Search Results: Titles starting with G from Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse

Washington DC: Public Affairs Press, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Good. Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1959. 9 x 6 inches: pp. 250. Grey illustrated and pictorial dust jacket with white and blue type. Bound in light green boards with white lettering to spine. Gift inscription in pen to grandsons of author to front free endpaper. Dust jacket shows some chipping at edges, creasing, some small closed tears and is taped on one spot on spine. Sunning, toning to edges of boards. Foxing to endpapers. Pages age toned, but unmarked. Binding tight. John Pelham was an artillery officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War (Wikipedia).

San Berbardino, CA, 2013. Paperback. VERY GOOD PLUS. Thin paperback book, with unnumbered pages. Black covers with yellow lettering. This is a story about a man who makes it big as a hypnotist. Front cover slightly curls out.

New York: Jacobson & Co, 1924. Hardcover. Good Plus. New York: Jacobson & Co., 1924, (original copyright 1915). 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches: 183 black and white plates. Gray cloth with gilt decoration of company medallion on front cover and titles in brown. Corners bumped, wear at head and tail of spine and general soiling to binding. Name on front inside board. Toning throughout. Upper edge of back pages have a slight wrinkle. Otherwise unmarked. Binding solid. 183 pages of decorative plasterwork: Sculptured ornaments, Wall fountains and niche shells, Friezes, festoons and ribbons, Wall mouldings, Beadings, etc. Nice sourcebook for decorative plasterwork of the period.

Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. Bruno Bramanti. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Limited to 1500 copies with this being number 1160. 12 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches: pp. xvi,168. Green buckram over decorated cloth with spine title in gold gilt on brown background. Printed for members of the Limited Editions Club at the Officia Bodoni in Verona. Signed on the colophon page by the engraver Bruno Bramanti and the printer Giovanni Mardersteig. Wood engravings by Bruno Bramanti. Deckle edge pages on fore edge and foot of book. Slight fading to spine and corners nudged. Textblock square. Gutters professionaly reinforced. Interior bright and clean. Lacks slipcase.

New York: The Viking Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. New York: The Viking Press, 1933. First edition. 11 1/4 x 9 inches: pp. [64]. Illustrated gray illustrated paper dust jacket with red spine and black type. Illustrated, colorful gray boards with red spine and black type. Dust jacket with Brodart wraps. Two 1-inch chips to dust jacket at top and bottom of spine, edgewear and one more chip along bottom edge of dustjacket. Light rubbing to extremities of boards. Light bit of soiling on page edges. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. Said to be one of the Petersham's most elusive titles. The story of the adventures of Get-A-Way, "an old worn out [toy] horse from America, and Hary Janos The Obsitos, a one-armed toy wooden soldier.

New York: Doubleday, 1967. Hardcover. Good. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1967. STATED FIRST EDITION. 12 1/2 x 9 inches: pp. 185. Red titles to white and yellow, illustrated boards. Illustrated. Endpapers with line-drawn illustrations. Wear and rubbing to board and extremities. Some soiling. Tape repair to rear endpapers. One small tear at bottom corner of back page, no text or illustrations affected. Some foxing. Text is unmarked. Binding solid. Man's first tools, Better tools, Power, Man gets around, Man travels on water, Man takes to the air.

Philadelphia, PA: The Penn Publishing Company, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Hattie Longstreet Price. Philadelphia, PA: The Penn Publishing Company, 1920. First edition. 9 1/2 x 7 inches: pp. 277. Blue cloth boards with paste down illustration on front boards and dark blue type. Includes 8 color illustrations including frontispiece. Corners nudged and worn, with other minor wear to extremities. Some scratching, to front and rear boards. Previous owner's inked inscription and 1928 date to front free endpaper. A few pages have light discoloration, smudging. Text is unmarked. Binding solid, sound.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. Second printing. Hardcover. Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. Second printing. 8 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches: pp. (8), 300, (4). Brown cloth with gold gilt titles on spine. Edge and corner wear, rubbing, scuffing on boards. Cut along gold line at upper edge of spine. Previous owner's name and date written on upper corner of free facing end page. Vintage bookstore sticker on bottom corner inside back cover. Some age toning, foxing. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.

