Search Results: Titles starting with G from Eugene Library Friends

Author inscription to previous owner on first free fly leaf. No other extraneous writing, marking, or underlining. Book shows slight shelfwear, including rubbing at bottom of spine; corner tips slightly bumped with rubbing to bottom tips. Color plates remain bright. Dust jacket is in a protective plastic cover. This is not an ex-library book but was donated to the Friends of the Eugene, Oregon, Public LIbrary. We are selling the book to help support library programs.

This guide to Georgia was compiled and written by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration (WPA). The 559-page volume comes with 10 maps, illustrations, chronology, bibliography, and index. This copy in in overall "good-minus" condition because of the sad state of its pullout maps (whose folds were repaired so long ago that the dried-up cellophane tape comes free with a shake). A discard from the Schenectady Public Library, the book itself is in good condition with a tight binding.

This French-language study of the geology of Louisiana was published in 1860 in New Orleans and Paris. Four folding maps and two double-page multi-image plans; and errata. Includes a descriptive bibliography of Louisiana maps, 1685-1858. Three-quarter leather binding; spine missing; wear to cover includes very bad rubbing of corner tips so that the leather has worn through. Text clean and without foxing. As a scientist, Raymonod Thomassy (1810-1863) focused on the geology of Louisiana, but also studied the salinity of the Atlantic Ocean during numerous crossings. An entrepreneur, he created salt works in Louisiana and Georgia.

HANDSOME COPY in LIKE NEW condition. Spine has no signs of creasing; pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind. This is not an ex-library book, but was donated to the Friends of the Eugene, Oregon, Public Library. Our book sales support library programs.

Handsome copy in near fine condition. Previous owner's name written in ink at top of first free fly leaf (does not obscure maps). Pages clean; binding tight.