Search Results: Titles starting with G from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1907. First edition. Very Good. Quarto (30 cm); xl, 846 pages, and 21 plates, two of them in color. Bound in original green cloth with gilt-stamped vignette on upper board, spine titled in gilt. Condition better than usual: covers appear fresh and unfrayed, text block insignificantly shaken in binding; stock lightly toned at edges. Extra shipping charges apply.

Zurich: Arcade Presse, 1963. #111 of an edition of 185 copies, signed by the artist.. Folio (43 cm); 26 leaves, including 17 monochrome and 9 two-color lithographs printed on the hand presses of Emil Matthieu, Zurich. (The lithograph stones were ground down after the edition was completed.) Letterpress text in 16-point Caslon. Loose in portfolio as issued, protected in vellum-backed cloth chemise, titled in gilt, and slipcase. Slipcase splitting along bottom seams. Else fine.

Frankfurt am Main: Ars librorum Gotthard de Beauclair, 1965. #338 of 475 copies, signed by the artist.. 41 cm; [13] leaves, including nine full-page color woodcuts by Felix Hoffmann printed from original blocks. Bound in pictorial boards in cloth-bound slipcase. About fine.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936. First edition. 22 cm; xxiv, 623 pages; color frontispiece, 1 illustration, XXIX plates, (including portraits, maps (1 folded), and facsimiles. Bound in original russet cloth. Slight discoloration to spine and minor shelf wear only. Excellent condition overall. Reference: Tourville, 4330. Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709 - 1746) was a German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer, who worked in Russia and is considered a pioneer of Alaskan natural history. He accompanied Vitus Bering on the Second Kamchatka Expedition (ca. 1740) and sailed with Bering across the straits to land at Kayak, Alaska in 1741. Steller became the first European naturalist to describe many North American plants and animals, including several species that bear his name, such as Steller's sea cow. His extraordinary survival through wrecks, disease, and starvation on the return trip is one of the great chapters of Arctic lore.

London: Punch, 1845. First Edition in book form. Good. Octavo (24 cm); viii, 284 pages, Extra pictorial title page, and 12 full-page steel engravings. Many in-text woodcuts. Edited by Gilbert Abbott a'Beckett. In first binding. Enpapers renewed. Few plates repaired at margins. Front joint tender and starting. Occasional foxing and stains. Plates bound out of order. Some plates frayed at edges, one with crude repair.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. Good. 22 cm; 333 pages, ads. Illustrations by Howard Pyle and others. In original cloth. Title page loose. Inscriptions on front blank

New York: Gunnar A. Kaldewey, n.d.. Original edition. About fine.. 24 cm; 120 pages. 100 entries. In purple illustrated wraps.

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1873. First edition. Very Good. 23 cm; 574, [2] pages. Many text illustrations, one folding plate. In gilt-stamped black cloth. Upper board a bit stained. Old cello-tape marks on pastedowns. Final pages stained in lower margin. Lacks tissue guard between tfrontispiece and title page. A sound copy of the 1873 first edition. BAL 3357.

New York: Henry Holt, 1911. First edition. Very Good. 312 pages. Bound in full russia blindstamped on top board with a crest bearing the initials "LMBS." Five paneled spine with title and year stamped in blind. Marbled endleaves. Binding signed in blind with initials "K.A.O'L." Name of owner, L.M.B. Sceanfflu (?) in ink on first blank. Pencil notation on last blank. One raised band a little scuffed, otherwise about very good.

New York: Harry N. Abrams,, 1967. Fine. 30 cm; xii, 275 pages, with 249 illustrations, many in color. Cloth in dust jacket, in original cardboard slip case.

