Search Results: Titles starting with G from Birkitt's Books

Sotheby's, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 10x8x0. Includes a foxed sheet on Dorothy Draper & Company, Inc. Letterhead to Joann Carmel. The letter is signed by Carleton Varney, President. Jacket edges are worn, and creased, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Color! Color always was the essential component. Other criteria did matter. Quality, condition, proportion, history, practicality - all were important, but colors - shades of rose, salmon, pink and a mossy green - were paramount, In her home there was a riot of color everywhere. The works meshed and flowed in a wondrous explosion of enveloping hues that lifted the mood. Nothing was black or white. During the almost four decades when the New York apartment was her only home, she tried to create a harmonious setting where nothing jarred the senses. Always, continually, she sought out those with particular expertise in art, furniture and decorations. Many became her lifelong friends.She chose those objects which pleased her… Read More

Steve Jackson Games, 1999-08-01. Paperback. Very Good. 11x8x0. Minor shelf wear, rubbing to covers, light chipping to spine edges, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Mighty barbarians hacking away with massive broadswords and battle-weary grunts with cordite-stung eyes come to life! GURPS Warriors expands upon the template system introduced by GURPS guru Sean "Dr. Kromm" Punch in GURPS Wizards so you can get on with the game!Inside you'll find 29 warrior archetypes, along with templates and design advice allowing you to quickly and efficiently recruit your new warrior.Templates include . . .* Soldiers from all time periods - past, present, and future - such as the aviator, cavalryman, commando, heavy foot soldier, marine, and rifleman . . .* Warriors from the pages of history and literature, including the barbarian, berserker, gunslinger, holy warrior, martial artist, and swordsman . . .* Specialist warriors like the archer, engineer, guard, guerrilla, sharpshooter, and scout . .… Read More

M. Gaiser, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 159 glossy pages, profusely illustrated in black and white, includes an index.

New York, NY: NY: Vantage Press, 1953, 1953. hardcover. Acceptable/Missing. 0x0x0. Not signed. Scarce Vantage Press, 1953 hardcover, lacks dust jacket, Moderate to heavy wear and soiling to gray-green cloth boards, book edge is soiled, front hinge cracked, soiling to book edges, pages lightly age-toned. A young man on the eve of his departure for Florida in the 1880's would be met with something like the following from his elders: "Well, ye prob'ly won't git back. Them there bad men'll kill ye, er the 'gators'll eat ye, er the skeeters'll give ye malary an' that'll kill ye." Undaunted, and lured by the vast realm of unexplored territory to the south of him, Ellis Connel May struck out with the same resolve that had prompted his forefathers to pioneer the West a century before. He was twenty-four years old when he first arrived in Citrus County, there to begin a career which took him in successive stages from work as a common laborer to the legal… Read More

Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x0x11. Jacket has light wear, binding sound, internally clean. Covers all standards, procedures, and ethics of appraising gems, jewelry, and other valuables. Each step involved in conducting an appraisal is fully explained, with case studies, key documents, worksheets, and pricing data included. After chapters on the appraiser and the appraisal process, chapters cover jewelry from antiquity to the modern era, valuing watches arid carvings, legal and ethical aspects of appraising, and the appraisal document. Includes many reference appendices on measurements and quality analysis, plus a glossary.

Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 1980-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. No dust jacket as issued, binding sound, hinges are bit loose, internally clean. Will include some genealogical notes and a pamphlet from the Hans Herr House site.

A.S. Kinsinger. unknown_binding. Very Good. 0x0x0. Minor shelf wear, stapled binding, pages clean and unmarked. Genevieve, the wife of Count Siegfrid, loves to tend to the needs of the poor around her. Then, when the Count has gone to war, his trusted servant commits a treacherous deed and Genevieve, and her infant son, are banished, to live alone in the forest. A story of love and forgiveness, in the face of cruelty and injustice.

New York, NY: Henry Holt & Co, 1982. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12x9x0. Jacket has minor shelf wear, enclosed in a mylar jacket, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Published upon an exhibition at the Brooklyn museum, and written by The Brooklyn Museum’s curator of Costumes and Textiles, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, includes memoirs of James’ life and working habits complemented by essays by his friends and clients Bill Cunningham, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr. and Anne, Countess of Rosse. This catalog-raisonne of James’ work will document over 600 designs created during his 45-year career. This is the first effort of its kind, and one which should serve as a prototype for future studies of the art of couture.

Yale University Press, 2008-06-28. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x0x12. Jacket has light wear, binding sound, internally clean.

