Search Results: Authors starting with G from Whiting Books

Tulsa, Oklahoma: All Souls Unitarian Church, 1969. Book. Good. Soft cover. Rare 1969 Printed Sermon by Rev. Max D. Gaebler, Madison, Wisconsin, on Black Student Strike at UW-Madison, their Demands, and White Guilt. Delivered at First Unitarian Society, Madison, Wisconsin, Feb 16, 1969 and All Souls Unitarian Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma Nov 16, 1969. Seven unbound leaves, 8.5 X 11 inches, folded in half, one of which serves as a cover to the others. Good with moderate wear to the cover, previous owner name, and a hint of edge toning to the interior leaves. The Rev. Max David Gaebler (1921-2018) was a minister at First Unitarian Society in Madison, Wisconsin from 1952 until his retirement in 1987, a civic leader in Madison, and a Unitarian leader on the national stage as well as being active in the Unitarians-Universalists merger. He often sided with students at the nearby University of Wisconsin campus during their protests for social reform and against the Vietnam War. He even inserted himself in the… Read More

Austin, Texas: Blue Stocking Press, 2004. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. "A story of early 1800s pioneer courage told through the wizened spirit of a maple tree in Western New York. Threads of real life stories and local anecdotes. The first book of a seasonal collection of the area." In the Author's Note, Gaetano writes, "Please think of this collection of stories as fictionbut with the capacity for being true, because they are quite possibly both.".

New York: Other Press, 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Signed on the title page by the author. A fine, unread copy..

Bogotá: Litografía Arco, 1980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Light shelf wear and foxing to the boards. Edge wear, chipping, and rubbing to the dust jacket. Twenty-three pages of essays comprise an introduction to the Hernando Lemaitre (1924-1970) and his work: 1) Las últimas acuarelas de Hernando Lemaitre. Exposición póstuma. Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá. Julio 1.1973, por Galaor Carbonell; 2) Imagen de Hernando Lemaitre, por Ramiro de la Espriella; 3) La luz de Hernando Lemaitre, en Cartagena, por Fabio Lozano Simonelli; 4) Homenaje a Hernando Lemaitre, por Alejandro Obregon; and 5) Retrato a mano alzada de Hernando Lemaitre Román, por Ramón de Zubiría. These are followed by 60 color plates of Lemaitre's watercolors. A scarce publication of this Colombian artist's watercolor paintings..

London: Natural Environment Research Council, Institute of Geological Sciences, Geological Survey and Museum, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Fourth Edition, Second Impression. Previous owner name stamped on the title page. 130 pages with Index and a list of related maps, geological survey maps and memoirs, and short bibliography of other works dealing with the region. Illustrated with plates (some fold-out) and figures..

New York: Larrabee Publications, 1962. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Old price sticker on the cover otherwise clean and free of writing and marks, Single sheet folded to 9 X 12 inches, with loose page inserted creating a three-page score. Publisher's Encore Series titles on the rear cover..

Forth Worth, Texas: Texas Christian University Press, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Slight bumping to boards. Light chipping and wear at the spine ends and upper corners of the jacket and some faint sticker shadow. Signed by the author (name only) on the title page..

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Printing. 210 pages with Index, Notes, and Selected Bibliography of Leal's works. Illustrated with photos..

Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1944. Book. Illus. by Willy Pogany. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Edge wear and soiling to covers. Old bookplate on inside cover. A few signatures starting to separate, but holding. 144 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Horse story for young readers..

New York: Mills Music, Inc., 1945. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Small Folio, 9 X 12 Inches. Publication date is the latest found (selections on rear cover), but the copyright date for the song is 1926. Mild wear. Previous owner name lightly and discreetly penciled in top corner of the front cover and a small music store ink stamp near the bottom of the front cover. Three-page score. The rear cover features excerpts from the publisher's catalog. Bing Crosby's image and facsimile signature on the front cover. Decca Record No. 23457. More Crosby songs featured inside the front cover..

New York: Colgems Music Corp., 1971. Book. Illus. by Bob Ziering. Good. Soft cover. 1702ISMT in the publisher's catalog. Ringed stains on the rear cover, otherwise a clean copy. Single sheet folded once to 9 X 12 inches. Printed on all panels. Sheet music with two-page score of the 1970s rock group Bread's hit, If, on Elektra Records, words and music by lead singer David Gates. This is likely an early reprint that incorporated an interesting cover illustration of the group by artist Bob Ziering..

