Search Results: Titles starting with G from Abacus Books

First edition. Full calf. 8vo. [xii] 381pp with 2 fold out maps and diagram of the solar system. Pages toned with some foxing. Covers and spine show wear.
The second fold out map "engd. for Spafford's geography 1808" by Gideon Fairman Sr. is titled "United States; or Fredon."
"It was a great oversight" of the Constitution's framers that they did not give the United States a "proper name." So claimed Samuel Latham Mitchill in an 1803 broadside. A doctor by training, Mitchill not only diagnosed this problem, he also proposed a remedy. The land occupied by the United States, he suggested, should be called Fredon, or Fredonia in its more "poetical" form. The people of Fredonia would be called Fredonians or Fredes. And the adjectival form would be Fredish. Mitchill declared these various words were "sonorous," and the whole language "rich and copious." This Fredish language would even translate well into verse: "Their chiefs, to glory lead on/The noble sons of Fredon."

First U.S. Edition, Second Printing. Inscribed and SIGNED by author in blue ink on title page "For Judith, with / my best wishes- / Philip Pullman" Hard cover. Clean and unmarked with a very tight binding. Minimal shelf wear to intact dust jacket.
First book in the author's highly acclaimed "His Dark Materials" trilogy.

Hard cover. Publishers cloth with gilt titles to spine. Small Octavo. [viii] 304 pages with 165 musical illustrations and four b/w photographic plates. Some light shelf wear to covers and spine ends. Very good.
Scriabin was an innovator as well as one of the most controversial composer-pianists of the early 20th century. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia said of him, "no composer has had more scorn heaped on him or greater love bestowed."

London and New York: H. Bailliere, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Faded purple cloth over boards with paper label to spine. 8vo. [viii] 344pp. Some insect damage to i through v. Some pencil annotation to back pastedown.Details the number and ages of prostitutes, their recruitment and mode of life as well as the causes of prostitution and its influence on public health and morality in several major cities.