Wilson Carol Green (82 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated B&W Photographs (illustrator). Second Printing. The story of William R. Staats. The FEP has three notations by a prior owner referencing two dates, two names and four pages of interest. The four pages referenced each have some minot underling of sentences. Gift inscribed on the 2nd free page from one friend to another. Generously illustrated throughout! The dust jacket is price clipped. 184 pages.

Cloth Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Printing. Has a small punch to front cover. Inscribed in ink by author: "To ____with happy memories of Palo Alto affectionatley, Carol Green Wilson San Francisco, February 13, 1947." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 10" Tall. Signed by Author(s).

Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. B & W Photographs (illustrator). Slight foxing of top edges, else Very Good in a rubbed DJ with very small edge chips and tears.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Roy Flamm (b & w photos) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1985. 1st edition, NF/F. Book has some light wear to spine ends, light bumping to lower corners. DJ Has very little wear. Almost 90 sacred places are described, with photos, representing all the continents on earth. Includes glossary, further reading and index. Nice copy, good reference.

HC. B&W illustrations (illustrator). 184pp NO DUSTJACKET - WEAR BOTTOM CORNERS -- William Staats headed for California in November, 1886. From 1887 to 1928 his contributions to the development of California were far reaching. good, tan cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) wear bottom corners.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. No dj. Signed by author. Gift inscription in prelims. minimal wear, pages tanned.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. General shelf/age wear. Jacket has some tanning, minor wear. Pages clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket in mylar, minor wear. Minor shelf/reading wear. Pages/boards/jacket clean.

Hardcover. Condition: In quite good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm./11in.], Full noire cloth with dust jacket, pp. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book in brown boards has minor wear to corners, spine bottom, tight, bright, and unmarked. Pictorial jacket in new mylar cover has slightly faded spine, minor wear. Foreword by Richard M. Nixon. Neatly and courteously inscribed on flyleaf, dated March 17, 1970.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A biography of an early settler in Pasadena, California, covering his years from 1887 to his death in 1928, written by his niece. William R. Staats came west for health reasons, became an early real estate salesman in Pasadena, then branched out to title insurance and investment opportunities, and became involved with many major Southern California businesses and civic institutions: Southern California Edison, Title Insurance and Trust Company, the Tournament of Roses, Throop College (which became CalTech), the Mt. Wilson railway and Lowe observatory, Union Oil, and so on. Basically in very good condition, but the dust jacket is gone, and someone has cut out the ffep with a knife, leaving only the paste-down half of the early photograph endpaper. A similar photograph from later years makes up the rear endpapers. Author's signature on the half-title page below the title.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated with sixty-seven photographs. Inscribed by the author 'To Arthur Kemp.January 11, 1954'. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. Upper right corner is bumped a bit, faint wear to tips of corners, previous owner names on endpaper. otherwise the book is sharp and clean, with a tight binding and clean pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated Fourth printing, very good in a very good dust jacket. Small dampstain at lower left front board wrapping to the spine (not evident on interior pages). Owner name and date (1951) on front endpaper. The jacket also shows the dampstain previously described, and there are a number of small chips at edges and spine ends. $5.00 price on jacket flap, and "Second Printing" on lower portion of front flap. Includes some color illustrations and an index; 288 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Revised Edition. Secure binding with mild soil and several signatures at front two pages (including half title). Hardcover book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condition: As New. Revised edition. Biograpy and adventure, a lively chronicle of Chinese settlement in San Francisco. Bright crisp unread PB copy, revised eition. 6 x 9, 190 pp, b/w-photo endpapers. Trade PB in glossy white illus wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is a good presumed first edition with a copyright of 1949. Top edge is black. Spine has some sunning, but overall a good copy of a fascinating book! (CK).

Hardcover. ix, 263p. + front., 7p. photos, revised edition, previous owner's name penned on front pastedown endpaper, else good condition in an unclipped dj with a sunned spine panel. Cameron spent her adult life combatting the traffic in immigrant Chinese slave girls, working in San Francisco's Presbyterian Home.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

vg+/vg, prev owner bookplate, browning on endpp's from newsclip. warm & personal inscript to prev owner from author on fep, dj lite rubbing/chipping/price clip, o/w clean & tight book. Illustrated by photos. 1st ed. Binding is black cloth.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Buff cloth with black and white illustrated dustjacket, somewhat yellowed to edges and with a chip and some tears to mid spine.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good DJ. First Edition, First Printing. Ownership Signature Of California Dancer Jeanne Devereaux Perkins, And With Her Pencil Notes Laid In Loosely. Book With Just A Touch Of Rubbing. Dj Lightly Worn, Tiny Losses At Corners. Signed By.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No dust jacket. Book is cocked. ; Inscribed by Cameron on the lower margin of the frontis photo. Private owner's inscription on the front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, 2nd Printing (June 1946). Not price-clipped ($3.75 price intact). Published by The Saunders Press, 1946. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with previous owner inscription on page before half-title page. Dust jacket is very good with 2-inch tear on spine. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo (24 cm.) [6]vii-xvii[2]2-184p. Designed by Ruth Saunders. Frontispiece black and white photo of William R Staats pus 64 black and white captioned photos. Sources and Index. Endpapers are black and white photos. Brown cloth with red letters. Previous owner's rubber stamp on front free endpaper, else near fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket very slightly rubbed. An author of several biographies of California pioneers, Carol Green Wilson spent seven years researching personal diaries, including that of her uncle, William R. Statts; records and letter files of many firms and corporations; and library archives, bringing to her book much hitherto unpublished material.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition, revised. Remarkably scarce in the trade in this state and condition, being DOUBLE-SIGNED, first by Donaldina Cameron (a.k.a. "Lo-Mo") underneath her black-and-white photograph at frontis, then also at half-title by the author, inscribed to Mark Mott, dated to 1952. Compelling biography of a "little Scottish woman" who spent decades fighting against opium dens, prostitution and child-slavery affecting girls in Chinatown, raiding brothels and opium dens in the process and legally adopting them for their safety and healing. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing moderate wear, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. xiii + 197 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets. Signed by Author.