Titles starting with G from Margolis & Moss

Chicago: G. A. Soden & Co., 1904. This seventy three page catalog measures 10 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Printed glossy paper wrappers. A former owners name inscribed on front cover, some light soiling. There are fourteen pages of watches or watch cases, seven pages of watch chains and fobs, five pages of rings, four pages of emblem charms and pins, twenty pages of cutlery and other table ware, three pages of toilet articles, four pages of wall and mantle clocks, plus pages of pens, bracelets, brooches, cuf... more information

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, (1975). 193 pages. Illustrated from photographs, including many in color. There is a group of double images meant to be viewed with the stereo glasses housed in the rear pocket. Quarto (11 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches); gray cloth; gift inscription on flyleaf; neat pencil underlining on the last few pages of text. A sound copy of the First edition. ... more information

London: Henry Vizetelly for William S. Orr and Co., 1850-1851. 3 volumes. Tinted lithographed title + 100 lovely hand-colored lithographed plates of flowers, fruits and insects. Also included are 11 uncolored plates of ferns. Contemporary green half-morocco; covers lightly rubbed; internally crisp and clean. Previous owners name on front flyleaf. A complete run of this short lived periodical, conducted by the curator of the Botanic Garden, Chelsea. The magazine was aimed at the professional gardener,... more information

circa 1885. Folding litho-tint album with twelve panes showing scenes from President Garfield's life, including the room where he was shot, his room in the White House and the Francklyn Cottage in Elberon, N.J. were he died. A fresh, bright copy. ... more information

Rosario, Argentina, 1967. 30 plates reproducing black and white drawings, each with a facing caption. 12 1/2 x 9 inches. Plain wrappers with pictorial dust jacket. First edition, one of 1500 copies. Printed at Los Talleres graficos "arboleya." A bold series of historic drawings, reminiscent of Jose Cisneros' work with Mexico and the American southwest ... more information

Springfield, Mo.: A. Davis & Company, 1904. 142 pages + 6 pages of music. Illustrated in half-tone from photographs. 8vo, gilt-printed maroon cloth; light wear First edition. Of note are the photographs and photomontages that illustrate many of the poems. They were designed by Alice D. Estes and photographed by Harry C. Morgan. Sentimental, yet edgy. ... more information

Geneve: Diurne & Nocturne, circa 1925. Map measuring 23 x 19 1/2 inches, folding into printed wrappers, 7 3/4 x 5 inches. Light soiling to wrappers. ... more information

London: Geographica, circa 1935. Folding, colored map measuring 20 x 29 1/2 inches. Printed label on verso of map; minor splitting at some folds. ... more information

Mexico: Editorial Progreso, 1943. 64 pages. Illustrated with colored pictures and maps. 7 x 9 inches. Cloth backed pictorial boards; covers age darkened. Later edition of this text for 2nd and 3rd grades in "Ensenanza Primaria. ... more information

Hartford: John Paine, 1843. 311 pages. Attractively illustrated with wood-engravings. Twelvemo (7 x 4 inches); leather backed pictorial boards; lightly rubbed, very small hole in lower spine. Later edition, originally published in 1835. Smith also published a well respected grammar. ... more information

London: Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars, for John Murray, 1813. [8],53,[3 pages of book ads]. 9 x 5 3/4 inches. Dull gray wrappers, with title in manuscript. Covers chipped, spine lacking, some stitching loose. Third Edition. With the signature of Henry Brevoort and two old hand stamps for the Long Island Historical Society. ... more information

Philadelphia: Sherman & Son, 1865. Engraved view, engraved portrait + 87 pages. 8vo, gilt-printed publishers cloth. A bright copy of a later printing, with the signature of "H. W. Edwards, Philadelphia, May 1866," on the free front end-paper. Stephen Girard, noted business man and philanthropist, died in 1831 and left two million dollars for the establishment of this College for orphans. ... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. 408 pages + 4 pages of ads. 8vo, green pictorial cloth designed by Margaret Armstong; light rubbing at spine. First editon. BAL 18930 ... more information

Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, no date. circa 1930 . With 14 full color, full page illustrations by Agnes Richardson. Folio (11 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches). Cloth backed pictorial boards. Agnes Richardson was an English illustrator whose nursery portraits of curly headed, pink cheeked, children were published in the popular English children's annuals. These illustrations were probably first published in England in this form. Amalia Casnati has written Italian verses to accompany each of the plates. ... more information

Boston: Published by the Society, 1879. 191 pages. Octavo (7 x 4 3/4 inches); purple embossed cloth, with the Society crest stamped in gold; spine sun bleached, otherwise a fine, fresh copy. ... more information

San Rafael, 1901. 115 pages. Octavo, 8 x 6 inches. Beige, pictorial cloth; ink notations on spine and bookplate removed. "The author disdained observations of the high classes for the common people, "the potential force on which the future of a race depends." Wilkins probed the question of why the Mexican would not save his wages, and was answered "I am here today, but tomorrow I do not know where I will be." He agreed that this was preferable to the habit of some Americans working... more information

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. , (1870). 870 pages. Illustrated from wood engravings by Hughes, Pinwell, Fraser, Mahoney, Walker and others. Thick octavo, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Purple embossed cloth with gilt lettering; all edges gilt; some very light rubbing.. A beautiful copy of the American edition of this English literary periodical. ... more information

San Francisco: C. W. Moody, (1970). (32) pages. Illustrated in color. Octavo, 9 x 6 inches. Spiral bound, stiff printed wrappers. First edition, signed by the author and with a price list laid in. ... more information

New York: American Sports publishing Co., (1922).. 74 pages. Illustrated from photographs. Twelvemo, pictorial printed wrappers. Issued as No. 73R in the Spalding Athletic Library. A fine copy. ... more information

Interlaken, Switzerland, c. 1925. Souvenir or promotional booklet .(8 pages). 5 x 5 3/4 inches. Self wrappers Remnants of stamps on the back. Text in French. With six wonderful full color views of the hotel from paintings. ... more information