Search Results: Titles starting with G from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

New York: Henry Holt, 1990. 8vo. [10], 261, [1] pp. Half-blk cloth over gray boards, red lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of No. 7 in the Kinsey Millhone mysteries.

[Pontiac, MI: GMC Truck & Coach Division, April, 1950]. Folio. 19, [1] pp. Illustrated in yellow, blue, black & white throughout. Colour-illustrated self-printed wrappers, stapled as issued, NF copy. First edition of this scarce original dealer’s catalogue for General Motors Heavy Duty trucks introducing just prior to the Korean War. The 1950 model year saw the introduction of the HCW620 6 x 4, and heavier duty diesel engines were introduced.

Pontiac, MI: GMC Truck & Coach Division, [1968]. 4to. 36 pp., plus 13 leaves of paint samples, w/ 102 vinyl and cloth samples for interior upholstery trim, vinyl, cloth, and rubber floor mats, numerous text illustrations, colour photo illustrations. Original padded 3-ring binder, faux-wood vinyl cover, white, red & silver lettering on front cover, gilt & white lettering on spine, rounded corners (scuffing, and minor damage to a few paint sample leaves-- 1 with some offsetting to facing leaf), still VG- copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce original dealer’s catalogue for General Motors Light Truck, Handi-Van, Handi-Bus, Value Van, and Heavy Duty trucks interiors and paint colour schemes. These include deluxe cab interiors for the Super Custom Models which were introduced with a 350 cu. inch. V-8, for the 1500-3500 series trucks. The trucks could be purchased with bucket seat and bench seat interiors, while the Value Van delivery vehicles were only available with maroon vinyl seats in 2… Read More

Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co., 1876. Tall 8vo. 466, [2] pp. Frontisp., 32 plates. Lavender-coloured cloth, black & gilt embossing, decoration & lettering on front cover & spine (minor chipping head & foot of spine, spotting to spine, wear to corners, minor bumping to corners, front inner hinge starting), still a G copy. First edition of Harte’s one serious attempt to write a full-length novel. The sensations begin with the straits of a party of settlers driven to cannibalism by famine, and culminate in an earthquake. Humorous scenes are interlaced with the murders lynching, miraculous escapes; and a perplexing tangle of villainy, love and jealousy, intrigue and counter-intrigue, is unravelled in an astonishing trial scene. See: Baker, Guide to the Best Fiction in English (1912), p. 417.

Billings, MT: Billings Advertising Co., 1941. 8vo. [4], 24, [4] pp. With photo illustrations (centerfold double-page photo spread), text illustrations, maps, 4 pp. sections at front & rear which open into 7 x 8.75 in. sized leaves w/ maps & photos. Gold-tinted illustrated softcovers, lozenge photo cowgirl on front cover, yapp edges (some soiling, edgewear, couple minor closed tears at the fold creases for the folding leaves), still VG- copy. First edition, thus, of this remarkably scarce installment in the Gail’s Golden Guide automobile reference books for tourists, intended to welcome visitors to the “land of Purple Hills and Golden Sunsets - of historic landmarks -- scenic wonders . . . the ‘Crow Country’ of yesterday. . . .” Filled with maps, photos of rodeos, advertising for gasoline stops, descriptions of Buffalo Bill Cody, the Billings Boot Hill monument, and more. The business directory and the “latest revised auto map,” were of invaluable assistance to the traveler on the eve of… Read More

Munich: Albert Langen, 1904. Folio. 11.25 x 15.25 in. 32 leaves, with 30 colour plates. Blue pictorial publisher’s cloth, striking front cover art of Belle Epoque couple promenading for the evening (minor shelfwear, rubbing, expertly rebacked w/ original laid-down, flyleaves renewed), still VG- bright copy. First edition, 4th-6th thousand, of this often daring, sexy and occasionally racist, album of plates. Reznicek’s (1868-1909) wonderfully sarcastic, and yet nicely executed Art Nouveau scenes portray lascivious theatre attendees, performers, escorts, and others in fin-de-siecle Vienna.

London: Museum Press, Ltd., [1952]. 8vo. 256 pp. Black cloth, silver lettering (old scotch tape ghosting on endpapers, minor shelfwear, slightly cocked), w/ d.j. (minor edgewear, rubbing), VG/VG copy. First edition of this post-World War II British courtroom drama set against the backdrop of accusations of sexual impropriety, Parliament, and blackmail.

