners bumped, especially to top front corner, covers rubbed. Covers the entire country. Not as shown at Amazon. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

London: Goupil & Co, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/no jacket, as issued. light wear to tips, corners and edges of book. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. 

New York: War Resisters League, 1981. First edition. Paperback. Good +. wear to tips, corners and edges, rubbing and minor creasing to covers. First printing July, 1981 of 3,000 copies stated. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: David McKay , 1976. First U.S.. Hardcover. VG/good. light wear to tips and corners to book and jacket; jacket shows some rubbing to rear panel. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover First printing/edition stated, no others noted. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Very lightest wear to the book, clean and unmarked; jacket is price-clipped. Clean and unmarked. An account of the war as fought in New York and Vermont on both sides of Lake Champlain. From the flap: "Despite a series of disheartening military reverses, loss of life, and destruction of property, civilians maintained a remarkable degree of resilience. They fled if battle threatened but soon returned to pick up the threads of their lives. Everest’s story shows us a war in microcosm and allows us a close-up experience of the small events that helped shape the destiny of a youthful and growing nation." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. boards are scuffed, bottom 4 inches of spine damaged perishing, including lower Rebellion Record label. Volume is tight, clean and unmarked. Correspondence, orders and returns relating to operations in Louisiana and the trans-Mississippi states and territories from April 1, 1864 to May 22, 1864. Bound with the index to The Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives...1891-'92, xvi pages in front. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.

London: J.M. Dent / Everyman, 1910. Second Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. spine quite sunned, faded, offsetting to endpapers, previous owner's name and date (1910) inked to 2nd blank page. Red and gilt cloth. Introduction by Ernest Rhys. EL 182, Seymour 1029.0 1/1/na. The first of the Barsetshire novels. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover.

Richmond, VA: Garrett & Massie, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/good. Previous owner's inscription to first blank page, author's signature to half-title page dated 7-30-56, light staining to front cover and page edges; jacket tips, corners and edges worn, rubbing. Map endpapers. From the flap: Washington and His Neighbors "should be of particular value in the study of llocal history in Fairfax, Arlington and Prince William Counties." First printing, no others noted. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Lightest shelf wear to the book and jacket. First printing, full number line. From the flap:"A riveting portrayal of a community, its insiders, its outsiders, its fissures, and its secrets from Norway s "Queen of Crime," Karin Fossum." Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/near fine. Second printing of 2002. Previous owner's name and bookplate else As New in all respects. "Crystal clear on technical points, Marsden is archly amusing in discussing how reputations are made." Gilbert Taylor--Booklist Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

New York: Twelve, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Like new in all respects except for the price-clipped jacket, clean and unmarked. First printing, full number line. Written after the losing Romney-Ryan 2012 campaign (the resounding and historic Obama victory was the first time since 1944, when FDR won re-election, that a Democratic president had won by a majority of the electoral votes and over 51% of the popular vote twice) "The Way Forward argues that the Republican Party is and must remain a conservative party, emphasizing conservatism in a way that demonstrates how it can modernize and appeal to both our deepest concerns and highest ideals." Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Sightest wear to the book and jacket. The trade edition. Clean and unmarked..Sixth printing of the first edition. No additional domestic s&h for this heavy book. From the flap: ".. if you want to know how a finished dish should look or how to angle your knife or to fashion a pretty rosette on a cake, there are more than 600 color photographs to entice and instruct you along the way. A brilliant, inspiring, one-of-a-kind, book from the incomparable Julia Child, The Way to Cook is a testament to the satisfactions of good home cooking." Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Boston: Branden Publishing Co, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. About As New in all respects. First printing, no others noted. Caso examines the documents that have contributed to ideals of freedom and democracy in America. Caso illuminates the usual documents from the Mayflower Compact to the Emancipation Proclamation as well as some surprising examples like Jefferson's friend Fillippo Mazzei's Declaration of Causes and Cesare Beccaria's treatise On Crimes and Punishments. He ends with Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream speech. Caso offers a fresh look at the ideas that influenced the creation and development of the rights and freedoms of Americans. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Later printing. Hardcover. Good +/very good. covers spotted/mottled, offsetting to endpapers; light wear to jacket with spotting to spine. Includes table of poetical quotations, indexed. Reprint, 8th printing, no date. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1896. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. First edition. Shelf wear to tips corners and edges of book, rear lower corner and last few pages have been bent. Deckled edges,top edge gilt. Editorial notes, glossary, publishers ads date March, 1896. First printing, no others noted. Reportedly Stevenson was working on this unfinished novel on the day he died. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. ex-library usual marks and stamps. Facsimile reprint, March of America Facsimile Series #91. The diary of a New York woman's ill fated 1856 attempt to emigrate with her family to a proposed Vegetarian Settlement Company settlement on the Neosho River in Kansas. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Jefferson N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2014. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. "There's a lot to sink your teeth into here." --Library Journal. As New in all respects. First printing, no others noted. "What does it mean to be human? Several argue that notions of the human must acknowledge the centrality of the body the fact that we share a "blind corporeality" with the zombie. Others address how the human is closely aligned with language and time, the disappearance of which are represented by the aphasic, timeless zombie.Underlying each essay are the game-changing words of The Walking Dead's protagonist Rick Grimes to the other survivors: "We're all infected." The violence of the zombie is also our violence; their blind drives are also ours. The human characters of The Walking Dead may try to define themselves against the zombies but in the end their bodies harbor the zombie virus: they are the walking dead."--from the back cover. Every… Read More

New York: Presidio Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Lightest wear to the book and jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page. From the flap: "Corbett relates these experiences through the eyes of an eighteen year old but with the mind and maturity of a man now in his fifties. His story of life, death, and growing up on the front lines at Khe Sanh speaks for all of the Marines caught up in the epic siege of the Vietnam War." First printing, full number line. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!