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Gilbert, Elizabeth
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy India and Indonesia
Riverhead Books 2007. Nice copy with just minor wear. Pages of text are clean bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes not envelopes. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. Riverhead Books Paperback
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: 227999 ISBN : 0143038419 9780143038412
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Gilbert, Elizabeth
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
London England: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2010. Book. Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover reprint 250gms 349 pages. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and moderate page discolouration/spotting throughout otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Paperback
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: BIOUSA903 ISBN : 1408809362 9781408809365
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Gilbert, Elizabeth
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy India and Indonesia
Riverhead Books 2007. very good trade paperback. previous owner inscription. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Riverhead Books Paperback
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: 170209-MG12 ISBN : 0143038419 9780143038412
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Gilbert, Elizabeth
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy India and Indonesia
Riverhead Books 2006. very good hardcover with dust jacket. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Riverhead Books Hardcover
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: 170209-MG11 ISBN : 0670034711 9780670034710
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Gilbert, Elizabeth
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
London England: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2010. Book. Very Good. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with pink boards and pictorial dust jacket first thus 452gms 349 pages. One woman's search for everything across Italy India and Indonesia. Book is in very good condition with mild general wear. Dust jacket and boards are also in very good condition with only light shelf wear otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Hardcover
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: BIOUSA178 ISBN : 1408815109 9781408815106
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Gilbert, Elizabeth
Eat Pray Love
New York: Penguin 2007. very good trade paperback 2007. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Penguin Paperback
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: 120825-ER749 ISBN : 0143038419 9780143038412
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Gilbert, EW. E. W.
The exploration of western America 1800-1850
Cambridge University Press 1933. 1st edition. Good/No Jacket. Hard covers no dust jacket Spine sl. Dulled; owner's signature on ffep. Cambridge University Press hardcover
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: 20482
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Gilbert, George
Cathedral Cities of England
Dodd Mead and Company 1906. Ornate red cloth cover with gilt lettering 60 full color illustrations 427 pages. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Cover. Illus. by Collins W.W. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover
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: 220514-MB42
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Gilbert, James
The Great Planes
Ridge Press / Grosset & Dunlap 1970. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Ridge Press / Grosset & Dunlap Hardcover
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: 180624-MYB21
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Gilbert, Richard
Lonely Hills & Wilderness Trails
London: David & Charles 2000. 319pp col plates. Or black cloth in jacket. Slightest of edge wear. The author enthuses over wild remote mountain country taking us from the Yukon to the Alps Caucasus and Himalayas. Considerable space is given to the Scottish Highlands and the islands of Scotland. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. David & Charles Hardcover
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: 030457 ISBN : 0715309226 9780715309223
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Giles Fletcher
Russia At The Close Of The Sixteenth Century. Comprising The Treatise ""Of the Russe Common Wealth"" By Dr. Giles Fletcher And The Travels of Sir Jerome Horsey Now For The First Time Printed Entire From His Own Manuscript.
London: The Hakluyt Society 1856. First Edition. Rebound. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. pp. cxxxiv 392. rebound in light blue cover and has all the usual ex library marks The Hakluyt Society unknown
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: 125733
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GILES, Fernando.
DESCUBRA ESPAÑA PASO A PASO. CASTILLA LA MANCHA.
Centenares de fotografias en color intercaladas en el texto.
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Gilg, A. Cameron ; Cockcroft, B (ed.)
