Search Results: Authors starting with G from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., [1958]. 8vo. [8], 184 pp. Black boards, blue lettrng (mnr shlfwr, slght rubbng), w/ d.j. cover art by Robert Maguire (couple sml clsd tears bk lwr crnr, edgewear hd & ft of spine), VG/VG-. First edition, stated of this mystery thriller set during the Cypriot Revolution and the British Occupation.

[New York]: HarperCollins, Publishers, [2008]. 8vo. 307, [3] pp. Illustrated throughout. Half-black over blue boards, silver lettering & ruling, w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by McKean, F/F copy. First edition of this 2009 Newbery & Hugo Award winner telling the tale of a boy raised by ghosts.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1964. 8vo. ix, [5], 145, [1] pp. Numerous illusts., illust. map endpapers. Blue & green cloth, red lettrng in tartan pattern, w/ d.j. tartan cover art (slght shlfwr, price-clppd), NF/VG-, w/frmr ownrshp signature on ffep. First edition of this historical memoir of Dunwich, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada where the author grew up.

New York: Macmillan Co., 1957. 8vo. viii, [4], 461, [1] pp. Half-green cloth over blk boards, gilt lettrng on spine (mnr rubbng, shlfwr), w/ d.j. (mnr chppng hd of spine, creasng), VG-/VG- copy, from library of Prof. Thomas Tuchscherer, w/ bk labl on frnt pstdn. First edition of this brilliant biography of the famed statesman, diplomat, and financier who served as Secretary of the Treasury under Jefferson and later James Madison for 12 years.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1935. 8vo. viii, [2], 287, [1] pp. Purple cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (couple clsd tears, creasng, edgewear, old repairs to verso), still a NF/G copy. First edition, A on verso of title, of the last book of the great novelist containing unpublished material, including four dramatic pieces, two of them unfinished by Galsworthy.

New York: Hawthorn Books, [1967]. 8vo. 286, [2] pp. Colour-illust. softcvrs (mnr rubbbng, edgewear, sml tear to lwr rt crnr), still G copy. First softcover edition.

London: Neville Spearman, [1967]. Thick 8vo. xvi, 446 pp. Numerous photo plates, illusts. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng (slght shlfwr), w/ d.j. (mnr edgewear, rubbng), VG/NF copy. Second printing of what some consider the finest record of the early days of the Royal Naval Air Service, and how the motley collection of land and sea planes grew to become a force that could strike across the North Sea to the coast of Germany during World War I.

Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1963. 8vo. x, [2], 347, [5] pp. Numerous photos, maps. Gray cloth, gilt & blk lettrng, w/ d.j. (slght shlfwr), NF/VG copy. First edition of this invaluable study of the Chinese countryside which underwent an irreversible change during the Japanese invasions and occupation, and then the Communist revolution.

Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, [1954]. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 472 pp. Frntsp., numerous photos. Green cloth, blk lettrng, w/ d.j. (slght dustsoilng, shlfwr), VG/VG. First edition.

[Las Vegas, NV: Horseshoe Club, ca. 1955]. 8vo. [16 pp (unpaginated)]. Printed in red, white & brown throughout. Colour-illustrated self-printed softcovers, NF copy. First edition of this scarce gambling guide for the famed Horseshoe Club in downtown Las Vegas purchased by Joseph Warlick Brown (1897-1959) in 1953 for $ 858,000 from Benny Binion, notorious crime syndicate member on his way to Leavenworth. Joe Brown continued to operate and own the club even when Binion was released from prison in 1957, but sold his interest just before he died in February, 1959.

