Search Results: Authors starting with G from Great Expectations Rare Books

Sydney, Australia,: Haldane Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 1975. Hardcover, light blue cloth in unclipped dust-jacket. 198pp., Illustrated with 20 pages of photographs on coated stock and map endpapers. Signed presentation copy by author. First edition. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside front and rear boards. Not an ex-library copy, from a private collection. Presented to previous owner with inscription that reads: "For Dick Corkrum, a valued American comrade-in-arms of the New Guinea campaign, -with best wishes, G.H. Fearnside". A memoir from a front line soldier who fought at Tobruck and El Alamein. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, save for author's inscription on title page. Near Fine in a near fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1941. Second impression. Cloth sans dustjacket. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Light finger soiling to cloth, especially on rear cover. Near very good.. Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Oversize trade paperback. 367pp., Notes, Bibliography, Index. First edition, first printing with number line intact on copyright page. A tightly bound, square copy with no previous ownership marks, no remainder marks, etc. Text clean. A very good copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Eau Claire, Wisconsin: E.M. Hale and Company Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, oblong quarto in gray cloth lettered in black and stamped on from board with image of Snippy and Snappy in red and black, no dust-jacket. Unpaginated [48 pages]. Cadmus end-papers. Special edition published by special arrangement with Coward McCann, Inc. No date but original copyright, (1931). Copyright page has all points for Coward McCann first edition, but title page has E.M. Hale imprint. No date provided but our experience is that these special editions were often printed within a short time after the true first edition appeared. This copy most likely mid 1930's. Wanda Gag's story of two field mice and their adventures in the big wide world, published three years after her very successful "Millions of Cats". No previous ownership marks. A clean, sound, tight and unmarked copy, lacking dust-jacket. Very uncommon thus. Near fine. .

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1957 First edition of the author's third novel. Cloth in original non price-clipped dustjacket. Translated by Frances Frenaye. Former owner's name on fly. Dustjacket slightly rub bed in several spots on spine and front cover. In Brodart covers. Very good+ in very good dustjacket.. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Co., 1925. Hardcover, burgundy cloth lettered in gold, in original dust-jacket. 87pp., Signed presentation copy by author, to the [Reverend] Dr. J. Frederic Berg, [Pastor, Bedford Presbyterian Church], dated 10-20-25. Gager was a botanist who sought to reconcil religious faith with scientific methodology. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh copy in a very well preserved dust-jacket. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 2004. Trade paperback. 292 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 8 pages of photographs on coated stock and 7 maps. First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. No writing, marking or marginalia. A clean, square, fresh copy. Near fine. . First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Westminster: Printed for the Camden Society, 1876. Hardcover, red cloth lettered in gold on spine and upper cover [monogram "CS" for Camden Society].. .Camden Society New Series 17. 279 pages. Index. Contains: 1. John Page's Poem On The Siege Of Rouen. 2. Lydgate's Verses On The Kings Of England. 3. William Gregory's Chronicle Of London. First edition. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Not ex-library, from a private collection. Obituary of John Forster, Esq., who was a member of the Society appended. Forster had been a good friend of Charles Dickens and wrote the definitive biography of the inimitable 'Boz' just before his death. A very scarce title in the original first printing, this is a superior copy, clean both inside and out, Cloth clean, corners sharp, interior unmarked, Very good+. N.B. "The Camden Society was a text publication society founded in London in 1838 to publish early historical and literary materials, both… Read More

Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1993. Hardcover, dark maroon cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 192 pages. A 26 page Gazetteer listing hundreds of period homes and museums by country, Index. Illustrated with 200 magnificent, captioned, color photographs. First North American edition [stated. No previous ownership marks. Round label from the Met on front dust-jacket panel. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Fine in a very good dust-jacket. A large, heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paris: Flammarion, 1998. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Trade paperback. French edition, text in French. 304 pages. Translated and edited by P. Pellegrin, C.Dalimier, and J.P. Levet. Introduction by Pierre Pellegrin. Bibliography, Chronology. First edition. "Galien {Claude GALIEN (Claudius Galenus,131-201 après J.C.)} est après Hippocrate la plus grande figure de la médecine antique." No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine. Text in French..

