Search Results: Authors starting with G from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

Springer, 1988 xi, 188 pages. Robert G. Meyers, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University at Albany, New York (SUNY). Have philosophers have been correct in claiming that they are sometimes absolutely certain (a doctrine called infallibilism)?. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Printed by Hudson Killeen, Dublin, Ireland., 2013 Edited and designed by Paul Gaffney Offset printing on Munken Lynx paper Edition of 1000 copies. Softcover with photo-illustrated slip case and Swiss binding. Includes the poem Caminante no hay camino by Antonio Machado loosely inserted. Self published July 2013 40 images on 78 pages 160mm x 210mm. Nominated for the Photobook Award at Kassel Photobook Festival 2013, shortlisted for the European Publishers Award for Photography, and included in the Photo-Eye 'Best Books of 2013' list. "Over the past year I have walked over 3,500 kilometres throughout Spain, Portugal and the south of France, with the aim of creating a body of work which explores the idea of walking as a form of meditation. My intention has been to create a series of quiet, meditative images, which would express the experience of being immersed in nature and capture the essence of what has turned out to be quite a spiritual journey. I wanted my images to engage the viewer in… Read More

Society for Economic Studies and Publications (SEPE). Réalités, New York, London & Paris., 1971 42 consecutive monthly magazine issues #242, January 1971 to #283, June 1974. Between c. 78 & 96 printed pages in each of the 42 monthly issues. All profusely illustrated with mainly colour photographs, mainy full-page. 22 x 29 cm. In January 1946 Réalités review was founded by Didier Rémon (1922) and Hubert Frèrejean (1914-2001) with Alfred Max as editor and Alfred Brandler as artistic director on the model of the American magazine Fortune. Réalités provided long articles and photojournalism on the news and cultural developments during the Thirty Glorious Years post-war. It was innovative and influential, thanks to heavyweight paper, aesthetic layout, prominent high quality photographs, exceptionally frequent use of colour, choice of topics, editorial foresight, about 15 monthly good quality substantial & innovative articles by talented… Read More

Chatto & Windus, London., 1908 xix, 137 pages. Engraved frontispiece and six engraved plates. Engraved title page designed by Blanche C. Hunter. Edges of endpapers oxidised. Scattered mild foxing and ofsetting. 12.5 x 16.5 cm. Original full brown pigskin with brass bands and clasps. Spine in five compartments with raised bands, blind rules and blind titling. Upper cover with Cathedral interior blind stamp central motif, blind medieval style lettering, historiated initial and scrolling foliate decoration. Patinated leather very slightly rubbed, producing a rich chestnut bloom. Clasps unpolished and with a genuine antique tarnish (one missing tiny tin nail replaced). A less common volume in Chatto & Windus's New Medieval Library series, in a collectable binding. WorldCat locates a copy in the British Library and three others worldwide. OCLC Number:562861377. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Bi-Ass, Milan, 1978 Complete deck of 78 cards consisting of 22 Major Arcana and 52 Minor Arcana, with original 20 page booklet in Italian, in original gold coloured cardboard case. Cards in near fine condition,160 x 81 mm, case somewhat shelf worn but in very good condition. This set pre-dates the one produced by United States Games Systems (Jun 1980); it was created by Tavaglione, he turned his name backwards to name the deck. It appears in Rachel Pollack's "The New Tarot" and Kaplan's "Encyclopedia of Tarot" (Volume 1).. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Surveyors' Institution, London [and] Auctioneers' Institute, London [and] Chiswick Press, 1906 Giant London is in two pamphlets, colour map, folding engraved view, pages numbered 309-48 constituting the entirety of Transactions of the Surveyors' Institution, session 1908-9, volume 41, part 8. The second and final part of the same title, folding colour map (short tear at edge), pages numbered 351-92 constituting the entirety of Transactions of the Surveyors' Institution, session 1908-9, volume 41, part 9, both parts dated 1909. Buried Rivers of London, folding engraved map, pages numbered 19-46, constituting a paper read at the Institute in London on Friday, December 13th, 1907. Changing London, Marylebone, 10 photographic plates, a map and a plan, pages numbered 95-109, constituting the entire reprinted pamphlet from the London Topographical Record, volume 3. All four pamphlets with original printed wrappers bound in. 14.5 x 22.5 cm. Contemporary green paper-covered boards (stained and… Read More