Genealogical Publishing Co, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Ex-library with teh usual faults, No dust jacket as issued. covers have soiling, Signed by author. Front endpage has a stamp blacked out. This work contains abstracts of the earliest intestate records of Georgia, or, more precisely, abstracts of the intestate records of 57 Geogia counties formed before the 1832 Land Lottery. Basically, it is a finger-tip guide to the estate records of those who died intestate (without making a will), extracted from such records as letters of administration, guardianship bonds, administrators' bonds, minutes of the Inferior Court, loose and original papers, minutes of the Curt of Ordinary, Superior Court minutes, writs, and miscellaneous estate papers.

Ure Smith, 1963-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Jacket has tattering to the edges, corners are lightly bumped, binding tight, internally clean w/the exception of a gift inscription. The Georgian buildings erected in Australia between 1788 and about 1849 were perhaps the finest product of the whole colonial period. Most have been heedlessly destryoed, but with the passage of time appreciation has grown of the beautiful proportions and simple elegance of the style, and today the examples that remain have acquired an irreplaceable value. This book contains over 100 photographs by Max Dupain of the best surviving Georgian buildings in New South Wales and Tasmania, the two States old enough to have architecture of the period. These houses, churches and bridges, the work of architects like Francis Greenway, John Verge, James Blackburn and John Lee Archer, are splendidly shown here. Max Dupain's feeling for their mellowness of texture and simplicity of line is expressed in a truly… Read More

Schiffer Publishing, Ltd, 1989-01-01. Paperback. Good. 10x8x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. This book gives a detailed account of the types and employment of German armored trains during WWII.

Rome, Italy: Carucci, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. Text in English and Italian. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 99 pages, illustrated in black and white and color.

Electa, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Wraps have chipping, binding tight, internally clean. Art Exhibition catalog, 106 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white.

Marrakesh, Morocco: Imprimerie Papeterie el Watanya, 2019. Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Moderate shelf wear, wear to edges, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Prepare to be both thinking and dancing with these ideas and words about GNAWA, while swept off by the echoes of the profound Africa. Would you like to be initiated in the deluges of the Rite, the Possession, the Trance, to be transported throughout the itineraries of the GNAWA's music and art. You have only to follow the course of this manual where the author Dr Anissa KIIAL-LAAYO'UN has tried to present another face of the Human, Artistic and Ritual Patrimony of MOROCCO, a Patrimony named GNAWA, having roots in the Sub-Saharian Africa, and branches in North Africa awl elsewhere in the-World mainly in the Latino-America. 238 pages, illustrated in black and white.

WHS, 2001-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 9x6x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Godalming is a historic market town, civil parish and administrative centre of the Borough of Waverley in Surrey, England, 4 miles south-south-west of Guildford and 30.5 mi south-west of London. It traverses the River Wey in the Greensand Ridge – a hilly, wooded part of London's Metropolitan Green Belt.

Skip Jack Press, 2000-10-13. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x8x1. Jacket has a light scratch to the front, jacket flaps are creased, binding tight, internally clean. The Golden Age of Ironwork, by Henry Jonas Magaziner, covers ironwork from roughly 1840 to 1930. Thus, it includes cast iron, which prevailed during the nineteenth century and hand wrought iron, which triumphed from about 1900 to 1930. With 173 photographs by Robert Golden the books describes this period golden period. There are also a few examples of contemporary ironwork.

Marblehead, MA: Devereux Books, 2001-04-01. paperback. Very Good. 7x0x10. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. This bygone age of outboard motor racing--the late 1920s to the early 1960s--is vividly captured in this all-encompassing reference. The origin of outboarding's great popularity--including its heyday race down the Hudson River to New York City--is featured, in addition to an in-depth look at Mercury Marine’s racing efforts and the company’s famous boss, Carl Kiekhaefer, and his "green onions.” Also included are lists of kit boats and plans and a glossary of terms to help enthusiasts new to the field.

Pensacola, Florida: Pensacola Historical Society, 1974. Paperback. Good. Covers have chipping, left cover has damage from sticker removal, stapled binding, internally clean. 32 pages, illustrated in black and white.

Krause Pubns Inc, 1998. paperback. Very Good. 8x0x11. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Lavishly illustrated with 1,360 photos, 160 in color, this volume--the only book available on the topic--identifies, dates and values, in two grades of condition, picture sleeves for pop, rock, alternative, country, r&b, dance, soul, jazz, blues, classical, comedy, movie & TV soundtracks, opera and other types of records. Readers will find entries for more than 10,000 sleeves, covering more than 40 years of U.S. releases.