Search Results: Titles starting with G from Collectible Books

1. Scarce first edition. Dustjacket in poor condition, missing parts of spine, with considerable archival tape repairs, and general wear overall. Blue cloth with gilt letters to spine and front cover. xviii, 496pp. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Spine gilt somewhat dull, cover gilt bright. Scattered white spotting on spine and rear cover; as if water was sprinkled on it while it was face down. NO loosening to cloth or other signs of moisture damage. Cloth intact but for very small (under 1/8"") vertical tears at spine ends. Binding and hinges sound; pages clean and tight. Contains preface, 19 plates on 17 pages, tipped-in errata slip, bibliography and index. Also opinions and accounts of many battles, generals, Texas independance, the Mexican War, slavery, his family, the campaign of Stephen Kearny, etc. He fought with the French in Africa, the U S in Mexico, the Indians in the Northwest, and the South in the Civil War.

1. Title page reads, ""Great French Writers. George Sand. By E. Caro of the French Academy. Translated by Melville B Anderson translator of Hugo's ""Shakespeare"". Chicago A. C. McClurg Company. 1888."". First American edition. 235 pages. No dj. Blue cloth with clear gilt lettering on spine. Tight and bright with NO foxing. Very likely better than the rest.

1840 on title page. Second edition, following the first ed. 1835. 214 pages, 12 plates, 36 page March 1840 ad catalogue at the end. Spine missing, needs rebacking. Original green cloth boards edgeworn and rubbed. Front cover and front endpapers loose. Light foxing throughout. Howes L-448.

1. Very nice, solid set. Rare first edition published by Scribner Armstrong. 1874 on title and copyright pages. 9.25 x 6.24 inches. (Vol 1) 416 pp, (Vol 2) 417-834pp + 4pp ads. Spines are faded, and have gilt lettering and very slight chipping and fraying to ends. Pages are clean bright and tight. Small signature in pencil at top of fep, ""J.W. Simonton Dec. 1874"" (Pa. Judge); same small name in pencil at top edge of title page. Hinges and joints fine. Scarce work by an important Presbyterian historian and prominent Protestant theologian. Ezra Hall Gillett was a Connecticut born Yale graduate and pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Harlem, New York during the Civil War. He taught political economy, history and ethics at the University of New York.

1. Published by W. A. Butterfield, Boston. First edition. On title page: 1913, ""Frontispiece by Mary Hamilton Frye, 'The God of the Bees is the future' - Maurice Maeterlinck."" No dust jacket. Spine ends and corner tips very lightly rubbed. Green cloth with pressed line border to covers, and bright pressed gilt letters to spine and cover. Neat signature on fep, ""Maude Smith 1914"". Otherwise unmarked, clean, bright and tight. Scarce.

1. Title continues, ...The Bible: a New Vision. # 2147 of the First Edition. 12.25 x 11.25 inches. Dust jacket has two hard-to-see archivally back taped tears 1/2"" and 1/8"" on the top front edge. Book is clean, bright and tight, but for spotted foxing on top and bottom edges of cloth covers.

1. Grant and Sherman; Their Campaigns and Generals. First edition. 1865 to copyright and title. Published by E.B. Treat, New York. "";An Authentic Account Of Battles And Sieges, Adventures And Incidents, Including Biographies Of The Prominent Generals Who Brought To Triumphant Close The Great Rebellion Of 1861-1865, SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION with Numerous Fine Steel Portraits, Battle Scenes And Maps"";. 608 pages. 6 x9 x 2.25 inches. Scarce. Exceptional condition. Brown pebbled cloth w. pressed blind-stamped borders on covers. Black spine lettering. Spine ends and short front edge tears neatly repaired w. archival glue. Minor stains. Hinge paper NOT cracked. Pages amazingly bright, clean and unfoxed. Maps, steel engravings immaculate. Complete. Finely penned on 1st of 3 front endpapers, "";Joseph J. Mitchell Hartford Conn. Feb 22 1866"";; repeats in pencil on 2nd fep. Bottom 1/4 of 3rd rear endpaper torn away.

1. SIGNED by author on front end paper, not inscribed. First edition 2005. Book and dustjacket mint, like new condition.

1. First printing, first edition. Holt Rinehrt Winston. Faint toning to 1/8"" top white edges of dustjacket. Spine leans. Otherwise clean, bright, and tight. Appears unread.

1. 1986 Freundlich Books, New York. First edition. Dustjacket faintly surface rubbed, else like new. Has been well stored and in VG condition.

1. FIRST EDITION 1967. 67 pages. The Ghost Dance of 1889 among the Pai Indians of Northwestern Arizona by Henry F. Dobyns and Robert C. Euler. Prescott College Press. Illustrated dj is edgeworn and backtaped along front edge of spine. Light blue/grey cloth covers with gilt letters on black spine. Clean and tightly bound. ""A Scholarly and exciting study of the post-conquest condition of the Wala-pai and Havasupai Indians of the Grand Canyon Region in the late nineteenth century.""