Search Results: Authors starting with G from Rulon-Miller Books

Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1963. 4to, pp. viii, 130; text in typescript, small dampstain on fore-edge, extremities toned at edges with small tear on upper cover, else very good in original green printed wrappers.

Washington D.C.: Department of State, Agency for International Development Communications Resources Division, 1963. 4to, pp. vi, 176; P A Prints and Reprints No. 45; extremities worn and soiled, else very good in original beige printed wrappers.

[Saigon: Tu-Hai, 1950. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. 189, [1], [10] ads; 28 photographic illustrations on plates; original white pictorial wrappers (some soiling) printed in red and blue with yellow line border; interior near fine.

San Francisco: Collins Publishers/Harper Collins, 1996. First edition, square 4to, pp. 127, [1]; illustrated throughout in color including a double-page folding plate and 3 illustrations in mounted pockets; fine copy in the dust jacket.

London: printed for John Wilcox, 1739. First edition, 12mo, pp. xii, 88; 5 engraved folding plates of diagrams; contemporary parchment-backed marbled boards, manuscript titling on spine; very good and sound. With the South Library bookplate, Earls of Macclesfield, and 3 small Macclesfield pressure stamps in the preliminaries. In a new maroon cloth clamshell box. This is, apparently, the first of two issues, without the canceled title page. Both are very rare, ESTC locating only one copy of each, at the Bodleian and the British Library respectively. OCLC adds LC, Berkeley, and University of Leiden.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Reprint of the 1935 edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 50; fine in original turquoise cloth, spine gilt.

S. Fernando, La Unión I.F.: Imprenta Batallador, 1910. 8vo, pp. 11, [1]; original printed wrappers bound in modern green cloth; text browned, else very good. Cockfighting rules and regulations in the Philippine language of Iloko (or Ilokano), an Austronesian language. The caption title reads: "Naarian á bilin ti 21 ti marzo ti 1861." OCLC locates only the Newberry copy of which this is a duplicate. Newberry release stamp on verso of front free endpaper.

Moscow: Nauka, 1967. 8vo, pp. 27, [1]; printed paper wrappers; call label on spine; light toning, near fine. Part of the Fifty Years of Soviet Oriental Studies series.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1929. First edition, oblong 8vo, unpaged; text illustrations, bright yellow pictorial endpapers printed in blue; original yellow pictorial boards (some minor soiling); edges a bit rubbed, spine faded, else a very good, bright copy, albeit lacking dust jacket.

Boston: D. Lothrop and Co, 1886. First edition, small 8vo, pp. x, 168; decorative headpieces; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, t.e.g.; minor wear at extremities else near fine. A pastor from Hartford and his wife travel abroad. "From June 1884 to October 1885 I was happy as to be able to spend my time in England and on the Continent - my seventh journey abroad" (Preface). Smith, American Travellers Abroad, G-3.

Ithaca, New York: Spoken Language Services, 1975. Folio, pp. xx, 366; 8 leaves of photographic illustrations, text published from typescript; original blue printed wrappers, spine toned, original price label on back; a very good copy. First published in 1953 by the American Council of Learned Societies.

Bayonne: Editions d'Arts Graphiques, 1936. Large 8vo, pp. iii, 80; woodcut illustrations throughout; original pictorial stiff paper wrappers; bumps to corner, otherwise very good.

Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1971. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxi, [1], 249; frontispiece illustration; a fine copy in the dust jacket.

Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1971. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxi, [1], 249; frontispiece illustration; a fine copy in the dust jacket. Bookplate of Jacob L. Chernofsky on the front pastedown.

Brooklyn: Robert Gair, n.d., 1880. Approximately 7½" x 5" x 3" when built; includes the original red and white cloth handle which remains intact; the illustration of the Brock Hotel is a wood engraving taken from a photograph (the engraving signed "U.S. Photo Eng Co. Boston") and is within a fancy metal-cut border; the copyright slug reads "Robert Gair / Manufacturer / 161 & 163 Chambers, and 143 Reade Sta. / New York." The top of the box is a bit soiled and shows a slight dampstain; all else near fine. A rare example of what is ostensibly the first manufactured lunch box, and a rare artifact from a now forgotten Florida hotel. In 1856, steamboat captain Jacob Brock built a 100-room wooden hotel in Enterprise, Florida, know as The Brock House. Renovated in 1876, the Brock House was a popular tourist destination, and its visitors included such dignitaries as Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Grover Cleveland, General William Henry Sherman, Jay Gould, and members of the Vanderbilt and Rockefeller… Read More

Providence: November 20, 1775. Small 4to, in ink, approx. 42 lines and 400 words, address panel on verso of integral leaf; previous folds, some toning, all else very good. Two recent college graduates looking for purpose in Revolutionary New England. Gair, age 22, writes from Providence where he had just earned his A.M. and was about to depart to establish the Baptist church in Medfield, Mass., to his fellow recent Rhode Island College (later Brown University) graduate (and eventual Federalist senator) Dwight Foster, who was then studying law in Northampton. Foster appears to be having difficulties adjusting to studying law, presumably with the excitement of patriotic ferment bubbling up around him. Gair writes: "Your observation respecting true filicity is just. Unhappy for us ... we form such wrong conceptions of it, & yet we should place our affections on anything of a temporal nature ... You complain of Darknss of Mind, under which you say you labour. It must be a consolation to every… Read More

Berlin: Walter de Gryter & Co, 1967. Offprint from Antike und Abendland, Band XIII, Heft 1. Sqare 8vo, pp. [1], 8-40; yellow printed paper wrappers; light edgewear, text clean and sound, near fine.

printed privately for his grandchildren, 1922. First edition, 8vo, pp. 51, [1]; near fine in orig. grey paper-covered boards. Gale bought and platted Gale's first addition to Minneapolis in 1872.

[Perry Hall, MD: Jon-Jay Publishers, 1972. First edition, oblong 4to, pp. [8], 121, [1]; illustrated throughout; original camouflage cloth with rising sun; near fine throughout. Presentation copy from the author inscribed by him on the title page; subsequent presentation on front free endpaper to James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian.

Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 232; original grey cloth in pictorial paper wrapper, near fine. Signed by author on title page. "The best biography of Ramseur we are ever likely to have."