Titles starting with G from Gallagher Books, ABAA, ILAB

Reading PA:: Fantasy Press,, 1950.. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardback 12mo, about 7.5 inches tall, in blue cloth. 307 pages illustrated by Ric Binkley with a spectacular jacket, plain paper frontis and chapter headings. The third book in the Lensman series, the space opera continues. A little irregular fading to the spine corresponding to the title on the jacket suggestive of some action by the jacket ink. Very light toning to the text, and light glue transfer toning on endpapers, and an erasure rem... more information

Denver Colorado.. Can't Decide? Give a Gallagher Books Gift Certificate and let the person decide. We'll ship it off and save you the hassel. This listing is for $25.00 but if you want to give less or more send us instructions in the Comments Section and we'll take care of it. ... more information

New York:: Oxford University Press,, 1949.. First edition, First printing. Hardcover. Hardback octavo in gray cloth. 253 pages with four illustrations by Frederick Chapman, map endpapers. A boy's adventure story, an uncommon book, by the author of Engine Engine No. 9. The adventures of a young man kidnapped as the ship sets sail from Manila to cross the Pacific. The book is lightly edge worn at bottom, but otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket is generally edgeworn with edge tears and some los... more information

Los Angeles:: Interurbans,, 1959.. Second printing, 1976. Softcover. Photo illustrated quarto, about 11 inches tall, in blue wraps. 84 pages illustrated by photographs, three-panel foldout timetable (it was four panels in the first printing). An excellent history of this electric interurban line completed in 1911. Good period photographs. Light wear at spine ends and minor creasing at both front corners, inside lightly toned, but otherwise clean and sound. ... more information

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1978.. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, about 8.5 inches tall, in salmon paper covered boards with brown cloth spine. 315 pages illustrated by photographs, ballistics tables. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT ENDPAPER. A detailed look at ammunition for big game rifles. Clean, bright and sound inside with very light edge wear. The jacket is complete but there is a one inch tear at the bottom front flap fold and four other very short tears, light edge wear and minor soiling ... more information

London:: E. Marlborough & Co.,, 1898.. Second edition. Hardcover. Hardback 16 mo in blue cloth decorated in gilt and blind. 293 pages plus index and six pages of ads. This is not a text but rather a report of games in columns of numbers with a few textual notes. Very nice, soundly bound copy, with light general wear to exrtremities and rubbing to covers, but the gilt is bright. Interior moderately toned but clean. ... more information

New York:: Bantam,, January 5, 1999.. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 320 pages. A Louise Eldridge Mystery; SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, bright and sound; a crisp unworn dustjacket. ... more information

New York:: Frederick A. Stokes,, 1907.. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Hardback octavo in original publisher's highly decorated blue cloth with a view of the desert under a star filled sky. 490 pages illustrated with 24 views from photographs by Helene Philippe. A lovely copy of this romantic adventure. A novel of some note made into a movie even more notable: a very early, if not the first, fully Technicolor film starring Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer produced and released by David O. Selz... more information

London:: John Rivington and others,, 1760.. Twelfth Edition. Hardcover. Small hardback octavo in full calf, contemporary (as suggested by style and even margins), or nearly so. 417 pages plus index and a single page of ads, that page being opposite the rear pastedown. Frontis and five plates, all present and complete but generally misfolded, and two are torn with a significant piece detached; two others with significant tears but holding. A largely intact early horticultural text with botanical copper e... more information

New York:: Barnes & Noble,, 1997.. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Large quarto in glossy illustrated paper covered boards with spiral metal binding within. a set of 36 4-panel color illustrations of steam engines primarily from England but also from North American, Africa and Asia. Each image is about 34 x 11.5 inches, and all are quite colorful. Very minor bumps to the upper front corners, but otherwise clean and fresh. ... more information

