George Second, Used (77 results)

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. reading copy only - Damaged /worn /marked copy. May be ex-libris. Standard-sized.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Our first offering in this lot, "Drawing the Line," a trade paperback "First Edition -- 1995," deals with gerrymandering and continental drift, and offers a lengthy discussion of the controversy surrounding Yale's supposedly medieval "Vinland Map."' Symmetrical number line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. The publishers contend they remove BOTH the numeral 1 and the "First Edition" statement from a second printing -- they're obviously wrong, and we conclude this is a first (trade paperback) printing. Geography. 368 pp. including Index. Reduced from $12. OUR SECOND OFFERING, here, is a "good" 1966 Yale University hardcover in a "good" dust jacket. "The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation" states "Fourth printing April, 1966." (First was 1965.) A "good" quarto with a 5/8-inch rough spot to bottom corner of front board (possible kitten chew) in a "good" price-clipped dust jacket which is chipped to edges. Fold-out maps intact. Though they are later copies of much earlier originals, these maps (circa 1440) are cartographic evidence that distant lands -- including North America -- were known to at least some Europeans far earlier than imagined, the authors conclude. But controversy arose immediately upon publication of this effort -- issued essentially simultaneous with the announcement that alumnus Paul Mellon had purchased the map for a reported $300,000 for donation to the university -- and by 2019 specialists at Yale, where it is still held, declared that the latest scientific and historical research has established the "Vinland Map" to be a modern forgery. 291 pp. including index. The pair of books on related topics now reduced from $24.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Cover painting of "Massacre Trail" by Robert Schulz (illustrator). "The Secret Brand" is Perma Star * 257, "Permabooks 1st printing . . . November, 1953," unread, "complete and unabridged" from the December, 1952 Doubleday hardcover, 159 pp. Reproduced signature to excellent cover art too small to read -- COULD be Robert Stanley. Our SECOND OFFERING in this lot, "Massacre Trail" is Permabooks M-3013, appears to be a paperback original, shows a hint of a single spine crease, may be unread, but call it "near fine," states "Permabooks 1st printing . . . May, 1955," 124 pp. The two 25-cent Permabooks mass-market paperbacks here combined into a single lot to consolidate shipping charge, now reduced from $15.

Condition: good. Fast Free Shipping â" Good condition. It may show normal signs of use, such as light writing, highlighting, or library markings, but all pages are intact and the book is fully readable. A solid, complete copy that's ready to enjoy.

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Two as-new, unread trade paperbacks on related economic topics, combined into a "lot" to consolidate shipping charges. We list the ISBN from "Free Markets Free Men," the 181-page brief biography followed by substantial excerpts from the writings of French pioneering free-market economist Frederic Bastiat, which was originally published by Arlington House in 1971 as "Frederic Bastiat: A Man Alone." Our second book, the 1991 "Fourth printing thus" of the 1964 Goddard translation of Bastiat's "Economic Sophisms," at 291 pp. including index, shows no ISBN. Price is for the lot of two unread trade paperbacks on related economic topics. Now reduced from $20.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 304 pp., originally published 1857.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 'Public Cowboy' illustrated with many B&W photos; 'The Thief River Outlaws' illustrated by Dan Muller (illustrator). 1st Edition. George-Warren's hefty, 406-page large octavo biography is a near-fine first printing, number line 135798642. "The Thief River Outlaws" is a 249-page 12mo in colorful original dust jacket, pages moderately age-toned, one of Whitman's "Authorized Editions" series "starring" an odd lineup of cartoon characters and real-life movie stars including "Ann Sheridan and the Sign of the Sphinx," "Betty Grable and the House With the Iron Shutters," "Ginger Rogers and the Riddle of The Scarlet Cloak," "Blondie and Dagwood's Snapshot Clue," "Jane Withers and the Swamp Wizard," etc.