Turn Left - The Riffs Have Risen: From England to Cape Town in a Baby Car
London: Traveller’s Realm 1981. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. Pictorial dust jacket over terracotta cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Illustrated endpapers. 191pp with numerous black and white photographs of the journey. This is an account of a daring journey across Africa in 1933 taken by two motorists in a small Morris car facing locusts extreme weather appalling roads etc. With a good deal of luck and plenty of perseverance they made it and this book tells how. They don’t shy away from some distressing sights and this is written in both a humorous and touching way in parts. A little edge wear to the un-price-clipped jacket spine a little sunned. Inner book near fine. Traveller’s Realm hardcover
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: 2850 ISBN : 0862110165 9780862110161
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Gilkerson, William
THE SCRIMSHANDER
Troubader Press 1975. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Edition; Introduction by Karl Kortum. 120pp illustrated with b/w photographs throughout. SIGNED by author on fep. Cream cloth covers with blind stamped depiction of a piece of scrimshaw on the front cover and gilt titling to spine in pictorial dustjacket. "The nautical ivory worker and his art of scrimshaw historical and contemporary". Contents: The old and new scrimshaw. An endangered species and an endangered art form. A photographic portfolio of scrimshaw including whalers ship portraits crafted artifacts fantasy and imagery pirates tools and techniques acknowledgements bibliography Index. Shelfware contents clean. Very Good/Good Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; ISBN: 0912300531. ISBN/EAN: 9780912300535. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2129. . 9780912300535 Troubader Press hardcover
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: 2129 ISBN : 0912300531 9780912300535
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Gilkes, Margaret & Marilyn Symons
Calgary's Finest: A History of the City Police Force
Calgary Alberta Canada: Century Calgary Publications 1975 Text block clean slightly shaken at spine in lightly to moderately edge-worn binding. 295 pp. Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by B&W Photographs & Drawings. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Century Calgary Publications paperback
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: 21720
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Gill Michael
Mountain Midsummer: Climbing in four Continents
London: Hodder & Stoughton 1969. Very good hardcover with good dust jacket. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover
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: 190725-RD77 ISBN : 0340106344 9780340106341
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Gill, Andrew
A Victorian Railway Journey from Plymouth to Padstow: Via Liskeard Bodmin and Wadebridge with Excursions to St. neot Looe and Polperro
Marston Gate: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2015. Paperback. Unread shop stock. Very good condition. TA. Paperback. Very Good. Used. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Paperback
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: 500669 ISBN : 1516876563 9781516876563
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Gill, Andrew
A Victorian Railway Journey from Plymouth to Padstow: Via Liskeard, Bodmin and Wadebridge with Excursions to St. neot, Looe and Polperro
Paperback. Unread shop stock. Very good condition. TA Used
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Gill, Brendan
Lindbergh Alone: Charles A. Lindbergh - 1st Edition/1st Printing
New York And London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. c1977. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0151524017 . A first edition/first printing in Fine condition in Near Fine dust-jacket with only minor edgewear; Gill delivers an unintentional biography of Charles A. Lindbergh focusing on aspects of the aviator's life that led him to the pivotal moment on May 21 1927 when his single engine plane took off from a New York runway; 4to ; 216 pages . Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover
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: 51323 ISBN : 0151524017 9780151524013
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GILL, Capt. William, introduction by Col. Henry Yule
River of Golden Sand; The Narrative of a Journey Through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah
8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; 2 volumes, 420; 453 pp, frontis in each volume, each volume with engraved vignette on title, half title in volume II, 10 maps and charts (folding), index. contemporary half red morocco, marbled boards, lightly rubbed, gilt spine title lettering, upper portion of margin of titles removed with loss of 'the', repair to map, else very good with only slight foxing on a few leaves. A picture of this book is avail Yakushi G57. Marshall 1343. The second edition was abridged from this first edition and had only two maps. The author was awarded the Royal Geographical Society gold medal for this journey and the mapping made. He was the first European to explore large parts of western China and Tibet, the book describes his travels in detail from Shanghai, Hong Kong up the Yangtze, through China and Tibet to Burma, the peoples, opium smoking, conditions, nature, cities, etc. The introduction by Yule adds a good historical perspective.
