Search Results: Titles starting with G from Bibliodditiques

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1935. Hardcover. Very Good +. Milt Youngren. Big Little Book #1168. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Some edgewear to coverboards and corners are bumped. Small Ink blotch on fron endpapers. Size: 32mo (4" to 5"). 424 pp.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/very good +. Margot Austin. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Some edge wear to boards. Pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket has some spots on front panel and a couple of small tears - the largest being a 1.5" tear on the front panel. Jacket is not price-clipped - the original price of $1.25 is on the front flap. "When it was rumored that Gabriel was to be replaced by another cat simply because he was moth-eaten, Peter could not bear the thought. Moth balls were the answer.moth balls and glue." Fourth title in the "Churchmouse" series. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Toronto: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1925. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Reg coverboards. Some impression marks left after erasure of pencil drawings on first few pages. Some foxing spots on edge of several pages. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 323 pp.

New York: Viking Press, 1998. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Author's first book. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 433 pp.

Maui, Hawaii: Global Art in Action, Inc., 2001. Limited ed. Slipcased. Near Fine. Ethnographic photography shot in black of white in Indo-Burma, Australia and Africa of tribes that live closest to the earth and have an instinctive awareness of "Gaia" - the earth as one harmonious, self-replenishing whole. Signed Limited Edition - number 141 out of 350 copies. Signed by DePonte and numbered on the half title page. In attractive brown slipcase with pastedown photograph on front. Another copy of the same photograph is signed by DePonte and numbered and included with the book. Book also comes with a CD by Richard Pisano entitled "MOA". The CD contains 3 New Age style stracks entitled "Earth", "Sea" and "Skies". Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Size: 4to (11" to 13"). Unpaginated

Doubleday Canada, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped and is in a clear, removable mylar cover. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 333 pp.

Home Box Office. CD_rom. Near Fine. A boxed set of 5 DVDs containing the complete first season of the Game of Thrones television series. The discs are in great shape. The set comes with a fold-out "Episode Guide" which outlines each episode and provides a map of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros along with a family tree of each of the houses. Just minor wear to corners of slipcase the discs are housed in.

Joseph Brant Museum/The Burlington Historical Society, 1973. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. A reproduction of the original 1902 book published by William Briggs. The is a numbered copy - #249 of 1000 published in 1973. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Previous owner's name/address on front free endpaper. Black coverboards with gilt lettering. Illustrated with numberous sepia-toned photographs. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 95 pp.

London: Goubaud & Son. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. A hard-to-find collection of short stories by Author. No date of publication stated but catalogue of books by publisher at end of this book is dated 1877. Collection includes "The Gates Ajar", "Number Thirteen", "No News", "Magdalene", "Little Tommy Tucker", "Print", "The Day of My Death" and "Voices of the Night". Tight binding. No written inscriptions. Decorative, maroon cloth-covered boards with paste down floral illustration and gilt decoration. Some wear on boards; mainly at head/tail of spine and corners. Foxing on endpapers. Twenty pages od ads for other books by publisher at rear of book. Size: 12mo (7" to 7.5"). 200 PP.

Toronto: The MacMillan Company of Canada Limited, 1946. Third edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/fair. Tight binding. No tears, chips, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Black and white frontis photo. Pictorial endpapers with maps. Top corners of coverboards are bumped. Address label on halft-title page. Dust jacket is worn with some missing pieces around the edges, ring mark on rear panel, and front flap has a 5.5" tear along crease. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 477 pp.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. "A treasury of exactly the right information presented in exactly the ideal way. It is a critical history of the fortunes of "The Beggar's Opera" from its first London season to the latest revival; of its always remarkable place in public opinion; and of its intimate relation to the history of the English-speaking stage. This information contains all of what both the scholar and the general reader need to know, set down in a way which cannot fail to divert as well as inform them both."Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Decorative bookplate featuring illustration of a monk transcribing some script. Black and white frontis portrait of John Gay. Grey cloth-covered boards with pastedown label on spine. Puncture through rear coverboard has left a 1.75" split on cloth. Rear endpapers have some printed material regarding "Beggar's Opera" pasted down. Size: Sm 4to… Read More

Stuttgart: Verlag der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchlandlung Nachf. Hardcover. Very Good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears on pages. Blue coverboards with embossed floral motif on front and gold embossed lettering on spine and front. Pages are gilt edged. Frontis with creased tissue guard is an engraved portrait of Ludwig Uhlands. Light edgewear and some light soiling to boards. Attractive bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. Gift incriptions on half-title page. Decorative edpapers with leaf motif. Ilustrated with many engravings. Printed in German. Size: 4to (11" to 13"). 216 pp.

Austin, Texas: The Steck Company, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +. Elizabeth Rice. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Light wear to coverboard corners. Some spotting to endpapers. Small ink mark on front board and one of pages. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Andrew Bensen. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket is clean and bright with some small chips, tears. A couple of small holes where the paper as worn through along the front flap fold. Front flap is creased. "When Gene Autry rides into the frontier town of Hackberry, he expects trouble and he finds plenty of it." Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 250 pp.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Book records "one of Man's attempts to control, through a concerted spiritual and aesthetic effort, a significant aspect of his physical environment". A translation of a mediaeval Japanese song cycle. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has light edgewear. In an attractive slipcase, with slight edgewear and a 2" split on top edge. Twenty-five illustrative pages, including photographs, paintings and woodcut prints. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 182 pp.

London: The Folio Society, 1998. Second printing. Slipcased. Fine. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions to pages. Comes in silver-coloured slipcase. Slipcase has a couple of small dampstains. Selection and Introduction by Michael J. Rosen. 256 pp.

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1984. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Tight binding. No written inscriptions, tears, chips or creases. Richly illustrated with black and white photographic illustrations and maps. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1929. Hard Cover. Very Good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Previous owner's bookplate and name on front endpaper. Some Foxing on first few pages including title page. With 200 illusrations and 376 pp. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Hollis & Carter for the Institue of Navigation, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Some light edge-wear to jacket. Blue coverboards with gilt design and lettering. Includes 27 illustrations. Chapters cover such topics as the Magnetic Compass, the Maritime Chart, the Azimuth Compass, the Quadrant, the Sextant, the Nocturnal, the Marine Chronometer, the Vernier and more. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 111 pp.

London: Collins , 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases on pages. Beige coverboards. Previous owner's names written and stamped on front free endpaper. Some spotting on endpapers. Contains five facsimile letters from Charles Dickens, Edward Lytton Bulwer, W. M. Thackeray and Leigh Hunt. Small scratch and some spots on cloth on front coverboard. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 398 pp.