Fayettville, Arkansas: The University of Arkansas Press, 1996. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Edition. Light upper-corner crease to the front cover, otherwise fine. 321 pages with Notes and Index. Illustrated with black and white photos. From the rear cover: "This wide-ranging collection of essays by distinguished scholars is the first collaborative work to focus exclusively on the particularity and contradictions of the Arkansas portion of the Mississippi River delta. Individual chapters deal with the French and Spanish colonial experience; the impact of the Civil War; the roles of African Americans, women, and various ethnic groups; and the changes that have occurred in towns, in social life, and in agriculture.".

Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1906. Book. Illus. by Edna M. Sawyer. Good. Hardcover. First Impression. Roses of Saint Elizabeth Series. Translated by Mary J. Stafford. Six color illustrations, including the frontispiece. Shelf-wear. Spine ends and corners are bumped. Cracked hinges, covers loosening a bit, but still very much attached. Some edge tears (frontispiece) and one page (illustration) tape-repaired. The last 50 or 60 pages are stained in the lower corners, more noticeably on the last 10 or 20 pages. Clear Mylar protective cover over boards. 130 pages..

New York: David Lewis, 1969. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. Light spotting bottom-edge, bumping at head of spine. 192 pages with Index, Notes, and an Annotated Bibliography..

New York: David Lewis, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Very faint spotting to bottom-edge. 192 pages with Index, Notes, and an Annotated Bibliography..

London: Natural Environment Research Council, Institute of Geological Sciences, Geological Survey and Museum, 1970. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Third Edition. Previous owner name stamped on the front cover. Light rubbing to covers. 152 pages with Index. Illustrated with plates (some fold-out) and figures. Based on previous editions by J. Pringle and T. Neville George..

Houston, Texas: Herring Press, 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Red cloth with white lettering in a French fold dust jacket. 128 pages with Index to Photographs. One-hundred twelve fine art photographs based on eleven projects of construction of buildings and other structures in Houston, taken from 1985 to 2007. Pages 17-118 comprise the color photograph collection for this book. Gertsman contributed the Preface, followed by Vision and Collaboration, by Tadd Tellepsen; Visionary Camera, by Ann Holmes; Beauty in the Details, by Barrie Scardino; To catch a moment of beauty, by Janusz A. Ihnatowicz; and Photographs of out-of-space, by Kristian Feigelson. Gerald Moorhead, FAIA wrote the conclusion. Photographer Gertsman (1925-2013) was born in Moscow, received an M.D. with a specialty in surgery, and settled in Houston in 1974. He had long had an interest in art and photography, but only since 1981 did he begin to exhibit his photographs and sculpture while still practicing… Read More

New York: Carlton Press, Inc., 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Very mild shelf wear to the boards. The author's obituary (1991) is affixed to the front free endpaper. Jack Gidley signed the book to the previous owner of the book. The dust jacket is chipped at the spine ends, otherwise mild wear. From the author's Introduction: "This book is an intrigue story about World War II. It is about Hitler and the Nazi party. But more especially, it is about German Intelligence and American Intelligence." 305 pages..

New York: IBM Book. Illus. by Rosenblum. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Corners lightly bumped, otherwise a nice copy of this scarce pamphlet from IBM introducing computers to the lay person in simple language describing data processing with an analogy to a washing machine. No publication date, but appears to be 1960s. No other copies have been located, but one reference to it cited a 1970 publication that had extracted a passage from it. Thus our 1960s publication estimation. Ten pages, illustrated with cartoon drawings. The author was a senior associate engineer in IBM's Systems Development Division in Kingston, NY and at the time of this publication had begun exploring application development work in graphic data processing, specializing in data display terminal processing. 0.

Mainz, Germany: B. Schott's Söhn, 1937. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Couple of small fore-edge spots. Previous owner name stamped in the upper corner of the front cover. A few light pencil marks in the margins. Rear cover lists other titles from the publisher, Musik für Blockflöte. 79 pages with Appendix (Anhang): Technical Studies for the Solo Recorder (Technische Studien für die Solo-Blockflöte)..