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1963. Large format hardcover in publisher's dust-jacket. 78 pages of text with line drawings and diagrams throughout, followed by 200 pages of full black and white photographic plates by H. Schmidt-Glassner. Translated and adapted by Olive Cook. First American edition (1963}. Previous owner's small label inside front cover. Dust-jacket protected by well crafted hand-made acetate covers. A clean, square and unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. A large, heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1994. Book. Very Good. Cloth Spine Over Boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. A title in the American Ways seiries. 211pp., Index. A clean, tight, square copy with no signs of previous ownership, no name, no book-plate, etc. Several pages have underlining in ink. A good copy ijn a very good dust-jacket..

Gloucestershire, UK: Sutton Publishing, 2001. Hardcover, quarto sized volume bound in mustard yellow cloth and publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 275 pages. Further Reading. Index. Extensively illustrated with over 100 images-- photographs, cartoons, posters, programme covers, documents and maps. First edition. The story of the legendary showman and his four barnstorming tours across 200 cities and towns in Great Britain, Marketing flyer for the book folded and laid-in. No previous ownership marks. No remainder mark. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked book, as new. Dust-jacket shows two incidental nicks to lower edge of upper cover, else fine. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Londion: Methuen & Company, 1911. Hardcover, rebound in black cloth with gold lettering and ref. no. stamped in gold on lower spine. 327pp., Index. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Second edition. Ex-library copy from the Winchester Public Library with their stamp on blank recto of frontispiece and blank verso's of full page plates. Discard stamp on copyright page. A clean, sound, unmarked copy in a tight, utilitarian library binding. Good.. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1912. First American printing. Hardcover, purple cloth lettered in gold, sans dust-jacket. Backstrip lightly faded not affecting gold type and two small blemished to cloth on front board. No name, no book-plate, etc. A nice tight, internally clean copy. Very good+.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: William Heinemann, 1928 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition, first issue with error on page 44. Green cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Endpapers heavily scarred by tape residue stains and small tape stains on fron t and rear inner dustjacket flaps as well. Cloth mildly stained and dustjacket lacking serveral pieces from backstrip. Not collectable but still a clean solid copy in nice dustjacket of the scarce fir st issue. "Swan Song" was Galsworthy's last novel of the second trilogy of the Forsyte Chronicle series. Good in good dustjacket.. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: William Heinemann, 1912. First edition, one of only 2,000 issued. Original green cloth shows moderate shelfwear, else a solid, clean copy of a serious existential work--see especially "A Novelist's Allegory." Good.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: William Heinemann, 1923. Hardcover, bright blue cloth lettered in gold, sans dust-jacket. New impression, September 1923, same month as the first printing. Previous owner's inscription inside front cover, very minor wear to extremities. An attractive, tight, clean copy. Very good.. Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Times Books, 1986. Hardcover, gray cloth with anchor motif embossed on upper cover, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 320 pages. Appendices, including drawings and profile sketches, technical data, bibliography, index of ships illustrated and general index. Illustrated with 544 color supplementing text and over 1,000 scale drawing drawings in black and white. Stated first American edition. No previous ownership marks. Mild old stain to upper dust-jacket panels, nearly imperceptible on front, somewhat more pronounced on rear. A clean, square, internally unmarked copy. Near fine in a very good dust-jacket. A very large, heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1990. Hardcover, large format quarto bound in red cloth and publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 272 pages. Illustrated with over 300 color photographs of the banks, securities firms, exchanges, law firms et lia which make up New York City's financial district, plus views of South Street Seaport and the World Financial Center, all taken during the year-end holiday season. First edition. No previous ownership marks. Small notation inside rear cover indicating where book was purchased. Dust-jacket protected by acetate covers. A clean, square, fresh copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.