No place:: Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad Company,, No date (ca 1955).. First Edition. Softcover. Oblong quarto-sized pamphlet in illustrated wraps, staple bound. Unpaginated but 16 pages including covers illustrated with drawings. Very lightly ex library with a library number in pencil and the stamp of the Bureau of Railway Economics inside. Otherwise bright and unworn. The cover illustration by Howard Fogg is alone worth the cost. This promotional piece celebrates the opening of an electronicall... more information

New York:: Dorset Press,, 1989.. Reprint. Hardback square quarto, about 11 inches tall. Orange cloth. 251 pages illustrated by photographs, some in color. A very impressive book, printed in Italy, about the late 19th - early 20th century architect and designer whose vision inspired the Surrealist movement in Barcelona that spawned both Picasso and Dali. A significantly expanded edition of the book first published in 1971. Minimal edge wear and a couple of light bumps to the covers; endpapers edge-ton... more information

London:: Religious Tract Society,, ca. 1875.. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. A miniature, about 2.75 inches (7 cm) tall, in contemporary gilt decorated reddish brown leather, all edges gilt. 256 pages including an indices to subject and first lines. Frontispiece picturing the Song of Miriam. Mild toning to the text; very light foxing to the verso of the frontis, but none elsewhere. Covers have light edgewear and there is some splaying at the fore edge. ... more information

New York:: Lewis Historical Publishing,, 1910.. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, about 10.75 inches tall, in half coarse grain leather on pebbled cloth boards, marbled endpapers. This multi volume set is numbered consecutively, this one covering pp. 861-1247. A collection of short family histories of the early settlers of northern New York. Clean inside. The covers show modest edge wear. However the binding is breaking at the rear (a few leaves from the end). ... more information

New York:: Lewis Historical Publishing,, 1910.. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, about 10.75 inches tall, in half coarse grain leather on pebbled cloth boards, marbled endpapers. This multi volume set is numbered consecutively, this one covering pp. 431-860. A collection of short family histories of the early settlers of northern New York. Clean and soundly bound inside. The covers show modest edge wear; there is a two inch crack in the front joint with no apparent effect on the soundness of the bindi... more information

Birmingham AL:: Gryphon Editions / Legal Classics Library,, 1990.. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo in gilt decorated dark brown leather. 516 pages. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. A deluxe reprint of the 1945 edition published by Harvard University Press. Previous owner embossing stamp on title page. Not even a hint of wear. ... more information

Denver:: Hendrie & Bolthoff Co.,, 1931.. Periodical Trade Catalog. Hardback . Quarto, about 11 inches tall, in red cloth decorated in gilt and blind. 976 pages. A large illustrated trade catalog with hardware, machinery and tools including some mining material. A bright, clean, soundly bound copy with modest wear to the extremities and some soiling to the covers. ... more information

Grass Valley CA:: Richardson Reprints,, 1985.. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. First published in 1878. Quarto, about 11 inches tall, in gilt stamped green cloth. 457 pages, but note that there are two pages printed on each recto; versos blank. There are a few portraits, but the reproduction is not very good. Note also that this has been bound upside down although the binding is sound. Clean and bright with just a hint of extremity wear. ... more information

Detroit:: H.J. Milburn & Co.,, 1892.. Catalog. Hardcover. Octavo, about 9.25 inches tall, 344 pages illustrated by hundreds of drawings. Includes much of what might be expected, but also 40 pages of electrical apparatus, then a popular type of treatment. An interesting trade catalogue. The textblock is entirely intact, but the binding is failing with the covers and spine in one piece nearly detached. Thus, a binding copy. The covers are generally edgeworn, and the bottom quarter of the rear cover... more information

New York:: Longmans, Green,, 1955.. 1st edition. Hardcover. Hardback. Octavo, Wonderfully clean copy in red cloth. Extremities barely showing wear. No marks inside, binding sound. Jacket also just slightly extremity worn, but no tears or chips. An apocryphal story but an interesting one by a tax expert. ... more information