Search Results: Titles starting with G from Classic Books and Ephemera

New York: J. C. Buttre, 1870. Near Fine. 1 leaf 26 x 18 cm. with engraving of George Washington from the portrait by Gilbert Stuart. Full bust, head to left. Vignette. Mezzotinto. "Engraved expressly for this work." -- at lower edge. Baker, 188. Scarce. In Near Fine Condition: very light discoloration behind the "G" in "G. Washington"; otherwise, clean and crisp.

Elizabethville, Pa: Hawthorne Press, 1939. Hardcover. Fine. Copyright by Harvey M. Miller. 384 p., frontispiece portrait: illustrations; 22 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title: G'Shbos und Arnsht: Penn'a-German Poetry. No dust jacket, as issued. In Fine Condition: pages are clean and tight.

London: Oxford University Press, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi, [2], 498, [2] p.; 25 cm. Brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Lacking dust jacket. Top page edges red. Includes appendices and indexes. First Edition. Tipped in on the front free endpaper is a typed letter to "Jackson" from Duckham House, 16, Cannon Street, London E.C. 4, dated "Xmas 1939" and signed by A. Duckham (Alexander Duckham (1878-1945) who established Alexander Duckham and Company, oil and chemical manufacturers, specializing in lubricating oils). One of the authors, Sir Arnold Wilson (1884-1940), was a Member of Pariliament in 1939 when he enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He was killed in action in northern France in May 1940 when his Vickers Wellington bomber crash landed. Contents: British Orders of Military Gallantry; Foreign Orders of Military Gallantry; Awards for Civil Gallantry in Foreign Countries; Awards for Civil Gallantry in Great Britain and the Empire On Land… Read More

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co, 1883. Hardcover. Very Good. Title continued: "as well as the most approved processes of deposition by simple immersion, with descriptions of apparatus, chemical products employed in the art, etc. Based largely on the "Manipulations Hydroplastiques" of Alfred Roseleur." Imprint includes: London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. xxviii, [1], 18-656, 31, [1] p.: many in-text drawings and tables; 24 cm. Black bead-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Brown endpapers. Catalogue of Practical and Scientific Books published by Henry Carey Baird & Co. on 31 pages following text. Includes Lists of American and British Patents Bearing on the Subject of the Electro-Deposition of Metals, and index. Inscriptions on front free endpaper indicate that P.M. Sharples acquired the book in March 1888 and in June 1888 he traded it to Joseph T. Price for a Beach drill chuck. This was probably Joseph Townsend Price (1859-1924), a… Read More

London: L. Upcott Gill, 1894. Hardcover. Good +. Second edition. 92, [2], 88, [2], 84, 12, [4] p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Dark green publisher's cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and cover title; red, light green, and black decoration on spine and front board. Red-brown patterned endpapers. No year of publication; includes publisher's catalog 160 C 12/94 [1894]. Contains the first, second, and third series, and an index for all three series. Publisher's catalogue and four pages of general advertisements follows text. Each game of patience (solitaire in the United States) has directions and a diagram of card layout. In Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; lower corners starting to fray; cloth just starting to split at ends of joints; back hinge weak; "1/4" in ink on title page; a clean and solid copy.

New York: Viking Studio Books, 1990. Paperback. Fine. ix, [1], 102 p.: color photographs; 18 x 20 cm. Paperback with color illustrated cover. Contents: The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield -- A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty -- The Chrysanthemums by John Steinback -- Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Occasional Garden by Saki. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co, 1822. Hardcover. Very Good -. Imprint includes: London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. Fourth edition. [3], vi-xx, 646 p.; 21 cm. Dark green library buckram with gilt-stamped spine title. Inscriptions on the front fixed endpaper indicate that William Macrae, gardener at Restalrig House in Edinburgh, acquired the book in Nov. 1834, and by 1849 the book was owned by James McRae, of the Edgehill Nursery, Dean (now part of Edinburgh). Contents: Culinary Garden -- Fruit Garden -- The Forcing Garden -- The Pleasure Garden -- The Green-House and Conservatory. One pencilled notation and a few botanical specimens. In Very Good- Condition: cover is slightly rubbed and soiled; faint dampstain on first few leaves; some sections are browned; occasional foxing, heavy on some pages; otherwise, clean and tight.

