Search Results: Titles starting with G from B Street Books, ABAA

Tokyo: ADA Editors, 2012. Hardcover. Very Good. Yukio Futagawa's study of contemporary religious architecture, in English and Japanese. Slight wear to hard covers, pages clean and unmarked. 245pp. 12 x 9.5". As an oversize, heavy book this order may incur additional shipping charges.

SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT JAPAN, 2002. Audio CD. Very Good. CD appears essentially unused. Plastic cover shows signs of wear.

Quanyan Press, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. Clean and unarked. A little shelf-wear. No CD.

Dick & Fitzgerald, 1869. Hardcover. Very Good. Jessel 663 describes this work as an abridgment of Green's Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling and Gambling Exposed 'without the moral and religious element. The work is the first I have met with to describe "eucre" (sic) and poker. The author states that poker was played as far back as 1829'. Although Green is, as in his other works, identified on the title page as 'The Reformed Gambler', the tone in this work is less moralistic, offering instructions on how to perform card tricks as well as how to spot cheats. The copyright page seems to list 1869, but the considerably worn type (particularly on this page and visible in the page numbers) suggests a later printing, as does the price of 50 cents on the cover. Further investigation of the appended advertisements could identify a likely date. Half cloth and pictorial paper boards. List of 'Good Books' available from Dick & Fitzgerald on the back cover. Significant wear to boards, especially… Read More

B & F Enterprises, 1995. Paperback. Like New. New condition.

Canton, Ohio: J.P. Quinn Co, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. 'For a quarter of a century the author witnessed and practiced every variety of gambling known to the profession. The next quarter of a century he has devoted to exposing the frauds of the gambler. Starting out in the lecture field, he realized his efforts would be futile unless he could show the public in a practical form the evil attached to gambling, to accomplish which he took machinery captured from the gamblers and thereby succeeded in saving thousands of young men from gambling.' With a variety of wonderful illustrations, including technical diagrams of gambling machines, melodramatic tableaux, and humorous cartoons depicting the incompetent police officer 'McWeeny'. Green covers with gilt images of horse, dice, cards, champagne, etc., unlikely to convince youth to avoid the advertised dangers. Sunning to spine, bumping and minor fraying of corners and top and tail of spine. Endpapers, fly-leaf, frontispiece portrait of the author,… Read More

New York: White, Stokes, & Allen, 1887. Hardcover. Very Good. Horr 806; Jessel 1032. A small, concise introduction to the rules of poker, carefully printed. From the introduction: 'The existing and increasing popularity of Draw Poker as a means of amusement to the better classes of American people, and the various methods of playing the game - some of which are radically wrong and the direct results of ignorance - amply justify a brief and simple treatise on Poker as a pastime.' Publisher's paper covered boards, blue cloth spine. Scuff and wear to paper, particularly corners. Small bookseller's label from Brentano's Union Sq. branch on the back paste-down. [i-iii], iv ,[1]-84 pages. 12 x 16.5 cm.

German Olympic Ass'n, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine in very good slipcase.

London: J.J. Stockdale, 1820. Soft cover. Very Good. Third Edition. A collection of anecdotes demonstrating the evils of gaming, presented as filling in material missed by more influential works on the subject. Unbound, protected in new paper covers, with older later paper covers preserved. 179 pp., one page of ads. 7.25 x 4.5

Caxton. Hardcover. Very Good. Highlighting and writing on a few pages, otherwise almost like new. Includes unopened CD.

New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. An important early work on the gardens of China, by an expert in the history of Chinese art. Slight wear to sturdy slipcase with paper label, faintest fading to edges of green cloth covers. Pages and plates clean and unmarked. xiv, 141pp; 208 plates, many taken from photographs by Siren. 12.75 x 10". As a large, heavy book this order will be carefully packed and may incur additional shipping charges.

Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, 1969. Hardcover. Good. Prior owners name on title page. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Small tear to bottom of spine.

New York: Hill Publishing Company, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. When the Model T's and Model A's were on the road, this was the book to have to understand how the engines worked. Cecil Poole was the editor of several technical magazines and the author of several technical books related to autos and engineering. This book is scarce in the trade and in overall very good condition.Stains to front and rear board, prior owner stamp and signature to front free endpaper, corners bumped and rubbed through. Textblock, hinges and fold out plates are in near fine condition.

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED, stated First American Edition, 1966. Unclipped dust jacket, with very minor shelf wear to the upper edge.

Cambridge University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good. Some highlighting and underlining. Covers have light shelfwear, but otherwise in very good condition.

Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. Catalog of goods offered by the famous wholesale distributors and manufacturers. Catalog covers house-furnishing goods, cooking and heating devices, plumbers' and tinners' supplies, metals and automobile accessories - with illustrations. Outer cover has some wear to the covers, including some dampstaining. The interior pages are good and can still be used as a reference copy.

Wiley, 1994. Hardcover. New.

Disparo Editorial, 2006. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover in transparent jacket, celebrating the influence of Spanish culture on the history of fashion. Text in Spanish, with English translations pp. 167-185. Slight scuffs to the transparent jacket, with noticeable bumping to the upper corners. 186 bright, glossy pages, including two foldout spreads. 13 x 8.75". As a large, heavy book this order may incur additional shipping charges.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Hardcover. Like New. Clean and unmarked.

Charnwood, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good. Clean and unmarked.