Frankfurt am Main: Ars librorum de Beauclair, 1966. #262 of an edition of 370. Fine. Folio (43 cm); 37, [3] pages, including color lithographs by Peiffer Watenphul, several of them full-page. Printed on velin d'Arches paper. Signed on the justification page in pencil by Peiffer Watenphul and by designer/publisher Gotthard de Beauclair. Loose as issued in original orange cloth chemise with additional lithograph (of a gingko leaf--an allusion to Goethe's poem 'Gingo biloba' written for Willemer) mounted on the upper board. Preserved in cream colored slipcase with leather backstrip titled in gilt. Lower front corner of slipcase a little bumped, else fine. Marianne von Willemer (1784-1860) became involved with Goethe when she was about 30 and he was about 65. Among other things, they wrote poetry together. Goethe published his remarkable "West–östlicher Divan" in 1819, consisting of a series of love and mystery lyrics based on the model of the Persian poet Hafez. Among the most luminous of… Read More

New York: Chiswick Press; Privately Printed for the Scott-Thaw Company, 1904. #110 of 220 copies, signed by the publisher.. Very Good. Folio (36 cm); 359 pages. Woodcut architectural title page and portrait frontispiece by Dutch artist W[illem] L[eendert] Bruckman (1866-1928). Woodcut initials; title and headings printed in red throughout. Printed on substantial laid paper manufactured by hand in the mills of Arnold & Foster and bearing the Chiswick Press watermark. Bound in original brick-red boards, with restored tan buckram spine; original paper title labels printed in red (the publisher included an "extra" title label folded into each copy of the book, and the "extra" label was applied to the restored spine). Title label on upper board dusty. Cloth a bit worn along edges and at corners. Some very slight toning near upper margin and along edges of text block. Numbered and signed "Scott-Thaw" on justification page.

Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1981. Wraps. Very Good. 30 cm; 2 volumes. 16 color plates and many half-tone illustrations in text. Wraps.

Boston: Ginn & Co., 1901. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 26 cm; xxv, 384 pages. Bound in original gray-green cloth, lacking paper label on spine. Binding clean and strong, with a 1 cm abrasion in cloth on spine. Light wear. Reference: Arctic Bibliography, #1084; Tourville, Alaska, #402. The author served as a Jesuit missionary for several years in the region between Nushagak and St. Michael, which includes the Yukon Flats.

Paris: Beauger et Cie; Lith Coulon et Cie, n.d. (about 1850). Acceptable. 35 cm; Lithographed title page and 40 full-page lithographed plates with captions. Bound in plain black morocco with leather backstrip decorated in gilt. Head and tail worn with loss. Corners and edges worn with some fraying. Light scattered foxing. One of the great masters of lithography," says Gordon N. Ray.

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1976. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 31cm; 428 pages. Richly illustrated. Very Good in Good DJ ; pages lightly toned at edges. The modern world's discovery of ancient civilizations as originally reported in the pages of the Illustrated London News from 1842 to the 1970s.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884. First edition. Very Good. 21 cm; 58 pages. Original gray wraps, only slightly toned at edges. Polar bookplate of John Bockstoce. Official U. S. Navy account of the reception honoring the return of Greely and his six survivors from their disastrous Arctic expedition.

New York: Abrams, 1958. Cloth. Very Good. 32 cm; 117 photogravure plates; 26 color plates. Cloth in dust jacket Patina peeling a bit at edges. Extra shipping charges may apply.

København (Copenhagen): Ejnar Munksgaard, 1950. Ex-Library. Very Good, ex library.. 3 volumes, 34cm. 608 pages (continuously paginated), including 52 color plates after paintings by Gitz-Johansen. Text in Danish and English. Bound in sturdy blue library buckram, original blue printed wraps bound in. Library markings with withrdrawal stamps on pastedowns. Text and plates unmarred. Gitz-Johnansen's plates are especially appealing.

ca. 1935. Very Good. Printed bill, 35 x 50 cm. Blue ink on paper. Restored and laid down. The propaganda war against Franco’s forces in Spain was fought largely with posters. These were pasted up on walls in the night at great risk not only to those putting them up, but to the printers, artists, and organizers, too. The Socorro Rojo Internacional (S.R.I.), a creation of the Communist International Congress of 1922, was intended to function as a support and aid organization (providing soup kitchens, medical care, etc.) but also propagandized energetically. This poster declares “War unto Death! To the provocateur, the spy, to anyone who sows discontent and fear. Let’s end the Fifth Column.” The little figure is composed of multiple eyes and antennae, keeping watch and listening. Such posters were willfully destroyed, and surviving examples are rare.