Condition: Good. 2nd edition. Cloth, G+. 319pp, b/w frontis, 11 b/w plates, 3 b/w illustrations, index, cloth rubbed, fore edges foxed, a reading copy. Keystone Library edition. The second volumes of the biography, by his son the 2nd Earl, of Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead [ 1872- 1930 ], for whom the peerage was created. He was a noted Conservative politician, one of the most highly paid barristers in the pre First World War period & was Solicitor General & then the Attorney General. He is however, perhaps better remembered as being Winston Churchill's closest friend until Smith's untimely death in 1930. Woods B21. 650 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 197 pages. Pennar Davies "The Short Stories of Kate Roberts" / Jeremy Hooker "History as Imagination: Some Aspects of the Poetry of David Jones" / Dafydd Glyn Jones "Welsh Poetry Since 1945" / R Gerallt Jones "The Poetry of R Williams Parry" / Dwyn Jones "The First Forty Years: Some Notes on Anglo-Welsh Literature" / Roland Mathias "Grief and the Circus Horse: A Study of Mythic and Christian Themes in the Early Poetry of Vernon Watkins" / Prys Morgan "R T Jenkins - The Historian as Author" / Leslie Norris "The Poetry of Edward Thomas" / Dafydd Elis Thomas "The Poetry of Euros Bowen" / R George Thomas "Humanus Sum: A Second Look at R S Thomas" (SL#85).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pages. H A Mason "Les Chemins de la Liberte" / F R Leavis "Revaluations (XV): George Eliot (III) / D J Enright "Goethe's ' Faust' and the Written Word (III) The Second Part (concluded)" / H A Mason "Planning Your Life at the University".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A history and guide to St. Thomas Episcopal Church in the Park Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado in an apparent second edition. The story is told in words as well as with numerous black & white photos. --- In lustrous gold paper-covered boards with titling in blue to cover. Volume wrapped in dust jacket. --- An excellent copy, clean, tightly bound and unmarked. Jacket with creases and small tears along top edges, otherwise intact and protected in archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; 94 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Green clothbound without dustjacket. VG w 1919 on title pg. Old book bumped at corners and lightly soiled throughout, with heavy crease across the middle of entire book. Book is built like an old car, heavy and square, enduring. No Oil stains. Ex-school book (Fergus High School-Fergus County, Montana) with reinforced binding that is strong but loosened at front hinge. Several former pupil names (Andrew Iverson; Everett Togue) on fep. Interior text and illustrations are generally fresh, unmarked - highly readable, tho pages are occasionally scuffed or spotted with dampstains. Oil stains?-NO! Stated First Edition, Fourth Impression, and "total issue, 58,500." Contents page reads like a history of auto technology: "The Steam propelled car; The Electric car; the Gasoline car; General principles of automobile construction; Control Systems ." Back of fep states: McGraw-Hill Book Club and includes a title list, including "Coal Age" and "Ingenieria international" and "power chemical." Much more than the operation of gasoline engines can be gleaned from this cultural artifact.

Hardback, no dustjacket; illustrated,xxiv +222 pages. The blue cloth binding has some light wear and the spine has faded, it is sound. The endpapers are browning and have an owner's bookplate and inscription. There is some edge foxing throughout with the first and last few pages more extensively affected.

Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1920 Revised and Rewritten Second Edition, 7th printing of the 1915 original. Former owner's inkstamp name on the interior of front cover and title page. Foxing spots on the endpapers and title page, elsewise a clean, tight copy with all text and illustrations clean/unmarked. PROLIFICALLY ILLUSTRATED in 544 black and white photographs and drawings with accompanying descriptive captions. Green buckram boards with gold gilt lettering on the spine. 483 pages. LF2.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Woodburytype half-length portrait carte de visite, captioned to verso, VG. Cranbrook, politician, Foreign Secretary in Gladstone's ministries.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. NO MARKING/ B/W ILLUSTRATIONS.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Joseph Brown (illustrator). SPORTSMEN: A splendid antique Engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. A fine opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent sportsman. Baron Wolverton was particularly fond of field sports, especially hunting.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Joseph Brown (illustrator). SPORTSMEN: A splendid antique Engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. A fine opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent sportsman. In 1859 Earl Howe took over the Mastership of the Atherstone Hounds, a position he kept for eleven years.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Joseph Brown (illustrator). SPORTSMEN: A splendid antique engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. A fine opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent sportsman. A member of the Jockey Club and an ardent lover of racing.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Joseph Brown (illustrator). SPORTSMEN: A splendid antique photgravure-type portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. A fine opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent sportsman. From an original by Mayall. George was well-known in racing circles.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Joseph Brown (illustrator). SPORTSMEN: A splendid antique photgravure-type portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. A fine opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent sportsman. From a photograph by Faulkner. Horse racer. His best horse was King's Messenger purchased out of a selling race at Goodwood for 1010 guineas. With him he won the Goodwood Cup in 1898, and the Great Metroplitan Stakes, Epsom, in both 1899 and 1900.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid photogravure-type portrait of a distinguished sportsman. Mounted and ready to frame. Price includes VAT and postage. Famous horse racing personality.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid original copy of a photogravure portrait, printed circa 1919. Mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent Rugbeian who died during the Great War.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid photogravure-type portrait of a distinguished sportsman. Mounted and ready to frame. Famous horse racing personality.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine portrait of this eminent personage. Mounted and ready to frame. Excellent condition. A fine opportunity to purchase a splendid coloured litho portrait. Very detailed and decorative and somewhat uncommon.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. Book.