Search Results: Titles starting with G from Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller

New York: Hurd and Houghton, 401 Broadway, Cor. Walker Street, 1865. Cloth. Near fine. [SPORTS]. 12mo; 31pp; maroon cloth covered stiff wrapper, blind-stamped borders, gilt-stamped vignette of a croquet player with a mallet on front, blind-stamped rear wrapper; publisher's string binding; brown endpapers; ownership in ink to fly-leaf; b&w frontispiece and a few illustrations in the text; near fine. [JUVENI[SPORTS]. FELLOW. R. The Game of Croquet; Its Appointment and Laws; with Descriptive Illustrations, New York: Hurd and Houghton, 401 Broadway, Cor. Walker Street, 1865. 12mo; 31pp; maroon cloth covered stiff wrapper, blind-stamped borders, gilt-stamped vignette of a croquet player with a mallet on front, blind-stamped rear wrapper; publisher's string binding; brown endpapers; ownership in ink to fly-leaf; b&w frontispiece and a few illustrations in the text; near fine. A short pamphlet-style book on the game of croquet in an elegant binding. $160.00 2022 April Book Inserts [JUVENILE]… Read More

Philadelphia: W.P.G. Brinckloe, 1864. Half Bound Leather. Very good. 8vo; 378pp + 4pp index; half bound green leather with brown cloth pebbled boards; gilt stamped title to spine; brown endpapers; ownership to front pastedown; frontispiece portrait of the publisher with facsimile signature; ownership in light pencil to head of title page; decoratively engraved title page; a few small wood engraved illustrations in text; chipping to spine and cover corners, front pastedown has evidence of bookplate removal, a few light stains, some pages darkened and some offsetting of ink; very good minus. Interesting glimpse of rural life, agriculture, advertisements, and discussion of fruits and vegetables with a look toward cookery. Discussion of rare plants.

Philadelphia: W.P.G. Brinckloe, 1863. Half Bound Leather. Very good. 8vo; 378pp + 4pp index; half bound green leather with brown cloth pebbled boards; gilt stamped title to spine; brown endpapers; binder's ticket to front pastedown; ownership to front pastedown; decoratively engraved title page; small note in ink to title page; a few small wood engraved illustrations in text; chipping to spine and cover corners, front pastedown has evidence of bookplate removal, a few light stains; a few dried pressed fern fronds inserted between the pages; very good minus. Interesting glimpse of rural life, agriculture, advertisements, and discussion of fruits and vegetables with a look toward cookery.

Philadelphia: Charles H. Marot, 1883. Half Bound Leather. Very good +. 4to; 390pp; half-bound in green calf with 5 raised spine bands, gilt detail and title to spine, marbled boards; all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; engraved illustrations; bumping to cover corners with loss, shelf scuffing to spine and covers, ownership in ink with telephone number to verso front free endpaper; very good plus. January through December 1883 periodicals bound. Beautiful and enthusiastically marbled papers and edges.

London: Blackie and Son, 1878. Cloth. Very good. Small 4to; 956pp + 4 advertisements; green pebbled cloth over beveled-edged boards, black stamped decoration, gilt-stamped spine; brown glazed endpapers; heavy book, binding holding tight; color frontispiece plus 11 additional color inserted plates and 20 plates in black and white precede text, all numbered; b&w illustrations and tables throughout text; bookplate to rear pastedown; damp staining to bottom edge, scattered foxing to the first 15 pages as well as some of the tissue guards and borders of the plates; very good. $250.00. Extensive discourse on gardens from planting designs to tools to plants. Bookplate of the Rt. Honorable William Henry Smith (1825-1891) of England, located on the rear pastedown and inserted upside-down. Smith was instrumental in the family business of W.H. Smith as a book and newspaper seller. He was elected to Parliament in 1868 and promoted to First Lord of Admiralty without seafaring experience. It is said that he… Read More

San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1914. Cloth. Very good. 8vo; xiii, 399pp; gilt-stamped olive green cloth over board, title and decoration to front; b&w halftone photographic illustrations throughout, line drawn garden designs; light shelf cuffing to edges, glue burn to free endpapers; very good. Second issue of this expansive book on California gardening and plants. Full-page halftone photographic illustrations of gardens, illustrations of plants within texts and line drawings of gardens with planting lists.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1923. Cloth. Very good. 8vo; xvi, 183pp; red cloth over board, label with title and author on front cover and spine; untrimmed bottom and fore edge; illustrated with black and white photographs and sketches; chipping to label on spine, bumping to cover lower edge and spine tail, age toning of paper, light foxing to back endpapers, back hinge paper cracked but holding strong; very good minus. Interesting book on gardens, mostly in London and the author's own garden and brownstone in New York City. Plans for gardens, and their care as well as architecture, furniture, accessories and the heritage of the city or town style gardens.

Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 2001. Cloth. Fine/fine. First edition, first printing. 4to; 159 [1]pp; green cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; green endpapers; color photographic illustrations throughout on glazed paper; unclipped color dust jacket; fine in fine dj. ISBN 0-89272-482-X. A lovely pictorial book of plants in Maine for anyone who loves gardens.

New York: R. W. Gardner, Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Chemists, 1903. Staplebound. Very good. 4to; [28pp]; color printed book die-cut in the shape of the state of New Jersey; stiff wrapper printed by chromoxylography; 2 staple binding; printed recto only; advertising booklet for the R. W. Gardner company; small edge tears to rear wrapper and last 4 pages, light soiling to rear wrapper, light creasing; very good. Not in WorldCat. Advertising premium for physicians with information on their medical profession in the state of New Jersey, information on the state of New Jersey, and also on their manufactured syrups. Chromoxylography is color wood engraved printing.

[New York]: The Spool Cotton Company, 1938. Third Edition. Staplebound. Very good. Third edition. 4to; 30pp; red and black decorative wrappers; 2 staple binding; black and white photographic illustrations; light shelfwear and scuffing to wrapper, 1/4'' closed tear to front wrapper upper edge; very good. Nicely illustrated booklet on needle work for the home, includes written instructions as well as some charts, instructional stiches illustrated and abbreviations described.

Cambridge, [Masschusetts]: The Massachusetts Historical Society, Hilliard & Metcalf, 1815. Full calf. Good. First edition. 8vo; vi, 676pp; brown calf with gilt stamped black label to spine; foxed; wear to cover, front cover split at gutter but holding; lacking free front end paper; collated, the gathering of pages from 409-416 is inserted after p424 but all pages are present just misbound; front hinge split, holding but fragile, pencil doodles to front paste down, worm hole to a few pages on bottom edge; good. A detailed history of New England as told by American clergyman and historian, Rev. William Hubbard of Ipswich (1621-1704). Published posthumously by the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, 1944. First edition thus. Cloth. Near fine/very good. [CHILDREN'S] [BIOGRAPHY]. First edition thus. 8vo; 258pp; tan buckram over board, gilt lettering on spine; pictorial endpapers; ownership on front pastedown; "A Wartime Book"; b&w photographic illustrations; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, chipping to edges and creasing; near fine in very good dj.

London: Printed by John Nichols, for David Henry, late of St. John's Gate;, 1786. Quarter-bound leather. Very good. [PERIODICAL] [GREAT BRITAIN]. Printed by John Nichols, for David Henry, late of St. John's Gate; and sold by Eliz. Newberry, the Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, Ludgate-Street. First edition. 8vo; [1] 534-1148pp, + [16]pp Index; quarter-bound brown calf with marbled boards; bookplate on front pastedown "The Property of the Light House Establishment," now the U.S. Lighthouse Service, pasted over an older bookplate; 14 bound-in illustrated plates, 8 are fold-out and one is the fold-out map "Chart of the Course of the Don and the Volga through the Region of the Kosaks:" period binding worn, front hinge cracked through but not detached, binding of leaves is tight; chipping of spine; interior bright; very good minus. The Gentleman's Magazine was founded in London in 1731 by Edward Cave and was published monthly for almost 200 years, until 1922. Of note in Domestic Occurrences reported on… Read More

