Titles starting with G from Bartlebys Books

Galena, IL:, 1937.. 8vo. 79pp., 15pp. of views of Galena, frontis., engravings, maps, & colored folding map attached to rear wrapper. Rubbed at the corners and the spine, else very good in illustrated paperwraps. Though it states that it is "Compiled and Written by Federal Writers' Project (Illinois), Works Progress Administration," the text is attributed to Nelson Algren. ... more information

Toronto:: Sun Gravure of Canada Limited,, 1937.. 4to; 22 pp. Pamphlet of ten illustrations, showing scenes of Spain "bleeding from fratricidal war." Originally published by the Spanish "Ministerio de Propaganda". Here "Reproduced for Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City, U.S.A. " Castelao was a writer, politician, and caricaturist from the Galicia region of Spain and one of the leading figures of Galician identity and culture. Original pap... more information

Small advertising circular, printed on green paper, folded into five panels, printed on both sides. Describing the resources and benefits of Howell County, Missouri. Accompanied by a typed letter, on letterhead printed with "THE GARDEN SPOT OF AMERICA, SOUTH SLOPE OF THE OZARK MOUNTAINS," advertising 150,000 acres of the finest fruit, stock farm and timber lands in America. Single sheet of lined paper, dated Memphis, TN, August 4th, 1894, and signed by Emmett Howard, Southern Sales Agent South Mi... more information

NY:: R.H. Plass,, (1874).. First edition. 8vo. 16 pp. Illustrated. Original printed wrapppers (soiled with minor edge wear). Very good copy. Not recorded OCLC. ... more information

Carlisle, Alexander & Phillips, 1806. 1st ed. 12mo.; 348pp. 3/4 calf & marbled boards; morocco spine label. Front board detached; small paper label at head of spine. Bookplate. A miscellany of pieces, primarily concerning Pittsburgh, both historical & literary, done between 1786 & 1800. HOWES B689 STREETER 990 SABIN 7188 SHAW & SHOEMAKER 10028 ... more information

London:: Rowland Ward,, 1905.. First edition. Folio. 197 pp. Illustrated, 24 full-page chromolithographs. Original gilt-stamped cloth. Very good. ... more information

(New-Market, MD:: The author,, 1891).. Oblong 4to.; 113, (10)pp. Index. Original plum cloth, gilt-stamped leather label on upper cover. Shaken, some manuscript additions and corrections. A good copy. First edition. A large branch of the family hailed from Clarke, Frederick, and Loudon Counties, Virginia. Not in Haynes. ... more information

Auburn, AL:: (Privately printed for the authors),, 1897.. Narrow 8vo. 61, xxviii pp. Illustrated, plates. Original gilt-stamped cloth-backed stiff red wrapped. Very good. First edition (another edition was issued by J. Munsell's Sons, Albany, New York). Introduction: "The ancestor of the Mell family, John Mell, came to South Carolina...and settled near Charleston in Berkeley County in 1677." Quite scarce; not recorded on OCLC. Not in Turnbull. ... more information

Prepared from files of Head-Quarters, Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida; with full index; also, explanatory notes, and such decisions of the War Department as could be collected touching on matters of general concern to the service. Columbia, (SC): Evans and Cogswell, 1864. 12mo. xxxv, 161 pp. Original cloth-backed printed tan wrappers; old tideline on front wrapper, browning to text, but a fine choice copy. First edition. Parrish 2426 ... more information

NY:: Neale Pub. Co.,, 1911.. 12mo. 188 pp. Original gilt-stamped gray cloth; lacking the blank endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. U.R. Brooks's copy, with several of his pencil annotations and corrections in the text; later, North Carolina public servant and book collector Burton Craige's copy, with his ownership signature and note on the book's purchase. Brooks, who served in Butler's 2nd South Carolina Cavalry, wrote two books on the on the Confederacy, BUTLER AND HIS C... more information

Charleston, SC:: Printed by William Riley,, 1827.. 8vo. 8 pp. Original printed wrappers (a little stained around the edges); "fe" excised from the word "female" on both the printed wrapper and the title page, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Despite the excisions, the description of the planned seminary indicates adequately that the school was designed for women. Specifies tuition as well as courses and rules. Unrecorded on OCLC. Not in Turnbull. ... more information

Winchester, VA:: Eddy Press Corp.,, 1907.. 8vo.; 211pp. Frontis. portrait & illustrations (one plate damaged in binding, affecting the lower blank corner, and part of the caption line under the portrait). Original gilt-stamped red cloth (light wear to spine ends). A very good copy. First edition. ... more information

Santa Fe, NM:: New Mexican Printing Co.,, 1907.. Revised edition. 8vo.; 63pp. Orig. printed light green wrappers (somewhat soiled and a little chipped); Library of Congress duplicate stamp. Scarce: the NUC locates the 1905 original edition and a further amended 1909 edition, but not this one; not on OCLC. ... more information

Printed broadside, 15" x 10", with blue ornamental border, Presidential seal in gilt. Signed at bottom by President Gerald R. Ford. A Presidential Proclamation declaring October 11, 1975 as a Memorial Day for General Casimir Pulaski, Polish patriot in exile, who served with George Washington's Revolutionary Army, and was killed during a cavalry charge at the Battle of Savannah in 1779. ... more information

Philadelphia:: E. Ferrett,, 1845.. 1st American edition. 8vo. 6 plates. Printed wraps. Some wear and chipping, page corner torn on last page with no text loss. ... more information

London:: printed for D. Henry, by J. Lister, at St. John's Gate,, 1769.. Blue-green paperwraps, stitched. 8vo.; pp.[273]-320. Illustrated with one folding plate. Articles (including a scattering of reports on the American colonies by Junius, and others), book reviews, lists of births, deaths and marriages. Contemporary ownership signature on front wrapper. ... more information

Memphis, TN:: The company,, 1924.. 4to. 180 pp. Illustrated, order blank and envelope laid in. Original gilt-stamped green wrappers. Very good. Catalogue "Y" for the "largest and finest jewelry store in the south." Not recorded on OCLC. ... more information

London:: Sherwood, Jones,, 1823.. 1st British ed., an abridgement of the authors' AMERICAN ATLAS (Phila., 1822). 8vo.; 447pp. With 18 folding maps and plates, 12 hand-colored. Includes nice engraved views of Quebec, Philadelphia, Havana, Rio de Janeiro, & Montevideo. Contemporary half-calf and boards; all edges yellow. Short split to front joint at top edge, else a nice, crisp copy. ... more information

NY:: Published for the Anglers' Club of New York by Tobias A. Wright,, 1916.. First edition. 8vo. 50 pp. Plates, eight in color, frontispiece portrait of the author. Copy number 206 of 300 copies, inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Original gilt-stamped green leather, pictorial onlay in upper board; some rubbing to the binding, but very good and much better than copies usually encountered. ... more information

Philadelphia [PA]:, 1834.. 8vo.; 7pp. Disbound pamphlet (title page soiled); foxed. First separate edition, one of two issues, an offprint from the North American Magazine. The author reported the results of a "geological excursion" to Governor John Floyd. Inscribed on the title page and with "the Alleghanies" struck through, both there and in the caption title, being replaced with a manuscript "Virginia." Printed versions of both exist, and both are scarce (NUC locates a tota... more information