Charles B Gilbert (231 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Edition Not Stated. A textbook designed to be used with junior high/middle school students. 364 pages including index. The exterior has extensive insect damage. The fore-edge is soiled. The lining papers are foxed. Hinged. Widely scattered soil in the text.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Clean inside and out. Pages toned (age tanned). Very slight wear to back cover. Tiny chip from the bottom right corner tip of the front cover. Tiny tear and chip from the lower left part of the front cover. An "S" printed in the upper left corner of the front cover. Very little wear otherwise. The magazine will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Memo to America" (Illustrated Features) by Roy White; "Denver's Forgotten Pioneer" (Illustrated Feature) by Ethne M. Kennedy; "Here Comes the Mail" (Illustrated Feature) by Mike Runey; "The First Railroad Clown" (True Tales) by Charles A. Roach; "A Smash Hit on the Lehigh" (True Tales) by H. O. Moser; "Race Track Part III" (True Tales) by Gilbert A. Lathrop; "Incident on the Main Line" (Fiction) by Duncan S. Somerville; "Dear Son" (Short Hauls) by Arthur B. Reardon; "Along the Iron Pike" (Short Hauls) by Joe Easley; "Locomotive of the Month (N&W's Y-6)" (Short Hauls); "Biggest Kettle Ever Built" (Short Hauls); "Locomotives of the Seaboard Air Line" (Short Hauls); "Fiddletown & Copperopolis Ry. No. 1" (Short Hauls) by Carl Fallberg; "Light of the Lantern (Care of Air Compressors)"; "Out of the Car Shops (Milwaukee Observation Cars)"; "Electric Lines (An Era of West Virginia Trolleys, Maguire)"; "On the Spot (Switch-Shanty Gossip)"; and "Railroad Camera Club k(Switch List, Model Trading Post)".

Tan Cloth. Condition: Fair. Covers quite soiled, inscription on flyleaf, half-title page and flyleaf partially detached. Text sound and unmarked. An extensive collection of poems by dozens of different poets, some well known, others not.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Not Stated. Mild Shelfwear And Edgewear, Slight Bowing To Boards, Tanning From Age, Previous Owner's Name On Inside Front Cover, Otherwise An Unmarked, Clean, And Solid Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are unmarred. Binding is tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 307 pages; unmarked. Black and white photographs throughout. Some fingerprint markings along end pages, with only slight page age tone. Cloth boards have bumping and fraying of corners as well as spine fraying. Slight soiling on boards.

single issue magazine. Condition: Good. Front cover by Robert Gilbert Jones, back cover by Malcolm Smith (illustrator). First Edition. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Chicago: 1948. First Edition. Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 9.75"], 178 pages, illustrated. Includes "Secret of the Serpent" by Don Wilcox, "The Isle of Doom" by Robert Moore Williams, "Orders for Willie Weston" by William P. McGivern, etc. Good only copy with spine faded, creasing and the usual edgewear to the cover, store stamps to the front cover, scattered staining to the top edge, text paper tanned as usual. mag 24 / E.

Hardback. Condition: Good. 303 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Olive green cloth boards with gilt lettering, light wear. Pages are clean, text has pencil markings throughout, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 4pp, folded wraps, light general wear and soiling. Invocation and address by J. B. Weatherspoon, school hymn by Alice Carver, class of 1929, chorus by L. Denza and Charles Gilbert Spross, awards by Mrs. G. P. Beutel, president of the Alumni Club, awards by Miss Mary Markham, awards by Miss Florence Kroeger, chorus by M. P. Moussorgsky. Includes a listing of all the graduates.