London: Printed by John NIchols for David Henry, 1787. Quarter-bound leather. Very good. [PERIODICAL] [AMERICANA]. Printed by John Nichols for David Henry and sold by Eliz. Newberry, the corner of St. Paul's Church-yard, Ludgate-Street. First edition. 8vo; [1], 554-1200pp + [16] Index; quarter-bound brown calf with marbled boards; bookplate on front pastedown, "The Property of the Light House Establishment," now the U.S. Lighthouse Service, pasted over an older bookplate; 13 bound-in illustrated plates, all present but some bound in a different order than indicated in the index; period binding worn, front joint cracked and fragile but holding; chipping of spine, last page has tears but is complete, a few first pages with damp staining but no odors, interior bright; very good minus. The Gentleman's Magazine was founded in London in 1731 by Edward Cave and was published monthly for almost 200 years, until 1922. This volume of bound periodicals includes the November magazine issue with an early… Read More

Concord, N.H.: The New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, 1959. Wraps. Very good +. [STATE OF MAINE] [NATURAL WORLD] [TRAVEL] [NON-FICTION] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. First edition. 8vo; 51pp; pale blue pictorial wrapper, dark blue ink with illustration of a lighthouse on the Shoals; two staple binding; illustrations and small maps within text; sunning to front wrapper with discoloration; very good plus. The Shoals lie offshore of the New Hampshire and Maine coasts. Booklet covers the general features of the islands, composition and structures of the rocks, and geologic features of the various islands.

London: Published at the Punch Office, 92, Fleet Street; and Sold by All Booksellers, 1845. Leather bound. Very good. [HUMOR] [SATIRE] [ILLUSTRATED]. George CRUIKSHANK, illustrator. 8vo; viii [ii][1] 2-284pp; gilt-borders stamped on dark green calf, 5 raised bands on spine, maroon leather label; top edge gilt; green marbled endpapers; gilt dentelles; binder's stamp to verso ffep "Bound by Zaehnsdorf for A.C. McClurc & Co."; extra engraved pictorial title-page; original publisher's cloth front cover and spine bound in rear; 12 steel engraved plates, wood-cuts and glyphographs in text; rubbing and shelf-wear to boards, light age-toning of paper, a few spots; very good. Cohn 191. First produced as a series of monthly publications, this delightful book of humor, satire, and illustration comments on the foibles of the human condition. The editor, Gilbert Abbot à Beckett (1811-1856) was a British humorist and editor of the Figaro in London and one of the original staff members at Punch. The illustrations… Read More

[Wales, UK]. Ephemera no binding. Near fine. 3 4/4" x 4 ¾" glazed white paper envelope; relief printed stamp to flap side. Near fine. Unused 19th century envelope from the town of Pontmorlais in Merthyr, Wales, with highly decorative cartouche framing the business name.

London: Oldbourne, 1957. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine/near fine. First editon. 8vo; 168pp + [4pp]; brown buckram, gilt-stamped spine with title, author and publisher; both front and rear fly leaves have 2pp map in b&w; 16 half-tone photographic illustrated plates; some underlining and margin marks in pencil; unclipped color illustrated dust jacket, light age-toning to dj; near fine in near fine dj. Discussion of German wines, wine labels and their meaning, regions of Germany with small maps and their wines, and how to buy, store, serve and taste the wines.

Chemnitz: Goedsche & Comp, 1840. First Edition. Very good. [HISTORY] [MILITARY] [GERMAN LANGUAGE]. English: Napoleon's History from the Cradle to the Grave. For all people of German mind and German language in words and pictures. First edition. 24mo (5 7/8" x 4 5/8"); 572pp; quarter bound brown calf with dark marbled boards, 4 raised bands on spine, gilt lettering; old hinge strengthening front and rear, ffep lacking; hand-colored engraved frontispiece plus 23 additional plates; wear to boards with loss, light soiling and foxing throughout, small closed tear to title page with repair, one plate with corner loss; very good minus. The first of 3 volumes published by Carl Heyne encompassing the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. The hand-colored engravings include scenes of marches, battles, and portraits of Napoléon, Lafayette, Robespierre, Marat, Junot, Beauharnais, Masséna, and Kléber.

Eau Claire, Wisconsin: E.M. Hale and Company, 1943. Revised Edition. Wraps. Near fine. Theresa KALAB. Theresa KALAB, illustrator. 4to; 96pp; stiff pictorial color printed wrapper, vignette of two children reading on front; three staple binding; illustrations every page; binding tight and book unused; light shelf soiling to wrapper; near fine. Teacher's instructional book for preparing students to begin reading. Illustrations throughout in both black and white and color. Still useful today.