New York: Cupples & Leon Co., [1928]. 8vo. 292 pp. Orange boards, blue lettrng (minor shlfwr, sunng to ft of spine, edgewear), w/ d.j. (chppng ft of spine, edgewear), G/G-. Reprint edition of this charming story of a crippled boy and his horse, by same author of General Jim.

Beatrice, Nebraska: Sonderegger Nurseries and Seed House, 1931. Tall 8vo. 7 x 10.25 in. 127, [1] pp. 100s of text illustrations, photo illustrations. Colour-lithograph illustrated softcovers with cover art of Richared Delicious Apple & J.H. Hale Peach on front cover, vegetables on the back include Tomatoes, Peppers, Muskmelons (uniform interior toning, some edgewear, creasing to spine), still VG copy, from the library of Millard Armstrong (1874-1958), longtime Portland, Oregon millwright, carpenter, home builder, and later high school teacher, and Albany, OR dairy farmer. First edition of this well-illustrated seed catalogue issued in the depths of the Great Depression, with the introduction explaining how their nursery cuts out the traveling salesmen to sell direct. Carl Sonderegger (b. 1856) immigrated to Jefferson County, Nebraska in 1875 from Switzerland, and by 1886 had set up a large 120 acre nursery farm. In 1900 he moved the operations to Beatrice, Nebraska where it became one of the most… Read More

[Pownal, VT]: Storey Books, [1999]. 4to. 155, [1] pp. Over 100 illusts. & diagrams. Colour-illust. softcvrs, NF. First edition of this workbook containing 22 unique and easy-to-build garden structures.

San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Call & Post, Feb. 20, 1915. Atlas folio. 18.25 x 21.5 in. 8 pp., outer pages printed on pink-tinted paper. With numerous illustrations, decorations, photo illustrations, cartoons; self-printed softcovers, colour-illustrated banner of the PPIE Tower of Jewels, domes & gates as banner by Packer (fold creases, some scuffing, old rubbing, minor creasing), still a VG- copy, from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of the entire special issue of The San Francisco Call celebrating the raucous opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with President Wilson’s touch of a golden telegraph key in Washington, D.C. notifying the world by wireless that the Fair had opened, as well as starting up all of the engines and machinery in the Palace of Transportation. Photos depict dignitaries as well as the streaming crowds into the Exposition. Of additional interest are the illustrated advertisements, including half-page on back cover for the… Read More

North Tonawanda, NY: The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, [1958-1959]. Two vols. 1st -- 4to. [8 pp (unpaginated).], with colour and black & white photo lithograph illustrations, text illustrations throughout, self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art stylish Mid-Century design w/ coins & gears, and lettering, NF copy; 4to. 2nd -- 90, 8 pp. With 100’s of photo & text illustrations, wiring diagrams & schematics, nearly all large folding printed in red & black. Flexible illustrated soft-cover Acco-Fastener split-pin clasp post-binder, cover art of Wurlitzer 2300S on front cover (minor scuffing, shelfwear, rubbing), still VG- copy. First edition of this remarkably scarce brochure and service manual volumes for the groundbreaking Wurlitzer 2300 and 2300S Jukebox models, was Wurlitzer’s first stereo jukebox. This Wurlitzer model featured a futuristic front mesh grille, chrome & glass window for the selections, and the 2300 models could play 200 selections from 45 rpm records. This model also… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. 8vo. [10], 377, [1], xix, [1] pp. Frontispiece, illustrations (many full page). Quarter-purple cloth over illustrated boards (minor shelfwear, some offsetting from binding glue on endpapers), w/ d.j. (very minor chipping head & foot of spine, edgewear, minor dustsoiling), still VG/VG copy. First edition, stated, of this fascinating history of the Chicago Fire, prostitution, gambling, bootlegging, racketeering, and more.

[Houston, TX & Pasadena, CA: NASA; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 1965-1967]. Archive of 28 different publications. 4to. viii, [642 pp (sections separately paginated).]; iii, [284 (sections separately paginated).]; Nos. 3-28 [Approx. 300 pp (all sections separately paginated).] With 100s of photo plates, photo illustrations, diagrams, text illustrations, text diagrams. First two parts in printed softcovers as published, all others with self-printed illustrated softcovers, some stamped w/ numbers, some uncut and unopened, others stapled as issued, still an excellent archive, from the library of aeronautical engineer Curtis N. Orsborn, who was one of the early engineers in the Air Force Space Program, worked for NASA during the Apollo program, and eventually moved to Boeing where he helped develop the Sea Launch system for spacecraft which was a multinational spacecraft launch service that used a mobile maritime launch platform for Zenith-3SL rockets through 2014.… Read More

Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Co., [1980]. Tall 8vo. xviii, 364 pp. 34 colour photos on 16 plates, over 200 black & white text illustrations, numerous tables. Gray boards, silver lettering (minor bumpng to couple corners), w/ d.j. (minor bumping couple corners, 1 small closed tear), VG/VG- copy. First edition of this extraordinary work on the efforts to duplicate nature’s finest gems by the author, a pioneer in laser technology with 20 years experience in crystal growth.

