Search Results: Authors starting with G from Pages Past Used and Rare Books

New York: Stackpole & Heck, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to. 698 pages, indexed. First edition hardcover in black and yellow dust jacket. DJ is worn at edges, with chips missing at headcap of spine. Boards and inside front/rear covers are foxed. Prior owner's name written inside front cover. Pages show slight foxing but are otherwise sound.

Chicago: Moody Press, 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 12mo. 119, (4) pages, indexed. Hardcover with a green jacket. The jacket shows moderate wear and rubbing; jacket spine is sunned. A prior owner has ink-stamped his name and date on the endpapers, title page, and on the bottom edge of the text block. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. The text itself is clean.

Charlotte, North Carolina: The Charlotte Observer, 1985. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. 80 pages. Soft cover bound in white wrappers. Light wear to the binding. Some rubbing and spotting to the rear cover. A sound copy and clean within.

Boiling Springs: Gardner-Webb College Press, 1983. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Don Sturkey. Oblong quarto. 53, (2) pages. Hardcover with a white and green pictorial dust jacket. The jacket has some wear and edge tears and is quite foxed. The text is sound and is clean within. Illustrated with photos.

Munchen: Carl Hanser, 1959. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 338 pages. Hardcover bound in yellow cloth. Binding shows rubbing and wear with soiling from handling. A sound copy with clean text. Text is in German.

Plymouth, VT: Five Corners Pubn, 1998. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 105 pages. Softcover in grey wrappers. Binding has light wear. Sticker residue in upper left corner of front cover.Text is toned.

Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 232 pages, indexed. Hardcover with taupe and green pictorial dust jacket. The jacket has moderate wear, and the headcap of the jacket spine has a brief tear and is bumped. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title. Some newspaper articles are laid in loosely inside the front cover. Ramseur was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina.

Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 620 pages, indexed. Hardcover in colour illustrated dust jacket. DJ has moderate wear. Top of front jacket flap has a price sticker on it. Rear jacket flap has a dog eared corner. Text is clean and sound.

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2004. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 373 pages. Soft cover bound in brown wrappers. Light wear to the binding. The text is clean. Contains 14 lectures.

Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 232 pages, indexed. Hardcover with taupe and green pictorial dust jacket. The jacket has light wear. Prior onwer's gift inscription is on the front flyleaf. Ramseur was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina.

Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2004. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 294 pages, indexed. Hardcover in grey pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to the DJ. Text is clean.

Paris: Picard, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large Quarto. 301 pages, indexed. Hardcover in black cloth. Binding has some smudges and contact marks. No dust jacket. White label on rear pastedown. Text is clean. Thin green ribbon bookmark. Illustrations throughout. Text is in French language.

Evanston, Illinois : Holtzman Press, Inc.. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 346 pages. Burgundy and blue hardcover. Minimal wear to the binding. A sound copy with secure inner hinges and clean text. A modern facsimile of a book originally published in 1938. Part of the "Sports Classics" series. No modern copyright date, but the front leaf notes Gallico's passing in 1974. Gallico's facsimile signature is at the top of the front leaf.

(Liechtenstein: (Liechtenstein: Quick, 1960)., 1960. 4th Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo. 53 pages. INSCRIBED by Baroness Ludmila von Falz-Fein, to whom this book is dedicated. Green cloth hardcover with white pictorial dust jacket, lettering in black. Dust jacket is lightly worn and rubbed with a few brief tears to the edges. Hardcover shows light edgewear with a few spots to the panels. Contents are clean and bright with minor offsetting to the endpapers. Laid in loosely is a green slip of paper advertising the movie-version of the book.

New York: Vantage Press, 1996. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 125 pages. Hardcover with a pale green dust jacket. Minimal wear to the jacket. Laid in loosely is a two-page handwritten and signed letter by the author. A post-it note with her inscription is also on the front flyeaf. A nice, clean copy. Ms. Galloway was born in North Carolina in 1910 and at three spent 10 years in Canada and then in Washington state before moving back to North Carolina.

Boston: New England Publishing Co., 1892. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo.156 pages. Hardcover bound in green and tan cloth. The binding shows moderate rubbing and wear with some soiling from handling. A sound copy. INSCRIBED by the author on the second front flyleaf. The text is a little toned but generally clean.

New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1933. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. 365 pages. Hardcover with a bronze and blue dust jacket. The jacket is rubbed and worn and a bit dust stained. Small bit of pest damage on the fore edge of the book and jacket. Book is sound.

London: David Bogue, Fleet Street, 1846. Third Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. xx, 432 pages. Hardcover bound in full tree calf with raised bands with black and brown labels on the spine and gilt tooling in the compartments. The front hinge is starting to weaken. Green marbled endpapers. A sound copy with a sturdy text block. Portrait frontis. The text is a bit toned but clean. Third Edition.

New York: Hawthorn Books, 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 286 pages, indexed. Hardcover in blue and red illustrated dust jacket. DJ has moderate wear, has been placed in protective mylar sleeve. Edges of text block are foxed. Illustrated map endpapers, which have some foxing. Text has light toning.

Dayton, Virginia: Ruebush-Elkins Co, Publishers, 1909. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo. 72 pages. Bound in brown limp suede the title embossed on the front cover. Yapped edges. Moderate wear and rubbing to the binding. A sound copy; lower corner of the rear cover is bent backwards. Text is clean. Gammans was Professor of Languages at Shenandoah Collegiat Institute in Dayton, Virginia.