Search Results: Authors starting with G from Craig Olson Books ABAA/ILAB

Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Produced in a hardcover edition of 2,000 copies, #291-1990 are numbered, this one being #831. 286 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Dust jacket has light age staining to verso.

New York: Swann Galleries, 2008. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Printing. Unpag. 8vo. Clean crisp copy. Prices realized for auction laid into volume.

Paris: Chez L'Auteur, 1854. Third Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good. 705 pp. 16mo. Dark green leather spine with gold embossed titling to spine, green marbled paper covers. Scuffing overall from shelf wear, clean within. Text in French.

Boston, MA: Birkhauser, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Printing. xix, 399 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Like new. No dust jacket, as issued.

St. Michaels, MD: Tiller Publishing, 1998. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 320 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

London: Williams and Norgate, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. ix, 437 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth covers with black embossed titling to cover and spine. Slight wear to covers, bumping to corners. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown, clean within.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. xiv, 318 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

London: Royal Society of London, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Gaskell's classical memoir on the muscles and nerves of the heart included a description of 'Gaskell's Nerves," the accelerator nerves of the heart. He showed that the motor impulses from the nerve ganglia to the sinus venosus influence the heart rhythm but do not originate cardiac movements, which are due to the rhythmic contraction of the heart muscle." (GARRISON-MORTON 829). iv, [4], viii, 751-1419 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

Switzerland: Edition Stockeregg, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Gasser, Peter. Stunning catalog of the black & white photography of Peter Gasser. First Printing. Unpag. 60 Plates. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover.

London: Royal Society of London, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. John Gassiot's (1797-1877) second paper describing an early observation of cathode rays, continuing article in our #27535. Also contains Arthur Cayley's "A Sixth Memoir Upon Quantics" (pp. 61-90) and William Farr's "On the Construction of Life-Tables, Illustrated by a New Life-Table of the Healthy Districts of England" (pp. 837-878). vi, [4], 16, [1]-930 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. John Gassiot (1797-1877) describes an early observation of cathode rays. Also contains Arthur Cayley's "Memoir on the Theory of Matrices" & "A Memoir on the Automorphic Linear Transformation of Bipartite Quadric Function" (pp. 17-37, 39-52) and Joseph Lister's "An Inquiry Regarding the Parts of the Nervous System Which Regulate the Contractions of the Arteries," "On the Cutaneous Pigmentary System of the Frog," & "On the Early Stages of Inflammation" (pp. 607-625, 627-643, 645-702). v, [8], 21, [1]-909 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1969. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good. One of the "bibles" for hand lettering and letter production. Seventh Printing, 1980.191 pp. 4to. Black cloth boards with white lettering, spiral bound.

Gotha, Germany: Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1871. As. Hardcover. Fine. This is the 1871 reprint of the first edition of 1809 that contains Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss's (1777-1855) famous calculations of the orbits of asteroids and other bodies orbiting around the Sun. Also included his description of least-squares. 290, [3] pp. 4to. Recent, half-leather binding with brown leather spine, five raised bands, gold embossed titling, brown marbled paper boards. Interior clean and tight. Ex-library with two ink stamps on title page. Text in Latin.

Berlin, Germany: G. Reimer, 1964. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss's (1777-1855) first published paper on his principle of least constraint. iv, 404, 3 plates at rear. 4to. Pages 13-28 misbound at rear between pages 392 & 393, complete. This is a facsimile edition of the original journal, published in 1829. Text in German.

New York: Hacker Art Boooks, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First published in Munich, 1923-1930. First Hacker Art Books Edition. xvii, 399, viii, 403-772, xii, 775-1181, ix, 1185-1578. Folio. Clean, crisp copies with in yellow cloth, decorative woodcut design wrapping each volume. No dust jacket, as issued.

New York: Micthell Kennerley, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Genthe, Arnold. Inscribed by Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) on the first free endpaper. Genthe first burst on the scene with his photographs of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. He later became known for his celebrity portraits. This was Genthe's fourth book. Isadora Duncan died two years before publication in September of 1927. Unpag. 4to. Black cloth boards with beveled edge, gold embossed titling to cover board and spine; wear and scuffing to cover, small cloth losses at corners, fraying at head and foot of spine. Text block slightly loose to boards but no splitting or separation at gutters. Images sharp and clean.

New York: Bantam Books, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Elizabeth George's first novel, which also introduced her long-running character, Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, who is also the eighth Earl of Asherton. First Printing. 305 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A well-produced survey of American Painting from 1710-1920. Second Printings. Folio. Clean, crisp copies with price clipped dust jackets.

New York: The Museum of Modern Art/Kuntshaus Zürich, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Giacometti, Alberto. 296 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Giannetto III, Vincent E.. Profiel of the life and work of master decoy carver, Vincent E. Giannetoo III. 205 pp. Oblong 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.