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Click to view full description | 1. | A.M.W. [ANNA MARIA WELLS] Patty Williams's voyage : a story almost wholly true / by A. M. W.
Boston Walker, Fuller and Company 1866 Hard Cover Very Good
104 pages, boards, very good. Anna Maria [Foster] Wells (?1797-1868) born in Gloucester, MA; lived in Amherst, NH, also authored The floweret. A gift of love (1842) Poems and juvenile sketches (1830).
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| 2. | BAKER, GEORGE PIERCE editor [ELIZABETH HIGGINS SULLIVAN, FREDERICK LANSING DAY, JAMES MAHONEY and, WILLIAM H. WELLS] Plays of the 47 Workshop Fourth Series
New York Brentano's, 1925 Hard Cover Good
[4],.121 pages, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. The Strongest Man, by Elizabeth Higgins Sullivan; The Slump, by Frederick Lansing Day; The Mourner, by James Mahoney; and Brotherhood, by William H. Wells. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: "George Pierce Baker, 1866-1935, American educator, b. Providence, R.I., grad. Harvard, 1887. He taught (1888-1924) in the English department at Harvard and there conceived and instituted (1906) the 47 Workshop, a class on playwriting techniques and a laboratory of experimental productions. The first of its kind, the workshop was an inspiration to many young dramatists and gave impetus to the movement toward campus theater. In 1925 he went to Yale, where as professor of the history and technique of drama and director of the university theater he continued his work. Baker wrote The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist (1907, repr. 1965) and Dramatic Technique (1919) and edited the works of his students."
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| 3. | JAMES, D. CLAYTON with ANNE SHARP WELLS A time for giants. Politics of the American High Command in World War II.
New York Franklin Watts, 1987 Hard Cover
317 pages, 4 plates, cloth, dust jacket, 1st edition, fine. Prior owner's signature on front endpaper is that of Joyce Curtis, sister to former Maine Governor Curtis.
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| 4. | JAMES, D. CLAYTON with ANNE SHARP WELLS Refighting the last war. Command and crisis in Korea. 1950-1953.
New York The Free Press, 1993 Hard Cover
282 pages, 4 plates, map, cloth, dj, very good.
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| 5. | WELLS, ANNA MARY Dear preceptor. The life and times of Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Boston Houghton Mifflin Co. 1963 Hard Cover
363 pages, frontispiece (portrait), cloth, dust jacket, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. Includes his Civil War service as colonel of a Negro regiment, the First North Carolina Volunteers. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 'Higginsson (1823-1911) American author, b. Cambridge, Mass. A Unitarian minister, he was a leader in the abolitionist movement. His Army Life in a Black Regiment (1870), which recounts his experiences as colonel of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first black regiment in the Civil War, was the basis of the film Glory (1989). A versatile author and an able scholar, he wrote essays; popular histories; a novel, Malbone (1869); and biographies and reminiscences of political and literary friends. In 1890–91, with M. L. Todd, he edited the Poems of his friend Emily Dickinson. A lifelong radical, in his old age (1906), Higginson joined with Jack London and Upton Sinclair to found the Intercollegiate Socialist Society.'
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| 6. | WELLS, GABRIEL These three.
New York William Edwin Rudge, 1932 Hard Cover
With a preface by Andre Maurois. 92 pages, frontispiece (portrait), cloth. 1st edition, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good.
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| 7. | WELLS, H.G. (Herbert George) Experiment in autobiography. Discoveries and conclusions of a very ordinary brain (since 1866).
New York Macmillan Co. 1934 Hard Cover
718 pages, plates, text sketches, cloth, very good.
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| 8. | WELLS, RICHARD A. Manners, culture and dress of the best American society: including social, commercial and legal forms, letter writing, invitations, &c., also valuable suggestions on self culture and home training
Springfield, Mass. King, Richardson & Co. 1891 Hard Cover Very Good
Introduction by Rev. Willard E. Waterbury. 522 pages, plates, cloth, very good. From the preface: "Manners constitute the language in which the biography of every individual is written. There is no one subject of today which embodies more practical interest to people in general, than a knowledge of the rules, usages and ceremonies of good society."
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| 9. | WELLS, ROGER HEWES The states in West German federalism. A study of Federal-State relations, 1949-1960.
New York Bookman Associates 1961 Hard Cover
148 pages, cloth, dust jacket, 1st edition, very good.
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| 10. | WELLS, TED Scientific sailboat racing. Revised and enlarged edition.
New York Dodd, Mead & Co, 1958 Hard Cover
214 pages, 10 plates, many text illustrations, diagrams, charts, cloth, very good.
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| 11. | WELLS, WILLIAM Excerpta quaedam e scriptoribus latinis probatioribus, notis illustrata. In usum juventutis academicae.
Bostonii, Nov-anglorum: impensis W. Wells, 1810.
viii,512p., cont. full calf, ex-lib., v.g. Early Latin text.
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| 12. | WELLS, WILLIAM W. Letters from an Airman, WW II
Franklin, TN Author 1992 Hard Cover Very Good
[6], 195 pages, illustrations, boards, fine. William W. Wells was born in Nashville and is a graduate of Vanderbilt University. After serving in World War II, he was recalled to active duty during the Korean War and served for two years as a fighter pilot. Based on a collection of more than 180 letters that Wells wrote home to his family while he was taking fighter pilot training in England. He was an escort for Joseph Kennedy Jr.'s secret mission when Kennedy's plane exploded. He tells of his part in D-day and of the special mission to Russia, Italy and return to England - a so-called 'Shuttle Mission.' Also included are a number of mission summaries exactly as they were recorded.
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