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Gill, George
Atlas Geography Europe
London: George Gill & Sons Book. Good. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 5 x 7.25"; 44 pages; paper covers; early school/text book with some coloured maps; some pencil marks to margins. Not dated but appears c1920. George Gill & Sons Paperback
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: 9454
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Gill, George
Gill's Atlas Geography
London: George Gill & Sons Book. Good. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 5 x 7"; 32 pages; paper covers; early school/text book with black and white maps; some pencil marks to margins; bumped to edges. Not dated but appears c1920. George Gill & Sons Paperback
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: 9455
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Gill, Harold B., Jr. (editor); Young, Joanne (editor)
Searching for the Franklin Expedition : The Arctic Journal of Robert Randolph Carter
Annapolis MD U.S.A.: Naval Institute Press 1998. Hardback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. clean unmarked copy. <br/> <br/> Naval Institute Press hardcover
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: 306381 ISBN : 1557503214 9781557503213
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Gill, Rev. William
Gems from the Coral Islands or Incidents of Contrast Between Savage and Christian Life of the South Sea Islanders - Eastern Polynesia: Comprising the Rarotonga Group Penrhyn Islands and Savage Island
Philadelphia PA: Presbyterian Board of Publication Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Brown cloth decorated in blind illus./lettered in gilt. Quite worn but essentially intact with fading/soiling to covers rubbed spine extremities and several corners. Foxed endpapers scattered internal soiling and minor dampstaining generally confined to margins not affecting text. xv285 pp. illus. w/ engraved plates. Undated but gift inscription on front flyleaf dated 1860. Presbyterian Board of Publication Hardcover
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: 044805
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Gill, Thomas
Vallis Eboracensis: Comprising The History and Antiquities of Easingwold and its Neighbourhood
London: Simpkin Marshall & Co. G : in good condition. Rebound with new eps. Majority of illustrations missing. 1852. First Edition. Maroon hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 150mm 9" x 6". 456pp ads. Text illustrations and one plate. Includes a list of subscribers. . Simpkin, Marshall & Co hardcover
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: 5385a
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Gilles Chertier
Les Mysteres de Bourges
Editions Delayance Impressions 1988. Soft cover. Good. BW photos 94 pages. The binding glue has dried out and the covers are now detached. Once re-glued it would be like new condition. Scarce tile. <br/> <br/> Editions Delayance Impressions paperback
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: 008766
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Gilles Pudlowski
Dictionnaire amoureux de l'Alsace de Gilles Pudlowski
PARI , Plon - 2010 - Broché, déchirure en tête du 4 è plat - - In-8,.20 x 13.60 x 4.20cm - Couverture illustrée - Dessins de alain Bouldouyre - 800 pages - Propre - envoi rapide et soigné
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Gilles, Pierre ; Mazal Holocaust Collection
The Antiquities of Constantinople Based on the translation by John Ball. Second Edition with new introduction and bibliography by Ronald G. Musto
Octavo in white wraps with b&w cover illus., xlv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm; bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index. Folding color map entitled "Religious Sites of Turkey" laid in. "A rendering into modern English of the John Ball translation of the work by Petrus Gyllius (Pierre Gilles), documenting his visit to Constantinople in 1544." || Antiquities. Travel. Altert¸mer Oudheden. Gilles, Pierre, 1490-1555 -- Travel. Reisebericht 1544. Istanbul (Turkey) -- Description and travel. Istanbul (Turkey) -- Antiquities. Turkey -- Antiquities. Konstantinopel -- Reisebericht -- Geschichte 1550,ca. Turkey. Turkey -- Istanbul. Istanbul Konstantinopel Istanbul (Turkey) -- Description and travel -- 16th century. Istanbul (Turkey) -- Antiquities. Istanbul (Turkey) -- Buildings -- Description and travel. Istanbul (Turquie) -- Descriptions et voyages. Istanbul (Turquie) -- AntiquitÈs byzantines.
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Gillespie, Kinports & Beard Travel Agency
1939 Escorted Tours Pacific Coast - Alaska National Parks Golden Gate International Exposition
New York: Gillespie Kinports & Beard Travel Agency 1939. Wraps. Very good. 8vo 9.25 x 6 inches softcover very good light wear and rubbing some soil and spottiness to rear cover. 48 pp illustrated. Descriptions of several package tours for the Southwest and the Canadian Rockies and Alaska. Gillespie, Kinports & Beard Travel Agency unknown
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: H40473
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Gillespie, B. Guild
On Story Seas - The Triumphs and Torments of Captain George Vancouver
298 pages including bibliography and index. Black and white illustrations, maps and drawings. "A tale of triumphant will over daunting odds, of daring dreams over insidious decline." - from back cover. "Captain George Vancouver circumnavigated the globe between 1790 and 1795, despite outstanding achievements, was rebuffed and persecuted by powerful lords upon returning to London. A true story as told by John Vancouver, George's oldest brother." - from inside cover. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. A worthy reading copy. Book
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Gillham, Charles E
RAW NORTH
Herbert Jenkins Limited 1947. Cloth. Good. 1st Edition; xvi 1 275pp illustrated by Bob Hines. Map eps line drawings in text. Blue cloth covers with dark blue titling. the true and realistic account of one man's adventures and experiences in the bleak country above the Arctic Circle. Charles Gilham's knowledge of the Far North is based on years of intimate acquaintance with both the land and its people. Covers Grubby age toning of pages contents clean. Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2125. . Herbert Jenkins Limited hardcover
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: 2125
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Gillham, Skip
Ten Tales of the Great Lakes.
St. Catharines Ontario Stonehouse 198- paperback. No publication date: 1980s. Includes bibliography and many photos of the ships. 63 pages. Softcover. Condition: very good minus tear to cover rubbed. Stonehouse [198-?] paperback
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: 24860
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GILLIAM, Albert M.