La Jolla, CA: Green Tiger Press, 1983. Paperback. Near Fine. [12] leaves, each holding a color reproduction of an old postcard; 28 cm. White card covers tied at the top with white rope; cover title and color illustrations. Each leaf contains one calendar month of 1984 below an inset color reproduction of an early 20th-century postcard, within a color border. The postcards are seasonally appropriate (New Year's, Fouth of July, etc.). All of the postcards are present. Scarce. In Near Fine Condition: front cover lightly creased; clean and bright.

Philadelphia: Nirdlinger & Wetherill, 1925. Very Good. [4] p.; 15 cm. Program for The Swan by Ferenc Molnar, staged by David Burton. In addition to Eva LeGallienne, the cast included Basil Rathbone and Reginlad Owen. The production included a musical overture as well as music between acts and exit music. Final page contains advertisement for program publishers, Nirdlinger & Wetherill. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: lightly soiled; one vertical and one horizontal crease; minor loss in first leaf where the creases intersect; otherwise, clean and solid.

Philadelphia: Nirdlinger & Wetherill, 1927. Very Good. [4] p.; 15 cm. Program for Delicate Justice by J. Hartley Manners, staged by J. Hartley Manners. In addition to Laurette Taylor, the cast included Alison Bradshaw, William J. Rathbun, Georges Renavent, Jessie Royce Landis, James Dale, Frederic Worlock, Olive Reeves Smith, and Frank Elliott. Includes notice that the following week would see Thurston, the famous magician (Howard Thurston (1869-1936)), and an advertisement for program publishers, Nirdlinger & Wetherill. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: lightly soiled; one horizontal crease; closed 1-cm. tear from fore-edge of first leaf; otherwise, clean and solid.

London: R. Bowyer Historic Gallery, 1801. Near Fine. 1 aquatint engraving 320 x 467 mm. (image is 223 x 312 mm.). In Near Fine Condition: minor soiling on reverse; otherwise, clean and bright.

New York: Minerva Publishing Co, 1892. Paperback. Very Good -. [2], 196, [2] p.; 18 cm. Paperback with brown cover printed in black. Romantic Series, no. 12. "July, 1892" -- on front cover. "by Mrs. Annie Bradshaw" -- on front cover. Advertisements on several pages and back cover for Scott's Emulsion, Van Houten's Cocoa, Beecham's Pills, Pears' Soap, and one pubisher's advertisment. First edition. The only edition on WorldCat was published in London in 1898. Annie Cropper Bradshaw (1863-1938) was an English author. The Minerva Publishing Co. was established in 1888 by Telemaque Thomas Timayenis (1853-1918), who had previously been the tutor of the Rockefeller children. The publications of the Minerva Publishing Co. included several anti-Semitic books, presumably including that advertised here, Dr. Phillips: A Story of Jewish Society Very scarce. In Very Good- Condtion: cover is lightly soiled with minor loss at edges; pages are browning but clean and tight. Read More

London and Sydney: George Newnes and Dymock's Book Arcade, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good +/fair +. First Australian Editon 1952. 255 p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Green cloth with black spine and cover titles. Map on endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket in mylar cover. Advertisement on back section of dust jacket for five titles in the series by Australian publisher Dymock's Book Arcade, Sydney. Gift inscription on half title page in Dutch dated 1956. This is the third title in the author's Lone Pine series and is set in and near Romney Marsh. The Gay Dolphin is an inn in Rye. Scarce in the United States. Book is in Very Good+ Condition: head of spine slightly faded; pages are browning but clean and solid. Dust jacket is in Fair+ Condition: loss at ends of spine and adjacent part of upper front section, with partial loss of "G" in title; shadows left from old tape repairs; archival reattachment of front flap; back section is rubbed and lightly soiled; upper edge chipped.

Chester, England: J. Fletcher, 1804. Hardcover. Fair +. Printed by J. Fletcher; and sold in London by E. Williams, Bookseller of Wales. xxiii, [i], 62, [2] p.; 17 cm. Original brown paper spine and grey paper over boards. Wood-engraved head pieces and tail pieces. First edition. The author, Richard Llwyd (1752-1835), was a Welsh poet known as the "Bard of Snowdon." In Fair+ Condition: paper over spine is lacking; covers are soiled and faintly dampstained; tail of spine and lower corners of boards and pages have rodent damage, without affecting text; pages are clean and bright. An extremely scarce work.