Denver, CO: Frank S. Thayer, Publisher, 1892. Oblong folio. 13.75 x 10.5 in. Frontisp., illustrated title in red & black, numerous printed photographic images throughout (many of them mono-colour tinted), illustrated borders, and text illustrations, many w/ colour tinting. Printed light gray softcovers, backed in linen, embossed dark blue lettering on front cover (minor thumbing, soiling, edgewear), still VG- copy. First edition of this popular photographic souvenir filled with William Henry Jackson’s famed views of Colorado’s canyons, rivers, waterfalls, and mountains. This work features views of Denver, Pike’s Peak, Manitou Springs, Pike’s Peak Railway, Los Animas, Canyon, Durango, CO, Creede, CO, Telluride, Co mining camp, famous swimming pool at Glenwood Springs, gold mining on Cripple Creek, and more. Jackson’s (1843-1942) and his son Fred in their Denver studio had entered into a partnership with Chain & Hardy booksellers to produce view books such as these related to Colorado and the… Read More

[San Francisco, CA: Published by Pacific Novelty Co., 1915]. Oblong 16mo. 6 x 4.25 in. [64 pp (unpaginated).], w/ 140 photo illustrations throughout, including several full page, 1 birds-eye double-page centerfold plate. Colour-tinted softcovers, cover art photo views of the PPIE (minor shelfwear, slight bumping to couple corners), still, VG copy, from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this photographic souvenir of the Exposition, drawn from many of the Real Photo Postcards, and Printed Photo Postcards issued by the Pacific Novelty Co. during the Fair’s run throughout 1915. Pacific Novelty Co. was a San Francisco based publisher of souvenir postcards, who sold to tourist shops, and kiosks across the West, and also issued postcards for the 1905 Lewis & Clark International Exposition in Portland, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, and more. Worldcat locates 6 copies (Cal Poly, CSU Fresno, Contra Costa, Bancroft, RI School of Design, San Antonio Pub.).

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., [1957]. 12mo. 282 pp. Colour-tinted illustrated title, text illustrations. Colour-illustrated boards, wraparound cover art, NF copy. First edition of No. 1512:49 in the Whitman Gene Autry series, featuring the famed singing cowboy, and Cinema and Television star.

San Francisco & Los Angeles: Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson, 1911. Tall 8vo. [40], 767, [1] pp. Over 1200 text illustrations, diagrams. Original three-quarter red polished calf over pebbled cloth, gilt lettering on front cover & spine (dampstaining & soiling to covers, edgewear, minor bowing to covers, wear to corners), still good reference copy with excellent interior. First edition of this exceptionally scarce California trade catalogue for the famed Hardware firm. This lavishly illustrated catalogue includes sections on Aluminum Ware; Hotel, restaurant and steamship ware; Tinners’ trimmings and supplies; Dairy goods; Cast iron hollow ware; Cutlery; Stoves & fireplaces; Pumps and drilling equipment for oil and water; and much more. This firm was originally founded by James B. Stetson during the California Gold Rush in 1850, and by 1878 he consolidated his firm with another, and changed the name to Holbrook Merrill & Stetson. His interests in mechanics and manufacturing closely involved him with San… Read More

Portland, OR: Portland Chamber of Commerce, Department of Industries, Nov. 1, 1920. 4to. 23 leaves. With 20 maps & charts, title printed on steel-engraved letterhead. Tan printed softcover split-pin binder, brass split pins at gutter margin, yapp edges (minor tears & creasing to fore-edges, rubbing, minor soiling to upper right corner, first couple leaves), still VG- copy. First edition of this well-illustrated land promotion touting the advantages of the Pacific Northwest, with maps and charts showing the rapid population growth, the Pacific Coast railroad systems, harbors & waterways, less fog on the Columbia and Willamette River for commerce, and rapid growth of lumber and steel manufacturing during World War I. Worldcat locates 6 copies (Huntington, OSU, UO, UW, WSU, Washington State Lib.).