Travels over the Table Lands and Cordilleras of Mexico During the Years 1843 and 44; Including a Description of California, The Principal Cities and Mining Districts of that Republic and Biographies of Iturbide and Santa Anna
8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xvi, [17]-455 pp, 10 lithographed plates including frontis (port), 3 folding maps, appendix. original brown blind-stamped cloth, edges and corners worn, spine lettered in gilt, almost no foxing, upper 2 inches of spine replaced with plain cloth, faint offset to title from frontis, else very good overall, interior is quite fresh and fine. A pictur Wagner-Camp 120c:1. Howes G179. Hill 433: 'One of the principal travel books on Mexico in the 19th century. Two of the three maps cover United States territory, including what is now Northern California, Oregon and other portions of the Pacific Northwest'. Sabin 27412. Wheat Transmississippi 510, 511. Cowan p. 238. Graff 1554: 'contains considerable material about Oregon, California, Texas, the Texas revolution, annexation of Texas, etc'. The second edition of 1847 omitted some of the text and all the plates and maps. Palau 102243. Smith G24 cites only the second edition in 312 pages. Cole 177. Gunn 768.
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Gillian Kier Cowlishaw
Black White or Brindle: Race in Rural Australia
Cambridge University Press 1988. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Covers clean minor shelf wear. Corners gently bumped. Spine heel bumped. Binding firm. Ownership signature on title page. Contents with some underlining and marginalia. Clean. Cambridge University Press Hardcover
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: 068801 ISBN : 0521346606 9780521346603
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Gillieron Jacques
Kalahari
London: New Holland 1989. Book. Very Good. Hardback. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 9.75 x 13"; 127pp; blue cloth with gilt; dustwrapper chipped to corners and with very small tear to back bottom edge; very good copy;. New Holland Hardcover
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: 7231
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Gillies, M
IN ICEBOUND SEAS OR THE VOYAGE OF THE "CONSTANCE" RESCUE SHIP
Gall and Inglis London 1895. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Undated presumed 1895 Edition; No date but gift inscription on front end paper dated May 25th 95 so presuming circa 1895 vi 376 pages illustrated b/w line drawings. Original coverscontents clean shelf wear. From the preface:- "It has been my purpose to make the following tale not only a tale but a complete history of Arctic adventure and discovery condensed into a small space. It has seemed to me that the young ought to know the eventful story of the perils the sufferings and the triumphs of their countrymem and of the brave men of other nations in those icy regions during the course of three centuries." Ross Parry Victory's crew North-West passage Dr. Kane Baffin's Bay. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2126. . Gall and Inglis hardcover
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: 2126
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Gillies, The Rev William A.
In Famed Breadalbane: The story of the Antiquities Lands and People of a Highland District
Perth: Munro Press 1938. Hardcover. 1st edition. 8vo. Pp xvi 439 foldout map at rear. Blue buckram boards stamped in gilt on the spine and upper panel. Very Good without dust-jacket. <br/><br/> Perth: Munro Press, 1938 hardcover
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: 82444
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Gillin, John
Moche: A Peruvian Coastal Community
Washington D. C.: Smithsonian Institution 1945. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Tanned wrappers have light soiling and shelf wear. Pages clean tanned. ; Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Mid-twentieth century study of the Moche people. ; Smithsonian Institution Institute of Social Anthropology; Vol. 3; 10" tall; 185 pages. Smithsonian Institution hardcover
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: 5320003
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Gillis, Rannie
This Is Not the Mainland : A Novel Tour of Newfoundland and Labrador
Halifax NS Canada: Nimbus Publishing Limited 1999. Book. Illus. by Color Photo Illus. Nr Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Unmarked clean bright and solid copy. Nimbus Publishing, Limited Paperback
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: 045155 ISBN : 1551092867 9781551092867
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Gillman, P. & L.
The wildest dream: George Mallory his life and conflicting passions
Headline 2001. 1st paperback edition. Fine/No Jacket. Paper covers Scarcely used. Headline paperback
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 36850 ISBN : 1862073791 9781862073791
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GILLMORE, PARKER.
Prairie Farms and Praire Folk. 2 vols.
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1872. Small 8vo. 2 orig. full green cloth. Gilt backs. Uncut and fine. A few scattered brownspots. IV,321 IV,282 pp. + Advertisements. 2 wood-engraved frontispieces. Vignettes on titles. Bookplate of Comte de Chambord.
