Estate of Irene Bender Watson
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Estate of Irene Bender Watson
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Description
Outstanding book collection from this estate. Mrs. Watson was the Women's Page editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer prior to World War II. She was an avid reader and book collector.
3 Vols. Hazlitt's Works
AUTHOR: Wm. Hazlitt, PUB/COPY DATE: 1880, CONDITION: F, PUBLISHER: J.B. Lippincott & Co., INFORMATION: Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich
AUTHOR: Wm. L. Shirer, PUB/COPY DATE: 1960, CONDITION: F, PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster, Inc., INFORMATION: First Printing, original jacket
3 Vols. Lee's Lieutenants
AUTHOR: Douglas Southall Freeman, PUB/COPY DATE: 1942, CONDITION: F, PUBLISHER: Charles Schribner's Sons, INFORMATION: Original jacket
5 Vols. High Polymers
AUTHOR: Various, PUB/COPY DATE: C1950, CONDITION: F, PUBLISHER: Interscience Publishers Ltd., INFORMATION: Vols. I, II, III, IV, & VI
3 Books, Riley's Rhymes
AUTHOR: James Whitcomb Riley, PUB/COPY DATE: 1898-1901, CONDITION: G, PUBLISHER: Brauworth & Co., INFORMATION: Riley Child-Rhymes With Hoosier Pictures, Riley-Farm Rhymes & Riley Love-Rhymes.
12 Vols. American Historical Writings of John Fiske
AUTHOR: John Fiske, PUB/COPY DATE: C1900, CONDITION: P, PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin & Co., INFORMATION: Origonal leather bound edition, binding in poor condition
Friedel-Crafts & Related Reactions
AUTHOR: Edited by Geo. A Olah, PUB/COPY DATE: 1963, CONDITION: G, PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons, INFORMATION: Vols. I, II, III pt 1,III pt 2, IV
4 Vols. The Harper Encyclopedia of Science
AUTHOR: Edited by James R. Newman, PUB/COPY DATE: 1963, CONDITION: G, PUBLISHER: Harper & Row, INFORMATION: Vols. 1, 2, 3, & 4
Wuthering Heights
AUTHOR: Emily Bronte, PUB/COPY DATE: 1943, CONDITION: G, PUBLISHER: Random House, INFORMATION: Illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg
The Yanks Are Coming - The Story of General John J. Pershing
AUTHOR: The Editors of The Army Times, PUB/COPY DATE: 1960, CONDITION: F, PUBLISHER: The Army Times Publ. Co., INFORMATION: Original jacket
The Word War - The Story of American Propaganda
AUTHOR: Thomas C. Sorensen, PUB/COPY DATE: 1968, CONDITION: G, PUBLISHER: Harper & Rox Publishers, INFORMATION: First Edition, original jacket
Guadalcanal Diary
AUTHOR: Richard Tregaskis, PUB/COPY DATE: 1943, CONDITION: F, PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co., INFORMATION: First Printing
The Old Man And The Sea
AUTHOR: Ernest Hemmingway, PUB/COPY DATE: 1952, CONDITION: F, PUBLISHER: Charles Schribner's Sons, INFORMATION: First Edition
The Captive And The Free
AUTHOR: Joyce Cary, PUB/COPY DATE: 1959, CONDITION: G, PUBLISHER: Harper & Bros., INFORMATION: First Edition, original jacket
Mrs.. McCulloch's Stories of Ole Lexington
AUTHOR: Charles W. Turner, PUB/COPY DATE: 1972, CONDITION: G, PUBLISHER: McClure Press, INFORMATION: First Printing
Stranger in the Earth - The Story of a Search
AUTHOR: Thomas Sugrue, PUB/COPY DATE: 1948, CONDITION: F, PUBLISHER: Henry Hold & Co., INFORMATION: First Printing, original jacket
Seed From Madagascar
AUTHOR: Duncan Clinch Heyward, PUB/COPY DATE: 1937, CONDITION: F, PUBLISHER: University of NC Press, INFORMATION: First Edition
Winston Churchill - An Informal Study of Greatness
AUTHOR: Robert Lewis Taylor, PUB/COPY DATE: 1952, CONDITION: F, PUBLISHER: Kingsport Press, Inc., INFORMATION: First Edition, original jacket
Intimate Papers of Colonel House
AUTHOR: Edited by Charles Seymour, PUB/COPY DATE: 1926, CONDITION: F, PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin & Co., INFORMATION: Behind Political Curtain 1912-1915
4 Naval Books
AUTHOR: Various Writers, PUB/COPY DATE: 1941-1944, CONDITION: G-P, PUBLISHER: Various publishers, INFORMATION: Navigation & Nautical Astronomy, The Naval Officer's Guide, Watch Offer's Guide & Knights Modern Seamanship
4 Children's books
AUTHOR: A.A. Milne, PUB/COPY DATE: 1925-1950, CONDITION: G, PUBLISHER: E.P. Dutton & Co., INFORMATION: Now We Are Six, (2) Winnie The Pooh, When We Were Very Young
Omar Bradley - A Soldier's Story
AUTHOR: Omar Bradley, PUB/COPY DATE: 1951, CONDITION: G, PUBLISHER: Henry Holt & Co., INFORMATION: Map Cover, First Edition
The Cruise of the Kronprinz Wilhelm
AUTHOR: Count Alfred von Niezychowski, PUB/COPY DATE: 1931, CONDITION: F, PUBLISHER: Doubleday, Doran & Co, INFORMATION: Hand inscribed to George F. Pierrot and signed by the author