Search Results: Titles starting with G from Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)

Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1965. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 21.5cm,second printing, x,399p., 2 maps, mapped endpapers, illustrations fromphotographs, index, gilt titles, blue cloth, a very good to fine copyin very good jacket. (mt).

London. 8vo. Soft cover. printed wraps. all are very good to fine, (Tds), $20.00 each canadian or lot.

New Haven & New York. William Reese Company & Donald A. Heald. 2002. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 4to, 28cm, [6],384p., numerous text illustrations, 8 colour plates, many appendices, indexes, bibliography, dark blue cloth, gilt spine and cover titles, a fine copy in fine colour illustrations jacket, new ~ "A GUIDE TO AUDUBON'S Birds of America" provides a comprehensive yet easily accessible tour through the maze of nomenclature difficulties in Audubon's great works. A brief historical introduction recounts significant events in Audubon's life and discusses the techniques used in the creation of the double elephant folio. Detailed descriptions of each print include: the current name of the bird according to the most recent data.; the name (if any) on Audubon's original painting.; name of the bird in the octavo and Bien editions; and brief accounts of pertinent historical data" (jacket). An essential Audubon reference.

London and Glasgow. Gowans and Gray. 1914, 1914. Hardcover. 12mo, 19cm, frist English edition, 45p., in original decorated cloth binding, in full tan linen, full elaborate embossed decorations on the spine and upper cover in yellow on black background, black stamped title panels, bevelled boards, a fine copy in an attractively pictorial cloth binding (hmds).

New York. A.S. Barnes and Company. 1949, 1949. Hardcover. 22cm, viii,224p., frontis portrait, 27 illustrations, red cloth, gilt titles, spine titles slightly faded very good to fine (b20) A study of the women's championship tennis players of the 1920's and 1930's.

New York. Francis P. Harper. 1897. Hardcover. 8vo. 20cm, second edition, 220p., 1p ad and 30 leaf colour chart on the rear endpapers to assist with colours mentioned in the text, with 46 black & white plates, appendix, index, grey colour illustrated cloth, slight fade speckling otherwise a fine sound clean copy (gar) ~ "Including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys; with accounts of their dispersion, habits, nesting, etc. and full description of the plumage of both adult and young, together with their popular and scientific names." (sub title). Illustrated by Edwin W. Sheppard. A useful reference for both naturalists and hunters.

Leonaur Press. 2008. 21.5cm, 263p., blue cloth, fine in fine jacket. (Mt).

New York. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith. 1930, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 19cm, first edition, 285p., quarter black cloth backed red glazed paper over boards, spine titles stamped in red, black decorated endpapers, very good to fine in very good to fine jacket (Hmds). - The book is particularly noteworthy for its striking Art-Deco jacket illustration. A romantic murder tragedy set in the Scottish Highlands. Claire Spencer, from Paisley, Scotland, emigrated to the United States in 1918.

Winnipeg, MB The Columbia Free Press 1930. Soft cover. 8vo. 20.5x 16.5cm, 190p., edges untrimmed., fly inscribed, printed stiff wraps, edges worn else good to very good (cds) Poetics in Icelandic language.

London.John Murray. 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 22 cm, first edition, xiv,360p., frontisand 57 photographic illustrations, index, dark blue cloth, giltdecoration on front (caribou), gilt tiles fading, scattered foxingthroughout, still a good to very good sound copy. Hunting andfishing in the Kootnays, the Selkirks, Kamloops, Skeena River, and Cassiar with the Head of the British Columbia Provincial GameDepartment. Game includes Bighorn Sheep, Mountain Goats, Bears(Grizzly & Black), Moose, Caribou, Wapiti, Deer, Cougar, andWolves. Includes chapters on game protection and "sport with therod

New York. Dick and Fitzgerald. 1863, 1863. Hardcover. 18.7cm, [30,16]p., ads., illustrated with checkerboard positions, ads on the endpaper ads, original wavy grain brown cloth over boards, blind stamped border decoration, gilt title & illustration (checkerboard) on front, wanting the front free endpaper, very good copy.

London. Herbert Jenkins. 1929. Hardcover. 25.5cm, 256p., with 15 colour plates, fine grain green cloth, with gilt titles and elaborate stamping around the boards edges, a near fine copy. (spg).

Boston. Le Roy Phillips. N.d. c.[1915]. 16mo. 16cm, first American edition, 122p., with 8 tipped-in colour plates including frontis, 4p. rear publisher's ads, green paper over boards, gilt spine title, t.e.g., fine. ~ One of the Foulus "The Garden Lovers' Books" with writers on gardens including Pliny, Lamb, Browning, Emerson, Hawthorne, Cobbett, Kinglake. Attractively illustrated with garden florals. Publisher Le Roy Phillips was the Foulis agent in the United States. This publication was taken from the Foulis sheets.

Charlottetown. Ragweed Press. 1982, 1982. Soft cover. 21cm, 271p., printed wraps, very good to fine (s2.9).

New York. Random House. 1968. 4to. 28cm, 184p., with 337 plates and illustrations, some colour, index, bound in full linen, titles and illustrations stamped in green, former owners name on the bottom edge otherwise a fine copy (S3.4) Ritual warfare of the neolithic warrior farmers of New Guinea. The Dugum Dani, on whose culture this extraordinary book is the first full photographic record, are a Stone Age tribe of neolithic warrior farmers who live in the Grand Valley of Baliem in the Central Highlands of western New Guinea. At the time these photographs were taken, the Dugum Dani were almost unique, for they still not only practised ritual warfare but were virtually untouched by any forms of modern civilization.

Dublin. Poolbeg. 1990. Soft cover. 21.5cm, 241p., colour illustrated cover, trade paperback, new (sds) This book provides, for the first time, a visitor's guide to all the gardens of Ireland.

Boston. James R. Osgood and Company. 1872. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo, 17.5cm, First American Edition (US sheets), 96p., frontis and a few text illustrations from engravings, in the original pebble green cloth, gilt spine and gilt decorated cover titles, bevelled boards, some slight wear on the spine edges & some slight foxed in the text but a near fine attractive sound copy (hmds).

Toronto. The Ryerson Press. Hardcover. 1966. 21cm, 164p., 15 illustrations, appendices, signed by author, purple cloth, fine (S4).

London. Simkin, Marshall & Co. N.d. [190?]. Soft cover. 19.5cm, 36p., on rag paper, colour decorated grey wraps, some foxing, some slight cover fading, very good copy (s1.box). A Victorian collection of uncommon Christmas verse including selections from Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, Robert Southey and George Macdonald.

London. Grafton & Co. 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. 21cm, second edition, 655p., index of personal names & index of subjects, original fine grain linen backed brown cloth boards, in fine condition in very good jacket (scn) ~ A classic medical biography with 6798 entries, with 1400 entries added since the first edition of 1943. The third edition has the same number of entries as this second. An invaluable booksellers reference.