Search Results: Titles starting with G from Whiting Books

New York: Women's National Republican Club, Inc., 1938. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Mild rubbing wear. Stapled booklet, holding together well. Clean copy. Pages 3-50 with a few political cartoons. General political issues of the day during the Great Depression and the New Deal Era under President Roosevelt, not specifically women's issues. Contents, printed on the front cover (see scanned image with this listing), are incomplete. Additional articles were found. Of particular note in this issue, relevant to a current day issue, is "Muzzling the Press," by William Hard, Jr., in which FDR is accused of trying to censor the press..

New York: Women's National Republican Club, Inc., 1938. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Mild rubbing wear. Stapled booklet, holding together well. Clean copy. Pages 3-50 with a few political cartoons. General political issues of the day during the Great Depression and the New Deal Era under President Roosevelt, not specifically women's issues. Contents, printed on the front cover (see scanned image with this listing), are incomplete. Additional articles were found. Of particular note in this issue, relevant to a current day issue, is "Socialized Medicine," by Dr. Arthur C. Christie..

New York: Women's National Republican Club, Inc., 1938. Book. Good. Soft cover. Edge wear, rubbing wear to spine. Stapled booklet, holding together well. Clean copy. Pages 3-50 with a few political cartoons. General political issues of the day during the Great Depression and the New Deal Era under President Roosevelt, not specifically women's issues. As this is a Republican publication, expect criticism of FDR and his policies. Contents printed on the front cover (see scanned image with this listing) are not complete. Additional articles were found. Of particular note in this issue, relevant to a current day issue, is an article about trade and tariffs, "Tariff and Shoes," by James E. Hill..

Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editoire - Arno/Worldwide, 1966. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Reprint. This copy was formerly in Houston's Museum of Fine Arts library and bears their cancellation stamp inside the front cover. Shelf location penciled inside the rear cover. Discreet markings, no others. Minor wear and rubbing to covers. Binding is tight, interior clean. 65 pages with Bibliography and Illustrator Index, followed by a section of 15 numbered black and white plates corresponding to some of the exhibition items listed in the catalog. Exhibition catalog of prints and drawings from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, one of the oldest and most famous museums in the Western world..

London: Croom Helm, 1978. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 264 pages with Notes, References, and Index. From the dust jacket, this book offers an examination of "the complex relationship between Gaelic and English spheres of life at many levels--in the life of the bilingual Gael, in the confrontation of Highland and Lowland Scotland, and in the literary expression of these.".

Berkeley: Frog Books, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 312 pages with Bibliography, Glossary, Resuorces, and Index. Numerous illustrations. The dust jacket is protected in a Mylar sleeve. From the publisher: "Hemp has been used for decades for clothing, rope, and plastics, but it also has serious food value. As hemp becomes more accessible, and public awareness of its health benefits grows, demand for the inexpensive plant in its variety of culinary forms as flour, oil, and seeds is expected to increase. At the forefront of this trend is Denis Cicero, owner of one of New York's trendiest restaurants. Hemp, which tastes like a cross between a hazelnut and a walnut, is incorporated into every recipe in this cookbook. Hemp waffles, a fusilli salad made with hemp seed oil, and even a scrumptious chocolate banana dessert, all based on the restaurant's menu, are only a few of the innovative, nutritious, and socially responsible recipes featured. Also included is a list of sources… Read More

Houston, Texas: Treasures of Nostalgia, 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 179 pages, illustrated with 464 photographs (382 in color) of gambling chips and related ephemera and memorabilia from gambling establishments in Galveston County, Houston and around the state of Texas. The endpapers present information about the front and rear covers respectively. Contents include the history of gambling (with a chapter on the Maceo family), the establishments, and unidentified chips among other topics. SIGNED by the author..

Galveston, Texas: VanJus Press, 2000. Book. Illus. by Robert Hynecek. Very Good. Soft cover. Limited Edition. Very light wear with a couple of small corner creases. A clean copy. Stories from the Galveston cats, who gather every year in honor of "Great-Aunt Meowkin," who, along with the human girl Winnie, survived the Storm of 1900 (the hurricane that was the deadliest natural disaster in American history). This limited edition paperback marks the 100th anniversary of the storm..

Fredericksburg, Texas: Admiral Nimitz State Historical Park, 1983. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Small sticker shadow on the front cover, otherwise a fine copy. Stapled, booklet measuring 6 X 9 inches. Unpaginated, but about 12 pages. Includes biographical information on Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Togo, their relationship (they first met in 1905), and the beginnings of the garden and how it came about as a living memorial to the friendship of Admirals Nimitz and Togo. Illustrated with color and black and white photos and a map of the garden (inside front cover)..