First edition. Octavo. Unpaginated. Contains 27 engravings by Eric Gill including the initial to his Introduction and the introductory page to the plates that are white images on black grounds. Booksellers label for Blackwells, Oxford at foot of front paste-down endpaper. Contemporary neat ink inscription on front paste-down endpaper: "Woodrow Wyatt gave this book to Susan Cox on the day in November of 1938 when she took her degree of Bachelor of Arts at Oxford University". Provenance: Woodrow Wyatt and his first wife, Susan Cox. Woodrow Lyle Wyatt, politician and journalist: born 4 July 1918; founder and Editor, English Story 1940-50; MP (Labour) for Aston 1945- 55, for Bosworth 1959-70; weekly columnist for Reynolds News 1949-61, Daily Mirror 1965-73, Sunday Mirror 1973-83, News of the World 1983-93; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Financial Secretary, War Office 1951; Chairman, Horserace Totalisator Board 1976-97; Kt 1983; created 1987 Baron Wyatt of Weeford; married 1939 Susan Cox… Read More

Domus S.A., Milano, 1965 Unnumbered grey & orange card or glossy pages. Complete bound issues from January to June, 1965. Six Monthly issues, numbered 422-27. Original covers bound in. With embossed company stamp of George Freeman on front free endpaper. Some occasional signs of handling such as infrequent small closed tears of no more than a centimetre and in the margins. Inner hinge broken, but covers remain attached. 23 x 33 cm. Bound in publisher's black buckram with gold lettering on the spine. Signs of extremely mild handling. Founded in 1928 as a "living diary" by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891 1979, editor, architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher) - ,Domus has been hailed as the world's most influential architecture and design journal. With both style and rigor, it offered consistent coverage of major themes and stylistic movements in product, structure, interior, and industrial design. The 1950s… Read More

Domus S.A., Milano, 1964 Unnumbered grey & orange card or glossy pages. Complete bound issues from July to December, 1964. Six Monthly issues, numbered 416-21. Original covers bound in. With embossed company stamp of George Freeman on front free endpaper. Some occasional signs of handling such as infrequent small closed tears of no more than a centimetre and in the margins. 23 x 33 cm. Bound in publisher's black buckram with gold lettering on the spine. Signs of extremely mild handling. Founded in 1928 as a "living diary" by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891 1979, editor, architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher) - ,Domus has been hailed as the world's most influential architecture and design journal. With both style and rigor, it offered consistent coverage of major themes and stylistic movements in product, structure, interior, and industrial design. The 1950s and '60s were marked by great vitality in… Read More

Domus S.A., Milano., 1965 Unnumbered grey & orange card or glossy pages. Complete bound issues from July to December, 1965. Six Monthly issues, numbered 428-33. Original covers bound in. With embossed company stamp of George Freeman on front free endpaper. Some occasional signs of handling such as infrequent small closed tears of no more than a centimetre and in the margins. 23 x 33 cm. Bound in publisher's black buckram with gold lettering on the spine. Signs of extremely mild handling. Founded in 1928 as a "living diary" by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891 1979, editor, architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher) - ,Domus has been hailed as the world's most influential architecture and design journal. With both style and rigor, it offered consistent coverage of major themes and stylistic movements in product, structure, interior, and industrial design. The 1950s and '60s were marked by great vitality in… Read More

Thames & Hudson London, 1964 quarto, 208pp. 28 x 23 cm. Illustrated with 32 color plates, and 118 black and white. Frontispiece color plate tipped in, catalogue, bibliog. Slight abrasions to back of dustwrapper. Neat ownership signature. Signed by artist and by author on the title page. Sir William (Bill) Dobell OBE (18991970) was a renowned Australian portrait and landscape artist of the 20th century. Dobell won the Archibald Prize, Australia's premier award for portrait artists on three occasions. The Dobell Prize is named in his honour.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, Printed by Horace Hart, Oxford., 1900 583 [1] printed pages. Portrait frontispiece. Oxford India paper. All red edges gilt. 48 x 56 mm. Original blue morocco, with rounded corners (very mild rubbing to edges). Black endpapers. Inner gilt dentelles (front inner hinge and board with vertical crack from handling). "The highlights in this finely printed series are undoubtedly the Bunyan, Goldsmith and Walton all of which are scarce. Published from ca. 1896 to 1905, the earlier editions London, Henry Frowde, the later ones London, Horace Hart, 584 pages, with portrait frontispiece" Bondy, 117. Spielmann, 171. Welsh, 3103. The only miniature edition of one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels among Victorians. This miniature edition was bound by more than one binder for the publisher. This is variant A: lettered "The Vicar of Wakefield" in upper and lower case, in gilt along the spine with the same titling near the top of the the… Read More

