Search Results: Titles starting with G from Biblioctopus

London: Sayer & Bennett, 1787. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 1st edition. Folio (16" X 22"), 23 maps on 35 double sheets, all hand colored in outline, with some areas fully colored. A milestone on the trail of progressively expanded versions, a lineage that evolved from Kitchin's single country atlases to the entire world starting in 1773 (the same year he was appointed royal hydrographer to King George III). It is meaningfully dated 1782 on the title page and decidedly distinguished by the earliest map of the nascent United States with its new borders, settled in 1782 and reconfirmed during the Jan. 1783 stage of the Peace of Paris (the treaty ending the American Revolutionary War, finally signed on Sep. 3, 1783). Contemporary boards, rebacked in calf, else near fine throughout, the finest of these we have seen, emitting all the elegance of differential calculus, and scarcer in this condition than reliable reports on where the tooth fairy gets all her money. RBH lists 2 complete copies… Read More

Washington DC: War Department, 1945. First Edition. Wrappers. Near fine. Stapled into the original printed wrappers as issued. Typed label, "Copy No. 5 Division V Lieut. R. S. Dunham." A pre-publication lithoprint (not to be confused with the later reprint or the later clothbound or paperbound Princeton edition), issued shortly (days) after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and not only an early copy (number 5 of about 1,000 printed), but a complete one— page VI-12 is found blank in most other copies (redacted), as it outlines plutonium production rates. And there's more. The original press release, a letter of commendation from the Army Corps of Engineers and an original shoulder patch awarded to about 3500 Army officers and enlisted men who were assigned to the Manhattan Engineer District of the Manhattan Project (Ref. Los Alamos Natl. Lab and Bradbury Museum). Copies of correct issue Smyth Report are scarce (regardless of how many copies are currently for sale), but scarcer still with a known and… Read More

New York: Day, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1st edition, 1st printing with John Day's imprint on the copyright page, and "flees" on page 100, better yet, it's the 1st issue binding in pictorial wrappers (for advance distribution), and of the 50,000 copies of the 1st printing, only 1,000 or so (2%) were in wrappers, so it's 50 times rarer than the hardbound state for about 50% more money, demonstrating again that the bargains are still at the top of the market. And there's more. It's signed by Buck, in ink, on the half title. And it's a complete copy with the publisher's tipped in, fold out flyer announcing Book Club selection. And best of all, it's in fine condition (copies of this book are not seen in strictly fine condition), fresh, clean, and solid, and quite a fragile item, and a rare one when it's in the wrappers binding in such condition. From at least some perspective, the best copy in the world. Pearl Buck was born in West Virginia in 1892 but her missionary parents took her to… Read More

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, Little Brown and Co, 1935. Hardcover. Fine. The limited, signed "Birthday Edition". 1 of 600 copies, signed by Hilton and the Illustrator, H.M. Brock on the limitation page—fine, without qualifiers. Brown boards, backed in vellum, gilt lettered spine. Tiny bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. The first edition is 1934, the first illustrated edition is 1935 and this edition uses those illustrations. A poignant novel of sentiment, love, loss and enudrance. An exploration of the teaching profession, the passage of time, and the enduring effects of human connections. The film adaptation was nominated for 7 Oscars in 1939, with Robert Donat winning best actor.Hardcover.

Paris: Firmin Didot Fréres, 1841. First Edition. Wrappers. Very good. 1st edition, folio, in the original printed wrappers of Champollion's monumental work, a foundation of Egyptology.  Grammaire égyptienne contains the first printed list of hieroglyphs. It was compiled from Champollion's manuscripts using a combination of standard typesetting and lithographic engravings (260 of them).  Some wear to the extremities, toning to the spine and a closed tear to the rear wrapper, else very good, remarkable condition and rare, with only 3 copies in the original wrappers listed as sold at auction in the last 50 years. Half buffalo and Japanese silk case.  Folio, pp. [VIII], XXIII and 555. One of the 2 books by Champollion (the other being his, later, dictionary printed in 1841-[1843]) that laid the base for all future Egyptology and all study of the ancients before the Greeks.  It gave to the world Champollion's theory and classification of hieroglyphic signs, with their values and their… Read More

London: T. Bensley for R. H. Cromek, 1808. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. William Blake. 1st edition, quarto, (xiv), 36, [4]. of Blake's illustrations for Blair's 1743 poem. Portrait frontispiece after Phillips, etched title page, 11 plates by Luigi Schiavonetti engraved after Blake's designs. One of about 590 copies published by subscription. Some foxing, particularly concentrated at the portrait and etched title page, else very good in 20th century ¾ calf and marbled boards. In October 1805, Blake was commissioned by the publisher Cromek to prepare 40 drawings for the poem. Disagreements between Blake and Comek about the artistic direction led to hiring Schiavonetti for the engraving. Bentley, Blake Books, 435B. Bindman, Complete Graphic Works of Blake, 465-476. Keynes 81. Ray 6.