[Lowell, MA]: C.E.H. Brelsford & C.W. Dimick, [Forbes Lithograph Mfg. Co.], 1895. Oblong 8vo. [20 pp (unpaginated)], colour chromolithograph printed throughout on thick cardstock. Self-printed chromolithograph covers, cover art on front of burning cigar, deck of cards, and poker chips, on back shows humorous cover with the game’s host holding a lighted candle saying good morning boys as he sees off the other players, punch sewn at gutter margin with gold silk braid (slight shelfwear, rubbing, very small water spot on lower corner front cover), still an excellent bright copy. First edition of this scarce and unusual advertising promotion for the United States Cartridge Co., featuring the humorous limericks and visual puns. Brelsford (b. 1853) was a noted Harrisburg, PA shooter, gambler, and contributor to Forest and Stream, and other sporting magazines in the 19th century, and Charles Dimick (b. 1858), commercial agent for U.S. Cartridge Co. and U.S. Bunting Co., was also a competitive trap… Read More

[Paris: n.p., 1889]. 4to. 10.5 x 10.75 in. Six individual puzzles individually postcard sized approx. 3.5 x 4.75 in., w/ colour chromolithograph image dissected onto nine wooden pieces each (1 small piece has been supplied in facsimile for upper corner of the Cairo street puzzle). All contained w/in the original deep red paper-covered wooden box, raised bed w/in the box to hold the puzzles, lid w/ decorative gilt title lettering (minor shelfwear, very minor rubbing), still a VG nearly complete artifact. Very scarce original souvenir puzzle game issued for the fourth great Paris World’s Fair, celebrating through pomp and events the Centennial of the French Revolution, and the storming of the Bastille. The Exposition was intended to pull France out of a ruinous recession, and attracted over 61,000 exhibitors, as well as 32 million visitors, many of whom came to view the iconic Eiffel Tower. This puzzle celebrates several of the pavilions at the Exposition, including Palais des Beaux-Arts, designed by… Read More

New York: Macmillan Publishing, [1974]. Tall 8vo. xiii, [3], 224 pp. 17 double-page colour plates. Black cloth, gilt lettrng (mnr shlfwr, rubbng), w/ d.j. (edgewear, mnr bmpg to crnrs), still VG/VG. First edition, 1st printing of this anthology of flying stories.

New York: Harper & Row, [1983]. Folio. 180 pp. 80 colour plates, numerous text illusts., maps. Red cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j., NF/NF, w/ frmr ownrshp inscrptn on ffep. First American edition of this comprehensive survey of carpets from Iran, Turkey, the Caucasus, Turkestan, Afghanistan, India, and China.

Shushan, NY: Jerome B. Rice, Jr., Inc., [Bert Boice, Commercial Photographer], ca. 1925]. 4to. [24 pp (unpaginated).], on thick gray paper stock, w/ 72 colour lithograph seed packets carefully mounted throughout, including 2 blank flyleaves, and with 2 linen-backed silver gelatin photographs, photographer imprint stamped on versos and lower blank margin, mounted on white linen hinges. Contemporary gray textured board 3-ring binder, printed label on front cover (partially torn, remnant of NY typed, wear, rubbing, bumping to corners), still good exemplar, with the photos and seed packets all in excellent condition. First edition of this remarkably scarce seed packet sample catalogue, featuring two photographs illustrating the wire racks supplied the company and how they should be displayed. These beautiful seed packets include Hibiscus, Blue Lace Flower, Calliopsis, California Poppy’s, Portulaca, Pansy’s, Marigolds, and many more. Founded originally in 1832 as a wholesale seed Company by Roswell… Read More

Baldwinsville, NY: Indian Spring Farms, Inc., 1926. 12mo. 111, [1] pp. With numerous photo plates. Green-tinted textured softcovers, cover art lozenge illust. of Peony (minor dustsoiling, edgewear), still VG copy, from the library of Millard Armstrong (1874-1958), longtime Portland, Oregon millwright, carpenter, home builder, and later high school teacher, and Albany, OR dairy farmer. First edition of this scarce first catalogue issued by these two nurserymen on the Seneca River in Baldwinsville, NY. Flower growers were drawn by the expertise of Cornell University’s agricultural stations, and the cut flower market became a boon to Baldwinsville after 1902. Goodrich established a 200 acre farm by 1925 with more than 700 varieties of peonies, and recruited Harry Little from Goodland, Indiana to supply horticultural expertise. For a few years they were very successful until death and the Great Depression bankrupted the company. Worldcat locates 1 copy (Nat. Agr. Lib.); See: They Cultivated Beauty . .… Read More