Hartford, Conn: William S. Marsh, 1819. Hardcover. Very Good. vii, [1], 389, [1] p., 2 aquatint frontispiece portraits, 2 folded engraved maps; 21 cm. Contemporary full tree calf with six spine compartments between double gilt rules; red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title "Gazetteer of Connecticut & Rhode-Island." All page edges marbled. Bookplate of the Chester County Historical Society on front fixed endpaper, stamped "Duplicate." "Chester County Historical Society" stamped on title page with address. The frontispiece portraits are of Oliver Wolcott, Governor of Connecticutt, and Nehemiah R. Knight, Governor of Rhode Island, both engraved by I. Sanford. Errata on one page following text. Howes, P166; Early American Imprints, ser. 2 (Shaw & Shoemaker), 49034. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed and scraped; front joint is starting at head of spine; leather is cracking at head of spine; spine label is intact; lightly browning; occasional foxing; frontispieces have left… Read More

Berlin: Verlag Halaschon, 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine. iv, 470 p.; 20 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title "Dr. Sachs Begetbuch" and giltl decoration on spine and front cover. Blind-ruled borders on both cover. All page edges red. In German and Hebrew. In Near Fine Condition: cover slightly rubbed; pages slightly browned; otherwise, clean and tight.

Dresden: M. Wolf, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Title continued: "Entwickelungsgeschichte, Schwangerschaft und Geburt, Krankheiten der Wöchnerinnen, Kinderkrankheiten und deren Behandlung, Geschlechtskrankheiten, deren Gefahren und Verhütung." "Fünfzehnte, vollständig neu bearbeitete Auflage des Werkes Der Mensch. Mit 187 Text-Illustrationen, 31 anatomischen Farbendruck-Tafeln nebst einem zerlegbaren Modell des weiblichen Körpers." xvi, 1264 p., 32 leaves of color plates (1 with moveable parts): many in-text drawings, tables; 25 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles; embossed color illustration on spine and front cover. Leipzig bookbinder blind-stamped on back cover. All page edges red. Decoration endpapers. Bookseller's label on front fixed endpaper for C. N. Caspar Co. Book Emporium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Scarce with the final color plate with multiple moveable sections. A heavy book; for international shipping, it will have to… Read More

Düsseldorf: Econ-Verlag, 1966. Hardcover. Fine/good. First edition of the German translation of the authors' Ancient Ruins and Archaeology, first published in 1964. 314, [6] p., [12] p. of black-and-white photographs: maps, illustrations; 23 cm. Black cloth with gilt-on-blue spine title. Dust jacket with publisher's catalog on inside. Gift inscriptions on title page to Uta Schubert from both L. Sprague de Camp (in German) and Catherine C. de Camp (in English), dated Sept. 22, 1988. Book is in Near Fine Condition: lower corners bumped; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: rubbed; minor loss at head of spine; clean and solid. ?

Bala, Wales: Argraphedig ac ar werth gan Robert Saunderson, 1836. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition. Vol. 1 of 2 volumes: xxiv, 688 p., frontispiece is 1 folded leaf of a map of the world; 24 cm. Contemporary full polished calf with six spine compartments between double gilt rules. Red leather spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title. Double blind-ruled border on each board. Former owner's name on both free endpapers: Edward Lloyd. Inscription with Edward Lloyd's name at head of p. 1, possibly an address. Biblical dictionary with equivalent terms in Hebrew, Latin, Greek, and occasionally in English or French; definitions and explanations in Welsh. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed; folded map is creased with chipping along edges; light foxing throughout; otherwise, clean and tight.

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1890. Paperback. Good. Printed in Saxony. No date of publication. New York and Paris (included in the imprint) were added to the imprint in the 1880s. In 1895 "Limited" was added to the imprint; it is not present here. Trademark easel and palette on final page with "No. 790." [16] p.: chromolithographed illustrations; 18 x 26 cm. Sewn with gilt cord. Chromolithographed card cover with cut-outs in the front cover. The text consists of excerpts from Tennyson's The May Queen. In Good Condition: corners creased; cover rubbed at spine and starting to separate; one page soiled; light foxing; otherwise, clean and solid.