Search Results: Titles starting with G from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

Kew, Victoria, Australia: Reed Books, 1997. Trade paperback. Very good. An essential guide to selecting, planting, and caring for over 400 Australian native plants. Illustrated with hundreds of color photographs. Quarto: 239 p. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A crisp and clean copy.

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.

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.

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.

Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Signed by Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey alongside her chop stamp on the title page. In this creative memoir, Lily Havey (b.1932) combines storytelling, watercolor, and personal photographs to recount her youth in two Japanese American internment camps during World War II, first at the Santa Anita Assembly Center in Arcadia and then at the Amache Relocation Center in Colorado. Tall octavo: xiv, 208 p. Original white cloth binding, with black titles. The bottom corners are lightly bumped; else fine in a fine dust jacket.

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.

Barbara Brown Packer, 1990. Hardcover. Fine. A thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of Education of Harvard University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education. Quarto. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 148 p. Edited by Turbese Lummis Fiske. Foreword by Dudley Gordon. Illustrations by Don Perceval. First edition, #230 of 250 copies signed by Gordon. Octavo. Original gold cloth-covered boards over a black cloth spine, with gilt titles. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's slipcase. Signed by Editor.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American Edition. Signed and dated by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the title page. Fictionalized account of the last seven months of Simon Bolivar, liberator and leader of Gran Colombia. The book traces Bolivar's final journey from Bogota to the Caribbean coastline of Colombia in his attempt to leave South America for exile in Europe. Breaking with the traditional heroic portrayal of Bolivar El Libertador, Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) depicts a pathetic protagonist, a prematurely aged man who is physically ill and mentally exhausted. The story explores the labyrinth of Bolivar's life through the narrative of his memories, in which "despair, sickness, and death inevitably win out over love, health, and life." Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

London: Robert Hale, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first edition in English, translated by Desmond I. Vesey. The last of Traven's Jungle Novels. This series of six books describes the life of Mexican Indians in the state of Chiapas who are forced to work under inhuman conditions at clearing mahogany in labor camps (monterias) in the jungle; this results in rebellion and the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. Period bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. Light bumping to the corners and tips. The dust jacket is a touch edgeworn, with unobtrusive tape reinforcement to each end of the spine and some mild rubbing to the rear panel; otherwise very good.

London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Clifford Odets based his screenplay for the 1936 American film starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll on this novel, which was unpublished at the time. The story concerns a mercenary who is lured in by a beautiful American girl while trying to keep arms from getting to a vicious warlord in mainland China. This copy is inscribed by Booth on a prefatory blank leaf. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with red titles. Faint spot to the bottom edge. In the uncommon dust jacket, which is a bit browned along the extremities, with a half-inch chip to the spine head, a bit of nonarchival ink restoration, and some neat brown paper reinforcement to the verso; otherwise very good.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Boston: David R. Godine, 1969. First edition, this is copy no. XV of fifty lettered copies bound by hand and signed by Spender. This copy is additionally inscribed by Spender to John Carroll Collins on the half-title, with Collins' bookplate to the front pastedown. Octavo. Original marbled paper-covered boards over a brown morocco spine, with gilt titles. A fine copy in the original acetate dust wrappers.

Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. ATLA Bibliography Series, No. 7. Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. and The American Theological Library Association, 1983. First edition. Inscribed by Lucas on the title page. Original powder blue cloth binding, with royal blue titles. A very good copy. Inscribed by Author.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind." Studies in the Evolution of Language 9. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 20 illustrations. Octavo. Original white cloth binding, with elaborate gilt, blue, and red stamping, and a ribbon marker. Small ink signature to the title page, with an ink inscription to the front flyleaf and some minor offsetting to the endpapers. The boards are clean and bright. An exceptional copy in the original red sateen dust jacket, which is moderately sun faded along the spine and extremities.

Santa Ana, California: South Coast Geological Society, 1980. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. Published in conjunction with the Society's October 11-12, 1980 field trip to the California Desert. 555 p. with numerous photographs, figures, maps, and tables. Quarto. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Minor crease to the spine; else crisp, clean, and very good.

London: Hollis & Carter for The Institute of Navigation, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 37 illustrations. In this illustrated guide, the authors briefly describe the aids to navigation, from the stars and winds to the precursors of modern navigational instruments, that the early sailors used. The contents are a bit musty. Some very light edgewear to the dust jacket, with an unobtrusive white label covering the price on the front flap. A very good copy.

Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Limited to 1,003 copies. "Croghan was an important pioneer and leader of the expansion of Anglo-Americans into the Ohio region prior to 1776. He was an Indian trader and land speculator, and a major frontier figure of his time. His journals and correspondence constitute one of the chief sources for the history of the West from 1745 to 1775." Octavo: 370 p. with 4 plates, including the 2-panel map. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Partially unopened. The spine is a bit darkened; else very good or better. Clark and Brunet 292.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Inscribed by E. Maurice Bloch on the front flyleaf in the first volume. A critical study of the stylistic development of the Missouri-born painter, with 198 plates (many color). George Caleb Bingham (1811-79) was a largely self-taught artist whose depictions of frontier life and Mississippi river scenes rank among the best and most detailed of their time. The companion volume is the most complete record of Bingham's work, with bibliographic entries on 494 paintings, 126 drawings, and 15 prints. Small quarto, two volumes, with the original prospectus laid in. Original rust cloth bindings, with brown and gilt titles. A near fine set in price-clipped dust jackets with some mild rubbing.