Search Results: Titles starting with G from Well Read Books

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode (Publishers) Limited, 1929. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt titling to spine; some sunning to front and spine. Corners and spine ends bumped; one black mark to the bottom edge of the front board. Small, neat inscription to the front paste-down, dated 1931. Page edges and end-papers toned; pages untrimmed. Spine Shaken. 11 1/2" x 9". Beautiful watercolor illustrations of game birds tipped in and protected by fine tissue paper. A lovely, clean copy. "The glory of the moors in mid-August, partrige on the golden stubble in September, the reds and bronzes of the covert side in Novembers; blue sky and racing cloud overhead and frost tang in the air; birds rising well over the screen trees and coming down wind at a swerving forty miles an hour; snipe rising from the bogs of a lonely Irish mountain, duck flighting in before a north-easterly gale over the mud flats and salt marshes of a estuary - what other sport can give you these?". First Edition. Hard Cover. Good to Very… Read More

Toronto/Montreal: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1970. From the foreword:. Reprint. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Robert Frankeberg. 8 1/2" x 5 ½"
The Glooscap legend is essentially a creation story.
Glooscap, a mythical Wabanaki hero, is referred to as the Great Chief, Master and is said to be the maker of Little People (fairies), which came first, then men and women and finally out of the rocks and clay, Glooscap made the animals. In each of the short stories, Glooscap conducts some form of intervention. Waba- naki's humorous benevolent demigod, Glooscap, affable hero or final authority in scores of legends. Glooscap created a world — parts of the Maritimes and New England — where the Wabanaki, surrounded by archetypal animal characters, contended with King Winter, cruel Famine, cannibal chenoos, and cold- blooded, wizardly boooins.

Harper Collins, 2008. "A Field Guide to the Birds of South America" Spanish Edition. 2006. Pictorial Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Illus. by Jorge Rodriguez Mata. 7" x 5".