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Gold and Cattle Country


Oliver, Herman

Hardcover. Portland, OR, Binfords & Mort Publishers, 2nd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Fraying to top dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 2233355


Price: $19.00 

 

Gold Dust


Jackson, Donald Dale

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 361 pages. Light sunning to rear cover, else clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 459992


Price: $13.00 

Gold rush narrow gauge: The story of the White Pass and Yukon RouteMartin, Cy
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Gold rush narrow gauge: The story of the White Pass and Yukon Route


Martin, Cy

Hardcover. Corona del Mar, Calif., Trans-Anglo Books, revised 2nd, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460123


Price: $25.00 

 

Golden Age of Piracy, The


Rankin, Hugh F.

Hardcover. New York, Colonial Williamsburg/Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1st Edition, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 173 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine and decoration on front cover board, excellent. Dust jacket price clipped, has some agewear (see image). Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great condition. The 7th in a series of popular histories of Williamsburg and Tidewater, Virginia in the eighteenth century.

Record # 32452


Price: $15.00 

 

Good and Simple Life, The : Artist Colonies in Europe and America


Jacobs, Michael

Hardcover. US, HarperCollins, 1st, 1986-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, photos in b&w and color. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464542


Price: $31.00 

 

Good Years, The - From 1900 to the First World War


Lord, Walter

NY, Harper & Bros, Rep., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 369 pages. Front fly leaf missing, dust jacket edgeworn.

Record # 66718


Price: $12.00 

 

Gopsill's Philadelphia Business Directory for 1897


Gopsill, James

Hardcover. Philadelphia PA, James Gopsill's Sons, 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 581 pages, includes many ads. Black cloth spine with ad-illustrated cardboard covers. Covers edgeworn.

Record # 406878


Price: $63.00 

 

Government and Labor in Early America


Morris, Richard B.

New York, Columbia University Press, 2nd, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 557 pages. Ex-lib, but internally clean and tight. Light marking and residue to end papers.

Record # 302937


Price: $25.00 

 

Grafting Memory: Essays on War and Commemoration


Lipke, Bill and Bill Mares

Hardcover. Shelbourne VT, Bard Owl Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 154 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Collection of essays examining how the American Civil War and the Great War of 1914-1918 launched new practices for honoring the dead as individuals. Many color Illustrations throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951625


Price: $24.00 

 

Grand Army Blue-Book, The


Beath, Robert

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Burk & McFetridge Printers, 4th, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Blue cloth cover wrinkled. Foxed pages. Exlib typical markings.

Record # 803358


Price: $26.00 

 

Grandfather's Stories


Coombs, John Dexter

Hardcover. West Concord, MA, Pr. printed, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Short essays about Maine & its people. In blue boards with black cloth spine. In edgeworn glassine dust jacket.

Record # 68615


Price: $30.00 

 

Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon


Williams, David

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages illustrated in color by Wiktor Sadowski. Color illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued for this library edition. NOT ex-library, clean and bright copy.

Record # 406215


Price: $19.00 

 

Granger Homestead


Granger Homestead Society, Inc.

Softcover. Canadaigua, New York, Granger Homestead Society, Inc., 1st, unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Text by Mrs. Byron H. Delavan. White stapled wrappers with color illustration, profusely illustrated with color and b&w plates. Slight wear to wrappers, pages crisp and ummarked.

Record # 807930


Price: $13.00 

 

Granite Farm Letters, The - The Civil War Correspondence of Edgeworth & Sallie Bird


Rozier, John

Hardcover. Athens, Univ. of Georgia, 1st, n.d., Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine,

Record # 55523


Price: $25.00 

 

Grant and His Campaigns: A Military Biography


Coppee, Henry

Hardcover. New York, Charles B. Richardson, 1st, 1866, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 512 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Black & white illustrations and maps. Previous owners names on inside front cover in pencil and ink. Brown cloth covers with tears along front cover hinges - interior hinge paper still intact. Fade to spine cloth, with fraying at top and bottom. Moderate foxing to edges. Clean, unmarked text. Good reference copy.

Record # 611968


Price: $75.00 

 

Grant as a Military Commander


Marshall-Cornwall, James

Hardcover. NY, Batsford/Von Nostrand, Book Club, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white Illustrations, 20 maps, 244 pgs. Dust jacket with edgewear, chips.

Record # 100979


Price: $18.00 

 

Grant Moves South


Catton, Bruce

Boston, Little Brown, Book Club, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white maps. 564 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, spine faded.

Record # 66488


Price: $15.00 

 

Grant: A Biography


McFeely , William S.

Hardcover. Norwalk, CT, Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Leather-bound fine edition, part of the "Library of the Presidents" issued by the Easton Press, 592p., illus., ribbon marker Height: 9.5. Previous owner's bookplate. McFeely gives us the real Grant: An ordinary and extraordinary man.

Record # 700465


Price: $40.00 

 

Grant: A Biography


McFeely, William S.

Hardcover. Norwalk, Conn, The Easton Press, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 502 pages, with illustrations, all edges and title gilt, all leather cover with raised spine, publisher's bookplate laid-in. Handsome and tight copy.

Record # 854166


Price: $40.00 

 

Grateful Nation Remembers, A / A Memoir of the 75th Anniversary of the Ending of WWI


n.a.

Hardcover. Chicago, Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color, sepia photos.

Record # 125586


Price: $15.00 

 

Graves Papers, The: And Other Documents Relating to the Naval Operations of the Yorktown Campaign, July to October, 1781.


Chadwick (ed), French Ensor

Hardcover. New York , De Vinne Press, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 269 pages. Light blue and white cover. Printed for the Naval History Society. Pages untrimmed. Worn slipcase. Clean condition inside and out. Number 582 of 650 copies. B&w illustrations with tissue guards by various artists. Includes one page insert addressed to members of the Naval History Society. With introduction stressing the importance of Naval campaigns in the American Revolution.

Record # 852375


Price: $70.00 

 

Gray Ghost: The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby


Ramage, James A.

Hardcover. Lexington, KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 428 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Gray cover boards, black title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean, binding tight. Spine straight. In great shape. The biography of Col. John Singleton Mosby. Looks at his life inside and outside the American Civil War.

Record # 31797


Price: $31.00 

 

Great American Carousel - A Century of Master Craftsmanship, The


Fraley, Tobin

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated in black & white and full color. Dust jacket with short tape repaired tear at top of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611381


Price: $19.00 

 

Great American Chewing Gum Book, The


Hendrickson, Robert

Hardcover. Radnor, PA, Chilton Book Company, First Edition, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. Pink boards, with metallic titles to spine. Illustrated pink dust jacket with light wear, slight age toning to rear. A ton of fun black & white illustrations. Traces the strange and wonderful history of chewing gum, origins, multiple cultures and modern flavorful varieties. Clean & unmarked.

Record # 751558


Price: $15.00