Rochester, NY: James Vick’s Sons, 1892-1893. Three issues. 4to. pp. [2], [32]-48, [2]; [2], [15]-32, [2]; [2], [33]-48, [2] pp. With over 100 woodcut-engraved text illustrations, illustrated ads, decorations. All issues preserved in original printed wrappers (some creasing, edgewear, some w/ minor closed tears, illustrated ads on back covers and front covers), still G set from the library of Mrs. F. Eicher, 2219 Andover St. First editions of this group of gardening monthlies issued by one of Rochester, NY’s leading 19th-century nurserymen recognized that the city’s proximity to the Erie Canal prolonged the growing season, and shortened the cost and time of freight delivery. By the 1880s, James Vick’s sons employed over 100 people to handle the 300 orders, and 3000 letters received daily.

[Philadelphia, PA & Rochester, NY]: W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Seed Growers, 475 & 477 North Fifth St., 476 & 478 York Ave., [Stecher Litho. Co.], Jan. 10, 1899. 8vo. 6 x 9.25 in. 176 pp., textblock printed on pink- & blue-tinted paper. With 3 colour chromolith plates by Stecher, from illustrations by local Philadelphia artists, 100’s of woodcut engraved text illustrations. Colour chromolithograph illustrated softcovers, cover art of Burpee’s new Fifth Street Warehouse, and splendid birds-eye view of the Fordhook Farms nursery w/ inset on back cover, w/ train in fore-ground (minor chipping, edgewear, couple w/ expert repairs at fore-edges, minor spotting, discrete duplicate stamp at upper fore-edge), still VG copy, w/ mimeographed TLS & printed envelope laid-in. First edition of this well-illustrated and expansive seed catalogue issued by the storied company at the end of the 19th-Century. Only 10 years earlier Burpee (1858-1915) had established the Fordhook Farm near Doylestown, PA in order to… Read More

Portland, OR: J.J. Butzer, 186 First St., [1908]. 12mo. 3.75 x 7.5 in. 39, [1] pp. Printed softcovers on brick-red paper, Zenoleum advertising on back cover (minor shelfwear), NF copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce Progressive-Era Butzer’s nursery & seed catalogue from the noted German-American garden supplier located at the time in downtown Portland at the beginning of the 20th Century. The Butzer nursery was a pioneering supplier of Pacific Northwest specific fruit trees, berry bushes, roots, nut trees, and ornamental shrubs. Butzer (1872-1936) was a Spanish-American War veteran who took over the longtime seed business of his father Jacob H. Butzer, and ran until his death. No copies in Worldcat of any Butzer catalogue this early.

Beatrice, Nebraska: Sonderegger Nurseries and Seed House, 1931. Tall 8vo. 7 x 10.25 in. 127, [1] pp. 100s of text illustrations, photo illustrations. Colour-lithograph illustrated softcovers with cover art of Richared Delicious Apple & J.H. Hale Peach on front cover, vegetables on the back include Tomatoes, Peppers, Muskmelons (uniform interior toning, some edgewear, creasing to spine), still VG copy, from the library of Millard Armstrong (1874-1958), longtime Portland, Oregon millwright, carpenter, home builder, and later high school teacher, and Albany, OR dairy farmer. First edition of this well-illustrated seed catalogue issued in the depths of the Great Depression, with the introduction explaining how their nursery cuts out the traveling salesmen to sell direct. Carl Sonderegger (b. 1856) immigrated to Jefferson County, Nebraska in 1875 from Switzerland, and by 1886 had set up a large 120 acre nursery farm. In 1900 he moved the operations to Beatrice, Nebraska where it became one of the most… Read More