Search Results: Authors starting with G from Black Paw Books

London: Robert Hale, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. No dust jacket. Prev. owner's name printed on ffep. Pages remain clean and unmarked; binding, tight.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co, 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. Biography of General Reynell Taylor, a British military officer who served in the Bengal Army during the Raj. Octavo, viii, 365 pp. With portrait and black & white map. Half-bound in brown leather over marble paper-covered boards and beautiful gilt tooled spine with raised bands. From private collection of historian Frederick A. Hagar. Penciled gift inscription to Sir Henry Yule. Prelims are foxed. Boards show some rubbing and wear to corners.

Asia Publishing House, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo, pp. v, 131. Blue cloth. From private collection. No signatures or bookplates. Pages remain clean and unmarked; binding, tight. Dust jacket shows some faint spotting along edges of flaps. Three lectures delivered by Indian historians on the birth centenary of Gokhale. Scarce.

New York: Conde Nast Publication, 1943. Softcover. Very Good. This 1943 publication provides essential guidance for households during the wartime and includes information on topics ranging from gardening and food preservation to home maintenance. The aim throughout is to provide practical advice on how to make the most of limited resources and contribute to the war effort. Quarto (11.5" tall). 128 pp. In wraps. From private collection. Wraps are creased and rubbed. ages are a little agetoned along margins. Scarce.

Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1960. Softcover. Very Good. Checklist of writings of Charles Francis Adams, II, best remembered today as onetime president of the Union Pacific Railroad (1884-1890); colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War; railroad regulator; and member of the Massachusetts Park Commission. 8vo. In wraps. Clean, unmarked copy.

la Cámara de Comercio y La Editorial Salesina de Bucamaranga, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good. History of the Club del Comercio of Bucaramanga, departamento de Santander , Colombia. Illustrated Spanish language work. No. 831 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Oblong octavo, 278 pp. Gray leatherette binding. Cover shows rubbing. Pages remain clean and unmarked.

la Sociedad Papelaria America Editorial, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good. Commercial history of Bucaramanga, departamento de Santander , Colombia. Illustrated Spanish language work. No. 584 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Oblong octavo, 338 pp. Tan leatherette binding. Cover shows rubbing. Pages remain clean and unmarked.

Boston: The C.M. Clark Publishing Company, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Two Eastern girls--orphans and sisters--go to Oklahoma to teach in the Indian schools." Presumed First Edition (matching dates on title and copyright page with no mention of later printing.) Octavo, 268 pp. Red cloth. With eight black & white plates, including frontispiece. From private collection. Minor spine slant. Most pages show faint coin-sized stain to bottom corner.

Geneva: Successeurs Bonnant, 1816. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 1 only. Octavo, 428 pp. Quarter-bound leather over marbled paper-covered boards. From private collection. Printers error in pagination following gathering 19 (with no loss of text). Boards show some rubbing. Minor foxing, mostly limited to edges of book block and endpapers.

MIT Class of 1940, 1990. Softcover. Very Good+. Quarto, pp. 251. In wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked; spine, uncreased. Fiftieth reunion class book with biographical surveys. Richly illustrated throughout with black & white photos, reproductions of articles, letters, etc.

Heimdal, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good+. French language description of Pegasus Bridge landing with photos and maps throughout. Quarto, 64 pages. Illustrated throughout. Hardcover. No dust jacket, as issued. From private collection.

Boston: Levinson Kane Gallery, 1991. Softcover. Very Good. Published in conjunction with 1991 exhibition in Boston. Includes 24 color images of Gerold Hirn's artwork. Pages remain clean and bright. Wraps and edges of book block show minor soiling and rubbing from shelf wear.

Palgrave Macmillan, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. In this wide-ranging book, William Gibson examines the principal themes in the developing relationship between the churches, the state and society between 1760 and 1850." Octavo, 209 pp. Black cloth binding. Handsome copy from private collection. Prev. owner's bookplate on front pastedown, else Fine. In clean dust jacket.

Gaithersburg, Maryland: Ron R. Van Sickle Military Books, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Biography of American civil engineer and Union Army general. best remembered today for his heroic defense of Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg. Octavo, 256 pages. Brown cloth. From private collection. Dust jacket and binding show some faint spotting. Dust jacket faded along spine.

McGills Queen's University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good. Ginter focuses on the years 1780 to 1832, a period for which many land tax records survive and precisely when modern forms of political organization began to emerge and when industrialization and enclosure are thought to have altered the fabric of society and the economy. Through an examination of more than 5,000 parishes in fifteen historical counties -- approximately one-third of England -- he shows that inequalities in the burden of national taxation were far greater than anyone has estimated." Tall octavo (23.5 cm tall) [xxxii], 711 pp. Blue cloth. From private collection. Binding shows a little soiling. Bookplate on front pastedown.

Electa Napoli, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oblong quarto, 318 pp. Tan cloth. From private collection. Handsome copy in like dust jacket. Slipcase shows minor rubbing from shelf wear.

Seminary Publications, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, 479 pp. Black cloth binding. India printign with typical production quality. No signatures or inscriptions. Pages remain clean and unmarked; binding, tight. Dust jacket is faded along spine and shows a little rubbing and edgewear. Scarce.

The Victorian Library/Leicester University Press, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The speeches delivered by Gladstone in his first Midlothian campaign take a high place in British political oratory. "Taken together", wrote G.M. Young, "the Midlothian speeches make a handbook of political instruction." Octavo, 363 pp. From private collection. Name printed on ffep. Dust jacket shows some edgewear, including small tear to corner of upper panel.

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1875. Hardcover. Very Good. Anti-Catholic work by Gladstone with the replies of Archbishop Manning and Lord Action. First printed in 1874, this publication was a response to the Vatican Council's decree of papal infallibility, which Gladstone vehemently opposed. He argues that this decree placed British Catholics in a dilemma over their loyalty to the Crown and their loyalty to the Pope. Octavo, 96 pp. Rebound in custom red cloth binding, with original wraps preserved. Name of Boston-area historian printed on ffep; Xavier Union stamps on upper wrap.

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. Leather. Very Good. Biography of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, British colonial administrator and officer in the East Indian Company Army, and governor of Madras (1761-1827). Complete in three volumes. 8vo. Contemporary calf. Frontispiece (portrait of Munro) folded hand-colored map. Armorial bookplate on front pastedowns (Lansdowne). From private collection of historian Frederick A. Hagar . Several pages in all three volumes show light blue penciled marks in margins; pages are otherwise clean and unmarked.