Hard Cover -. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. VG in cloth (some foxing, wear) 8vo 143pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Cloth. Condition: Good -. No Jacket. No edition stated. Book, 304 pp including Lexicon, has edge, corner and spine end wear. Some pages starting but intact and all present. FEP's and paste downs have evidence of bookplate/sticker removal.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. G/-. Illustrated, cloth bound hardback. No DJ. Boards heavily rubbed, smudged, sunned, darkened. Corners bumped, frayed. Page edges heavily sunned, smudged. Board edges rubbed. Spine tight, square. Interior sunned, clean. No marks.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Description: Many black and white illustrations -- primarily portraits and reproductions of masterpieces of art, but there are a few photographs as well. The publisher's blurb for this series states, ''a series of readers which meets the needs of all primary and grammar grades. These readers give a better idea of the world's great literature, and more of it, than can be found elsewhere in the same space.'' A sample of the selections here: Tales of a Grandfather by Sir Walter Scott; The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith; The Passing of Arthur by Alfred Tennyson; Pickwick's Drive to Manor Farm by Charles Dickens; The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron; The Tempest by Charles and Mary Lamb; Herve Riel by Robert Browning; King Henry the Eighth by William Shakespeare; and much more. Each author is introduced before the piece begins. BINDING/CONDITION: light green cloth with red and darker green text and vignette; some puckering to the cloth on the spine; light rubbing; Very Good condition. The publisher's promotional insert has been affixed to the front paste-down endpaper. lexicon. small 8vo (7.75 inches tall). 317 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Green cloth boards are very rubbed and chipped at corners and tips and edges. Prior owner names on end pages, fep missing. Pages are tanning, foxed, light stains, text has no markings. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Cloth. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. No edition stated. Book, 321 pp includes index and pronunciation key. has soiling to boards, corner and spine end wear, light foxing to pages. Not ex-library.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Various (illustrator). The North American Review Vol. 228 No. 4 October 1929.

Various (illustrator). The North American Review Vol. 222 No. 1 September - October - November 1925.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 20, No. 109. Cover art by Salter. Includes "Author in Search of a Character" by Phyllis Bentley; "And the Birds Still Sing" by Craig Rice; "The Inspector Had a Wife" by Charles B. Child; "The Jinx Man" by Stuart Palmer; "The Point of Honor" by Thomas Flanagan; "Man Who Voted for Ulysses S. Grant" by MacKinlay Kantor; "Going My Way?" by George Harmon Coxe; "A Matter of Timing" by Victor Canning; "Mrs. Oliphant Deceased" by Michael Gilbert; "The Sheriff Decides" by Roark Bradford; "Morte D'Alain" (First) by Maxey Brooke; "The Creative Impulse" by W. Somerset Maugham; "Detective Directory" by Robert P. Mills; "Index to Volume Twenty". A little soiling; edge and corner wear with dings, small tears and losses; mild tanning; musty. Book.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Fair ; No jacket. 1902 Silver, Burdett and Company. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has green cloth-covered boards with dark green spine and cover lettering. Front cover also has illustration of yellow goldenrod with green leaves. Black and white interior illustrations. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Covers lightly soiled and somewhat darkened; spine lettering faded. Small nick at bottom edge of rear free endpaper. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Some pages have light brown stains and faint wrinkling from flowers that were pressed in the book. 224 pages. NO highlighting or other markings. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Text has some marking. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge wear. Hinges cracked but binding intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Decorated American trade binding - green cloth boards with pink and green clover decoration on cover, darker green lettering. Blind-stamped logo on rear board. Light soiling (spots to rear board). One small spot of wear at bottom edge of front board, small spots of wear to spine corners. Front free endpaper is missing. Pages are clean and bright. Full color frontispiece of eagle in flight; small corner piece of margin torn away. Beautiful full page and smaller illustrations throughout, many in full color. 160 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Tan book with red picture and lettering on front. Black and white frontispiece and numerous other illustrations throughout. Ex library book will minimal markings. Tight binding, clean pages.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The covers and spine have moderate wear and light soiling. There is soiling to the page edges and light soiling scattered through the book and especially on the end papers as well as a childs name and home town neatly written on front end page in pencil. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Silver, Burdett and Company, New York, copyright, 1903. xvii,238 pages. Illustrated. 7.5 x 5", pictorial cloth. Arthur, Holy Grail, Roland. Inner hinge bit loose, VG.