Search Results: Authors starting with G from Pages Past Books

Fine book in Near Fine dustjacket Playboy Press Chicago 1972 1st hardcover 8vo, 397 pages, b+w photos, organizational chart endpapers, index. History and detail of the Mafia from beginnings to the outbreak of gang warfare in the early 1970's by writers such as Gay Talese, Peter Maas, Fred J Cook, Hank Messick and Nicholas Gage, et al.

VG+/VG condition Jack Jonathan photos Hallmark Kansas City 1973 1st thus hardcover 8vo, unpaginated, color photos by Jack Jonathan. Story of a young boy's struggle to save his pet donkey. Adapted from the Hallmark Hall of Fame television presentation by Edward Cunningham. Christmas 1973 gift inscription reverse of front endpaper. Diagonal closed tear at upper left dustjacket front. Nice solid clean copy, bright in Brodart protective cover.

Good+ condition the Kinneys illus L.C. Page & Co Boston 1907 1st impression hardcover 8vo, 463 pages + ads, tipped in color plates by the Kinneys, decorated endpapers, decorated binding. Novel of 10th century Rome. Decorated binding with gilt titling. Nice color plates by the Kinneys. Some light extremity wear. Inside front hinge appears to have been reglued. Solid copy.

VG leather lightly worn w/light soiling frontis photo Duckworth London 1929 1st hardcover 8vo, 1150pp, First issue. Full calf, gilt titling, TEG, with photogravure frontis of Galsworthy. Laid-in is a publisher's notice October 11, 1929. Some light foxing on a few page edges. Leather binding ( blue with gilt spine titling)

VG+/VG condition Holt, Rinehart and Winston NY 1976 1st US ed hardcover 8vo, 173 pages, afterword by Catherine Dupre. Originally published in 1898 in Britain under the name John Sinjohn, this is the first US edition. Dustjacket price clipped with light wear at spine head. Nice tight bright clean copy in Brodart protective cover.

VG+/VG+, VG+ Bird, Richard photos Macmillan NY 1976 1st American hardcover 12 mo, 173, Traces man's attempt to create and refine musical instruments. 80 pages of color illus.

VG 1948 hardcover 4to, 71 pp. This is a bound doctoral dissertation presented to the faculty of the graduate school of Yale University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. There are light pencilled notations; otherwise clean and solid with strong gilt spine titling.

Good/no dustjacket, no dj Fiction G.W. Carleton & Co New York 1879 1st (scarce) Hardbound 8vo, 256 pp Front and rear endpapers neatly removed. Foxing throughout. Afew page signatures loosening. Name pencilled inside front cover and top of title page. Binding worn at extemities; outside rear hinge splitting. Scarce.

VG Atomic Books NY 1946 1st thus softcover 12mo, 128 pages, color pictorial cover. Story of Billy the Kid by Pat F. Garrett "greatest sheriff of the old southwest. " Foreword by John Scanland and eye witness reports edited by J.Brussel. Nice solid clean bright copy with only minimal wear.

Vg-/G+ Harper & Row NY 1972 2nd ptg hardcover 8vo, 180 pages, b+w photos, index, bibliography, appendices. Describes projects in which young people have learned through teaching. Name inked top front endpaper. Light dustjacket wear. Solid copy.

VG- Arthur Westbrook Cleveland no date softcover 12mo, 244 pages + ads. No.111 in Hart series. Small pulp magazine format with color cover. Circa 1910. Light general agewear. Solid clean cover.

Good+, no dj French Language Published by the editor Boston 1861 1st (scarce) Hardbound 8vo, 306 pages Text primarily in French. Pencilled name, address and 1861 date on front endpaper; later name and date inked in red at top inside covers. 2 1/2" x 2" dampstain to front endpaper; shallow dampstaining to bottom edge of some interior pages; endpapers foxed; inside covers browning; dampstaining/ fading to top edge of rear cover. Solid and otherwise clean.

VG/G ilus by author EP Dutton NY 1957 1st hardcover 8vo, unpaginated, b+w drawings by author. Dustjacket price clipped with a few small chips at extremities. Dustjacket rear soiled. Name inked top front endpaper. Solid clean copy with dustjacket in protective cover.

VG- Continuing Legal Ed Institut Ann Arbor 1966 1st hardcover 8vo, 353 pages, index, table of cases. I.C.L.E. Specialty Handbook #16. Includes cases on wiretapping and surveillance, vehicle search, admissability of statements, etc. with opinions on Miranda vs Arizona, etc. Some pencilled notations and ink underlings. Name and date reverse of front endpaper. Solid copy.

Good+ Gavy illus Whitman Racine 1952 early hardcover 12mo, unpaginated, color illustrations. Light rubbing to extremities. Child's name pencilled in panel at inside rear cover. Clean and solid.

Good+ Edwin G Sommer illus Macmillan NY 1927 1st illus hardcover 8vo, 163 pages, color and b+w illustrations, notes. 10 legends from the great cultural periods of Egypt, Greece, Persia, China and France. Light soiling to binding extremities. Spine cloth darkened and worn at head. Front endpaper foxed.

G+ some soiling and light stains to binding, light spine fray b+w illus Magician's League of America NY (1933) 2nd edition hardcover 8vo, 140pp+index, Magic aids bound and laid in, including papers and cards. Heavily illus. A little wear, but a good copy of an Item.

VG/G Harper & Bros NY 1924 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 265 pages + plates, index, glossary, bibliography. Study of design devoted to interior architecture including medieval, renaissance, Tudor, Jacobean, baroque, Louis XIV, English, Louis XV, Georgian and Empire styles. A few pages in plate section have bent corners at bottom right. Dustjacket with chipping along top edge. Dustjacket has color paste on picture on front. Inside dustjacket flap separated at fold, but solid copy in Brodart protective cover.

VG- Akros Publications Preston 1971 Limited 1st softcover 8vo, 29 pages. #106/200 limited copies. Printed paper cover has light soiling and foxing.

VG/no dustjacket Capt. James Bryan illus Viking NY 1969 1st hardcover 8vo, 110 pages, b+w illustrations, color pictorial covers. Story of a small young donkey set in Cyprus. Light soiling to cover white; otherwise clean, solid and bright.