Search Results: Titles starting with G from johnson rare books & archives

Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1995. Trade Paperback. Fine. Pocket Library of Studies in Art, Volume XXIX. 55 illustrations. [Florence, Italy]: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1995. Original printed brown paper wrappers, with a color G.F. Watts print inset on the front. A fine copy.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, signed by Allen Steele. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and printed note from The Easton Press. Additionally signed by Linda Steele, to whom this work is dedicated. Accused of grand theft and expelled from the Union Astronautica space fleet, Jules Truffant becomes a shuttle pilot for the freighter Pride of Cucamonga in exchange for amnesty, only to find himself taking part in a perilous voyage to plant a probe in the path of a black hole. Octavo. Full gray leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, five raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. The first American edition of this thriller novel, which was published in the United Kingdom as Maddon's Rock. A ship reported sunk in 1945 returns to port a year later badly damaged and with her crew and cargo missing. Signed by Hammond Innes on the title page. Octavo. Original cloth binding, with black and mauve stamping. Some general shelfwear to the dust jacket, with tape reinforcement, largely to the verso.

London: Heinemann, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A diversity of short stories about rogues, liars, miscreants, con men, swindlers, young mugs, old thugs, and artful dodgers, with selections by H.G. Wells, Roald Dahl, Evan Hunter, Alan Paton, Damon Runyon, and others. Yellow buckram binding, with black lettering. Some mild edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise a crisp, very good copy.

London: John Murray, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Several centuries before the Christian era Chinese mountain hermits, called hsien, are said to have succeeded, by means of dieting, bodily exercises, regulation of the breath, and mental cultivation, in prolonging life far beyond the ordinary span. Later on, Taoist adepts devoted themselves to the task of compounding an elixir of immortality, incidentally achieving a mastery over the forces of Nature that enabled them to perform all sorts of miraculous feats." 12mo. Original green cloth binding, with black titles. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some general toning along the extremities; otherwise very good.

London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1930. Hardcover. Very good. Frontispiece, with 16 illustrations and 3 maps (2 folding). London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1930. Hamilton (1853-1947) was a senior officer in the British Army, who is most notable for commanding the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Gallipoli Campaign. 12mo. Original cloth binding, with brown titles. Light dust staining to the top edge, with some minor sun fading along the spine; otherwise very good.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The first American edition, two volumes. A detailed, readable, and indispensable record of the Gallipoli campaign, by the commander in chief of the allied expedition. 20 plates and 3 maps, including 2 folding. Octavo. Original red cloth bindings, with gilt titles. Typical offsetting (from the tissue guards) to the title pages. The spines are very lightly sun faded, with a bit of light wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good.

New York: HarperCollins, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American Edition, first printing. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Bernard Cornwell on the title page. A detective story set in Regency London. Octavo. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket.

London: HarperCollins, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Bernard Cornwell on the title page. A detective story set in Regency London. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket.

Clinton, New Jersey: Winchester Press, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated with more than 1,300 how-to photographs and line drawings, including 77 photographs in full color. Third edition. The definitive work on the subject, often referred to as the Bird Carver's Bible. Inscribed by Burk on the title page, with his business card laid in. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed; otherwise very good. Inscribed by Author.

London: The Rubicon Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This book reviews the evidence for ancient Egyptian gardens: archaeological, painted and sculpted, textual and botanical." 206. with numerou textual illustrations. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American Edition, first printing. Inscribed by John Gardner on the title page. The second novel featuring spymaster Big Herbie Kruger, a German-born intellectual whose brilliance and fearsome exploits have made him a legend in Britain's Secret Service. Octavo. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by John Gardner on the title page. The second novel featuring spymaster Big Herbie Kruger, a German-born intellectual whose brilliance and fearsome exploits have made him a legend in Britain's Secret Service. Octavo. A nearly fine copy in a clean and bright dust jacket.

San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 395 p. Illustrated with 152 halftone illustrations and nine planting plans. Third edition. A grand work, regarded as the standard authority during the early twentieth century. The Superintendent of Golden Gate Park for nearly 40 years, McLaren (1846-1943) provides detailed plans for laying out private grounds, covering from a twenty-five foot lot up to a ten-acre tract. Includes a full description of every known ornamental tree, shrub, or flower acclimated to the California climate, together with directions for planting and care. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with decorative gilt stamping. Internally crisp and clean. Period ink gift inscription to the front flyleaf. In the uncommon dust jacket, which is a bit browned along the extremities with some prominent chipping to the spine head and adjacent portions of both panels.

Paris: G. Cres & Cie, Editeurs, 1922. Hardcover. Very good. This is No. 376 of 400 copies. A series of five comic novels published between 1532 and 1564 that relate the misadventures of the giants Pantagruel, Gargantua, and Panurge, who are larger in wisdom than in the corporeal sense. Francois Rabelais (c.1494-1553) was a Franciscan and Benedictine monk who later became an eminent physician and humanist. Text in French. 812 p. Quarto. In a three-quarter brown morocco over brown cloth binding, with five raised bands, gilt titles, and marbled endpapers. The original wrappers are bound in. Light rubbing to the extremities; otherwise very good.

Edinburgh: The Pentland Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Textual photographs. Edinburgh: The Pentland Press, 1998. First edition. A vivid portrait of 1940s British India. Signed by Cartwright on the title page. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. Very light wear to the corners and tips, with some mild sun fading along the spine; else very good or better.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An epic alternate history adventure. A Holt Library Edition, bound in pictorial buckram boards (not an ex-library copy). Some very light wear to the dust jacket, with a clip to either corner of the front flap (price still intact). A near fine copy.

Auckland, New Zealand: Godwit, 1995. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. ...assesses the place of Maori art in the work of one of Europe's most celebrated artists." Profusely illustrated, largely in color. Octavo. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A very good copy.

1948 1st, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1948. First edition. Entertaining and scholarly examination of a popular convention in Restoration era plays, the engaging pair of lovers for whom courtship was a scintillating game and a dexterous duel of wits. While Smith focuses on the period from 1660 to 1700, he also examines its dramatic antecedents dating back to Shakespeare. Ink inscription to the front flyleaf. Jacket a bit browned and edgeworn, with a short tear and faint stain to the front panel; otherwise a very good copy.

New York: Pardes Publishing House, Inc, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Foreword by Abraham Burstein. Green cloth binding, with silver lettering. A very good copy in a lightly worn dust jacket.