London: Stephen Couchman for the author, sold by Sherwood, Neely and Jones., 1811 VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of a work originally issued in 48 parts. 69 (of 96, in the first two 1811 volumes) hand-coloured etched plates by Graves, William Samuel Howitt and Weddell after Graves, Howitt and Sydenham Teak Edwards (occasional light browning or spotting). 15 x 25 cm. Modern burgundy half calf, spines gilt, rubbed and worn. Incomplete first edition first two volumes with 69 fine bird plates drawn, engraved and hand-coloured mostly by George Graves, (a few plates after Samuel Howitt and Sydenham Edwards, and engraved by Weddell and Warner). With 42 plates of the first volume and 27 plates of the second volume, this collection presents nearly three-quarters of all the plates in the first two volumes. It was available with the plates in both coloured and uncoloured form-these are coloured. Graves' etched plates are "notable for their softness and considerable charm and form an interesting link between… Read More

Darling and Son Ltd. Bacon St. London E2, 1918 12 page pamphlet in original printed wrappers. Scarce and in very good condition with no annotations or ownership onscriptions. This is about America's path to the First World War. Some very mild creasing on the upper covers.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.

383, [1] printed pages. Frontispiece and 16 full-page illustrations. Annotated throughout. Lacks front free endpaper and half title. Beautifully printed, mainly in 6-point but also in very clear diamond type, 4.5-point, on very thin India paper, by the University Press, Glasgow. Complete works of Thomas Gray excepting posthumous pieces Agrippina and Poemata. Extensive biographical sketch, pages 9-66. All edges gilt. 40 x 65 mm. Original tan suede or reverse calf with embossed scene of churchyard on front cover. Yapp style binding. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is the British writer Thomas Gray's most famous poem, first published in 1751. Gray muses about a villager buried there who could have been a more modest version of the politician John Hampden (who fought for the people's rights against an authoritarian king), fearlessly standing up to the landlord who owned the fields he worked. Bondy, 115-6. Spielmann, 174. Welsh, 3134. OCLC, 46338158. WorldCat locates 10 copies worldwide.

Safari Press, 2006 Complete with original, matching green cloth slipcase. Copy 499/500, signed and limited.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, 1843 viii, 127 printed pages + 4 pages of publisher's adverts at the end. Lithographic frontispiece, engraved title-page, 3 full-page lithographic plates with tissue-guards by Brandard, and engraved vignette head-pieces over the chapters. Nineteenth century engraved pictorial bookplate (88x69mm) on front free endpaper of John T. Beer depicting two palm trees (bearing the legends Knowledge is Might, and Truth is Firm) either side of an owl on the side of a well-head that bears the third bold aphorism, Wisdom is Life. Pages evenly & mildly toned. Original yellow-coated endpapers. Some very light spotting on title-page and frontispiece. 15 x 21 cm. Original red, vertically grained decorative cloth (slightly faded & rubbed, corners slightly bumped). Spine professionally and sympathetically rebacked over fifty years ago. Upper cover with Knights Templar coat of arms (the lamb of God bearing the cross of St George, laid on to a shield with the Cross of St… Read More

Horace Marshall, 1901 2 maps, 15 plates, contemporary 1/2 green Levant morocco, gilt period floral tooling at head and tail and beneath the titling; spine faded. Handwritten notes in pencil on several pages.. Hardcover. Very Good.

J.M. DENT & CO., 1901 xv, 276 pages. Frontispiece and four plates by William Hyde and Jessie MacGregor & 2 chromolithographs of flies after Hardy of Alnwick. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Contemporary, maroon, leather label of J. & H. Bell Ltd., Nottingham, booksellers, at the bottom of the rear free endpaper. Contemporary, dated (1906) owership signature on blank preliminary page. 15 x 21 cm. Contemporary, signed, fin-de-siecle, Riviere, straight-grained, green, half morocco binding. The spine with a single raised band, the upper compartment with gilt lettering within scrolling floreate borders, the lower compartment with five inlaid, gilt bordered, ruby lozenges, three gilt vertical fillets with gilt arabesque tulip motifs at the top and bottom (slightly faded). Boards with single gilt fillet borders over lighter green cloth (slightly toned with very slightly bumped corners). Presents beautifully.. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

John Rylands University Library, Manchester, 2008 Oblong, 9.25 x 11.25 inches. xii, 212 pages. Frontispiece photograph of Neale Albert. Illustrated throughout with color photographs of the miniatures by photographer Tom Grill. Red cloth, spine gilt, illustrated paste-on of a miniature book on the upper board. A fine copy. In publisher's red cloth slipcase and original shrink wrapping.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/No Jacket.