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GILLMORE, PARKER.
Through Gasa Land, and the Scene of the Portuguese Agression. The Journey of a Hunter in Search of Gold and Ivory.
London, Harrison and Sons, (1890). Orig. full pictorial cloth. Gilt back. Back neathly repaired. Corners bumped. Covers somewhat darkened and with traces of use. XII,350 pp. and 1 folded lithographed map.
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GILLSATER, Sven (Author); Lyon, FH. (Translator) F. H.
We Ended in Bali
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1961. First edition hardcover in very good condition. Unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is scuffed marked and sunned. Edges are creased and nicked. Line through price on front inner flap. Page block and FEP are lightly foxed. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Used. George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. Hardcover
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: 619560
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Gillsater, Sven
We Ended In Bali
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1961. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Some light wear to edges and corners of dustjacket. DJ lightly creased at fore edge. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates and maps. Translated by F. H. Lyon. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 151 pages. This intrepid photographer made a romantic and unforgettable journey through Indonesia's many islands starting his journey in Australia. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback. George Allen & Unwin Ltd. hardcover
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: BIB320302
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Gilltrap. Angela
Sunshine on Sugar Hill: Once Upon a Time an Australian Girl Moved to Harlem
Sydney Australia: ABC Books 2009. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Large softcover first edition 438gms 310pgs. From Bondi beach to the backstreets of Harlem Angela Gilltrap hilariously recounts the culture shock of transplanting herself in New York. Book is in very good condition with mild general wear and tear otherwise no other pre-loved markings. ABC Books Paperback
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: TRAUSA14 ISBN : 0733321917 9780733321917
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Gilmore, Robert L
Caudillism and Militarism in Venezuela 1810-1910
Ohio University Press 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Faded and Chipped. <br/> <br/> Ohio University Press hardcover
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: 021969
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GILMOUR James
Among the Mongols
London: Religious Tract Society 1907 undated but appendix dated 1907 paper stock is age toned binding a little shakey joints rubbed lower joint split to bottom half upper joint split at head front hinge opened and loosening a tired copy but but internally good 388pp plates frontis and map illustrated in the text as well. reprint. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6 - 7 tall. Religious Tract Society hardcover
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: 009232
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Gilmour, James
More About the Mongols by James Gilmour; Selected and arranged from the diaries and papers of James Gilmour by Richard Lovett
London: Religious Tract Society 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. 320 2 p.; 20 cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Dark brown endpapers. Publisher's advertisements on final two unpaginated pages. Former owner's name on half title: "A. Donaldson Smith 1898." This was possibly Dr. Arthur Donaldson Smith 1866-1939 an American doctor and explorer of parts of Africa. The author James Gilmour 1843-1891 was a Scottish Christian missionary who represented the London Missionary Society in China and Mongolia. This volume published after his death contains his journal entries from his first two years in China and Mongolia 1870-1871 as well as other reflections on life in Mongolia in the 1870s. In Very Good Condition: ends of spine and corners lightly rubbed; boards are slightly soiled; otherwise clean and solid. Religious Tract Society hardcover
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: 003295
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Gilmour, Marian; Gail Buente
Heritage Hall: Biography of a Building
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 104 pages; many b&w photos covering the entire history of the building: the slate roof, minor and major renovations, the pigeon poo problem.
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Gilpin William
Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales &c. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; Made In the Summer of the Year 1770
London: R. Blamire 1792. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition. 8vo pp ix 152 with 17 acquatint plates bound in three-quarter leather and marbled boards. Some rubbing and scuffing to leather two plates trimmed very close to fore edge margin binding sound text clean. Conetmporary ownership signature dated 1794 on title page. Gilpin an educator and writer on art "travelled widely in Britain with his notebook and sketching materials in order to identify locations which offered that particular kind of beauty in landscape 'which is agreeable in a picture'. Picturesque tourism constituted 'a new object of pursuit' as he wrote in the first of these books Observations on the River Wye 1782: the practice recommended was 'that of not merely describing; but of adapting the description of natural scenery to the principles of artificial landscape'. Further picturesque books with aquatint reproductions of Gilpin's pen-and-wash drawings included Observations on Cumberland and Westmorland 1786 the Scottish highlands 1789 south-west England and the Isle of Wight 1798 and the eastern counties of England and north Wales 1809" ODNB. R. Blamire hardcover
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: 23543
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