New York: Pyramid Books, 1975. First edition thus. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Leo and Diane Dillon. New York: Pyramid Books, 1975. First edition thus. 7 x 4 1/4 inches: pp. 319. Light brown illustrated and photographic cardboard wraps with black type. Cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon Edge and corner wear, creasing. Light scuffing on front fore edge. Faded book store ink stamp on head of book. Creasing at spine. Pages are age toned, but unmarked. Binding tight.

Freeman, South Dakota: Pine Hill Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Freeman, SD: Pine Hill Press, 1970. First edition. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches: pp. xv, 383. White photographic and illustrated paper dust jacket with black titles. Blue cloth with titles in black. Includes appendix. Color illustration of Glider Gladiator shoulder patch, two pages of photos, photo on dedication and title page, one text sketch. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper. In complete dust jacket which has some wear along the top edge and bottom rear. Some light general wear, square and tight. The author was a former combat glider pilot. Novel which "discloses love affairs, personal anecdotes, rigid-trtaining and militarty air-grouind missions up to and including the Allied invasion of Sicily" [dust jacket].

London: Palgrave Macmillan, British Film Institute, 2013. Paperback. Near Fine. London: Palgrave Macmillan, British Film Institute, 2013. First edition. 9 1/8 x 6 3/4 inches: pp. vii, 228, [4]. Orange illustrated wraps. Index. Numerous black and white illustrations. Light edge and corner wear. Text is unmarked. Binding crisp, tight. Nice bright clean copy. Study of Mexican cinema from the 1930's through the 1950's.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. GOOD PLUS. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919. First edition. 7 1/4 x 5 inches: pp. 103. Green cloth over gray boards with embossed titles in gilt on cover. Small octavo. Light crescent-shaped stain to front board and some discoloration. Toning, rubbing at edges and corners of boards. Spine title faded. One pencil note on free facing end page, otherwise, unmarked, interior clean. Binding tight. With a preface by Frederick W. Kendall. Memoirs of a former Civil War soldier, transcribed by an amanuensis during World War I. An interesting mix of spirit writing and military history.

Worcester: Dorr, Howland & Co, 1837. Fourth Edition. Leather. Good. Worcester: Dorr, Howland & Co., 1837. 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches: pp. viii, 365. Full leather binding with black spine label stamped in gilt. Leather scuffed, chafing to corners and along edges, label is bright. Cover is solid with textblock square and binding sound. Tear to front endpaper, damp staining to endpapers, text shows foxing and somedamp staining, but overall is quite readable and bright. Governance of Massachusetts: Town Officers, Taxes, Collectors, Highways , The Poor, etc.

Dallas, TX: Chess Digest, Inc, 1971. First Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Dallas, TX: Chess Digest, Inc., 1971. First edition, revised. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. 192. White photographic paper dust jacket with green and brown type. Dark blue dungaree type cloth with gold gilt type. Dust jacket has edge wear, creasing, some chipping, small tear. Partial sticker on front panel. Sticker with cataloguing information for personal library affixed on bottom of spine and taped with clear plastic tape. Corners of boards are lightly bumped. Stamp on upper corner of free facing end page. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.

Chicago, IL: Adams Press, 1991. Softcover. Near Fine. Chicago, IL: Adams Press, 1991. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. 71. Light brown card covers with black lettering. Inscribed signed and dated (2003) by author on title page. Light creasing on back cover. Text is unmarked. Binding crisp, tight.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Paperback. Very good. 3rd printing, trade paperback, 8vo, pp. x, [1], 78 pages, references, index. Trade paperback. General handling wear to cover. Upper corner of pages are slightly bumped. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. Notes prepared from lectures presented in Florence at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei examining the pioneering work of Vaughan Jones and Edward Witten "relating polynomial invariants of knots to a topological quantum field theory in 2+1 dimensions." First published in 1990.