WHIPPLE, Wayne

The Heart of Lincoln: The Soul of the Man As Revealed in Story and Anecdote

Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs & Company, 1915. Hardcover. 16mo. Blue cloth with ivory lettering and rules, dust jacket. 101pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Very good/very good. Faint binding edgewear, with ivory rules a bit chipped as usual; mild jacket edgewear, with spine age toned. First edition, tight and nice, of this greatly-enlarged version of Whipple's 1909 text of the same title but without subtitle. Uncommon in a decent dust jacket! MONAGHAN 1890. .

Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional seller

Book number: 42297

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln

Whipple, Wayne, completed by Allice Roosevelt Longworth,

The Story of the white House and Its Home Life.

Boston, MA, Dwinell-Wright Co, 1917. 1st ed. Fair. Color illustrations of first families, b/w illus of presidents. Child's scribbling on pages.

Crabtree's Collection Old BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS054611I

Catalogue: History

Whipple, Wayne (1856-1942)

The Story-Life of Napoleon; Hundreds of Short Stories from the Greatest Variety of Sources Reconciled and Fitted Together in a Complete and Continuous Biography, by Wayne Whipple

New York. The Century Co. 1914. First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Previous owner's family plate on inside. ; 606 pages; Description: xxvi. 606 p. Illus. 23 cm. Ssigned by previous owner. Subjects: Napoleon I. Emperor of the French. 1769-1821 --Anecdotes.

MW BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 106352

Wayne Whipple

The Story-Life of Lincoln a Biography Composed of Five Hundred True Stories Told by Abraham Lincoln and His Friends Selected from All Authentic Sources, and Fitted Together in Order, Forming His Complete Life History

Philadelphia, The John C Winston Company, 1908. Hardcover. Over 150 illustrations in this comprehensive biography. All in good internal order. Endpapers toned and binding a little shaken. Boards worn and lightly bumped. 8vo. 708pp . Fair/No Jacket.

Dodman BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 006339

Catalogue: Biography

Wayne Whipple

The Story-Life of Napoleon

New York, The Century Co. 1914. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this uncommon biography of Napoleon by Wayne Whipple. The first edition of this uncommon biography of Napoleon by Wayne Whipple. A sweeping analysis of Napoleon's life and career drawn by numerous short stories from a great variety of sources forming a complete and continuous biography, with descriptions of his triumphs, rise to Emperor, campaigns, dethronement, and death in exile. The text is accompanied by sixty-four full page plates from historic paintings, and from original pictures. In the uncommon variant blue cloth binding. In the original publisher's full cloth binding, new endpapers. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, bumped to the head and tail of the spine, slight darkening tot he spine. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are clean with a hint of age toning, as usual due to the type of paper used. With sixty-four full page plates. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 811A68

Catalogue: History & Culture

Keywords: first editions napoleon biography history napoleon Not Stated