Buenos Aires: Instituto Salesiano De Artes Graficas, 2003. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Light edge wear and small corner tear to the dust jacket. One of only a thousand copies printed in this edition. 175 pages with numerous photographs and illustrations documenting the history of Argentina's gendarme. SPANISH TEXT..

Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany: Alpiner Kunstverlag Hans Huber Postcard. Good. No Binding. Curling and wear along the top edge, front and back. Unposted, no writing. Black and white photo postcard, scalloped edges. Alpiner Kunstverlag Hans Huber, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Huber-Postkarte 10277. The General Patton Hotel was one of a series of older Armed Forces Recreation Center (AFRC) hotels. After World War II, a number of German military hotels and resort complexes were taken over by the United States Army and used as R&R centers for soldiers stationed there. In 2000, construction began on the Edelweiss Lodge and Resort to replace the older hotels in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. 0.

Waco, Texas: Texian Press, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Mild shelf wear. Price-clipped dust jacket, rubbing to the rear panel, and old price stickers on the front flap and rear panel. 304 pages with Notes, Bibliography, Index, and illustrations. Sherman joined the Texas fight for independence in 1836 and fought at the decisive battle of San Jacinto that secured Texas its freedom. Afterward, he built a railroad, operated a hotel in Galveston, and held the title of General during the Civil War in defense of Galveston. He died in 1873..

New York: Exposition Press, 1955. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Shelf wear to the boards, ink stamp and price on the front free endpaper. The dust jacket is edge-worn and chipped and has several small edge tears. The tail of the spine is missing about a one-inch piece, affecting the publisher's name. Protected now in a Mylar archival cover. The author was a navigator on the B-29 "Umbriago-Dat's My Boy," which is pictured on the rear panel of the jacket. He took part in the first raid on Tokyo, though they never dropped their bombs. The name Leemy in the book's title comes from the Japanese pronunciation of General Curtis LeMay's last name. 175 pages..

Austin, TX, U.S.A.: Eakin Press, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Second Printing. Slightly bumped corners in a jacket that shows just a trace of wear at the corners. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper. Profiles of 17 women writers from Texas. Illustrated with copies of black and white photos; 176 pages..

Tulsa, Oklahoma: The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1984. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Large (40 X 55 inches), folded, color geodynamic map from the Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources; Michel T. Halbouty, Chairman; John A. Reinemund, Executive Director. Map compilation coordinated by Warren O. Addicott. Cartography by Frank J. Sidlauskas and Audrey G. Schmidt. Kenneth J. Drummond was Chairman of the Northeast Quadrant Panel, which included the following panels: Free-Air Gravity Anomalies, State of Lithospheric Stress, Earthquake Focal Mechanisms, Historic Faulting, Holocene Volcanoes, and Crustal Thickness..

Tulsa, Oklahoma: The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1977. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Large (40 X 55 inches), folded, color map from the Circum-Pacific Map Project of the Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources..

Tulsa, Oklahoma: The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1983. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Large (40 X 55 inches), folded, color geologic map from the Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources; Michel T. Halbouty, Chairman; John A. Reinemund, Executive Director. Map compilation coordinated by Warren O. Addicott. Cartography by Francis R. Mills. Kenneth J. Drummond was Chairman of the Northeast Quadrant Panel, which included the following panels: Land Geology, Offshore Geology, Seafloor Sediment, and Deep Sea Drilling Project Columnar Sections..

Tulsa, Oklahoma: The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1978. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 276 pages, illustrated..

Midland, Texas: West Texas Geological Society, 1972. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Reprint. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Bumped corners, shelf wear, and visible moisture staining at the lower corner of the page block. Comprising this book is the West Texas Geological Society's Publication 72-59 (Nov. 1972), which is a reprint of Publication 65-51 (October 1965), with the addition of three road logs, an updated map, two new papers and acknowledgements under the direction of a new Field Trip Committee. 248 pages, the last 15 of which are advertisements. Four fold-out plates in a rear pocket are indicated in the Table of Contents, but there are five: PLATE II. Stratigraphic diagram, Tertiary volcanic rocks, Big Bend region; PLATE III. Structural features of Trans-Pecos Texas and northeastern Mexico; PLATE IV. Section showing Ordovician facies across Marathon folds; and PLATE V. Geologic map of Solitario basin. The fifth plate is labeled Figure 14 - The Solitario, courtesy Edgar Tobin Surveys,… Read More

New Orleans, Louisiana: Department of Conservation, Louisiana Geological Survey, 1936. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Very mild wear. Clean copy. Binding is tight and square. 232 pages with Index. Illustrated with figures, black and white plates, and a location map in a rear cover pocket..